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Help with ordering Chinese food


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Do you try and pronounce the names like they do, or just normally? Like

>puhrk loh-meh

Or

>pork lo-mein

Like I want to sound cultured and stuff, I even have the Asian Riff on my tablet so I can play it for them when they bring the bag to the counter.
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>>7305897
I always say general chodes chicken because everyone says tso slightly differently and the chinese people dont know about chode
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>>7305908
>ordering anything bug kung pao
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>>7305897
i just saythe numbers
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>>7305897
>pronounce the names like they do
Literally everything in Americanized Chinese food is [flavor] [protein]
Hot and Sour Soup
Ginger Beef
Orange Chicken
Mongolian Beef
Salt and Pepper Prawns

Pronouncing it like they do is just mocking their accents.
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>>7305942
>not going to a dim sum restaurant and butchering XLB's pronunciation like the white boy you are
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personally what i do is perform a deep bow and then, from the folds of my kimono (which i always wear to show respect for asia's beautiful culture) i procure a scroll on which i've written my order in immaculate kanji using my calligraphy set. anything less is disrespectful
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>>7305897
Who the hell worries about stupid shit like this?
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>>7305942
shoooore
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Unless it's something you literally can't mispronounce I'll just point it out or say the English name if it's there. They really don't give a shit as long as they can easily understand what you want.
Unless you just want to give them something to laugh about in the kitchen at closing time.
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>giving a shit about pronouncing a word from a language that you don't speak, and that is in fact so far removed from your language that the fucking shape of your soft pallate isn't conducive to pronouncing it.
I don't use this image often.
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>>7305969
Manchilds with no friends
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I bow to them
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>>7305897
They are serving me food. My servants are below my station. Thus, I do not care what they think of me. They'll clean my shit off their toilets and like it.
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>>7305897
I like Chinese. I just say "a fourteen, a seven, a nine and lychees," and see what I end up with. Makes things more fun.
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