Lesson 5 Talking About Food

Today we will learn three ways to describe how food tastes! Make sure to memorise the words. ^_^

1) おいしい (Oishii) means yummy, or delicious.
★ You can use oishii as an exclamation by itself, or in a longer sentence.

Example: 

このパンはおいしいですね！

Kono pan wa oishii desu ne!

This bread is yummy!

★ A more casual way to say it is うまい (Umai)  means ''good" or "delicious".

2) まあまあ (Maa Maa) means “so-so.” This is used when talking about food that is not good or bad.
★A similar expression that you can use when talking about food that is not particularly good or bad is ふつう (Futsū) means "normal".

3) まずい！(Mazui) means yuck or bad.
★ If the food tastes bad, you can also say おいしくない (Oishikunai). This is the negative form of oishii, so it means “not yummy” or “not good.”

Vocabulary
★たべもの (tabe mono) Food
★にほんりょうり (nihon ryouri) Japanese Cooking / Japanese Dish / Japanese Food
★ちょうしょく (chou shoku) / さごはん (asa gohan) Breakfast
★ちゅうしょく (chuu shoku)  / ひるごはん (hiru gohan) Lunch
★ゆうしょく (yuu shoku) / ばんごはん (ban gohan) Dinner
★ べんとう (bentou) Lunch Box

Bonus words!

おいしそう (oishisō) looks/seems delicious

うまそう (umasō) looks/seems good (casual)

まずそう (mazusō) looks/seems yucky