Etiquette on the western food table In Europe, all things related to eating are highly valued, because it provides two western food etiquette at the same time.
The most appreciated aesthetic enjoyment-food and negotiation. In addition to the exquisite taste, the collocation of wine and dishes, elegant dining etiquette, adjusting and relaxing mentality, enjoying this environment and food, and using tableware and wine utensils correctly are all prerequisites for entering food. It should be noted that when you go to a restaurant in the west, you usually have to make an appointment in advance. Pay special attention to make it clear when making an appointment. First of all, you should indicate the number of people and the time. Secondly, you should indicate whether you want a smoking seat or a seat with a good view. If it is a birthday or other special day, you can tell the purpose and budget of the banquet. It is basic courtesy to arrive at the scheduled time. In case of emergency, inform in advance to cancel the positioning and apologize. No matter how expensive casual clothes are, you can't go to a high-end western restaurant for dinner at will. It is common sense for Europeans and Americans to dress appropriately. When going to a high-end western restaurant, men should dress neatly; Ladies should wear evening dresses or suits and shoes with heels. Ladies should put on more makeup, because the light in the restaurant is dim. If formal attire is specified, the man must wear a tie. When entering the restaurant, men should open the door first, and ladies should enter and walk in front. When sitting down and ordering wine, ladies should be invited to taste and decide. Generally, the business hours of western restaurants are 165438+ 0: 30 noon to afternoon and after 6: 30 pm. If the guests arrive early, they can have a drink in the bar before entering the main restaurant. Sit tight, so you don't have to order in a hurry. If you have any questions, you can ask the waiter directly. They are usually happy to answer any questions you ask. If they are not sure, they will ask the restaurant manager or chef. It is impolite to eat too early. Arrive at the western restaurant at noon 1 1 or at 5: 30 pm, eat in a hurry and leave. Talk about business at the dinner table, dress casually, eat the main course too slowly and affect the next course, or just order appetizers without ordering the main course and dessert. Although the appetizer of high-end western food is small, it is exquisite and worth tasting slowly. After dinner, you can choose dessert or cheese, coffee, tea, etc. Different countries have different tipping habits. But be sure to praise and express your gratitude.
To a great extent, eating western food means eating emotional appeal: marble fireplace, glittering crystal lamp, silver candlestick, colorful wine and people's elegant and charming manners, which is a touching oil painting in itself. In order to master your manners more skillfully when you taste western food for the first time, it is worthwhile to spend some time familiarizing yourself with these dining etiquette. When sitting, keep your body straight, don't put your elbows on the table, don't tilt your feet, and keep a certain distance from the table to facilitate the use of tableware. Don't fiddle with the tableware on the dining table. Fold the napkin in half and gently put it on your knee. * When eating with a knife and fork, take the knife and fork from the outside to the inside, with a fork in your left hand and a knife in your right hand; When you cut something, you hold the fork in your left hand and the food in your right hand, and then cut it into small pieces with a knife, and then send it to your mouth with a fork. When using a knife, the blade should not be outward. When eating, put down the knife and fork in a figure of eight and put them on the edge of the plate respectively. The blade is pointed at yourself, indicating that you will continue to eat. After eating each dish, put the knife and fork together on the plate. If you are talking, you can hold the knife and fork. When you don't use a knife, you can also hold a fork in your right hand, but if you need to make gestures, you should put down your knife and fork, never wave it in the air with your hands, never wipe your mouth with a napkin in one hand, and never hold a glass and fork in the other. Remember, never put one end of the knife and fork on the plate and the other end on the table. * Don't eat too much food at a time. Don't talk while chewing, and don't take the initiative to eat.
