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In this video we're gonna learn speaking English and having conversation in a restaurant.
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And I will teach you more than 20 words to talk about foods
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and also restaurants and very useful questions and sentences to order and comment on the food and on the restaurant.
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Let's go!
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I just got in the car and I'm going to start the car.
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Actually the restaurant is not really far from where I live
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but I'm going to take my car because I have some equipment like stands, I mean mobile stands to record the video.
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So that's why I'm going there by my car.
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Remember when you want to say you go somewhere
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and you want to say what kind of vehicle you use
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in order to get there you should use by i go
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there by my car i go there by bus i go there by taxi and
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if you go there walking you should say i go there on foot
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so i'm not going there on foot and i'm going there by my car.
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I just put the key in the ignition and I started the car but right now I turned off the car.
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If you want to say that exactly at the moment you are doing
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that activity you should say I am starting the car
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and I started the car because you were talking about it in the past.
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Gear up and let's go.
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Normally while driving you should fasten your seat belt but
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because the restaurant oh my god that was a speed bump
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but because um the restaurant is just a stone's throw away i'm not fastening my seat belt and I'm just heading there.
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I arrived at the restaurant and I parked my car.
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Now let's get out.
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So I pull the handle, I'm opening the door and I'm getting out.
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Actually I think that angle was too close so you didn't see me in a good angle.
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I think this angle is better.
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So I parked the car a bit far from the restaurant
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so I need to walk to the restaurant
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but it's not a long walk it's just a short distance
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and my friends also are here
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so yeah I'm getting inside I'm on foot I didn't cross the street
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because my car was on the same side as the restaurant.
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This is a mechanical automated sliding door so I'm getting in.
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I just entered the restaurant and this is the waiter.
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Hi.
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Welcome to our restaurant.
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Thank you so much.
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So I'm only one and I want a table for myself.
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All the tables are available.
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You can sit wherever you want.
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Okay thank you.
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Can I seat there yes sure now we're gonna take a seat actually he's my brother
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but in this video he's acting as a waiter this is the chair i want to sit on
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and this is the table that i want to sit at remember
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when you want to choose a table you say i'm sitting at this table
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if you're sitting on a chair which is around a table
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so we never say i'm sitting on the table
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because this means sitting on the table but we don't do
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that we sit at a table we sit on a chair
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so right now i'm pulling out the chair
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and i'm sitting on the chair i sat on the chair
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and right now i'm waiting for the waiter to give me the menu.
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I'm going to call for the waiter.
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He will come and I will ask for the menu.
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Remember when you say ask for it means you want something.
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I asked for the menu it means I I want the menu.
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So could you please come here for a minute? Do you need something?
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Yeah, could you please give me the menu?
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Yes, sure.
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Can you wait please?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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He went to fetch the menu.
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What is the meaning of fetch?
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It means when you go somewhere, take something and bring it for someone.
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It means fetch.
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Fetch.
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Here you are.
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Thank you so much.
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So this is the menu and it's only on one page.
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Actually, I don't know what to choose.
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So I'm going to choose the food which is my favorite and that is rice and kebab.
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Rice and kebab, let me find it.
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I think this is the one that I really like and actually they have two kinds.
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One with Iranian rice, which is a bit more expensive,
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and the other one is a mixture of Iranian rice and Indian rice.
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Kebab and rice is really cheap in comparison with other countries.
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You know for Iranian people it is normal but
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if I tell you the equivalent in dollar that would be almost two dollars for each dish.
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So it is considered really cheap.
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But in this restaurant which is considered a fancy one it is not really fancy
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but it is a medium upwards we could say.
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For example the rating is 7 out of 10
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but the quality is really really high because their food is made and cooked with Persian Iranian rice.
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I don't know if you've heard or not
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but Iranian rice is one of the best kinds of rice in the world
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and if you want to learn speaking english like a pro
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and you want to be able to have english conversation in different situations in a restaurant in the airport
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and blah blah blah or you want to learn english
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because of your business you want to learn business english or
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if you want to prepare for ielts toefl or pte you can easily trust me and my team.
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So if you want to book a free trial lesson with me to assess your level for free with completely no charge,
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click on the link above and see our plans.
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Did you decide?
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Yes, I want a rice and kebab with Persian rice, with Iranian rice.
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Okay, it will be ready in 10 minutes.
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Okay.
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But first I should set the table.
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Okay, you can set the table.
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Okay.
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He just set the table.
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Remember, the past form of set is set.
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It is an irregular verb and it doesn't change in the second form and third form.
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And this is also another important thing.
