1. How to eat bread The first thing served is bread and butter, usually buns and breadsticks. Please help yourself to the bread and butter. Then break the bread into small pieces, spread one piece, and eat one piece. Never eat bread with a fork.

2. How to drink soup

Drinking soup should be the simplest thing, but things can go wrong in Western food. In some countries, like Japan and China, it is acceptable to make slurping sounds when drinking soup; but not in Western countries, where the rule is not to make any noise when drinking soup.

It’s a bit strange to use a spoon to scoop soup from the inside out, but that’s the rule. If the soup is too hot, you can blow it on the spoon and drink it when it cools down. But never pick up the soup plate and drink directly with your mouth. If the soup is almost bottomed out and you want to drink it all, you have to tilt the soup plate toward the center of the table and use a spoon to scoop it out from the inside. When you've finished your soup, place your spoon in the middle or next to the soup plate to indicate to the waiter that you're finished.

3. How to eat fish, shellfish, and snail food

a fish

Foreigners usually eat fish with the bones removed, which is very easy. There is nothing wrong with eating it. For the whole fish, first cut off the head, use a fish knife to cut thin slices along the center of the back, put the cut slices on the plate on the side, and use a fish knife and a harpoon to carefully cut the fish into pieces. Remove fish backbone. If you like, you can also pull off the fish skin, then use a fish knife and a harpoon to pick up the small pieces of fish meat, and enjoy the delicious food slowly. Don't worry about the big fish bones, they've usually been removed beforehand, but be careful about the small ones, as they may not be completely removed.

Whether the fish is whole or made into fish pieces, it must be eaten with a fish knife and fork. If you want to add some lemon, you have to squeeze the lemon onto the fish, being careful to cover it with your hands so as not to splash the lemon juice on others. If you have small fish bones in your mouth, you should take them out with your hands and put them on the plate. Do not spit them directly into the plate. This is very impolite.

bOysters and clams

Pinch the shell with your left hand, and use an oyster fork (usually placed in the container on your right) with your right hand to take out the oyster meat (RawOyster) and dip it in seasonings Eat oysters with a fork. The mixture of shrimps and crabs can also be dipped in seasonings alone and eaten with an oyster fork.

Steamed clams are a delicate dish. Can be eaten with hands. Bowls of soup and butter were brought out along with the clams. The steamed clams should be cracked when they come out, and you can break them open with your hands if necessary. After breaking it open, hold the shell with your left hand (you should do it on a vessel because the juice will flow out), grab the neck with your right hand and pull it up, then remove the shell, and rinse the clam meat in the soup several times. Shake off the sand and eat with butter. After eating, you can drink clam soup, but don't drink the bottom of the soup because of the sand. There is no elegant way to eat steamed clams. Don’t worry, this dish won’t be served at formal banquets.

c Lobster and Crab

According to the saying "leave the good stuff for last", first pull off the lobster and hard shell crab claws aside and suck out the meat from the open end ( Of course, no sound can be made), then eat the body parts, taking them out while cutting them with a knife, and eat them with a fork dipped in the seasoning. A “finger bowl” with lemon slices is a must. When eating at home, you can go directly to the bathroom to wash up.

Soft shell crab can also be eaten with a knife or fork.

d Fried shrimp

Grab the tail of the shrimp with the shell left on, dip the shrimp body in the condiments and eat it. After eating, put the shrimp shell on the side of the plate.

Snails

Served in a hot metal dish, usually with a special tong. Use a clamp with your left hand to hold down the shell, and use your right hand to take out the snail meat with a snail scooper or an oyster fork.

f Shell Lobster

Maybe you will never eat this shell lobster at a formal banquet. But if you encounter it, you have to use your hands to handle the large lobster, which will inevitably make a mess. The correct way to eat lobster is that adults also need to wear a bib. If the restaurant provides such a bib, don't be embarrassed and just wear it. The following 5 steps will help you enjoy delicious food.

1) Twist off the tongs, crush it with a walnut clip, and use an oyster fork to pick out the meat and eat it.

2) Pull down the tail. If the tail is broken, use a fork to pick out the meat. If the tail is not broken, break it with your hands and then fork the meat.

3) Twist off the shrimp legs and slurp out the meat gracefully.

4) The meat on the lobster can be eaten in small pieces with a fork.

5) Use a fork to eat the shrimp yellow (actually green) and shrimp.

4 How to eat meat

Westerners generally eat large pieces of meat, whether it is lamb chops, steaks, or pork chops. You have to cut it open when you eat it, which can be troublesome again. Use a knife and fork to cut the meat into small pieces, just the size of a bite. Eat one piece, cut one piece, don't cut it all at once. Also never use a fork to hold the entire piece of meat to your mouth, bite, chew, or swallow.

5. How to eat salad

If there is a vegetable salad as a side dish on your main dish, which is usually cooked, then eat it with your main dish fork; if the salad Put it on a separate plate and you can eat it with the special salad fork on the table. If not available, use a serving fork.

A cheesy salad serves as a break between the main course and dessert. The salad plate is already prepared and you can use a salad fork and a lunch knife. In a cheese plate, there might also be one or two cheeses or two or three cheeses.

There are several dishes that need attention:

For example, for peas, you can hold the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right hand, and use the knife to push the peas onto the fork; if it is eaten the American way, just Peas can be scooped up with a fork and eaten.

Use a knife and fork to eat bamboo shoots. Cut the bamboo shoots into small pieces and eat them. If the bamboo shoots are very hard and there is no juice on them, you can pick up the whole bamboo shoots with your hands and eat them, leaving the hard part on the plate