F2F Class Notes (Tony)
Homework
Write a story using these words, and some words from class today:
狮子头 – Lion’s Head
干丝 – Kan-ssu. Hot Tofu Dish, boiled with soup
蒲菜 – Cattail
正宗 – Authentic
山药 – Chinese Yam
面粉 – Flour
蒸热 – Steamed
Vocabulary
it is good to the health – it is healthy
has a lot of nutrition
vegetarian restaurants –
eg: In many vegetarian restaurants they have savory dishes that taste like meat, but it is really vegetables.
Superfood – a marketing word to tell you that this food is super healthy
eg: Many people buy superfoods now, like Kale a leafy green vegetable used in salads. But superfoods are not proven to really be healthier.
out of business – closed forever
eg: Are they having a sale because they are going out of business?
oily – has a lot of oil
eg: It’s not very oily.
eg: Yunnan food is not very oily.
Garlic – Da Suan, a white very powerful vegetable used in cooking.
eg: You can cook many things with garlic.
Seasoning – salt or an herb, spice, or the like, for heightening or improving the flavor of food
Spices – like salt and pepper, used in cooking for taste
eg: Every person who is good at cooking will have a spice rack. ON this they can keep all of their different spices.
Tastes:
Salty
Lamb Kebabs – Yang Rou Chuanr
Seaweed – green plant that looks like paper when it is in a package
Sweet
Ice cream
Desert
Sugar
Sour
Lemons (yellow) / Limes (green)
Plain Yogurt ( Suan nai) (without sugar.)
Bitter
Black Coffee
Beer
Coco or Cacao (chocolate powder)
Spicy
Chill pepper – a spicy vegetable
Jalapeno – a spicy mexican pepper
Savory
meat taste
Meat Dumplings
Grammar
I think I probably have eaten it before
Pronunciation
Spanish J = H
Jalapeno = Halla Peen Yo
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