"你们想吃中国菜还是英国菜?"
Translation:Would you like to eat Chinese food or British food?
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Or Steak and Kidney pie, lancashire hotpot, shepherd's pie, salmon, Welsh lamb, roast beef and yorkshire puddings, spotted dick, apple crumble, eton mess. There's a pretty extensive choice of British food beyond fish and chips (which are also excellent.)
I won't argue that there are folks here that wouldn't know seasoning if it kicked them in the face. And it can be a little tricky to find truly good British food at a restaurant, perhaps because it's really expensive to run a restaurant here and ingredients are a large part of that, and also since many traditional recipes take a long cooking time and don't translate well to restaurants. Believe me, I cooked in an old people's home for a living a while back and yeah, overboiled veg, and even pasta considered 'exotic' (as in, 'do you want pasta for dinner, Doris?' 'oh no dear, I don't like exotic food - give me the corned beef and boiled cabbage') But there are some fantastic traditional recipes if you look. No-one can say the traditional British recipe I like to cook of beef and cider stew with parsley and lemon dumplings isn't packed with flavour! And I say that as someone whose palate is only usually satisfied with a lot of aromatic spices :)
Being mexican I was shocked when I saw some guys on the TV cooking what they kept calling a typical English breakfast with canned beans, a not so tasty looking sausage and a yellowish tomato, I can't quite remeber the show but I think it was on the DW. I do understand it is not that easy to get your hands on a variety of ingredients, or fresh product for that matter, if you live in an island where there is barely sunlight most of the year
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My Beijing wide says both are reasonable translations of the Mandarin. A Dulolingo problem, not yours.
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It can be, especially as in 蔬菜. It can also mean dish or, as here, cuisine. No one would interpret 中国菜 as Chinese vegetables.
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British/English Food to Chinese would mean Western food like steak, burgers, fries, pizza, hot dogs.
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I'm not here to learn proper English nor teach duo English colloquialisms/common usage. "Do you want to eat Chinese or British" should be accepted, unless I'm talking to a cannibal. Duo, are you tacitly confessing to cannibalism? Duos threatening auras intensify