There is usually a seating arrangement at the entrance of the restaurant. After sitting down, the waiter will hand the customer a menu, verbally ask what he likes to eat, and proactively recommend the restaurant's signature dishes or special dishes. After ordering, the waiter will repeat the name of the ordered dish to the customer, and the order is considered complete.

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Ordering skills

How to order cold appetizers:

1. Choose starchy foods for cold dishes.

Traditional cold dishes are mainly fish, meat and eggs. Drinking alcohol and eating meat on an empty stomach is actually not good for the health of the gastrointestinal tract and the balance of nutrients. It is more reasonable to use staple food as side dishes. However, if it is entertaining friends or a business banquet, it will appear unruly and disrespectful to serve the staple food as soon as it is served. The solution is to work on your cold cuts selection.

For example, you can order some starchy cold dishes with fruits, vegetables and cold meats. Eat starchy foods and vegetables at the beginning of a meal, then eat a few mouthfuls of protein-containing fish and meat, and then start drinking alcohol. This will allow some starch to enter the stomach first, which can reduce subsequent protein waste and relieve hunger quickly. Slow down your meal to reduce the harm of drinking on an empty stomach.

Moreover, the dietary fiber contained in these cold dishes can also make up for the lack of hot dishes later.

Recommended cold dishes: Cold dishes should be mainly vegetarian, with as few greasy dishes as possible. Just order one of the braised fish and pork dishes, and pair it with some cold dishes containing starch, such as soba noodles and fern root. Rice noodles, rice jelly, mashed potatoes, glutinous rice and lotus root, lily and red dates, spiced kidney beans, etc. You can also order one or two of various low-oil raw vegetables, cold fruit salad, etc.

2. How to order hot dishes for dinner:

Diversified food categories. Many times, people think that their dishes are rich enough, but if they take a closer look, they are just a combination of a few ingredients such as stewed pork, fried pork, and pork meatballs.

You might as well divide the food into meat, aquatic products, eggs, vegetables, soy products, staple foods, etc. When ordering, all types of food should be included. Among the meats, try to choose as much as possible. Various varieties, pork, beef, chicken, duck, etc. can be considered, and the ingredients should not be repeated as much as possible.

3. The proportion of meat and vegetables should be reasonable.

Although it is impossible to completely achieve the ratio of one meat to three vegetables when dining out, as long as you order wisely, you can still achieve a ratio of 1:1 or even 1:2. Vegetables are also divided into green leafy vegetables, orange vegetables, light-colored vegetables, fungus vegetables, etc. Try to achieve a variety of combinations in terms of matching.

The principle is that there should be a wide variety of vegetarian ingredients, and animal ingredients should not be excessive but refined. Such a meal can leave a beautiful and deep impression on people.

Dish recommendations: In addition to vegan dishes, you might as well choose dishes that contain both meat and vegetable ingredients, such as meat with nuts and vegetables, chicken soup with vegetables and fungi, and aquatic products with greens. Surrounding the edges, etc., can not only achieve a gourmet feel, but also improve the proportion of various ingredients. ?

4. The cooking method should use less oil.

When ordering, ask the chef to use as little oil and salt as possible when cooking. You can also ask the waiter to serve soup and vegetarian dishes earlier, especially when frying vegetables, do not pour oil on them, so that you can eat less oil and salt. If possible, order more dishes that use steaming, boiling, or stewing as the main cooking methods.

How to order staple food:

1. Try to have the staple food as early as possible.

At most banquets, people consider whether to eat the staple food after eating a lot of fish and meat. This is not conducive to the utilization of protein, brings a burden to the body, and is not conducive to controlling blood lipids.

In order not to affect people’s interest, in addition to some starch-containing varieties in cold dishes, you can also choose varieties containing ingredients such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro, miscellaneous grains, and miscellaneous beans in hot dishes. , such as taro stewed chicken, pork ribs stewed with lotus root, red kidney beans and white mushrooms and beef cubes, or you can have the main course in advance after two or three hot dishes.

2. Choose more whole grains, beans and potatoes.

In addition to white rice and soft pasta, the staple food options in most restaurants are pastries, steamed buns, dumplings, fried rice and the like.

Refined white rice and white flour steamed buns do not have high nutritional value and raise blood sugar quickly, although they do not have much fat. It is worth noting that other staple foods contain oil, salt or sugar, and there are no whole grains in them.

Pay special attention to eating less crispy snacks, which usually contain a lot of saturated fat and are not good for your health. We have already eaten so many high-fat dishes at the banquet, and there is already quite a surplus of oil and salt. Wouldn't it be worse to add more oil and salt to the staple food? So it is better to choose more whole grains.

Staple food recommendation: Some cold dishes contain whole grains, such as buckwheat flour, oatmeal noodles, large kidney beans, etc. It’s best to order some whole grain and potato combinations like “Farmhouse”.

Many restaurants now have combinations such as steamed corn, sweet potato, taro, and pumpkin, which not only create a happy atmosphere, but also provide nutritional value that polished rice and white noodles do not have. In addition, some corn tortillas, steamed buns, purple rice porridge, mung bean porridge, etc. are also good staple food choices.

How to order fruit to accompany the meal?

1. You might as well serve the fruit early.

If you do not deliberately control your food intake, your stomach will be full after the meal. Adding fruit at this time will increase the energy supply, which is not conducive to weight control. If you can include fruit into a meal and serve it as a cold dish for breakfast, you can avoid the problem of excess energy in a meal.

Especially for those with high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and obesity, if they eat fruits on an empty stomach without gastrointestinal discomfort, if they can eat fruits first and use them to fill their stomach bags, they can make up for the lack of vegetables and fiber during meals. Preventing overeating and improving nutritional balance may be helpful.

In addition, it is not very appropriate to provide cold fruit or ice cream before and after meals. Especially for people with weak gastrointestinal function, eating greasy food and eating cold fruits after meals may affect digestion and absorption and cause discomfort. Therefore, do not refrigerate the fruits that are served with the meal. It is more appropriate to keep the fruits at room temperature.