a new bride bites into a raw steamed bun: the person is a stranger, the dough is uncooked
Saying俗语俗語
Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now
Meaning
Being in a place where one knows nobody and nothing is familiar.
Wordplay
面 (miàn) means both "dough/flour" and "face", and 生 (shēng) and 熟 (shú) mean "raw/cooked" and "unfamiliar/familiar", so "raw dough" reads as "unfamiliar faces".