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Usually in English grammar we don't say verb two, we say past form of the verb
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and for the third form of the verb we say past participle form of the verb.
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Remember that.
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So yeah, I was saying that he set the table, he gave me some bread which I'm not gonna eat because it has rice.
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In Iran, we usually have food either with bread or with rice.
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So whenever we have one of them, we don't eat the food with the other one.
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My food is ready and the waiter is bringing my food here.
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Here you are.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you really, really much.
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Thank you for your services.
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So let me tell you what this food is.
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This is the rice.
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Actually on top it is flavored and colored with saffron and this part is normal rice white rice and this is the
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Kebab, so we call it kubide in Farsi in English.
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It will be kind of ground beef kebab and and they put it on a stick and then they barbecue it.
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And in order to make the rice moist, remember we don't say wet,
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we say moist when a food has water, is watery.
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So in order to make the rice moist, we have butter.
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But it is...
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I think melted butter yeah it is melt we pour it on the rice
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and it gets a kind of buttery flavor which is really nice
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and in order to give it some extra moisture
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and flavor we also have barbecued tomatoes with this food
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and some people eat barbecued pepper which I don't really like and this is also lime juice
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which is not organic that's why I'm not gonna add it to my dish
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and this is a kind of Iranian traditional plate in
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which we're serving the food and this is also a kind of Iranian drink.
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It is really, really common in the Middle East.
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In Iran we call it duq, but in some other countries they call it Iran, like in Turkey and Arabic countries.
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But we have to shake it first and then we can drink it.
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Since I'm really thirsty, I'm going to take a slurp of this duq, this drink first.
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And by the way, I forgot to tell you how it is made.
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It is yogurt, basically.
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I don't really know how it is made, but it is yogurt plus water and some other stuff like salt and I think that's it.
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So I'm going to twist it off.
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I twist it off the lid.
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Oh my.
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It was carbonated so the gas just pumps out.
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I didn't know it was carbonated.
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If a drink is carbonated, we can also call it fizzy.
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So this one was fizzy duk.
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I don't like fizzy ones, but I have bought it that's why even though I don't like it I have to drink it.
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In this restaurant they have another kind of duq
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which is not carbonated and it's not fizzy but
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that is not organic that is made by a company it is pasteurized it is processed
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and you have to peel off the covering but I'm really really hungry
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So let me peel off the butter's cover and pour it on the rice.
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And then we have to mix the rice so that it gets the buttery flavor.
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One hour later.
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We'll take a little bit of the tomato and also a piece of kebab.
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And this is gonna be a great bite.
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I'm really stuffed and it was really flavorful and delicious.
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and now the waiter is coming and I think he wants to clean the table.
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Shall I clean your table?
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Yes, please.
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And I'm really sorry because my drink was fizzy.
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No problem.
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No problem.
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Okay, thank you.
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You're welcome.
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So I wanted to tell him that my drink was fizzy and that's why it just spilled around everywhere.
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And I'm really sorry for that, but that wasn't my fault.
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And by the way, when it was off camera,
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I wiped off the drinks which were spilled on the cover with these napkins.
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So this action is called to wipe off.
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And since I'm not using this, I didn't use it in my food.
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They're going to take it and I think they're going to sell it to another customer
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and now let me comment the food.
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So it was a really nice food.
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It was full of flavors which were my favorite.
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If you come to Iran I completely, I absolutely recommend having this food in a nice restaurant
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and don't try to add seasonings but there is a very special kind of seasoning
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which is i think persian we call it somak so whenever you have kebab
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you add it to kebab and it would give a kind of sour,
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very very little sour flavor and it would make it tasty, more tasty I could say.
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And about the restaurant, as I told you, it's a fancy one.
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It is not really luxurious but it's good.
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The quality is really nice and the staff are really kind and thoughtful because when they saw my drink just pumped out,
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they came here to help me but I asked them not to intervene because I could clean the table myself.
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And now it's time to go to the checkout and pay for the food I had.
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Just now I understood that I shouldn't go to the checkout.
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They will bring the receipt and I will have to pay at my table.
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Now I'm going to call for the waiter to come.
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I'm sorry, can I have the receipt please?
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Yes, sure, here you are.
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Okay, thank you.
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Uh -huh, I see.
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So, shall I pay in cash or by card?
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By card, please.
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Alright.
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By card, here you are.
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He's posing the car with the pose machine.
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Now I'm going to tell him my password, my PIN.
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It is...
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Thank you so much.
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Yeah, so the transaction is done.
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I paid for the food and it's time to go home.
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And finally, that was it for this video.
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