雅思口语范文:a kind of foreign food

雅思口语里对于食物的描述怎么说，不要再pizza了!拓展下思路，比如去过韩国旅行的同志们肯定尝过那里的国宝级菜品---泡菜!无论去哪家餐厅，桌子上的小碟子肯定都摆上了红艳艳的泡菜，躲都躲不开啊!

对于雅思考官来讲，这个富有亚洲风情的菜品，他们应该会比较感兴趣吧……

I’d like to talk about Kimchi which is a traditional Korean dish.

Kimchi means a lot to Korean people, basically every family knows how to make it. The home-made Kimchi is a specialty in Korea. In America, when people are posing for the camera, they would say ‘cheese’, but I heard in Korea, people would say ‘Kimchi’.

I first ate it when I was travelling in Korea, one of our stops was a shop that makes and sells canned Kimchi. The local guide showed us how to make the dish, and the shop owner even provided ingredients for us to try it ourselves, which was a lot of fun. It was basically pickled cabbage with specially made sauce, the owner gave us free samples to try, it was crisp, and the leaves were soft and chewy. The texture was really special. We could choose to buy some for our relatives back at home, and they even offered free shipping service, which is quite considerate.

But my mom said, there’s Kimchi available at many supermarkets in China, so we didn’t buy it. And after we went back home, the first thing I did was run to the store and bought some so-called Korean Kimchi. But it didn’t taste the same as the one I tried in Korea. So you see, it has become my biggest regret that I didn’t buy some when I was there.

So next time when you are in Korea, you definitely should get some authentic Kimchi there.

语言点解析：

home-made = made at home, rather than produced in a factory and bought in a shop/ store 例如：

home-made jam

specialty = speciality = a type of food or product that a restaurant or place is famous for because it is so good 例如：

Seafood is a speciality on the island.

local specialities

a speciality cheese shop (= one that sells many different types of cheese)

Haggis is a Scottish speciality.

pose (for somebody/something) = to sit or stand in a particular position in order to be painted, drawn or photographed 例如：

The delegates posed for a group photograph.

They posed briefly for photographs before driving off.

canned = (of food) preserved in a can 例如：

canned food / soup

pickled = (of food) preserved in vinegar 例如：

pickled cabbage/ herring/ onions

chewy = (of food) needing to be chewed a lot before it can be swallowed

texture = the way food or drink tastes or feels in your mouth, for example whether it is rough, smooth, light, heavy, etc. 例如：

The two cheeses were very different in both taste and texture.

so-called = used to show that you do not think that the word or phrase that is being used to describe somebody/ something is appropriate 例如：

the opinion of a so-called ‘expert’

How have these so-called improvements helped the local community?