Learn Thai - Vocabulary for EATING 

except that most Thai servers merely are order takers and say nothing..lo

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My Thai friend said we can say "Gin beer/Taan beer" informally for a verb ,as in '"drinking beer"-in the present tense. Or "Pom jà bpai gin beer" "I will go drink beer" But she said "deum" is used as a noun, as in "DRINK menu/ I need a DRINK/ Iced tea is my favourite DRINK" I understand what you are saying because hungry is "Heeyoo" and thirsty is "Heeyoo Naam" (Hungry water) I hope this is correct and explains.

According to the Royal Institute Dictionary said กิน(kin) can also mean "to drink" in English, and it is often used in Thai language to describe the act of taking a liquid into the body. kin beer(กินเบียร์) and dèum beer(ดื่มเบียร์) are commonly used interchangeably to mean "drink beer" but kin beer(กินเบียร์) is spoken language. (I use kin instead of gin because the latter sounds similar to "Gin & Tonic lol)

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I think the problem arises during the transliteration of Thai because I've noticed that when 'g' comes with 'i,' the 'g' makes a soft sound like 'j.' I used to let my friends read 'gin,' but they pronounced it as 'jin.' So, I decided to write it as 'kin.' However, 'k' has a similar sound to 'ค,' which is softer than 'ก,' but I think it is closer in sound to the word 'กิน.

No, he isn’t incorrect to transliterate it as ‘k.’ If you look at IPA charts for Thai consonants, most of them do not show the value of /g/ for any consonant. It’s usually agreed that the letter ก is actually an unvoiced and unaspirated sound, which is /k/ in IPA. If you’re an English speaker, I get why you think it’s a G instead, because, in English, we don’t have that sound outside of the second letter in a consonant cluster, such as in ‘skirt’ or ‘scoop’ - that’s the sound that the k (ก็) in ‘kin’ is.