In fact, to go to a Western restaurant to eat with their own chopsticks, this situation is understandable ah, why foreigners to go to a Chinese restaurant, with a knife and fork, no one spray it.
I think in the Western restaurant then only use people's forks, the so-called into the local customs, but if you really want to use chopsticks, you can go to other restaurants to eat, in the Western restaurant, then, it is best to use the following forks, there is a different kind of experience, the use of chopsticks in the Western restaurant is a kind of incongruous behavior.
Chopsticks, anciently known as chopsticks, chopstick, usually made of bamboo, wood, bone, porcelain, ivory, metal, plastic and other materials. Chopsticks are one of the symbols of Chinese food culture and one of the most common tableware in the world. They were invented in China and later spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other Chinese cultural circles. Chopsticks also originated in China. Both the sharing of meals and the use of chopsticks have a long history in China.
Chinese people are accustomed to using chopsticks, while people in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia and the Indian subcontinent use their fingers to grasp them. The earliest chopsticks found in China were copper chopsticks unearthed at Yinxu in Anyang City, Henan Province. The Han Fei Zi (韩非子-喻老) states, "In the past, Zhou made chopsticks for elephants, and Kezi was horrified." King Zhou was a king at the end of the Shang Dynasty, so it is clear that ivory chopsticks already appeared in China more than 3,000 years ago.
China has been using cutlery for a long time, with a history of about 8,000 years for spoons, 4,000 years for forks, and an uncertain upper limit of 3,000 years for chopsticks, and forks were still used until the Warring States period, when 51 forks bundled into a bundle were unearthed from a Warring States burial site in Luoyang, Henan province.
After the Warring States period, the fork may have been phased out, with fewer records and objects appearing. Spoons and chopsticks had a clear division of labor during the pre-Qin period, with spoons used for eating and chopsticks used to eat the food in the soup.
Chopsticks were called "chopsticks" in the pre-Qin era, "chopsticks" in the Han Dynasty, and "chopsticks" in the Ming Dynasty. In the Book of Rituals, Chopsticks are used when there is a dish in the soup, and in the Book of Haste, chopsticks are used when there is a chopstick and when there is a dish in the soup, chopsticks are used when there is a dish in the soup and when there is a dish in the soup, chopsticks are used when there is a dish in the soup and when there is a dish in the soup. In the Yunxian Miscellany, it is written, "Xiangfan had a lacquered flower plate, chopsticks, and a fish-tailed spoon."
The Twenty-Second History of Confucianism, "The one who went to the hall took a pair of chopsticks, two small dishes, and a dish of preserved pork." Shen Congwen (沈从文), "从文自传-我讀一本小书同时又讀一本大书"", "边街又有小饭店门前有一个大竹筒插满用竹子削成的筷子."
Western food, as the name suggests, is the meal of Western countries. Western countries, is relative to East Asia, the white European world cultural circle, Western food should be accurately called European cuisine, or European-style dining. Its dishes cuisine is different from Chinese cuisine, generally using olive oil, butter, ketchup, salad dressing and other seasonings.
The different staple foods are the same with some vegetables, such as tomatoes, broccoli, etc.. The term Western food is defined by its specific geographical location. "Western" means western. It generally refers to European countries. "Meal" is the dietary dishes. What people in the East usually call Western food includes mainly the food dishes of Western European countries, of course, but also includes the countries of Eastern Europe.
Mediterranean coastal countries and some Latin American countries such as Mexico and other dishes. The dishes of Southeast Asian countries are generally referred to as Southeast Asian cuisine, but there are also unique for a cuisine, such as Indian cuisine. Western food is generally knife and fork as tableware to bread as the main food, more long tables and platforms for the table shape. The main characteristics of Western food is the main material is prominent, beautiful shape and color, taste delicious, nutritious, convenient supply and so on.
Regular Western food should include a meal soup, appetizers, main dishes, desserts and drinks. Western food can be roughly divided into French, English, Italian, Russian, American, Mediterranean and other different styles of cuisine.