Use chopsticks for Chinese food and knives, forks and spoons for Western food.

Western food is very different from Chinese food in the menu arrangement.

Taking a banquet as an example, in addition to nearly 10 kinds of cold dishes, a Chinese banquet also has 6-8 kinds of hot dishes, plus snacks, sweets and fruits, which makes it very rich.

Although Western food seems to have 6-7 dishes, which seems very cumbersome, each dish usually only has one kind. Below we will give a brief introduction to the order of serving. We hope it will be helpful when you first order food in a Western restaurant.

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1. Starters, also known as appetizers, generally include cold cuts and hot starters. Common varieties include caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, cocktail cups, butter chicken crisp boxes, snails, etc.

2. Soup can be roughly divided into four categories: clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup.

Varieties include oxtail soup, various cream soups, seafood soup, American clam soup, Italian vegetable soup, and Russian borscht.

French onion soup.

3. Side dishes: Usually aquatic products, eggs, bread, and crispy dishes are all called side dishes.

When eating fish dishes in Western food, special sauces are used, such as tartar sauce, Dutch sauce, hotel sauce, white cream sauce, archbishop sauce, American sauce and sailor fish sauce.

4. Main dishes Meat and poultry dishes are the main dishes.

The most representative ones are beef or steak. The seasonings used with meat dishes mainly include Spanish sauce, thick roast sauce, mushroom sauce, blanco sauce, etc.

Poultry dishes are based on chicken.

Duck, goose; the most common poultry dish is chicken, which can be boiled, fried, roasted, or boiled. The main sauces include curry sauce, cream sauce, etc.

5. Vegetable dishes can be arranged after meat dishes or served at the same time as meat dishes. Vegetable dishes are called salads in Western food.

The salad that is paired with the main dish is called a raw vegetable salad, usually made with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, asparagus, etc.

There is also a type made with fish, meat, and eggs, usually without flavoring.

6. Desserts. Desserts in Western food are eaten after the main course and can be counted as the sixth course.

In a real sense, it includes all the food after the main course, such as pudding, ice cream, cheese, fruit and so on.

7. Coffee: Drinking coffee usually requires adding sugar and whipping cream.