🇰🇷 Korean 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 | Korean | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| I'd like… | … 주세요 | … juseyo |
| The menu, please | 메뉴판 주세요 | menyupan juseyo |
| Water | 물 | mul |
| A coffee, please | 커피 주세요 | keopi juseyo |
| A beer, please | 맥주 주세요 | maekju juseyo |
| The bill, please | 계산서 주세요 | gyesanseo juseyo |
| Delicious! | 맛있어요! | masisseoyo! |
| I'm vegetarian | 저는 채식주의자예요 | jeoneun chaesikjuuijayeyo |
| Do you have…? | … 있어요? | … isseoyo? |
| Cheers! | 건배! | geonbae! |
| A table for two, please | 두 명이요 | du myeong-iyo |
| Can I pay by card? | 카드로 계산할 수 있어요? | kadeuro gyesanhal su isseoyo? |
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.
More Korean phrases
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