1. Appetizer
The first course of Western food is the appetizer, also known as the appetizer. Appetizers are generally divided into cold or hot appetizers, and common varieties include caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, cocktail cups, creamy chicken puff pastry boxes, and escargot. 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. Soups
Can be roughly divided into four categories: clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup. Varieties of oxtail clear soup, various cream soup, seafood soup, American clam chowder, Italian-style vegetable soup, Russian borscht. French onion soup.
3. Side dishes
Often aquatic dishes and eggs, bread, crispy box dishes are called side dishes. Because fish and other dishes of tender meat, easier to digest, so put in front of meat dishes, called and meat dishes on the main dish is different from the 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, U.S. juice and sailor fish juice, and so on.
4. Main dishes
Meat and poultry dishes are the main course. One of the most representative is beef or steak, meat dishes with the main flavor of the meter Spanish sauce, thick burnt juice, mushroom juice, white ness juice and so on. Poultry dishes are made from chicken. Duck, goose; poultry dishes are the most chicken, can be boiled, fried, baked, jong, the main sauce has curry sauce, cream sauce, etc..
5. Vegetable dishes
Can be arranged after the meat dishes, or with meat dishes at the same time on the table, vegetable dishes in Western cuisine is called salad. Salad with the main dish at the same time, known as raw vegetable salad, usually with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, asparagus and other production. There is also a category made with fish, meat and eggs, usually without flavored dressing.
6. Dessert
The dessert of Western cuisine is 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, ice cream, cheese, fruit
and so on. Desserts are the last course in Western cuisine, and are divided into three types: soft, dry and wet. Most soft desserts are eaten hot, such as pancakes, scones, muffins, etc., and are mainly served for breakfast. Dry points are cold, such as butter cake (Butter Cake), climb (Pie), fruit tarts (Tart), etc., generally as afternoon tea. Wet points have a variety of ice cream (Ice Cream), sparingly (souffle), the curry jelly (Jelly), pudding (Pudding), etc., hot and cold, often for lunch and dinner snacks. In addition, according to the needs of the guests, before the dessert cheese, after the dessert on the coffee and fruit.
7. Coffee Coffee is usually served with sugar and light cream.
1. The most appropriate way to take a seat is from the left side. When the chair is pulled out, the body stands straight at a distance almost touching the table, and the leader ? The person in charge will push the chair in, and when the bend of the leg touches the chair behind you, you can sit down.
2. When using a knife and fork to eat, take the knife and fork from the outside to the inside, holding the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right; when cutting something, hold the fork in the left hand to hold down the food, hold the knife in the right hand to cut it into small pieces, and use the fork to bring it into the mouth. When using a knife, the blade should not be pointed outwards.