Monday, November 2, 2015
Journal Question #5
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November is a month for eating well. The weather is getting colder, all
the crops have been harvested, and America's greatest food celebration -
Thanksgiving - occurs. So it's a good time to think about the food we
eat: What's your favorite food? Have your tastes changed over the
years? Is there a food you like because it reminds you of someone or
some place? While you are here in America, is there a food you can't
get that you miss a lot?
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- TGriffin
- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
My favourite food is Turkish Kebab. I have lots of experiences with kebab. It has been my favourite food since I ate for the first time. I went so many restaurants in Turkey with my family just for Turkish Kebab. I miss this food so much. Even I have found some Turkish restaurants here, I missed that atmosphere with my family in Turkey.
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ReplyDeleteMy really favorite food is almost all Czech meal. When I was in Czech I didn't appreciate too much , but now when I am in United States I really miss it. I loved fried food, but after two months of fried food every day it's little bit enough. I love sauces especially our Czech National sauces. Usually you eat it with dumplings and some meat or egg. My tastes changed through years. For example I used to hate sushi, I didn't like . I couldn't understand like someone can eat it, but now it is one of my favorite food. But the big change came last year when I stopped eat meat and I am vegetarian now. I'm looking forward on Christmas, cause my mom is going to do my favorite food for me!
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ReplyDeleteToday I am going to tell you the most famous Shanghai food: “Xiao Long Bao”The steamed buns.
XiaoLongBao is made from pork and flour wrapper. It is not the one we drop into the boiling water like dumplings. We heat it up by hot steam, with that the delicious flavor and natural nutrition can remain. When XiaoLongBao comes out of the steam basket, the tasty smell will make you more hungry. The skill to eat XiaoLongBao is sucking the soup inside the buns first. Then you can choose to dip with vinegar or eat it directly.
My favorite food is the Hotpot from Chongqing.Because it tastes very nice and spicy,every time I enjoy it.When I was in China,almost time my foods were spicy and hot.But when I come to the American,here is almost foods for mild and oily.I like it，too.When I eating the chicken meat，I will miss my grandma very much.Because my favorite food about the chicken is made of my grandma.I miss the spicy noodles from Chongqing very much.Because in Chongqing,I eat the spicy noodle in the same shop everyday.
ReplyDeleteI need to say that first time I came here to TA I was amazed by the local food I did not use to eat a lot of junk food in Czech republic but here at TA there is fried food almost everywhere.So first weeks I could not believe and I ate almost everything what I saw.Then I started to gain weight and that was alarm for me!I said stop to myself and also I told myself that I must change something I started to eat less and better than before and I started to combine the food with workout.First few weeks were awful I wanted to give up everything I thought that it was useless because I didn't see any progress.After month eating well and workout I started to feel better even if I didnt see change I felt better.Also I really miss Czech food I cant live without it and I really need to go home for our food.What I need to say that I experienced the biggest change in food here at TA because I changed my lifestyle here and that was and still it is the best thing ever!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite food is a type of noodle made by buckwheat. You can eat the noodle with different sauce. You can eat the noodle both cold and hot. It is the traditional food in my family and my mum makes very good noodle. I start to eat cheese after I came to America but I still like Chinese food a lot. I like the buckwheat noodle because it reminds me of my mum. She always make that when I was young. Every year, when I go back home, my mum will make the noodle for me. There are many food that I miss but I cannot get in America. If I know how to cook, I think I can have many home food. However, I cannot make buckwheat noodle, it is very hard. I don't like to cook but I really want to eat food from home.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite food is the Chinese dumpling. It is also called Jiao Zi. It is a traditional Chinese food, which is essential during holidays such as Spring Festival and the Mid-autumn Festival. I like eating dumplings because they are really delicious and stand for reunion. My family usually eat dumplings when all the members of the family come together. Making dumplings is really teamwork. All of the family members will join this work. Usually, my mother and father make the stuffings of the dumplings, for example, the pork, the shrimp, the Chinese chives and then my relatives will put these stuffings into dumpling wrappers. Making dumplings with my cousins is very fun and exciting. We often have a competition that who makes the most beautiful dumpling. I started to make and eat dumplings when I was a kid. Although I can buy the dumplings in some America's supermarkets, but the taste of them are not very good. When I have them, the taste encourages me to remind of my parents' dumplings and my cousins. I miss them very much！
One of my favorite food is Patatas al Nido (potato nest). It is based on smashed potatoes with mince in the middle and baked egg at the top of the mince that simulates foam. We usually eat it hot because the smashed potatoes don't taste really good when they are cold. I changed my taste on many meals over the years. For example when I was little I couldn't stand mussels and now I eat them in Spain all the time. But there is some food that I am still hating like seafood. I can't even smell it. When I see seafood, the first thing I think about is the seafood stuck in rocks under the sea. There is a typical Spanish food called Cocido that I love because it remembers me Spain. I used to eat it with my family every Saturday and we enjoyed so much in that meal. Every time someone talks to me about that food I remember my family and the good moments with them.
