The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 4 letter word CHOW MEIN
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More clues leading to the result CHOW MEIN
- Dog meat 50% part of take-away food
- Food: time to eat Eastern dish
- Hot beef supplier coming round mentioned principal dish
- Scoff when comic almost stumbles
- Check scatty women eating international dish
- Chinese-style dish, food had by me at home
- Dog beginning to munch a foreign dish
- Fried noodles cold — who cooked? Me, at home
- Fried noodles, food I must feed soldiers
- Check on women excitedly consuming current Eastern dish
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "food" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case food = chow mein.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.