hey guys
i'm going to try something new today
eating and sharing food i feel like it
makes us more comfortable and more
relaxed
so
i'm wondering if you would like to have
dinner with me tonight
if you do go and grab your dinner grab a
drink
come back and have a chat with me
lucky you've got me now actually because
about 10 minutes ago i was really hungry
hangry yes hangry
so the feeling you get when you're
really really hungry and so it makes you
feel irritated or annoyed
things aren't happening like you want
them to you need some food to make you
feel better
char's always like quick get her some
food eat something she's going crazy
about 10 minutes ago i was hungry but my
food has just arrived that's right my
food has arrived which means
i've got takeaway tonight
yes else i got for my dinner
here is my dinner
it is my takeaway dinner i
didn't make it myself
i bought it from a
restaurant and
someone delivered it
to my house
so someone from the restaurant brought
it to my house they delivered it to me i
call it takeaway
but actually
americans or people who
speak american english call it take out
so there's two different nouns for food
that you don't eat in
a restaurant but you don't cook at home
take away
in british english
and
take out
in american english almost the same but
a little bit different
i'm from australia so i
call it take away food
which is the same as british english but
actually we use words from american
english and british english we're pretty
easy this is my favorite takeaway food
ever it is let me show you what i have
so in here i have some
rice noodles
white rice noodles
and some fresh greens and herbs so some
basil thai basil some cucumber
some spring onions and
some
fresh lettuce so that's all been chopped
up in here
and then the good bits
fried tofu
puffed rice
like kind of crunchy rice
and
here is a mix of crispy fried shallots
and chilies so it's really and peanuts
really crunchy so all i have to do is
pour all of these ingredients into
my noodles and my fresh greens
so this sauce has it's
salty sauce it's like soy sauce with
garlic and chili in it i'm gonna add the
sauce
to my noodles
and then i'll take my chopsticks and mix
mix mix mix mix mix
i used to get in trouble all the time
from my mum and so did my brothers
actually
we used to get so excited about dinner
and food
that we'd be like jiggling dancing
around in our chairs my brother would
even stand up on his chair and be like
yes yes yes
and you know i still do it
still get excited about dinner
so the sauce and the chili is all mixed
in
and now
i'm going to add all of my good crunchy
bits in
so there's all my crunchy bits in there
yum
seriously
you guys you have to try this one day
like look how good that looks
so good
i love this meal because
you get so much in one one little box or
in one little salad
so you get
the soft
noodles
like chewy and nice and squishy in your
mouth then you get
the crunchy lettuce and cucumber and
you know nice fresh flavors from the
greens then you get all the crunch from
the puffed rice and the
fried shallots and the peanuts
and then you get from the sauce you get
salty chili sort of flavors
and then you get this delicious
hot fried tofu on top so good
so
what are you eating tonight
maybe you can tell me maybe you can
write it in the comments
yum
my dinner has no meat in it tonight
it's a vegetarian dish
so
vegetarian food
doesn't have any meat in it at all
and vegetarians are people who don't eat
meat
i'm not a vegetarian i do eat meat but
this dish doesn't have any meat in it at
all my fiance char who i know you've
seen some of my other videos
he is
a huge meat eater
when he's not with me for dinner usually
i eat vegetarian food because i don't
get a chance to otherwise
are you laughing at how i use chopsticks
i think i'm okay i've lived in asia a
little bit and i've i've learned a few
tricks but
i don't really have very good skills
i can eat i can eat with peanuts
actually i mean
i can eat peanuts with chopsticks
which i think
is a very good skill to have
let's talk about collocations
collocations are super important
the best tip that i can give you for
learning new vocabulary is to
learn words in chunks or in groups so
instead of just learning
take away
just the word on its own take away or
take out
learn it with other words
that it's commonly used with
so
for example
i got takeaway
you'll hear it all the time and it must
be so frustrating but people english
speakers saying
doesn't sound right and sometimes your
english teachers will be saying no it
just
doesn't sound right
okay it's like make a party all of my
students do this all the time they say
teacher i'm gonna make a party this
weekend
make a party
doesn't sound right
so with the noun party we always use
the verb
have
or
throw
throw a party i'm throwing a party this
weekend you should come
my brother's having a party
but we would never say i'm making a
party this weekend it's just
just don't do it it's just wrong
so it's really important to learn words
that are collocated together
i am almost finished
and
i don't think i can eat anymore i'm full
i did a pretty good job
there's not very much left
but i am i feel quite full
so i might stop there
how was your dinner
well if you've enjoyed yourself as much
as i have make sure you let me know like
the video or leave me a comment to tell
me that yes you enjoyed it you think
it's a good idea because if you do
i'll make some more maybe we should have
dinner once a fortnight once a month all
right guys well this has been really fun
i hope you've enjoyed yourselves and
i'll see you very soon i'm sure
bye
you