Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• got to: To arrive at some place
• have to: Must do
• take with: To bring something or someone along when you go somewhere.
• to taste: Add an ingredient according to your preference.
• food culture: The practices, attitudes, and beliefs as well as the networks and institutions surrounding the production, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food.
• chili paste: A condiment made from chili peppers and other ingredients, used to add spice and flavor to dishes.
• chili sauce: A sauce made from chili peppers and other ingredients, used as a condiment.
• food tour: A guided tour that focuses on sampling and learning about local cuisine.
• in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• start out: To begin your life or career in a particular way.
• one up: In a better or more advantageous position.
• without a doubt: Certainly; definitely.
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• varieties of: Different kinds or types of something.
• come for: To arrive to collect someone or something.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• order up: A phrase used in restaurants to indicate that a prepared dish is ready to be served.
• made with: Containing a particular ingredient or material.
• consists of: Is made up or composed of.
• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• run by: To be managed or controlled by someone or a group.
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
• insane: Mentally ill; crazy
• huge: Very very large
• cuisine: Certain style or technique of cooking
• flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• culture: Beliefs and customs of a particular group
• dip: To decrease or lower temporarily
• feast: Religious celebration
• grill: Plate of food that has been grilled
• garlic: Strong-smelling white bulb used in cooking
• leave: To go away from; depart
• taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
• flesh: Soft part of fruit, vegetable that can be eaten
• broth: Liquid or soup that meat, etc. has been cooked in
• liver: Organ from animals served as food
• cinnamon: Sweet spice used in cooking or desserts
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• roast: To strongly criticize often in a teasing manner
• pack: Bag carried on the back of donkey, etc.
• shave: To cut the beard/hair close to skin with a razor
• bowl: Part of an object that has a rounded, inward curve
• sauce: Food made from cooked fruit, e.g. apples or mangos
• heaven: Place or feeling of great happiness
• clump: Mass or pile of something such as soil
• veggie: Shortened form of vegetable
• bone: Hard piece of your body that holds your muscles
• undoubtedly: With certainty; without question; for sure
• tuna: Large sea fish that is caught for food
• meal: Food for eating at a particular time, e.g. dinner
• famous: Excellent
• delicious: Very pleasing to eat; especially pleasing
• paste: To move computer data from one page to another
• durian: Tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind; huge fruit native to southeastern Asia 'smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts
• fatty: Describing meat, fish with a lot of fat
• selection: Process of choosing someone or something carefully
• fragrant: Having a sweet or enjoyable smell
• hand: Cards given to a player in a card game
• dish: Shallow container that you cook or serve food in
• visit: To go to a place for a time, usually for a reason
• put: To move or place a thing in a particular position
• spicy: Hot and strongly flavored in taste
• creamy: Resembling or containing cream
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• smell: To have a particular odor
• soy: Food substance made from soya beans
• dry: (Of humor) clever, but not obvious; ironic
• coconut: A large nut with a hairy shell and white flesh
• leaf: Page in a book
• chili: Hot-tasting spice used in curry, etc.
• fruit: Result or product of something
• beautiful: Having dome something well
• jelly: Semisolid food substance, eaten as dessert
• turmeric: Spice giving yellow color used in Indian cooking
• curry: Indian food made of vegetables, meat and spices
• mutton: Meat from a mature domestic sheep
• pork: Meat of a pig, used for food
• amazingly: In a surprising and pleasing manner
• chutney: Spicy condiment of fruits with sugar and spices