Want to know more about the western food etiquette, you must first learn the most basic fork use, the following points you have to master.

1. Left fork right knife: the most basic etiquette of Western food 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 the two 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. Press the fork against the left end of the food to hold it in place, and then cut a bite-sized amount of food with the knife along the side of the fork, and then stick the fork directly into your mouth.

2. Correct posture and appropriate angle. When facing a Western-style meal, sit upright, 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 your knife and plate at about 15 degrees. If your elbows are too high, the angle of the knife and fork will be too big and you will be standing upright. On the other hand, if your elbows are too low, the knife and fork will fall down and you will not be able to cut the food properly.

3. Europe and the United States with the fork of the subtle difference between Europeans eat right-handed knife and fork in the left hand, 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, on the other hand, use a knife to sweep the food onto the back of the fork, flatten it, and then bring it to their mouths.

4. After the meal, each finished - a dish, the knife and fork together blade towards themselves, fork back down, to 4 ~ 10 points in the direction of side-by-side diagonally placed again on the plate, the service that I know can be collected off the plate. Has set the tableware can not change the position, but if you are left-handed, in the eating time can be used to replace the knife and fork each other.

5. 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 to help gather small food with a knife in the fork's recesses, and then scoop it up and eat it.

6. Note that Chinese food should be eaten with a rice bowl, and Western food should not be eaten with a plate. Accidentally knife and fork on the ground, you can ask the waiter to pick up, and take a new one to replace, guests drilled under the table to pick up tableware belongs to a rude behavior.