（A：shop Assistant B：Mr Smith C：Mrs Smith）

    A：Can I help you？

    C：I'd like to buy some Chinese cakes.

    A：We have cream birthday cakes，ten yuan each. Do you like it？

    C：Fine. Give me a cream birthday cake and two boxes of famous Chinese cakes，and help me to pick a variety of them，please.

    A：All right. For Chinese style cakes，we have the Cantonese style and the Suzhou style. The skin of the Cantonese style cakes is sweet，soft，puffy palatable and filled with heavy stuffing. The famous Cantonese cakes are moon cakes from Guangdong， Sha—pi—ma….The skin of the Suzhou style cakes is puffy and filled with fragrant nuts.

    There are not only sweet cakes but also meat moon cakes.

    C：Well，will you wrap them up separately？

    A：Certainly. Any thing else？

    C：Nothing more. How much altogether？

    A：Nineteen yuan and forty-five fen.

    C：Here are two ten-yuan notes. Keep the change.

    A：For me？Oh，no. We don't accept tips. But thank you all the same.

    C：O. K. . Good-bye.

    A：Good-bye. Please step in again.

    Words and Expressions　

    Cantonese    a. n. 广东的，广东人，广东话

    puffy     n. 松脆的

    palatable    a. 可口的，味美的

    stuffing    n. 填塞；填馅

    fragrant    a. 芬芳的