بعد الغدا طلبنا كبايتين شاي، وكان فاضل شوية سلطة على الترابيزة.

That is a very common confusion.

In Egyptian Arabic, الغدا means lunch. It corresponds to MSA الغداء.

MSA غدًا means tomorrow, but in everyday Egyptian Arabic people usually say بكرة for tomorrow.

So:

• بعد الغدا = after lunch
• بكرة = tomorrow

Context also makes it clear here: بعد الغدا طلبنا... is talking about what happened after a meal.

Because colloquial Egyptian writing is much less standardized than MSA writing.

In informal Egyptian Arabic, people often simplify spelling to reflect everyday pronunciation, so:

• MSA: الغداء
• Egyptian colloquial spelling: الغدا

The hamza is often dropped in casual writing, and final sounds may be spelled more simply. So this is not a different word; it is the same word written in a more colloquial way.

طلبنا = طلب + نا

• طلب = asked for / ordered
• نا = we

So طلبنا means we ordered or we asked for.

In a restaurant context, طلب is very commonly used for ordering food or drinks.

A rough pronunciation is ṭalabna, with an emphatic ṭ at the beginning.

كبايتين is the dual form of كباية.

• كباية = a cup / a glass
• كبايتين = two cups / two glasses

In Egyptian Arabic, the dual is still used a lot for exactly two things, especially with common nouns like this.

Because كباية is feminine, the dual looks like:

• كباية → كبايتين

In colloquial Egyptian, the dual ending is usually -ين / -تين, unlike MSA, which distinguishes -ان and -ين depending on case.

So كبايتين شاي is a very natural way to say two cups of tea.

Because Arabic often expresses this kind of relationship without a separate word like English of.

So:

• كبايتين شاي = literally two cups tea
• شوية سلطة = literally a little salad / some salad

This is a very normal Arabic structure. English needs of, but Arabic often does not.

You can think of it as a kind of noun linking:

• container/amount + thing

Examples:

• كباية شاي = a cup of tea
• شوية مية = a little water
• كيلو تفاح = a kilo of apples

Because شاي is being treated as an uncountable substance here, like tea in normal English.

The thing being counted is the cups, not the tea:

• كبايتين = two cups
• شاي = tea

So the phrase means two cups of tea, not two teas.

English sometimes allows restaurant-style phrases like two teas, but Arabic here is using the more regular measure expression.

فاضل means remaining, left over, or still left.

With كان, it becomes a past-time expression:

• فاضل = is left / remains
• كان فاضل = was left / there was ... left

So:

• كان فاضل شوية سلطة = there was some salad left

This is a very common Egyptian way to talk about something that remained.

Because كان shifts the situation into the past.

Compare:

• فاضل شوية سلطة = there’s some salad left
• كان فاضل شوية سلطة = there was some salad left

So كان here works a lot like was in English, helping place the sentence in past time.

In this kind of Egyptian expression, فاضل is often used in a default masculine singular form, especially when it is followed by an indefinite noun phrase or a quantity expression such as شوية سلطة.

So كان فاضل شوية سلطة is a very natural everyday pattern.

In other words, this is less like a carefully agreeing adjective and more like an existential expression meaning there remained... / there was left...

That is why learners often see masculine singular forms in expressions of this type even when the following noun is feminine.

شوية means a little, a bit of, or some, depending on context.

Here, شوية سلطة means some salad or a little salad.

It is a very common Egyptian word for small quantity:

• شوية مية = a little water
• شوية وقت = a little time
• شوية سلطة = some salad

Before a following noun, many speakers pronounce it something like shwayyet, so شوية سلطة may sound like shwayyet salata in connected speech.

Yes. ترابيزة is a very common Egyptian Arabic word for table.

So:

• ترابيزة = table
• الترابيزة = the table

It is much more everyday-Egyptian than a more formal MSA word like طاولة or مائدة.

In this sentence, the definite article ال makes sense because the speaker means a specific table already known in the situation: the table.

A rough pronunciation would be:

baʿd el-ghada, ṭalabna kobbayteen shay, w-kān faadel shwayyet salata ʿala t-tarabeeza

A few notes:

• بعد = baʿd
• الغدا = el-ghada
• طلبنا = ṭalabna
• كبايتين = kobbayteen
• شاي = shay
• فاضل = faadel
• شوية سلطة often sounds like shwayyet salata
• على الترابيزة = ʿala t-tarabeeza

You will hear slight pronunciation differences from speaker to speaker, but this is a good general Egyptian reading.