April 27, 2025
Local Traditional Foods
Two of the traditional foods for Chinese New Year where I live are fried mung bean balls and Máyè.
About two or three days before the Chinese New Year, people start to cook the foods.
In order to make the fried mung bean balls, they soaked mung beans for about a day and a night. Then they grind the soaked mung beans into powder with a stone mill.
Since our village only had one stone mill, families had to take turns grinding soaked mung beans.
When grinding the mung beans, we needed to push the stone mill ourselves. I still remember the feeling of pushing the stone mill: I felt dizzy and nauseous.
The ground soaked mung beans were a paste - like substance. People put a certain amount of wheat flour in it and mixed them thoroughly, then made it into many small balls and fried them.
The Maye is relatively simple to cook. People use sweet potato flour, wheat flour and a lot of sesame seeds (people can also use corn flour, soybean flour…) to make a dough and flatten the dough to about one millimeter thick.
Then, people cut the dough into many rhombus-shaped pieces in similar sizes, and they were ready to be fried.
The fried mung bean balls are usually used to make soup while the Maye can be eaten as snacks. Of course, people can also eat the fried mung bean balls directly.
These two traditional Chinese foods are very delicious as the ingredients are fresh and contain no additives.
Well, that’s all for memory sharing, and I’ll see you guys soon with the next one.
Local Traditional FoodDishes
"Foods" isn't wrong, but I think "dishes" is more natural when talking about specific prepared meals
Two of the traditional fooddishes for Chinese New Year where I live are fried mung bean balls and Máyè.
About two or three days before the Chinese New Year, people start to cook the fooddishes.
In order to make the fried mung bean balls, they soaked mung beans for about a day and a night.
"soaked" -> "soak"
Present tense since we're talking about something
The ground soaked mung beans were a paste - -like substance.
No spaces around dashes when forming a compound word
Then, people cut the dough into many rhombus-shaped pieces in similar sizes, and they wen they are ready to be fried.
Well, that’s all for memory sharing memories, and I’ll see you guys soon with the next one.
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In both your dishes, you moved from a discussion on what people in China generally do to prepare these foods, to talking about specific occasions that you were involved in preparing the food, which made following a little difficult. When you change the topic like that, in English it's good to be clear that you are doing that, so a phrase like "Back when I was a kid, we would make mung bean balls" would help a lot with clarifying things.
Overall though, it's pretty good
April 27, 2025
Thank you very much.
Local Traditional Foods
About two or three days before the Chinese New Year, people start to cooking the foodsm.
I guess "cook the foods" is passable but seems very rustic and plain.
Better:
"About two or three days before the Chinese New Year, people start cooking them"
In order to make the fried mung bean balls, they soak thed mung beans for about a day and a night.
Then they grind the soaked mung beans into powder with a stone mill.
Since our village only had one stone mill, families had to take turns grinding the soaked mung beans.
* articles, to emphasize the topic.
When grinding the mung beans, we needed to push the stone mill ourselves.
I still remember the feeling of pushing the stone mill: It felt dizzy and nauseous.
Better: *It
The ground soaked mung beans were a paste - -like substance.
People put a certain amount of wheat flour in it and mixed them thoroughly, then made it into many small balls and fried them.
The Maye is relatively simple to cook.
People use sweet potato flour, wheat flour and a lot of sesame seeds (people can also use corn flour, soybean flour…) to make a dough and flatten the dough to about one millimeter thick.
Then, people cut the dough into many rhombus-shaped pieces in similar sizes, and they were ready to be fried.
The fried mung bean balls are usually used to make soup while the Maye can be eaten as snacks.
Of course, people can also eat the fried mung bean balls directly.
These two traditional Chinese foods are very delicious as their ingredients are fresh and contain no additives.
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Best of Luck!
April 27, 2025
Thank you very much.
About two or three days before the Chinese New Year, people usually start to cook the foods.
In order to make the fried mung bean balls, they soaked mung beans for about a day and a night.
Since our village only had one stone mill, families had to take turns grinding the soaked mung beans.
When grinding the mung beans, we are needed to push the stone mill ourselves.
I still remembered the feeling of pushing the stone mill: I felt dizzy and nauseous.
Then, people cut the dough into many rhombus-shaped pieces in similar sizes, and they weare ready to be fried.
April 27, 2025
Thank you very much.
About two or three days before the Chinese New Year, people start to cook the foodse dishes.
In order to make the fried mung bean balls, they soaked mung beans for about a day and a night.
Present tense should be used here!
Then, people cut the dough into many rhombus-shaped pieces in similar sizes, and they weare ready to be fried.
April 27, 2025
Thank you very much
In order to make the fried mung bean balls, they soaked mung beans for about a day and a night.
Then, they grind the soaked mung beans into powder with a stone mill.
The ground soaked mung beans were a paste - like substance.
People put a certain amount of wheat flour in it and mixed ithem thoroughly, then made it into many small balls and fried them.
Then, people cut the dough into many rhombus-shaped pieces in similar sizes, and they were ready to be fried.
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Great work!
April 27, 2025
Thank you very much.
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Since our village only had one stone mill, families had to take turns grinding soaked mung beans. Since our village only had one stone mill, families had to take turns grinding the soaked mung beans. Since our village only had one stone mill, families had to take turns grinding the soaked mung beans. * articles, to emphasize the topic. |
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People put a certain amount of wheat flour in it and mixed them thoroughly, then made it into many small balls and fried them. People put a certain amount of wheat flour in it and mixed it This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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The Maye is relatively simple to cook. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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People use sweet potato flour, wheat flour and a lot of sesame seeds (people can also use corn flour, soybean flour…) to make a dough and flatten the dough to about one millimeter thick. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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The fried mung bean balls are usually used to make soup while the Maye can be eaten as snacks. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Of course, people can also eat the fried mung bean balls directly. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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These two traditional Chinese foods are very delicious as the ingredients are fresh and contain no additives. These two traditional Chinese foods are very delicious as their ingredients are fresh and contain no additives. |
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Well, that’s all for memory sharing, and I’ll see you guys soon with the next one. Well, that’s all for |
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