Hotel reservation

In the west, it is generally necessary to make an appointment in advance to go to a restaurant for dinner. When making an appointment, there are several points to pay special attention to, first of all, to explain the number and time, and then to indicate whether you want a smoking area or a seat with a good view. If it is a birthday or other special day, you can tell the purpose and budget of the banquet. It is basic courtesy to arrive at the scheduled time. No matter how expensive casual clothes are, you can't wear them casually. It is common sense for Europeans and Americans to dress appropriately when eating in restaurants. When going to a high-end restaurant, men should dress neatly; Ladies should wear suits and shoes with heels. If formal clothes are specified, men must wear ties. When entering the restaurant, men should open the door first and invite women in. Ladies should be asked to go ahead. When seated and served, ladies should be given priority. Especially for group activities, and don't forget to let the ladies go ahead.

* Pay attention to seating.

The most appropriate way to sit is to sit from the left. When the chair is pulled away, the body will stand up straight at a distance almost touching the table, and the leader will push the chair in, and when the leg bends and touches the chair behind, you can sit down. When eating, the upper arm and back should be * to the back of the chair, and the abdomen should be kept at a distance of about one fist from the table. Sitting posture with two feet crossed is best avoided.

* the knowledge of ordering wine

In high-end restaurants, bartenders who are good at tasting wine will bring wine lists. For people who don't know much about wine, it's best to tell them the dishes they have chosen, the budget and their favorite wine tastes, and the main bartender will help them choose. If the main course is meat, it should be served with red wine, while fish should be served with white. Before serving, you might as well have a glass of light wine such as champagne, sherry or Jill.

* Order of serving.

The formal order of serving a full set of western food is: 1 appetizer and soup 2 fish 3 fruit 4 meat 5 cheese 6 dessert and coffee 7 fruit, as well as aperitif wine and table wine. It's not necessary to order all of them. It's rude to order too much but not finish it. Restaurants with a little standard welcome guests who only order appetizers. Appetizer, main course (fish or meat) and dessert are the most appropriate combination. Ordering is not a starter, but a favorite main course, and then a soup suitable for the main course.

* How to use napkins

After ordering, open the napkin before the appetizer is delivered, fold it in by one third, and let two thirds spread flat on the legs to cover the legs above the knees. It's best not to stuff napkins into the neckline.

* the collocation of drinking and food.

What kind of food should be eaten with drinking is always puzzling people. For hundreds of years, it seems that choosing the right food when drinking has formed a law. However, with the emergence of new foods and new wines in modern society, these rules are outdated and increasingly unsuitable. If another friend tells you that you must eat fish to drink white wine, you can say that it is 2 1 century, and those rules of19th century are out of date. How to match drinking with food should first be understood that life is different due to personal preferences, and drinking and food matching should undoubtedly be matched with personal tastes at will. You can order wine and food according to your own taste, even if it is not allowed by the rules, or if your friends who eat at the same table are firmly opposed, you don't have to be shy or embarrassed. There are many things that don't seem to match in life, but they still seem so harmonious. However, what should you do when you still can't make up your mind about what wine to use for dinner? Do you turn to those rules for help? Over the years, I have accumulated some experience, which can solve your problems. These so-called "principles" do not tell you what to eat when drinking, but only explain how food and alcohol affect and interact with each other. When drinking, it is important to match food according to taste. Food and alcohol can be divided into four flavors, which defines the range of wine and food collocation, namely: sour, sweet, bitter and salty.

Sour taste: You may have heard that wine can't go with salad, because the acid in salad greatly destroys the mellow taste of wine. However, if salad and sour wine are used together, the acid contained in the wine will be decomposed by the lactic acid of salad, which is of course an excellent match. Therefore, you can choose acidic wine and acidic food to eat together. Acidic liquor is used with salty food and tastes good.

Sweetness: When dining, you can also choose dessert according to your personal taste. Generally speaking, sweets will weaken the taste of sweet wine. If you choose California Chattonny with a small piece of roasted swordfish, the wine will be very sweet. However, if you put salad on the fish, the fruity taste in the wine will be reduced a lot. Therefore, when eating dessert, the dessert with high sugar content will cover the taste of the wine and lose its original flavor. You should choose a slightly sweeter wine. Only in this way can the wine keep its original taste.

Bitterness: Still use the principle of "personal preference". Bitter wine and bitter food will reduce bitterness when eaten together. So if you want to lighten or remove the bitterness, you can mix bitter wine with bitter food.

Salty taste: generally there is no salty wine, but there are many wines that can reduce the salty taste of salty food. Many countries and regions in the world use lemon juice or alcohol when eating seafood such as fish. The main reason is that acid can reduce the salinity of fish and make it more delicious when eaten.

