14 necessary ordering skills
1, it is best to drink less soup.
Usually, the soup in restaurants contains 100 ml and 2-2 grams of salt. After drinking two bowls of soup, you may have eaten 5 grams of salt. Meat soups such as ribs soup and chicken soup contain a lot of fat and cholesterol. If you must drink it, you'd better choose to drink it before meals, so as to reduce your food intake and avoid taking in extra salt. Or order tofu soup, tomato and egg soup and other home-cooked soups. If it's a banquet, you can order tremella soup or something.
2. The staple food should be prepared in advance as far as possible.
On the dining table, the order of serving "cold dishes-hot dishes-soup-staple food" seems to be a fixed pattern, and many people don't remember to order staple food until the wine and vegetables are full. This will make people eat a lot of animal food when they are most hungry and have the strongest appetite. Therefore, eating staple food early can not only reduce the burden of gastrointestinal tract, but also protect blood lipid and maintain nutritional balance. If you drink alcohol, you can use other starchy foods instead of staple food when ordering, such as cold dishes containing coarse grains such as buckwheat flour and oatmeal, dishes containing potatoes and taro, or dishes containing lotus leaf cakes, tortillas and other staple foods.
3. Less fake "vegetarian dishes"
Usually, the leftovers on the table are mostly meat dishes, and vegetables have long been robbed. This is because some vegetarian dishes that are often ordered may not be true. Among them, three "vegetarian dishes" are the most unhealthy: three fresh potatoes, oil eggplant and dried beans. These three dishes were all washed in an oil bath. Although the raw material is vegetarian, once it is oiled, the calories are higher than meat. Therefore, it is best to order more light vegetables, such as stir-fried spinach and garlic mixed with chrysanthemum.
4. Light vegetables are fresher.
Many people are willing to order "next meal" when they go to a restaurant. Sometimes they choose the right ingredients, but they ignore the practice. In fact, one or two strong dishes are enough for a table, and the rest should be matched with fresh dishes so as not to make the taste buds too tired. In addition, rich cooking often masks the stale smell and inferior texture of raw materials. Therefore, it is best to eat steamed fish, cold or stir-fried vegetables, stewed meat and boiled seafood.
5. Don't be too "colored" when ordering.
According to common sense, the color of meat dishes served from the kitchen should not be beautiful. Fried shredded beef is brown, and fried shredded tenderloin should be gray. Even if the meat is dyed red with soy sauce, it can only be reddish-brown sauce color. Before frying meat dishes, the restaurant will "touch up" the meat products and use nitrite as coloring agent, so that the fried meat is tender and the color is good. So those dishes that look too bright, it is better to eat less.
6, cold dishes should not let meat food sing "protagonist"
Many people habitually place cold dishes such as sauce beef and thousand layers of crispy ears to stimulate their appetite. In fact, choosing some refreshing vegetarian cold dishes can balance too many problems in Otawa and protein. Vegetables such as raw mix and dipping sauce, and cold dishes with high starch content such as fern root powder and yam are all good choices. These refreshing foods can ensure the intake of dietary fiber, potassium and magnesium in a meal, and can also prevent protein from being wasted as energy.
7. When browsing the menu, pay more attention to four methods: steaming, boiling, stewing and mixing.
This cooking method can not only maintain nutrition, but also reduce fat content and calories. Try to order fewer dishes with the words fried, fried or griddle. In particular, the traditional way to stir-fry dry vegetables is to stir-fry with a small amount of oil for a long time, but now most restaurants directly stir-fry with a large amount of oil to save trouble, which not only causes the loss of vitamins, but also destroys nutrients such as protein, starch and fat, and even produces carcinogens.
8. One person and one dish
Generally speaking, for four people to eat, it is just right to order 3 hot 1 cold and 7 hot 1 cold for five people. For more than eight people, subtracting 2 from the number of people should be enough. For unfamiliar dishes, ask about the amount of food before ordering to avoid overeating.
9. Don't go to a restaurant when you are too hungry.
When you order food on an empty stomach, your eyes will first pay attention to those greasy foods that are high in fat and calories, regardless of the stomach's tolerance. So before going to a restaurant, you'd better eat some fruit, a few soda cookies or drink a small cup of yogurt.
10, turn over the menu, don't just look at the pictures.
