✅ Beginner 26: Korean Food Expressions – I’m Hungry, Let’s Order!

📘 Beginner 26: Korean Food Expressions – I’m Hungry, Let’s Order!

Welcome to Day 26! 🍚🍜🍕 Today, you’ll learn how to talk about food, hunger, ordering at restaurants, and expressing your food preferences in Korean. From saying “I’m hungry” to “This is delicious,” these expressions are essential whether you live in Korea or just visit for a meal!

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📌 Basic Food Vocabulary

English	Korean	Romanization
food	음식	eum-sik
rice	밥	bap
noodles	면	myeon
meat	고기	go-gi
spicy	매운	mae-un
sweet	달콤한	dal-kom-han
salty	짠	jjan
delicious	맛있어요	ma-sit-seo-yo
not delicious	맛없어요	ma-deop-seo-yo

📘 Expressing Hunger and Thirst

• 배고파요 – I’m hungry
• 배불러요 – I’m full
• 목말라요 – I’m thirsty

Examples:

• 지금 너무 배고파요 – I’m so hungry right now
• 물 좀 주세요 – Please give me some water

📘 Ordering at a Restaurant

• 이거 주세요 – I’ll have this, please
• 추천해 주세요 – Please recommend something
• 하나 더 주세요 – One more, please
• 계산해 주세요 – Check, please

Example Dialogue:

👧 수지: 여기 김치찌개 하나 주세요 – One kimchi stew, please
👨‍🍳 직원: 네, 매운맛 괜찮으세요? – Sure, is spicy okay?
👧 수지: 네, 괜찮아요 – Yes, that’s fine!

📘 Food Descriptions

• 이거 정말 맛있어요 – This is really delicious
• 좀 짜요 – It’s a bit salty
• 맵지만 맛있어요 – It’s spicy but delicious
• 달콤해요 – It’s sweet

💡 Use adjectives like 맵다, 짜다, 달다, 시다, 싱겁다 with ~어요 endings for politeness.

📘 Korean Dishes You Should Know

Dish	Korean	Romanization
Kimchi Stew	김치찌개	gim-chi-jji-gae
Bibimbap	비빔밥	bi-bim-bap
Bulgogi	불고기	bul-go-gi
Spicy rice cakes	떡볶이	tteok-bbok-ki
Cold noodles	냉면	naeng-myeon

🧪 Mini Quiz – Let’s Eat!

1. How do you say “I’m hungry” in Korean?
   a) 배불러요
   b) 배고파요
   c) 목말라요
   
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   ✅ b) 배고파요

2. Translate: “This is delicious.”
   a) 맛있어요
   b) 맛없어요
   c) 달콤해요
   
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   ✅ a) 맛있어요

3. What is “Please give me one more”?
   a) 하나 더 먹어요
   b) 하나 더 있어요
   c) 하나 더 주세요
   
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   ✅ c) 하나 더 주세요

✅ Conclusion

🍲 Well done! Now you can talk about food, express hunger, and order confidently in Korean restaurants.

• ✔️ Learn polite ordering phrases like 주세요 and 계산해 주세요
• ✔️ Describe food with 맛있어요, 짜요, 맵다
• ✔️ Build confidence to eat out in Korea!

📘 Coming Up Next

Tomorrow: Day 27: Hobbies and Interests in Korean – I Like Music! I Play Soccer!
Get ready to talk about your favorite things to do!

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