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- mess hall for high-ranking cadres
- (fig.) special treatment
- cf. 大灶[da4 zao4]
- large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth
- (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶[zhong1 zao4] for mid-level cadres and 小灶[xiao3 zao4] for the most privileged)
Trad. 開小灶
- to give preferential treatment
- to give special attention
Trad. 吃小竈
- to be given special treatment
- to be treated in a favored way
- Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers
Trad. 明廚亮灶
- "transparent kitchen" – a kitchen (in a restaurant, school cafeteria etc) in which food preparation processes are made visible to customers (by means of transparent glass, live video etc) to promote hygiene and ensure accountability in food safety practices
Trad. 重起爐竈
- to start over from scratch (idiom)
Trad. 分竈吃飯
- "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
Trad. 另起爐灶
- lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch
- back to square one
- to start of on a new path