Unit 18

Chinese Restaurant in Korea

์ค‘๊ตญ์ง‘์—์„œ ์ ์‹ฌ ๋จน๊ธฐ
Chinese Restaurant in Korea

Lesson

๊ฐœ vs ์ธ๋ถ„:

  • ๊ฐœ [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„ ๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”? [myeot in-bun deu-ril-kka-yo?]
How many servings would you like?

  • ๋ช‡ ์ธ๋ถ„ [myeot in-bun] means "how many servings"
  • ๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”? [deu-ril-kka-yo?] means "Shall I give it to you?"

์งœ์žฅ๋ฉด ์ด ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [jja-jang-myeon i in-bun ju-se-yo]
Two servings of jjajangmyeon, please.

  • ์งœ์žฅ๋ฉด [jja-jang-myeon] means "black bean sauce noodles"
  • ์ด ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [i in-bun ju-se-yo] means "Two servings, please."

ํƒ•์ˆ˜์œก ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [tang-su-yuk il in-bun ju-se-yo]
One serving of tangsuyuk, please.

  • ํƒ•์ˆ˜์œก [tang-su-yuk] means "sweet and sour pork/beef"
  • ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [il in-bun ju-se-yo] means "One serving, please."

More examples:

  • ์งฌ๋ฝ• ์‚ผ ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [jjam-ppong sam in-bun ju-se-yo] โ€“ Three servings of spicy seafood noodle soup, please.
  • ๋ณถ์Œ๋ฐฅ ์‚ฌ ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [bo-kkeum-bap sa in-bun ju-se-yo] โ€“ Four servings of fried rice, please.

Conversation

  • A: ์–ด์„œ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”. ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”?
    Welcome! Have you made a reservation?
  • B: ๋„ค, ์„ธ ์‹œ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [ne, se si-ro ye-ya-kaet-seum-ni-da]
    Yes, I made a reservation for 3 o'clock.
  • A: ๋„ค, ํ™•์ธ๋˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”.
    Yes, it has been confirmed. Please come this way.
  • C: ์งœ์žฅ๋ฉด ๋จน์–ด์š”!
    Let's eat jjajangmyeon!
  • B: ์ €๊ธฐ์š”. [jeo-gi-yo]
    Excuse me.
  • A: ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
    Would you like to place an order?
  • B: ๋„ค. ์งœ์žฅ๋ฉด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [ne. jja-jang-myeon ju-se-yo]
    Yes. jjajangmyeon, please.
  • A: ๋ช‡ ์ธ๋ถ„ ๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”?
    How many servings would you like?
  • B: ์งœ์žฅ๋ฉด ์ด ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [jja-jang-myeon i in-bun ju-se-yo]
    Two servings of jjajangmyeon, please.
  • A: ๋” ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
    Would you like to order more?
  • B: ํƒ•์ˆ˜์œก ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. [tang-su-yuk il in-bun ju-se-yo]
    One serving of tangsuyuk, please.
  • A: ๋„ค, ์งœ์žฅ๋ฉด ์ด ์ธ๋ถ„, ํƒ•์ˆ˜์œก ์ผ ์ธ๋ถ„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Yes, I will prepare two servings of jjajangmyeon, and one serving of tangsuyuk.

Vocabulary

Korean English
์งœ์žฅ๋ฉด [jja-jang-myeon] black bean sauce noodles
์งฌ๋ฝ• [jjam-ppong] spicy seafood noodle soup
ํƒ•์ˆ˜์œก [tang-su-yuk] sweet and sour pork/beef
๋ณถ์Œ๋ฐฅ [bo-kkeum-bap] fried rice