After being seated, the host greeted him and began to eat. Don't overeat when eating. Finish the food on the plate. If it is not enough, you can take it again. If the waiter divides the dishes, if necessary, the waiter will take them when delivering them. If I can't eat or don't like the food, don't refuse it when the waiter serves it or the host takes it. Put a small amount on the plate and say, "Thank you, that's enough." Don't look embarrassed about those bad dishes. Eat gracefully. Shut up and chew, don't drink soup, and don't make any noise when eating. If the soup and vegetables are too hot, wait until they are cold. Don't blow them with your mouth. Don't spit out the fishbones and bones in your mouth directly. Cover your mouth with a napkin, take it out with your hand, or spit it gently with a fork and put it on a plate. Leftovers and used tableware toothpicks should be put on the plate, not on the table. Don't talk with food in your mouth. Cover your mouth with your hand or napkin when picking your teeth.
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No matter the host, guest or guest, you should talk to the people at the same table, especially the neighbors. Don't talk to only a few acquaintances or only two people. If you don't know your neighbor, you can introduce yourself first.
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What kind of food should be eaten when drinking has always been a problem that puzzles people. For hundreds of years, choosing the right food when drinking seems to have formed a law. However, with the emergence of new foods and new wines in modern society, these rules are outdated and increasingly unsuitable. How to mix drinking and food must first understand that life is different due to personal preferences, and the combination of drinking and food must undoubtedly be matched with personal tastes at will. You can order wine and vegetables according to your own taste, even if the rules don't allow it, or the friends who eat at the same table are firmly opposed, you don't have to be shy or embarrassed. There are many things in life that seem to be mismatched, but they still seem so harmonious. But what should you do when you still can't decide what wine to use for dinner? Will you turn to these rules? Over the years, I have accumulated some experience that can solve your problem. These so-called "principles" do not tell you what to eat when drinking, but only explain how food and alcohol interact and interact with each other. When drinking, it is important to match food according to taste. Food and alcohol can be divided into four flavors, which define the range of wine and food collocation, namely: sour, sweet, bitter and salty. Sour taste: You may have heard that wine can't go with salad, because the acid in salad greatly destroys the mellow taste of wine. But if salad and sour wine are used together, the acid contained in wine will be decomposed by lactic acid of salad, which is of course an excellent match. So you can choose acidic wine and acidic food to eat together. Acidic wine with salty food tastes good. Sweetness: When dining, you can also choose dessert according to your personal taste. Generally speaking, sweets will weaken the taste of sweet wine. If you choose Chattonny in California with a small piece of grilled swordfish, the wine will be very sweet. However, if you put salad on fish, the fruit flavor in wine will be much less. Therefore, when eating desserts, desserts with high sugar content will cover up the taste of wine and lose its original flavor. You should choose a slightly sweeter wine. Only in this way can the wine keep its original flavor. Bitterness: Still use the principle of "personal preference". Bitter wine and bitter food will reduce the bitterness. So if you want to reduce or eliminate bitterness, you can mix bitter wine with bitter food. Salty taste: generally, there is no salty wine, but there are many wines that can reduce the salty taste of salty food. Many countries and regions in the world use lemon juice or alcohol when eating seafood such as fish. The main reason is that acid can reduce the salinity of fish and make it more delicious.
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Knives, forks and other silverware are called tableware. Knives and forks are divided into meat, fish, appetizers and desserts, while spoons are used for seasoning besides appetizers, soups, coffee and tea. The spoon used for seasoning is the spoon used when adding seasoning, which is mostly used for dessert or fish dishes. The tableware used today is constantly changing with the change of cooking. In the set meal of formal western food, knives and forks with different shapes are often used according to the characteristics of different cuisines, and not all of them are put out at the beginning. When it comes to complete sets, it is easy to think of silverware on the dining table, but now most of them are 2-3 single discs. Therefore, the formal dining decorations filled with silverware on the dining table may only be seen at the wedding reception. Recently, the use of a set of knives and forks has become less and less, and more and more people only eat 2-3 appetizers, and knives and forks are not changed with them. Most of them eat appetizers with a knife and fork. Moreover, there are more and more restaurants with knives and forks (or spoons) on them and placed on the right side of the plate. In any restaurant, the shape of the knife used by cook the meat is basically the same, but the knife used for cooking fish often varies from restaurant to restaurant. Especially recently, fish cookers with the same width as meat cookers tend to be gradually inclined, and those wider than this width are also common. There are also some fish cooking knives with wide blades and luxurious decorations on the blades. In addition, some restaurants use seasoning spoons instead of fish knives. Knife and fork are like chopsticks racks in China. Sometimes knives and forks (or spoons) are put on the knife and fork rack as a group; Sometimes, knives, forks and spoons will be placed in groups on the knife and fork rack; Sometimes knives and forks (or spoons) are put on them as a group, so that the blade of the knife and the front end of the fork will not touch the tablecloth.
