1. Roof
Also known as appetizers, there are usually cold dishes and hot appetizers. Common varieties include caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, cocktail cup, creamy chicken crisp box, Tujia snail and so on.
2. soup
It can be roughly divided into clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup. There are oxtail clear soup, various cream soups, seafood soups, American clam soups, Italian vegetable soups, and Russian Luo Songtang. French onion soup.
3. Additional dishes outside the main dish
Aquatic vegetables and eggs, bread and crispy box vegetables are usually called side dishes. Western food pays attention to the use of special sauces when eating fish dishes, including tartar sauce, Dutch sauce, hotel sauce, white cream sauce, archbishop sauce, American sauce, sailor fish sauce and so on.
Step 4: Main course
Meat and poultry dishes are the main courses. Among them, beef or steak is the most representative, and the seasonings used in meat dishes mainly include Spanish juice, concentrated sauce, mushroom juice, shredded white juice and so on. The raw materials of poultry dishes are taken from chickens. Duck and goose; The most common poultry dish is chicken, which can be cooked, fried, roasted and simmered. The main sauces are curry juice and cream juice.
5. Vegetable dishes
Can be arranged after the meat dishes, but also can be eaten at the same time with the meat dishes. Vegetables are called salads in western food. The salad served with the main course is called raw vegetable salad, which is usually made of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and asparagus. There is also a kind of fish, meat and eggs, which are generally not flavored.
6. dessert
The dessert of western food is eaten after the main course and can be counted as the sixth course. It really includes all the food after the main course, such as pudding, ice cream, cheese, fruit and so on.
7.coffee
Coffee usually contains sugar and whipped cream.
Precautions for eating western food:
Soup can't make a sound when you drink it. You should scoop it from the inside out with a spoon, and never drink it directly from the soup plate.
Bread and spaghetti bread are usually served with butter. When eating, break the bread into small pieces, butter it, and eat it with your hands. Don't bite off the whole bread, but wipe it before eating. When eating spaghetti, you can use a fork and spoon. Slowly stir up a small amount (four or five slices) of spaghetti with a fork and wrap it around the fork teeth to form a ball. At the same time, you can eat it conveniently with a spoon.
Meat and fish The meat in western food is usually very big. Whether it's lamb chops, steak or pork chops, you should cut them into small pieces with a knife and fork and eat them while cutting. Don't cut it all at once before eating, and don't put the whole meat in your mouth with a fork and eat it while biting. You can eat chicken or lobster with your hands. Chicken, quail and frog have small leg bones, which can be grabbed by hands and eaten with forks, but the bones need to be taken out of their mouths with fingers. Fish in western food generally have bone spurs removed, which is very convenient to eat. For a small amount of small thorns, pinch them out by hand and put them on the plate, and don't spit them directly on the plate.
Salad can be used as the first course, side dish and spacer. Large vegetables in salad can be cut into small pieces (slices) with a fork or knife. Peas in salad can be pushed onto the fork with a fork in your left hand and a knife in your right hand. The American way of eating is very simple, that is, eating with a fork.
The dessert fork is used for dessert and fruitcake and cake, and the dessert spoon is used for ice cream and pudding. In many countries, fruit is served as dessert or together with dessert, usually fruit salad or assorted dishes. If it is unprocessed fruit, use a knife and fork: pears or apples should not be completely peeled, but should be cut into four to six pieces with a knife, peeled and pitted before eating; Bananas should be peeled first, and then cut into several sections to eat. When there is no knife and fork, you can take the stone out of your mouth by hand and put it on the edge of the fruit bowl. You can't just throw up on the table.
Coffee and tea The last "dish" of western food is coffee and tea. When drinking coffee, you can hold the cup handle in your right hand and the saucer in your left hand, or you can just hold the cup and leave the saucer on the stage. After a sip, you must put the cup back on the saucer. Teaspoons are only used for stirring. When it is used up, it should be put back in the saucer. You can't use it to scoop water to drink. Drink China's green tea and mint tea without anything. If it is Indian tea, black tea or English black tea, you can add a little milk and sugar.