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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「炮鳳烹龍」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Cook: boil; fry: burn. Describes dishes that are extremely rich and rare.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pào fèng pēng lóng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

paau3 fung6 paang1 lung4

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