ReplyDeleteBefore I move my home, I don't like to eat food, and also anything eat. But After I move my home and school, I got a lot stress. after few days, I start to eat a lot. My favorite food is Korean fried chicken, It is almost same with general fried chicken, But we add Korean style sauce when we make this fried chicken. I ate this food with my friend a lot when I was in Korea. So, sometime when I eat this fried chicken, I could remind some episodes which I hear when I eat that with my friends. I can also find just normal fried chicken, but I couldn't find this chicken on here. So this is also food that I miss a lot.
ReplyDeleteI don't really have a favorite food but there is some kind of food that i like a lot. I love seafood and also i like some Spanish food like "cocido" and "jamón serrano" that is like prosciutto ham but i think that it taste better . My tastes changes a little over the year , when i was little i hate sushi , i couldn't even smell it and now is one of my favorite foods. I think that here in America there is a lot of fried food and junk food and is so good the first days but now i don't want to see more fried and junk food because in my country we are not use to eat to much junk food . Every time i hear about Spanish food i miss my home , the Spanish food , and all the good moments with my family , but is good to have different experiences.
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ReplyDeleteI have two major hobbies in my life, sleeping and eating. I really love eating and I eat a lot. Food is the most important thing for us because eating is the major way to absorb the energy we need every second. I don't have favorite food because I eat all of them except shallot and garlic, I hate those two things. However, food is one of my best friends. I am going to sleep when I feel unhappy because delicious food can make me feel better. My friends said I am a foodie. Anyway, I miss all of the Chinese food in my hometown, especially the duck blood vermicelli soup and steamed buns. I ate them every morning for breakfast when I was in China. They are also the famous special local products of my hometown. If you go to my hometown, you really should taste it. That's all.
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ReplyDeleteAs a person who born and grew up in Sichuan, the food that is spicy is the flavor of home for me. However, in thousand kinds of spicy food, Liangmian, a kind of teoditonal cold dish in Sichuan, is the one that I love the most. In different regions people have different ways to make it. In my hometown, people usually put white sugar into the noodles. It might sound crazy to put sugar into main course but honestly it tastes great. Actually, the taste of Laingmian is not the only reason that why I love it. Another important reason is that the dish that my mom can make the most tasty is Liangmian and the flavor of Liangmian has been one of the most important parts of my childhood. I still remember that when I was a little child and I couldn't eat anything that is spicy but when saw my parents eat Liangmian I admired at them. The taste of Laingmian was a secret to me until I ate it for the first time when I was 6 years old. I thought there is no food that is more delicious than Liangmian at the first time I tried it. Now, I am a fifteen-year-old girl. It has been a long time since I ate Liangmian for the first time and I tried many differet food that is much more delicious. However, the status of the flavor of Liangmian for me will never change and no matter where I am, Liangmian is the dish that I will miss the most.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite food? That is a good question, is a common question that everyone have asked that to someone. I guess that my favorite food is paella, is the typical food in Valencia, and also in all the Spain, but is originally from Valencia. That food remember me to the restaurant that my father had once, was of typical sea food. Here the kind of food I most miss is the bread, the bread here is terrible for me. I miss on thing call "gazpacho manchego" made of food meat and bread. The reminds me to my grandmother
I don’t have favorite food. Generally speaking, I don’t like spicy and sweet food though the food, but i like some kind of home cooking food. For instance saute vegetable with mushroom and fried shrimp with scrambled egg and so on. When I was a child, I just like home cooking food until I grow up. So my taste is not change over, I still do not like spicy and sweet food this years, even whole year. Because spicy food make me hot, even it makes me oral ulcer. Sweet food has a lot of sugar that is make me fat and get tooth decay. And I always remind some places or some people make food that I liked. When I study in America, I don’t think I miss a lot of food that I liked, because there are a restaurant called KOI and there are lots of food I liked. So if I want to eat home cooking food, I just call the KOI.
