twice-cooked pork (a Chinese dish)

occurrences / innings in baseball, games, rounds / (Kansai) indicating year of university students

a formal Western meal of the full course dinner / the main meal of the day often eaten in the evening

this evening; tonight

this evening; tonight

a broad-bottomed pot or pan / short for 鍋物 (nabemono), a dish where everything is cooked together in a nabe; compare English hot pot or hotdish

pot / pan

(obsolete) meat / (obsolete) flesh, as of one's body

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear