Dishes: A Western meal is divided into seven steps, which are: 1. Appetizer (appetizer, which can be cold or hot. In fact, it is very similar to our cold dishes, very flavorful and unique.) 2. Soup (also

It is divided into four categories: clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup) 3. Side dishes (usually something to match, such as aquatic dishes and eggs, bread, crispy dishes, etc., and eat some meat

The main dish may be a kind of sauce) 4. Main dish (meat and poultry dishes) 5. Vegetables (mostly salads and other vegetables paired with the main dish) 6. Desserts (such as pudding, ice cream, cheese, coffee, etc.,

If the coffee should be coffee with sugar and light cream, this is actually a time to drink it lightly after a meal, and you can also choose "tea") 7. Fruit.

Ordering: We know that Western food is divided into seven categories, so in formal Western food activities, at least one must be included in each step.

If you have a small gathering, just five courses: appetizer, soup, main course, dessert, and coffee!

(As a side dish, you can order one to two slices of bread per person, and add some butter according to personal needs.) Western food is served in separate meals, and it is customary for individuals to order their own dishes, so those who treat guests should pay attention to this and not order them like Chinese food.

The dishes are generously arranged, and if the guests can accept the host's taste, they will generally say the same thing and order the same or similar dishes as the host.

Order wine: If the dish is meat, it should be paired with red wine, and if it is fish, it should be paired with white wine.

Before serving food, you might as well have a glass of lighter wine such as champagne, sherry or gill wine, so you can generally choose more than a few types of wine when eating Western food.

In addition, the acid in the salad of Western food greatly destroys the mellow aroma of the wine, so you can choose an acidic wine to match it, so that the acid contained in the wine will be decomposed by the lactic acid of the salad, which is an absolute match.

How to eat: 1. Napkin: After ordering, before the food is delivered, open the napkin, fold it inward by one-third, and let two-thirds of it lie flat on your legs, covering your hands above the knees.

Leg part.

It is best not to tuck the napkin into the neckline.

2. Drink soup: Don’t suck the soup when drinking it. Use a spoon to scoop up the soup from back to front. Place the bottom of the spoon on your lower lip and bring the soup into your mouth.

The handle of the spoon is at an angle of 5 degrees to the mouth, and the upper part of the body is slightly tilted forward.

When there is not much soup left in the bowl, you can slightly raise the bowl with your fingers. If the soup is served in a bowl with a handle ring, you can drink it directly with the handle ring. Do not hold other bowls to drink.

3. Bread: First tear it into small pieces with both hands, then eat it with your left hand.

When eating hard bread, it is not only laborious to tear it with your hands, but also the crumbs will fall all over the floor. You can cut it in half with a knife, and then tear it into pieces with your hands.

Instead of cutting the bread like a saw, insert the knife into the center first and cut off the part closer to your body, then turn the bread over and cut off the other half.

You can fix the bread when cutting to avoid making any noise.

4. Eat fish: Fish meat is very tender and fragile, so restaurants do not prepare knives but use spoons.

This kind of spoon is slightly larger and flatter than those commonly used for soup. It can not only cut dishes, but also scoop up vegetables and sauces to eat together.

If you want to eat other mixed vegetables, it is better to use a fork.

For fish bones, first use a knife to pierce a straight line near the gills of the fish. The tip of the knife should not penetrate through, but only penetrate halfway.

After picking up the upper body of the fish, start from the beginning, place the knife under the bones, cut towards the tail, remove the bones and move them to a corner of the plate.

Finally, cut off the fish tail.

5. Meat dishes: British people hold a fork in their left hand, with the fork tip facing down, pierce the meat and put it into their mouth. If it is burnt vegetables, they use a table knife to put the vegetables on the fork and put it into their mouth.

Americans cut meat in the same way, then put down the knife with their right hand and switch to a table fork. With the fork pointed upward, insert it under the meat. Instead of using the knife, they scoop up the meat and put it into the mouth to eat the burnt vegetables.

This is also how you scoop it up and eat it.

6. Sauce: Use a spoon for sauce in the same way as a regular spoon.

You should use a fork to push the food onto the sauce spoon before eating, rather than holding the food with the fork and then pouring the sauce on the spoon, as the latter is against etiquette.

Note on knives and forks: Western food uses knives and forks, so the basic movements are: hold the knife in your right hand to cut, and then hold the fork in your left hand to fork the food.

If there are more than two knives and forks, they should be used in order from the outermost one.

The way to hold a knife and fork is to hold the end lightly and press the index finger on the handle.

Hold the spoon like a pen.

If it feels inconvenient, you can change the right hand to hold the fork, but changing it frequently will appear rude.

When eating larger vegetables, use a knife and fork to fold and cut them.

Softer foods can be placed on the flat surface of a fork and trimmed with a knife.

If you want to put down your knife and fork to rest or talk about something in the middle of eating, you should place the knife and fork in the center of the plate in a figure eight shape.

If the knife and fork protrude from the plate, it is unsafe and unsightly.

It is impolite to wave a knife and fork while talking.

After eating, place the knife and fork at four o'clock.

The French are definitely comparable to us Chinese in their emphasis on food. It can even be said that they are better than us in treating food as an art.

In addition to paying attention to the color, aroma, and flavor of their food, the French also pay special attention to the mood when dining, such as exquisite tableware, dim candlelight, elegant environment, etc.

Pairing every dish and drink in a French meal is an "art".

An aperitif before a meal is indispensable, and the type and even color of the wine during the meal is very particular.

When ordering meat, drink red wine with it. When eating seafood such as fish and shrimp, drink white wine. Some people also like to drink a little hard liquor such as brandy after a meal.

The wine glasses used for each type of wine are different.