🇯🇵 Japanese Ordering Food & Drinks
Cafés, bars and restaurants: how to order, ask for the bill, and compliment the cooking — the most-used phrases of any trip. Read them below — then actually say them: recognising a phrase and producing it out loud are different skills, and only one helps you in the moment.
| English | Japanese | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| I'd like… | …をください | … o kudasai |
| The menu, please | メニューをください | menyū o kudasai |
| Water | 水 | mizu |
| A coffee, please | コーヒーをください | kōhī o kudasai |
| A beer, please | ビールをください | bīru o kudasai |
| The bill, please | お会計お願いします | o-kaikei onegai shimasu |
| Delicious! | おいしい！ | oishii! |
| I'm vegetarian | ベジタリアンです | bejitarian desu |
| Do you have…? | …はありますか？ | … wa arimasu ka? |
| Cheers! | 乾杯！ | kanpai! |
| A table for two, please | 二人です | futari desu |
| Can I pay by card? | カードで払えますか？ | kādo de haraemasu ka? |
How to make these stick
- Say each phrase out loud three times — your mouth learns separately from your eyes.
- Rehearse the scene: imagine the café or the street corner and act out both sides.
- Then use them in a real conversation — Yap gives you a 30-second spoken role-play with an AI tutor that responds, corrects gently, and never judges.
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