Formal western food includes soup, appetizers, main courses, desserts and drinks. Western food can be roughly divided into French, English, Italian, Russian, American, Mediterranean and other different styles of dishes. The most formal western food is French western food.

Western food refers to the dishes of western countries, which is the cultural circle of the European white world relative to East Asia. The exact name of western food should be European cuisine or European catering. In Asian food culture, such as Hong Kong's tea restaurants, Japanese-style western restaurants and simple restaurants in Taiwan Province Province, they don't provide a complete set of food. So in a broad sense, western food will be a meal with a western main course, coffee can be replaced by ordinary drinks, and soup can also be replaced by Chinese soup in tea restaurants and fast food restaurants in Hong Kong, becoming a Hong Kong-style western food.