In mandarin how does the english notion of "and" work in this type of phrase. I apologize as I don't know any characters, yet, so will attempt to express some mandarin with pinyin. In english I might say: Shall we go to the restaurant and have a meal? In mandarin, I might say: Wǒmen yīqǐ qù fàndiàn ba or Wǒmen yīqǐ chī wǎnfàn ba is there a standard form to connect these like "and"? Or can I simply say something like: Wǒmen yīqǐ qù fàndiàn chī wǎnfàn ba