Chinese-style low dining table
Refers to a low table used for Chinese-style or Japanese-Chinese meals; often seen in the compound 卓袱台.
See also: ちゃぶ台
In old houses, there used to be a Chinese-style low dining table.
Japanese-Chinese family-style cuisine
Abbreviation of 卓袱料理; a Nagasaki specialty where large dishes are shared. The term can also refer to the low dining table used for such meals.
See also: 卓袱料理
soba with various toppings in soup
Kansai dialect term for a bowl of soba in hot broth topped with boiled fish paste, shiitake, greens, seaweed, etc. Often written 志っぽく or in kana.
See also: おかめ
I ate shippoku soba in Kyoto.
In Nagasaki, shippoku cuisine is a local specialty.
卓袱料理 is the full term for the Nagasaki family-style cuisine; 卓袱 is its abbreviation.
Standard kanji spelling for the table and cuisine senses.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially for the soba dish.
Irregular kanji usage; sometimes used for the Kansai soba dish sense.
The kanji 卓袱 are ateji for the Chinese-derived reading しっぽく, originally referring to a tablecloth or low table. The exact derivation is uncertain.