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Transcript
Interviewer: Hi, Jo.
Jo: Hello.
Interviewer: Thank you for talking to me today. What would you like to talk about?
Jo: So, I'm going to tell you about my recent visit to, erm, a very well-known restaurant and a very special restaurant.
Interviewer: OK – great.
Jo: It's called El Celler de Can Roca and it's in Girona in Spain and, erm, it often comes in the, like, top two or three restaurants in the world.
Interviewer: Wow!
Jo: And I went last week. And, well, the first thing that was exciting for us was to even get a table 'cause, erm, we booked a year ago and we had to go, you have to go, 'cause you can book a year in advance, so you have to go online at one minute to midnight a year before you think you could go and keep refreshing, refreshing the page until places become available and just go immediately and get the table. So, we were really excited to have the table and we were kind of nervous on Friday because we waited a whole year, so expectations were really high. And it was also, by chance, boiling hot in Girona and it was in the middle of a heatwave. It was 44 degrees.
Interviewer: Oh my goodness.
Jo: So, we were just waiting in our hotel room, couldn't go outside 'cause it was too hot, erm, kind of wondering what this dinner was going to be like, er, and getting all dressed up. So, yeah, we went and, well, the place is beautiful, all … I thought it would be quite, erm, it didn't really feel formal though. The staff were all really friendly and they showed us inside the kitchen first. And it's amazing 'cause no one is stressed in the kitchen – or they did a good job of pretending that they weren't. And they were making amazing things that looked like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for adults – little olive trees with amazing, like, erm, er, olive kind of confections hanging from them. And, yeah, the whole thing was amazing – a once-in-a-lifetime experience of lots of different courses of tiny, beautiful, surprising things, erm …
Interviewer: What was the best dish that you had?
Jo: It was all amazing but I think the best thing for me was one of the desserts. I had a sheep-themed pudding …
Interviewer: Wow!
Jo: So, it was all, erm – So, it was like a woolly sheep. It was like candy floss, like, made with, erm, like, sort of white sugar like you have at the fair. Erm, and that was supposed to represent the wool, and the sound of the spoon on the bowl made the sound of the bell on the sheep in the field. And then separately I had this thing to smell that smelled of wool. So I was, like, eating this sheep wool and smelling the smell of wool at the same time which, it sounds really weird, but it was actually delicious.
Interviewer: Sounds incredible!
Jo: It really was! It really was amazing.
Interviewer: Wow. Thank you for telling us about it.
Jo: It's a pleasure.
Discussion
Do you often go to restaurants? What's your favourite restaurant?
for now, I don't go to restaurants but I'm sure later I will
When I travel somewhere I really like going to the restaurant and eating local food. I never eat food from my own cuisine.
I don't usually go to restaurant, but someday I hope to go to south korean restaurant because I love it's culture and obviously it's different dishes
The nature of my job requires me to eat out often, which is why I usually have lunch, and sometimes even dinner, at restaurants. I generally prefer restaurants that serve traditional dishes, as I’m a big fan of traditional food like couscous and tagine with beef or lamb and vegetables.
I rarely go to the restaurant, but I one once went to a restaurant in the heart of the city, in Conakry called ''Les deux soeurs'' it's in French which means 'the two sisters' it was amazing as I ate a lot. I was with my a friend of mine, he still tells that story to our friends how I ate that day. I had a dessert and it was my first time eating that thing, I think it's called Koshary it's an Iranian food I think. It was cool.