When looking at the menu, don't just stare at the menu map, but also look at the dishes without pictures. Because most dishes with pictures are expensive meat dishes, they are likely to be very different from the real dishes on the table. If the menu is marked with ingredients, please pay more attention.
1 1 Scanning for Neighbors
As soon as they enter the restaurant, many people can't wait to find a seat or turn over the menu to order. In fact, the best thing to do at this time is to scan the neighbor's desktop, observe what dishes others have ordered, the size, color and degree of eating, and then choose the dishes with high "appearance rate", which will not be bad in cost performance, especially in unfamiliar restaurants. In addition, if the restaurant is crowded, most of the dishes on the table have not been served yet, which means that the serving speed will not be fast. At this time, you'd better order some cold dishes, and order less dishes that take a long time to cook, so as to avoid waiting for a long time.
12, the more families, the lower the cost performance.
Many middle-aged and elderly people like to order home-cooked dishes such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes and shredded potatoes with vinegar, which seems to save money, but in fact these dishes have the biggest profit margin. For example, a plate of 12 yuan fried potato shreds in a restaurant probably needs two medium-sized potatoes, weighing about 1kg. At present, the market price of potatoes is around 2 yuan/Jin, and the cost of a plate of shredded potatoes is around 2% and 5 yuan, including cooking oil and seasonings. Therefore, it is the most cost-effective to choose dishes with medium price in restaurants.
13, don't come for dinner until the restaurant is ready to close 15 minutes.
At this time, the chef is already very tired, and often cooks your food hastily, which greatly reduces the quality of the food. In some restaurants, before closing, the waiter has begun to "clean up" and let you finish the dinner in the dust.
14. Don't order anything that isn't on the menu.
Almost all restaurants are reluctant to cook dishes that are not on the menu. First of all, the chef is not familiar with the cooking methods of dishes. Second, the ingredients will definitely not be prepared in advance, and the processing method may be far from the requirements. So you'd better order the "housekeeping" of this restaurant.
Western food etiquette and ordering skills
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The first course of western food is the first course, also called appetizer. The contents of appetizers are generally divided into cold dishes or hot dishes. The common varieties are caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, cocktail cups, creamy chicken crisp boxes, local snails and so on. Because appetizers are appetizers, appetizers generally have a special flavor, which is mainly salty and sour, with a small quantity and high quality.
soup
Very different from Chinese food, the second course of western food is soup. 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 onion soup. There are few varieties of cold soup, such as German cold soup and Russian cold soup.
side dish
Fish dishes are generally regarded as the third course of western food, also known as side dishes. Species include all kinds of freshwater and seawater fish, shellfish and molluscs. Aquatic vegetables, eggs, bread and crispy box vegetables are usually called side dishes. Because fish and other dishes are tender and easy to digest, they are placed in front of meat dishes and have different names from the main course of meat dishes. Western fish dishes pay attention to the use of special sauces, including tartar sauce, Dutch sauce, hotel sauce, white cream sauce, archbishop sauce, American sauce and sailor fish sauce.
main course
Meat and poultry dishes are the fourth course of western food, also known as the main course. The raw materials of meat dishes are from cattle, sheep, pigs, cowboys and other parts, of which beef or steak is the most representative. Steaks can be divided into sirloin steak (also called sirloin steak), filet mignon, "T" bone steak and thin steak. Its cooking methods are often baking, frying, baking and so on. Sauces used in meat dishes mainly include Spanish sauce, concentrated boiled sauce, mushroom sauce and Baines sauce. The raw materials of food dishes are chicken, duck, goose, rabbit meat and venison, which are usually classified as poultry dishes. Chicken is the most variety of poultry dishes, including pheasant, turkey and bamboo chicken, which can be cooked, fried, roasted and stewed. The main sauces are yellow gravy, curry juice and cream juice.
