【英语趣味课堂】新加坡的饮食-Diet in Singapore
时间：2016-06-02 01:35:21
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Clare: Hello this is Clare from the United States, I am talking with Mike from Singapore about
obesity1 and diet in our countries. America is famous for well
infamous2 for being one of the fattest countries in the world. Mike you said that in Singapore diet is something of an issue as well, can you please explain?
Mike: Right, well we have all the usual burger
joints3, Pizza Place, all the fast food basically in Singapore are also and because a lot of us are busy working so naturally this food actually seem like a good idea because it saves us a lot of time and if you're working in a city like Singapore, during lunchtime, you don't have time to basically queue with everybody for food and stuff ... so, fast food are actually good alternative to get your lunch. And on top of that, we have what we call, in Chinese we call it "kopitian". What it means is "coffee shop" in English and these coffee shops they don't serve, they serve coffee also but a lot of it is actually local
delicacies4, and Singaporean food are famous for being delicious but very, very high in
cholesterol5.
Clare: Well can you give me an example of a dish?
Mike: OK, one of the famous dish is actually originated from I think Malaysia or Indonesia. It's called "Nasi Lemak". Nasi Lemak is Malay for "rice". What this food ... what Nasi Lemak is actually it consists of fish, which is fried fish and fried egg with
coconut6 rice and ...
Clare: What is coconut rice? I've never heard of that.
Mike: Coconut rice is actually normal rice cooked with, I think, coconut milk, if I'm not wrong and so rice gives off a very, very nice
fragrance7 and we just call it coconut rice. And this coconut rice is, as you can imagine, very very high in cholesterol and ...
Clare: Right, and sugar too
Mike: Right. So Nasi Lemak is one fine example. Another example is probably "
char8 kway teow". Char Kway Teow is actually a Tawainese word for fried noodles. So this char kway teow is basically Chinese rice noodles with some fish cakes and with a lot of
chilly9 and bean
sprouts10 and they use a lot of ... I think it's black sauce, Chinese black sauce. Actually I'm not really sure what's the American equivalent. So, just like Nasi Lemat
previously11, this char kway teow is also very, very high in ...
Clare: In cholesterol.
Mike: Right.
Clare: Although it sounds really, really good. I ate before coming here but I'm hungry again!
Mike: And I think most of the delicious food are high in cholesterol.
Clare: Because frying makes everything taste better.
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