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What to eat here, and how to order it
Eating well somewhere you don't know the food culture.
Longfoodlocallanguage
Tell me what to eat in this place, with enough detail that I can actually get it. 1. **Five things to seek out.** For each: what it is, what it tastes like, when in the day it is eaten, and where it is normally sold, for example a market stall, a bakery, a sit-down restaurant. 2. **One thing that is overrated for visitors** and what to have instead. 3. **How ordering works.** Counter or table, whether to queue, how portions are sized, whether sharing is normal, how to pay. 4. **The words I need,** including how to ask what is good today and how to say I do not eat something. Do not name specific restaurants as definitely open or recommend places you cannot verify. If you mention a named institution, mark it [verify it still exists]. Describe types of place rather than trading on stale specifics. Place: Anything I don't eat:
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Food, language and custom. What to eat and how to order it, the phrases you will use, and what reads as rude to a local.
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