chanpuru

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English

Chanpuru with bitter gourd.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese チャンプルー (chanpurū), from Okinawan ちゃんぷるー (chanpurū), from Indonesian campur (to mix).

Noun

chanpuru (uncountable)

  1. An Okinawan stir-fry dish, generally of tofu combined with a vegetable, meat, or fish.
    • 2007, Darcy Tamayose, Odori: A Novel, page 83:
      The smell of the pig indicated that it would make many flavourful dishes; a nice chanpuru with bitter goya and cubes of golden fried tofu cured in ocean water; a stewed dish of rajuti in awamori and soy spiced with ginger; []

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