What do you say when you "toast" in SE Asia?
Mar 23rd, 2010, 07:54 PM
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What do you say when you "toast" in SE Asia?
I'm sure we have a lot of accomplished imbibers out there, and I'd like to know what you say when you're toasting each other....besides "bring me another one, please"
Need to know the Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Balinese versions...I'm assuming these are non-Muslim residents.
Need to know the Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Balinese versions...I'm assuming these are non-Muslim residents.
Mar 23rd, 2010, 08:48 PM
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I just spent Thursday and Friday nights at closing dinners for a Vietnamese project, and the cheer my Vietamese colleagues taught me was "Yo!" Said louldy and emphatically, like Americans would say it in English to get someone's attention. Very easy indeed.
This of course involved shots of whiskey and shouting of "Yo!". (My head still hurts.) Perhaps Hanuman's is more polite, and means good health or long life or something and might be more appropriate for a sedate gathering.
This of course involved shots of whiskey and shouting of "Yo!". (My head still hurts.) Perhaps Hanuman's is more polite, and means good health or long life or something and might be more appropriate for a sedate gathering.
Mar 23rd, 2010, 09:20 PM
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I'm not 100 percent sure either for Vietnamese but I found this web site to be fairly accurate, click on the "toast when drinking" button under "Translation".
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cheers
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cheers
Mar 24th, 2010, 12:11 AM
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Toasting doesn't seem to be much of a tradition in Indonesia, even in Bali, but the phrase that I hear most before drinking is "Selamat Minum" (minoom) meaning please go ahead and drink.
One more is "satu lagi" (rhymes with foggy).
In Java there's an excessively complicated protocol for accepting a drink, even tea or water. You have to leave it sitting on the table untouched for sometime (lest you appear too eager). After your host has urged you to drink several times you may finally take a sip, usually at the end of the meeting.
One more is "satu lagi" (rhymes with foggy).
In Java there's an excessively complicated protocol for accepting a drink, even tea or water. You have to leave it sitting on the table untouched for sometime (lest you appear too eager). After your host has urged you to drink several times you may finally take a sip, usually at the end of the meeting.
Mar 24th, 2010, 12:43 AM
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Cambodia: hold the drink in the right hand, touch your left hand to your right elbow and clink together glasses saying "chual muay". At weddings and such, when the drinking gets a bit out of hand, the object appears to be to clink the glasses together with such force that they both break, sending everyone into raucous laughter.
