IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 707 with Model Answer

Describe a traditional meal you enjoyed recently

: You should say

what the meal was
where you ate this meal
what occasion it was
and explain how much you enjoyed this meal

: Model Answer

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 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. 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