West Lake Beef Soup（西湖牛肉羹 – Xīhú niúròu gēng）

This soup is kind of Guangdong food and very healthy and good taste, I always like ordering this soup when having dinner outside. Also for Chinese we do not cook beef a lot so this is a very easy dish to cook with beef.

 
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New Phrases:
1. 你            nǐ                    you
2. 生日        shēngrì            birthday
3. 快            kuài                soon (in this article is used as an adverb so need to put in front
                                          of the verb)
4. 到            dào                to arrive
5. 吧            ba                  be put in the end of the questions means to confirm.
6. 月            yuè                month
7. 号            hào                day (means day only for [...]

火上浇油
huǒ shàng jiāo yóu
This word literally means “Pour the oil on the fire”, so apparently it means to make the bad thing worse or to boost the morale of someone’s anger.
 
New words:
1. 火 huǒ fire
2. 上 shàng on
3. 浇 jiāo pour
4. 油 yóu oil
 
Example:
 
妈妈今天心情不好，你就不要火上浇油了，明天再把这个坏消息告诉她吧。
Māma jīntiān xīnqíng bùhǎo, nǐ jiù búyào huǒshàngjiāoyóu le, míngtiān zài bǎ [...]