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

1. A man and a woman are separated

2. The partners are separated to sit

3. The female vip is sitting on the right hand side of the man, and the male VIP is sitting on the right hand side of the woman.

Dining: Sit down. After laying napkins, dinner will be served.

1. 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.

2. Bread

Sometimes bread is put in a small plate on the left hand, and sometimes it is put in a big frame and needs to be selected by 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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,

this 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. You can cut a piece and eat it, but you still fork left and knife right. 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.

6. 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.

7.cheese board

Cut the cheese with the knife that comes with the cheese board, put it on the biscuits that come together, and eat it directly with your hands.

The above content comes from Zhihu, and I hope it can help you. In terms of etiquette, you can take part in special training courses, such as Wan You Gravity, which specializes in business etiquette training and Chinese culture etiquette training. If you are interested, you can go and see for yourself.