A standard part of any restaurant (cānguǎn), experience is setting up a reservation (yùdìng) and the small talk that happens before you place an order.

Building on our basic restaurant conversation, Max and Hasnaien introduce booking a reservation and add additional vocabulary like egg fried rice, black tea, and green tea.

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