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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「食方於前」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Used to describe eating lavishly. Same as “the abbot in front of the meal”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí fāng yú qián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sik6 fong1 yu1 chin4
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