黃花菜都涼了

1. • lit. the dishes are cold (idiom)
2. • fig. to arrive late to take one's sweet time

Character by character

• 黃(huáng)surname Huang or Hwang
• 花(huā)surname Hua
• 菜(cài)vegetable
• 都(dōu)all
• 涼(liáng)the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南凉 nánliáng (397-414), Western Liang 西凉
• 了(le)marks a completed action