Ordering at a Restaurant

In this lesson, you'll learn how to order food at a restaurant. Practice the exchanges between a customer and a server as you go.

Calling a Server and Ordering

์ €๊ธฐ์š”, ๋ฉ”๋‰ดํŒ ์ข€ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Jeogiyo, menyupan jom juseyo.
Excuse me, could I have a menu?
๋ถˆ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ์ด ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Bulgogi i inbun juseyo.
Two servings of bulgogi, please.
์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ €๊ฑฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Igeo hanahago jeogeo hana juseyo.
One of this and one of that, please.

Useful Ordering Words

KoreanRomanizationEnglish
๋ฉ”๋‰ดํŒmenyupanmenu
์ฃผ์„ธ์š”juseyoplease give me
์ธ๋ถ„inbunserving (per person)
์ถ”์ฒœchucheonrecommendation
๊ณ„์‚ฐ์„œgyesanseothe bill
ํฌ์žฅpojangtakeout / to go
๋ฆฌํ•„ripilrefill
๋ฐ˜์ฐฌbanchanside dishes

When you're not sure what to order, you can ask the server for a recommendation.

๋ญ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Mwoga jeil masisseoyo?
What's the most popular dish?
์•ˆ ๋งค์šด ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
An maeun geollo chucheonhae juseyo.
Please recommend something that isn't spicy.
๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Gyesanhae juseyo.
Could I have the bill, please?
๋ฌผ ์ข€ ๋” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Mul jom deo juseyo.
Could I have some more water, please?
์ด๊ฑฐ ํฌ์žฅํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Igeo pojanghae juseyo.
Could I get this to go, please?
๋ฐ˜์ฐฌ ์ข€ ๋” ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Banchan jom deo jusil su isseoyo?
Could I have some more side dishes?
์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์ข€ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ”๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
Jumun jom bakkwodo doelkkayo?
Could I change my order?

When Paying

You usually pay at the counter, by card or in cash.

์นด๋“œ๋กœ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ• ๊ฒŒ์š”.
Kadeuro gyesanhalgeyo.
I'll pay by card.
๐Ÿ’ก Tip: To count servings of food, use '์ธ๋ถ„' (inbun, serving) rather than the native numbers: '์ผ ์ธ๋ถ„' (one serving), '์ด ์ธ๋ถ„' (two servings), and so on. Just match the number to how many people are eating.
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