Dining is the most common link in our daily life, and it is also the most common way of social activities, business exchanges, family or friends gathering. Therefore, mastering good table manners can not only reflect personal cultivation and temperament, but also increase your charm and demeanor.

Western food may be strange to some people, but eating western food is not as complicated as people think. As long as you master the table manners of western food, you will find that eating western food is also a kind of life interest.

Start with the napkin cloth.

"Table manners start with napkins." It is a common saying in western food etiquette, which means "table manners begin with napkin cloth"

Location of napkin cloth

Napkin cloth is usually folded and placed on the decorative plate in the middle of the seat, which is a common napkin arrangement at formal dinners. Besides, napkins will also be placed on the edge of the plate. Need to remind everyone that if the napkin cloth is not placed in the middle of the plate, it will be placed on your left, and the napkin cloth on the right belongs to the guest sitting on your right. Be careful not to take another napkin cloth by mistake. In addition, sometimes the napkin cloth is put in the cup, and your napkin cloth is in the cup on the right.

How to use napkin cloth

After taking a seat, don't open your napkin cloth in a hurry, because the first person to open the napkin cloth should be the hostess, and her action announces the official start of the dinner.

Many people think that when eating western food, napkin cloth should be hung on the chest to prevent food from staining clothes. In fact, this is not elegant. Napkin cloth hanging on the chest or neck is only suitable for children or people who are inconvenient to eat. The average person should spread the napkin cloth flat on his legs when eating, and the larger napkin cloth can be folded in half and spread on his legs.

Napkin cloth, also called mouth cloth, is used to wipe your mouth, not to wipe your face or wash dishes. If you need to wipe your sweat, you can use a paper towel. Some people are used to cleaning dishes before eating. In fact, this is very impolite behavior and must be avoided. Some ladies will wipe off the lipstick marks left on the tableware with napkin cloth, which is actually wrong. Although lipstick is unsightly on tableware, when it is necessary to wipe off lipstick marks, paper towels should be used.

During the meal, before drinking, you need to wipe the oil stains on your mouth with a napkin cloth. In addition to wiping your mouth when necessary, the napkin cloth must be placed flat on your legs during the whole meal at the table.

When you need to leave during a meal, you should put the napkin cloth on your chair. This means that you will come back to eat before the meal is over.

After eating, pick up your napkin cloth from the middle and put it on the table. The specific position is on the left side of your plate. Just put it away casually, don't fold it deliberately, but be careful not to wrinkle the napkin cloth.

Just like opening the napkin cloth, the action of putting the napkin cloth back on the table is done by the hostess first, which means that the dinner is over.