1, sitting posture:

Keep in mind your mother's words, sit straight, do not elbows on the table. If your hands are uncomfortable in any position, put them on your thighs.

2, knife and fork:

The way to hold the knife and fork: In general, the right hand holds the knife, the left hand holds the fork. Serrated knife used to cut meat, ordinary knife used to cut vegetables, the smallest kind of knife, is used to smear jam. Don't stick your fork into a large piece of food and don't eat it all at once. Spoon is used to drink soup.

When eating spaghetti, use the fork and spoon to combine, the fork rolled up a few noodles, put on the spoon, and then eat it, do not swallow the noodles, and do not make a "slosh slosh slosh" sound.

Don't hold a fork like a cello or Mrs. McPhee's dagger. Also, don't hold a knife and fork in your hand and dance around in the air to emphasize a point in your speech, and don't rest one end of your knife and fork on your plate and one end on the table. Once the knife and fork are picked up and used, they should not be put back down. The knife is placed on the plate with the blade facing inward, the head on the plate, and the handle on the edge of the plate.

3, napkin:

Do not take the napkin to wipe the lower part of the face, but gently dabbing. Do not shake the napkin and then fold it, do not wave it in the air like a flag. The napkin should be placed on your lap, and if you leave the table, place the napkin on a chair and push the chair closer to the table. Be careful to be gentle in your movements. Do not fold the napkin at the end of the meal; otherwise, an uninformed waiter may reuse it for another guest. At the end of the meal pick up the napkin from the center and gently place it on the left side of the plate on the table.

4, chewing:

Chewing things when the mouth should be closed tightly, no matter what amazingly wonderful words you have, how perfect the timing, as long as there is food in the mouth, never open your mouth to talk. You can't swallow the food right away in order to speak in a hurry, you have to keep the posture of chewing and swallowing slowly, and then smile after swallowing the food in order to convey your inner activity: you can have a wonderful word out just now, just with food in your mouth.

5, bread:

Bread on the butter especially pay attention to, will be broken into small pieces of bread can be eaten in one bite, before eating in the small pieces of butter, do not want to conveniently put the whole bread on the butter.

6, speed:

Do not go too fast, whether you eat at the RitzCarton or the GreasePit Hotel in Gertie, swallowing food is not only bad for your health, but also unattractive, especially when you eat with others ****, it will be rude to do so. It's not polite to eat with others, especially if you're eating with them***. You should eat the same amount of food and start and finish at the same time, so it's not a good idea to start savoring your sweet tooth while you're still sipping your soup.

7, flossing:

If you have plugged your teeth, do not floss at the table, if you really can not stand it, find an excuse to go to the restroom, you can floss there enough.

8. Lipstick:

It's not a good idea to leave lipstick on the cutlery, especially at work. If you don't have a paper handkerchief with you, stop by the restroom on your way into the hotel or pick up a paper napkin from the bar.

9, smoking:

Even if you eat in the smoking area, smoking during the meal is not advisable, smoking will affect the appetite of others, and the whole atmosphere is not harmonious, should wait until the end of the meal and then smoke, and remember: do not use the plate as an ashtray.

10, items:

Women's handbags and men's suitcases such as these things do not put on the table, keys, hats, gloves, glasses, eyeglasses, glasses cases, cigarettes and other items should not be placed on the table. In short, all the things that have nothing to do with the meal can not be placed on the table.

Western main etiquette 2

1. Knife and fork: do not hold the fork like holding a cello, or like holding Mrs. McPheece's dagger. In addition, do not hold a knife and fork in the air to emphasize a point of speech, and do not put one end of the knife and fork on the plate and one end on the table. Once a knife or fork is picked up and used, it cannot be put back down. The knife is placed on the plate with the blade facing inward, the head on the plate, and the handle on the edge of the plate.

2. Napkins: Don't take a napkin and wipe the lower part of your face with it, but dab it gently. Don't shake the napkin and fold it, and don't wave it in the air like a flag. Place the napkin on your lap. If you leave the table, place the napkin on a chair and push the chair closer to the table. Be careful to be gentle in your movements. Do not fold the napkin at the end of the meal; otherwise, an uninformed waiter may reuse it for another guest. At the end of the meal pick up the napkin from the center and gently place it on the left side of the plate on the table.

3. Chewing: Chewing when the mouth should be closed tightly, no matter what you have an amazing witticisms, how the timing is just right, as long as there is food in the mouth, and never open your mouth to speak. Can not be in a hurry to speak and immediately swallow the food, to maintain the posture of chewing and swallowing slowly, the food will be swallowed after a smile to convey your inner activities: just now there can be a wonderful words out of the mouth, just the mouth of food.

4. Sitting posture: Keep in mind your mom's words, sit up straight and don't rest your elbows on the table. If your hands are uncomfortable in any position, put them on your thighs.

5. Bread: Butter on the bread is especially important, break the bread into small pieces that can be eaten in one bite, butter on the small pieces before eating, do not try to conveniently butter the whole bread.

