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How to order food in Uzbek
A few short phrases go a long way when ordering lunch: ask for the menu, choose a dish, explain what you need and pay. Here are phrases from Gapir’s café section with English translations. Pick the ones you need before heading out, then listen to them in the app.
Ask for the menu
Start by asking for a menu or finding out what is available today. If you are in a hurry, ask about the wait before you order.
- Menyu bormi? — Is there a menu?
- Bugun nima bor? — What do you have today?
- Qancha kutamiz? — How long is the wait?
Order plov and tea
These two phrases are enough for a simple order. Both include iltimos, meaning ‘please’. If you want your food to take away, you can ask about that separately.
- Menga osh bering, iltimos. — Plov for me, please.
- Koʻk choy bering, iltimos. — Green tea, please.
- Shu yerda yeyman. — I'll eat here.
- Olib ketsam boʻladimi? — Can I take it away?
Ask about the ingredients
Ask whether a dish is spicy before ordering. The phrasebook also has separate phrases for a dish without meat and tea without sugar. Asking for a meat-free dish does not clarify every ingredient. If the ingredients matter to you, discuss them separately.
- Bu achchiqmi? — Is this spicy?
- Goʻshtsiz taom bormi? — Is there a dish without meat?
- Shakarsiz choy bering, iltimos. — Tea without sugar, please.
Ask for the bill
At the end, you will need to ask for the bill and find out whether you can pay by card. If everyone is paying their own share, say so separately.
- Hisobni bering, iltimos. — The bill, please.
- Karta bilan toʻlasam boʻladimi? — Can I pay by card?
- Alohida toʻlaymiz. — We'll pay separately.
Practise before you go
Choose the phrases for your order and say them in sequence: menu, dish, drink, bill. Then cover the Uzbek text and try to recall each phrase from its English translation. Use the app’s audio to practise the parts you had to look up.
Gapir’s café route has five lessons: the menu, placing an order, preferences, payment and a final conversation combining familiar phrases. The exercises let you listen, choose an answer and build a phrase from words. Start with the first situation or return to the one you find hardest.
Try it in Gapir
Open the café section in Gapir, listen to the phrases you need and repeat them aloud. Keep your first order simple: plov and tea, for example. You can keep this page handy for the menu and bill phrases.
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