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Food vocabulary
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The Flatmates Food vocabulary

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Here is some vocabulary about food and restaurants.

Types of meals:
a barbeque / a bbq
an informal meal which you eat outside (in your garden, a park or other outside
space). The food is cooked on an outdoor grill

a picnic
an informal meal which you eat outside (in your garden, a park or other outside
space). The food is either pre-cooked or uncooked. Almost all the food is served
cold

a buffet
a meal in a restaurant or at a party where you help yourself (rather than being
served by waiters) and pick and choose what food and how much of it you want to
eat

an all-you-can-eat buffet
a special kind of buffet which restaurants serve where you can go back to the buffet
table as many times as you want and eat as much food as you care to for a fixed
price

an early bird special / an early bird menu

a fixed-price meal that is offered to customers early in the afternoon (from about
6.00 7.30 pm), before restaurants become busy during the evening

Ways of describing food:

raw
uncooked but edible (you can eat it). For example, carrots, tuna or beef can be raw

fresh
in a natural condition rather than artificially preserved by, for example, freezing

ripe
completely developed and ready to be eaten

off
no longer fresh or good to eat because it's too old

rotten
fruit or vegetables which are no longer fresh

rancid
butter or oil which is no longer fresh

sour
milk which is no longer fresh

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Things you might find in a Chinese restaurant:

chopsticks
two slim pieces of wood, plastic or metal which are used for eating food from East
Asian food

a lazy Susan
a circular piece of wood or plastic which is put on a table and can be turned around
so that everyone at a circular table can reach the food that is on it

a fortune cookie
a hollow biscuit which, when you break it open, contains a message, usually about
your future. These biscuits are not given to customers in restaurants in China but
are often given in Chinese restaurants outside China

Vocabulary:

game
willing to do things that are new, risky or difficult

testicles
either of the two round male sex organs which produce sperm, below and behind the
penis

ventured
risked going somewhere that might be dangerous, unpleasant or here, unfamiliar

Isn't that the truth?

That is very true

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