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As a guest of honor, when attending a banquet held in a foreign country, you should know each other's toasting habits, that is, why and when to toast, so as to make necessary preparations. When clinking glasses, the host and guest touch first, and many people can raise their glasses at the same time, not necessarily clinking glasses. Be careful not to cross glasses when toasting. When the host and guest make speeches and toasts, they should stop eating and talking, pay attention to listening, and don't take this opportunity to smoke. Stand still while playing the national anthem. After the host and guests talk and clink glasses with the distinguished guests, they usually go to other tables to propose a toast. In this case, they should stand up and raise their glasses. When clinking glasses, greet each other visually. It is friendly and lively to toast each other at the party, but don't drink too much. Drinking too much is easy to get rude, even rude, so I must control it within one-third of my alcohol consumption.
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In social occasions, no matter how hot the weather is, you can't unbutton your clothes in public. At an informal small dinner party, if the host invites the guest to take off his coat, the male guest can take off his coat and put it on the back of the chair.
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If you want to drink tea or coffee, you can add milk and sugar to the cup yourself. After stirring with a small teaspoon, the teaspoon is still put back in the saucer. Usually, milk and sugar are put in different containers. When drinking, hold the cup handle in your right hand and the saucer in your left hand. When drinking coffee, you will add a liquid coffee partner to the coffee. If you don't want to waste it, you can pour a little coffee into the cup with your coffee partner and stir it again. Don't drink the coffee partner's leftovers by mistake.
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You can't smoke and drink. Scoop the soup from back to front with a spoon, put the bottom of the spoon on the position of the lower lip, and send the soup to the mouth. The angle between the spoon and the mouth is preferably 45 degrees. The upper body leans forward slightly. There is not much soup left in the bowl. You can raise the bowl a little with your fingers. If the soup is in a bowl with a grip, you can drink it directly with the grip.
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Apples and pears-at the banquet, take apples or pears in your hands and put them on the plate. You can peel it with a spiral. If it is difficult to make a sample, put the fruit on a plate, cut it in half first, then cut it into pieces and eat it with a fork or fruit knife. If the occasion is casual, you can eat it with your hands. Avocados-Avocados with shells need to be eaten with spoons. If you slice them on a plate or mix them in salad, you should eat them with a fork. Bananas-if you eat bananas at the table, you should peel them first, then cut them into pieces with a knife and eat them with a fork. On informal occasions, such as picnics, beaches, etc. You should peel off half a banana and eat it like a monkey. Figs-fresh tea fruits as appetizers should be eaten with knives and forks and spiced ham with skin. If there is a hard stick on it, cut it off with a knife (otherwise there is a chewing head). When eaten as dessert, cut the fig into four and a half, soak it in orange juice or cream, and eat it with a knife and fork. Grapefruit (orange, orange)-When eating grapefruit, cut it in half first, and then dig it out with a teaspoon or a pointed grapefruit spoon. On informal occasions, grapefruit juice can be carefully squeezed into teaspoons. There are two ways to peel oranges, both of which require sharp knives. Method 1: Spiral peeling. Method 2: First cut off the skin at both ends with a knife, and then cut off the skin vertically. After peeling, you can break off the orange meat. If the broken part is not big, you can eat it in one bite. If it is too big, cut it with a dessert knife and fork before eating. If the orange is cut, you can also dig it with a grapefruit spoon or teaspoon and eat it like a grapefruit. To eat oranges, peel them by hand first, and then eat them piece by piece. You may want to peel