How do you say "How do I order?" in Japanese?

Name: Eleven Minutes in a Tokyo Izakaya and Nobody Has Taken Your Order. It Was Never Going to Happen at the Table.
Uploaded: 2026-09-04T02:22:15Z
Duration: 18 s
Description: Learn to say 注文はどうすればいいですか？ (chūmon wa dō sureba ii desu ka?) — How do I order?. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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Eleven Minutes in a Tokyo Izakaya and Nobody Has Taken Your Order. It Was Never Going to Happen at the Table.

To say How do I order? in Japanese, say 注文はどうすればいいですか？ (chūmon wa dō sureba ii desu ka?).

Eleven minutes in a Tokyo izakaya. You have made eye contact with three different staff. Nobody is coming to take your order.

注文はどうすればいいですか？ chūmon wa dō sureba ii desu ka? How do I order?

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In this video

注文はどうすればいいですか？ chūmon wa dō sureba ii desu ka? How do I order?
すみません、注文はどうすればいいですか？ sumimasen, chūmon wa dō sureba ii desu ka? Excuse me, how do I order?
注文はどうすればいいですか？ chūmon wa dō sureba ii desu ka? How do I order?

Kanji in this phrase

注文: ちゅうもん

Why this phrase

Izakaya and family restaurants have moved to QR and tablet self ordering, so the sticker on the table is the menu and no amount of eye contact summons anyone. One catch all sentence covers QR, tablet and call button rooms alike, because it does not name a system, it asks which one you are in. The signage varies between the two common katakana labels, so the video teaches the sentence rather than the brand name.