western food is quite different from Chinese food in menu arrangement. Taking banquets as an example, Chinese banquets are rich in 6-8 kinds of hot dishes besides nearly 1 1 kinds of cold dishes, plus snacks, sweets and fruits. Although there are six or seven courses of western food, it seems very complicated, but there is generally only one course. Let's briefly introduce the order of serving it, hoping to help you when you first order in a western restaurant.

1. First course

The first course of western food is the first course, also known as appetizer. The contents of appetizers are generally divided into cold starter or hot starter, and the common varieties are caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, chicken tail cup, creamy chicken crisp box, local snail and so on. Because appetizers are appetizers, appetizers generally have a special flavor, and the taste is mainly salty and sour, and the quantity is small and the quality is high.

2. Soup

Very different from Chinese food, the second course of western food is soup. Western-style soups can be roughly divided into clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup. There are oxtail clear soup, all kinds of cream soup, seafood soup, American clam soup, Italian vegetable soup, Russian Luo Songtang soup and French onion soup.

There are few varieties of cold soup, such as German cold soup and Russian cold soup.

3. Side dishes

Fish dishes are generally regarded as the third course of western food, also known as side dishes. Species include all kinds of freshwater and marine fish, shellfish and molluscs. Usually aquatic dishes, eggs, bread and crispy box dishes are called side dishes.

Because the meat of fish and other dishes is tender and easy to digest, it is also different from the main course of meat dishes when it is placed in front of meat dishes. Western-style fish dishes pay attention to the use of special sauces, including tartar sauce, Dutch sauce, hotel sauce, white cream sauce, archbishop sauce, American sauce and sailor fish sauce.

4. Main course

Meat and poultry dishes are the fourth course of western food, also known as the main course.

The raw materials of meat dishes are from beef, sheep, pigs, cowboys and other parts, among which beef or steak is the most representative. Steak can be divided into sirloin steak (also called sirloin steak), filet steak, "T" bone steak, thin steak and so on. Its cooking methods are often roasted, fried, grilled and so on. The sauces used in meat dishes mainly include Spanish sauce, concentrated boiled sauce, mushroom sauce, Bainis sauce and so on.

The raw materials of food dishes are taken from chicken, duck and goose, and game such as rabbit meat and venison are usually classified as poultry dishes. The most variety of poultry dishes is chicken, including pheasant, turkey, bamboo chicken, boiled, fried, roasted and braised, and the main sauces are yellow gravy, curry juice and cream juice.

5. Vegetable dishes

Vegetable dishes can be arranged after meat dishes or served at the same time with meat dishes, so they can be regarded as a dish or called a side dish.

vegetable dishes are called salads in western food. Salad served with the main course is called raw vegetable salad, which is usually made of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and asparagus. The main sauces of salad are vinegar oil juice, French juice, dried island juice, cheese salad juice and so on.

In addition to vegetables, salads are also made of fish, meat and eggs. Generally, salads of this kind do not contain flavor juice, so they can be eaten as the first course in the meal order.

Some vegetables are cooked, such as cauliflower, boiled spinach and potato chips. Cooked vegetables are usually served on the plate together with the meat dishes of the main course, which is called side dishes.

6. Dessert

The dessert of western food is eaten after the main course, which can be regarded as the sixth course.

in a real sense, it includes all the food after the main course, such as pudding, pancakes, ice cream, cheese, fruit and so on.

7. Coffee and tea

The last course of western food is to serve drinks, coffee or tea. Coffee is usually served with sugar and whipped cream. Tea usually contains fragrant peach slices and sugar.