真香 zhēn xiāng

The pleasure of admitting you were wrong — after swearing you'd never like something, you end up loving it.

Literal translation

truly fragrant

When to use it

"I said I'd never use TikTok... 真香." Captures ironic reversal of opinion.

Origin

From a TV show where a man vowed never to eat rice in a village, then devoured it saying "真香!"

Examples

以前说绝不喝咖啡,现在天天一杯,真香。
I used to swear I'd never drink coffee — now it's one cup a day. So good.

Similar slang

打脸 (face-slap — similar reversal)大型真香现场

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