When drinking wine, you should not hold the glass in your hand-
Table manners are actually very simple. This is because they are all rules made in the simplest and most pleasant way.
Take drinking wine in western food as an example. Generally, when drinking wine, you should drink it with the thin foot part of the goblet. Mainly to prevent the heat of the hand from being transmitted to the wine and to heat the cold wine.
When eating, you must behave gracefully-
When eating in an elegant restaurant, you need to behave gracefully. When you sit down, you should sit down from the left, or you will collide with the person next to you.
Women don't pull their own chairs, but pull their own chairs to make women sit down. This is a man's business. If there are no men among your companions, you should wait for the waiter to pull them away for you.
And should sit down after the position is straightened. It is impolite to move the chair repeatedly and constantly adjust the position after sitting down. Besides, it is against etiquette to cross your legs when you sit down or lean your knees on the table. Please pay more attention.
Different foods, different drinks—
When eating French food, wine is essential. From before to after a meal, tasting wine while eating according to different situations is the way to taste French food.
Sherry, cocktails and other pre-dinner drinks are prepared to stimulate appetite, so don't drink too much. Generally speaking, red meat with red wine, white meat with white wine.
There are many kinds of wine, and we often don't know which one to choose. At this point, people in the restaurant can decide. There must be an expert in wine selection here, so he will choose the wine that goes with your food.
Liquor should be chilled before drinking, so take the thin feet of the goblet and drink it as soon as possible while it is hot; Red wine can be drunk at room temperature, so don't worry too much. Moreover, before drinking red wine, be sure to sip your lips with a napkin. If you don't wipe your mouth after eating, just put your mouth next to the glass, the oil will float on the surface of the glass and look dirty.
Tableware should be used from the outside to the inside-
Most people will feel nervous when they see so many knives, forks and glasses before they start eating, but there is no need to panic. Basically, they will start using it from the outside, and there will be no problem.
However, because there are many tableware on a small table, sometimes people make mistakes and take their neighbors' by mistake.
Usually your own glass is on the right. Without knowing this, it is not uncommon to raise the glass of the person sitting on your left. If you don't notice these mistakes, don't panic. Call the waiter and ask him to make himself a new set of wine glasses.
In fact, when using a knife and fork, as long as you check the movements of people around you, you won't make mistakes.
Napkins should be spread out when delivering food-
The napkin on the table should be unfolded at the moment when the food is delivered. It is wrong to open the napkin and spread it on your knees immediately after sitting down.
When holding a folded napkin, put the crease towards yourself and put it on your knee. I often see people tying napkins around their necks! In fact, putting it on your knee is a formal practice.
Napkins are used to wipe your mouth when eating. Some people will deliberately take out handkerchiefs, and the prepared napkins will lose their meaning. But if there are traces of lipstick and food on the napkin, it will not look good. Be careful not to get too dirty.
When you have something to leave halfway, you should fold the napkin gently and put it on the chair to show that you haven't finished eating. Put it on the table when you leave after eating. At this point, some people will carefully fold it back to its original state, indicating that the food has not yet been served. So, just fold it a little.
Don't pick up the tableware when it falls-
Miss Ruoyun accidentally dropped her knife while eating in a French restaurant. When the knife landed at her feet, she quickly reached for it.
However, this is not the right move. If you accidentally drop your knife and fork, it will be unsightly to pick it up by yourself. If it falls, let the waiter pick it up, or let him send a new knife.
When eating, take the wrong knife and fork, and the knife will not be enough. At this point, don't feel embarrassed. You should call the waiter and ask him to bring a new knife. When calling the waiter, you can't stand up and shout. Make eye contact with each other and just raise your hand gently. Because the waiter has been checking the guest's condition, even if he doesn't speak, the other party can detect it.
When drinking soup, the spoon is scooped from the inside out-
Soup is not a drink, but a food. At this time, the left hand is gently placed next to the plate and the soup is scooped out from the front with a spoon. This is a common British and American scooping method. At this time, be careful not to lean forward too much and keep your mouth close to the spoon.
Soup is sometimes served in a cup with a handle. At this time, you can scoop it with a spoon and drink it with a handle after the soup is less.
Try not to make a sound when drinking soup, so as not to affect others' dining.
If there is only a little soup left, you can tilt the plate and spoon it, which is against etiquette.
After drinking, put the spoon in the middle of the plate.
Tear the bread to pieces, and-
Usually bread is served with soup, but sometimes bread comes first. At this time, don't eat bread right away. Formal dining etiquette should be to start eating bread while drinking soup, and then salad after eating, which is the most ideal way to eat.
And the bread must be torn to pieces first.
If it is French bread, because it is hard, there will be bread crumbs when it is shredded. If there are crumbs in front of you after eating, it looks really unsightly. When you tear bread, you must tear it on the plate so that it won't fall all over the table.
If a lot of crumbs fall off the plate, you can collect them with a cream knife dipped in cream and stick them on the bread to eat together.
When you start cutting meat, you should start from the left-
No matter what kind of meat you eat, knives and forks are essential. In fact, as long as you press the back of the knife with your right index finger, you can use it flexibly.
Hold the meat gently with a fork in your left hand, stand the knife slightly in front of you, and cut the meat into a bite.
Don't cut the meat from the middle, it is formal etiquette to start from the left.
When eating roast chicken, you should first remove the bones from the meat and then cut it into pieces. When deboning, hold the meat with a fork and cut it along the bone with a knife, which makes it easier to cut. Remember, don't bite with your hands at a formal banquet. After all, here and fast food restaurants are two different things.
