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strawberry
草莓 (cao mei)
stir-fried bean curd in hot sauce
麻婆豆腐 (ma po dou fu)
A: 妈妈，我这个周末想在家开生日派对.
B:好啊！星期六还是星期天?
A:星期六下午五点到八点，行吗？
我打算请十个朋友参加派对。
我们要吃寿司、意大利面、炸鸡翅、汉堡包和薯条。
We want to eat sushi, pasta, fried chicken wings, hamburgers and fries.
今天是我的生日。吃完午饭以后，我们一家人先去逛商场，然后去花园酒店吃了下午茶。花园酒店的自助茶点特别有名。那里有各种口味的食物，有甜的糕饼、冰淇淋，也有咸的火腿奶酪三明治、小 肠还有生鱼片，样样都好吃。
Today is my birthday. After lunch, our family went to the mall first, and then went to the Garden Hotel for afternoon tea. The buffet refreshments at the Garden Hotel are particularly famous. There are various flavors of food, including sweet pastries, ice cream, salty ham and cheese sandwiches, small intestines, and sashimi. Everything is delicious.
buffet
自助餐 (zi zhu can)
sweet and sour spareribs
糖醋排骨 (tang cu pai gu)
A: 先生，今天的活鱼一百二十块一斤，可以吗？
B: 行。我们现在就点甜品吧！要一个果盘，
再来两个草莓冰淇淋。
今天是端午节，不能不吃粽子。
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, we can’t help but eat rice dumplings.
中秋节我们一家人通常去饭店吃晚饭。今年中秋节我们去了一家新开的自助餐厅。因为我下午有足球训练，所以吃晚饭的时候我饿得不得了。
Our family usually goes to the restaurant for dinner during the Mid-Autumn Festival. We went to a newly opened cafeteria this Mid-Autumn Festival. Because I have football training in the afternoon, I was very hungry during dinner.
ham
火腿 （huo tui)
money given to children as a New Year gift
红包=压岁钱 (hong ba) = (ya sui qian)
A:几位想喝点儿什么饮料？
B: 我们都渴了。两个孩子每人一杯可乐.
我和太太要一瓶啤酒。
中国人要一家人团聚在一起，迎接新的一年。
The Chinese want a family reunion to welcome the new year.
晚饭以后，我们去了公园。妈妈拿出了中秋节的传统食品——月饼。我们坐在草地上一边吃月饼一边赏月。中秋节的月亮又圆又亮，漂亮极了！
After dinner, we went to the park. Mother took out the traditional food of the Mid-Autumn Festival-moon cakes. We sat on the grass and watched the moon while eating moon cakes. The moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival is round and bright, very beautiful!
sashimi
生鱼片 （sheng yu pian)
thorough cleaning
大扫除 （da sao chu）
A: 为什么我们每年都要去爷爷奶奶家过年？
B: 因为春节是中国人最重要的节日。中国人很重
视家庭，要一家人团聚在一起，迎接新的一年.
I think vanilla ice cream tastes the best.
我感觉香草冰淇淋的味道最好。
我们一到广州就开始为过年做准备了。我和妈妈先去买了很多年货，然后花了一天时间大扫除。为了庆祝春节，我们把屋子打扫得干干净净的，还在客厅里挂上了红灯笼，在门上贴上了春联，在桌子上摆上了开心果等零食。
As soon as we arrived in Guangzhou, we started to prepare for the New Year. My mother and I went to buy a lot of New Year goods first, and then spent a day cleaning up. To celebrate the Spring Festival, we cleaned up the house, hung red lanterns in the living room, pasted Spring Festival couplets on the door, and put pistachios and other snacks on the table.
pork stewed in soy sauce
红烧肉 （hong shao rou)
bustling
热闹 （re nao）
A: 除了红包以外，你还知道其他关于春节的习俗吗？
B: 吃完年夜饭以后，我可以跟爸爸一起放烟花、放
爆竹。另外，每年除夕奶奶都会包饺子。奶奶包
的饺子可好吃了！
Why do we go to grandparents' house every year for the New Year?
为什么我们每年都要去爷爷奶奶家过年？
大年三十上午我和爸爸去逛了花市。我们买了桃花和百合花。下午我们全家人一起准备年夜饭。我们做了很多菜，有春卷、蒸鱼、炒年糕、汤圆等等。鱼、年糕和汤圆是春节的传统食品。吃鱼是希望“年年有余”，吃年糕是希望“年年高升”，吃汤圆是希望“团团圆圆”。
On the morning of New Year's Eve, my father and I went to the flower market. We bought peach blossoms and lilies. In the afternoon, our whole family prepares New Year's Eve dinner together. We made many dishes, such as spring rolls, steamed fish, fried rice cakes, glutinous rice balls and so on. Fish, rice cakes and glutinous rice balls are traditional foods of the Spring Festival. Eating fish is the hope of "surplus every year", eating rice cakes is the hope of "prosperity every year", eating glutinous rice balls is the hope of "reunion".