The menu of fast food restaurants is simple and direct, and there are not many varieties to choose from, and they are often illustrated, so it seems very easy to order in fast food restaurants. But things are often bad in the word "seemingly". For tourists who are not familiar with North American habits, it is even more difficult to order food in fast food restaurants than in restaurants. Because it is entirely oral communication, there is a lack of a paper menu that can be taken at hand as a reference. Many fast food, even a simple sandwich, can have different options. When you name a set meal, the waiter often asks you a series of questions immediately. So it is necessary to know the habits of some fast food restaurants.
1. Hamburger
Hamburger is the most popular fast food in North America. This word is usually abbreviated as burger, and few people say the full name of burger in spoken language. Even the menu of fast food restaurants and regular restaurants often only write burger. People who have just gone abroad tell people about hamburger, and sometimes the accent makes the waiter not understand it at once. Twenty years ago, when I went to America for the first time, I ordered an order with a colleague in a fast food restaurant. My colleague talked and gestured with the waiter for a long time. People thought he wanted to buy a handbag and told him to go out and turn left enthusiastically. This is the true story I experienced.
on closer inspection, hamburger should be regarded as a kind of sandwich. Any two pieces of bread with some stuffing can be collectively called sandwiches, both hot and cold. However, the definition of hamburger is much stricter. What can be called hamburger must be hot food, and the patty in the middle must be made of minced meat, and the patty usually defaults to beef. Burger in a fast food restaurant is a beef burger unless otherwise specified. This is the basic model. Besides beef patties, there are some vegetable sauces to match it, but there is no cheese in it. Cheese is called cheese burger. If two meat patties are called double burger, and two meat patties are added with cheese, they are double cheeseburgers. The familiar Big Mac of McDonald's belongs to this category. In addition, the common meat stuffing is bacon, which is fried crispy and placed on the beef patties.
Although McDonald's is a standard collocation, the vegetables in each hamburger are fixed and there is no choice, but the vegetables and sauces in most hamburger shops are added by waiters according to customers' requirements. Common tomato (tomato), lettuce (lettuce), onion (onion), mushroom (mushroom) and so on. There are pickles, such as pickle or pickled cucumber, black olive, and green sweet and sour relish. If you like spicy food, you can have pepper and jalapeno pepper and so on. Although pepper can refer to both pepper and pepper, when ordering hamburgers, he often talks to the ingredients, so there will be no misunderstanding. This kind of pepper is generally small, red or orange, mostly pickled, mainly acid, with spicy taste in the acid. Jalapeno is dark green and very spicy. It should be noted that janapeno is a Spanish word, so the beginning of J is not pronounced D in English? It's pronounced h in Spanish, so it should be pronounced /hah-lah-peh-nyoh/.
in addition to these common accessories, more innovative eating methods will provide the option of adding avocado (avocado), grilled pineapple (roasted pineapple) or mango (mango). The difference is that the former standard options are free, while the latter ones require extra money.
there are sauces to choose from, such as ketchup, Mayonnaise, mustard and so on. There are also several kinds of compound flavors. BBQ sauce is salty, sweet and a little smoky. Honey garlic (garlic-flavored honey sauce) is slightly salty, mainly sweet, but with a strong garlic flavor. Ranch (farm sauce) is made from cheese, minced cucumber, minced garlic, minced onion and other spices, which are often used in salads and hamburgers.
different fast food restaurants order food in different ways. Some report all the options to the waiter at once when placing an order. The stuffing except beef patties is called topping, and the sauce is called sauce. There is usually a list on the wall of this kind of fast food restaurant, which lists which topping and sauce are free and which are charged. In other stores, it goes without saying that the beef patties are put on the bottom of the bread after being baked by the kitchen, and the bread cover is not covered. At this time, another waiter is operating in front of you, and all the fillings and sauces are also placed in front of you. You can put which waiter you refer to on your beef patties. If you want them all, you can say "everything".
2. set meal
set meal is called combo or meal. If you only order hamburgers, the waiter will often ask "Do you want to make it a combo?" Do you want to upgrade to a set meal? ) the omitted question is "Burger or combo?" Only hamburgers or set meals? ) or "Only burger?" A: Just hamburgers? )
The set meal is basically fixed, with French fries and soft drinks. The most common French fries is fries, also known as French fries. Hanging a French name has nothing to do with France, just as Yangzhou fried rice has nothing to do with Yangzhou. Some restaurants will offer onion rings, which are generally slightly higher than French fries. You can also have half of French fries and half of onion rings, and the name is interesting. Put Fries and Rings into a "misspelled word" Frings. French fries and onion rings can be dipped in ketchup. There is usually a vat of ketchup in the store, and the customer takes a small paper cup slightly larger than a coin to put some out. Takeaway is a small package prepared in advance. The upgraded version is to add another piece of money and pour a spoonful of gravy on the French fries.
a healthy version of French fries is sweet potato fries. I tried it myself at home. French fries are easy to fry, but because of the high sugar content, sweet potatoes are basically fried before the water is dried, and they have never made the sweet and crisp effect in the store. I asked my local colleagues about this, and I wanted to ask if there were any good recipes to try. People stared at me and said that you actually wanted to fry sweet potato chips yourself. ! To sum up, if you meet a store that sells sweet potato chips, try to upgrade the chips in your package.
