Food vocabulary 159

Here is some vocabulary about food and restaurants

Types of meals:

a barbecue / a bbq
an informal meal which you eat outside (in your garden, a park or other outside space). The food is cooked on an outdoor gril.
noun [C] (UK AND AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH INFORMAL barbie, WRITTEN ABBREVIATION BBQ)a metal frame on which meat, fish or vegetables are cooked outside over a fire, or a meal prepared using such a frame which is eaten outside, often during a party.

...Their traditional sausages are delicious grilled or barbecued[verb]
..I like catfish cooked on a barbecue.
...Our neighbors ited all of us to a backyard barbecue.
...During the summer we barbecue all the time. [verb]
...barbecued chicken wings [verb]

a picnic
an informal meal which you eat outside (in your garden, a park or other outside space). The food is either pre-cooked or uncooked. Almost all the food is served cold

...If the weather's nice we could have a picnic in the park.
...Why don't you take a picnic with you?
...a picnic area/lunch/table
...a picnic basket/hamper
...There were several families picnicking on the river bank.
....Being a single parent is no picnic, I can tell you.-[to be a difficult or unpleasant situation]
...Bringing up four children on your own is no picnic, I can tell you.

a buffet
a meal in a restaurant or at a party where you help yourself (rather than being served by waiters) and pick and choose what food and how much of it you want to eat.

...Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?
...Will it be a buffet or a sit-down meal?

an all-you-can-eat buffet
a special kind of buffet which restaurants serve where you can go back to the buffet table as many times as you want and eat as much food as you care to for a fixed price

There are several places in the greater Phoenix area where you can get your fill for a very reasonable price. These all-you-can-eat buffets are great for people who like to eat a lot, like lots of variety, don't like to dress up, and they will be popular with the kids, too.

an early bird special / an early bird menu
a fixed-price meal that is offered to customers early in the afternoon (from about 6.00 - 7.30 pm), before restaurants become busy during the evening.

...early bird - [a person who gets up or arrives early]
...Ellen's the early bird in this house, not me.-[someone who gets up early in the morning]

Ways of describing food:

raw
uncooked but edible (you can eat it). For example, carrots, tuna or beef can be raw.

...raw fish.
...Oil is an important raw material which can be processed into many different products, including plastics.
....They claimed that raw sewage was being pumped into the sea.=(of materials) not processed; in a natural state.]

fresh
in a natural condition rather than artificially preserved by, for example, freezing.=(of food or flowers) recently picked, made, or cooked]

...fresh fruit and vegetables
...fresh fish/meat
...fresh coffee
...fresh-baked bread
...Elise is in the garden cutting some fresh flowers for the table.
...There's a fresh pot of coffee on the stove.
...Fresh food is also food in a natural condition rather than artificially preserved by a process such as freezing.

ripe
completely developed and ready to be eaten.=[esp. of fruit ready to be collected or eaten]

...Those bananas aren't ripe yet - they're still green.
...The tomatoes aren't ripe.

off
no longer fresh or good to eat because it's too old=(of food and drink) no longer fresh or good to eat because of being too old]

...I'd better eat this cheese before it goes off
...This bacon smells a bit funny - do you think it's gone off?

rotten [adjective] decayed
fruit or vegetables which are no longer fresh = [become gradually damaged, worse or less]

...The room smelled of rotten vegetables.
...the smell of decaying meat

rancid [adjective]
butter or oil which is no longer fresh

sour
milk which is no longer fresh

...Hot weather sours milk.[verb]
...Milk sours in hot weather.[verb]
...I'm afraid the milk has soured.[verb]
...The four basic tastes are sweet, salty, bitter, and sour.[adjective]

Things you might find in a Chinese restaurant:

chopsticks
two slim pieces of wood, plastic or metal which are used for eating food from East Asian food

a lazy Susan
a circular piece of wood or plastic which is put on a table and can be turned around so that everyone at a circular table can reach the food that is on it

a fortune cookie
a hollow biscuit which, when you break it open, contains a message, usually about your future. These biscuits are not given to customers in restaurants in China but are often given in Chinese restaurants outside China

Vocabulary

game= [adjective]
willing to do things that are new, risky or difficult.[sanggup]

...It was a difficult challenge, but Roberta was game.
...She's game for anything
...I'll look after the baby, " he said gamely (= bravely).
...The ocean water's cold but I'm going in anyway -- are you game?

testicles
either of the two round male sex organs which produce sperm, below and behind the penis

ventured [mempertaruhkan]
risked going somewhere that might be dangerous, unpleasant or here, unfamiliar

...I didn't dare venture an opinion. [v]
...If the snow stops I might venture out. [v][to leave a safe place and go somewhere that may involve risks ]
...She rarely ventured outside, except when she went to stock up on groceries at the corner shop.
...As we set off into the forest, we felt as though we were venturing (forth) into the unknown.
...She tentatively ventured the opinion that the project would be too expensive to complete, but the boss ignored her.

Isn't that the truth?
That is very true