I've sorted out the information, hoping to help the subject before the number of meals.

Usually, you will receive a formal invitation about a week before the formal dinner. If the extra card says RSVP(Répondez s'il vous pla? T), then you need to write the card and send it back as soon as possible. Even if you can't attend, you should send it back to the host for statistics and seat arrangement.

The picture above is a typical reply card. Check whether you want to attend or not, and sometimes check whether you want the main course/whether you are a vegetarian/whether you eat dairy products, etc. The most important thing is to fill in the number and names of the guests you brought, so that the host can draw the seating chart in advance.

Black tie or white tie has decided the theme by the host himself, and these Dress code are usually written on the invitation. You won't be embarrassed to go to the meeting after reading it carefully:) Admission &; Sit down

Before you enter the venue, you can find your name on the seating chart and sit down as you like. But what if there is no seating chart? Can I sit anywhere?

the usual way of sitting in western food follows three principles:

a man and a woman are separated

2. The partners are separated to sit

3. The male host is sitting on the right with a female vip, and the female host is sitting on the right with a male vip

Tutton Manor. It can be seen that the three points I mentioned are strictly observed

If you are still not sure where you should sit, smart friends can wait.

before sitting down and starting, you need to spread a napkin, which is usually placed on a plate. Open the napkin, fold it in half (it can be folded diagonally into a triangle or folded diagonally into a rectangle), and spread it on your thigh with the creased side facing you. The picture below is a demonstration of several mistakes

napkin neck

You are not an infant ╰ (●'?' ●) ╮ For some ingredients that are easy to stain clothes, the restaurant will provide you with a scarf (as shown below), and don't put napkins in your collar.

napkin pad plate

press a corner of the napkin with a plate, and the rest will naturally hang down (sorry, I really can't find the picture)

This napkin placement method is very dangerous, and it is easy to bring a napkin when you get up and knock over the plate. Have a meal

Sit down, spread your napkin, and it's time for dinner.

wine

the profundity of wine culture cannot be written in a small space here. Let's talk about wine glasses.

in western food, 3-4 cups are usually placed on the table near the right hand side at a 45-degree angle.

In the lower right corner, the one closest to your right hand is a sparkling wine glass. The tall and thin cup shape is convenient for everyone to watch the bubbles rise.

The second cup, which is slightly farther away, is for drinking white wine. It is different from sparkling wine glasses and is our common shape.

the third cup farther away is a red wine glass, which is similar in shape to a white wine glass (of course, the specific shape is not absolute, depending on the owner's hobby, but it is a little taller).

The cup farthest from your right hand is the water cup, which is also the tallest and largest. Drinking water and gargling when changing wine and vegetables can help to taste the taste of wine and vegetables better.

Bread

Sometimes bread is put in a small plate on the left hand, and sometimes it is put in a big box and you need to choose it yourself. If the basket is too far away from you, don't get up and bend down to reach it. Just ask someone near the bread to pass it to you (similarly, there are salt and pepper bottles). When you eat bread, break it with your hands until you can't eat it in one bite, and then scrape a little butter with the butter knife on the bread plate and wipe it up.

appetizers

appetizers are sometimes salads, and large pieces of vegetables are unsightly and need to be cut. How to cut things on the western table, I will talk about the main course and meat in detail later.

By the way, everyone must feel bored when they see so many spork on the table. What should they do? Left fork and right knife, so I won't go into details. Put it on the left and right, usually just use it from the outside to the inside. The spork placed above the plate is used for dessert and used last. Since the internal and external order of spork has been adjusted by the host according to the order of serving, it won't be wrong to use a pair of dishes in order.

sometimes when we want to talk or go to the toilet, we need to put the tableware down a little. How should we put it? As shown on the left, put it in a figure of eight, and the waiter will know not to accept it. When the waiter needs to collect the bowl after eating this dish, it is placed to the right of the picture below, with the knife and fork handle facing 5 o'clock.

French and English manners are different here. France prefers to put the tableware upside down in the dining room (as shown above), so that everyone can enjoy the patterns on the back of silverware.

