A conversation about Olympic eating, like all things here, could start and end with the inescapable Eileen Gu, the Chinese American freestyle skier who in many ways is the face of these Olympics.

和这里的所有事一样，关于奥运饮食，可以从无处不在的谷爱凌开始，也可以从她结束。她是华裔美国自由式滑雪运动员，在很多方面都堪称本届奥运会的代言人。

Gu, who was born and raised in the United States but competes for China, announced her arrival at the Beijing Games by posting a photo of dumplings — “Finished them all,” she wrote — which garnered thousands of likes on Weibo, the Chinese social media app.

谷爱凌在美国出生长大，但代表中国参赛。她发布了一张饺子的照片，宣布自己抵达北京奥运会。她写道，“全吃完了”，这张照片在中国社交媒体应用微博上获得了数万次点赞。

After she won her first medal, she said she would celebrate with Ghirardelli chocolates, an obvious nod to San Francisco, her hometown. And while competing on the slope, she was photographed eating jiucai hezi, a Chinese pocket pie, and a roast pork bun, sending social media into hysterics each time.

在她赢得第一枚奖牌后，她说她要吃吉拉德利巧克力庆祝，这显然是向她的家乡旧金山致意。在坡道上比赛时，她被拍到吃韭菜盒子和生煎包，每次都在社交媒体上引起轰动。
 

• munch on/at sth· 大声咀嚼，用力咀嚼(脆的食物)to eat sth steadily and often noisily, especially sth crisp，比如说：She munched on an apple.她在大口啃苹果。 

Food from the athletes’ villages and venue dining halls tend not to inspire gushing reviews, no matter when or where the Games are happening. In Beijing, the robot-made dishes were precisely cooked — broccoli always crisp, wonton skins always bouncy — but mostly uninspiring. 

无论奥运会在何时何地举行，运动员村和场馆餐厅提供的食物往往不会引起赞誉。在北京，机器人做的菜做得非常精确——西蓝花总是很脆，馄饨皮总是很Q弹——但大多数都没有什么新意。

This became a hot topic of the Games. People shared notes and gossip. They whispered rumors of regional dishes made by skilled cooks, of classic cocktails mixed by humans. A Google doc inviting crowdsourced reviews, including photographs and menus, made its way into journalists’ inboxes.

这成为了奥运会的热门话题。人们互传信息和八卦。他们交头接耳地谈论由手艺精湛的厨师烹制的地方菜肴，以及调酒师制作的经典鸡尾酒。一份邀请众人评论的谷歌文档——包括照片和菜单——飞入了记者的收件箱。

“So good Chinese food,” read one from the snowboarder Ayumu Hirano of Japan, who won a gold medal at these Games. “Thank you so much!!”