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- (slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])
Trad. 辣條
- spicy sticks, a snack food similar to beef jerky but made with flour or dried beancurd instead of meat
Trad. 熱辣辣
- burning hot; scorching
- (of food) spicy hot
- (of news, topics etc) sensational; attention-grabbing
- emotionally intense
- hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles)
Trad. 變態辣
- (coll.) insanely spicy (the highest level of spiciness on a menu)
- scorching hot
- (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning
- (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense
- (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued
- (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot
- xiaomila, a hot chili pepper cultivar (Capsicum frutescens)
- deep-fried fish cake popular in Taiwan (loanword from Japanese "tempura")
- sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)
Trad. 辣子雞
- laziji, spicy dish of chicken cubes stir-fried with chili peppers
- (neologism c. 2016) (slang) unpleasant to look at
- hard on the eyes
Trad. 酸兒辣女
- if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom)
- lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom)
- fig. to live well
- lit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom)
- fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
Trad. 酸辣土豆絲
- hot and sour shredded potato
Trad. 薑是老的辣
- see 薑還是老的辣|姜还是老的辣[jiang1 hai2 shi4 lao3 de5 la4]
Trad. 薑還是老的辣
- ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom)
- the older, the wiser
Trad. 索多瑪與哈摩辣
- Sodom and Gomorrah