Your Eyes Are Bigger Than Your Stomach

Your eyes are bigger than your stomach
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Multiple Choice: After You’ve Read the Quiz, Answer These Multiple Choice Questions

What is outstanding about the Donghuamen Night Mark in Beijing?
1. It is the only English-language market in Beijing.
2. It presents excellent opportunities for photography.
3. The food available there is not available anywhere else.
4. The food is cleaner than it is elsewhere in China.
What sort of clientele does Gelateria di Piazza cater to?
1. Celebrities
2. Homeless
3. Poor People
4. Religious Types
What two types of food does La Grande Epicerie specialize in?
1. Chocolate and Fruit
2. Chocolate and Meat
3. Cheese and Meat
4. Cheese and Chocolate
How early does Daiwa Sushi open at Japan’s Tsukiji Fishmarket?
1. 7 AM
2. 2 AM
3. 5 AM
4. 11 AM
How many tonnes of chocolate do the Master Belgian Chocolate Makers create every year?
1. 2,200,000 Tonnes
2. 100,000 Tonnes
3. 220,000 Tonnes
4. 1,000,000 Tonnes
When is it best to take a plantation tour in Darjeeling, India?
1. Between January and March
2. Between November and January
3. Between December and February
4. Between March and November
Besides regular customers, who regularly frequent the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul?
1. The city’s worst chefs
2. The city’s best chefs
3. Every chef in the city
4. The richest people in town
What is Epernay known as the capital of?
1. Wine
2. Beer
3. Chocolate
4. Champagne
What is the name of France’s most famous cheese?
1. Roquefort
2. Bleau
3. Gruyere
4. Gouda
When is San Miniato, Italy’s annual white truffle market open?
1. The first three days of each year
2. From mid-September to December
3. The last three weekends of November
4. The first two weeks in April
Vocabulary: Match the word with its appropriate definition relative to its use in the article!
Bazaar
1. strange, odd
2. a market place or shopping quarter
3. a fortified district
4. a grassy knoll
Plantation
1. slave-quarters
2. a factory that focus on the production of vegetables and fruits of all kinds
3. a storage facility for the surplus harvest of the year before
4. a large farm or estate, generally located in tropical regions
Champagne
1. a sparkling, dry white table wine produced in France
2. a red, thick wine generally associated with California
3. a form of food noted for its smooth consistancy
4. a rare form of truffle found only in remote parts of the world
Truffle
1. an unimportant event
2. a form of fungus found underground that is exceptionally rare
3. a small, thicky pastry generally filled with some kind of cream
4. a scone
Aroma
1. the light show generally seen in artctic climes
2. a smell, generally used when referring to spices or foods
3. an invisible field that surrounds and projects certain feelings from someone or something
4. a difficulty
Self-Promotion
1. a title of advancement granted by one's actions
2. having a flair for the theatrical
3. one's ability to sell or advance one's self, one's product or one's business
4. the act of selling a job title to one's self