We had to scramble to find enough cash to settle the bill. We were in shock There were still people beside ourselves finishing meals. The Lady informed us the machines for credit cards is closed and its cash only. I was paying cash and My colleague was using a credit card. He left and a Lady came to collect the payment. I flagged down a busboy and asked him to settle the bill. On my return to the table I was shocked the bill and payment had not been collected. On by return the staff was eating and dancing in the back of restaurant. We sat for another 10 minutes I decided to use the restroom. We spent maybe five minutes sorting out the payment and tip. He has said there was no rush to finish our wine. The came with the bill, He politely asked if we could settle the payment has the restaurant was closing. My issue with this restaurant was we waited almost 25 minutes after finishing eating before the server cleared away our empty dishes. The meal was small portions but tasty enough. My colleague had the grilled steak on a sewer. I had the Tres carné 3 different cuts of steak served with salad. The server did apologize for the slow service. It took about 15 minutes for the server to arrive to take our drink order and answer any questions regarding our food choices. There appeared to be only one server working many tables. The restaurant although fairly small had about 90%of the tables filled. ![]() We were seated almost immediately and handed menus. We arrived around 2130/9:30pm For late dinner. The actual restaurant presents an auténtico atmosphere. Erase "asi, asi" from your vocabulary as a response to how you are doing.My review of Mas Y Mas Firstly Mas y Mas is one of many Argentine Steak houses that dominates Amsterdams tourist stroll. If you want to say "so, so" in Spanish, say "mas o menos" or "regular". The true native speaker will probably think, "I don't know what he just said, but that hand tells me he's more or less okay." Like I've always said, if you are abroad and someone says, "Como estas?" You gesture your hand back and forth and say, "Asi, asi". It's amazing that this incorrect and mostly incomprehensible translation has becomes so common among Americans using Spanish and Spanglish speakers. ![]() And the ones I've asked about it don't really know what it means. Nonetheless, in all my travels and years in Latin America and Spain, I've never heard a native speaker use it. ![]() "Asi, asi" is commonly taught by non-native speakers and probably by heritage speakers like the Spanglish speaking Mexicans out west. "Mas o menos" is, in fact, the correct translation for the English "so, so" or "more or less". "Mas o menos" or "regular" are the correct responses if you are saying "so, so". ![]() And as a response to "How are you?" it basically has no meaning. Saying it twice to a true native speaker from Latin America is the same as saying "like that, like that". "Asi" means "like that" or "so" as in "that way". Of course there are times when the two are relatively interchangeable such as if someone were to ask you, "Do you feel good today?" Are you feeling like the day is tolerable/acceptable, or are you feeling as though the day is going well, more or less? In this case, both would be possible to use although with subtly different implications in meaning.Īll the comments here are wrong. Más o menos, then, would be an indication of the amount or quantity of something whereas, así así would have more to do with the quality of something.įor example, if you ask somebody, "do you get off of work in an hour" it would fit better to say más o menos because you could answer this question with "more or less," but it wouldn't make as much sense to answer this question with "mediocre, acceptably, tolerably, etc.". Más o menos means "approximately" or "around about"Īsí así means "mediocre" or "moderately", "acceptably", "tolerably" Más o menos significa de manera aproximada They're not exactly the same, as qfreed and Madh4tter said above.
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