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Ordering Food in Chinese: Lesson 52

1) ML and Stuart review Chinese vocabulary related to ordering food at a restaurant and discussing dishes. 2) They look over a menu and Stuart asks if 8 dishes would be enough for two people, to which ML agrees. 3) They also remember to order soup since they will need spoons, as well as using chopsticks instead of knives and forks since they are eating Chinese food.

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Ordering Food in Chinese: Lesson 52

1) ML and Stuart review Chinese vocabulary related to ordering food at a restaurant and discussing dishes. 2) They look over a menu and Stuart asks if 8 dishes would be enough for two people, to which ML agrees. 3) They also remember to order soup since they will need spoons, as well as using chopsticks instead of knives and forks since they are eating Chinese food.

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Is 8 dishes enough?

M: Dajia hao. Huan ying nimen dao Xianzai Xue Hanyu. Wo shi ML.

S: Dajia hao, wo shi Stuart. 今天我们学第五十二课。

M: Lesson 52 is a revision lesson. Di wu shi er ke shi ge fuxi ke, fuxi ke.

S: Remember to repeat everything out loud with us. ML, women zai nar?

M: We’ve arrived at the restaurant. 我们到了餐馆 women dao le canguan.

S: Na hen hao, yinwei wo e le!

M: And the waitress asks us,

WTRS:几位, ji wei?

S: Liang wei, two people, liang wei.

S: Now to ask for the menu and order food, dian cai.

M:小姐，我们要点菜, women yao dian cai.

WTRSS: 好，here’s the menu. 给你菜单，gei ni caidan.

M: Xiexie. Stuart, what do you fancy eating, 你想吃什么，ni xiang chi shenme?

S: Wo bu zhidao.

M:这是菜单，zhe shi caidan.

S: Hao, 我看一看，wo kan yi kan. So many dishes! 这么多菜, zheme duo cai.

M: Now, you guys at home, how do we say ‘cold dishes’? Dui le, 凉菜，liang cai.
And hot dishes? Mei cuo! 热菜, re cai.

S: And what is 牛肉, niu rou? Dui le! Beef, niu rou.

M: What is 猪肉, zhu rou? Yes, pork, zhu rou.

S: And ‘chicken’? Dui le. Ji rou, ji rou.

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M: So fish is? Yes. Yu yu.

S: And a vegetarian dish is? Su cai, su cai. Now say, ‘I fancy eating fish and a
vegetarian dish’.

M: Dui le: 我想吃鱼和素菜, wo xiang chi yu he su cai. Or, for green leafy
vegetables, you can say 青菜 qing cai.

S: All very good to eat! 都很好吃, dou hen hao chi.

M: There’s only the two of us, 只有我们两个人, zhi you women liang ge ren.

S: 所以, 不要点太多, suo yi, bu yao dian tai duo.

M: Wo tong yi. But, I fancy …. this, this, this, 这个 zhei ge, zhei ge, zhei ge, he
羊肉 mutton yangrou。

S: Is 8 dishes enough? 八个菜够吗, ba ge cai gou ma?

M: 八个菜，wo xiang gou le.

S: Soup? Ni bu yao tang ma?

M: Wo wang le! Wo hai yao yi ge tang.

S: Calories, calories!

S: And lesson 51, di wu shi yi ke, women xue le shenme?

M: Wo xiang yi xiang. 我们学了, bowl 碗 wan.

S: Dui le. And what else? 还有呢？hai you ne?

M: Hai you, 我们要一个汤，so we need to use spoons. 所以，我们要用勺子, women


yao yong shaozi.

S: Spoon, shaozi, shaozi. Hai you ne? Anthing else? Hai2 you3 ne?

M: 还有，我们吃中餐， 所以我们要用筷子, suoyi women yao yong kuaizi.

S: Dui le. We don’t use a knife and fork. 我们不用刀叉, women bu yong dao cha.

M: But we still haven’t got our food!

S: Maybe next lesson. Till then, zai jian.

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