When eating matched dishes, put down the knife and fork first and eat with a fork in your right hand, which is more elegant.
When eating fish, first remove the bones-
It is difficult to eat fish in western food. When eating fish, you should use a special knife and fork to distinguish it from other knives and forks by its fine workmanship. When there is no fishbone or fishbone, when you cut it into pieces, just cut it from the left like meat, but when you eat fish with thorns, it is a bit troublesome.
The fish head is generally facing left, so first hold the gill of the fish with a fork, cut it from the tail to the head with a knife, and cut both the bones and the fish body. After eating the cut upper body, start eating the lower body of the fish. The habit of ordinary people is to buckle the fish upside down after eating the upper body, but this is the wrong way to eat. The correct way to eat is: don't flip the fish, remove the fishbone and move to one side, then eat the lower body.
Cut the lemon thick, pick it up with your hands and squeeze the lemon juice on the fish. If it is a thin lemon slice, put it on the fish, and then gently press it with a fork to let the taste soak the fish.
When eating, knives and forks should be placed in a figure of eight.
If you are still eating, your knife and fork should be placed in a figure of eight. This means that the waiter hasn't used it up yet, so don't withdraw the plate.
If you have finished eating, put the knife and fork together on the plate slightly to the left, and the front end tilts to the left and front. The way to get together is that the knife is on the right and the fork is on the left.
The blade of the knife must face its own side, that is, the blade should face the left side. In addition, the front end of the fork should face up. If the front end is broken, it means it is still in use.
Don't stir the plate with chopsticks-
The tableware in China is chopsticks, so most people think it is difficult to hold chopsticks, but few people know the correct way to use them.
When you pick up chopsticks, don't pick them up at once. The right hand holds the middle part of chopsticks from above and the left hand catches it from below. Then take chopsticks in your right hand, spin them around, and then hold them. This movement should be smooth and smooth.
Next, as long as there is no mistake in usage. The so-called wrong usage refers to: messing up the dishes with chopsticks; It seems that I don't know which one to take, and the chopsticks are vacillating on the dish; Stir between vegetables; Poke vegetables with chopsticks like bayonets; Put chopsticks on the teacup; Or lick chopsticks with your tongue.
And these are things that we usually tend to ignore.
Hold down the soup bowl with your left hand and uncover it-
When eating Japanese food, people feel that the most troublesome thing is the way to drink soup, because soup is usually eaten without a spoon.
First, the lid of the soup bowl should be uncovered. Usually, the lid is difficult to open. At this time, you can easily open the soup bowl by pressing it hard with your left hand. When uncovering the lid, put your right hand on the lid, remove the water droplets accumulated on the lid above the soup bowl, and then protect it with your left hand, with the lid facing down.
Put the lid of the soup bowl on the right side of the food box. It can also be placed outside the food table, but it can't be placed on the lids of other utensils, and it can't stand beside the soup bowl.
The way to eat it is: after taking a sip of soup, scoop out the contents of the soup. Drinking soup and scooping the contents of soup should be done alternately. At first, it was against etiquette to only drink soup or scoop the contents of soup. Besides, some people like to stir soup with chopsticks, which is very impolite, so we should get rid of this bad habit.
After eating, you should pick up the lid with your right hand and put it back with your left hand. You can't turn the lid over. Otherwise, it is difficult to pick up or scratch the lacquer ware.
When eating sashimi, grab it with a harpoon-
In Japanese cuisine, because the food table is far away from the mouth, soy sauce and vegetable juice will spill out in the process of sending food into the mouth. In order to avoid this situation, you can hold a small dish with seasonings such as soy sauce in your hand.
When eating sashimi, soy sauce often overflows. After dipping sashimi in mustard and a little soy sauce, don't send it directly to your mouth, but hold the plate with your left hand, or use white paper or a teacup to avoid the soy sauce on the surface of sashimi from overflowing and send it to your mouth at the same time.
When eating grilled fish, first remove the bones-
At a Japanese banquet, it was grilled fish made of upgraded fish and fragrant fish with the head and tail.
First of all, when eating grilled fish, first remove the dorsal fin, ventral fin and caudal fin with chopsticks, then clamp the middle part of the fish with chopsticks for several times, then clamp the fish with chopsticks, and hold the fish head with your left hand and drag it backwards. In this way, the fish head and bones will be removed, leaving only the fish. Next, just collect the fishbone, dorsal fin, fishtail, etc. Stay away from fish, and you can start eating fish.
On the other hand, other fish are not as easy to boneless as fragrant fish, so you should break the fish up bit by bit before eating. After eating halfway, don't turn the fish over, but remove the bones in the middle and eat the lower body.
Debris such as fishbones and fins should be gathered at the four corners of the plate. Don't throw them around at will to keep them beautiful.
Near is the lower seat, far is the upper seat-
Compared with Japanese food and western food, the etiquette of Chinese food is much simpler, which can be seen from the round table used. The reason why people in China like to use round tables is that they can make diners forget their relationship and enjoy the fun of eating together.
So when eating Chinese food, there is no need to delve into the problem of seats. However, if it is a banquet held by the company and the relationship between superiors and subordinates is extremely clear, the existence of seats cannot be ignored.
Generally, the nearest seat is the lower seat, and the far seat is the upper seat, which is the same anyway. To be exact, it is to welcome guests from the inside out in turn.
At company banquets and other occasions, I will sit with my boss, so the seat is of course very important. When we were friends, there was no such thing as seats.