6. Speed: Don't go too fast. Whether you're dining at the RitzCarton or the GreasePit in Gertie's, gulping down food is not only bad for your health, but also unseemly, especially if you're eating with others***. It's not polite to eat with others, especially if you're eating with them***. You should eat the same amount of food at the same time, and start and finish at the same time - it's not a good idea to start savoring your sweet tooth while you're still sipping on your soup.

7. Flossing: If you are stuck with a tooth, do not floss at the table, if you can't stand it, find an excuse to go to the restroom, where you can floss enough.

8. Lipstick: It is not advisable to leave lipstick on the tableware, especially at work. If you don't have a paper handkerchief with you, stop by the restroom on your way into the hotel or pick up a paper napkin from the bar.

9. Smoking: even if you eat in the smoking area, smoking during the meal is not desirable, smoking will affect the appetite of others, but also and the whole atmosphere is not harmonious, you should wait until the end of the meal and then smoke, and also remember: do not use the plate as an ashtray.

10. Items: women's handbags and men's suitcases such as these things do not put on the table, keys, hats, gloves, glasses, eyeglasses, glasses cases, cigarettes and other items should not be placed on the table. In short, all the things that have nothing to do with dining can not be placed on the table.

The use of knife and fork

1, left fork right knife. Western food is the most basic etiquette is the correct use of knife and fork, generally left-handed fork, right-handed knife, held by the top of the knife and fork, the index fingers of both hands pressed on the use of knife and fork. Simply put, the right hand holds the knife to cut the food, and then the left hand holds the fork to fork up the food. With the fork pressed against the left end of the food, fixed, along the side of the fork with a knife to cut down about a mouthful of food, the fork can be directly tied up food into the mouth.

2. Correct posture and appropriate angle. Sit upright when facing the Western food, relax your shoulders and wrists, keep your arms close to your body, your elbows not too high or too low, and keep the angle of the knife and the plate at about 15 degrees. Both sides of the elbow is too high will make the knife and fork angle is too large, and is upright; on the contrary, if the elbow is too low will make the knife and fork is down state, there is no way to cut the food properly.

Also note that the knife should not be pulled back with force, but pressed forward with force, so that the food can be cut sharply. The knife and fork should not be tilted too much, and the fork can be held in different ways depending on the characteristics of the food to make it easier to eat. The back of the fork must be upward when forked for food, but the fork should face upward when scooping up food.

3, Europe and the United States with the fork of the subtle differences, Europeans eat right-handed knife in the left hand holding a fork, cut the fork, the food into the mouth. Americans are cut every mouthful of food, the right hand of the knife down, the fork to the right hand, and then the front of the fork food into the mouth. The British use a knife to sweep the food onto the back of the fork, flatten it, and bring it to their mouths. All kinds of food is not better or worse, it is best to be familiar with the use of different countries and people eat, follow the customs, and more can be around.

4, the meal is over, each finished a dish, the knife and fork together blade toward themselves, fork back down, to 4 ~ 10 points in the direction of side-by-side diagonally placed again on the plate, the waiter that can be known to collect the plate. You can't change the position of the set cutlery, but if you're left-handed, you can replace the knife and fork with each other while you're eating. Just after the meal, the tableware must be placed in accordance with the usage of right-handed people, the handle of the knife and fork to the right on the plate, the main reason for doing so in order not to cause trouble for the wait staff.

5, the fork clever use. When eating rice, corn, green beans, and other small particles of food, you can turn the fork upside down and use it as a spoon, and use the knife to help gather the small food in the fork's depression, and then scoop it up and eat it.

6, notes. When you eat Chinese food, you should hold the rice bowl, and when you eat Western food, you should not hold the plate. Accidentally the knife and fork to the ground, you can ask the waiter to pick up, and take a new one to replace, the guest drilled under the table to pick up cutlery belongs to a kind of rude behavior.

Understanding of tableware arrangement

Western tableware arrangement is three layers inside and three layers outside, each in its own way not to be confused. How does it work?

The world's high-level Western banquet table is basically unified. *** with the same principle is:

Pad plate in the center, fork left knife right, knife tip up, knife mouth inward.

Plate before the horizontal spoon, the main food on the left, cutlery on the right, the rest of the utensils placed as appropriate.

The number of glasses is equal to the type of wine, and the arrangement is from left to right, the spirits glass, wine glass, champagne glass, beer glass.

In Western cuisine, the napkin is placed on the plate, and if you need to put something on the plate before the guests are seated, the napkin is placed next to the plate.

Understanding the types and uses of cutlery

Knives. There are several kinds of dinner knives in western food, and there are three main ones: one is the steak knife for cutting meat, and this kind of knife has a more obvious serration, which is mainly used when the meat steak is cut. The second is a dinner knife, this knife's serration is not obvious or simply no, mainly used with the meal and cut some vegetables, fruits and other soft some of the food. Steak knife and dinner knife generally parallel vertical on the right side of the dinner plate; if the steak knife on the right side of the dinner knife, generally indicates that the steak should be preceded by other main dishes on the table, and vice versa. Third, take the butter with the butter knife, this knife is smaller, generally placed in the butter plate or bread plate.

