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吃到飽 vs 自助餐

all-you-can-eat buffet · Different everyday word

台灣 · Taiwan
吃到飽ㄔㄉㄠˋ ㄅㄠˇ · chī dào bǎo

大陆 · Mainland
自助餐 zì zhù cān · ㄗˋ ㄓㄨˋ ㄘㄢ

What differs, and by how much

Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 吃到飽; on the Mainland it is 自助餐 - both point at “all-you-can-eat buffet”.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 吃到飽、自助餐 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.

Neither term carries an HSK or TOCFL level in this table - this pair is dictionary-recorded, not syllabus-derived.

Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.

Side by side

	Taiwan · 台灣	Mainland · 大陆
Written form	吃到飽	自助餐
Reading	ㄔㄉㄠˋ ㄅㄠˇ chī dào bǎo	zì zhù cān ㄗˋ ㄓㄨˋ ㄘㄢ
Senses	all-you-can-eat buffet	buffet; self-service meal
Syllabus	—	—
MOE records	吃到飽 · 自助餐
Dictionary	not in the LinZi dictionary	entry →
Audio	—

In context

“自助餐” in a sentence

因为人很多，今天我们会采取自助餐的形式。

There are a lot of people so today we've gone for buffet style.

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