off and remove the white cover film, especially when the film is thick. Grapes-seedless grapes are not particular, just eat them one by one. If the grapes have seeds, Lin chews the grapes in his mouth, sucks the pulp, and then spits the seeds into his hand. If you want to peel the grape skin easily, you should lift its stem to your mouth and squeeze the gravy into your mouth with your middle finger and paper. Finally, put the remaining grape skins on the plate. Mango, papaya-the whole mango should be cut in half longitudinally with a sharp fruit knife first, and then cut in half. Put each piece on a plate with a fork, with the peel facing up, and peel off the mango. You can also eat it with a spoon like avocado. For example, cut the mango in half, dig out the core and keep the skin. Eating papaya is like eating avocado and small watermelon. First cut it in half, dig out the seeds, and then dig with a spoon. Peach and plum-cut the peach and plum in half, then cut it in half, and remove the core with a knife. The skin can be peeled off, but if the skin is cut into small pieces together, it is also good to eat it with a dessert knife and fork. Persimmon-there are two ways to eat persimmon: one is to cut it in half, and then dig out the persimmon meat with a spoon; Second, put the persimmon vertically on the plate, put your hand down, cut it into four pieces, and then cut it into small pieces with the help of a knife and fork. When eating, spit the persimmon core in a spoon and put it on one side of your plate. Don't eat persimmon skin, because it is too bitter and astringent. Pineapple (pulp)-very simple, always use a knife and fork when eating fresh pineapple slices. Strawberries-Big strawberries can be eaten whole (from your own plate) with their handles soaked in white sugar. Then put the strawberry handle on your plate. If strawberries are mixed in cream, of course, use a spoon. Watermelon-cut watermelon is usually eaten with a knife and fork. Watermelon seeds eaten in your mouth should be cleaned up in time, spit them out with tight concave hands and put them on your own plate. Berries and cherries-there are many ways to eat them, depending on the situation. Generally speaking, when eating berries, you should use a spoon with or without cream. To eat cherries, hold them in your hands, spit them gracefully in tight concave hands, and then put them on your own plate.
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When eating radish sauce, mint gum, raisin gum, mustard, applesauce and cranberry sauce, spoon them onto the plate first. Then fork the meat with oil to eat. Liquid sauces such as mint, cherry or apricot duck sauce should be poured directly on the meat. It is best to add less water to avoid affecting the overall taste of meat. Pectin, jam and candied fruit for eating egg rolls and biscuits should be scooped to one side of the butter plate with a spoon, and then evenly spread on bread or small egg rolls with a knife. If there is no spoon, wipe it on the edge of the plate before taking pectin with a knife. When eating curry dishes, you can put peanuts, coconuts, chutney and other seasonings on a plate and mix them with curry. Hot and sour sauce can also be eaten as a side dish without mixing. Salt and Pepper Taste the food first, then add the salt and pepper. It is impolite to put salt or pepper first. If there is a salt pot on the table, use the salt spoon inside, if not, use a clean knife tip to get it. Food dipped in salt should be placed on one side of your own butter plate or dinner plate. If you are provided with a special salt jar, you can hold it by hand. Salad Traditionally, salad should be eaten with a fork, but if the salad piece is too big, it should be cut to avoid falling off the fork. The steel knives used to eat salads and fruits are rusty and black. Now the use of stainless steel knives has changed this situation. Eating iceberg lettuce usually requires a knife and fork. When you eat it as a staple food, don't put it on a plate. Put it in your own butter dish, next to the main course. Usually a piece of bread or an egg roll is used to push the salad on the fork on the plate. Butter Use a knife to spread butter on bread, egg rolls, biscuits or toast. Only a small amount of butter can be spread on small pieces of bread. Don't butter vegetables. Because it is considered an insult to the chef.
