It is not advisable to hold the glass when drinking wine -
The etiquette of the table is, in fact, very simple. This is because they are rules that have been set up so that you can eat in the easiest and most enjoyable way possible.
Take for example when drinking wine in Western cuisine. Generally when you drink wine, you drink it by holding the thin-footed part of a tall glass. The main reason for this is to keep the heat from your hands from transferring to the wine and heating up the cold wine.
Elegant demeanor required when dining -
Elegant demeanor is required when dining in a classy restaurant. When you are seated, you should sit down from the left or you will bump into your neighbor.
Women should not pull out chairs by themselves; pulling out chairs and seating women is a male affair. If there is no male among your companions, you should wait for the waiter to pull it out for you.
And you should not sit down until you have settled into your place. It is not polite to move your chair around and adjust your position several times after sitting down. It is also against etiquette to sit down with your feet crossed or with your knees on the table, so please be careful.
Drinking different wines for different meals -
Wine is essential when eating French food. From before the meal until after the meal, enjoying wine while eating, corresponding to different situations, is the way to savor French cuisine.
Sherry and cocktails are meant to stimulate the appetite, so you shouldn't drink too much of them. Generally speaking, red meats are served with red wines and white meats with white wines.
There are so many different kinds of wines that you may not know which one to choose. At this point, you can let the people in the restaurant decide. There is bound to be an expert in choosing wines, so he or she will pick the one that goes well with the dish you are eating.
White wines should be drunk chilled, so you should hold a tall glass by its thin foot and drink it as soon as possible while it is still cold, while red wines can be drunk at room temperature, so you don't have to care too much. Furthermore, before drinking red wine, you must first sip your lips with a napkin. If you don't wipe your mouth after eating a dish and just go next to the wine glass with your mouth, the oil will float on the surface of the glass and look dirty.
Use cutlery from the outside in -
The average person will start to feel nervous when they see so many knives, forks and wine glasses before they start eating, but there's no need to panic - basically, start using them from the outside and you'll be fine.
However, since there is a lot of cutlery on a small table, sometimes you can make a mistake and pick up your neighbor's by mistake.
It's not uncommon for people to pick up the glass of the person sitting on their left without realizing that their glass is on their right. If you're not paying attention, don't panic, but call the waiter over and ask him to make a new set of glasses for you.
In fact, when using a knife and fork, you can't go wrong if you inspect the movements of those around you.
Napkins should be spread out the moment the food is served -
Napkins placed on the table should be spread out the moment the food is served. It is wrong to open the napkin and spread it on your lap immediately after sitting down.
When holding a napkin folded in two, place it on your lap with the fold facing you. It's common to see people tie their napkins around their necks! Actually, placing it on your lap is the official way to do it.
Napkins are used to wipe your mouth in the middle of a meal. Some people take out their handkerchiefs, which defeats the purpose of having a prepared napkin. However, if the napkin is stained with traces of lipstick or food, it won't look good either, so care should be taken not to make it too dirty.
When you leave, gently fold up your napkin and place it on the chair to show that you have not finished eating. When you exit after eating, leave it on the table. At this point, some people will carefully fold it back to its original shape, which indicates that the meal has not yet been served. Therefore, only a slight folding is necessary.
Don't pick up the cutlery yourself if it falls on the floor--
Miss Ruoyun was eating at a French restaurant when she accidentally dropped her knife on the floor. Since the knife fell right at her feet, she panicked and reached out to pick it up.
But that's not the right move. If you accidentally drop a knife or fork, it would be unsightly to pick it up yourself. If you drop it, just ask the waiter to pick it up, or have a new knife delivered.
When you eat, if you take the wrong knife and fork, you won't have enough knives. Don't be embarrassed, call the waiter over and ask him to bring a new knife. When you call the waiter over, do not stand up and shout out orders. Just make eye contact with the other person and gently raise your hand. Since the waiter is always checking up on the guest, he or she will be able to tell even if he or she doesn't say anything.
When drinking soup, scoop from the inside out -
Soup is not a drink, but food. At this point, gently place your left hand next to the plate and use the spoon to scoop the soup from in front of you outward, which is a common British and American style of scooping. At this point, you should be careful not to lean forward too much, and keep your mouth close to the spoon.
Soup is sometimes served in a cup with a handle, so you can drink it with the spoon first, and then hold it by the handle as it gets smaller.
Don't make any noise when drinking soup as this may disturb others.
If there is only a little soup left, it is not against etiquette to tilt the plate to scoop it up.
When you are finished, you should place the spoon in the middle of the plate.
The bread should be torn into pieces before--
Often the bread is served with the soup, but sometimes the bread is served first. This is not the time to reach for the bread right away; formal dining etiquette would be to start eating the bread at the same time as the soup and finish it before the salad is served, which is the ideal way to eat it.
And the bread should be crumbled first.
If the bread is French, it will be hard and crumbly. If you eat it, you will have crumbs in front of you, and it will not look good. When you tear the bread, you have to do it on the plate so that it doesn't fall all over the table.
If a lot of crumbs fall on the plate, use a butter knife dipped in butter to collect them and stick them on the bread to eat.
To begin cutting meat, start from the left -
Whatever the type of meat being eaten, a knife and fork are essential. In fact, you can use it very flexibly by pressing the back of the knife with the index finger of your right hand.
Use your left hand to hold the fork to gently press the meat down, stroke the table knife slightly upright toward you, and cut the meat into sizes that you can eat in one bite.
It is formal etiquette not to start cutting the meat right in the center, but to start on the left.
When eating roasted chicken, remove the bones from the meat before cutting it into chunks. When removing the bones, it is easier to cut by holding the meat down with a fork and removing the knife *** along the bones. Remember, at a formal feast, don't hold it in your hands and tear into it; after all, this is a different place than a fast-food restaurant.
