Hi. I’m Lin, I’m eleven and I’m from China. Chinese food is really delicious. We eat a lot of rice, noodles, vegetables and meat. We fry or steam a lot of our food. It is very healthy.
In China, people don’t usually eat with knives and forks. Instead, we use chopsticks and we sometimes use spoons.
We usually eat from big serving dishes. We put them in the middle of the table, but we sometimes serve portions[1]US: [ˈpɔrʃ(ə)n] UK: [ˈpɔː(r)ʃ(ə)n] n. 一部分;妆奁;命运;一般
v. 把…分成份额;分配;给…嫁妆;命运注定
of rice in small bowls. In China, we don’t think it’s rude to reach across the table to take food from serving dishes.
We do think it is rude to take the last piece of food from a serving dish for yourself. We offer it to another person instead. That is very polite.
When your bowl is empty, someone gives you more food. When you are full, you put your hand over your bowl or leave some food in your bowl. We don’t put our chopsticks on top of our bowls. We put them on the table next to us when we finish eating. We don’t use napkins, but we usually clean our hands with hot towels at the end of the meal.
Do you like Chinese food? Is it very different from food in your country?

Read and mark T (True) or F (False)

1 Her name is Lin and she’s from China.

2 Lin thinks Chinese food is delicious.

3 People in China always use knives and forks to eat.

4 Chinese people fry o r steam a lot of their food.

5 It’s rude to take the last piece of food from a serving dish.

6 People usually use napkins in China.

Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

waiter menu chopsticks fry napkin reach serving dish steam empty polite

1 Chinese people usually eat with chopsticks.

2 We usually eat from a ___________ in the middle of the table.

3 I like to ________ vegetables because it’s healthy.

4 In China, it isn’t rude to ___________ across the table.

5 British people use a _________ at the end of a meal.

6 Chinese people ____________  a lot of their food.

7 The ____________ is the person who brings food in a restaurant.

8 In a restaurant, you look at a ________ to choose your food.

9 In China, when your plate is _________, someone will serve you more food.

10 It is _______ to offer someone else the last piece of food on a serving dish.

 

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Word Bank
1 US: [ˈpɔrʃ(ə)n] UK: [ˈpɔː(r)ʃ(ə)n] n. 一部分;妆奁;命运;一般
v. 把…分成份额;分配;给…嫁妆;命运注定
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