飯

cooked rice / CL:碗[wan3] / meal / CL:頓|顿[dun4] / (loanword) fan / devotee

contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system

to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse

to feed (a person or animal)

to serve a meal

to beg (for food or money)

to ask for food / to beg

rice with meat and vegetables

rice cooker

to have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content

electric rice cooker

food and drink

Great Wall Hotel (Beijing Sheraton 喜來登|喜来登)

(fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life

egg fried rice

(coll.) (of an actor with a bit part) to receive a boxed meal when one's job is done (phrase used e.g. by movie viewers when a character dies)

see 茶餘飯後|茶余饭后[cha2 yu2 fan4 hou4]

rice with meat and vegetables

rice omelet

Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)

(coll.) to mooch a meal

wine sack, food bag (idiom); useless person, only fit for guzzling and boozing

secure and lucrative job

secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)