Dishes pay attention to the balance of light, strong, pungent and sweet tastes, and the texture, temperature, color and seasoning of different foods should also be coordinated. Different from the catering culture in China, western food is usually eaten together, and each dish exists to improve the enjoyment of taste buds.
Ordering and serving order of formal western food
① First course (appetizer) ② Soup ③ Side dish ④ Main course ⑤ Side dish ⑤ Dessert ⑤ Hot drink (coffee or tea).
Five principles of ordering western food
1. When ordering, don't repeat the taste of each dish. You can order different kinds of dishes before and after.
2. Don't choose fruits (except grapefruit) as appetizers, because the sweetness will dull the taste buds.
If the first course is fried food wrapped in flour, don't choose cakes and other foods as desserts.
If the first course is cream soup, don't order vegetables with cream juice in the main course.
5. The sauces in all dishes are served only once.
1. First course (appetizer)
The first course is the first course of western food, also called appetizer. Generally can be divided into cold start and hot start. The purpose of appetizers is to stimulate taste buds and increase appetite. The taste is mainly salty and sour, with little quantity and high quality.
Common appetizers include caviar, foie gras, smoked frog fish, cocktail glasses and roasted snails.
2. soup
Soup is usually the first course of Chinese food, but it is the second course of western food. A small amount of hot soup can stimulate taste buds and add some "lubricants" to the digestive tract.
Western-style soup can be roughly divided into clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup. There are oxtail clear soup, various cream soups, seafood soup, American clam soup, Italian vegetable soup, Russian Luo Songtang soup and French roasted onion soup. There are few varieties of cold soup, such as German cold soup and Russian cold soup.
3. Additional dishes outside the main dish
Side dishes are the third course of western food, usually called white meat, mainly aquatic dishes and eggs, bread and crispy box dishes, including all kinds of fresh and seawater fish, shellfish and mollusks. Fish and other dishes are placed in front of meat dishes because they are tender and easy to digest. Western-style fish dishes pay attention to the use of special sauces, including tartar sauce, Dutch sauce, hotel sauce, white cream sauce, American sauce and sailor fish sauce.
Step 4: Main course
The main course is the fourth course of western food, usually called red meat, mainly pork, beef, mutton and so on. Among them, beef or steak is the most representative, and its cooking methods are often roast, fried and iron plate. Sauces used in meat dishes mainly include Spanish sauce, concentrated boiled sauce, mushroom sauce and Baines sauce.
5. Additional dishes outside the main dish
The taste of side dishes is relatively light, mainly to remove the heavy taste in the mouth and restore the perception of taste buds. Side dishes are mainly vegetables (salads), usually served after or at the same time as meat dishes.
Salad with the main course is called raw vegetable salad, which is usually made of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and asparagus. The main sauces are vinegar oil juice, French juice, dried island juice, cheese salad juice and so on. Some vegetables are cooked, such as broccoli, boiled spinach and potato chips.
6. dessert
Dessert is eaten after the main course. As the sixth course of western food, it includes all foods after the main course, such as pudding, jelly, pancakes, ice cream, cheese and fruit.
7. Hot drinks (coffee or tea)
The last course of western food is to serve drinks, coffee or tea. Coffee usually has sugar and whipped cream. Tea is usually flavored with peach slices and sugar. Of course, there is no need to pay full attention to "one master and six matches" for a simple western food. If you order too much but can't finish it, it's not only a waste, but also a rude performance. For those who don't eat much, you can order an appetizer and a main course, plus a dessert. You can skip soup or appetizers. It is also more appropriate.