Around the world﹕Food and peace
【明報專訊】Nothing is more pleasurable than being invited to a big feast. Wait! The Monkey Buffet Festival is for the local monkeys in Thailand. Eason is not supposed to be on the guest list!
“ Eason: How can I miss such a feast for monkeys? ”
“ MoMo: That monkey doesn't look like a local one... ”
“ MoMo: We knew it's you, Eason! ”
“ Pat: We're ready for a fight anytime! ”
“ Eason: No fight now... ”
“ Eason: I desperately need to go to the toilet! ”
■Culture tips
"Monkey Buffet" Festival
The "Monkey Buffet" Festival is held annually in late November in Lopburi, one of the oldest cities in Thailand. It is a massive buffet providing more than a thousand kilograms of delicious food for hundreds of local monkeys. People in Lopburi believes that monkeys bring good luck and fortune. The monkeys living there get used to be fed by people and they show no fear of humans. They may steal whatever items or food they can find from unwary visitors. (See photo C)
■English highway﹕get used to
To have experienced something so that it no longer seems surprising, difficult, strange etc.
e.g. I just can't get used to this cold weather.
■Glossary
feast (n) 盛宴
buffet (n) 自助餐
desperately (adv) 極其
unwary (adj) 不警覺的
[Smarties' Power English 第198期]
