Restaurant reservations Part 2: Understanding cancellation policies and deadlines.

🇹🇼 [你好] is understood everywhere, but in Taiwan staff often open more naturally with [您好] or [哈囉] depending on the setting.

💬 [想] often softens a request: [我想預訂] is more polite than bluntly saying [我要預訂]. You can reuse it with other actions, like [我想取消] for "I'd like to cancel."

💬 In Taiwan, [預訂] is commonly used for booking a table, while [預約] is also common for reservations more generally. You'll hear both, so [預訂餐廳] and [預約餐廳] can both make sense depending on the place.

💬 [我想 + action] is a very useful pattern for polite service situations: [我想預訂], [我想取消], [我想改時間]. It sounds less direct than [我要 + action].

💬 [張] is the counting word for flat things and also for tables in restaurant language. You can swap the number: [一張桌子], [兩張票].