【英语口语练习册】阮最喜爱的食物

Mari: Hi, I'm Mari. I'm here with my friend Ron. Today, we're talking about food. So Ron, what's your favorite cuisine¹?

Ron: My favorite cuisine has to be Hawaiian food. I grew up eating Hawaiian food so every special occasion we had Hawaiian food, so now when I eat Hawaiian food, it always brings back good memories.

 

Mari: What exactly is Hawaiian food?

 

Ron: Traditional Hawaiian food is usually cooked under the ground in a hole with hot rocks and it cooks for maybe six hours or seven hours and when you take it out, it's very salty because we use a lot of salt and it tastes really good ... usually meat ... usually pork and other vegetables like taro² and potato.

 

Mari: So then what's your favorite Hawaiian dish?

 

Ron: My favorite Hawaiian dish is called Lao-Lao. It's pork or fish wrapped in leaves and put inside the underground oven and it's very salty and very good.

 

Mari: So the flavor is just salt?

 

Ron: The flavor is salt and also the leaf flavor that it's wrapped in.

 

Mari: What's your favorite dessert or junk food?

 

Ron: My favorite dessert has to be cake and ice-cream together. I love to eat cake and ice-cream together.

 

Mari: What's your favorite ice-cream flavor?

 

Ron: My favorite ice-cream flavor is strawberry, and I like to eat that with chocolate cake.

 

Mari: Mm, sounds good. Do you like vegetables?

 

Ron: Not so much. I don't like to eat vegetables but I can eat them if somebody cooks them for me.

 

Mari: What's your favorite vegetable?

 

Ron: My favorite vegetable ... I don't have a favorite vegetable but I can eat vegetables like asparagus, broccoli³, carrots. Those types of things.

 

Mari: Do you eat your vegetables raw ... like salad ... or do you prefer them cooked?

 

Ron: I prefer them cooked.

 

Mari: Thanks Ron.

 

Ron: You're welcome.

1 cuisine   

n.烹调，烹饪法

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• This restaurant is renowned for its cuisine.这家餐馆以其精美的饭菜而闻名。

2 taro   

n.芋，芋头

参考例句：

• Main grain crop has taro,corn,banana to wait.主要粮食作物有芋头、玉米、芭蕉等。
• You celebrate your birthday with taro,red bean and butter.用红豆、芋头和黄油给自己过生日。

3 broccoli   

n.绿菜花，花椰菜

参考例句：

• She grew all the broccoli plants from seed.这些花椰菜都是她用种子培育出来的。
• They think broccoli is only green and cauliflower is only white.他们认为西兰花只有绿色的，而菜花都是白色的。