Unit 18
Chinese Restaurant in Korea

Lesson
๊ฐ vs ์ธ๋ถ:
- ๊ฐ [gae] is a general counter for items, which could be more flexible and is often used when ordering multiple items without focusing on portions or servings.
- ์ธ๋ถ [in-bun] focuses specifically on the amount of food per person or the serving size.
๋ช ์ธ๋ถ ๋๋ฆด๊น์? [myeot in-bun deu-ril-kka-yo?]
How many servings would you like?
- ๋ช ์ธ๋ถ [myeot in-bun] means "how many servings"
- ๋๋ฆด๊น์? [deu-ril-kka-yo?] means "Shall I give it to you?"
์ง์ฅ๋ฉด ์ด ์ธ๋ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์. [jja-jang-myeon i in-bun ju-se-yo]
Two servings of jjajangmyeon, please.
- ์ง์ฅ๋ฉด [jja-jang-myeon] means "black bean sauce noodles"
- ์ด ์ธ๋ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์. [i in-bun ju-se-yo] means "Two servings, please."
ํ์์ก ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์. [tang-su-yuk il in-bun ju-se-yo]
One serving of tangsuyuk, please.
- ํ์์ก [tang-su-yuk] means "sweet and sour pork/beef"
- ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์. [il in-bun ju-se-yo] means "One serving, please."
More examples:
- ์งฌ๋ฝ ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์. [jjam-ppong sam in-bun ju-se-yo] โ Three servings of spicy seafood noodle soup, please.
- ๋ณถ์๋ฐฅ ์ฌ ์ธ๋ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์. [bo-kkeum-bap sa in-bun ju-se-yo] โ Four servings of fried rice, please.
Conversation
- A: ์ด์ ์ค์ธ์. ์์ฝํ์
จ๋์?
Welcome! Have you made a reservation? - B: ๋ค, ์ธ ์๋ก ์์ฝํ์ต๋๋ค. [ne, se si-ro ye-ya-kaet-seum-ni-da]
Yes, I made a reservation for 3 o'clock. - A: ๋ค, ํ์ธ๋์
จ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ์ค์ธ์.
Yes, it has been confirmed. Please come this way. - C: ์ง์ฅ๋ฉด ๋จน์ด์!
Let's eat jjajangmyeon! - B: ์ ๊ธฐ์. [jeo-gi-yo]
Excuse me. - A: ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
Would you like to place an order? - B: ๋ค. ์ง์ฅ๋ฉด ์ฃผ์ธ์. [ne. jja-jang-myeon ju-se-yo]
Yes. jjajangmyeon, please. - A: ๋ช ์ธ๋ถ ๋๋ฆด๊น์?
How many servings would you like? - B: ์ง์ฅ๋ฉด ์ด ์ธ๋ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์. [jja-jang-myeon i in-bun ju-se-yo]
Two servings of jjajangmyeon, please. - A: ๋ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ์๊ฒ ์ด์?
Would you like to order more? - B: ํ์์ก ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ ์ฃผ์ธ์. [tang-su-yuk il in-bun ju-se-yo]
One serving of tangsuyuk, please. - A: ๋ค, ์ง์ฅ๋ฉด ์ด ์ธ๋ถ, ํ์์ก ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ ์ค๋นํด ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
Yes, I will prepare two servings of jjajangmyeon, and one serving of tangsuyuk.
Vocabulary
| Korean | English |
|---|---|
| ์ง์ฅ๋ฉด [jja-jang-myeon] | black bean sauce noodles |
| ์งฌ๋ฝ [jjam-ppong] | spicy seafood noodle soup |
| ํ์์ก [tang-su-yuk] | sweet and sour pork/beef |
| ๋ณถ์๋ฐฅ [bo-kkeum-bap] | fried rice |
