Western food is very different from Chinese food in the arrangement of the menu. To organize banquets, for example, Chinese banquets in addition to nearly 10 kinds of cold dishes, but also 6-8 kinds of hot dishes, plus snacks, sweets and fruits, seems very rich. Western food, although looking at 6, 7, seems to be very cumbersome, but each channel is generally only one kind, the following we will serve a brief introduction to the order, I hope to help you when you first came to the Western restaurant ordering.
1, the first plate
The first dish of Western food is the first plate, also known as appetizers. Appetizers are generally divided into cold appetizers or hot appetizers, common varieties of caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, cocktail cups, creamy chicken pastry box, bureau snails. Because they are meant to be appetizing, appetizers generally have a distinctive flavor, with salty and sour tastes, and are served in smaller quantities and of higher quality.
2, soup
With Chinese food is very different, the second course of Western food is soup. Western soup can be roughly divided into four categories: clear cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup. Varieties of oxtail broth, various cream soups, seafood soup, American clam Chowder, Italian vegetable soup, Russian borscht, French Bureau of onion soup. There are fewer varieties of cold soups, including German-style cold soup and Russian-style cold soup.
3, side dishes
Fish dishes are generally used as the third course of Western food, also known as side dishes. Varieties include a variety of fresh and saltwater fish, shellfish and mollusks. Usually aquatic dishes and eggs, bread, crispy box dishes are called side dishes. Because fish and other dishes of tender meat, easier to digest, so in front of the meat dishes, called and meat dishes on the main dish is different. Western food to eat fish dishes pay attention to the use of special sauce, varieties of tartare juice, Dutch juice, hotel juice, white cream juice, archbishop juice, American juice and sailor fish juice.
4, the main course
Meat, poultry dishes is the fourth course of Western food, also known as the main course. Meat dishes from the raw materials from cattle, sheep, pigs, small cowboys and other parts of the meat, the most representative is beef or steak. Steak can be categorized into sirloin steak, filet mignon, t-bone steak and thin steak. It is often cooked by grilling, pan-frying, or steak. Meat dishes are served with sauces such as Spanish sauce, thick barbecue sauce, mushroom sauce, white sauce, and so on. Food dishes from the raw materials of chickens, ducks, geese, usually rabbits and venison and other game is also categorized as poultry dishes poultry dishes are the most varieties of chicken, chicken, turkey, bamboo chicken, can be boiled, can be fried, can be roasted, can be stewed, the main sauce has yellow meat sauce, curry sauce, cream sauce, and so on.
5, vegetable dishes
Vegetable dishes can be arranged after meat dishes, but also with meat dishes on the table at the same time, so you can count as a dish, or call it a side dish. Vegetable dishes are called salads in Western cuisine. Salads served at the same time as the main course are called raw vegetable salads, and are usually made with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, asparagus, and so on. The main dressings for salads are vinaigrette, French dressing, dry island dressing, and cheese salad dressing. In addition to vegetables, there is a category of salads made with fish, meat, and eggs, which are generally served without flavorful dressings and can be served as a first course in the order of meals. There are also vegetables that are cooked, such as cauliflower, boiled spinach, and fried potato fries. Cooked vegetables are usually served on a plate with the meat dishes of the main course and are called side dishes.
6, dessert
Western desserts are served after the main course and can be counted as the sixth course. In the real sense, it includes all the food after the main course, such as pudding, pancakes, ice cream, cheese, fruit and so on.
7, coffee, tea
The last course of Western food is on the drink, coffee or tea. Drinking coffee is generally added sugar and light cream. Tea is generally to add spiced peach pieces and sugar. There is no need to order a full set of formal meals, but it would be rude to order too much and not be able to eat it all. A good restaurant does not welcome people who order only appetizers. A starter, main course (either fish or meat) and dessert is the most appropriate combination. You don't start with the appetizer, but rather choose the main course you want to eat most, and serve it with a soup that goes well with the main course.
Precautions in the dining process:
Western food is generally taken by the waiter or the host of each dish to the table for the guests to take, a person to take and then pass to the next person. The amount of food taken should not be too much, and can be taken again if needed. Foods such as bread are placed on a large plate to be taken as needed and can be eaten at any time during the meal. In Europe, food is served when the first course is brought up, while in the United States the meal does not begin until the last person has been served.
Soup Soup should be drunk without making a sound, and with a spoon it should be ladled from the inside out, never lifted from the plate and drunk directly.
