Me : "Hello sir, is your food halal?"
fast food manager (ffm): "it's about 15 - 20 minutes" (with Vietnamese dialect)
Me : "No..no, No how long but Halal"
ffm : *gave me a puzzled look*
Me : "hmmm do you have pork in your menu?"
ffm : "so...sorry I don't understand"
Me : "pork.. ehmm pork, y'know" *pressed my nose to make it look like a pig*
ffm : "sorry miss i don't know"
Me : "ohh okay then, thank you" *left the resto with empty stomatch*
Have you ever experienced a situation when local people on your travel destination could not understand your language, even it is "English"?
Well, although English has become universal language yet we can't expect everyone in this world understand English, right?
Then what should we do when we travel to places where most of the people don't understand English language there?
Should we avoid that place?
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