chanpuru

See also: chanpurū

English

Chanpuru with bitter gourd.

Etymology

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

chanpuru (uncountable)

1. 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; […]

Further reading

• chanpuru on Wikipedia.Wikipedia