The host invites guests to dinner at home, often with traditional meals. Koreans like spicy food, and peppers and garlic are indispensable in staple food and non-staple food. The staple food of Koreans is mainly rice and pasta, and the favorite traditional pasta is Chili noodles and cold noodles, which are used.
Made of buckwheat noodles. Koreans should have a dish of hot and sour vegetables for every meal, especially hot and sour cabbage. At a formal banquet, the first course is to use nine folded plates to hold nine different foods, and then other dishes are served, and hot pot must be prepared on the table. Treat at home, and all the dishes are served at once.
Business guests are usually entertained in restaurants or bars in the form of western food, so there are many western restaurants and Japanese restaurants in Korea. Common western fast food such as hamburgers, fried chicken, hot dogs, etc. are very popular with people. These foods make the traditional diet structure of South Korea dominated by fish, vegetables and rice more convenient and diversified.
The internal structure of the restaurant is divided into two forms, namely, chair type and kang type with shoes off. The sitting posture of the former is roughly the same as that of China people; When eating on the kang, men sit cross-legged and women stand on their right knees-this sitting method is only used when wearing Hanbok. Nowadays, Korean women don't wear hanbok at ordinary times, so just put their legs together and sit down.
Koreans usually use stainless steel flat-headed chopsticks. China people and Japanese people have the habit of eating rice bowls, but Koreans regard this habit as irregular. Since the bowl is misbehaved and the left hand has nothing to do, let it be honestly hidden under the table and not let it "shine" on the table. When eating, you must first pick up the spoon in your right hand, drink a mouthful of soup from kimchi, then eat a mouthful of rice with the spoon, then take another bite of soup, and after eating another bite of rice, you can eat anything at will after this process is completed. For Koreans, spoons are more important than chopsticks. They are responsible for holding soup, fishing for vegetables in soup and loading rice. If the bean sprouts in the soup bowl can't be fished up with a spoon, you can't use chopsticks either. This is the rule. When chopsticks are not holding vegetables, the traditional practice is to put them on the table in the right hand direction, with two chopsticks together, two thirds on the table and one third outside the table, which is for the convenience of picking them up and using them again.
In terms of language, young people must use honorific words to their elders. As for food and drink, when serving or serving food, they should also give it to their elders first, or even set up a single table, which will be respectfully brought to them by their daughters or daughters-in-law, and the rest of the family can eat only after the old people raise their chopsticks. As for pouring wine on the table, it is also necessary to order it according to age, from long to young. When the elders raise their glasses, the young can drink. In addition, there is a traditional habit that men and women sit at different tables at the age of seven, and girls will not sit in the same room with any men (including fathers and brothers) after the age of seven. However, this custom has been gradually broken in big cities, and it can still be seen in the countryside occasionally.
In the past, Korean families put the utensils containing rice in the center of the table, while the dishes were in bowls and placed around. Everyone had a flat spoon with a long handle and round head, a pair of chopsticks and a plate of cold water. When eating, they used the spoon to send the rice directly to their mouths. Chopsticks were used to hold the dishes, while cold water was used to rinse the spoons. Modern Korean dining habits have changed a lot. Many people use food plates, and each person's meal is put on the plate. Some more modern families have used bowls instead of food plates.
The Korean dining table is a short table, and the host and guest sit cross-legged on the floor. Young people will kneel on their feet in front of their elders and never straighten their legs, otherwise they will be considered impolite. If the room is too small, you can put the dining table in the yard and put a mat on it. However, modern Koreans are more and more advocating foreign trends, and they are getting farther and farther away from tradition, regardless of table manners or food etiquette.