Updated July 2026
What does 拼好饭 mean?
拼好饭 (pīn hǎo fàn) means the cheap group-order meal in everyday Chinese slang. A heavily discounted group-order meal, and by extension any budget-survival meal. Note it is a real Meituan service name used like slang. Literally, it means "pooled good meal".
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Example
这个月预算超了，天天拼好饭。
Zhège yuè yùsuàn chāo le, tiāntiān pīn hǎo fàn.
I blew my budget this month, so it's cheap group meals every day.
Where 拼好饭 comes from
Originally the product name for Meituan's pooled-order discount service. Students and young workers turned it into shorthand for eating cheaply, so it now carries a whole cost-of-living joke.
Related slang
A very plain, minimal, cold meal — raw carrots, plain bread, undressed salad. Used as self-mockery about one's own sad lunch.
A self-deprecating but oddly proud badge for the everyday wage earner grinding through their job.
An ultra-packed, endurance-test way of doing something — most often 特种兵式旅游, cramming a dozen sights into a weekend on no sleep.
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