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A Journey Of Food Discovery
I have tried many ways to make eating sweets more delicious, especially chocolate. Maybe a cup of tea(1) or coffee is a good choice to balance sweetness, and they really improve enjoyment of sweets. In fact, considering intensity of manual work I engaged in over last few years, such combination with high calories indeed helped a lot.
Dessert with a cup of tea is a good way to enjoy food. I have ever been in Hainan for several months. Compared with Shanghai, it is not developed, but it's a very beautiful and special coastal city. I am not such a people fond of making detailed plans, so I decided to have a train tour to the south along the coast line. It is worth mentioning that I often spent much time having afternoon tea during my trip. Tea houses mainly provide green tea and black tea with sugar, and of course a variety of desserts are served for the whole afternoon, such as appetizing steamed buns with coconut(2), pieces of fresh cake(2), tasty bread and so on. Undoubtedly, the bitterness of green tea perfectly neutralizes the sweetness of dessert. No matter what people think, I was awfully impressed by that experience.
One day, I wanted to go to the University of Hainan on foot. It was so hot that I could not restrain the desire to drink water. Suddenly, a small grocery store caught my eyes when turning left at a road. The owner was an old man with a tall and thin figure, with white hair. He said with a smile on the face that he only had sugarcane juice, but you could choose to add lemons. Needless to say, it tasted extremely nice and I could not get that smell out of my mind.
Delicious!
(1) You wanted to write "milk tea"? Be careful! This is 中文試英文 and native speakers never say this. Many native speakers will just call 奶茶 "tea", because it's the most common way to drink tea. If you want to be specific, you can say "tea with milk". Sometimes people also say they want their tea "white" when they want milk. However, in the UK, if you just ask for "tea" you will probably get 奶茶.
(2) Remember that foods are uncountable when they are cut up. Maybe you had a selection of cakes (not cut up), and pieces of cake.
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