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words.hk reads 茶餐廳 as caa4 caan1 teng1. The gloss says this kind of eatery began in Hong Kong. It is ordinary and affordable. It mainly serves Western cakes, buns, Hong Kong-style Western food and drinks, and also home-style dishes, plus congee, rice noodles, wheat noodles and rice. The character for the wheat noodles in that list is 麪. The measure is 間. The example says the pineapple buns at the one downstairs are good. 菠蘿包 is marked bo1 lo4 baau1.

奶茶 naai5 caa4 is milk mixed with black tea. The milk may be evaporated milk or condensed milk. 淡奶 has no page. to-jyutping gives taam5 naai5. 煉奶 has a page, lin6 naai5: sweetened condensed milk, measure 罐. 砂糖 has no page. The converter gives saa1 tong4. The example asks for a cup of hot milk tea. Hot is marked jit6.

茶走 caa4 zau2 has a gloss of one sentence: milk tea that leaves out the sugar and uses condensed milk instead. 啡走 fe1 zau2 is the same sentence, with coffee in place of the tea. The 咖啡 page reads gaa3 fe1 and is tagged a loanword. The 啡 of 啡走 matches the second syllable of 咖啡.

檸茶 ning2 caa4 is glossed as short for lemon tea, measure 杯 or 盒. The collocation 凍檸茶 is marked dung3 ning2 caa4. The 檸 stays ning2. The full word 檸檬茶 is read ning4 mung1 caa4 on its own page, so the 檸 becomes ning4. The gloss is black tea with lemon slices or lemon juice. When someone orders it iced, the restaurant has already added syrup. Some people ask for 少甜, which the parentheses gloss as less sugar, or 走甜, glossed as no sugar. Neither 少甜 nor 走甜 has a page. to-jyutping gives siu2 tim4 and zau2 tim4. The measures are 杯 or 盒.

菠蘿包 bo1 lo4 baau1. The crisp top is made with sugar, butter and egg. The checked pattern looks like pineapple skin, which is why it has the name. The entry then says the bun contains no pineapple. The measure is 個. In the example 「菠蘿包入面冇菠蘿」, 入面 is jap6 min6 and 「冇」 is mou5. 菠蘿油 bo1 lo4 jau4 is a pineapple bun with a slice of butter in it. Its example asks how the butter bun can contain no pineapple either. That sentence has no ruby. The see-also list says it is taken from ToastyNews.

西多士 is also written 西多. 西多士 is sai1 do1 si2. 西多 is sai1 do1. Peanut butter goes between two slices of 方包. The sandwich is coated in beaten egg, fried until golden, and eaten with butter and syrup. The measure is 件. The 方包 page was not opened. The example says 西多士 is high in calories. 卡路里 is marked kaa1 lou6 lei5.

蛋治 daan2 zi6 is short for an egg sandwich, with scrambled or fried egg, measure 件. The example is a lunch of just one piece. 件 is gin6. The 晏 of lunch is aan3. How 三文治 is filled, and which measure it takes, is in the convenience store article and is not repeated here.

阿華田 o1 waa4 tin4 is tagged a loanword and a proper name. The English is Ovaltine. The powder is malt, sugar, whey and cocoa. With milk and water it is sweet, and more sugar can be added. It is sometimes just called 華田. The example says every cha chaan teng serves it.

乾炒牛河 gon1 caau2 ngau4 ho2 is beef stir-fried with wide rice noodles, usually with bean sprouts added. The pages for 芽菜 and 河粉 were not opened. 炒飯 caau2 faan6 is rice and other ingredients turned in a pan with oil. The example sets three kinds side by side: Western fried rice, marked sai1, Yeung Chow joeng4 zau1, and Hokkien fuk1 gin3. Once there are that many, they are hard to tell apart.

飛沙走奶, 飛邊, 熱奶茶, 凍奶茶, 太陽蛋, 咕嚕肉 and 皮蛋瘦肉粥 have no page. Nor do 夏蕙姨, 制水, 汪阿姐, 生春, 鬼佬肉, 下火, 乃 T, C06, 凍大個仔 or 凍大個女.

敗家仔, 肥妹, 甩色 and 打爛 do have pages. What those pages say does not meet a drink or a plate of food. 敗家仔 baai6 gaa1 zai2 is a man who wastes the family’s money, or who picks up bad habits and shames his family. 肥妹 fei4 mui1 is a young woman of large build, measure 個. 甩色 lat1 sik1 is dye from clothing transferring onto something else. 打爛 daa2 laan6 is to smash by impact. The English for the collocation 「打爛人哋個飯碗」 is to make someone lose their job. None of the four pages mentions Ovaltine, chocolate, lemon water or fried rice.

Sources

• LSHK Jyutping scheme
• CanCLID to-jyutping
• words.hk: 茶餐廳, 奶茶, 煉奶, 茶走, 啡走, 咖啡, 檸茶, 檸檬茶, 菠蘿包, 菠蘿油, 西多士, 蛋治, 阿華田, 乾炒牛河, 炒飯, 敗家仔, 肥妹, 甩色, 打爛