"zi char" meaning in English

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        "3": "煮炒",
        "lit": "cook and fry",
        "tr": "chír-chhá"
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      "expansion": "Hokkien 煮炒 (chír-chhá, literally “cook and fry”)",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Singaporean Hokkien 煮炒 (chír-chhá, literally “cook and fry”), with Pinyin-influenced spelling.",
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          "ref": "2006 December 31, Teo Pau Lin, quoting Benjamin Seck, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L28:",
          "text": "Just three shops away, there’s another zhi char (restaurant-style coffee shop) place.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 October 5, Colin Goh, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 13:",
          "text": "The places I raved about weren’t the posh, fine-dining restaurants, but the declasse zhi cha joints, preferably with seating in an alleyway next to a longkang.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 November 23, Huang Lijie, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 24:",
          "text": "Once synonymous with comfort, home-style food, zi char (cooked food in Hokkien) eateries are becoming the hot bed of innovative, if not haute Singaporean cuisine.",
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        "Affordable homestyle or restaurant-style Chinese dishes, from stalls commonly found in hawker centres and coffee shops."
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          "restaurant",
          "restaurant"
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          "Chinese",
          "Chinese"
        ],
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          "hawker centre",
          "hawker centre"
        ],
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          "coffee shop",
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        "(Singapore, Malaysia) Affordable homestyle or restaurant-style Chinese dishes, from stalls commonly found in hawker centres and coffee shops."
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        {
          "word": "tze char"
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          "word": "zhi char"
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      "ipa": "[ˌt͡sɯ̟˨˦ ˈt͡ʃʰa˦˨]",
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        "Singapore"
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˌt͡sz̩˨˦ ˈt͡sʰa˦˨]",
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        "Singapore"
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      "ipa": "/tsə ˈtʃɑ/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/- ˈtʃɑɹ/",
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        "US"
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  "word": "zi char"
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        "lit": "cook and fry",
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      },
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      "name": "bor"
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        },
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          "ref": "2008 October 5, Colin Goh, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 13:",
          "text": "The places I raved about weren’t the posh, fine-dining restaurants, but the declasse zhi cha joints, preferably with seating in an alleyway next to a longkang.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008 November 23, Huang Lijie, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 24:",
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      "ipa": "[ˌt͡sz̩˨˦ ˈt͡sʰa˦˨]",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tze char"
    },
    {
      "word": "zhi char"
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