Western food is very different from Chinese food in menu arrangement. Take holding a banquet as an example. In addition to nearly 10 kinds of cold dishes, Chinese banquets are rich in 6-8 kinds of hot dishes, plus snacks, sweets and fruits. Although there are 6-7 courses in western food, it seems very complicated, but there is generally only one course. Let's briefly introduce the serving order below, hoping to help you when you first order in a western restaurant.
1. Head plate
Also known as appetizers, there are generally cold dishes and hot starters. The common varieties are caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, chicken tail cup, creamy chicken crisp box, local snail and so on.
2. soup
It can be roughly divided into clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup. There are oxtail clear soup, all kinds of cream soup, seafood soup, American clam soup, Italian vegetable soup and Russian Luo Songtang. French onion soup.
3. Side dishes
Usually aquatic dishes and eggs, bread and crispy box dishes are called side dishes. Western food pays attention to the use of special sauces when eating fish dishes, including tartar sauce, Dutch sauce, hotel sauce, white cream sauce, archbishop sauce, American sauce and sailor fish sauce.
Step 4: Main course
Meat and poultry dishes are the main courses. Among them, beef or steak is the most representative, and the seasonings used in meat dishes mainly include Spanish juice, concentrated sauce, mushroom juice, white silk juice and so on. The raw materials of poultry dishes are taken from chickens. Ducks and geese; The most common poultry dishes are chicken, which can be boiled, fried, roasted and simmered. The main sauces are curry juice and cream juice.
5. Vegetable dishes
It can be arranged after meat dishes or served at the same time with meat dishes. Vegetable dishes are called salads in western food. Salad with the main course at the same time is called raw vegetable salad, which is usually made of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and asparagus. There is also a kind made of fish, meat and eggs, generally without flavor juice.
6. dessert
The dessert of western food is eaten after the main course and can be counted as the sixth course. In a real sense, it includes all the food after the main course, such as pudding, ice cream, cheese, fruit and so on.
7.coffee
Coffee is usually served with sugar and whipped cream.