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ReplyDeleteAmerican people have a big meal in thanksgiving. In China, people have a big meal in Spring Festival. All family members have dumplings and some Chinese food together. My favorite food is hot pot and noodle soup. I very like those food. People put vegetables and meat in a pot. We eat with some sauce. It is very delicious. I will go back to China during Christmas vacation. My first thing need to do is eating hot pot. Last summer vacation, I eat hot pot three times in a month in my home. My father makes sauce is very good. I miss that a lot. We can still eat hot pot in Koi. I and my friends sometimes go to koi and hot pot. It tastes different but, I still like it. After I come to US, my tastes changed little bit. This year, I can eat more American food. I still miss Chinese food even I can order koi. I miss my father's cooking a lot. He cooks some Chinese food very good. My homestay mom also can make some good Asian food too! I miss Chinese food a lot. I like Chinese food.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite food is Beijing Duck and Dumplings. In China, I always go to the restaurant to eat Beijing Duck with my family and it is very delicious for me. But I haven’t eaten it since half year and I really miss it. When I started to come to America, I tasted some American food such as Hamburger, Pizza and so on. I didn’t like them because I seldom ate American food in China. However, I was gradually accustomed to eat American food. In fact, I don’t forget some Chinese food. When I was very hungry, I remembered that all of my family members participated to make dumplings. There were a lot of delicious stuffings of dumpling, such as meats, vegetables and some sea foods.It was not only fun and interesting to make dumplings, but also let me learned how to make them.They tasted nice and made me unforgettable in my mind.
My favorite food is dumpling. We called dumpling “mantı” in Turkish. There are lots of types of mantı. Dumplings popular in most Turkish cuisines. I missed mantı a lot because I can’t do it in here also it’s hard to make mantı. It need lots of effort to do it. If we talk about my taste, it changed a lot over the years. For example when I was a child I didn’t eat cheese and some vegetables. But now I starting to eat them.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite food is my hometown food, which is really is really really spicy. My grand mom cook all the time when I was in China. When every time I go Koi, and order some spicy food will makes me remind her. The most beautiful women in the world, and I can ever get her food here. I do like some America food like pasta, bacon, beef, chess burger. Hawaii pizza. When every time I eat them I think about nobody, because no one can give special memory of Hamburger!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite food is sushi. I eat sushi really a lot in Ukraine. In America my favorite food is rise with chicken teriyaki. I really like trying different kind of food, from different countries. It's a good experience.
ReplyDeleteI like all kinds of foods but without a doubt, my favorite would definitely be “Paella”. “Paella” is a traditional Spanish dish. “Paella’s" recipe consists of mainly rice which is mixed, for flavor, with a variety of ingredients such as fish, meat, grilled vegetables, seafood and beans. An important part of the tradition of “Paella” is to cook it on a special pan called “Paila" , popular in Valencia, situated in the coast of Spain. My father makes really good “Paellas” at home, he often invites friends to come over to share a good time and enjoy the culinary art of Spain. I think that my taste indeed has changed over the past years. As my father continuously reminds me to try new foods, as I used to refuse to eat salad when I was little but eventually I tried it and realized I love it. Also, bringing back my roots, there is another very typical Spanish food called “Cocido.” I also enjoy this dish a lot, it has a very important place in my heart as it reminds me of my Grandmother, she makes the best of the best “Cocidos” and every time I visit her she surprises me with it.
