Eating at home:

1. Healthier food

There is no doubt that home-cooked food is more healthy and nutritious than fast food. You can try
recipes according to your taste. Most restaurant foods are high in fats, salt, sugar. Having pre-prepared
meals and eating out can often lead to the consumption of poor-quality ingredients. But when we cook
our food, we know which ingredients are going in our food and in what quantity.

Homemade food is the best because you can always eat fresh food which is more delicious and healthier
than restaurant food. Natural and fresh ingredients are always best to keep you away from diseases.

6. Cooking can be fun

We can say cooking can be quite a lot of fun. You can try different recipes and enjoy them with your
family and friends. People who enjoy cooking a lot since give them a feeling of self-development and
creativity. Your cooking skills magically improve when you spend a little bit of each day making a variety
of foods for yourself and your family.

People are so busy with their lives these days and there is an emotional side to cooking, serving, and
eating in a group. It deepens the bond between friends and families.

DISADV

2. The major drawback of Cooking is, it might be dangerous, hard

In some cases, cooking can be dangerous. You can injure yourself if you are cooking food carelessly. If
you are a beginner and you do not know how to cut and you may inadvertently use a large knife, you
may cut your finger.

Some people seem to lack any natural aptitude for cookery. Although the associated skills may seem
easy for some, cooking at its heart is a complex work of art and science. The art involves creating the
look, aroma, texture, and taste of the food. The science is about mastering the chemical reactions that
most meals involve, especially when there's heat involved. If you are going to learn all this, you will
generally have to make many mistakes before you begin to get it right.

6. Kitchen may look like a mess, Time-consuming

If you cook at home your kitchen might look a mess. with cooking at home, there are always pots and
pans, utensils, plates, dishes, silverware, as well as drinking glasses that you have to spend some time
cleaning up afterward. If you just beginning your cooking career since the process will not be
sophisticated yet.
Another aspect of cooking is that some dishes can take a long time to prepare and to go grocery
shopping, especially if you want to cook slow-cooked food. You might simply have no time to cook if you
come home late at night every day.

Restaurant

Benefits:

Cooking something new can be quite intimidating, especially if you’re unsure about whether you’d like it
or not. Eating out allows you the freedom to try something new without the investment of your time
and effort. Food is served, hot, ask for items to be brought to you. Refills on certain drinks. Eating a
good meal without the sweat of prepping and cooking and serving.

Sometimes, people want to save time, and instead of going to the grocery or supermarket, buy food,
cook it, and then wash the dishes, they prefer to go to a restaurant.

It's easier to feed large parties

Whether you're throwing a party or just planning on meeting with a large group of people, planning
food for a lot of people can get quite difficult and costly. Eating out or catering can make this issue a lot
easier, as it allows you to relax when it comes to preparing food for everyone. In some cases, catering
from restaurants can also be cheaper than preparing food yourself for large groups.

DIS

1. It’s Expensive

Restaurant food tends to almost always be overpriced. Frankly, most times you can make the same if
not similar dishes from a restaurant menu at home for much cheaper. It may be a better option for you
to stay in and make your meal at home rather than spending money outside. You can also make a meal
with items you already have in your fridge at home rather than spending more money on groceries.

3. You can’t control the way the dish is prepared

A lot of us tend to have preferences when it comes to the way that our food is prepared, whether it be
how well cooked we want our food done or what ingredients we want in our dish. Eating out limits the
adjustments we can make to our food. This can especially be a problem for people who have dietary
restrictions. Such as those with gluten allergies or who are vegetarian. Preparing dishes at home lets you
adjust the ingredients in your meal as you please.

Eating out for lots of meals increases your risk of heart disease or stroke. A diet high in fat, cholesterol,
and sugar increases one's risk of heart disease. When dining out, there are more temptations to delve
into the sugary desserts and condiments, or to splurge with an entree you just can't replicate at home.
IELTS Speaking topic: Foreign food

Food is our most interesting topic. right? we talk about it daily in our own language. So I believe that you
have lots of things to share with examiners. In this topic, we will talk about Foreign food, but I think it is
not too difficult to discuss.

1. Have you ever tried foreign food?

Oh yes, I love foreign food all by my heart. I have been to USA before. It was a long stay and I grabbed
every opportunity to explore sandwich, Hamburg and different cheese. I am also a die hard fan of
Japanese food.

