basic etiquette of American western food
1. Sit down
After entering the western restaurant, the waiter will lead you to sit down, and you should not presume to sit down. A man or waiter can help a woman pull out the chair to help her sit down, usually from the left side of the chair. Seats are arranged in the upper position farthest from the exit.
Second, the arrangement of tableware
(1). The dish placed in the center is called the decoration plate or the display plate, and the napkin is placed on the top or left side of the decoration plate.
(2) Put a knife and spoon on the right side of the plate and a fork on the left. You can use it from the outside to the inside according to the meal order, appetizer, soup, cuisine, fish cuisine and meat cuisine.
(3) The glass is placed in the upper right corner, with the largest goblet for water, the second largest goblet for red wine, and the slender glass for white wine, and the glass for champagne or sherry will be placed as appropriate.
(4). The bread plate and cream knife are placed on the left hand side, and the small spoons and knives and forks used for putting coffee or eating snacks are decorated opposite the plate.
(1). Napkin
(2). Fish Fork
(3). Dinner or Main Course Fork
(4 4). Salad Fork
(5). Soup Bowl & soup cups and soup chassis & Plate
(6). Main dish Dinner Plate
(7). Main kitchen knife Dinner Knife
(8). Fish Knife
(9). Soup Spoon
(1 1). Bread &; Butter Plate
(11). Butter Knife
(12). Dessert Spoon and Cake Fork
(13). Water glass Sterling Water Goblet
(14). Red Wine Goblet
(15). White Wine Gobl
Third, the use of knives and forks
(1). When eating western food, you usually hold the knife in your right hand and the fork in your left hand. If it is inconvenient to hold the fork with your left hand, you can also use your right hand.
(2) When you leave the table for something, you should put your knife and fork in a figure of eight and put them on the plate. After the meal, it is placed on the upper side of the plate in parallel.
Fourth, the etiquette of drinking soup
(1). Soups in western food are divided into clear soup and thick soup. More formal restaurants use oval spoons and soup cups when serving clear soup, and round spoons and wide-mouthed soup plates when serving thick soup.
(2) The posture of holding the spoon is to scoop food from the inside and outside of Neijing.
(3) You can't make a sound when you drink soup in western food. When using soup, don't blow it cold with your mouth. You can gently shake the soup to make it slightly cool.
(4). After eating, put the spoon on the chassis in front of you, or put it on the plate. Put the handle of the spoon on the right, and the concave part of the spoon is up; This is true for soup cups and soup plates.
5. Etiquette of eating bread
(1). The bread is located on the left side of the main course. When eating, you can hold the bread with your left hand, then tear the bread into small pieces with your right hand, then hold the bun with your left hand and spread the cream with your right hand. Tear the bread into small pieces before coating it with milk.
(2) In Italian restaurants, olive oil is sometimes used instead of cream, and bread can be eaten by tearing a small piece of olive oil with seasonings and spices. Bread should never be cut with a knife.
6. Eat salad
(1). The salad plate is placed on the left side of the main dish.
(2) Americans usually serve salad before the main course, while Europeans, such as French, usually serve salad after the main course.
(3) Eat the salad with a fork. If the leaves are too big, cut them in the salad plate with a knife and then eat them with a fork.
seven, eat fish, shrimp, seafood
1. When eating half a lobster, you should hold a fork in your left hand, fork the tail of the shrimp, insert it into the tail with a knife in your right hand, press down the shell of the shrimp, and drag the shrimp out with a fork before cutting. Lobster feet can be eaten by tearing off shrimp shells with your fingers.
2. Eating fish fillets is based on the principle of eating one slice and cutting one slice. You can eat with a fork in your right hand or use a fish knife.
3. When eating whole fish with head, tail and bones, it is advisable to cut off the head and tail first, then remove the fins, and put the cut head and tail fins on one side of the plate before eating fish.
4. To remove fish bones, use a knife and fork instead of hands. If there are fishbones or other bone spurs in your mouth, you can take them out from the closed lips by hand and put them on the plate.
5. After eating the upper layer of fish, do not turn over. Use a knife and fork to remove the keel before eating the lower layer of fish.
6. The accompanying lemon slices should be squeezed with a knife and fork. When eating shrimps and crabs, everyone will bring a bowl of hand washing water when they are ready.
Eight, eat meat
(1). Know the cooked degree of steak. Beef can be ordered according to its own taste, but pork and chicken are all cooked.
rare is still bloody.
the half-life is medium rare.
medium is rare.
welldone is ripe.
(2) The steak should be cut from the outside to the inside. If you don't cut it once, cut it again. Don't cut it like a saw, don't pull it, don't make a noise, and the size of the meat is appropriate.
(3) When chewing meat, keep your lips together and don't make any noise. Don't talk or draw with a knife and fork when chewing meat.
(4). When eating meat, cut one piece and eat one piece. Don't cut all the meat into small pieces at once, which will lead to the loss of gravy and the temperature drop.
(5). Roasted chicken or fried chicken is eaten with a knife and fork on formal occasions.
9. Eat fruits and desserts
(1). Cakes, pies and cakes are eaten with forks. After the hard ones are cut with a knife, they are eaten with forks.
(2) ice cream, pudding, etc., eat with a spoon. Hard biscuits are small, and they are eaten by hand.
(3) Granular fruits such as grapes can be eaten by hand. If you need to spit seeds, spit them in your palm and put them on a plate.
(4) Juicy fruits such as watermelon and grapefruit should be eaten with a spoon.
(5). When eating fruits in western food, a finger bowl is often put on, and the water contained is used for washing hands. Only used to wash fingers. Don't put your whole hand in.
etiquette of drinking coffee and tea
tannins in coffee and tea can help digestion. When drinking coffee, hold it up with your index finger and thumb. You don't need to hold the coffee tray. Don't scoop up the coffee with a coffee spoon to see if it is sweet enough.
tips on American western food menu
Steak Tartar: raw beef tartar. Don't get excited at the sight of Steak. This is chopped raw beef or horse meat mixed with raw egg yolk and pickled capers, which looks particularly like a bowl of raw jiaozi meat stuffing. People who don't like raw meat had better not take risks.
Foie Gras: foie gras/duck liver. This is French. In order to keep the original intention, even restaurants in Britain and America usually don't write Goose Liver, but persistently print the original French text.
Different parts of steak have different names. When the waiter asks you How would you like your steak cooked? How would you like your steak? Your answer should be: rare (medium rare), medium rare (medium rare), medium rare (medium rare), medium done (medium rare) and well done. Never be silly and say: 3% or half.
as for Pasta, there are many kinds, which can be roughly divided into three types according to their shapes and tastes: long noodles, short noodles and egg noodles.
the long face is represented by Spaghetti. The short surface includes a tubular surface (Rigatoni), an inclined tube tip surface (Penne), a spiral surface (Fusilli), a butterfly surface and the like.
Egg noodles are noodles made by kneading wheat flour with eggs, which are more elastic and tasty. There are many kinds of noodles, such as Fettuccine and Lasagne. I really don't know what it is. Let the waiter bring you a raw one to see.