Dining instructions
You don't have to pay taxes to buy food in Canada, but you have to pay provincial sales tax and 15% goods and services tax to eat in various restaurants. Canadians usually ask waiters to pack up the food they can't finish at the table and take it away. No one laughs at you for being shabby, and customers don't have to worry about it themselves. Canadians usually only drink beer or wine when they have lunch in restaurants. Many people prefer ice water or tea to wine, while few people drink hard liquor.
ice wine
As for the vqa ice wine standard, it is almost the strictest wine standard in the world: when brewing grapes naturally frozen on vines, the temperature of picking and pressing must not exceed -8℃, the picking time must be before 10 am, the brix of grape juice must be above 35 degrees, and the residual sugar must reach 125 g/L, and the brix of squeezed juice measured by fermentor must not exceed. Because grapes are frozen into solid at low temperature, the difficulty of manual picking and pressing is greatly increased, and the output of concentrated grape juice is only one-fifth of the normal output. Moreover, because things are rare, the average bottled quantity of ice wine is 375cc, which is much less than that of red wine, but the price is much higher than that of ordinary red wine. The average price of a 375 ml bottle of iced wine in Ontario is $45. It's even more expensive to meet top ice wine. It is said that the Royal De Maria Winery in Ontario also produces the world's most expensive ice wine-the first batch of Merit Age ice wine, and the price of each half bottle is about 50 Canadian dollars. There are as many as 65,438+02 grape varieties for brewing this ice wine, while most common Ontario ice wines are brewed by Riesling and Vidal, and most of them use Qiong Yao pulp or Cabernet Franc.
Ice wine should be frozen for several hours before drinking. The ideal drinking temperature is 14℃, which is the best match with chocolate, dessert or dried fruit. Most of the cups used are small cups, because the sweet smell of ice wine is quite rich and full, unlike red wine, which needs to store the fragrance in the cup, so the champagne cup with narrow mouth and high feet is very easy to use. Fill the glass to three quarters, and you can enjoy the sweet smell of iced wine. When drinking a variety of wines, the ice wine with the highest sweetness is more suitable for the last drink.
snack
There are many kinds of fast food, the most common ones are hot dogs, Italian pies, French fries, hamburgers, KFC fried chicken, Chinese lunch boxes and so on. Generally, you can eat enough for 5 to 6 Canadian dollars. Fast food chains such as KFC fried chicken and McDonald's Hamburg can be seen everywhere in shopping centers and business districts, while some fast food trucks are scattered in various entertainment places and street parks. There are clean seats and toilets in fast food restaurants. If you want to take food away, the waiter will put the food you bought into a paper bag with napkins and plastic knives and forks for you; If you eat in a store, the waiter will send the food, drinks, tableware and napkins you bought to your table with a plastic tray. After eating, throw the used tableware, cups and plates into the trash can in the store, and put the tray in the designated place. When you eat in a fast food restaurant, you don't have to tip. Chinese box lunch, Italian pie and take-away service are also provided. You just need to look up the number in the yellow pages of the phone book and send it by phone, but you have to pay the service fee of 15% according to the distance.
Chinese and western restaurant
There are many Chinese restaurants with different flavors in large and medium-sized cities in Canada, most of which are Cantonese dishes, mainly run by Chinese in Hong Kong, Guangdong and Vietnam. In recent years, many China people from other provinces and Taiwan Province Province have run restaurants with Sichuan, Chaozhou and Shandong flavors. Some China restaurants with new equipment, beautiful decoration and convenient parking began to develop rapidly outside the street. Dinner for guests and friends in China restaurant, excluding drinks, is about 20 Canadian dollars per person. If it is a light meal, the average person 10 is more than Canadian dollars. Generally speaking, the food in Chinese restaurants is delicious, but the service is rough, which can be described as "seven dishes and three services", while that in western restaurants is: three dishes and seven services. "A complete western food usually has only three dishes: appetizer (soup, cold salad and garlic bread), main course (meat, fish or eggs as the main course, with vegetables and potatoes) and dessert (snacks, ice cream or fruit), but the service is thoughtful, at least not enough. A complete western meal is about 20 ~ 25 Canadian dollars except drinks. Some Chinese and western restaurants have buffets, and all kinds of food are placed on the table for customers to help themselves until they are full. There is a China chain restaurant in Toronto, which serves prawns, crabs, barbecues, all kinds of stir-fry dishes, ice cream and fruits. It is 65,438+07.5 Canadian dollars per guest on weekends and 65,438+04.5 Canadian dollars on working days. Some western restaurants in big hotels also have buffets.