Restaurant

I enjoy going to restaurant to have dinner.

Especially when you are with friends, to have dinner in a restaurant is perfect.

I don’t like invite friends to my home to have dinner.  I am not a good cook.  And, my home is not too large to entertain my friends.

To go to restaurant to have dinner, we can have numerous choices – Chinese food, western food, Japanese food, other Asian food.  And the timing can be at any time we like.

If we need to prepare the food at home, good scheduling is very important.  We have to buy food, prepare it, ready for serving, and clean it.  It is a very time consuming tasks.  I prefer to go out for dinner.

I think this is a typical city girl will do – go out for dinner.

Dinner

A few years ago, I would prefer to have a lot of meat for dinner.

Now, because of health issue, I prefer more vegetable than meat.

I often heard that meat is not good for health, vegetable is.  So, starting from a few years ago, I started to eat more vegetable than meat.

Now, I would have dinner like that.

I think that it is balance – with vegetable, meat and noodles.

I hope that it is good for my health.

Junior Chef, from Australia

In summer, we have many special programs.  Some are targeted at kids.

In July, I watched a show with junior chef from Australia.

The kids are around 8 to 12 years old.  Many of them started to cook when they were 5.  Some said that they wanted to have their own restaurant when they grow up.

It is fun to see kids cook.  You can see the enjoyment and the professional attitude they have.  You can also see the child side of them – when they have problem, they will cry.  It is wonderful to see such young children to cook food with great appearance.  During the show, there is interview with the kids – what they think of the judges, their food preparation, and are they satisfied with their own performance.

This is a competition.  The 50 participants were selected out of 5,500 kids.  From this group, the judges will select top 20 for next round of competition.

I think the food prepared is of high standard.  Good appearance, praise from judges, great potential for young chef.  You can see the happiness of a child when he / she prepared great food.  One also share their worries when the food preparation goes wrong – e.g. something burned.  The judges are very kind, always offer help to them.  The junior chef is a brilliant next generation.

I really like to thanks those who prepared this program.