What's the etiquette for eating western food with foreigners?

In Europe, everything related to eating is highly valued, because it provides two most appreciated aesthetic enjoyment-food and conversation. In addition to the exquisite taste, the collocation of wine and dishes, elegant dining etiquette, adjusting and relaxing mentality, enjoying this environment and food, and using tableware and wine utensils correctly are all prerequisites for entering food.

It should be noted that when you go to a restaurant in the west, you usually have to make an appointment in advance. Pay special attention to make it clear when making an appointment. First of all, you should indicate the number of people and the time. Secondly, you should indicate whether you want a smoking seat or a seat with a good view. If it is a birthday or other special day, you can tell the purpose and budget of the banquet. It is basic courtesy to arrive at the scheduled time. In case of emergency, inform in advance to cancel the positioning and apologize.

No matter how expensive casual clothes are, you can't go to a high-end western restaurant for dinner at will. It is common sense for Europeans and Americans to dress appropriately. When going to a high-end western restaurant, men should dress neatly; Ladies should wear evening dresses or suits and shoes with heels. Ladies should put on more makeup, because the light in the restaurant is dim. If formal attire is specified, the man must wear a tie. When entering the restaurant, men should open the door first, and ladies should enter and walk in front. When sitting down and ordering wine, ladies should be invited to taste and decide.

Generally, the business hours of western restaurants are 165438+ 0: 30 noon to afternoon and after 6: 30 pm. If the guests arrive early, they can have a drink in the bar before entering the main restaurant.

Sit tight, so you don't have to order in a hurry. If you have any questions, you can ask the waiter directly. They are usually happy to answer any questions you ask. If they are not sure, they will ask the restaurant manager or chef.

It is impolite to eat too early. Arrive at the western restaurant at noon 1 1 or at 5: 30 pm, eat in a hurry and leave. Talk about business at the dinner table, dress casually, eat the main course too slowly and affect the next course, or just order appetizers without ordering the main course and dessert.

Although the appetizer of high-end western food is small, it is exquisite and worth tasting slowly.

After dinner, you can choose dessert or cheese, coffee, tea, etc. Different countries have different tipping habits. But be sure to praise and express your gratitude.

To a great extent, eating western food means eating emotional appeal: marble fireplace, glittering crystal lamp, silver candlestick, colorful wine and people's elegant and charming manners, which is a touching oil painting in itself. In order to master your manners more skillfully when you taste western food for the first time, it is worthwhile to spend some time familiarizing yourself with these dining etiquette.

When sitting, keep your body straight, don't put your elbows on the table, don't tilt your feet, and keep a certain distance from the table to facilitate the use of tableware. Don't fiddle with the tableware on the dining table. Fold the napkin in half and gently put it on your knee.

* When eating with a knife and fork, take the knife and fork from the outside to the inside, with a fork in your left hand and a knife in your right hand; When you cut something, you hold the fork in your left hand and the food in your right hand, and then cut it into small pieces with a knife, and then send it to your mouth with a fork. When using a knife, the blade should not be outward. When eating, put down the knife and fork in a figure of eight and put them on the edge of the plate respectively. The blade is pointed at yourself, indicating that you will continue to eat. After eating each dish, put the knife and fork together on the plate. If you are talking, you can hold the knife and fork. When you don't use a knife, you can also hold a fork in your right hand, but if you need to make gestures, you should put down your knife and fork, never wave it in the air with your hands, never wipe your mouth with a napkin in one hand, and never hold a glass with a fork in the other. Remember, never put one end of the knife and fork on the plate and the other end on the table.

* Don't eat too much food at a time. Don't talk while chewing, and don't take the initiative to talk to people. [Edit this paragraph] After the meal is seated, the host greets and begins to eat.

Don't overeat when eating. Finish the food on the plate. If it is not enough, you can take it again. If the waiter divides the dishes, if necessary, the waiter will take them when delivering them. If I can't eat or don't like the food, don't refuse it when the waiter serves it or the host takes it. Put a small amount on the plate and say, "Thank you, that's enough." Don't look embarrassed about those bad dishes.

Eat gracefully. Shut up and chew, don't drink soup, and don't make any noise when eating. If the soup and vegetables are too hot, wait until they are cold. Don't blow them with your mouth. Don't spit out the fishbones and bones in your mouth directly. Cover your mouth with a napkin and take it out by hand (chopsticks can be used to eat Chinese food), or spit it gently with a fork and put it on the plate.