Vegetable dishes
Vegetarian dishes can be arranged after meat dishes or served at the same time with meat dishes, so they can be regarded as a dish or a side dish. Vegetables are called salads in western food. The salad served with the main course is called raw vegetable salad, which is usually made of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and asparagus. The main sauces of salad are vinegar oil juice, French juice, dried island juice, cheese salad juice and so on. Besides vegetables, there is another salad made of fish, meat and eggs. Generally, this salad is not seasoned and can be eaten as the first course in the order of eating. There are some cooked vegetables, such as broccoli, boiled spinach and French fries. Cooked vegetables are usually served on the plate with the meat dishes of the main course, which is called side dishes.
dessert
The dessert of western food is eaten after the main course, which can be regarded as the sixth course. In a real sense, it includes all the food after the main course, such as pudding, pancakes, ice cream, cheese, fruit and so on. Coffee and tea The last course of western food is to serve drinks, coffee or tea. Coffee usually contains sugar and whipped cream. Tea usually contains fragrant peach slices and sugar.
There is no need to order all the formal meals. It is impolite to order too much and not finish it. People who only order appetizers are not welcome in restaurants with a little standard. Appetizers, main courses (fish or meat) and desserts are the most suitable combinations. Ordering is not an appetizer, but a favorite main course, and then a soup suitable for the main course.
Napkins can indicate the beginning and end of a banquet.
In western banquets, napkins are an important prop with many signal functions. At a formal banquet, the hostess spread a napkin on her lap to mark the beginning of the banquet. This is the first function of napkin, which can indicate the beginning and end of the banquet. In the west, ladies are preferred, and the hostess is the first guest at a western banquet. If the hostess doesn't sit, no one else can sit. The hostess spread the napkin on her lap, which means everyone can start. On the other hand, the hostess will put napkins on the table, which marks the end of the party. In addition, it must be noted that napkins can only be spread on the legs and cannot be placed elsewhere. Napkins should be placed on your legs, usually folded into long strips or triangles, to avoid dishes and soup staining your skirt or pants when eating.
Napkins left in the middle should be placed on the surface of the chair.
For example, when I was eating western food, a phone call suddenly came in. This figure is very important, I must answer it, but it is not appropriate to answer it at the dinner table. I'm going out to make a phone call. Where can I put my napkin? Remember, generally speaking, when you come back from dinner, you should continue to eat. One of the most standard methods is to put the napkin on the seat surface, which means a sense and takes up a lot of space. In addition, napkins can wipe your mouth, but you can't wipe your knife and fork or sweat. You can't put the knife and fork side by side before you finish eating.
Western dinner is different from fast food. Sometimes fast food can be served without a knife and fork. But there are usually knives and forks for dinner, and there are more than one pair, often two or three pairs. No matter what kind of knife and fork you use, it's usually a left fork and a right knife. It pays special attention to the use of knives and forks in western food. There is one of the most convenient rules of the game: eat a dish with a knife and fork. Generally speaking, salads, seafood and main courses have three forks.
The three forks are taken from outside to inside in turn. First take the outermost pair, usually eat salad, then take the middle pair, usually eat seafood, and finally take the innermost pair, usually eat main course and steak.
If you eat half a meal, how to put the knife and fork is particular. Just as it is impolite for China people to point at others with chopsticks when eating, knives and forks in western food should not point at people. Moreover, when using knives and forks in western food, we will pay attention to this. For example, what are the general habits? The elbow joints of the left and right hands should be sandwiched between the sides of the waist, which can control your cutting action. Don't be like a carpenter, the noise is annoying.
It has a special point. If you talk to others, put the knife and fork on the plate with Chinese characters, and the blade is inward rather than outward. Fork up, teeth down. This action is to tell the waiter and others that I haven't finished this dish. You must never put it together. If the knife and fork are placed side by side, the blade is inward and the fork teeth are upward, which means you can take it away without eating it.
According to etiquette, the most comfortable seats are always reserved for the most important people. If the table is in the corner, your guest's seat should be against the wall so that he can see the whole hall or the best scenery. If there are four cups in front of your napkin, you should hold water in the large cup, red wine in the medium cup, white wine in the small cup and champagne in the goblet according to very clear rules.
If you are the host or you pour wine, you should first pour your own cup (only fill the bottom) and taste it. If you think the wine tastes bad (it smells like cork or obvious vinegar), then you should ask for a different bottle of wine from the same origin. If the wine is good, you should pour the wine for your guests in order of importance. Wipe your lips with a napkin after drinking, even if you don't think it is necessary.
Western etiquette and common sense of ordering food
The first one is "menu"
When you enter the western restaurant, the waiter will show you to your seat first. When you sit down, the menu will come up first. The menu is regarded as the facade of the restaurant and the boss has always attached great importance to it. The cover of the menu is made of the best fabrics, and some even make all kinds of beautiful patterns with soft sheepskin.
