chanpuru
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See also: chanpurū
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
chanpuru (uncountable)
- 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; […]
