Learn Vietnamese Phrases You Need at the Restaurant

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How many people do you have?

I go with two people

She goes with two people

How many people do you have?

Have you set your table yet?

Do you have?

Do you have any vegetables?

Do you have any flowers?

So basically this question literally means like do you have anything, but it means like

can I have something.

Another example would be

Em có bia Hà Nội không?

Bia Hà Nội is very famous in Vietnam.

Do you have 2 beers?

Em có bia Hà Nội không?

So remember the structure

Em có

And then the thing that you want

And then không

Do you have anything?

Or I would like something.

Now next one, if you want to be more specific, if you want to order something, then please use this structure.

It's very easy.

Cho anh

Cho tôi

Cho anh

And then the number of the dishes or the portion or the quantity

And then the name of the dish

The name of the dish

And then the last one is maybe the size, so that is how you order in Vietnam.

For example

Cho anh một bát phở bò nhỏ

Cho anh means like give me

Cho anh một quantity

Bát phở bò is like beef phở

Bát phở bò nhỏ is the size

Cho anh một bát phở bò nhỏ

But we don't say like can I have a small bowl of phở

But we have phở

Small

So it's opposite to English

Cho anh một bát phở bò nhỏ

Now let's use this structure for another example

Cho chị một cốc trà đá

Trà đá means like can I have one iced tea please

Cho chị một cốc trà đá

Or give me an iced tea please

Cho chị một cốc trà đá

Another example would be

Cho chị hai cơm rang nhỏ

means like give me two fried rice

Two small fried rice

Cho chị hai cơm rang nhỏ

Alright so one more time

Cho tôi or cho anh or cho chị

And then the number, the quantity

And then the dish

And then the size

Now if you want to ask the price of something

Then you can just simply say

Món này bao nhiêu tiền?

So it's grammatically correct

And if you want to make it very short

And convenient and most natural

Then we can just say bao nhiêu

Bao nhiêu

But sometimes only bao nhiêu is not very polite

And because it's too short right

So bao nhiêu

Bao nhiêu hả em?

It's okay, bao nhiêu hả em?

It's like hey how much is it?

Bao nhiêu hả em?

Now if you want to ask if this dish

Is good for two people

Or you don't know

Whether this dish is good for like how many people

Then you can simply ask a question

Món này cho mấy người ăn?

Means like how many people is this dish good for?

Món này cho mấy người ăn?

And they will say like

Two people, three people

Or just a single dish

Món gì nổi tiếng nhất ở đây?

Also if you want to ask

What dish or which dish

Is most famous or most popular in this restaurant

We have a sentence for that

Món gì nổi tiếng nhất ở đây?

Món gì means which dish

Nổi tiếng means famous

Nhất most famous

Ở đây means here

So it's like what is the most famous dish here?

Món gì nổi tiếng nhất ở đây?

Also if you want to use nổi tiếng

Because it's very like

It sounds very big, right?

Nổi tiếng means famous

And another word

Another more natural word that you can use is

Đắt hàng

This is very casual

This word is very casual and it's informal

Món gì đắt hàng nhất ở đây?

That means like what is the best seller here?

Or what is the most favorite dish here?

Món gì đắt hàng nhất ở đây?

What ingredients do you not eat?

Now if you don't want any specific kind of ingredients

You can use this sentence

Anh không ăn

Anh or tôi or chị

Anh không ăn

Anh không ăn means I don't eat something

And then you add the ingredients or the flavor that you don't want

For example

Anh không ăn ớt

Anh không ăn ớt means I don't eat chili or no spicy please

Anh không ăn ớt

Or if you don't eat

Mắm tôm

Mắm tôm is like the number one famous thing

Ingredients in Vietnam

Mắm tôm is the shrimp paste

If you don't eat that

If you can't stand the smell

And you're not familiar with the flavor

You can say

Anh không ăn mắm tôm

Anh không ăn mắm tôm means I don't eat shrimp paste

I don't eat mắm tôm

But please try

Also a lot of people cannot eat spring onion

For example in phở

Phở

You know right

So some people can't eat that

So you can say

Anh không ăn hành

Now after eating

So those are like almost everything that you can use just to order what you want

And after eating

If you want to pay the bill

Then you can say

Em ơi tính tiền

Ok so that is how we call the waiters in Vietnam

Em ơi em ơi tính tiền

Tính tiền tính tiền

Or if they can't hear you

Just like give them a sign

Em ơi tính tiền

That means can I pay please or check please

Or can I have the bill please

Em ơi tính tiền

For example most of the restaurants in Vietnam are like

Some very casual restaurants

That you

Mostly you will have to pay by cash

But nowadays there are more like big restaurants

And they also use some technology

So you can ask

If you want to pay by card

You can ask

That means can I pay by credit card

But if you cannot make a long sentence

You can just say

Chả thẻ means credit card

And I would like to notice you that

In Vietnamese if you just speak short sentences or words like that

It doesn't sound so respectful

But since you are foreigners so we understand

But if local people speaking together like that

That is not very polite

So if you can't make the full sentence

Like anh chả thẻ được không

Then you can say

Chả thẻ

With a very like

Respectful gesture

So they would understand you

Anh chả thẻ được không

Alright last one

If you are happy with the food

If you are happy with the service

And the restaurant

You can just

If you want to give them some tips

Then you can say

Không cần trả lại

For example if your bill is like

220

Việt Nam Đông

220,000 Việt Nam Đông

And you want to give them like 250

And you don't need change

Then you can say

Không cần trả lại

Means like no change needed

So that is a very nice way to say that

The rest is yours or

That's okay

So that would also bring some

Joy and happiness to the waiters as well

So không cần trả lại

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