There are napkins, bowls, spoons, chopsticks and toothpicks in the front hall of a hot pot restaurant. Here are some details about these kinds of tableware:

1. Napkins

According to the National Light Industry Standard of the People's Republic of China, "napkins" include facial tissues and wet tissues. Napkins are sanitary products that people have close contact with and frequently use in daily life. They are listed in the management category of sanitary products in disinfection products, and the hygiene license of their manufacturing enterprises is examined and approved by the provincial health administrative department. The key places to use napkins are restaurants and hotels.

2. Bowl

As a daily necessity for people, the origin of the bowl can't be verified, but it can be traced back to the Neolithic argillaceous pottery bowl, and its shape is not much different from today's, that is, the mouth is big and the bottom is small, the mouth is wide and the bottom is narrow. There are bowl feet under it, and the height is generally half of the diameter of the mouth edge, mostly round and rarely square. What is constantly changing is only the material, technological level and decorative means. The general purpose is to hold food.

3. Spoon

Tablespoon (also translated as table spoon) is a kind of eating spoon, and its most common use is to drink western soup, hence its name.

a spoon is also a unit of capacity measurement in cooking. Different countries have different standards for spoons, but they are usually about 1.5 ml. In the United States, traditionally, 1 American spoons and the like, such as 1.5 American liquid ounces (14.8 ml), or 3 American teaspoons. The federal law of the United States stipulates that 1 American spoons are equal to 1.5 ml.

4. toothpicks

toothpicks were also called "chewing poplar" or "chewing poplar branches" in ancient times. In the preface of Shi Naian Water Margin, there is a phrase "enter the dish and chew poplar". The so-called "chewing poplar" means picking your teeth with a toothpick after a meal. Yang Zhi has clean teeth. It originated from the Western Regions. There is a cloud in Fa Xian's "The Story of the Buddha": "The sand reaches the east of the south gate of the country, and the Buddha chews the branches of the poplar here. It is born in the soil.

5. Chopsticks

Chopsticks, which are commonly used in China, are usually made of bamboo, wood, bone, porcelain, ivory, metal, plastic and other materials. One of the symbols of Chinese food culture is one of the commonly used tableware in the world, which was invented in China and later spread to Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and other Chinese character cultural circles. ?

People in China are used to using chopsticks, while people in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesian and Indian subcontinent grab them with their fingers. At present, the earliest chopsticks found in China are copper chopsticks unearthed in Yinxu, Anyang City, Henan Province. "Han Feizi Yu Lao" said: "The former was an elephant, but ji zi was terrible." Zhou Wang was the monarch at the end of Shang Dynasty, which shows that ivory chopsticks appeared in China more than 3111 years ago.