Some Basic Food-Related Words and Phrases


waiter, waitress
(spoken much slower than normal for clarity)

miss (often used to summon a waitress)

breakfast

lunch

Dinner

like (a response to "Would you like x?")

don't like

May we have the menu, please?

I would like to have (fried bread).
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fried bread (a popular breakfast food and snack)

a bowl of soy milk (Fried bread is often dipped in soymilk as a breakfast food.)

(With/without) sugar. (Soymilk may be ordered with or without sugar.)

With sugar, Without sugar

A (fried egg), please.

rice soup

Another glass of (orange juice), please.

That's all.