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食不厌精,脍不厌细

shí bù yàn jīng , kuài bù yàn xì

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Definitions

  1. 1. lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects)
  2. 2. fig. to be fastidious about one's food