Hi Chefducinema -

Welcome to the forum and your inquiry is not silly at all.

I watched and listened to these scenes in Cantonese and Mandarin. The English subtitles and the Chinese subtitles are essentially accurate as I've described.

On the Fortune Star digitally remastered version of POB, the line is correctly translated in English as hot pot not sukiyaki.  Sally Yeh's father puts her off with the exclamation "Potato!" Specifically he says sweet potato.  This is again referred to when Sally later asks her father for grocery money and he tells her to just get by with eating the previous night's leftover sweet potato.

The dialogue in the dim sum scenes are not specific.  As you can remember seeing,  the attendant brings a tray of goodies that Brigitte Lin rejects.  The camera momentarily  flashes on the tray with one of the dishes oddly looking like mid-autumn festival moon cakes.  Brigitte asks for the alternate choices and the camera mometarily dwells on the scene to show the  three dim sum dishes, none of which are idenified by name or even recognizable by me.

 Hope you find things interesting around here and the answer satisfactory enough that you become a regular visitor at LHKF.  Perhaps you can also provide a link to your cinematic food connection for reader reference.  Smile
 






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