TRANSLATION FOR LESSON 3
It has already been over two weeks since the school started. Because he has been two busy, Zhang Tianming has no choice but eats in the school cafeteria everyday. He has not had Chinese food for a long time and would like very much to go to a Chinese restaurant to have a meal. Today is the weekend. Moreover there is not much homework either, therefore he made a phone call to Kelin, asking him whether he would like to go to Chinatown to eat together. Hearing this, Kelin said happily that as it happens his girlfriend Lin Xuemei also would like to eat Chinese food. He asked Zhang Tianming to wait at the entrance to the dorm and he would drive there to pick him up.
Fifteen minutes later, Kelin's car arrived. Zhang Tianming took a look inside the car. Kelin's girlfriends turned out to be a Chinese girl and she is very pretty. Ten minutes later, they three arrived at a Chinese restaurant that Kelin often goes to.
W: Hi, Mr. Ke, long time no see. How many?
K: Hi, Little Chen, three, we don't smoke.
W: OK, please come with me.
W: Here is the menu
K: Thank you. Little Zhang, what would you like to eat?
Z: You are a frequent guest here. What are the best dishes of this restaurant?
L: The fish here is cooked well, especially the steamed fish, the taste is incredible.
K: The Broccoli beef is not bad either, tender and aromatic.
L: Let's order a soup too.
K: The spinach tofu soup here is very good, how about ordering one?
Z: Good, good. What else should we order?
K: Let us order a vegetable dish.
W: Can you order now?
K: Yes. One steam fish, one broccoli beef, one spinach tofu soup. What fresh green vegetable do you have today?
W: How is small bokchoy?
K: Fine. Little Chen, can I trouble you to tell the boss to put less salt and not to put any MSG?
W: OK. The dishes are coming right away.
K: There was an American reporter who wrote an article saying that Chinese cuisine has a lot of calories, and is actually not good for health. What do you think?
L: I think that reporter's statement is too one-sided. Generally speaking, Chinese cuisine is good for health. Perhaps some dishes are a bit oily. This then depends on whether or not you know how to order. The dishes we ordered today, except the beef, are all very light.
Z: I agree with little Lin. Kelin, you have not told us what you think.
K: Actually, that reporter's view I don't agree with either. Otherwise, I would not have taken you here today. Look, our dishes have come.