of course, even if it is healthier than French fries, it is still fried food. If you want to be completely healthy, change the French fries into salad. Now more and more fast food restaurants offer this option. The salad that comes with the set meal is not big, and it is called side salad. Vegetables are called garden salad (Garden Salad) or green salad (Green Salad). Vegetables are called Caesar salad with some cheese crumbs and crouton (Fried Bread), and Greek salad with large pieces of cucumber, tomato and onion. It should be noted that the Chinese word "Caesar" is translated according to the pronunciation of ancient Latin, but the English pronunciation of Caesar is /si: z? /。
after ordering salad, some restaurant waiters will ask you "Which dressing do you want?" What kind of sauce do you want? If you can't answer, you can ask "What do you have?" What do you have? Dressing is sauce, and the common ones are French (French), Italian (Italian), Caesar (Caesar), ranch (Farm), blue cheese and so on. The so-called French and Italian are all North American sayings, which the French and Italians do not recognize. Both of them are based on water and vinegar, but the colors are different. French adds tomato sauce, so it is reddish and thicker. Italian without tomato sauce, lemon juice, celery, thyme, basil and other herbs, milk yellow mixed with green particles. Ranch is milky white.
if you want to eat more vegetables, my suggestion is that two people order together. Order a set meal of hamburger+French fries+drinks, a single hamburger and an entree salad. A dinner salad costs about twice as much as a side salad, but the amount is three or four times.
as for drinks, it is mainly pop (carbonated drinks). Pepsi must not be sold in places where Coke is sold, but no matter which brand is sold, it is generally available across the board. Besides coke, there are lemonade. Just say Sprite or 7Up according to the trademark. Ice tea (iced black tea, short for ice lemon tea) must be available, as well as orange-flavored soda. It can be said that orange pop can also be said as Fanta or Mirinda. There is a kind of root beer which tastes similar to cola. It is very popular in North America, but it is rare in China. Although there is a beer in the name, it does not contain alcohol. Root is true, because it is traditionally brewed from a tree root. Another rare soda in China is ginger ale (ginger ale). In fact, the taste of ginger is so weak that it can hardly be eaten.
3. Sandwiches
As mentioned earlier, hamburgers are only a branch of sandwiches, and a large number of sandwiches are also the main force of fast food. The most popular sandwich in North America is Submarine (Sub for short), which is named after its shape resembling a submarine.
Subway is the chain fast food restaurant that specializes in submarine sandwiches and is bigger than McDonald's. Ordering food at his home is becoming more and more graphic and convenient now. The first step is to choose bread: white bread, whole wheat bread, multi-grain bread, Italian herbs bread, cheese bread and so on. When I first came to America to buy sandwiches, I was asked, "white or wheat? "(white bread or whole wheat bread? ), I didn't understand it, but I didn't understand it until I saw the real thing. Now Subway has posted pictures and names of all kinds of bread on the counter, and there will be no such embarrassment.
then choose the meat. There are all kinds of cold cut, also called deli, including chicken (cooked chicken cut into pieces like ham), ham (ham), turkey (turkey) and so on. There are also several kinds of hot meat. Meat ball (meatball) is between the size of meatballs and lion's head that China people use to cook soup, and it is beef. In China, only meat is usually pork, but in North America, meat without modifiers usually refers to beef. Steak is also available. If it's steak, it should be beef cut into small pieces, and of course it won't be sirloin steak. There is also a philly steak, which cuts beef tenderloin into pork slices with the thickness of rinse meat and cooks them.
finally, choose cheese, vegetables and sauces. There are two or three kinds of cheese. The orange cheddar has a hard taste and a long aftertaste. White mozzarella or Swiss cheese is easy to melt and draw after heating, forming a unique taste. The fastidious Italian mozzarella must be fresh on the same day, because it is difficult to preserve because of its high moisture content, and the products sold in supermarkets and used in fast food restaurants are dehydrated. Personally, I like Swiss cheese with mushrooms to match philly steak, which is very rich in taste. Of course, this combination needs heat up, and the waiter will put the sandwich in an electric cooker and bake it quickly.
Italian panini (panini) sandwiches should be baked in this way before being eaten hot. Bread made in panini is usually square or triangular, which is harder. There are many spices in the bread.
4. Roll
A replica of sandwiches is all kinds of wraps, which are also fillings, but instead of bread, they are rolled up with a round pie to eat. Pita, which is popular in Greece, the Middle East and other Mediterranean regions, is a typical representative of rolls. The common way to eat is to get involved in skewers. The kebab in Greece is called souvlaki, and the kebab in the Middle East is called Kebab. The two are similar. The main difference is that the Greeks put lemon juice while the Middle East does not add sour seasoning. souvlaki is generally whole meat, while Kebab sometimes puts a vegetable between two pieces of meat. These skewers of chicken, beef and mutton are available. Besides meat, some salads, sauerkraut, sour cream and sauces will be added. Pita cakes are sometimes used to roll meat, and sometimes they are cut open like a small bag to put meat and vegetables in.
there is a special type of rolls made of pita cakes, which is shawarma. In the 198s, many cities in China sold a kind of Turkish barbecue, which was the meat for shawarma. An electric oven, with a metal column in the middle, meat is hung on it layer by layer to form a huge meat column. The column rotates slowly clockwise, and the meat is roasted on it. When eating, the master cut a certain amount of meat with a long knife and wrapped it in pita cake.
another very popular volume is burrito, Mexico. For burrito.