ReplyDeleteAutumn is a good season to harvest food. In North Hemisphere, we have autumn in November. We can have many kind of food, but some kind of food we can't enjoy in The USA. My favorite food are dumplings. In China, we make dumplings to celebrate some important holiday, and my whole family stay together. When I eat dumplings, I will miss my family so much. There are some Chinese cuisine, but that doesn't make me feel family's warm.
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Mr. Griffin
November 4，2015
In my life, I had so many different and great foods from all over the world. But I don't have favorite food, I like the foods that cooked by my grandmother, I think she cooked so delicious dishes like spicy beef, Kung pao chicken and so on, I like those so much . I never changed tastes so far, my tastes are spicy and salty all the time. I won't eat foods without salty or spicy. Actually, some of Chinese foods always remind me somewhere. For example, I went to Boston a few days ago, I had Chinese noodles in China town, that made me felt that I was in my hometown. I also missed my family so much when I had that. There are so much foods that I can't get right, but I miss so much, like Kong pao chicken and Chinese noodles. In order to taste those, my grandmother tried to show me that how to cook through the FaceTime, I still couldn't get it.
Winter is coming, and the weather is getting cold. In the weather, my favorite food is porridge in pottery pot. It is so tasty. When I have porridge in pottery pot in winter, I feel so warm. It seems like the porridge brings heat from my mouth to my whole body. It is a traditional food in my hometown. A lot of people that from north of China come to my hometown, and they have the porridge in pottery pot. Sometime, there are some shrimp, frog, fish and some vegetable in porridge. And it was boil about half and hour. You can smell strongly when it’s done. I am a big fan for that. In summer, my favorite foods are watermelon and mango. Actually, there are not foods. There are fruit, but there are my favorite foods in summer. There are sweet. When we take watermelon or mango from refrigerator, it is the best time to have it. I haven’t changed my taste over the years. I like those because they are tasty.
ReplyDeleteSince I was small I like paste and I still like it a lot. Two my favorite Italian types of food are pasta and pizza. I think almost everyone loves these food. Also I like suishie a lot. But five years before I didn't used to eat fish. I thought it's not tasty. I made a misteke. I love all times of fish now but fish in suishie my favorite. For example shuishie reminds me about Kiev, become in Kiev I tried best suishie ever. Also pizza and pasta reminds me about Itally. It's like my second home. I spend every winter break there since I was 4 years old. In America I can't eat Uranian national food. I will love to eat it. I'm not used to eat that kind of food. A lot of it is frithe and unhealthy. Any way I will come back home soon.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite food is dumping. Especially my mother's handmade dumplings. I love it since I was 6 years old. It was my six years old birthday party. My mother made a lot of dumplings for me and my friends. After that, I fell in love with dumplings. While I am here in America, I miss my mother's handmade dumplings a lot. I can't get it from here.
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ReplyDeleteI love all kinds of delicious foods, especially the Sichuan spicy foods, it can make me warm and feel powerful. When I was young, I really like sweet foods, but when I went to Sichuan, I tried the hot pot, it was amazing and I started to eat spicy foods. One of my favorite spicy foods is the roast fish, I
want to eat it not only how delicious the fish is, but also it make me remember one years ago my happy life, and I really miss the roast fish now.
About food, actually I am a person who really like to eat delicious food. I think I really like sea food, like lobster. Now I live in Maine, the lobster in Maine is really famous, but I don't like the big lobster, the meat is so bad, because in my hometown, we usually eat small lobsters, the meat of small one is delicacy,so this is the reason why I don't like big one. My taste changed this year, before I came to USA, I like fast food because I eat fast food some times, I think it's delicious, but here, I eat everyday, now I hate fast food! In my hometown, TangYuan is the most famous food, TangYuan in my hometown is the best in the word. TangYuan is mean family come together and have a good time, we usually eat in Lantern Festival. I really miss my hometown's food, I hope during the Chirmas vacation, I can eat food I want.
