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The Counter Asks You One Word Before Your Food Is Rung Up. Say This or the Sides Never Come.

To say The set, please. in Japanese, say セットで (setto de).

The headline price on that menu board is the bowl on its own. One word stands between you and the rest of the meal.

setto de The set, please.

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Kanji in this phrase

単品
たんぴん
味噌汁
みそしる

Why this phrase

A lunchtime counter at a gyudon shop or a burger chain. Hana plays the staff member who asks the set question as she takes the order; Kofuku plays the customer who freezes, then answers with the single word that fixes it. One takeaway: the answer is the option plus de, and de is how you pick any option in a Japanese shop (setto de, kaado de, genkin de). Staff usually ask in keigo, so what you actually hear is the polite form of the question, and some shops instead ask which of the two you want, item alone or set. Scoping the video must respect: at Yoshinoya and Sukiya a set means miso soup plus a small side like egg, pickles or salad, with no drink by default; the drink and fries pattern is the burger chain, not the gyudon shop. The headline price is often the item alone. Matsuya is ticket machine ordering so nobody asks you anything, so say Yoshinoya, Sukiya, burger chains and cafe counters rather than gyudon shops in general. Mention the opposite answer, tanpin de, for just the item on its own, and that the softer full version is setto de onegai shimasu.

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