Fork. Forks are similar to knives, and there are many kinds of Western food, of which the most common and commonly used are salad forks, dinner forks and fruit forks. These three and the smallest one is the fruit fork, placed horizontally on the top of the dinner plate, mainly used to eat fruit or dessert. The second is the salad fork, also known as the cold dish fork, which is mainly used for eating salads and cold dishes. The largest one is called a dinner fork, used to eat hot dishes.

Spoon. Meal spoons are the most common three kinds: one is a dinner spoon, the spoon head is oval, mainly in the eating of meals, entrees, etc., to play the role of auxiliary fork. The other is the soup spoon, usually with a round head, mainly used for soup. Both of these spoons are generally placed parallel and upright on the right side of the dinner knife, with the soup ladle placed on the outside of the formal dinner spoon. There is also a dessert spoon, usually placed flat on top of the main plate, mainly used for dessert, the size should be significantly smaller than the main meal spoon or soup spoon.

Understanding cutlery

European usage. The European style of knife and fork usage is also known as British usage. Its most prominent feature is a knife in the right hand and a fork in the left, with the tines down. This position remains basically the same during the banquet. The fork in the left hand is responsible for sending food into the mouth, and the dinner knife in the right hand is responsible for cutting the food or pushing the food onto the back of the fork, and it is cut again after each bite, or cut a piece to eat a piece.

American usage. American-style knife and fork usage is more complex. Its use is divided into two parts: cutting vegetables and entrance. Cutting vegetables with a knife in the right hand and a fork in the left hand, tines down. This is the same as the European style. But after cutting the food, put the knife in the right hand flat to the top of the pipe plate, and then switch the fork from the left hand to the right hand, fork tines upward, as a shovel, will cut the food into the mouth. After each bite, then the right hand in the right hand again back to the left hand, with the right hand will be the knife from the plate, cut food, in order to simplify a little, you can also first cut all the dishes, and then the dinner fork to the right hand after the pouring of a slow meal.

Western main etiquette 3

Use of knife and fork

If you want to put down the knife and fork during the meal, you should put it on both sides of the plate, with the head of the knife and fork facing inward.

If you have finished your meal (even if there is still food left on your plate), place your knife and fork parallel and diagonally into your plate, with the tines facing down. Keep the fork close to you and the knife away from you.

When pushing food from the plate onto the fork, use the bread, not the knife.

Don't hold the knife all the time and don't have the knife facing up. Instead, put the knife down as soon as you have cut the food so that it is on the right side of the plate parallel to the plate, and then use the fork to eat it.

Note that if you don't know how to use a knife and fork correctly, watch what others do and follow suit.

When there are many knives and forks on the table, the rule is to use the outermost knife and fork.

When using a knife, cut with the blade down and your index finger on the spine.

Choosing a wine glass

If you have four glasses in front of you, don't just pick up whichever one you want to use. Be aware of the distinctions.

The large glass is used for water, and people don't use it for a toast. Therefore, you should not hold up the large cup when you toast.

The medium glass is used for red wine. The small glass is used for white wine. The long, thin glass is used for champagne.

Eating the bread

Place the bread on the small plate to your left. The bread is eaten without cutting it with a knife, but by tearing it off with the hand and putting it into the mouth. Therefore, one also does not use one's mouth to bite the bread directly, unless it is a sandwich.

If you want to spread butter on the bread, you should tear off pieces of bread with your hands and spread them in small pieces. Don't spread the whole bread at once. At breakfast, of course, you can spread butter and jam on a long half-slice of stick bread. But not at a regular meal.

Precautions to be taken when drinking wine, water, or beverages

When drinking from a glass, you should first swallow the chewing matter in your mouth, then put your knife and fork in a figure of eight or cross them on your plate, and then wipe your lips clean with a napkin. Then drink the wine, water, etc.

When it comes to drinking water, Chinese people are used to lifting their cups and tilting their heads back to drink it all in one gulp. In the West, this is exactly what should be avoided. The most civilized way in the West is to keep your head straight and sip. There is always a little bit of wine left in the glass at the end of the drink.

When drinking beverages, soups, wine, water, etc., do not suck it out with your lips, but drink it gently, sip by sip.

When making a toast, it is always the initiative of the host or the person with the highest status or position.

When holding the glass, one hand should hold the glass full, not the pinky or other fingers.

Some other notes

All food is eaten with a knife, fork and spoon, except for bread, which is eaten by hand.

Eat lettuce without cutting it with a knife, only with the edge of a fork.

It's best not to leave any leftovers on your plate. Of course, you don't have to "shuck" it.

When using a napkin, lay it flat on your lap. When you're done with your meal, fold it slightly and leave it at the table. Don't fold them completely and don't throw them on the table in a ball.

If you want to spit out a hard core or fishbone, don't spit it directly into your hand, but put it on the edge of your plate with a fork.

When eating, pick up the food with a fork and put it in your mouth, rather than looking down and approaching the food with your mouth.

Toothpicks are rarely used at a Western table, so it's best not to use them.

If you spill a glass of wine, etc., don't make a fuss, just apologize. To the end of the meal and then apologize a better

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