Etiquette of western-style napkins

Etiquette of western-style napkins, now we can eat food from other countries at will. Western restaurants are the most exquisite in foreign restaurants, so we must pay attention to the corresponding etiquette when eating in formal western restaurants. Next, I'll show you the etiquette of western-style napkins.

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1. Before eating

(1) After taking a seat, don't open your napkin in a hurry. The first person to open the napkin should be the host, and this action announces the official start of the dinner. Except buffet, napkins can be unfolded when you start eating buffet.

(2) Please be careful not to take other people's napkins by mistake.

In more formal banquets, napkins are usually folded and put on the decorative plate in the middle of the seat.

If the napkin cloth is not placed on the middle plate, it will be on your left, and the napkin on the right belongs to the guest sitting on your right.

sometimes the napkin is put in the cup, and your napkin is in the cup on the right.

(3) unfold the napkin with gentle movements, and don't use too much force or shake the napkin. The size of the napkin determines the extent of unfolding the napkin.

For larger napkins provided for more formal banquets, you can spread them in half and put them on your lap.

If it is a small and fast napkin, it can be completely unfolded and covered on the thigh.

(4) If you are not a child or a person who is inconvenient to eat, it is best not to hang a napkin cloth on your chest.

don't fold the napkin to the button or belt.

(But if you want to serve some odds and ends snacks, you can also follow the host when he puts the napkin under his chin or around his neck)

2.

(1) The napkin is to prevent the sauce from dripping and soiling clothes. However, the most important thing is to wipe your mouth. You need to wipe your mouth with a napkin when you accidentally get oil stains in your mouth during eating. Note:

After eating greasy food, your mouth is full of oil stains. It is really indecent to talk to people with this respect, so you should wipe your mouth with a napkin in time.

When drinking, you will leave oil stains on the glass, which is very unsightly, so be sure to wipe your mouth with a napkin before drinking.

A lady who wears lipstick should wipe it with a napkin before drinking, so as to avoid lipstick stains on the glass.

When wiping your mouth with a napkin cloth, avoid excessive movements. The correct and elegant way to use it is to gently wipe it.

(2) Napkin cloth is used to wipe your mouth', so don't use it to wipe your face or tableware. If you need to wipe sweat or tableware, you can use a paper towel.

(3) Napkins can be soiled. If you don't want to soil napkins, it is against the dining etiquette to take out your handkerchief or tissue.

(4) When you spit out fish bones or fruit seeds, you can cover your mouth with a napkin, spit directly in the napkin, and then fold the napkin inside.

(5) It is best to avoid leaving the table in the middle of the banquet. If you have to leave the table temporarily, there are two general methods:

Press the corner of the napkin with a plate or knife to let it hang down from the edge of the table. Of course, the dirty side faces inward to be elegant.

Fold the napkin and put it on the chair. If the chair is padded, the oily side of the napkin should face up.

3. After the meal

(1) When the meal is finished, the action of putting the napkin cloth back on the table is also done by the host first, which means that the dinner is over.

(2) After the meal, first pick up the napkin on your leg and fold it at will (you don't need to fold it neatly, you can't crumple it on a single page), then put the napkin on the left side of your plate, and then get up and leave your seat. It is not polite to shake or fold the napkin after standing up.

(3) If coffee is still available after a meal, the napkin will of course remain on your lap until it is used up, and then put it back on the table. Etiquette of western-style napkins 2

Etiquette of western-style food: how to use knives and forks

1. When eating meat dishes, the British hold the fork in their left hand, with the fork tip facing down, tie up the meat and send it to their mouths. If it is a burnt vegetable, they put the dish on the fork with a knife and send it to their mouths. Americans cut the meat in the same way, and then put down the knife with their right hand and change the fork, fork and fork.

2. When eating, using the back of a fork to scoop it up is not against table manners, but it does look unsightly. When eating rice and other dishes, you can naturally turn the fork to the front and scoop it up, because the concave part of the fork is designed for this purpose.

3. At this time, you can also use a knife to assist the dining action. When scooping up the dishes on the plate, use a knife to prevent the dishes from scattering outside the plate, so that the food on the plate can be scooped up neatly. If there are dishes covered with sauce, you can also scrape the sauce with a knife, and then send the dishes and information together with a spoon or a spoon of sauce.

4. It's a mistake to fork it and then pour the sauce on it with a spoon, because then, when the food is delivered to your mouth, the sauce will drip everywhere and make a mess.

5. When scooping up food with a fork, hold the fork with your left hand and put the food on the fork belly on the front of the fork and send it to the mouth. If you don't need a knife, you can eat with a fork in your right hand in a relaxed occasion of having dinner with friends. Rice should be scooped up with the front fork belly instead of the back of the fork, which can be easier to eat and more elegant and natural.

6. When the small pieces of food in the plate gather, you can block them with a knife and scoop them up with a fork. It is also possible to use a spoon instead of a knife. Gather the dishes on the spoon with a fork, and then send the food into the mouth with the spoon.

7. The use of a spoon for sauce is the same as that of a general spoon. You should use a fork to push the dishes onto the spoon of the sauce, instead of fork the dishes and pour the sauce with the spoon of the sauce, because the latter is against etiquette. In addition, in Europe and other places, people can often be seen eating with a fork in their right hand and bread in their left hand. No matter how neat and elegant you eat, this kind of dining can only be done in family or popular shops, and it is absolutely not feasible in high-end restaurants.