Sharing dishes is a big part of Taiwanese food culture — whether you’re eating with friends, family, or colleagues. In this episode, Mindy and Joeru teach you the most useful verbs and polite phrases you’ll hear at a family-style table, plus how to ask others to help serve you in a natural, Taiwanese way.

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🎯 Today’s Topic: Common verbs and polite phrases used when eating family-style in Mandarin

🗝 Key Sentence: 請幫我夾菜。（Qǐng bāng wǒ jiá cài。）– Please help me get some food

🗣 Listener Challenge:
Use 我幫你／請幫我 + action to describe something you would say during a shared meal.
Example: 我幫你盛飯 / 請幫我倒茶.
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