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Taiwanese Bian-dang in Manhattan, New York City
5/30/ 2014 by Eva Schmidt
During lunch time, on 53rd Street, you’ll see a long line of people in front of a Taiwanese food truck for their “bian-dang,” a Taiwanese word for “lunch box.” On the menu you can find fried chicken with rice, pork dumplings, tea eggs, and other popular Taiwanese dishes.
The owners of the food truck are Thomas and Diana Yang, two Taiwanese-Americans. This brother-sister team started their business in 2009. Back then, there were a few Taiwanese restaurants in the city and several thousand food trucks, but the Yangs were the first to sell Taiwanese food on a food truck.
At first, business was $\underline{\text{slack}}$. People thought they were just another Chinese food truck, and the food truck’s name, “Cravings,” often made people think of desserts, not lunch. Few people would stop by and try their food. “I couldn’t even give away free food,” said Thomas. To catch people’s eye, they painted their truck blue, and drew Taiwan’s national flower, the plum blossom, on it. They also changed the food truck’s name to “bian-dang.” Soon people started to notice them, and business finally got better. Now on a good day, they can sell about 150 bian-dangs in about two hours.
So what’s next for Thomas and Diana? Well, they hope one day there will be a block with Taiwanese food in the city, just like there is a Chinatown, a Korea Town, and a Little Italy. And their bian-dang food truck might just help to make $\underline{\text{that}}$ happen.
注釋：national 國家的
Taiwanese Bian-dang in Manhattan, New York City
5/30/ 2014 by Eva Schmidt
During lunch time, on 53rd Street, you’ll see a long line of people in front of a Taiwanese food truck for their “bian-dang,” a Taiwanese word for “lunch box.” On the menu you can find fried chicken with rice, pork dumplings, tea eggs, and other popular Taiwanese dishes.
The owners of the food truck are Thomas and Diana Yang, two Taiwanese-Americans. This brother-sister team started their business in 2009. Back then, there were a few Taiwanese restaurants in the city and several thousand food trucks, but the Yangs were the first to sell Taiwanese food on a food truck.
At first, business was $\underline{\text{slack}}$. People thought they were just another Chinese food truck, and the food truck’s name, “Cravings,” often made people think of desserts, not lunch. Few people would stop by and try their food. “I couldn’t even give away free food,” said Thomas. To catch people’s eye, they painted their truck blue, and drew Taiwan’s national flower, the plum blossom, on it. They also changed the food truck’s name to “bian-dang.” Soon people started to notice them, and business finally got better. Now on a good day, they can sell about 150 bian-dangs in about two hours.
So what’s next for Thomas and Diana? Well, they hope one day there will be a block with Taiwanese food in the city, just like there is a Chinatown, a Korea Town, and a Little Italy. And their bian-dang food truck might just help to make $\underline{\text{that}}$ happen.
注釋：national 國家的
What does $\underline{\text{that}}$ mean in the news story?
- A A Taiwanese restaurant.
- B A second Taiwanese food truck.
- C A city block that sells Taiwanese food.
- D A business that is popular across the country.
思路引導 VIP
請看向文章最後一段的最後兩句話。當作者提到餐車可以幫助實現 $that$ 時，這個詞通常是用來指代前面剛提過的一件事。請找找看前一句話中，老闆們『希望』（hope）未來在紐約市能看到什麼樣的景象呢？那個具體的夢想就是 $that$ 指稱的對象喔！
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（呼……呼……九百九十八……九百九十九……一千！） 嘖，算你小子有骨氣，竟然沒在這些密密麻麻的文字裡迷路。看你答對這題，就像精準砍中目標一樣乾脆！ 聽好了，這題在考你對代名詞 "that" 的理解。在文章最後一段，Yang 姓兄妹提到他們希望未來能有一個 "block with Taiwanese food"（充滿台灣食物的街區），就像唐人街或小義大利那樣。緊接著下一句說這輛餐車能幫助 "make that happen"（讓「那件事」發生）。
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