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Western food etiquette is highly respected, but as a Chinese, should know Chinese table manners, formal occasions, this knowledge can come in handy.

One, the seat

In general, the seat is "ShangZhouZhunDong", "face to the door as the honor". If it is a round table, is facing the door of the host guest, the host guest left and right hand side of the position, the distance from the host guest, the closer to the host guest position the more honored, the same distance is the left side of the right side of the honored. If the table is an eight-imperial table, if there is a seat facing the main door, the right side facing the main door will be the guest of honor. If not facing the door, the right seat on the side facing east is the chief.

If the feast, the arrangement of the table and the table between the chief of the front in the center, the left side of the order of 2, 4, 6 seats, the right side of the 3, 5, 7 seats, according to the identity of the host and the guest, the status of the affinity of sitting.

If you are the host, you should arrive early, and then wait by the door, and for the guests to lead the seat. If you are an invitee, then you should follow the host's arrangement to be seated.

Generally, if your boss is attending, you should usher your boss to the main seat and ask the highest ranking client to take the seat to the left of the main seat. Unless the person you are entertaining this time has a very high level of leadership.

Second, ordering

If time permits, you should wait until most of the guests have arrived, the menu will be available for guests to circulate, and invite them to order. Of course, as an official banquet, you will be worried about the budget, therefore, to control the budget, the most important thing you have to do more homework before the meal, choose the right grade of the invitation to the venue is more important, so that the guests can also greatly appreciate your budget. Moreover, generally speaking, if you come to pay the bill, the guests are not too good to order, will let you make the decision. If your boss is also in the banquet, do not respect him, or that he has a lot of experience in socializing, eating a lot of banquet, and let him / her to order, unless he / she took the initiative to request, otherwise, he will feel less than decent.

If you're the one who's going to the banquet, you should know that you shouldn't take too much initiative in ordering the food, but let the host do the ordering. If the other side of the generous request, you can point to a less expensive, and is not a taboo dish. Remember to ask the people at the table for their opinions, especially "Is there anything you don't eat?" or "What do you like better? or "What do you like better?" Make everyone feel taken care of. After ordering, you can ask, "I don't know if the food I ordered is to your liking," or "Would you like something else," and so on.

A. The three rules of ordering

A look at the composition of the staff. Generally speaking, one dish per person is a more general rule. If it is more men's meal will be appropriate to increase the amount.

Two look at the combination of dishes. Generally speaking, a table dish is best meat and vegetarian, cold and hot, try to be comprehensive. If more men on the table, you can point some meat, if more women, you can point a few light vegetables.

Three look at the importance of the feast. If it is an ordinary business banquet, the average dish is acceptable at about 50 yuan to 80 yuan. If the object of this banquet is more key people, then it is necessary to point on a few enough portion of the dish, such as lobster, swordfish, anchovies, and then to the specifications of a little more, is abalone, shark's fin powder and so on.

Another point to note is that when ordering food should not ask the waiter the price of dishes, or bargaining, which will make your company in front of the customer looks a little small, and the customer will also feel uncomfortable.

B. Chinese food ordering of three excellent four taboo

A standard Chinese meal, usually, the first cold dishes, followed by hot fried, followed by the main course, and then on the snacks and soups, if you feel a little tired of eating, you can point to some desserts after the meal, and finally on the fruit plate. Take into account the dishes of each program in your order.

Priority dishes

(1) Dishes with Chinese specialties. This one is even more important when you are entertaining foreign guests. Like fried spring rolls, boiled dumplings, steamed dumplings, lion's head, Gongbao chicken, etc., are not delicacies and delicious, but because of their distinctive Chinese characteristics, they are highly esteemed by many foreigners.

(2) dishes with local characteristics. For example, Xi'an's mutton steamed buns, Hunan's Mao's braised pork, Shanghai's braised lion's head, Beijing's shabu-shabu, I'm afraid that these specialties will be more appreciated than the same old raw seafood when entertaining foreign guests there.

(3) The restaurant's specialties. Many restaurants have their own specialties. Serving a specialty of the restaurant shows the host's care and respect for the person being invited.

