dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall
both ends; either end; both edges; double-mindedness; sitting on the fence
seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
wagon; tea wagon; teacart; station wagon; estate car
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
tom yum goong (Thai soup dish)
gentle spring rain; thin noodles made from bean starch (or potato starch)
food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kudzu or katakuriko flour)
fresh spring roll (i.e. not fried); summer roll; Vietnamese salad roll
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
to be palatable; to suit one's taste
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
insincere smile; ingratiating smile; polite smile; forced smile
nutritional value; food value
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)
although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again
difference; distinction; discrepancy; mistake; error
home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
ordinary people; common folk; general masses; man in the street; populace at large
countries all over the world; all the countries of the world
(husband and wife) both working; dual income
to be treated to a meal; to be given a meal
(somebody else's) parents; both parents
single-mother household; fatherless family
to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff
until now; so far; up to the present
something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time
company president; manager; director