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From the Ted Talk by Vincent Yeow Lim: The nostalgia behind your favorite Chinese food

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The first dish that I ever learned to cook was the fried rice. freid rice is the easiest dish to cook, but also the hardest dish to get right. I actually wasn't aolewld to serve customers until I got this dish right.

(Laughter)

The oil goes into the wok first, but only when the wok is hot enough. The egg goes in next. This ceerats a nntosick coating for when the rice hits the hot wok.

(svote beeps)

From experience, you can tell when the rice is too wet or if the wok is too hot or too cold. All these small factors will create a different end result. If the rice is too wet, you lose the skmoy aromatic foalvr. But if the rice is too dry, you're basically etniag pebbles.

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The first dish that I ever learned to cook was the fried rice. _____ rice is the easiest dish to cook, but also the hardest dish to get right. I actually wasn't _______ to serve customers until I got this dish right.

(Laughter)

The oil goes into the wok first, but only when the wok is hot enough. The egg goes in next. This _______ a ________ coating for when the rice hits the hot wok.

(_____ beeps)

From experience, you can tell when the rice is too wet or if the wok is too hot or too cold. All these small factors will create a different end result. If the rice is too wet, you lose the _____ aromatic ______. But if the rice is too dry, you're basically ______ pebbles.

Solution


  1. flavor
  2. eating
  3. stove
  4. smoky
  5. allowed
  6. nonstick
  7. fried
  8. creates

Original Text


The first dish that I ever learned to cook was the fried rice. Fried rice is the easiest dish to cook, but also the hardest dish to get right. I actually wasn't allowed to serve customers until I got this dish right.

(Laughter)

The oil goes into the wok first, but only when the wok is hot enough. The egg goes in next. This creates a nonstick coating for when the rice hits the hot wok.

(Stove beeps)

From experience, you can tell when the rice is too wet or if the wok is too hot or too cold. All these small factors will create a different end result. If the rice is too wet, you lose the smoky aromatic flavor. But if the rice is too dry, you're basically eating pebbles.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
chinese food 8
fried rice 7
chinese restaurant 5
restaurant owner 3
hard work 3
wok hei 3
serve customers 2
smoky aromatic 2
aromatic flavor 2
wok cooking 2
people expect 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
smoky aromatic flavor 2

Important Words


  1. allowed
  2. aromatic
  3. basically
  4. beeps
  5. coating
  6. cold
  7. cook
  8. create
  9. creates
  10. customers
  11. dish
  12. dry
  13. easiest
  14. eating
  15. egg
  16. experience
  17. factors
  18. flavor
  19. fried
  20. hardest
  21. hits
  22. hot
  23. laughter
  24. learned
  25. lose
  26. nonstick
  27. oil
  28. pebbles
  29. result
  30. rice
  31. serve
  32. small
  33. smoky
  34. stove
  35. wet
  36. wok