Tanım
•a mixture, a mix · champon (Japanese noodle dish)
Etimoloji
Probably borrowed from some variant of Chinese 攙和 /搀和 (“to mix”). Compare modern Min Nan reading chham-hô, Mandarin chānhuò. The initial sense was mixed together, appearing in texts from the mid-1700s. The “noodle dish” sense is traced to a food item on offer at the 四海樓 (Shikairo, literally “Four-Seas House”) Chinese restaurant founded in Nagasaki in 1899. Compare English hodgepodge in reference…