¿Cuál es tu restaurante favorito?

[Jessica]

This is the March journal...I'm going to start it early so I don't have to worry about it at the end of March.

What is your favorite restaurant?

Hmmm I have many restaurants I like. I can do the Chinese International Buffet, but it's a buffet and your waiter/waitress only give you a drink. So I guess I have to exclude that.
I can do McDonald's, but you aren't exactly served the food. you just order it and wait for it and they give you it. you pay early too.
There are some Chinese restaurants I can do, but I forgot the name of it and I don't know how to translate Chinese food into English AND Spanish.


So what should I do??

[laepelba]

Well, what do you have to write about your favorite restaurant? Does it matter how much work the waiter/waitress does? Or can you write about all the things you like about that restaurant? The quality of the food, the atmosphere, the family memories you have there, a special dish on the buffet that keeps you going back for seconds and thirds and so on? Maybe you could describe the ingredients of different Chinese dishes using Spanish food terms?

[Jessica]

Hmmm can I fill a half a page with that info (I wanted to use the words "serve", servir") with that (and without using unfamiliar vocab words)? I'll make a rough copy and try. thanks for your help!
and for the Chinese dishes, there IS a food item that I love! General Tso's Chicken! and I get ice cream too... I can write about that.

[laepelba]

YAY!! You and I must be distant relatives. General Tso's is my favorite, too!!! Do you like Green Tea Ice Cream?

[Jessica]

Green Tea ice cream...they don't have that flavor. :P I don't like it, I just don't know why :P
They have vanilla, strawberry, sherbert, and chocolate. Not that fancy.

[CrOtALiTo]

Here in Mexico there is a restaurant named El porton. I like go there. Because the waiters are very lovelies when they are attending you.

I try to don't go to eat to Macdonald's. Because the food to there contained much fast. And it's bad for your body.

[lee ying]

Croalito depend on your restaurant that you go, because there´re sometimes waiters. uuhhu. people prefers a good atention. GOOD SERVICES.
I like GOOD services. I don´t like to be waiting for ordering a food.!!*_*
MY best reestauran is long gua: but I don´t know the meaning, maybe jchen , you can help me!!

[CrOtALiTo]

I have gone to many restaurant in Mexico and my state. And the unit restaurant that make me happy is the named El porton. Because I have gone some restaurant where the waiters are very loutish and they never attend me fast. In spite this situation later the food is nasty. I'm sorry for my rant. But I believe that if you going to restaurant is because you wanna eat well.

I have gone to the restaurant of Sambors. And I tell you that restaurant has a bad attention with it's clients.

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by lee ying

Croalito depend on your restaurant that you go, because there´re sometimes waiters. uuhhu. people prefers a good atention. GOOD SERVICES.
I like GOOD services. I don´t like to be waiting for ordering a food.!!*_*
MY best reestauran is long gua: but I don´t know the meaning, maybe jchen , you can help me!!

Long gua? Is that a restaurant name?

[lee ying]

yes, I think so. because we say : Vamos a comer al restaurante Long gua.
Yes. Do you know the meaning?
*_*

[Jessica]

I think it has "Dragon" in its name. I'm not sure :/

[Jessica]

ok lets see...I think I want to choose the Chinese restaurant....

Mi restaurante favorito es ____________.

My favorite restaurant is the Chinese International Buffet.

What would be the translation for that...or should I leave it as "Chinese International Buffet"?

[Rusty]

Leave the name of the restaurant untranslated, just like we leave the names of ethnic restaurants untranslated.

[Jessica]

ok. thanks

[Jessica]

I like the food there.

Me gusta las comidas allí.

[CrOtALiTo]

I like the food there.

Me gusta la comida de ahí.

Suggestion above.

Sincerely yours.

[Jessica]

hmmm I'm not sure if I learned "ahí" before. but it means "there" too, right?

so why I can't use "allí"?

[Jessica]

so which one should it be?? allí or ahí??

I like the food there.

Me gusta la comida allí.


There are mainly Chinese dishes, but there are some American food.

Está _______ la comida chino, pero está la comida americana.

[Rusty]

There is another thread that spells out the differences between ahí, allí and allá. The first two are pronounced nearly the same, so there may be some confusion as to which one was intended.

There are mainly Chinese dishes, but there is some American food.

there is / there are = hay
mainly / chiefly / principally = principalmente
restaurant dish/course = platillo

Given these hints, are you able to write the sentence above?

[lee ying]

here: aqui, Ahi. alli
there: alla:
there`s : hay: singular
there are: hay :`plural
there`s a boy : hay un chico
there are two apples: hay dos manzanas,
over there: por alla.
over here: por aqui:
is it clear? * _ ^