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Describe a traditional meal you enjoyed recently.
You should say:
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what the meal was 
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where you ate this meal 
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what occasion it was 
and explain how much you enjoyed this meal. 
[You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one 
minute to think about what you're going to say. You can make some notes to 
help you if you wish.]
Model Answer 1:
Singapore is the country where people of different races and nations come 
together and pass their days. As a result, the foods of the country are also 
featured with variations. I have tested two of its traditional foods and the 
tastes are splendid! 
Chicken rice is one of the traditional foods of Singapore and is taken by almost 
all classes of people. I also tasted the chilli crab with the chicken rice to have a 
variation. The foods are available everywhere in the country and are also 
cheaper in price. I found it interesting that the chickens were hanged on the 

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food stores and when the order was placed, the chickens were added to the 
rice that made the meal. However, the tastes of the dishes are not same 
everywhere and the price also differs based on the chicken size. If you take a 
large chicken, you are to pay more and if the chicken size is small, the price is 
comparatively lower. Besides, the chilli crab, the national seafood of the 
country, was also delicious. It was spicy and I enjoyed them much. 
I went Singapore in the first quarter of April in 2016 and had tasted the foods. I 
went there to have some shopping and business deals with the local 
businessmen over exporting attires for male and females. My business partner 
accompanied me and before meeting with the importers, we travelled around 
the Singapore city. There were street shops selling different types of foods and 
we sat by a shop to have some of the traditional food items. Though the shops 
were at streets, they were cleaner than ours are in India. Most of the 
shopkeepers were clean and they used gloves while moving the foods. The 
cooking process was also adorable. They prepared all the raw food stuff and 
cooked them before the consumers as per the placement of the orders. 
Moreover, their cooking style was a bit different and took less time than ours. 
We took the meal at a street shop located by a large shopping mall in 
Singapore city.
Actually, there was no special occasion to have the meals. It was just testing 
the local and traditional foods of a foreign country. This was my first trip to 
Singapore and thus I was more excited than my partner on this trip. My office 
had sent my partner before to visit Singapore but this is my very first visit here. 
So, I was more curious than him and tried to explore the entire city. I asked 
him to be with me and he agreed and also played the role of a guide for me. It 
is Michael Thompson, my British partner in India, who helped me greatly to 
taste the foods. We simply got out of our hotel and started roaming on the 
streets. When I felt hungry, I proposed Thompson to have some foods and he 
stopped by a street food shop. At the beginning, I was amazed at the menu as 
we, Indians, love to have chicken biriyani or chicken-polaw. But I was 
unfamiliar with the way of selling chicken rice. Definitely I have taken chicken 
with rice but this time, the presentation was entirely different.
To be frank, I enjoyed the meal greatly. It was one of the most delicious foods 
that I took outside of my country. The foods were cooked finely. It was a 
medium-sized chicken with a plate filled with the cooked rice. The rice 
belonged to the finest quality, fragrant and was whiter than we have in India. 
The menu is also available in almost all of the large restaurants in the country. 

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The recipe basically belongs to the Chinese and was adapted from the early 
Chinese immigrants in the country. The chilli crab was also interesting. The 
chilli crab tasted spicy as different types of spices were implied on the crab. At 
first, I thought that the crab would be hard to eat but I was wrong. It was soft 
and yummy. In fact, this was the very first seafood for me. I enjoyed all the 
foods to the fullest extent. If I could have a chance to go back there, I definitely 
will have the foods again.