When eating western food, cut the food into small pieces with a knife, and then send it into the mouth with a fork. Generally speaking, Europeans don't change hands when using knives and forks, and always use the fork in their left hand to send food into their mouths.

Americans, on the other hand, put down the knife and put the fork in their right hand to send the food into their mouth after cutting it. But at any time, the knife must not be sent to the entrance. At western banquets, the host will arrange for men and women to sit next to each other, and western gentlemen who pay attention to women's priority will show their hospitality to women.

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When eating western food, you should first drink aperitif, mainly alcohol with high alcohol concentration, and eat small salty biscuits at the same time, which is equivalent to adapting your stomach. Then all the people are served. The first course is usually a cold dish, a hot dish cake or seafood, with a medium-shallow plate.

If the first course is soup, you have to use a deep plate with a large spoon. No matter what you eat, this first plate must be removed. The main course that follows is eaten in a shallow dish, including at least two hot dishes, one meat and one vegetable, and sometimes rice or noodles, which are side dishes.

The staple food is always French bread. After all the people put the food on their plates, the hostess picked up the knife and fork and said, have a good appetite, before the guests can start.

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