tsampurado
tsampurádo with stress marks
chocolate rice porridge (champorado)
Usage Note
Tsampurado comes from Spanish 'champurrado' and is a beloved Filipino breakfast dish made of glutinous rice cooked with tablea and sweetened to taste — traditionally paired with tuyo for a sweet-salty contrast. It is especially popular on cold or rainy mornings.
Examples
" Mainit ang tsampurado. "
Natural Translation
The chocolate porridge is hot.
Literal Translation
Hot the chocolate-porridge.
" Masarap ang tsampurado tuwing umaga. "
Natural Translation
Chocolate rice porridge is delicious every morning.
Literal Translation
Delicious the chocolate rice porridge every morning.
" Tuwing umuulan ay gumagawa si nanay ng mainit na tsampurado na sinabayan ng tuyo para sa matamis at maalat na timpla. "
Natural Translation
Whenever it rains, mother makes hot chocolate rice porridge paired with dried fish for a sweet and salty combination.
Literal Translation
Every raining makes mother of hot chocolate-porridge that-paired of dried-fish for the sweet and salty mix.
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