زيادة سكر
All Saudiziyadat sukkar
Extra sugar.
Ziyadat sukkar - extra sugar - is what you say at the counter when the shahi comes too plain, and ziyada on its own is the Saudi word for extra of anything.
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Hospitality and foodin Saudi Arabic.
At the door, at the table and at the coffee counter.
Saudi hospitality has its own grammar. Coffee is poured for you before you are asked, food is pressed on you twice, and there is a phrase for every part of it - the invitation to sit, the word said before eating, the thanks that follows, the refusal that is really an acceptance. Get these right and a Saudi host relaxes; get them wrong and the host will simply do everything for you, kindly, in English.
The entries here are the words said at the door, at the table and at the coffee counter: the ones you will hear every time you are a guest, and the ones that make you a good one.
Every entry gives you the phrase, what a Saudi answers, the small mistake to avoid, and a Saudi teacher's recording of each phrase and example.
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