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Asparagus If there is soup in the asparagus dish you want to eat, cut it into small pieces first, and then use a knife and fork. If the asparagus is large and needs to be dipped in juice, cut off the head first, and then separate the food to prevent the juice from dripping and dropping. You can also dip the stem in your hand and eat it. For small asparagus, you can dip it in your hands. Tomatoes can be eaten by hand except salad. Pick a smaller one and put it in your mouth. Don't chew with your mouth open, because the juice will overflow. Shut your mouth. If there is only one big tomato on the plate, peel it gently with your teeth, bite off half of it first, and then eat the other half slowly. Corn cob Fresh corn cob is often eaten in informal occasions. You can break it in half first for easy access. It is worth noting that don't sprinkle too much butter or seasoning on it at a time. Choose to eat horizontally or around, whichever will do. First, gather several rows or portions of butter and sprinkle with salt. Change the place after eating, so that your hands and face won't get too spicy. Potatoes, chips and chips are all eaten by hand. Except that there is juice in the potato chips, in this case, use a fork. Small potato chips can also be eaten. But it would be better to use a fork. If the potato chips are too big to use, fork them with a fork instead of biting them. Put the ketchup on the edge of the plate, hold it in your hand or dip it with a fork. Baked potatoes are often cut when you eat them. If you don't cut from the top with a knife, break the potatoes a little with your hand or fork, add cream or yogurt, cream and shallots, salt and pepper, and add a little at a time. You can eat with skin.
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If you don't know if you should eat with your hands, follow the master. Remember: when food is put on a shallow plate, put it on your own plate before eating. Here are some foods you can eat with your hands: corn with a core, ribs, clams and oysters with shells, lobsters, sandwiches, dry cakes, biscuits and some fruits. Crispy bacon, frog legs, chicken wings and ribs (informal occasions), potato chips or chips, radishes, olives and celery. Sandwiches should remember that small sandwiches and toast are eaten by hand, and the bigger ones should be cut before eating. A hot sandwich with gravy needs a knife and fork. Take bread for example, you can test whether a person is educated or not. But as long as you remember to cut the bread or egg roll in half or small pieces before buttering it, you can easily pass the test. Cookies don't need to be broken Use the butter knife on your plate, and oil it on the plate or on the top of the plate. Put the butter knife slightly to the right. Put your hands outside the edge of the plate to keep it clean. Hot toast and buns should be oiled immediately. You don't have to break the bread, you can spread butter on one side of the bread. Cut the Danish cake (sweet egg roll) in half or four and a half. Wipe it clean before eating. How to eat bacon is very simple. You should eat bacon with fat with a knife and fork. If the bacon is crisp, chop the meat with a fork first, and then eat it with your hands.
How to eat dessert
Ice cream is usually eaten with a small spoon. Use forks and spoons when eating cakes or pies or as part of a meal. Eating fruit pies usually requires a fork. But if the host provides you with a fork and dessert spoon, fix the pie with a fork and dig it with a spoon. You need to eat the pie with a fork unless there is ice cream on the pie, in which case, both the fork and the spoon should be used. If you eat cream pie, you'd better use a fork instead of your hands. To prevent the filler from leaking from the other end. Cook pears with a spoon and fork. Fix the pear vertically with a fork, and dig it into small pieces with a spoon. Forks can also be used to rotate the cooked pears, so that the digger can eat the pears. If there is only one spoon, turn the plate by hand, leave the pear core in the plate and scoop out the sugar juice with a spoon. Fruit sorbet can be eaten with a fork if it is meat, and with a spoon if it is dessert. Stewed fruit You need a spoon to eat stewed fruit, but you can use a fork to stabilize large pieces of fruit. Spit the nuts of cherries, prunes and preserved plums in a spoon and put them on the edge of the plate.
