Eating in England

Although English people don’t care about what they eat, they care about the place where they eat. Rich families usually have a nice dining room.

English people like to eat out. The rich go to big restaurants. The poor go to small ones or fast-food restaurants. There are also a lot of foreign restaurants, such as Italian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese and so on. A good restaurant is usually big and clean. Waiters and waitresses wear uniforms and are friendly and polite. When you are eating, you might hear gentle music. Small restaurants or fast-food restaurants are noisier but clean and pleasant, too.

In summer, English people like eating outside. People bring baskets of sandwiches and sit on the grass in the park, enjoying the sun. Some English kids’ favorite food is pizza, and most kids hate vegetables. Some of them like eating the most famous English food, fish and chips.

A lot of people drink tea. But tea does not mean the same thing to everyone. 【小题1】.

In China, for example, tea is very popular for people of all ages. 【小题2】 They usually don’t put anything in the tea.

Tea is also important in Japan. The Japanese have their way of drinking tea. It is an old ceremony(仪式). People follow the rules of ceremony. 【小题3】

Another tea-drinking country is England. In England, the late afternoon is “teatime”. Everyone has a cup of tea then. For teatime, the English usually make tea in a teapot and drink it with milk and sugar. 【小题4】

In the United States, people usually drink tea for breakfast or after dinner 【小题5】 In summer, many Americans usually use tea bags when drinking tea. Americans drink cold tea. Sometimes they drink iced tea from cans(罐子), like soda.