Bread and Spaghetti Bread is usually served with butter. To eat it, break the bread into small pieces, spread it with butter, and eat it with your hands; do not take the whole loaf of bread and bite into it, but spread a piece and eat a piece. Eating spaghetti can be fork, spoon and use a fork to slowly pick up a small amount (four or five) of spaghetti, will be wrapped around the tines of the fork into a ball, at the same time to spoon auxiliary, can be convenient to eat.
Meat and fish in Western cuisine are generally large pieces of meat, whether it is lamb chops, steak or pork chops should be cut into small pieces with a knife and fork, cut and eat, do not eat after a bite are cut into small pieces, and do not use a fork to clip the whole piece of meat to your mouth, bite and eat. Eat chicken or lobster can use your hands, chickens, quail, chickens leg bones are very small, can be grasped and eaten with your hands, can also be used with a fork, but the bones need to be taken out of the mouth with your fingers. Western food in the fish have generally been removed from the bone spines, eating is very convenient, for a small number of small spines, should be pinched out of the hand on the plate, can not be directly to the plate spit.
Salad can be used as a first course, but also as a side dish and interval dish. The vegetables in the salad can be cut into small pieces with a fork or knife. The peas in the salad can be held in the left hand with a fork, the right hand with a knife, with a knife to push the peas to the fork. And the American way of eating them is simply to scoop them up with a fork.
Desserts and fruits cake, pastry with a small sweet fork, ice cream, pudding and other dessert spoons. In many countries fruit is served as or with dessert, usually as a fruit salad or platter. If the fruit is unprocessed, it should be used in conjunction with a knife and fork: pears or apples should not be peeled as a whole, but should be cut into four to six pieces with a knife first, and peeled and cored before being eaten; bananas should be peeled first, and then cut into several segments for consumption. In the absence of a knife and fork, you can use your hands to remove the core of the fruit from your mouth and place it on the edge of the fruit plate, not directly spit on the table.
Coffee and tea, the last "dish" of Western food is coffee and tea. Drinking coffee can be held in the right hand cup handle, the left hand end of a small plate, or only end of the cup, the small plate left on the table, after a sip, be sure to put the cup back on the plate. A teaspoon is used only for stirring and is returned to the saucer when finished; it is not to be used for scooping. Drink Chinese green tea and mint tea without anything, and add a small amount of milk and sugar in the case of Indian tea, black tea or English black tea
Pizza Hut's, order of serving: Drinks (cold, hot, coffee, summer specials) - Salads (fruit salad, seafood salad, potato salad, vegetable salad, etc.) Soups (Italian vegetable soup, crispy clam chowder, mushroom soup with chicken mousse, creamy mushroom soup, soup with wild mushrooms, soup with vegetables, etc.). There are also Hungarian beef soup, lamb soup, etc.) - snacks - staple food (a variety of pizza) - dessert, especially baked snacks take longer, but the snacks must be in the pizza before on, you go on a certain table of pizza found that their baked snacks have not been on the time, the pizza to the appropriate area of the waiter, and tell him about it.
The use of knife and fork machine notes:
1, the use of knife and fork eating, from the outside to the inside to take the knife and fork, to the left hand holding the fork, the right hand knife.
2, straighten the index finger to press the back of the fork; knife in addition to the fork with the same method, you can also use the thumb and index finger tightly clamped to the handle and blade of the knife joints. Depending on the food, you can choose the method that is easier to eat.
3. Press the fork against the left end of the food, hold it in place, and cut a bite-sized amount of food with the knife along the side of the fork, then feed it into your mouth with the fork. Note that you should not use force when pulling the knife back, but rather when pressing it down in a forward motion, so that you can cut the food sharply.
4. When using a knife, the blade should not be pointed outwards. When you put down the knife and fork in the middle of the meal, you should separate the knife and fork from the left and right, and put them on the side of the plate respectively. The blade of the knife is facing towards itself, indicating that you want to continue to eat. After each course, place the knife and fork together on the plate. If you are having a conversation, you can hold the knife and fork without putting them down. When you are not using a knife, you may hold the fork in your right hand, but if you need to make a gesture, you should put down the knife and fork, and never wave the knife and fork in the air, nor hold the knife or fork in one hand while wiping your mouth with a napkin in the other, or hold a wine glass in one hand while picking up the food with the fork in the other. Remember, at no time should one end of the knife or fork be placed on the plate and the other on the table.
5. When finely chopped food gathers on the plate, use the knife to hold it back and then use the fork to scoop it up closer.
6. If you have a sauce on your plate, use a knife to scrape the sauce off, and then use a spoon or a spoon to spoon the food into your mouth with the sauce.
7. If you're left-handed, you can switch your knife and fork while eating.