2. Do you like to try new food?

Yes, why not. When I am travelling in a new place, I’m always dwelling in the street, hunting for different
local food. I believe tasting the new food is indispensable part of the trip.

3. What kinds of new food have you tried recently?

I have tried the oysters recently because my lemon tree has got lots of lemon this winter. So I have had
them with the white wine. The raw oysters and lemon tastes very sweet, fresh and delicious. They are
the perfect combination.

4. What kinds of foreign food are popular in your country?

Well, there are so many people in my country, it’s really hard to say, probably some people enjoy the
Korean BBQ, but personally speaking, I prefer the Japanese food, like sushi and sashimi, because they
are much healthier.

5. Do you like any food from the countries near China?

Yes, the Japanese food, such as sushi and sashimi. Because they taste much similar to the Chinese food,
and besides, they are always served as fresh as possible, so I can enjoy the original flavour of the food.

Question 1: Let’s talk about food? What’s your favorite food?

Answer: Well, I would say that I’m not a picky eater and I can eat like the whole universe. But if i have to
choose, I would definitely go for Vietnamese traditional cuisine because although it does not win any
points for complexity, it is all about the combination of fresh ingredients, intense flavours, and ease of
cooking and preparation, so it wins my heart.

Từ vựng hữu ích:

Picky (adj) /ˈpɪki/: kén chọn

Cuisine (n) /kwɪˈziːn/: ẩm thực, phong cách nấu nướng

Complexity (n) /kəmˈpleksəti/: sự phức tạp, tốn nhiều công sức

Fresh ingredients /freʃ ɪnˈɡriːdiənt//: nguyên liệu tươi mới

Ease (n) /iːz/: sự dễ dàng, không phải gặp khó khăn gì

Question 2: Are there any food you dislike?

Answer: Well of course, there is this one particular kind of food which I don’t like, the one that stinks. I
can’t eat things that are too smelly, for example, durian, shrimp paste, stinky tofu. I just cannot stand
the smells of them

Từ vựng hữu ích

Stink (v) /stɪŋk/: bốc mùi, có mùi khó chịu

Smelly (adj) /ˈsmeli/ có mùi khó chịu. Từ đồng nghĩa stinking

Question 3. What are some traditional food in your country?

Answer: Obviously, there’s a mixed variety of food in my country. But I guess the most popular one
would probably be pho, since Vietnam is world-famous for it. It’s tasty, cheap and available at all hours.
In some places, it costs you like 20.000dong for a steaming hot bowl of Pho. And also, you might find
some other things like bun cha, bun bo hue, banh xeo, etc,. they are all very delicious.

Culture and food:

Many of us associate food from our childhood with warm feelings and good memories and it ties us to
our families, holding a special and personal value for us. Food from our family often becomes the
comfort food we seek as adults in times of frustration and stress.

When I was sick as a kid, I couldn’t eat rice because I was too weak, so my mother would cook soup and
bring it to bed for me. The smell and taste of the soup became something very familiar to me. Now,
whenever I feel tired or stressed, I remember the soup my mom used to make for me and I feel hungry
for that soup.

Traditional cuisine is passed down from one generation to the next. It also operates as an expression of
cultural identity. Immigrants bring the food of their countries with them wherever they go and cooking
traditional food is a way of preserving their culture when they move to new places.

Continuing to make food from their culture for family meals is a symbol of pride for their ethnicity

In China, They believe that food not only needs to be nutritious but also needs to look appealing, so
they put a lot of effort into decorating the dishes and making them look colorful, with vibrant red as
their traditional color.

Ăn món mới của qgia khác:

1. You Discover Foods You’ve Never Tried Before

There are so many dishes in other countries that you would never try , new opens your eyes and your
taste buds to a whole new range of authentic flavor profiles
3. A Country’s Food Tells You A Lot About Their Culture

you can tell about a culture and what they value purely based on their food.

looking at France as a country, especially Paris, their staple foods are nice bread, fine cuts of meat,
decadent desserts, expensive cheese, and beautiful wine

They as a country tend to value the finer things in life – for them, it’s better to eat a small amount of
something truly exquisite than a lot of a poorer-quality product. The Parisian aesthetic is elegance and
class at every turn.