hi everyone today i'm going to show you
how to order food and drinks in
vietnamese so that you won't mistakenly
order pho to pho
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even though there are a lot of people
speak english here in vietnam there are
some restaurants especially food stall
owners can only make basic english
conversations also there are some
restaurants that they don't serve
english menu so that if you have any
diet restriction it's very essential for
you to learn some basic vietnamese words
that's the reason why today i'm gonna
take you to a restaurant and order food
and drinks with you so that you can
learn some vietnamese but before we go
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alright let's go to the restaurant right
now and order some food and drinks in
vietnamese
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so in vietnam when you get seated the
waiter or the waitress just drop off the
menu and then you want to wait for a
little bit because they have to manage
so many tables so to get their attention
it's not rude to say hey you uh in
vietnam when you say hey you but you
have like a darling word
at the end it's gonna be daring so it's
not rude at all so to get their
attention you're gonna say
okay
and then after getting their attention
they're gonna say a bunch of vietnamese
and you don't really need to care
because now you just need to order and
of course you're not gonna know every
name of the food right so i have a trick
for you
you can just point at the food that you
want and say guy night
guy night
so
i'm gonna order it
charming
night so it's gonna be charming and then
the number
and then the food that you want in the
picture
all right
so
charming
guy night and then for the order maybe
you just want to order more than one
food right so i'm gonna teach you how to
count from one to ten all right because
definitely you're not gonna order more
than ten food all right so
one is
two is
high
three is ba
four is bon
five is num
six is
sao
seven is
bai
there will be some restaurant that they
don't serve menu or they don't have the
photos on the menu
what they have is just the sign on the
wall and then they just gonna have the
name of the food and usually they just
serve one kind of food but then they
would cook it differently so what you
would do is try your best to pronounce
that name so for example you would say
and then the number
and then you would say the name of the
food
all right so you're gonna say for
example you want to order two bowls of
fall alright
football let's say the beefa you would
say
and then after that the waiter will ask
you what you want to drink how do you
know if they're gonna ask for drink
you're gonna listen to the word
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or no
all right and then you can just order
whatever drink you want
so the same format
charming and then the number
kai knight
or you can say the word nook before the
drink if um it has a vietnamese name in
there and just try your best to
pronounce it
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all right and then you would say thank
you
so i know there are a lot of you guys
that are vegetarian if you come into a
restaurant but you're not sure if they
have vegetarian food or not you would
ask them
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do you have vegetarian food sometimes
they will accidentally serve you fish
sauce so if you don't want fish sauce as
your sauce you would say
means no
no means fish sauce
and then if you're allergic to peanuts i
know there are a lot of people allergic
to peanuts and vietnam consume a lot of
peanuts so to say no peanuts please you
can just say
home and then peanut
in the north we would say la
in the south we would say no
so no peanuts
and if you don't like msg like uncle
roger you can always say
no
msg but we don't call it msg here you
would just say
meeting
there you go you know vietnamese people
really hospitable and they just love
love to show their love through food so
sometimes when you fall they still want
you to try all the food on the table and
i know sometimes you fool you don't want
to eat more to say
i'm full you can say
no zoi
if you're not full yet and you still
want to eat you can say
okay
um
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i admit that it may be too advanced for
you to say no so now i want to teach you
an easier way to say it if you really
don't want to eat the food anymore you
can just say
oi
just in case your friends don't give up
and now you have to hide in the bathroom
until they finish all the food but how
do you ask for the bathroom in
vietnamese you would say
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oh no
okay so i'm so full now i just need to
cash out but how do i say it to say it
you would say
oh i forgot to tell you that if you want
to cash out in vietnam you're gonna go
to the cashier and pay or sometimes you
just have to go out of the door and then
there will be a person uh that a
dedicated person being there
to cash you out all right keep that in
mind
all right so that's it for today thank
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