13. Some people prefer to eat at food stands or restaurants. Other people prefer to prepare and eat food at home. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Nowadays, there are many restaurants or food stands in the world, especially in Hong Kong. If you go to a  plaza and to take a look, you can  see that there are at least three  restaurants. They also provide different  kinds of food such as Chinese food, fast food, Japanese food and the like. Although  there are many restaurants, I prefer to eat food at home. In this essay, I will share with you the reasons for eating at home and what kind of food I like to take.
     Eating at home is healthier than dinning out.  As you know, the cooks in the restaurants will add too much oil and monosodium glutamate in order to make the food  delicious. They intend to   attract more people to eat food there. Monosodium glutamate will harm our bodies  and too much oil will make us fat. Oil also will make us easy to suffer from  heart disease. But if you eat at home, you can add less  oil and you should not use  the monosodium glutamate.

    Apart from taking less oil and monosodium glutamate,  eating at home can prevent from eating  dirty food and we can make sure that we have fresh food     It is cheaper and more meaningful than eating in  the restaurants. If  you go to a Chinese restaurant with your family, you have to spend at least  $ 200 but you only have to pay about $ 100 to have a great meal at home.  Besides, you can improve your cooking skills while you are cooking. Some famous cooks say that cooking can tighten  the relationship among  people by helping one another  to cook or co-operate with each other, especially in cooking Chinese food. So I like to take Chinese food.
     All in all, eating Chinese  food at home is better than eating at restaurants. It is healthier and cheaper than eating at the restaurants.  But the most important thing is that eating Chinese food at home can have  better relationship among family members . I hope all people can enjoy the fun of cooking with their families.