1, on the phone.

No matter the host, guest or guest, you should talk to the people at the same table, especially the neighbors. Don't talk to only a few acquaintances or only two people. If you don't know your neighbor, you can introduce yourself first.

Don't talk loudly, or you may cause dissatisfaction among your neighbors.

Don't point your knife and fork at each other when you speak, or you will disrespect each other and dislike you.

2. Knife and fork

Knives, forks and other silverware are called tableware. Knives and forks are divided into meat, fish, appetizers and desserts, while spoons are used for seasoning besides appetizers, soups, coffee and tea. The spoon used for seasoning is the spoon used when adding seasoning, which is mostly used for dessert or fish dishes. In the set meal of formal western food, knives and forks with different shapes are often used according to the characteristics of different cuisines, and not all of them are put out at the beginning.

In any restaurant, the shape of the knife used by cook the meat is basically the same, but the knife used for cooking fish often varies from restaurant to restaurant. In particular, fish cookers with the same width as meat cookers tend to tilt gradually, and those wider than this width are also common. There are also some fish cooking knives, the blade width is wider, and the blade part has luxurious decoration.

In addition, some restaurants use seasoning spoons instead of fish knives. Knife and fork are like chopsticks racks in China. Sometimes knives and forks (or spoons) are put on the knife and fork rack as a group; Sometimes, knives, forks and spoons will be placed in groups on the knife and fork rack; Sometimes knives and forks (or spoons) are put on them as a group, so that the blade of the knife and the front end of the fork will not touch the tablecloth.

Step 3 bake

As a guest of honor, when attending a banquet held in a foreign country, you should know each other's toasting habits, that is, why and when to toast, so as to make necessary preparations. When clinking glasses, the host and guest touch first, and many people can raise their glasses at the same time, not necessarily clinking glasses. Be careful not to cross glasses when toasting. When the host and guest make speeches and toasts, they should stop eating and talking, pay attention to listening, and don't take this opportunity to smoke. Stand still while playing the national anthem. After the host and guests talk and clink glasses with the distinguished guests, they usually go to other tables to propose a toast. In this case, they should stand up and raise their glasses. When clinking glasses, greet each other visually.

4. Take off your coat

In social occasions, no matter how hot the weather is, you can't unbutton your clothes in public. At an informal small dinner party, if the host invites the guest to take off his coat, the male guest can take off his coat and put it on the back of the chair.

Step 5 eat soup

You can't smoke and drink. Scoop the soup from back to front with a spoon, put the bottom of the spoon on the position of the lower lip, and send the soup to the mouth. The angle between the spoon and the mouth is preferably 45 degrees. The upper body leans forward slightly. There is not much soup left in the bowl. You can raise the bowl a little with your fingers. If the soup is in a bowl with a grip, you can drink it directly with the grip.

Extended data

How to eat all kinds of western food;

1, how to eat dessert

(1) ice cream: generally, a small spoon is used to eat ice cream. Use forks and spoons when eating cakes or pies or as part of a meal.

(2) Pie: Fruit pies are usually eaten with forks. But if the host provides you with a fork and dessert spoon, fix the pie with a fork and dig it with a spoon. You need to eat the pie with a fork unless there is ice cream on the pie, in which case, both the fork and the spoon should be used. If you eat cream pie, you'd better use a fork instead of your hands. To prevent the filler from leaking from the other end.

(3) Boiling pears: use a spoon and fork. Fix the pear vertically with a fork, and dig it into small pieces with a spoon. Forks can also be used to rotate the cooked pears, so that the digger can eat the pears. If there is only one spoon, turn the plate by hand, leave the pear core in the plate and scoop out the sugar juice with a spoon.

(4) Juice sorbet: If you eat it as a meat dish, you can use a fork. If you eat it for dessert, use a spoon.

(5) Stewed fruit: You should use a spoon to eat stewed fruit, but you can hold large pieces of fruit firmly with a fork. Spit the nuts of cherries, prunes and preserved plums in a spoon and put them on the edge of the plate.

2. How to eat fish

Fish is tender and crisp, so restaurants often prepare special spoons instead of knives. This kind of spoon is slightly bigger and flatter than ordinary spoons. It can not only divide vegetables, but also scoop sauce. If you want to eat other mixed vegetables, you'd better use a fork. For fishbone, first stab a straight line near the gills with a knife. Don't pierce the tip of the knife, but pierce it halfway. After picking up the upper body of the fish, start from the beginning, put the knife under the bone and cut it in the direction of the fish tail. Take out the bone and move it to the corner of the plate. Finally, cut off the fish tail.

3. Food with bones

(1) Bird: Cut off the wings and legs first, and then eat the body parts with a knife and fork. You can eat your wings and legs with your hands, but you can't take away your body parts.

(2) Chicken: Eat half of the chicken first. Use a knife and fork to separate the chicken legs and wings from the joints. Then hold the chicken leg (chicken breast or chicken wings) with a fork and cut the meat into pieces of appropriate size with a knife. Only cut two or three pieces at a time.

(3) Pork chop: Insert a fork or a sharp knife into the center of beef, pork or lamb chop. If there is a paper sleeve on the ribs, you can cut the meat on the bones with your hands so as not to get greasy on your hands. In formal occasions or restaurants, even if you are wrapped in a paper sleeve, you can't chew bones with your hands.

4. How to eat bread

It is a principle to tear your hands into small pieces and eat them with your left hand. When eating hard bread, tearing it by hand is not only laborious, but also the crumbs will fall all over the floor. At this time, you can cut it in half with a knife and then tear it into pieces by hand. To avoid using a saw, you should first pierce the knife into the central part, cut off the part close to your body, and then turn the bread around and cut off the other half. You can fix the bread when you cut it to avoid making noise. /5

5, drinking posture

Alcohol service is generally that the waiter is responsible for pouring a small amount into the sprinkling cup, so that the guests can identify whether the quality is wrong, just as a form, take a sip and answer well. Don't start taking the cup, but put it on the table and let the waiter pour it. The correct posture is to hold the foot of the cup with your fingers. In order to prevent the temperature of the hand from increasing the temperature of the wine. Hold the foot of the cup with your thumb, middle finger and forefinger, and put the little finger on the bottom of the cup to fix it. Shake the glass gently and let the wine come into contact with the air to enhance the mellow taste of the wine, but don't shake the glass violently.

In addition, it is impolite to drink it all at once, look at people through the glass when drinking, talk and drink with the glass, drink while eating and print lipstick on the edge of the glass. Don't wipe the lipstick mark on the rim of the cup with your fingers. You'd better wipe it with a paper towel.

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