BBC 6分钟英语 你最喜欢哪种面条

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I'm Ill, and I'm Ben. Do you enjoy eating noodles?

Beth I love noodles. Yes, uh.

I think my favorite are udon, the

big, thick ones. Hmm, so good.

Well, some people buy them dried in a packet.

Others make them fresh from wheats or rice.

But there is little doubts that noodles are popular around the world.

From their origins, probably somewhere in China, noodles recipes were spread by traders on the ancient Silk Road.

At each destination along the road, people gave noodles a twist, adding different flavors and ingredients to create a new dish.

In this program, will visit the United States and Japan, two countries which have taken noodles and created exciting new varieties.

As usual, will learn some useful new vocabulary.

And remember, you can read along with the transcript of this program, available now on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

But 1st, neil, I have a question for you.

As well as different shapes and ingredients, noodles come in many different flavors.

So which region of China is famous for its spicy flavors?

Is it A Shanghai, B Sichuan or C Guangzhou?

Well, I think, actually, beth, I know the answer to this.

I've been lucky enough to have been to this place.

I think it's be such one.

Okay, well, you sound confidence. I will reveal the answer later in the program.

BBC World Service Program The Food Chain, investigated how noodles spread from Asia through Europe to America.

They uncovered a surprising story. That pastor comes from Noodles brought back to Italy by Marco Polo in the 13th century.

Jan Lin, you, author of the book On The Noodle Road, doesn't believe this story.

So noodles were very exotic in the 1920s and thirties in the United States, and there was a new post association in America that wanted to promote the manufacturing of dried pasta.

And so they came up with a story about how Marco Polo went to China and found the noodle there and brought it all the way to Italy.

In the 1920s, noodles were popular because they were exotic, meaning foreign, unusual and exciting.

At that time, pastor companies were promoting a new invention dried pastor, so they came up with a story about Marco Polo to sell more pastor.

If you come up with something, you suggest or think up an idea, and it worked, sales of pastor jumped as a result.

Now, our 2nd destination, japan also has a history of eating noodles.

One of the most famous Japanese noodle dishes is ramen.

And Frank Sriggle, a blogger living in Tokyo, knows all about it.

He eats over 300 bowls of Ramen a year.

He explained to BBC World Services the food chain, how Chinese immigrants to Japan in the late 1800s influenced this Japanese dish.

And at one point or another, different chefs decided to localize these dishes.

They said, we love these Chinese new dishes.

However, why don't we tweak them?

Why don't we make them a little bit more Japanese?

Frank says that at one point or another, chef started to make noodle dishes more Japanese.

Here the phrase at one point or another means at some unspecified time in the past, they did this by tweaking Chinese noodles, in other words, by changing them slightly to make them better difference, or, in this case, more Japanese, by making these twigs, adding new toppings and slices of beef or chicken, japanese chefs created the noodle dish we know today as rawman, his frank struggle again.

Talking with BBC World Services, the food chain, and what I find fascinating about rawmen, compared to perhaps other wonderful noodle dishes around the world, is that rawmen continues to evolve.

Unlike other Japanese foods, it's okay to push the batteries.

Frank thinks that Japanese ramen continues to evolve, to develop and change gradually in response to new developments and ideas.

Unlike other traditional foods, such as sushi, modern versions of ramon push the boundaries.

If you push the boundaries, you act in a way which challenges normal acceptable behavior.

Yes, noodles have changed so much since ancient times that today you can buy them dried in a packet and simply add hot water.

But the flavors and the noodles themselves maintain a link to the past.

Now, speaking of flavors, what was the answer to your question?

Bet Well, I asked you which region of China is famous for its spicy flavors?

You are very confident with saying Sichuan.

And that is the correct answer.

Sichuan is a place that is famous for spicy food, such as the Sichuan pepper and Sichuan hot pot.

OK, it's time to recap the vocabulary.

We've learned. If you give something a twist, you change it in some small way to create something new and exciting.

The adjective exotic means unusual and exciting, because

of coming from far away. The phrase at one point or another, means at some unspecified time in the past, if you tweak something, you alter it slightly in order to improve it, something which evolves develops, and the changes gradually.

And finally, the idiom to push the boundaries means to do things which challenge normal acceptable behavior.

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