1, when eating with a knife and fork, take the knife and fork from the outside to the inside, hold the fork in your left hand and hold the knife in your right hand;
2. When cutting something, hold the fork in your left hand to hold the food, and hold the knife in your right hand to cut it into small pieces, and then send it to your mouth with a fork. When using a knife, the blade should not be outward. When you put down your knife and fork during a meal, you should put them in a figure of eight and put them on the edge of the plate respectively. The blade is facing itself, indicating that you will continue to eat. After each dish, put the knife and fork together on the plate.
3. If you are talking, you can hold a knife and fork without putting it down. When you don't use a knife, you can also hold a fork in your right hand, but if you need to gesture, you should put down your knife and fork, never wave and shake it in the air with your hand, and never wipe your mouth with a napkin in one hand, nor take a glass in one hand and a fork in the other. Never put one end of the knife and fork on the plate and the other end on the table at any time.
4. You should not eat too much food in your mouth every time. Don't talk while chewing, and don't take the initiative to talk to people.
Matters needing attention in eating western food:
1, when sitting, keep your body straight, don't put your elbows on the table, don't tilt your feet, and the distance from the table is better to facilitate the use of tableware. Don't fiddle with the tableware set on the dining table. Fold the napkin in half and gently put it on your lap.
2. When eating meat, close your lips and don't make any noise. Eat a piece of steak and cut it. Hold a knife in your right hand and a fork in your left. The steak should be cut from the outside to the inside. If you don't cut it once, cut it again. You can't cut it by sawing or pulling it. Cut the meat in a moderate size, and don't put large pieces into your mouth.
3, bread should be torn into small pieces to eat, eat a tear, can not bite, if you want to spread butter, not the whole piece first, then tear it off to eat, it is appropriate to tear off the small piece first, then spread it on the small piece and send it to the mouth. When tearing bread, crumbs should be served on plates, and the table should not be dirty.
Bread should never be cut with a knife.
4. Juicy fruits such as watermelon and grapefruit should be eaten with spoons. Granular fruits, such as grapes, can be eaten by hand. Grapes are swallowed with seeds. If you want to spit seeds, you should spit them in the palm of your hand and put them on a plate. Fruits with less juice, such as apples and persimmons, can be cut into four pieces, then peeled and eaten with a knife and fork. Peaches and melons, peeled and sliced, are eaten with forks.
5, when drinking soup, you can't make a slurping sound, and you can't pick up the soup plate to drink. You must use a spoon to drink soup.