French and English manners are different here. France prefers to put the tableware upside down in the dining room (as shown above), so that everyone can enjoy the patterns on the back of silverware.

soup

whether it's western food or Chinese food, you should pay attention to one point, and never lower your head to reach the soup on the table. To raise the spoon to the same height as your mouth without lowering your head, send the soup in.

how to scoop soup? Spoon from the inside out is an English method of scooping soup, and spoon from the outside in is French. The picture below shows English on the left and French on the right:

What should I do if there is a bottom left in the soup? The etiquette in Britain and France is different. In Britain, the inside of the bowl is lifted, the bowl is tilted towards the outside, the soup is gathered on the outside of the bowl, and then it is filled with a spoon. In French, on the contrary, lift the outside of the soup bowl, and the soup will gather inside the bowl, and then scrape it with a spoon. But in any case, it is absolutely impossible to drink the soup bowl without a handle.

In particular, I'd like to mention the sticky pastry soup. If you don't want to eat the outer pastry, just poke a hole in the pastry with a spoon and scoop out the soup below. But if you want to eat pastry, you can scrape it off the edge of the bowl with a knife, put it on a plate, and break it into small pieces by hand just like bread.

Main course

Seafood: A fork usually has four teeth, while a fork that eats seafood will have three teeth and tilt slightly upward. Fish is fragile. If even a special fork can't lift it, use a spoon to help. If the fish has bones, don't turn it over after eating it, remove the bones and eat the rest. Eating oysters, lobsters, snails, etc., will have their own special tools, just use them in order.

meat: it involves cutting. Usually we put a fork on the meat, and the knife cuts the meat gently near the fork, which can prevent the food from moving. Generally speaking, starting from the left side of the meat and cutting to the right, the size of the meat is suitable for one bite.

European and American styles of cutting things are different.

American etiquette on the left, first, cut a whole piece of meat into small pieces. The left and right hands change the tableware above the plate, put down the knife, hold a fork in the right hand, and eat a plate of minced meat with a fork.

the right side is more traditional, which is European-style. If you cut a piece and eat it, you will still have a left fork and a right knife. If beef has bones, it needs to be cut along the bones.

if you eat chicken and have tiny bones to spit out, don't spit directly on the table. Open the napkin, hold it in your hand to cover your mouth, put the fork to your mouth and spit the bone on the fork. Then put the bones from the fork on the side of the plate.

spaghetti: exchange the right-hand spork on the desktop. Fork some noodles with a fork, then rotate them against the inside of the spoon and roll them up to eat.

Dessert

For dessert, use spork on the top of the plate, fork to fork fruit, and spoon to eat soft food like pudding. Sometimes, when a piece of fruit is too big to swallow in one bite, you can also use a spoon instead of a knife to help cut it before eating.

cheese board

use the knife that comes with the cheese board to cut the cheese, put it on the biscuits that come together and eat it directly with your hands. After dinner:

If you enjoy your meal, don't forget to thank the host. The most polite way is to send a thank-you letter.

Precautions:

In addition to the above, there are some precautions lady mary be known to everyone. I will briefly talk about them:

Hand placement:

When talking and other dishes, you should put your hands on your legs, as shown in the following figure:

You can't put your elbows on the dining table, and it's even worse to hold your head. The following is a wrong demonstration:

When cutting food,

after the meal, the dirty napkins are folded inward and put into the original plate.

It's inevitable that a girl wears lipstick and lip gloss, so it's easy to print it on the glass, but please look for this lip print. Please drink it at this place during this meal, and don't make the glass full of your lipstick.

When holding a knife and fork, don't hold a glass, let alone point it at others.

You can wipe your mouth with a napkin. When wiping your mouth, roll the corner of the napkin on your index finger and gently wipe your mouth. If it is a serious dirty stain, don't wipe it with a napkin on the dining table and go to the bathroom.

phone mute

don't talk with your food wrapped.

don't sip when drinking soup, make a noise.

Boys should help pull the chair open when girls are sitting.