Ordering food at a restaurant

Phrases used by the staff at the restaurant

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Table for how many? / For how many people?

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Are you ready to order? / Do you want to order yet?

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What would you like to eat? / What do you want to eat?

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What would you like to have?

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What dish would you like to order?

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What would you like to drink? / What do you want to drink?

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Do you want to order drinks?

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The drinks are on this page.
(referring to a page on the menu)

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This dish is not available at the moment.

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Do you want to have any desserts?

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Anything else?

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Do you want to order anything else?

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Just a moment. / Wait for a bit. / Wait for a while.

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The total is 500 baht. / The total is ฿500.

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Phrases used by the diner at the restaurant

Securing a seat

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How long before we get a table?

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Do you have any available tables?

Making the order

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What food do you have?

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Can I have a menu please?

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I need more time to choose my dishes.

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I’m not ready to order yet. / Wait for me a little.

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I’m ready to order.

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Do you have any specials?

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What are the restaurant’s specialties?

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What’s good here? / What’s nice here?

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What do you recommend? / What dishes do you recommend? / Can you recommend? / Can you suggest?

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Do you sell [item] here?

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What’s in this dish?

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Is this dish spicy?

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I can’t eat spicy food.

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Is this enough for four persons? / Is this enough for four people?

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Give me a cup of coffee.

ขอกาแฟอีกแก้วนึง
ขอกาแฟอีก 1 แก้ว
Give me another cup of coffee. / Give me one more cup of coffee.

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I’d like a rice with 1 curry.

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Give me a plate of vegetables.

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Give me a bowl of Tom Yum Kung.

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Give me a bowl of Tom Yum Kung to go.
(usually the word for bag 123 is used instead when asking for a takeaway)

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That’s all, thank you. / That’s it, thank you.

Dining

ဇွန်းတစ်ချောင်းလောက်
Can I have another spoon?

Order Management

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I’ve been waiting a long time.

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Can I remove this from the order?

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Bill please.

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There’s a mistake in the bill.

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Here you are.
(for politeness, use this phrase when handing something over to someone)

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I don’t have cash.

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Can I pay by card?

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Can I pay by bank transfer?

Phrases used between diners

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Let me treat you. / My treat.

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Let me treat you to dinner.

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I’m craving for Tom Yum Kung.

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You should eat vegetables.

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Excuse me, sorry, this seat is taken.

Tableware Vocabulary

တူ
chopsticks

ခက်ရင်း
fork

ဇွန်း
spoon (ထမင်းစားဇွန်း – metalspoon) (ဟင်းရည်သောက်ဇွန်း – chinese spoon)

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ladle

ဓား
knife

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can
(as in can drinks)

Fruits Vocabulary

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fruits

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Drinks Vocabulary

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water

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[name of fruit] juice

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coffee

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filtered coffee

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white coffee

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tea

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milk

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condensed milk

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fresh milk

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iced milk tea

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beer

Food Vocabulary

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rice

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noodles

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biscuit

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bread

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baguette

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salad

Meat – เนื้อ

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beef

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buffalo

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chicken

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duck

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fish

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pork

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mutton

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shrimp

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eggs

Vegetable – ผัก

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ginger

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lemongrass

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pandan leaf

Common Vocabulary

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customer

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valued customer
(in some cases, the restaurant staff might address you as with this term instead of the personal pronoun)

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restaurant

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waiter

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to serve

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chef

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meal

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to go / takeout / takeaway

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to cook

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delicious / tasty

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to set the table

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to clear the table

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to spread butter on

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to hold a fork

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to light a candle

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to pay a bill

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to quench one’s thirst

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size (small, medium, large)

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peanut

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Chia seeds

Fast Food Restaurant Vocabulary

Fast Food Brands in Thailand

Burger King
Domino’s Pizza
KFC
McDonald’s
Pizza Hut
Texas Chicken
Chester’s Grill
The Pizza Company (1112)
Subway
Sizzler
Bar.B.Q Plaza

Advance Vocabulary

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a segment (of an orange)

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a pulp (of a durian)

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a pulp (of a jackfruit)

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ပန်းကန်လုံး
bowl

ခွက်
cup

လင်ဗန်း
tray

ပန်းကန်ပြား
plate

ဖန်ခွက်
glass

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set

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classifier for one stick

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packet / (to wrap; used to refer to a takeaway)

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box

123หนึ่งจาน
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Can I have one plate of Pad Thai?

