2. When using a knife and fork to eat, take the knife and fork from the outside to the inside, holding the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right hand; when cutting something, hold the fork in the left hand and cut it into small pieces with the right hand, and then use the fork to put it into your mouth. When using a knife, the blade should not be pointed outwards. When you put down your knife and fork during a meal, they should be placed in the shape of a figure of eight, respectively, on the side of the plate. The blade of the knife should be pointed towards you to indicate that you want to continue eating. After each dish, put your knife and fork together on your plate. If you are having a conversation, you can hold the knife and fork without putting them down. When you are not using a knife, you can hold the fork in your right hand, but if you need to make a gesture, you should put down the knife and fork, and never wave the knife and fork in the air, nor hold the knife or fork in one hand while wiping your mouth with a napkin in the other, nor hold a glass of wine in one hand while picking up the food with the fork in the other. Remember, at no time should one end of the knife or fork be placed on the plate and the other on the table.
3. Don't slurp when drinking soup, and shut up and chew when eating. Do not lick your lips or smack your lips to make noise. If the soup is too hot, wait until it cools a little before eating, do not blow with your mouth. When drinking soup, use a spoon to scoop from the inside out. When the soup in the soup dish is almost finished, use your left hand to slightly tip the outside of the soup dish and use the spoon to scoop up the soup. When you finish eating the soup, leave the spoon in the soup plate (bowl) with the handle pointing towards you.
4. When eating fish, meat and other spiny or bony dishes, don't spit directly out of the mouth, but use a napkin to cover your mouth and gently spit it out on a fork and put it on the plate. If a small amount of dishes remaining in the plate, do not use a fork to scrape the bottom of the plate, and do not use your fingers to help eat, should be a small piece of bread or fork to help eat. When eating noodles, use a fork to roll them up first and then bring them to your mouth.
5, the bread is generally broken into small pieces into the mouth, do not take the whole piece of bread to bite. When spreading butter and jam, break the bread into small pieces before spreading.
6, eat chicken, Europe and the United States to chicken breast meat is expensive. Eat chicken legs should first force the bone off, do not eat with your hands. Eat fish, do not turn the fish, to eat the upper layer of the fish bones with a knife and fork after picking off before eating the lower layer of meat, to cut a piece to eat a piece of the block can not be cut too large, or once the meat are cut into pieces.
7, drink coffee if you want to add milk or sugar, add a small spoon to stir evenly, put the small spoon on the coffee mat plate. Drinking should be the right hand cup handle, left hand end of the pad plate, directly with the mouth to drink, do not use a small spoon to scoop a spoon to drink. When eating fruit, do not take the fruit to bite the whole, you should first use a fruit knife to cut into four petals and then use a knife to remove the skin, nucleus, eat with a fork fork.
8, with a knife and fork to eat meat with bones to eat meat with bones, you can use your hands to eat. If you want to eat more elegant, or use a knife is better. Use a fork to fix the whole piece of meat (you can face the fork upward and press the meat with the back of the fork), and then use a knife to insert people along the bone and cut the meat. It is best to eat as you cut. When it must be eaten with the hands, hand-washing water is attached. When hand-washing water is served with the meat on the bone, it means "please eat with your hands". When you eat with your fingers, wash them in a bowl of hand sanitizer. If you get your fingers dirty while eating a regular dish, ask the waiter to bring you hand-washing water, but be careful to wash your hands gently.
9, eat bread can be dipped in sauce to eat even sauce are not left, is polite to the chef. Be careful not to "lick" the bread plate very clean, but to use a fork to fork the bread has been torn into small slices, and then dipped in a little sauce to eat, is the elegant way.
Guests generally take the appropriate amount of food from their own plates and then pass the plates to their neighbors. It is the man's responsibility to serve the woman next to him with food and wine. If you feel that you have had almost enough wine, then don't try to be brave and leave the glass in a full state so that others won't pour you any more wine. Remember to wipe your lips before drinking to keep your glass clear and clean throughout the meal. When you need to wipe your mouth with a napkin, it's best to do so by holding the napkin in both hands. If your host invites you to add more dishes, politely decline once to avoid the reputation of being a hungry man, and wait until your host invites you again before taking the plate. If a dish is not to your liking at all, it is better to eat it reluctantly, so as not to embarrass your host. Is it always necessary to intentionally leave some food on one's plate to show that I am not a hungry wolf or that I have had enough to eat? Answer: Not necessarily. Sweeping your plate clean will make your host happy, especially if it's a compliment to the hostess who carefully chose and prepared the dish.
Dining etiquette has a lot of, generally speaking what "not suitable" or "prohibited" to do, such as:
- Do not talk with a mouth full of food
- Eat with your mouth closed, do not make annoying sounds < /p>
- Soup is a good idea, but it's not the best way to eat, it is the best way to eat.
- Don't blow on soup when it's hot (to make it cooler)
- Don't use a knife to cut up salad greens, omelettes or noodles
- Don't use a knife or a fork to "mash" potatoes (or yams) by yourself
- Use a small piece of bread to push a piece of meat or vegetable gently onto a fork. Don't use a knife to do this.
- If you get a fishbone in your mouth, don't pull it out with your fingers, but put it gently from the corner of your mouth onto your fork and put it on your plate.
- Generally speaking, it's rude to dip a piece of bread into the sauce on your plate. (Though the temptation is great!)
- Don't eat cheese or cheese as if you were spreading jam for breakfast, but in pieces
- Don't use your own knife to cut the bread, tear it into small pieces and don't bite into it as if you were eating a big head of bread
- At the end of the meal, put your knife and fork on your plate with the tines pointing downwards, not crossed over
- It's not nice to use a toothpick on a table, so remember that. It's not a good idea to use toothpicks at the table, so be sure to remember this taboo.
- When the hostess indicates that the guest of honor is ready to leave his or her seat, the napkin does not need to be folded, so just get up and place it next to his or her plate.
- After the hostess has signaled, the guest of honor may leave his seat.