{"id":182186,"date":"2017-08-15T00:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T04:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/how-to-order-coffee-in-chinese\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T05:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T10:51:07","slug":"how-to-order-coffee-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/chinese\/how-to-order-coffee-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Be the Barista’s Favorite: How to Perfectly Order Coffee in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s face it: you and the baristas are both busy when you walk into a coffee shop. Neither of you have time to play charades for every item on the menu. If you want your drink quick\u2014and made the way you like it\u2014you’ll need to master ordering coffee in Chinese.<\/p>\n

From sizes to add-ons, I\u2019ll walk you through how to order coffee in Chinese\u2014no matter how special or complicated your drink order is.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Basic Phrases for Ordering Coffee in Chinese<\/h2>\n

Baristas are under an immense amount of pressure to perfect every single order in a timely manner. They probably don’t have time to explain everything on the menu if it’s all in Mandarin.<\/p>\n

The best thing that you can do is to not freak out when you see that the menu is Chinese. You want to show that you respect your barista’s time and hard work. You can do this by starting with a greeting, rather than going straight into your order.<\/p>\n

If you think about it, you almost sound like you’re demanding a cup of coffee instead of asking when you simply say \u6211\u8981\u4e00\u676f\u5496\u5561\u3002<\/strong> (w\u01d2 y\u00e0o y\u012b b\u0113i k\u0101 f\u0113i.)<\/em> \u2014 I want a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n

So be polite and start off with a greeting! The basic formula of a coffee order with a greeting (and minus cup sizes, add-ons and customizations, which we’ll cover later) is as follows:<\/p>\n

\u4f60\u597d! \u6211\u8981\u4e00\u676f\u5496\u5561\u3002<\/strong>
\n(n\u01d0 h\u01ceo! w\u01d2 y\u00e0o y\u012b b\u0113i k\u0101 f\u0113i.)<\/em>
\nHello! I would like a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n

Obviously, a statement like this isn’t sufficient, but for all intents and purposes, use this as the foundation in building your order.<\/strong> We’ll use this formula as a jumping off point throughout the rest of this post. Use the FluentU<\/a> program to learn this and other sentence structures. You can also the program to hear the vocabulary from this post in context through entertaining videos.

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