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Fish is tender and crisp, so restaurants often prepare special spoons instead of knives. This kind of spoon is slightly bigger and flatter than ordinary spoons. It can not only divide vegetables, but also scoop sauce. If you want to eat other mixed vegetables, you'd better use a fork. For fishbone, first stab a straight line near the gills with a knife. Don't pierce the tip of the knife, but pierce it halfway. After picking up the upper body of the fish, start from the beginning, put the knife under the bone and cut it in the direction of the fish tail. Take out the bone and move it to the corner of the plate. Finally, cut off the fish tail.
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Bird: Cut off the wings and legs first, and then eat the body parts with a knife and fork. You can eat your wings and legs with your hands, but you can't take away your body parts. Chicken: Eat half of the chicken first. Use a knife and fork to separate the chicken legs and wings from the joints. Then hold the chicken leg (chicken breast or chicken wings) with a fork and cut the meat into pieces of appropriate size with a knife. Only cut two or three pieces at a time. If the occasion is too formal to use a knife and fork, don't move. If it is informal, you can hold a small bone with your hand, but you can use one hand in the middle. Pork chop: Insert a fork or sharp knife into the center of beef, pork or lamb chop. If there is a paper sleeve on the ribs, you can cut the meat on the bones with your hands so as not to get greasy on your hands. In formal occasions or restaurants, even if you are wrapped in a paper sleeve, you can't chew bones with your hands. These extra things are basically used for decoration and don't mean to make you eat too much. In addition, in informal situations, only when there is no soup on the bone can you pick it up and chew it. First, cut off the head and tail of the fish with a knife and fork and put it on the edge of the plate. Then split the fish from beginning to end along the bone with the tip of a knife. At this time, you have three choices: 1, slide the fish bone out, 2, separate the fish horizontally and take out the fish bone, 3, remove the upper piece, and then remove the bone after eating. If you eat the small bones in your mouth and pinch them out with your thumb and forefinger, people who love fish will eat even their heads, and they will be lucky to eat the cheeks of the fish.
How to eat bread
It is a principle to tear your hands into small pieces and eat them with your left hand. When eating hard bread, tearing it by hand is not only laborious, but also the crumbs will fall all over the floor. At this time, you can cut it in half with a knife and then tear it into pieces by hand. In order to avoid destroying right and wrong like a saw, you should first pierce the knife into the central part, cut it near your body, and then turn the bread around and cut off the other half. You can fix the bread when you cut it to avoid making noise.
Posture and method of drinking
Alcohol service is generally that the waiter is responsible for pouring a small amount into the sprinkling cup, so that the guests can identify whether the quality is wrong, just as a form, take a sip and answer well. Then, the waiter will come and pour the wine. Don't start taking the cup at this time, but put it on the table for the waiter to pour. The correct posture is to hold the foot of the cup with your fingers. In order to prevent the temperature of the hand from increasing the temperature of the wine. Hold the foot of the cup with your thumb, middle finger and forefinger, and put the little finger on the bottom of the cup to fix it. When drinking, you should never inhale and drink at the same time, but tilt the glass, just like putting wine on your tongue. Shake the glass gently and let the wine come into contact with the air to enhance the mellow taste of the wine, but don't shake the glass violently. In addition, it's impolite to drink in one breath, look at people through a cup when drinking, drink with a cup, drink while eating, and print lipstick on the edge of the cup. Don't wipe the lipstick mark on the rim of the cup with your fingers. You'd better wipe it with a paper towel.
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Some hosts will give each attendee a small souvenir or a flower. At the end of the banquet, the host asked the guests to bring it over. In this case, you can say a word or two of praise to this small gift, but you don't have to express your gratitude seriously. Sometimes, foreign tourists often take away banquet menus as souvenirs, and sometimes ask guests to sign the menus as souvenirs. Don't take away all kinds of entertainment items, including candy, fruit, cigarettes, etc. Unless the owner specially indicates it as a souvenir.
