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Unusual restaurants  •  food adjectives


                     grow (v) =to make plants develop and produce fruit   pumpkin (n) = a large, orange vegetable that is popular
                     or flowers                                      at Halloween
                     district (n) = an area of a town                drum (n) = a musical1nstrument played by hitting it with
                     chat (v) =talk in a friendly, informal way      your hand or a stick
                     customer (n)  = someone who buys goods or services
                     from a shop, restaurant, etc.





                                            Eat out for less




                   'How much is it?' In some restaurants, the answer is: 'What you want to pay.'

                   Here are some of the 'Pay-what-you-want' restaurants around the world.


                   A  Der Wiener Deewan -           restaurant.  In  the  evenings,  you   C  Lentil As Anything -
                      Vienna, Austria               can  take  a  djembe,  an  African   Melbourne, Australia
                                                    drum, and play music with others.
                   This is  a Pakistani restaurant but   It's  a  really  cool  place  to  spend
                   it is in Vienna. I always  go down   sometime.
                   the stairs to a small, cosy room but
                   the  restaurant  is  on three  floors   B  Soul Kitchen - Red Bank,
                   altogether.  There  are  no  menus   New Jersey, USA
                   and waiters don't come to ask you
                   what  you  want - the food  is  in   Soul Kitchen is a great place to gQ
                   large, hot, containers on a table and   for  lunch. The menu has  choices
                   the menu changes every few hours   of starters - my favourite  is  the
                   but always  with  three vegetarian   mixed green salad-main course
                   and two meat options. The meal   - fish,  meat  or vegetarian - and
                   then costs what you want to pay.   dessert.  But,  it  doesn't have  any   This  is  a  vegetarian  restaurant
                   The  traditional,  Pakistani  food  is                             in  Australia's  second  city.  In
                   delicious but, be careful, some of                                 fact,  there  are  four  Lentil  As
                   it is very spicy! Try the Alu Methi                                Anything  restaurants in the city.
                   Gajar- spicy but sweet vegetables                                  Nine  hundred  people  eat  in  the
                   - and,  of course, some  Pakistani                                 restaurant  in  the  Abbotsford
                   rice.  The  restaurant  isn't  only  a                             district of the city every day. The
                   'Pay-what-you-want'   restaurant                                   restaurants are  open all  day  and
                   but also  a  'Play  what  you  want'                               you can eat breakfast, lunch and
                             •                                                        dinner  there.  They  are  friendly
                                                    prices. That's because you can pay   places where you can chat to other
                                                    what you want. The restaurant asks   customers,  listen  to good music
                                                    for  $10 or more but people who   and,  when  you  leave,  you  put
                                                    haven't got $10 can eat there and   some money in  a box.  The food
                                                    work for an hour to  pay for their   is  healthy  and  delicious.  They
                                                     meal. The food is healthy and local.   don't serve meat but you can find
                                                    The restaurant even has a garden   great food with other ingredients
                                                     and grows a lot of the vegetables   like  pumpkins.  Their pumpkin
                                                     that they use in their meals.    curry is amazing.



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