C. Dietary taboos

(1) Religious dietary taboos should not be overlooked at all. For example, Muslims usually do not eat pork and do not drink alcohol. Domestic Buddhists eat less meat and fishy food, which refers not only to meat but also to pungent-smelling foods such as onions, garlic, leeks and mustard. Some Buddhists who believe in Goddess of Mercy are especially forbidden to eat beef in their diet, which should be especially noted when entertaining Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese compatriots.

(2) For health reasons, there are certain foods that are contraindicated. For example, heart disease, cerebrovascular, vascular sclerosis, hypertension and post-stroke people, not suitable for eating dog meat, hepatitis patients avoid eating lamb and turtle, gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer soup and other digestive disorders are also not suitable for eating turtle, high blood pressure, high cholesterol patients, to drink less chicken soup and so on.

(3) In different regions, people's dietary preferences are often different. For this, when arranging the menu to take into account. For example, people in Hunan Province generally prefer spicy food and less sweets. People in Britain and the United States usually do not eat pets, rare animals, animal offal, animal heads and claws. In addition, when entertaining foreign guests, as little as possible to order raw hard to gnaw dishes, foreigners in the meal will be less likely to bite the food in the mouth and then spit it out, which also needs to be taken into account.

(4) Some professions, for some reason, in the dining often have their own different special taboos. For example, the state civil servants are not allowed to eat in the performance of official duties, not allowed to eat and drink at official banquets, not allowed to exceed the national standard dining, not allowed to drink hard liquor. Another example is that drivers are not allowed to drink during their work. If you ignore this point, there is the possibility that the other party to make a mistake.

Three, eating food

Chinese people are generally very concerned about eating, but also very concerned about eating. With the workplace etiquette is more and more attention, the business dinner table to eat and eating appearance is also more pay attention to. The following is an example of Chinese food, teaching you how to be polite and courteous at the dinner table.

Chinese banquet into the beginning of the meal, the waiter sent the first wet towel is to wipe the hands, do not use it to wipe the face. On the lobster, chicken, fruit, will send a small water Meng, which floats twisted lemon slices or rose petals, it is not a drink, but to wash hands with. To wash your hands, take turns wetting your fingers with both hands, gently swishing them, and then drying them with a small towel.

When eating, pay attention to civilized manners. Don't try to persuade a foreign guest to eat again and again, but introduce him to the characteristics of Chinese food and let him decide whether to eat it or not. Some people like to persuade others to eat, and even for each other to eat. Foreign guests do not have this habit, if you repeatedly polite, it is possible that people will be offended: "said not to eat, you have to force me to do what?" By the same token, when attending a banquet held by a foreign guest, don't expect the host to repeatedly offer you food. If you wait for someone to give you food, you'll have to eat it.

After the guests are seated, do not eat immediately. Instead, they should wait for the host to greet them, and when they raise their cups to signal the beginning, the guests can start; the guests can't rush in front of the host. Clip to be civilized, should wait for the dishes to their own front, and then move chopsticks, do not rush in front of the neighbor, a clip should not be too much. To chew and swallow slowly, which is not only good for digestion, but also table manners. Never stuff large pieces into your mouth and wolf down your food, as this will give people the impression that you are greedy. Don't be picky about what you eat, don't just focus on your favorites, or rush to pile your favorite dishes on your plate. Don't touch your neighbor when you eat, don't push the food on your plate onto the table, and don't spill the soup. Don't make unnecessary noises, such as "gurgling" when drinking soup or "blaring" when eating vegetables, which is a sign of vulgarity. Don't eat while chatting with others. Don't spit out bones or fish splinters from your mouth on the table; cover your mouth with a napkin and use chopsticks to take them out and put them on a plate. Don't eat the dishes dropped on the table. Do not play with the chopsticks or use them to point them straight at others during a meal. Don't pick at your mouth with your hands. Cover your mouth with your hand or a napkin when picking your teeth with a toothpick. Don't let the dishes make any noise.

After the meal is over, you can use a napkin, napkin or a small towel sent by the waiter to wipe your mouth, but should not wipe your head, neck or chest; do not burp or belch uncontrollably after the meal in the host has not signaled the end of the guests can not leave the table first.

Four, drinking

As the saying goes, the wine is the more you drink the thicker, but there is also a lot of learning on the table to pay attention to, the following summarizes some of the table you have to pay attention to the small details.