* How to use knives and forks

British and American people have different eating habits. When eating meat and vegetables, British people hold a fork in their left hand, with the fork tip facing down, tie up the meat and send it to their mouths. If it is a burnt vegetable, they will put it on the fork and send it to their mouths with a knife. Americans cut the meat in the same way, then put down the knife in their right hand and change the fork, with the fork tip facing up, and insert it under the meat. Instead of a knife, they will shovel up the meat and send it to their mouths, so will eating burnt vegetables. When eating, using the back of the child to scoop it up to eat is not a violation of table manners, but it seems really unsightly. When eating rice and other dishes, you can naturally turn the dumpling to the front and scoop it up, because the concave part of the dumpling is designed for this purpose. At this time, you can also use a knife to assist the dining action. When scooping up the dishes on the plate, use a knife to prevent the dishes from scattering outside the plate, so that the food on the plate can be scooped up neatly. If there are dishes covered with sauce, you can also scrape the sauce with a knife, and then send the dishes and information together with a spoon or a spoon of sauce. It is a mistake to eat it with a spoon and sauce, because then, when the food is sent to your mouth, the sauce will drip everywhere and make a mess. When scooping up the food with a spoon, hold the spoon with your left hand, and put the food in the front belly of the spoon and send it to your mouth. If you don't need a knife, you can have a meal with your right hand in a relaxed occasion with friends. Rice should be scooped up from the front, not from the back, which makes it easier to eat and more elegant and natural. When the small pieces of food on the plate gather, they can be blocked by a knife and then scooped up with a spoon. It is also possible to use a spoon instead of a knife. Gather the dishes on the spoon with a spoon, and then send the food into the mouth with a spoon. The use of a spoon for sauce is the same as that of a general spoon. You should use the spoon to push the food onto the sauce spoon, instead of using the spoon to pour the sauce on the food, because the latter is against etiquette.

Types of * Knife and *

Knife, * and other silverware are called Cut-lery. Knives and knives are divided into meat, fish, appetizers and desserts, while spoons are used for appetizers, soups, coffee and tea, as well as seasonings. The spoon for seasoning is the spoon used when adding seasoning, which is mostly used for dessert or fish dishes. The tableware used today is constantly changing according to the changes in cooking. In the set meal of formal western cuisine, knives with different shapes are often used according to the characteristics of different cuisines, and not all of them are put out at the beginning. When it comes to the complete set, it is easy to remind people of the picture of silverware on the dining table, but now most of them use 2-3 single dishes as the mainstream. Therefore, the formal dining decorations filled with silverware on the dining table may only be seen at the wedding banquet. Recently, the use of a set of knives and * is becoming less and less, and more and more people only eat 2-3 appetizers, and the knives and * do not change with them. Most of them eat the appetizers with a set of knives and *. And there are more and more restaurants with knives and spoons on the knife and placed on the right side of the plate. The shape of the knife used in meat cooking is basically the same in any restaurant, but the knife used in fish cooking is often different from restaurant to restaurant. Especially recently, fish cooking knives with the same width as meat cooking knives tend to be inclined gradually, and those wider than this width are also common. There are also some fish cooking knives with wider knives and luxurious decorations on the blade. In addition, some restaurants use seasoning spoons instead of fish knives. Knife * is like China's chopsticks rack. Sometimes the knife and * (or spoon) are placed on the knife rack as a group; Sometimes the knife, the spoon and the spoon are grouped and placed on the knife rack; Sometimes the knife and spoon are placed on it as a group, so that the blade of the knife and the front of the spoon will not touch the tablecloth.

* How to place the knife and *

The meal is shaped like a figure of eight. If you take a break during the meal, you can divide the knife * into the dish, and the knife tip is opposite to the * in a "one" or "eight" shape, and the knife * faces yourself, indicating that you still want to continue eating. If you are talking, you can hold the knife * without putting it down, but if you need to make a gesture, you should put it down, and never wave it in the air. It should be noted that at no time should one end of the knife be placed on the plate and the other end on the table. Knife and * have another very important function besides cutting the food into the mouth. The way the knife is placed conveys the message of "eating" or "ending the meal". The waiter uses this method to judge the dining situation of the guests, and whether to clear the tableware for the next service, etc., so I hope that Ji Run can remember the correct way of setting the tableware. It is especially important to note that the blade side must face itself. There are two ways to place a meal: in the middle of the meal, put the bottom of the knife upward and the blade side of the knife inward together and put it on the plate in parallel. The following placement methods are divided into English style and French style, no matter which way is ok, but the most commonly used one is French style. Try to put the handle in the plate, so as to avoid falling off due to touching, and it is easier for the waiter to clean up. When attending the wedding banquet, no matter how to put the tableware in the "in-meal" position, as long as the main guests finish eating, they should immediately put away all the dishes. Therefore, when banquets are held, remember to take the main guests as the center. At a banquet, you use a pair of knives for each dish, and the knives placed in front of you are taken from the outside in turn, because the order in which the knives are placed is exactly the order in which each dish is served. The knife is used up, and the serving is over. When you need to talk or have a rest halfway, you should put the knife on both sides of the plate in a figure of eight. On the other hand, the knife handle is placed side by side on the plate, which means that the dish has been used well and the waiter will remove the plate. Appetizers or desserts, etc., if they can be eaten directly with * zi *, there is no need to use a knife deliberately. At family dinners or casual dinners with friends, soft dishes such as salad or egg-wrapped rice can also be eaten only with rice. But using a knife at a formal banquet can give people a more elegant and neat feeling. In addition, in Europe and other places, people can often be seen eating with bread in their right hand. No matter how neat and elegant you eat, this kind of dining can only be done in family or popular shops, and it is absolutely not feasible in high-end restaurants. The unused knife can be put on the table like this, and the waiter will automatically take it away. Although putting the knife and * together on the plate is a message to end the meal, there is no need to put the clean knife into the dirty plate specially. Unused tableware can be left in its original place, but it is strange to insist on the rules of form. It is the most correct to improvise and deal with things according to the situation at that time. Even if you drop it, it's not embarrassing, but it's embarrassing to bend down and pick it up yourself. So when you drop something, you'd better ask the waiter to come and pick it up for you. The waiter always pays attention to the guest's situation, so he will bring new tableware soon. In case the waiter doesn't notice, he can raise his hand slightly to the waiter and try not to attract other people's attention. The waiter's job is to make the guests have a more enjoyable meal, so ask them as much as possible.

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