Express gratitude/gratitude
Sometimes, after attending a private banquet, I often send a memo or business card to express my gratitude. Take food from a buffet dinner or cocktail party. When the waiter serves the food, don't rush to get it. Send it to me and get it again. When people around you don't get the first copy, don't rush to get the second copy. Don't stand around the food table, just stand back and let someone else take it.
Use of tableware
Chinese tableware is mainly bowls and chopsticks, while western food is knives, forks and plates. Foreigners are usually invited to eat Chinese food, which is mostly eaten in the west. Chopsticks and knives and forks are set. The use of a knife and fork is to hold a knife in your right hand and a fork in your left hand, cut the food into small pieces and then send it to your mouth with a fork. Europeans don't change hands when using, that is, they hold the fork in their left hand from cutting to feeding. After cutting, the Americans put down the knife and took the fork in their right hand to the food entrance. Take it from outside to inside in the order of knife and fork when eating. After eating each dish, put the knife and fork together on the plate to show that you have finished eating. If you haven't finished eating, put it in a figure of eight or a cross, and the knife edge should be inward. When eating chicken and lobster, the owner can tear it with his hand when he signals, otherwise he can cut the meat with a knife and fork and cut it into small pieces to eat. When cutting meat with bones or hard shells, the fork must firmly hold the meat, and the knife should be cut close to the fork edge to avoid slipping. When cutting vegetables, be careful not to hit the plate too hard and make a noise. Foods that are not easy to fork, or foods that are not easy to fork, can be gently pushed onto the fork with a knife. Eat without a spoon except for soup. Soup is served in a deep plate or a small bowl. When drinking, scoop it up from the inside out with a spoon and put it in your mouth. When you finish eating, you can lift the plate out slightly. Eat fishy food, such as fish, shrimp, game, etc. Add lemon. You can squeeze out the juice by hand and drop it on the food to remove the fishy smell. The basic principle is to hold a knife or spoon in your right hand and a fork in your left. If there are more than two, you should take them from the outermost one in turn. The way to hold a knife and fork is to gently hold the tail end and press the index finger on the handle. The spoon can be held with a pen. If you feel inconvenient, you can change your right hand to hold the fork, but it is impolite to change it frequently. When eating big vegetables, you can fold and cut them with a knife and fork. Soft food can be put on a fork and arranged with a knife.
Encounter an unexpected situation
In the banquet, if something unusual happens due to carelessness, for example, the knife and fork hit the plate too hard and make a noise, or the tableware fell to the ground, or the drink spilled, and so on. You should be calm and don't worry. When the tableware makes a noise, you can gently say "sorry" to your neighbor (or your host). If it is dropped, the waiter can send a set of tableware. Apologize if the wine spills on the neighbor and help dry it; If the other person is a woman, just hand me a clean napkin or handkerchief and dry it yourself.
This form of * * * meal has promoted the development of interpersonal relationships. Enjoy every dinner, and consolidate the collective life. After dinner, they went back to their respective homes, that is to say, the table and bed began to separate obviously. If anyone is not invited to a family gathering, a family gathering or a village gathering, it is like being expelled from school. Therefore, dinner is not only to understand hunger, but also to prove that you belong to this group, and more importantly, to promote communication between people in the group. No one can make a living just by eating. Everyone needs to get in touch with others, whether they are relatives, friends or business partners. Therefore, ancient festivals were not just about distributing food to hungry people to tide over the difficulties. On the contrary, wealth enables us to hold festivals and parties. Over time, * * * dining together also urges everyone to abide by certain rules. Etiquette has gradually formed into a norm and discipline that everyone must abide by, and the birth of table manners is not difficult to understand. If everyone wants to have the opportunity to share with others in the group, he must also find his own suitable position in this group, that is, he is entitled to enjoy it. In a group, there are phenomena of different ages and sexes. We can say that there is no other communication occasion that pays more attention to social status than the specific environment of the dining table. Everyone sitting at the table should properly show the behaviors and practices required by his position and status, so as to be accepted by the society and be called a "civilized" person.