吃菜,上海人通常说成吃小菜。“小”字是否多余?不一定,因为还有“吃大菜”一说。100多年前,上海的华贵们揣着帖子步入欧美驻沪领馆或是洋行,只见灯烛辉煌、侍者分列,老长老长的长台面上则是刀叉羹匙锃亮,五颜六色酒瓶一排溜,仪式隆重、排场很大。这就是“吃大菜”了,有别于吃国产“小菜”。 Eat vegetables, Shanghai is usually said to eat side dishes. Is not the “little” superfluous? Not necessarily, because there is “eat big dishes,” one said. More than 100 years ago, Shanghai’s luxury people with their own posts have entered the European and American embassies or foreign firms in Shanghai. They saw the brilliant lights and the waiters. The long tabletops of old elders and elders all saw spoonfuls of spoonfuls, colorful bottles Pai slip, grand ceremony, a large market. This is the “big dish”, and different from eating homemade “small dishes.”