Western food etiquette, western food has a lot of dining etiquette, so for friends who are not familiar with western food etiquette, it is still worth spending some time to learn. Let me show you the etiquette of western food. Let's study together.

Western food etiquette 1 When sitting, keep your body straight, don't put your elbows on the table, and don't put your feet on 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, the fork in the left hand and the knife in the 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 with a 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 in your mouth every time. Don't talk while chewing, and don't take the initiative to talk to people.

have a meal

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 and take it out by hand (chopsticks can be used to eat Chinese food), or spit it gently with a fork and put it on the 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.

Talk to each other

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.

take a drop

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 banquet, but remember to 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.

Take off your coat.

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.

tea

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.

fruit

When eating pears and apples, don't bite them whole. First cut them into four or six petals with a fruit knife, then peel and core them with a knife, and then eat them with your hands. When peeling, the knife edge goes inward and cuts inward from the outside. Peel the banana first and cut it into small pieces with a knife. Oranges are cut into pieces with a knife, and oranges, lychees and longan can be peeled and eaten. The rest, such as watermelon and pineapple, are generally peeled and cut into pieces, and can be cut into small pieces with a fork when eating.

Hydroponics

At the banquet, when chicken, lobster and fruit are served, sometimes a small water bowl (copper basin, porcelain bowl or crystal glass jar) is served, with rose petals or lemon slices floating on the water for washing hands (someone once mistakenly thought it was a drink and made a joke). When washing, wet your fingers with your hands in turn, rinse them gently, and then dry them with napkins or small towels.

Commemorative items

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 host indicated that you can tear it with your hands, otherwise you 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.

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. If the drink spills on the neighbor, apologize and help dry it; If the other person is a woman, just hand me a clean napkin or handkerchief and dry it yourself.

Share and enjoy * * *

Whether vegetarians like it or not, according to research, in ancient times, people lived together to enjoy the food brought by sharing meat with each other. When eating, if it is only plants-vegetables, fruits, etc. He can enjoy it by himself and won't worry about other creatures coming to rob him, so everyone won't get together. Only meat as a staple food will attract many people together. At this point, there is not much difference between human and animal worlds. And as long as there is meat to eat, people will not give in to each other, and everyone must compete with each other, so we should share and enjoy. Of course, this is inseparable from everyone hunting at that time and sharing the fruits of victory after returning. Therefore, eating meat is an important event for our human groups to sit together and share the fun of life.

After mankind mastered the use of fire, history turned a new page. Man and beast are completely separated. Everyone forms a circle face to face and enjoys eating and drinking together. In the long years, people have gradually mastered some skills, cooking techniques have been continuously improved, the means of enjoying food have been continuously increased, and the ways and means of eating have begun to be further understood and improved. This social interaction caused by eating has gradually turned into enjoying delicious food, which has become a common form of people's communication and one of the necessary contents of life. People don't just eat to eat. Gourmet parties have become a common way to get in touch, get together and make friends.

If you eat more than one main course, after the first course (usually seafood), the waiter will give you a glass of sherbet, made of fruit juice or champagne, which will not only refresh you, but also help to increase your appetite for the next course.

No matter how comfortable the stool is, sit up straight. Don't sit on the back of the chair. You can lean forward slightly when eating, and keep your arms close to your body to avoid bumping into the next door.

If you eat more than one main course, after the first course (usually seafood), the waiter will give you a glass of sherbet, made of fruit juice or champagne, which will not only refresh you, but also help stimulate your appetite for the next course.

Eating French food is the same as eating western food. When using a knife, remember to start with the outermost tableware, from outside to inside. Don't jump on delicious food. That's rude.

After eating every dish, it's very ugly to leave the knife lying around or misplacing it. The correct way is to put the knives side by side on the plate with the teeth facing up.

Cut large lettuce leaves into small pieces with dice. If it is difficult to cut, you can use both knives. Cut one piece at a time. Don't cut the whole salad into small pieces at once.

If the main salad is accompanied with salad dressing, it is difficult to mix the whole bowl of salad with salad dressing. Pour the salad dressing on a part of the salad first, and then add the sauce after eating this part. Until it is added to the lettuce leaves at the bottom of the bowl, so it is much easier to pour the juice.

If the salad is on a big plate, use the salad *. If you put it with the main course, you should eat it with the main course.

If salad is a separate dish between the main course and dessert, it is usually eaten with cheese and fried cornflakes. First take a piece or two of bread and put it in your salad plate, then take some cornflakes. Cheese and salad should be eaten with dice, and cornflakes should be eaten by hand.

Finally, after eating, wipe your hands and mouth, don't wipe hard with a napkin, pay attention to your manners, and gently wipe off the oil stains on your mouth or fingers with a corner of a napkin.