Western dining order of serving
1. Appetizers
Appetizers, also known as the first plate, generally divided into cold appetizers and hot appetizers, the general appetizers are characterized by high quality, low quantity, salty and sour for the main taste, the general appetizers are baked escargot, foie gras, caviar and so on.
2. Soups
Western soups are generally categorized into four types: cream soups, clear soups, vegetable soups and cold soups, each with its own characteristics.
3. Side dishes
Side dishes are generally bread, eggs or pastry dishes. The sauce is very important in Western cuisine.
4. Main course
The main course is meat, poultry with special sauce. It is the highlight of the whole Western cuisine.
5. Salad
Salad for a variety of fruits, jellies, etc., can be arranged after the main course, can also be eaten with the main course.
6. Dessert
Desserts in Western cuisine are usually eaten after the main course, in the true sense of the word, can be pancakes, cakes, chocolate, ice cream, etc.
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7. Coffee and tea
Preferably black tea and black coffee with nothing added.
Western food ordering and serving order
There are four or five major categories on the Western menu, which are appetizers, soups, salads, seafood, meat, snacks and so on.
The main course should be decided first. If the main course is fish, choose meat for the appetizer, which is more varied in taste. In addition to a particularly large amount of food, in fact, do not have to match the whole meal from the menu within a single dish, as long as the appetizer and the main course each one, plus a dessert is enough. It is possible to do without the soup, or omit the appetizer, which is also an ideal combination (but in Italian cuisine, pasta is seen as a soup, so in principle these two dishes are not ordered together).
The formal order of serving a full course meal is:
1) Starters. The first course of Western food is the first plate, also known as appetizers. Appetizers are generally divided into cold appetizers and hot appetizers, common varieties of caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, cocktail cups, creamy chicken puff pastry box, baked snails and so on. Because they are meant to be appetizing, appetizers generally have a distinctive flavor, taste salty and sour, and are small in quantity and high in quality.
2) Soup. Unlike Chinese food, the second course of Western food is soup. Western food soup can be roughly divided into four categories: clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup. Varieties of oxtail soup, cream soup, seafood soup, American clam chowder, Italian vegetable soup, Russian borscht, French baked onion soup. Cold soup has fewer varieties, there are German cold soup, Russian cold soup and so on.
3) side dishes. Fish dishes are generally used as the third course of Western cuisine, also known as side dishes. Varieties include a variety of fresh and saltwater fish, shellfish and mollusks. Usually aquatic dishes and eggs, bread, pastry box dishes are called side dishes. Because fish and other dishes of tender meat, easier to digest, so in front of 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's juice, U.S. juice and sailor fish juice.
4) main dishes. Meat and poultry dishes are the fourth course of Western cuisine, also known as the main course. Meat dishes are taken from the raw materials of cattle, sheep, pigs, small cowboys and other parts of the meat, which is the most representative of beef or steak. Steak can be divided into sirloin steak (also called sirloin steak), filet mignon, T-bone steak, and thin steak according to its parts. It is often cooked by grilling, pan-frying, or steak. Meat dishes with sauces are mainly Spanish sauce, thick roasted juice, mushroom juice, white Nice juice and so on.
Poultry dishes from the raw materials from the chicken, ducks, geese, usually rabbit and venison and other game is also categorized as poultry dishes. The largest variety of poultry dishes is chicken, mountain chicken, turkey, bamboo chicken, can be boiled, fried, grilled, stewed, the main sauce has a 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 it can be counted as a dish, or called a side dish. Vegetable dishes are called salads in Western cuisine. Salads that are served at the same time as the main course are called raw vegetable salads, and are usually made with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and asparagus. The main dressings for salads are vinaigrette, French dressing, dry island dressing, cheese salad dressing and so on.
Salads in addition to vegetables, there is also a category of fish, meat, eggs, this type of salad is generally not added to the flavor of the juice, in the order of meals can be used as a first plate.
There are also vegetables that are cooked, such as cauliflower, boiled spinach, and fried potato fries. Cooked vegetables are usually served on a dinner plate with the meat dishes of the main course, called side dishes.