"我很喜欢吃上海菜。"

Translation: I really like to eat Shanghai cuisine.

[AndriLindbergs]

I thought "很喜欢" / "hěn xǐhuān" meant 'like very much', but I got it wrong.

[CvonD1]

No, you actually got it right . . . . this Chinese Duolingo is only Beta, meaning . . . their English has not been vetted by enough people yet..... Sigh....

[George792719]

You are absolutely correct, 很喜欢 should mean "very much like" or "like very much".

[Clara604861]

Reported 12/4/2021.

[Dielle439355]

It does mean that, they've got it wrong.

[Benno1010]

You are not wrong....they have a problem with keeping things right

[Sofort5]

'like very much' sounds like something a child or a non-native speaker would say. 'really like' would be the best translation and 'like (thing) a lot' would be the second best.

[roman2095]

...really like eating... was accepted

[Meeracidium]

"Correct solution:
I like to eat Shanghai cuisine."
Sounds a bit weird, doesn't it? You can't really say: "eat ... cuisine", can you?

[PzychoGamer]

You can

[OsoGegenHest]

What do you do with it?

[ChanpavHuo]

Yeah indeed, it sounds weird to me as well. I would say "Shanghai food"

[Sofort5]

the adjective for Shanghai is Shanghainese, so "Shanghainese food" would be the best translation

[RobinThor]

I fully agree with you and propose the translation: Food from Shanghai / Beijing / Hong Kong, as this sounds the most natural to me.

[CalvinN4]

Shouldn't it be shanghainese cuisine. We have Japanese cuisine or Portuguese cuisine. Not Japan cuisine or Portugal cuisine

[InsideMan]

My explanation is that Shanghai is both noun and adjective. Japan for example is a noun, and it's accompanying adjective is Japanese. Shanghai is simply one of the many exceptions in English grammar. Other examples:
London cuisine, Viennese cuisine, New York cuisine, Maltese cuisine. My usage of English grammar is intuitive, so sorry if I missed a technicality here or there, but I think I am getting my point across.

[Dave168907]

Shanghai is also a verb. "He was Shanghaied and woke up on a boat to Singapore".

[Hsn626796]

Lol

[tabthesciencebab]

Because it is a style of food frrom a city and not a country or culture, i think that's why?

[Paulusdebo1]

Chinglish alert. In English we would say "Shanghainese food."

[Sofort5]

Also, Penkinese is the adjective for something from Beijing

[RobinThor]

*Pekingese; furthermore there is Hongkongese for Hong Kong. None of these I ever heard of previously, for that matter.

[jamesjiao]

Interestjngly, Shanghai cuisine is perfectly fine.

[owy2]

I believe "I love eating Shanghainese food" is also fine.

[akavel]

What do the "Shanghai" characters mean literally?

[Gary329920]

I'm surprised no one has answered this for you. 上海 literally means above the sea. As you know, Shanghai is a port city.

[StephanieB87596]

Ooh muh gawd. I translated this as i really like to eat seaweed haha

[StephanieB87596]

海菜 means seaweed, 上海 is above the sea. Seaweed floats on the sea....

[ohdang_m4tt94]

Would 滬菜 be another fancy name for Shanghaiese cuisine?

[StephanieB87596]

Specifically, it's Hu cuisine with those characters.

[Andrew-Lin]

我很喜歡吃上海菜。
I myself would pronounce this sentence as "wǒ hén xǐhuān" rather than Duo's "wó hén xǐhuān." I want to get other natives' opinions.

[Imnuts7]

It does sound like wǒ now. The dipping tone is very short at the beginning.

[churringo]

我不很喜欢上海菜 太甜了 没有意思

[anesloor]

很 means "very", so duolingo should have given the option to say "I like to eat Shanghai cuisine very much". 我喜欢上海菜 means I like to eat Shanghai cuisine.

[TonyBerjaya]

湘菜

[adorable_amy]

Why do they use (chi) instead of (he) for tea?

[Diam716754]

I said the Shanghai food it was marked wrong

[Diam716754]

I was marked wrong because I forgot the full stop

[Shira330916]

Food and cuisine is the same in English

[vantesnini]

shanghai food is one of my least favourite cuisines in china hhh

[RamenPanda5924]

WHY is the "really" there

[Dennis855577]

because it's 很喜欢 - really like, instead of just 喜欢 - like

[RuiHanZhiAn]

Does hen xihuan means -love to- too?

[Nonhlanhla580166]

Why can't you say "the most" ?

[CinnamonTe1]

To like something "the most" means its your "favorite." It is possible to "really like" many things without any of them being your favorite.

最 (most) 喜欢 (like) = like the most = favorite
很 (very much) 喜欢 (like) = really like

我 - 很喜欢 - 鸡肉和牛肉， 但是 - 最喜欢 - 羊肉
I - really like - chicken and lamb, but - like the most - lamb

I really like chicken and lamb, but I like lamb the most.
I like chicken and lamb very much, but lamb is my favorite.

[Kailash90]

Why food is incorrect and cuisine is correct here? If only one correct then why both food and cuisine are shown in the option

[KazTsuda]

Can hardly get an intonation on this sentence, any advice?