ReplyDeleteI have been America about three years, I really enjoy American food. My favorite American food is steak. I always go steak restaurant with my friends on the weekend. I like eat steak calls “ rib eye” with medium rare. But my friends always think I am strange man. Every time I order medium rare steak, they think it is disgusting, because there is blood in the steak. Actually I like Chinese food more than American food. My favorite Chinese food is “ spicy beancurd”. It is really famous food in China which make by tofu and pepper. It tastes little hot and narcotico-acrid on your mouth. It is not that spicy, so some people like this taste, some people doesn't like. I think it taste so good, I really like it. I really miss Chinese food, because I can't eat many Chinese food in America.
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Journal 5 My favorite food
Well I”d like to introduce my favorite food hotpot in my hometown. As the name suggested, Sichuan hot pot was originated from Sichuan Province that is known for spicy food. Eating hotpot makes people’ mouth burn and tongue numb. When every time I come back to my hometown, I invite my friends to eat hotpot with me. Eating hotpot has becoming a habit when I go home. Hotpot created in the early 20 century by fishermen and port workers who lived year a river. They don’t have enough money to have regular meal. So they figure out to put cheap meat and vegetables in a pot of extremely spicy brot. After years of development, hotpot has become a most popular dish in Sichuan.
My favorite food is Dim Sum. Actually, this is a kind of food. Dim Sum means the food that when we have brunch in Guangzhou or south of China that are steam. I have been eating Dim Sum for 15 year. I really love to eat Dim Sum. First, this is a thing that I ate for 15 years. And it remind me a lot of memory of my childhood. When I was a little baby, my parents will take me to restaurant and then have a lunch together. When I finish my lunch, I will spend lots of time to play with my dad and play with the assistant there. In the restaurant, it has a big waterfall and i will always watch it and take photos with it. Now, I am in the U.S, so, I really miss my hometown and miss my hometown’s food. If you ask me, what is the food that I most missed, it must be the chicken foot. This is my favorite food and it has a special sauce to make it taste better.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite food is hot pot. Hot pot has lots of flavors offer to different kind of people. People normally eat spicy flavor for hot pot. However there is unspicy flavor for people who do not eat spicy. And we can put all kinds of foods inside of a hot pot. It is really depends on the way we like. My personal favorite food in hot pot is beef and potatoes. They have the best taste with spicy sauce. Luckily, Koi offers hot pot dinner. So we do not have to go all the way to Boston to eat hot pot dinner. Hot pot also remains me of my hometown because it is came from my hometown. And my mom used to cook for me all the time.
ReplyDeleteThanks, everyone, for your comments on food. Everyone misses "home cooking," and many of you were very specific on the dishes you prefer. They all sound delicious. Happy eating!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite time to eat its dinner and i would like to eat well-done steak or Ribs with bbq souce with some fries. I dont like spicy food too much and i cant see my life without meat.
ReplyDeleteUsually at home i trying to eat more healthy food than here, but i cant say that i eat a different food, because usually i eat not home. Usually i eat in some restaurants but sometimes i take a lunch in fast food restaurants, i perefer KFC. When my mom cooking food my favourite dishe is "Borsh". Its a traditional russian soup made from vegetables and meat and it have red color bright.
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Mr. Griffin
11.12.2015
I love the food my mom cooks. Whatever it is, whatever it tastes good or not, I love it. The noodle that my mom cooks is the best I ever have. The sauce makes from melted pork and tomato. My mom makes noodles by herself, she doesn't use the noodle that in supermarket it doesn't taste good. But I can't get it here. I can't make it tastes like "mom flavor" even I know how to cook it. This is the food I miss the most.
My favorite food is Chinese dumpling. It is a traditional Chinese food in China. I like eating dumpling because it is really delicious. Now I'm here in America. Actually I don't like American food. But there has dumping in cafe. I was so excited when I first saw it in cafe. So I don't miss food in China .
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