Germans pay more attention to the original flavor when cooking food. For example, when making ham and sausage, they don't casually add other miscellaneous meats to shape materials, and they don't use colorants and chemical seasonings at all. Therefore, people like those foods and dishes that are simple and original.
Ham and sausage in Germany
Germans are geniuses in making ham and sausages. It is said that there are as many as two or three hundred kinds of ham and sausage in Germany, so how many kinds can you taste in a short trip? In fact, you don't have to go to a restaurant, but you can taste several kinds freely at the street open-air food stall imbiss.
Ordinary sausages in Germany are nothing more than long and thick rockwurst. Beef sausages rindwurst and currywurst are wrapped in sauce and curry powder. These three kinds of sausages can be eaten all over the country and are also the favorite of Germans.
Many towns have local sausages. For example, the sweet mustard sausage weisswurst in Munich, the small sausage Nü rnberger Wurst like a little finger in Nuremberg and so on. There are also many shops selling homemade sausages handed down from ancestors, which have a unique flavor.
Catering services in Germany
Gast Haus(gast ST tte) is a very popular restaurant. No matter which city or village, there will be several restaurants, which are frequented by local people. Simple meals of sausage and bread are served here, as well as large and delicious meat products.
If you want something to drink, you can go to Winkler or Bilsterberg. Of course, snacks and drinks are also served there. Nordsee and movenpick are recommended by chain stores all over the country. People who are tired of eating meat can go to nordsee because it is a domestic fish restaurant. There are cod steak, fried cuttlefish, curry grilled fish, etc. (5 ~ 8 DM), and you can also eat shrimp or salmon sandwiches (2 ~ 3 DM). By the way, zum mitnehmen means "take it back and take it out". Mvenpick is a buffet salad bar. It is open from morning till night, but there are not so many shops in Nordstrom.
If you want something to eat, the best place is the street food stall imbiss. In front of the station or in the square, you can always smell the attractive fragrance floating from Imbis. 3 ~ 5 mm sausage buns are enough for tourists with small appetites.
Restaurant etiquette
As soon as you step into the door of the restaurant, someone will show you to your seat. It is impolite to sit down casually. After you get the menu, you should order a drink first, and then be careful. Once you decide to close the menu, the waiter won't come and record the names of the dishes. Restaurants in tourist areas generally provide English menus. If you go to a place where there is only a German menu, you can refer to other people's "recipes" around the table to decide. For example, point with your finger: "I want that". You can also order the set meal for the day. The set meal is cheap and fast.
When you finish your meal, you should greet the waiter who just ordered for yourself. You can say "zahlen bitte!" If it weren't for the waiter in charge of this table, he wouldn't come even if he was greeted for a long time, so remember what the waiter looks like when ordering. When many people eat together and pay separately, they can announce "getrennt!" When the representative pays the bill, he will say that the "zusammen" bill usually includes tax and service charge. The more advanced the place, the more you have the habit of tipping.