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sam lo
hor fun /sahm-loh haw-fun,
ˈsɑmləʊ ˈhɔːfʌn/ n.
[Cant., rice noodles that have been tossed three times:
三 sám
three + 捞
lò
to fish up, to dredge +
Hor Fun (Eitel); Mand.
sān three +
lāo
dredge, scoop + 饸(饣各
hé (le) a kind
of noodles made from buckwheat, sorghum flour,
etc.
+ fěn noodle (Chi.–Eng.
Dict.)] A Cantonese dish consisting of
Hor Fun
cooked with slices of snakehead fish and bean sprouts.
2011 Wang Hui Fen
The Sunday Times
(LifeStyle), 14 August, 26 The famous sam lo hor fun is a Cantonese phrase
meaning “three mix” flat noodle. The three main ingredients are hor fun (flat
rice noodles), beansprouts and sliced sang yu (snakehead fish). It is a simple
dish. 2011 Lee Hui Chieh
The Straits Times (Mind Your Body), 15 September 2011, 18 The plate of
sum lor hor fun (thrice-tossed flat noodles in Cantonese) sailed onto the
table.. The three main ingredients in the dish – flat noodles, slices of sheng
yu (snakehead or ikan haruan in Malay) and bean sprouts – were drenched in
glistening gravy. The sea of white and light brown was broken only by a
sprinkling of green spring onion and sliced red chilli..
tock
tock man /tok, tɒk˺/
n. [imit.] hist. An itinerant seller of cooked noodle
dishes, who made his presence known by knocking two pieces of bamboo together to
make a ‘tock-tock’ sound.
2011 Eunice Quek (quoting
Lim Soon Hock)
The Sunday Times (LifeStyle),
18 September, 30 I always looked forward to piping hot wanton mee when the
“tock tock” man came around my kampung area in Towner Road. 2011
Eunice Quek (quoting
Peter Goh)
The Sunday Times (LifeStyle),
28 August, 28 There was also the “tock tock” man selling mee tai mak (short
noodles), prawn noodles and mee pok (flat noodles) for just 10 or 20 cents.
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