Detail one: leaders drink with each other before their turn to toast. Toast must stand up, hands raise the glass.

Detail two: can be more than one person to honor a person, never a person to honor more than one person, unless you are the leader.

Detail three: their toast to others, if not clinking glasses, how much they drink depends on the situation, such as the other side of the amount of alcohol, the other side of the drinking attitude, never drink less than the other side, to know that their own toast to the people.

Detail four: their own toast to others, if you touch the glass, a sentence, I finished, you feel free, show generosity.

Detail 5: Remember to give more to the leadership or customers to add wine, do not blindly to the leadership on behalf of the wine, is to be on behalf of, but also in the leadership or customers do want to find someone on behalf of, but also pretend that they are because they want to drink and not to give the leadership on behalf of the wine and drink. For example, the leader of the A is not able to drink, you can stop the person who is ready to drink to the leader of the A by side.

Detail six: pick up the wine glass (beer glass), right-handed choke cup, left-handed bottom of the cup, remember their cup is always lower than others. If you are a leader, be smart and don't put it too low, or how to tell the following to behave?

Detail 7: If there is no special person present, clinking wine is best according to the clockwise order, do not favor one over the other.

Detail 8: clink glasses, toast, have to say, otherwise, why should I drink your wine?

Detail nine: the desktop does not talk about business, drink well, the business is almost, we have a clear mind, otherwise people will not be open to drink with you.

Detail 10: If, purely if, in the case of not enough wine, the bottle in the middle of the table, so that people add their own, do not be stupid not garbage to go one by one pouring wine, or the back of the people do not have wine how to do?

On the toast

1. The host honors the guest of honor.

2. Toast to the guest of honor.

3. The guest of honor returns the toast.

4. The guests honor each other.

Remember: the guest must not be noisy and disorderly toast, that is very rude, but also very disrespectful to the host.

Five, pouring tea

The tea mentioned here applies to both customers to visit the company, also applies to the business table.

First, the tea should be clean. Guests into the house, the first to sit, after the preparation of tea. Before brewing tea, be sure to wash the tea set clean, especially long unused tea set, inevitably stained with dust, dirt, more carefully with water to wash and brush again. In the tea, pouring tea before the best use of boiling water to scald the teapot, tea cups. In this way, both hygienic and courteous. If no matter how clean the tea set is not clean, haphazardly pouring tea to the guests, this is not a polite performance. People see the teapot, teacups on the stains on the stomach, how are still willing to drink your tea? Now the general company are disposable cups, before pouring tea to pay attention to the disposable cups set on the cup holder, so as to avoid hot water scalding, so that the guests can not end of the cup to drink tea.

Secondly, the tea should be appropriate. First of all, the tea, generally appropriate. Tea should not be too much, not too little. Too much tea, tea flavor is too strong; tea is too little, the tea did not have much flavor. If the guests take the initiative to introduce themselves to like to drink strong tea or light tea habits, then in accordance with the guest's appetite to tea. Pouring tea, both large and small cups, should not be poured too full, too full of easy overflow, the table, stools, floor wet. Careless, will also burn themselves or the hands and feet of the guests, so that the guests and hosts are very embarrassed. Of course, should not be poured too little. If the tea only cover the bottom of the cup to the guests, it will make people feel that it is in a show, not sincere.

Then again, the tea to the right way. According to the traditional habits of our people, as long as the two hands are not disabled, are using both hands to the guests of the tea. However, now some young people do not know the rules, with one hand to the guests of the tea. Both hands to serve tea should also pay attention to the tea cups with ears, usually with one hand to grasp the ear, the other hand to hold the bottom of the cup, the tea to the guests. There is no ear of the cup after pouring tea around the body hot, hands are not good to approach, some volunteers regardless of the facts, with five fingers pinch the rim of the cup to the guests in front of the send. Although this method of serving tea can prevent scalding accidents, but it is very unsightly and not hygienic enough. Please imagine, let the guest's mouth lick the host's finger marks, good?