There is a knack for ordering good food. Open the menu and see which dish is named after the hotel. You know, no chef will joke about his name, so the dishes they try to cook will be delicious and important.
Reading menus and ordering food has become an essential procedure for eating western food, and it is a way of life. "
The second is "music"
Luxury and high-end western restaurants should have bands and play some soft music, and ordinary small western restaurants also play some wonderful music. However, the most important thing here is the "audibility" of music, that is, the sound should reach the level of "listening but not smelling", that is to say, if you concentrate on talking with your friends, you can't hear it, but if you want to have a rest and relax, you can hear it, and you should master this temperature.
The third is "mood" (atmosphere)
Western food pays attention to elegant environment and harmonious atmosphere. There must be music, white tablecloths and flowers, and all tableware must be clean. If it is dinner, the lights should be dim and there should be red candles on the table to create a romantic, charming and elegant atmosphere.
The fourth is "meeting"
In other words, you have to choose who to eat western food with, and it must be friends, relatives and people with similar interests. Eating western food is mainly to connect feelings, and rarely talk about business at the western food table. Therefore, in western restaurants, there are few scenes of red face.
The fifth is the "way" (customs)
Also known as "eating" and "eating", in short, we should follow western customs and not do anything abrupt, especially when holding a knife and fork. If we dance, we will "lose our manners". When using a knife and fork, you should hold the knife in your right hand and the fork in your left hand. Cut the food into small pieces and send it to your mouth with a knife and fork. Generally speaking, Europeans don't change their hands when using knives and forks. They always use the fork of their left hand to feed food into their mouths. Americans put down the knife after cutting and put the food into their mouths with a fork in their right hand. But at any time, the knife must not be sent to the entrance. At western banquets, the host will arrange men and women to sit next to each other, and western gentlemen who pay attention to "ladies first" will show their hospitality to the ladies.
The sixth is "rice" (food)
An American gourmet once said: "Japanese people eat with their eyes, and the cooking style is beautiful." We eat western food with our noses, so our noses are very big; " Only you great China people know how to eat with your tongue. "Our Chinese food takes" taste "as the core, and western food takes nutrition as the core. As for the taste, it can't be compared with Chinese food.
8 tips for ordering food outside home
Ordering food at dinner is a scene we often encounter. So, how can we order food without waste, balanced nutrition and satisfaction? Here are some practical ordering tips.
First of all, look at the number of people and consider the order quantity. General order number = number of people eating+1 or 2. In other words, if four people eat, they usually order 5-6 dishes.
Second, the balance between meat and vegetables. Modern people pay more attention to health, so the ratio of meat to vegetables is 1: 1.5 or 1:2.
Third, the variety of meat dishes should be balanced. Divide meat dishes into three categories: seafood, poultry and livestock. Birds refer to chickens, ducks and geese, and livestock refer to pigs, cattle, sheep and dogs. When ordering meat dishes, we try to get these three kinds of meat dishes on the table, that is, choose a little of each meat dish to achieve a balanced collocation.
Fourth, the types of vegetarian dishes should be balanced. Vegetarian dishes are divided into leaves, fruits, fungi and beans. When ordering vegetarian dishes, try to order some of each vegetarian dish, not just one.
Fifth, consider the way of cooking. Cooking methods usually include mixing, pickling, soaking, frying, frying, roasting, stewing, steaming, roasting, frying, frying, stewing, boiling, stewing and stewing. If possible, try to choose a dish for each cooking method. If the number of people is small, you can choose some healthy cooking methods, such as steaming, boiling, stewing and mixing.
Fifth, consider the taste. Taste is generally divided into sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. When ordering food, we should also consider the variety of tastes to meet different people's preferences. Usually pickles are the main ingredient, and the other four flavors are matched with a little.
Sixth, besides ordering vegetarian dishes, you need to order staple food and soup. The staple food can be rice, flour, flour and bread, and you can choose 1-2.
Seventh, ask others in advance whether they are afraid of food. For example, if you don't eat coriander, pork, chopped green onion and sauerkraut, you will be allergic to seafood and fungi.
Eighth, ask the waiter about the main dishes and signature dishes in the store. Generally, such dishes are not bad.