It's a little more elegant to eat the vegetables that go with it by putting down the dinner knife and fork first and switching to eating with the fork in your right hand.
When eating fish, remove the bones first--
Eating fish is a very difficult task in Western cuisine. When eating fish, to use a special knife and fork fine work can be distinguished from other knives and forks. When there is no fish bones, fish spines, cut into pieces, as long as the same as eating meat in accordance with the left side of the cut on the line, while eating fish with thorns, it is a bit of a problem.
The head of the fish usually faces to the left, so you first have to press the gills of the fish with a fork and use a knife to cut from the tail toward the head, slicing through the bones and body. After eating the cut top half of the fish, you then start eating the bottom half of the fish. It is common practice to turn the fish over after eating the top half, but this is the wrong way to eat it. The correct way to eat the fish is to not turn it over, move it aside after removing the bones, and then eat the bottom half.
When the lemon is cut thicker, pick it up in your hand and squeeze the juice over the fish. For thinner slices of lemon, place them on top of the fish and gently press them down with a fork to allow the flavor to soak into the fish.
Forks and knives should be placed in a figure eight if you're still eating -
If you're still eating, the fork and knife should be placed in a figure eight. This is to imply that the waiter hasn't finished yet, so don't remove the plate.
If you have finished eating, you should place your knife and fork together on the plate slightly to the left, with the front end angled to the left. The way to put them together is to have the dinner knife on the right and the fork on the left.
The blade of the dinner knife must be to your side, i.e. the blade should be to the left. In addition, the front end of the fork should be pointing upwards. If you leave the front end down, it means it is still in use.
Don't stir the food with chopsticks--
Chinese cutlery is chopsticks, so people generally think there is something difficult about holding chopsticks, but the correct way to use them is rarely known.
When picking up chopsticks, don't grab them right away. Hold the middle part of the chopsticks with your right hand from the top and catch them with your left hand from the bottom. Then take the chopsticks in your right hand and rotate them above you for a week before holding them. This should make the movement appear smooth and fluid.
The next step is to use the chopsticks correctly. Wrong usage is defined as messing up the dish with the chopsticks; moving the chopsticks around as if you don't know which one to hold; stirring the chopsticks between dishes; poking the dish with the chopsticks like a bayonet; placing the chopsticks on a teacup; or licking the chopsticks with your tongue.
And these are the things we tend to overlook.
Pressing the bowl of soup with your left hand to uncover it --
The most troublesome part of eating Japanese food is drinking the soup, which is usually served without a spoon.
First, the lid of the soup bowl should be removed. Usually the lid is difficult to remove, but in this case it can be easily removed by pressing down firmly on the bowl with your left hand. When removing the lid, place your right hand on the lid, and after removing the drops of water that have accumulated on the lid above the bowl, put the lid down with your left hand.
The place to put the lid on the soup bowl should be on the right side of the table. It can also be placed outside of the case, but not on top of the lids of other eating utensils or standing next to the soup bowl.
The way of eating is to take a sip of the soup and then eat the contents. Drinking the soup and scooping up its contents should be done alternately. It is against etiquette to start eating only the soup or only the contents of the soup. In addition, some people like to use chopsticks to stir in the soup, which is a very impolite move, so it is important to break this bad habit.
When you are finished eating, pick up the lid with your right hand and return it to its original place, protected by your left hand. You cannot turn the lid over. Otherwise it will be difficult to pick up or scratch the lacquer.
Catching sashimi with a chatterbox -
In Japanese cuisine, because the food case is far from the mouth, soy sauce and vegetable juices spill out during the process of bringing the dish to the mouth. To avoid this, you can hold a small dish with soy sauce and other condiments in your hand.
The most common way to avoid spilling soy sauce is to eat sashimi. After dipping the sashimi in wasabi and a little bit of soy sauce, do not bring it directly to your mouth, but hold the plate in your left hand or use a piece of paper or a teacup to avoid spilling the soy sauce on the surface of the sashimi and bringing it to your mouth at the same time.
When eating grilled sashimi, remove the bones first --
Grilled sashimi made with the head and tail of the fish, such as kabayaki or sashimi, is always served at a Japanese banquet.
First, when you eat grilled scallops, you should remove the dorsal, ventral, and tail fins with chopsticks, then hold the middle part of the fish with chopsticks and force it a few times, then hold it down with chopsticks and drag the head of the fish backward with force by pinching it with your left hand. In this way, the head and bones of the fish will be picked off and only the flesh will be left. Next, simply return the bones, dorsal fin, and tail to a place away from the fish, and you can start eating the fish.
On the other hand, other fish are not as easy to de-bone as spiced fish, so break up the flesh little by little before eating. After you have eaten half of the fish, do not turn the fish over, but remove the center bone and proceed to eat the bottom half.
The bones, fins, and other debris should be returned to the corners of the plate and not thrown around to keep it looking nice.
Closer is the lower seat, farther is the upper seat -
Chinese etiquette is much simpler compared to Japanese and Western cuisine, as can be seen in the round tables it uses. The reason why Chinese people like to use round table is that by using round table, the diners can forget their relationship with each other and enjoy eating together.
There is no need to be overly concerned about the number of tables when eating Chinese food. However, if you are having a company party, where the relationship between the top and bottom of the table is very clear, you should not disregard the existence of the table.
Generally, the closest seat is the lower one, and the farther one is the upper one, and it's the same in either case. Properly speaking, it is enough to welcome guests in the direction from the inside to the inside, in order to invite them in.
When you're seated with your boss at a company party, for example, the order of seating is important. But when you're friends, there's no such thing as a seat.