Adding tea. If the cups of your bosses and clients need to be refilled, it is incumbent upon you to do so. You can signal the waiter to add tea, or ask the waiter to leave the teapot on the table, by yourself to add it is better, this is the best way to cover up when you do not know what to say. Of course, when you add tea, you should first add tea to your boss and customers, and then add it to yourself at the end.

Sixth, leave the table

General cocktail party and tea party time is very long, about there are in more than two hours. Maybe after a few rounds, recognize some people, you soon want to leave. At this point, you can't afford not to know some of the tricks of the trade.

Commonly, when a party is in full swing, someone wants to leave, causing the crowd to disperse in a flurry of results, so that the organizer is anxious to really jump feet. In order to avoid this kind of scenery, when you want to leave in the middle of the time, don't say goodbye to everyone in the circle of conversation, as long as quietly and around two or three people to say hello, and then leave can be.

Leaving the reception in the middle of the scene, be sure to explain to the host who invited you to come, apologize, not a smoke will be gone.

When you say hello to your host, you should leave right away, and don't drag him or her to the front door for a long chat. Because the other side of the day to do a lot of things, there are many guests waiting for him (her) to greet, you take up too much of the host's time, will cause him (her) in front of other guests rude.

Some people attend cocktail parties and tea parties, and when they are ready to leave in the middle of the day, they will ask everyone they know if they want to go one by one. As a result, the scene was originally lively and bustling, by her so encouraged, all of a sudden, early dispersal. This kind of trouble is the most difficult to be understood by the banquet host, a genteel person, can never make this clock mistake.

Seven, the basic etiquette of Chinese food

Chinese people are the help of etiquette, the people to food for heaven, dining can not be no rules! Although it is said to speak or not to speak are three meals a day, but know better than not know it!

1. Invite guests to early notice, 6:00 seating, 5:50 before calling guests to come, inappropriate.

2. The host family can not be late; guests should be late 5-10 minutes, which is very considerate of the guests Oh, pay attention to master, natural guests and hosts are happy.

3. If you sit at a round table, the main seat is opposite the door, or back * wall, counter; more sophisticated restaurants, will be distinguished by napkins, napkins, the highest position can not just sit Oh, unless you plan to treat you:

4. Master of the right hand side of the main guest, the left is the second most important guests; door facing the master of the natural errands to greet the guests sit.

5. guests can not be directly to the ordering staff to yell and point, should be good to sit and wait for the host to order; if the guests do have serious taboos or hobbies, should gently tell the host family, the host naturally want to do it for him to meet the guests small or large requirements.

6. The host family, do not point or less point need to use the hand to grab or hold to eat the dishes, such as crab, lobster legs, ribs and so on. A meal to come on three such dishes is no cure. What etiquette is left to speak of!

7. Do not force or oppose others to drink a small amount of alcohol, no alcohol is not a feast!

8. The wine is on the menu! Foreigners like to boast of their craft, the country can not make Xing boast of their own food, the host carefully observed cold dishes on all, each cup of wine, when immediately raised his glass, welcome to start and so on, turn the disk or signal the right-hand side of the host guest to move the first chopsticks. Don't hold back for too long, everyone is hungry and waiting for you to start eating! Don't forget to praise those who have eaten.

9. After each dish comes up, although the waiter and the host will still turn to the host, but do not be too formal, if it is in front of me, and no one to turn the disk, I will also be the first to pinch a small chopstick taste!

10. The host should always turn the plate to take care of most of the guests, while the guests should supplement the service; if the guests can eat the whole meal without touching the plate, both the host and the guests will be happy again.

11. If you don't have a waiter to share your food or a pair of chopsticks or spoons, you should watch your chopsticks first and never use them to pick and choose from your plate, or even to stir! Not everyone minds saliva on your chopsticks as much as your lover does! Usually pick the part closest to you.

12. It's a good idea to let the food on your chopsticks transit through your own plate before taking it into your mouth. It makes eating look less urgent.

13. When chewing food in the mouth, the big thing to remember is to close your lips tightly, so as not to speak, objects fall, juice spillage, as well as to avoid making the "Phi Ki Phi Ki" of the appetizing sound.

14. Whether during or before or after the meal, the back should be straight, and during the meal, basically hands above the table.

15. A host with too good an appetite, and a guest who is on a diet, is not suitable for such a meal.

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