How to pronounce Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish

Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish is written 松鼠鳜鱼 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /sʊ́ŋ.ʂǔ kwèɪ.y̌/. In plain English letters that is SOONG-shoo GWAY-yoo, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish?

Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish is a main dish of China. Where it comes from: Jiangsu. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and on festive days. Its main ingredients are fish. It tastes sweet and sour.

Where Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish comes from

Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish is one of 108 signature dishes of China on this map. See all dishes from Jiangsu.

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  Lion's head is a dish of Huaiyang cooking: large meatballs of fatty minced pork, stewed with vegetables.

• Nanjing salted duck 南京盐水鸭 · Main dish · Jiangsu

  Nanjing salted duck is a local duck dish of Nanjing, a city noted for its many duck dishes; English sources say more than 100 million ducks a year are eaten there.

• Duck blood and vermicelli soup 鸭血粉丝汤 · Soup & stew · Jiangsu

  Duck blood and vermicelli soup, also called old duck vermicelli soup, is a traditional snack of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu, and is also eaten elsewhere in China.

• Peking duck 北京烤鸭 · Main dish · Beijing

  Roast duck was eaten in China's imperial kitchens long before it reached Beijing; it is often traced to Nanjing when that city was the Ming capital, and the court brought it north in the 15th century.

• Xiaolongbao 小笼包 · Snack · Nanxiang, Shanghai

  Xiaolongbao are small soup dumplings steamed in the bamboo basket that gives them their name.

• Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐 · Main dish · Chengdu, Sichuan

  Mapo tofu is Sichuan cooking in one bowl: soft tofu in a red, oily sauce of fermented broad-bean chilli paste with minced beef and plenty of Sichuan pepper, which leaves the mouth tingling.

Food of China

Dishes like Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish:

• Hamburger Aalsuppe · Soup & stew · Hamburg, Germany

  Aalsuppe, eel soup, is a soup or stew of northern German cooking made from eel, vegetables and herbs, often with small flour dumplings.

• Sarde in saor · Snack · Venice, Italy

  Sarde in saor are fried sardines layered with onions slowly cooked in vinegar, with pine nuts and raisins, and left to rest for a day or more.