a) Request for another server?

b) Insist on speaking in English, albeit slowly and loudly so she can understand (as do the British to foreigners)

c) Leave

adds that the non-English speaking waitress is spewing Mandarin

first points out that "requests" as a verb should never be followed by "for". I'd speak to the manager.

ooops, my bad. Too kan jiong to get it off my chest, hence the slip up.

thinks employers and the government should both sponsor language courses for foreign workers.

it's particularly frustrating for non-Mandarin-speaking customers.

why we assume English necessarily has to be the lingua franca. What about non English speakers?

yes like Malay and Tamil. My non-Chinese friends get extremely frustrated when they cant even order a meal in MacDonald's

have had wait staff speak to her obviously Indian friends in Mandarin.

maybe they think they're like daniel Dae kim in LOST.

actually, as long as the food is good, i dont really care about the server's language.

says the food might be good but you'll never get to taste it if you can't place your order

do the Bruce Lee method: point!

says Technicolor tried that once but even then the waiter didn't get it. He spoke neither Eng nor Ch in a Ch joint.

geez...

then that would be a good time to ditch the Bruce Lee stance and take on the Zhang Ziyi's. Smash up the joint, then say the soup's too salty