Eat breakfast before heading out. (Cantonese syntax)
Tips
grammar
Classic two-piece Cantonese verb+particle: 食 (sik6, 'eat') + 咗 (zo2, perfective marker = Mandarin 了). The canonical greeting 食咗饭未？ ('Have you eaten?') is the HK equivalent of the 你吃了吗？ cultural hello.
mistakes
咗 is Cantonese-only. A learner seeing 食咗 in a Mandarin context is almost certainly looking at HK social media or a WhatsApp message. In Mandarin writing, use 吃了.
