The difference between Chinese food and western food: The biggest difference between Chinese food and western food lies in the dining system and the dining system. China people pay attention to the family atmosphere of reunion, and the forms and habits of sharing delicious food also affect the setting of dishes. Chinese food mostly uses disk containers, which is also because of this. In addition, Chinese dishes are warm, lively and festive, so we should pay attention to the choice of plate color, not too many colors.
Western food is very flexible and pays attention to many things other than dishes, such as season, restaurant style and theme. There is no fixed pattern, but the tastes of different ingredients in the same dish will never affect each other, while Chinese food pays attention to the comprehensive combination of traditional habits and color and fragrance. With the communication between China and the West, the setting of Chinese food is gradually diversified.
Nowadays, the traditional dishes in Chinese restaurants are gradually paying attention to the effect of setting dishes. It can be seen that the quality of setting dishes directly affects the appetite of guests, so the skill of setting dishes is also one of the necessary skills for a chef, which cannot be slacked off.
First, the basic form of pendulum plate
Mixed plate: This plate is suitable for dishes with different colors and ingredients. Add fruit juice and stir well. Dishes: It is more common to put raw materials or dishes with different tastes in different sections of the same plate.
Three-dimensional setting: it is very common in western food and is often used in Chinese food now. This form needs a sense of design and imagination, and the patchwork three-dimensional modeling can present a sense of fashion and modernity.
Flat plate: Overlapping flat on the container, suitable for cold meals such as cold meat.
Cylindrical wobble plate: similar to three-dimensional wobble plate, but without complicated design. As long as the food is cylindrical and put on the plate, the main body is beautiful and tidy.
Radial pendulum plate: it has a sense of unity, clear priorities, and the patterns radiated are relatively neat.
Second, set the table.
Tips:
1, the choice of tableware should conform to the characteristics of food.
2, the plate is large, easy to shape dishes.
3. The texture and materials of ingredients generally follow the principles of soft and hard, rough and smooth, dry and sticky.
4, food should be placed neatly, not beyond the edge of the plate.
5. Don't add too much content.
6, the main course is outstanding, and it is not allowed to pretend to be the owner.
7. Pay attention to food hygiene
In fact, there are still many skills in setting the plate. We should constantly absorb new things, update ourselves, master experience, keep insufficient records, create a unique setting style and improve our professional level.
The purpose and significance of hotel setting.
1. Setting trays: Set trays clockwise from the host's seat, and the distance from the table edge is 1cm, and the distances between trays are equal.
2. Place the chopsticks rack and chopsticks: the chopsticks rack is placed at the upper right of the dinner plate, and the back end of the chopsticks is 0.5cm away from the edge of the dinner plate and 1cm away from the edge of the dinner plate.
3. Mouth soup bowl and strip soup: The mouth soup bowl is placed on the left front of the plate, at a distance of 1cm, and the strip soup is placed in the mouth soup bowl with the handle to the left.
4. Set the wine set: Chinese banquets use three cups, grape wine glasses, white wine glasses and water cups. First, put the wine glasses in front of the rotating tray. The wine glasses on the right and the water glasses on the left are at a distance of 1cm. The three glasses are horizontally aligned and the flowers are placed in the water glasses. 5. Set public tableware; Put a chopstick rack in front of the wine set between the owners, and put chopsticks. The hand-held ends of chopsticks are right. 6. Put a toothpick. 7. Place ashtray and matches: The ashtray is placed on the right of the payer. 8. Set the menu: set it next to the chopsticks paid to the host, or set it vertically next to the host's glass. 9. rearrange the countertop, adjust the foundation and put the vase on it to show the end.