VIP Class Notes (Samara)[S]

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.
Please write and describe how to make a dish and also the flavors in the dish.

She likes cook, she likes to make dish. She was suzhou so she makes dishes very sweet. Yes, too many sugar. China has vegetable taste very salty but my mom cooked dishes where would be very very sweet. I like a soup, you know the egg have the yellow one and white one, the white one is not cooked add soup. the soup 3 materials fish vegetables and the white egg, three materials. Very strange when I was a child I don’t like the taste. Because I’m Shanghainese so the flavor is very sweet. In Beijing is very salty. And Shanghainese like the dishes always, the duck color thick red sauce. Add a lot of oil. Very hot place, maybe four seasons maybe has 28 temperature higher yes.

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She likes to cook, she likes to make dishes. She comes from / grew up in / is a Suzhou girl or lady suzhou, so she makes / likes / prefers / cooks / prepares dishes very sweet. Yes, too much sugar. Northern Chines food tastes very salty but my mom cooks dishes where they would be very very sweet. /sweet dishes. I like a soup, you know the egg yolk, and egg whites, the egg whites are not cooked, then put / add into boiling water. The soup has 3 materials fish, vegetables, and egg whites, three materials. Coriander tastes very strange, when I was a child I didn’t / disliked like the / its taste. Because I’m Shanghainese, I prefer that  / the flavor is very sweet /  I am used to  the sweet flavor. In Beijing the dishes are very salty. And In Shanghai / in the south /  in this area /in this region /over here we like the dishes that always have the dark color, for example a thick red sauce.

Vocabulary

Coriander: A herb, a small seed that is used as a spice. It is earthy and a little bitter and can help many different flavors taste good.
Earthy: Not bitter but not sour, this flavor reminds many people of soil in the ground or bark on a tree, red wine often has an earthy flavor and also beet root.
Starchy: odorless, tasteless white substance that comes from plants, mostly potatoes or cereal. Things like wheat, rice, pasta are foods that are high in starch.
Likes: Likes only one things or many things.
Prefers: To like one thing more than the other.
Many: A large number of, a number you can count.
ex: I have many ideas.
much: a great amount, not possible to count, just a big a mount.
Ex: Don’t drink too much water.
Yolk: The yellow part of the egg.
Egg Whites: The white part of the egg, 1 egg has egg whites.
Dislike / disliked: To not like
Food: something you eat
Foods: cuisine, different types of dishes or categories of food.
ex: I like green foods, I like starchy foods, I like Souther Chinese foods.

Pronunciation

Dark: A color with little or no light. Da /erk, remember to make sure I can here the”r” and “k” sounds very clearly. R and K are consonants.
Duck: D / u /ck ; The “u” sound is the same as “u”mbrella. 
Coriander: Core / ey / and / er