What we are talking about here is generally a set meal of French western food. There are also differences between Russian and German, and the eating methods are similar. Speaking of a German meal, it is not about serving dishes well, but putting a big plate on the table. Similar to our family dinner, the waiter will carry a big plate one by one to the plate in front of you. If so, you don't have to consider the order. The wrong order is their business. Some of them are simpler to put it directly on the table and divide it by themselves. At this time, you should pay attention to the order. Women first, men later, guests first, so the first person to take food should be a female guest. After this way of serving dishes, there will sometimes be some left on the big plate on the table. If you finish what is on your plate, you should be polite and jump straight at it without asking.
Besides, when the waiter serves food, collects dishes or pours wine, he can lean slightly to the left, even if you are talking to the person on the right, because they all serve from your right, which will facilitate their service and show that they are polite and civilized people. Secondly, there will be no embarrassment of pouring soup on them. After eating a dish, put the knife and fork on the plate side by side, even if there is some left in the plate, which means that you have used up the dish and can collect it. Don't put the knife and fork back on the table, because every dish comes with a set of tableware. If you see that the menu has five dishes, four sets of tableware are placed in front of you. You can ask the restaurant: Do you think I haven't eaten western food?
when it comes to drinking soup, there is also a rule, that is, spoon out. You can't drink it, or it's so-called irregularity. There is also a rule that all dishes and bowls can only be left on the table, and you must never take the bowl to drink soup. This is also a difficult problem for foreigners to eat in Chinese restaurants abroad: how can rice be eaten with chopsticks when it is spread on a plate? I've really seen someone eat a few grains of rice with chopsticks.
The cup on the right hand side, that is, a row of cups placed on the top of a lot of knives (perhaps with one or two spoons) in front of you, is yours. Few people use the cup wrong, but some people often use the bread plate wrong. The bread plate is on the left hand side. According to the menu, the waiter will arrange your cup. Generally, the biggest cup will be saved for last, and the other cups will be taken away after eating a dish. Regular western food generally includes starter, salad, soup, main course, dessert, coffee or tea. Each dish is served with different wine. You don't need to drink wine for the first course-aperitif, salad-white wine and soup, right? Main course-red meat with red wine, white meat with white wine, dessert-sweet wine. Of course, these are the rules of foreigners. If you like, drink a glass of beer to the end, as long as you are happy, who cares?
as everyone says, the left fork and the right knife. In fact, this is the most natural way for all right-handed people, otherwise your knife won't work hard, but if you are left-handed, it's normal to fork your right knife, which is how many left-handed foreigners use it.
also, why do you tear off the bread and eat it? Why are noodles rolled up to eat? Meat with bones should be cut off with a knife and eaten instead of directly biting? I understand that the principle of foreigners is that people's teeth can only be used for chewing, but not for biting (too animalistic). Remember that the previous rules need not be remembered at all. Of course, it's another thing for Americans to eat McDonald's and chew Deji. They are all chewed with their hands.
Silence is another important rule, from which a lot of other rules are derived, such as silence when drinking soup, silence when eating noodles, silence when eating tableware, silence when eating tables and chairs, and don't talk with something in your mouth.
Don't stand up easily, and don't invade other people's space. Foreigners are polite, so do others who stand at the same table get up? Especially if you are a lady or something, and putting your hand in front of others to take things is suspected of invading others' space. So please hand it over, and you two can have a handful of oil of three grams at most.
Keep the table clean, so don't spit bones directly. Catch them with a spoon or take them out directly by hand and put them on the edge of the plate. When you take food with a spoon, scoop it from the edge of the plate near you to the center. Don't make the soup drip along the edge of the plate.
There will be a lot of knives and forks for dinner, but it's not for fun. One key is unlocked one by one. The waiter didn't put it in random, but it's based on the menu of this meal. It doesn't matter if you don't know. You use it from the outside to the inside, and you pay for each dish. It's the man's responsibility to put it wrong.
maybe we should talk about some bad habits first.
1. Knives can't enter. Don't laugh, I've seen many people have this bad habit, including foreigners.
2. Knife and fork should not fight, and be careful not to make noise when using it, such as cutting steak.
3. If you want to take something other than yourself, such as a salt bottle, don't stand up and reach for it, please ask the person closest to it to pass it.
4. Before you finish eating, put the knife and fork on the side of the plate in a splayed shape. Put the knife and fork parallel to the top of the plate when you finish eating.
5. No matter what you eat, don't make any noise, which will be a challenge when eating spaghetti, because orientals suck hard into their mouths when eating noodles. The correct way is to roll it upright with a fork.
speaking of which, there is a true story. There used to be a professor China who went out before liberation and married a foreign wife. A few days before their wedding, his wife asked him what gift he wanted. The old man thought for two days and put forward a suggestion that he should eat noodles with sound on the anniversary night, because he didn't dare to eat with sound for the past 5 years.
Do you know which side (left or right) cup a table should take after sitting down? No problem, because many Americans don't know.
in a word, eating western food is tiring!