Eat In or Take Away? (everydays'questions)

[VersaOne]

Hi,

I live in China and I would like to know a few sentences I have to say or to hear nearly every day. The only problem is that the dictionnary doesn't always help. Maybe someone can help here. I wrote the question as well as if I don't understand the question, how could I answer?

examples

Coffee Shop/Restaurant

Question: Eat In or Take Away? Answer: Eat in / Take Away?

Supermarket

Q: would you like a bag?

Thanks

[mikevwilliams]

These are the ways I usually hear these questions being asked.

Question: Eat In or Take Away? Answer: Eat in / Take Away?

要这边吃还是带走？

这边吃／带走

Q: would you like a bag?

要袋子吗？

要／不要

[Chris333]

I recently told a waitress I wanted take-out by using 'da bao,' for lack of the correct term. She replied with what sounded like 'wái dài ma?' I'm not sure of the tones, but that's what I heard, fwiw.

I'm curious about the correct phrase as well...

[Daan]

That's 外帶 wàidài.

[HeWei2]

In Taiwan one often hears "這裡用還是帶走？"

Initially the 用 threw me off, but it's short for 用餐 - "eat"

[jbradfor]

Related, how would you ask to wrap up food you ordered to eat in, but didn't finish?

I've used 包走 before, which seemed to work, but wondering if there is a better term.

[taylor04]

I always said, 能不能帮我打包？

[jeffreyliang]

打包 is the right word

[Daan]

打包 seems to be the preferred term in Taiwan as well.

[trien27]

包走 = 打包 = to be wrapped up AKA bagged and to go / to be taken out

带走 = to be taken with you as you leave [you were eating there but decided to take it with you]

外帶 = 外卖 = take out [American English] / takeaway [british English]

The opposite of 外卖, wai mai [Mandarin] / ngoi mai [Cantonese] = eat in = [在] 这边吃 , [在] 这儿吃, or 堂吃, tang chi [Mandarin] ( or 堂食, tong sik [Cantonese]).

bentō, as in "bentō box" is from the Japanese word derived from 便当 (便當) which is from a Chinese term used during 南宋[southern Song dynasty / Southern Sung dynasty, 1127–1279].

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento

Edited March 29, 2010 at 01:56 AM by trien27

[natra]

I generally think of "take out" as meaning when I go to pick up food that I have ordered on the phone ahead of time. I don't know if that is what other people were thinking.

Anyway, if you were calling a restaurant and wanted something delivered to your apartment, you would say you want 外卖.

[Daan]

I think that would be 外送 here in Taiwan, actually. I've never heard 外賣. But I usually eat in.

[natra]

I dunno. I lived in Mainland China and that was what I used.

[Chinadoog]

if you're going to a resturaunt and ordering to go, most people here in chengdu say dai4 zou3 or da3 bao1. i've never heard anything else and i order food to go all the time

[amego]

Eat in "吃的"

Takeaway "打包"

[trien27]

Eat in "吃的"

Where was this said?

"吃的" = whatever was said was related to food/thing which are to be eaten. I never heard this ever being used to mean "Eat in". "Eat in" = [在] 这边吃 , [在] 这儿吃, 堂食 or 堂吃.

[chunluo]

Shoud be 堂吃／这儿吃（here）or 外卖／带走(to go).

Tang Chi is more often in south China or Taiwan.

打包: take away the food that is LEFT after your eating in.

[semantic nuance]

Tang Chi is more often in south China or Taiwan.

I don't know if Tang Chi is used in southern China or not. But I've never heard it used in Taiwan. We usually say : 這兒吃 or 這邊吃 or 內用.

[stonelee]

These are the ways I usually hear these questions being asked.

Question: Eat In or Take Away? Answer: Eat in / Take Away?

要这边吃还是带走？

这边吃／带走

Q: would you like a bag?

要袋子吗？

要／不要

These are the correct answers. ;)

[creamyhorror]

Eat in "吃的"

Where are you from? We do say this in Singapore, even though it's not very clear/logical.