sūméndálà chá

too much sugar

Jiā fùjìn xīn de kāile yījiā cāntīng. Wǒ hé wǒ de àirén chángshì qù nà li yǒu wǎncān qián xiǎoshí. Tā xiǎng chī niúwán, ér wǒ xiǎng chī suǒ tuō. Suǒ tuō shì yī zhǒng yóu hěnduō cáiliào áo chéng de jītāng.

Fúwùyuánmen shuō Mǎlái fāngyán. Dāng fúwùyuán tīng bù dào wǒmen liáotiān dehuà shí, wǒ àirén gàosù wǒ zhè shì zài Běigānbālǔ shǐyòng de fāngyán.

Shíwù duì wǒ lái shuō hái suàn kěyǐ, dàn wǒ àirén bù xǐhuān niúwán de ròu tāng. Yǐnliào jiù lìng dāng biélùnle. Wǒmen diǎnle chá, dàn chá hǎoxiàng xīshì de tángjiāng.

Zài huí jiā de lùshàng wǒ àirén shuō, "Wǒ jiù zhīdào huì zhèyàng." Ránhòu yòu shuō: "Sūméndálà rén, yóuqí běifāng de, hē chá de shíhòu xǐhuān fàng hěnduō táng."


苏门答腊茶


家附近新的开了一家餐厅。我和我的爱人尝试去那里有晚餐前小食。他想吃牛丸,而我想吃索托。索托是一种加了不同材料的鸡汤。

当服务员听不到我们聊天的话时,我爱人告诉我这是在北干巴鲁使用的方言。

食物对我来说还算可以,但我爱人不喜欢牛丸的肉汤。饮料就另当别论了。我们点了茶,但茶好像稀释的糖浆。

在回家的路上我爱人说,「我就知道会这样。」然后又说:「苏门答腊人,尤其北方的,喝茶的时候喜欢放很多糖。」



sumatran tea


So there's this new place to eat near my place. My lover and I tried going there for a quick pre-dinner. He had meatballs in broth and I had soto, a kind of chicken soup with different ingredients.

The waitresses spoke in Malay dialect. After they were out of hearing range, my lover said that it was the dialect used in Pekanbaru.

The food turned out OK for me (my lover didn't like his broth). The drink however, is a different story. We ordered tea, but it was more like undiluted syrup.

On the way home my lover said, "I know from the start this would happen." He continued: "Sumatran people, especially those on the north-ish, love having their tea super sweet."

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