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Voice of Indonesia presents Let’s Speak Indonesian, a program that introduces the Indonesian vocabulary and guides you to speak in the language. Mari Berbahasa Indonesia or Let’s Speak Indonesian is a joint initiative of Voice of Indonesia and the Language Development Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.  Today’s topic is about “Memesan Makanan” which means “Ordering Food”. 

Here is the conversation entitled “Terlalu Asin” which means “Too Salty”. This conversation happens between Kevin and a restaurant waiter at lunch time. Kevin orders fried rice. He complains about his fried rice which is too salty. Let’s read to the conversation.

After reading to the conversation, now I am going to introduce some vocabulary and expressions related to the topic of the day.

In the dialog, you hear an expression terlalu asin (2x) which means too salty. You can use an adjective to express the taste of food, such as asin (2x) which means salty, manis (2x) which means sweet, asam (2x) which means sour, pedas (2x) which means spicy, panas (2x) which means hot and pahit (2x) which means bitter.

Other examples

Let’s read to the other examples of expressions about food taste.

“Bagaimana makanannya, Pak?” (2x) which means “How is the food, Sir?”

“Enak tetapi terlalu manis” (2x) which means “It is good but too sweet”

“Saya pesan nasi goreng tidak terlalu pedas” (2x) which means “I order fried rice, but not too spicy, please”

“Baik” (2x) which means “Alright”

That was “Let’s Speak Indonesian” for today. Hopefully, this edition can be useful for those of you who want to know more about Indonesian language.