Our school has a cooking club, which meets in the kitchen every Friday afternoon. Last week our teacher, Miss Lin, showed us how to make (11) that are not too sweet. She gave each of us some flour, butter, two eggs and a little sugar, and we mixed everything in a big bowl before we cut it into small squares. (12) Twenty minutes later, the whole room smelled so wonderful that students from other clubs came to the door. (13), my cookies were too hard, because I had forgotten to add the eggs. Miss Lin just laughed and let me try again. My second plate came out perfect, (14) I took five cookies home for my little brother.
My (15) is a small town in the east of Taiwan. It is not a big place, (16) it is famous for its food, and on weekends people drive from far away just to eat here. The most popular dish is beef noodle soup, which is made with beef from a farm near the river. My uncle, who has sold pork buns for seventeen years, steams them over hot water for twenty minutes. (17) He says that food cooked in too much oil is bad for the heart. (18), people who care about their health choose his shop, and it is always full. Last Sunday, so many buses came that people waited in line for half an hour.