123สองจาน
Can I have two plates of GaPhrao with pork?

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Can I have one bowl of chicken porrdige?

123หนึ่งจาน
Can I have one plate of Crab meat fried rice?

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Can I have one packet of stir-fried beef with basil?

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Can I have one Tom Yam Chicken?

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Can I have one bowl of steam rice?

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omelet; omelette

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fried egg
(sunny side up)

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fried fish

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fried pork

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fried chicken

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hot and sour Thai soup cooked with shrimp

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spicy prawn soup

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porridge

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congee

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plain rice

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cooked rice

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sticky rice

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stir-fried Thai-Chinese wide rice noodles

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Yong tau foo

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shrimp

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wrap

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Prawn Cakes on Lemongrass Sticks

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chicken wing

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to stuff / to fill

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Stuffed Chicken Wings

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herbs

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herbal chicken

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fried patty

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fried fish cake

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grilled pork / Grilled Pork Skewers

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minced pork

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smoked duck

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fried garlic pork

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spicy & sour minced pork salad

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Stir-Fried Black Pepper Beef

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Spicy Grilled Pork Collar

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Stir-Fried Chicken with Cashew Nuts

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Beef Panang Curry

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Roast Duck Red Curry

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Green Curry Chicken

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Shrimp Bittergourd Curry

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Pork Knuckle Rice

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Pork Knuckle Noodles

Soups

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Clear Soup with Beancurd & Minced Pork

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Spicy Chicken Soup / Chicken & Galangal in Mild Coconut Cream Soup

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Fish Maw Soup

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Tom Yum Seafood

Omelettes

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shrimp omelette / prawn omelette

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minced pork omelette

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crab meat omelette

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fried oyster omelette

Salads

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to mix / to blend

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green mango salad

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Thai Papaya Salad / green papaya salad

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top shell salad

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spicy raw shrimp salad

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spicy glass noodle salad

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spicy oyster salad

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dry

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spicy

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raw

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medium
(cooked)

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cooked

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thick
(for soup)

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clear
(for soup)

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to roast / to grill

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to boil

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to braise / to stew

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to stir fry

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to pour onto

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to soak

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to barbeque / to roast / to toast / to bake

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to beat / to pound
(e.g. using a pestle)

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to steam

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to coat / to harden

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flour / powder / starch

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sun-dried

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orange / sour / acidic

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neck / collar / throat
(e.g. pork collar)

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Papaya Salad
(a variation of Papaya Salad that contains a thin white noodle ขนมจีน)

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bitter bean

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King Mackerel

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Biryani

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pork floss

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squid

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cucumber

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morning glory

หมูสามชั้น
pork belly

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Chu chee
(a type of curry)

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chicken feet

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crispy

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Chinese broccoli / Chinese kale / Kai-lan

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Super
(a kind of soup)

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tongue

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sausage

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chicken thigh

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intestine

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fried calamari

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deep-fried cake / deep-fried patty

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bone
(of chicken / pork)

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fishbone

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ligament / tendon

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dried salted damsel fish

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snakehead fish

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white pork sausage

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century egg

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gold needle mushroom

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(a kind of salad)

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liver

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cockle

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papaya salad with fermented fish sauce and crab

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bean

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flower crab

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corn / maize

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raw prawns

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salted egg

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seaweed

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tongs

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tofu skin / beancurd skin

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lard / pork fat

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How many minutes does it take to cook?

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This needs to be dipped with …

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fishball

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crabstick

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stir fried chicken with cashew nuts

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taste

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sweet

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sour

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salty

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bitter

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bland

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tasteless

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tinge of