About American table manners

I. Sit down

After entering the western restaurant, the waiter will show you to your seat. Don't take a seat rashly. A man or waiter can help a woman pull out a chair and help her sit down, usually from the left side of the chair. Seats are arranged on the upper floor farthest from the exit.

2. Placement of tableware

1. The one placed in the middle is called a decorative board or a display board, and the napkin is placed on the top or left side of the decorative board.

Put the knife and spoon on the right side of the plate and the fork on the left. Can be used from outside to inside according to the meal order, appetizers, soups, dishes, fish dishes and meat dishes.

3. The glass is placed in the upper right corner, the largest is a goblet for water, the second is for red wine, and the slender glass is for white wine. The glass for champagne or sherry will be placed according to the situation.

4. The bread plate and cream knife are placed on the left hand side, and the small spoon and knife and fork for drinking coffee or eating snacks are placed opposite the decorative plate.

Napkin napkin;

Harpoon-Harpoon;

Dinner or main course fork;

Salad fork-salad fork

Soup cup and soup base-soup bowl and soup plate;

Main course-plate;

Main kitchen knife-knife;

Fish knife-fish knife;

Spoon-spoon;

-Bread and cream plate.-Bread and cream plate. Butter plate;

Butterknife

Snack spoon and fork-dessert spoon and cake fork;

Cup-sterling silver water goblet;

Red wine glass-red wine glass;

White wine glass.-white wine glass.

3. How to use a knife and fork

1. When eating western food, you usually have a knife in your right hand and a fork in your left. If it is inconvenient to hold a fork with your left hand, you can also use your right hand.

2. When eating, when leaving the table to eat, put the knife and fork in a figure of eight and hang it on the plate. Put it on the upper side of the plate in parallel after dinner.

4. Etiquette of drinking soup

1. Soups in western food are divided into clear soup and thick soup. More formal restaurants use oval spoons and soup cups when serving clear soup, and round spoons and wide-mouth soup plates when serving thick soup.

2. The posture of holding a spoon is to scoop food from the inside out.

Western food can't make a sound when drinking soup. When using soup, don't blow it cold with your mouth. You can shake the soup gently to make it a little cooler.

4. After eating, put the spoon on the chassis in front of you, or put it on a plate. Put the handle of the spoon on the right, with the concave part of the spoon facing up; This is true for soup cups and soup plates.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) etiquette of eating bread

1. The bread is on the left of the main course. When eating, you can hold the bread in your left hand, then tear the bread into small pieces in your right hand, then hold the bun in your left hand and put cream on your right hand. Tear the bread into small pieces first, and then coat it with milk.

In Italian restaurants, olive oil is sometimes used instead of cream. You can tear a small piece of bread with spices and spices by hand. Never cut bread with a knife.

Eating salad

1. The salad plate is on the left side of the main course.

Americans usually serve salad before the main course, while Europeans, such as the French, usually serve salad after the main course.

3. Eat salad with a fork. If the leaves are too big, you can cut them in the salad plate with a knife and eat them with a fork.

7. Eat fish, shrimp and seafood

1. When eating half a lobster, you should hold a fork in your left hand, fork up the tail of the shrimp, insert a knife into the tail with your right hand, press down the shell of the shrimp, drag the shrimp out with a fork and cut it. Lobster feet can be eaten by tearing off shrimp shells with your fingers.

2. The principle of eating fish fillets is to eat one slice and cut one slice. You can eat with a fork in your right hand or a fish knife.

3. When eating whole fish with head, tail and bones, it is advisable to cut off the head and tail first, then remove the fins, and put the cut head and tail fins on one side of the plate before eating fish.

4. To take out the fishbone, use a knife and fork instead of hands. If there are fishbones or other bone spurs in your mouth, you can take them out of your closed lips by hand and put them on a plate.

5. Don't turn over after eating the upper fish. Remove the keel with a knife and fork before eating the lower fish.

6. The attached lemon slices should be squeezed with a knife and fork. When eating shrimps and crabs, everyone will bring a bowl of hand washing water when they are ready.

Eight. Eat meat

1. Know how well the steak is cooked. Beef can be ordered according to your own taste, but pork and chicken are cooked.

It is rare for anyone to be bloody;

Half-life is moderately rare;

Medium is medium;

Well done is well done.

The steak should be cut from the outside to the inside. If you don't cut it once, cut it again. Don't cut like a saw, don't pull, don't make a noise, the meat is the right size.

When chewing meat, close your lips and don't make any noise. Don't talk or draw with a knife and fork when chewing meat.

4. When eating meat, cut a piece and eat a piece. Don't cut all the meat into small pieces at once, which will lead to the loss of gravy and the temperature drop.

5. Roasted chicken or fried chicken, eaten with a knife and fork on formal occasions.

9. Eat fruits and desserts

1. Cakes, pies and cakes are eaten with forks. After cutting the hard ones with a knife, eat them with a fork.

2. Ice cream, pudding, etc. Eat with a spoon. Hard biscuits are very small, so you can eat them with your hands.

3. Grapes and other granular fruits can be eaten by hand. If you need to spit seeds, spit them in your hand and put them on a plate.

Juicy fruits such as watermelon and grapefruit should be eaten with a spoon.

When eating fruit in western food, we often put a finger bowl with water for washing our hands. Only used to wash fingers. Don't put your whole hand in.

10. Etiquette for drinking coffee and tea

Tannic acid in coffee and tea can help digestion. When drinking coffee, hold it up with your index finger and thumb. You don't need to hold a coffee tray. Don't spoon coffee, see if it is sweet enough.

American table manners education

First, growing up, Americans seldom eat by themselves. They think that eating is a personal matter, and adults generally don't participate. Moreover, there is no family planning in the United States, and it is normal for a family to have several children. If you feed one by one, it will be too hard. They won't do such thankless things. Therefore, children eat by themselves from an early age and learn to use dining tools by themselves. In the process of growing up, they are also used to paying attention when eating.

Second, pay attention to the atmosphere of family dinner. I don't rule out that some Americans eat while watching TV when they are alone, but for a family, most Americans like to sit together and eat just right. Adults and children together. In particular, many disciples will wait for everyone to arrive before eating, and then sit down and pray together before eating. This invisibly increases the atmosphere of eating and subtly affects a child's eating habits.

Third, be grateful for food. America is a big Catholic country, and most Americans believe in God. I mentioned earlier that they have the habit of praying before meals. The content of prayer is basically to thank the Lord for giving us food and so on. When children are watching and listening, they will be influenced by this behavior, and they will feel that they need to be grateful for getting food, so they should cherish it. Since we should cherish it, we will naturally eat well.

Fourth, American families rarely let their children choose their own food. They will not get angry because their children are picky eaters, nor will they force their children to eat. Therefore, when they eat, they will not see the educational contradiction caused by the problem of children's eating. If they don't eat, they won't eat, and they won't say anything. The American dining habit is to put some food on the table. Everyone chooses what they like to eat in a bowl, and so do children. If there is nothing you don't like in the bowl, it will be easier to eat and the rules will be easier to teach. Just say a word and the child will do it.

Fifth, Americans are good at encouraging children, and even if they do a small thing well, they will exaggerate the words of encouragement. For example, put away the dishes and chopsticks, help put the dishes and chopsticks, eat clean and not waste, and so on. Will gradually be praised by parents, can stimulate children's behavior.