I’m Tony Smith. Now I study in Chengdu. 【小题1】 So I often go to eat Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁).

Mike is my e-friend. He is from California, America and he is a middle school student. 【小题2】 It has Kung Pao Chicken there. 【小题3】 It’s a little expensive but very popular. Mike says he will go to have a try this Sunday.

【小题4】 It is a famous chain restaurant (连锁餐厅). The first Chengdu Taste opened in 2013. But now there are several restaurants in the world. 【小题5】

I’m happy that so many people love Sichuan food.

Foods that are well known to you may not be familiar（熟悉的） to people from different places around the world. Tourists and travelers often get to try some unfamiliar food. That is part of traveling. Here are four people’s food experiences in foreign（外国的） countries.

David is a Thai student in France. “I never had cheese or even milk before I came to France. Cows are seldom seen in my part of Thailand. So I didn’t have milk or milk products. I drank some milk when I first arrived in France. I hated it! I tried cheese, too, but I didn’t like it. I love ice cream, though that’s made from milk.”

Birgit is from Sweden. She traveled to Australia on vacation. “I was in a restaurant that was special in fish. I heard some other people order flake （薄鱼片）, so I ordered some, too. It was delicious! Later, I learned that flake is an Australian name for shark （鲨鱼）. Now, whenever I see a new food, I try it on purpose. You know why? I remember how much I enjoyed flake.”

Chandra is a doctor in Texas. She is from India. “I’m afraid to try new foods because maybe there is beef in them. I’m a Hindu（印度教教徒） and my religion（信仰） stops me from eating meat from the cow. That’s why I can’t eat hamburgers or noodles with meatballs.”

Nathan is from the United States. He taught for a year in China. “My friend gave me some 100-year-old eggs to eat. I didn’t like their appearances at all. The eggs were green inside, but my friends said the color was OK. Chinese people put something on fresh eggs. Then they put them in the earth for three months. So the eggs weren’t really very old. Even so, I didn’t want to touch them.”

British people are well known for the amount（量）of tea that they drink. Each person in the UK drinks about 1.9 kg of tea every year. That’s around 876 cups of tea. Tea is drunk by all sections（阶层）of society. But tea does not grow in Britain. Most of the tea is grown in India and China. So, how did it become an important part of British culture?

Tea arrived in London in the 1600s. At this time British ships were exploring（探索）the world and came across the drink in China. It was not long before green tea was available（可购得的）to buy. However, this was only available to the richer sections of society.

At the beginning of the 1700s, the amount of tea arriving in Britain increased. Black tea arrived at this time. At first people drank this tea exactly as it was in China. They soon found that it mixed really well with a little milk and sugar, giving it a special taste.

In the 1800s, tea was still a thing enjoyed only by people with money. At this time they began to have “afternoon tea”. People drink tea with a snack around 4 p.m. so that they don’t feel hungry between lunch and dinner. It is a tradition that is still going today but has become less popular in recent times.

In the late 1800s, the price of tea went down as more tea began to arrive on ships from India and China. It was no longer a drink just for rich people. Tearooms-shops where you could buy and drink tea, started to appear（出现）across the country. At the start of the 20^th century, people of all sections began to drink tea.