Tớ gọi món bánh xèo và món chay.

Tớ is a casual way to say I / me. It is used with friends, classmates, siblings, or other people you are close to. It sounds friendly and informal.

It is less formal than tôi. If you are speaking to a stranger, an older person, or in a professional situation, tôi is usually safer.

Also, tớ can sound a bit youthful and is especially common in northern-style speech, though it is widely understood.

That is very common confusion.

Gọi can mean several things, including:

• call
• summon
• name
• order in a restaurant

In food contexts, gọi món means to order food or to order a dish. So here, because the thing being called for is food, gọi is understood as order.

Món means dish.

In restaurant Vietnamese, it is often used when talking about menu items. So:

• món bánh xèo = the bánh xèo dish
• món chay = a vegetarian dish

English often just says the food name directly, but Vietnamese frequently uses món to frame something as a dish on the menu.

Because there are two separate items:

• món bánh xèo
• món chay

Repeating món makes it clear that both are dishes.

If you said món bánh xèo và chay, it could sound like chay is describing bánh xèo, giving the idea of vegetarian bánh xèo, not a second dish.

Vietnamese does not use articles the way English does. Very often, nouns appear without words equivalent to a, an, or the, and the meaning is understood from context.

If you want to make the number explicit, you can add một:

• Tớ gọi một món bánh xèo và một món chay

But in many situations, speakers leave một out because it is already clear enough.

In food contexts, chay means vegetarian or meat-free.

So món chay means a vegetarian dish.

A cultural note: in Vietnamese, đồ chay or món chay often refers to Buddhist-style vegetarian food. Depending on the place, that may be fully vegan-like, or it may simply mean no meat and fish. So the exact ingredients depend on the restaurant.

Because this sentence is treating bánh xèo as a dish being ordered from a menu, not mainly as a physical object being counted.

• món bánh xèo focuses on the menu dish
• cái bánh xèo focuses more on an individual pancake

In restaurant language, món is more natural here than cái.

Yes, it is understandable and natural enough, especially if you are telling someone what you ordered.

But when speaking directly to staff, people often use slightly different patterns, such as:

• Cho tớ bánh xèo và một món chay
• Tớ gọi bánh xèo với một món chay

So your sentence sounds a little more like I ordered bánh xèo and a vegetarian dish than the most direct way to place the order itself.

Often, yes.

• và = standard and
• với = also common in speech, often more conversational when linking food or accompanying items

So và is completely correct here, but với may sound a bit more natural in casual spoken Vietnamese in some contexts.

For example:

• Tớ gọi bánh xèo với một món chay

That said, và is still perfectly normal and clear.

Yes. The sentence follows a very common Vietnamese pattern:

• Tớ = subject
• gọi = verb
• món bánh xèo và món chay = object

So it works much like English I ordered X and Y. This is one reason the sentence structure is fairly easy for English speakers to follow once the vocabulary is clear.