Leftovers and used tableware toothpicks should be put on the plate, not on the table.

Don't talk with food in your mouth.

Cover your mouth with your hand or napkin when you pick your teeth] Talk to the people at the same table, especially the neighbors, whether you are the host, guest or guest. Don't talk to only a few acquaintances or only two people. If you don't know your neighbor, you can introduce yourself first. Toast As the guest of honor, you should know the toasting habits of the other party, that is, why and when to toast, so as to make necessary preparations. When clinking glasses, the host and guest touch first, and many people can raise their glasses at the same time, not necessarily clinking glasses. Be careful not to cross glasses when toasting. When the host and guest make speeches and toasts, they should stop eating and talking, pay attention to listening, and don't take this opportunity to smoke. Stand still while playing the national anthem. After the host and guests talk and clink glasses with the distinguished guests, they usually go to other tables to propose a toast. In this case, they should stand up and raise their glasses. When clinking glasses, greet each other visually.

It is friendly and lively to toast each other at the banquet, but remember to drink too much. Drinking too much is easy to get rude, even rude, so I must control it within one-third of my alcohol consumption. Take off your coat. You can't unbutton your clothes in public, no matter how hot it is. At an informal small dinner party, if the host invites the guest to take off his coat, the male guest can take off his coat and put it on the back of the chair. Have tea (or coffee). If you want to add milk and sugar, you can add it to the cup yourself. After stirring with a small teaspoon, the teaspoon is still put back in the saucer. Usually, milk and sugar are put in different containers. When drinking, hold the cup handle in your right hand and the saucer in your left hand. When drinking coffee, you will add a liquid coffee partner to the coffee. If you don't want to waste it, you can pour a little coffee into the cup with your coffee partner and stir it again. Don't drink the coffee partner's leftovers by mistake. Smoking is not allowed to drink soup. Scoop the soup from back to front with a spoon, put the bottom of the spoon on the position of the lower lip, and send the soup to the mouth. The angle between the spoon and the mouth is preferably 45 degrees. The upper body leans forward slightly. There is not much soup left in the bowl. You can raise the bowl a little with your fingers. If the soup is in a bowl with a grip, you can drink it directly with the grip. When eating pears and apples, don't bite them whole. First cut into four or six petals with a fruit knife, then peel and core with a knife, and then eat with your hands. When peeling, the knife edge goes inward and cuts inward from the outside. Peel the banana first and cut it into small pieces with a knife. Oranges are cut into pieces with a knife, and oranges, lychees and longan can be peeled and eaten. The rest, such as watermelon and pineapple, are generally peeled and cut into pieces, and can be cut into small pieces with a fork when eating. When chicken, lobster and fruit are served at the banquet, sometimes a small water bowl (copper basin, porcelain bowl or crystal glass jar) is given, and rose petals or lemon slices float on the water surface to wash hands (someone once mistakenly thought it was a drink and made a joke). When washing, wet your fingers with your hands in turn, rinse them gently, and then dry them with napkins or small towels. Some people who have souvenirs will give each participant a small souvenir or a flower. At the end of the banquet, the host asked the guests to bring it over. In this case, you can say a word or two of praise to this small gift, but you don't have to express your gratitude seriously. Sometimes, foreign tourists often take away banquet menus as souvenirs, and sometimes ask guests to sign the menus as souvenirs. Don't take away all kinds of entertainment items, including candy, fruit, cigarettes, etc. Unless the owner specially indicates it as a souvenir. ] Thanks Sometimes, after attending a private party, you often send a memo or business card to express your thanks.

Take food from a buffet dinner or cocktail party. When the waiter serves the food, don't rush to get it. Send it to me and get it again. When people around you don't get the first copy, don't rush to get the second copy. Don't stand around the food table, just stand back and let someone else take it. [Edit this paragraph] The use of tableware Chinese tableware is mainly bowls and chopsticks, while western food is knives, forks and plates. Foreigners are usually invited to eat Chinese food, which is mostly eaten in the west. Chopsticks and knives and forks are set. The use of a knife and fork is to hold a knife in your right hand and a fork in your left hand, cut the food into small pieces and then send it to your mouth with a fork. Europeans don't change hands when using, that is, they hold the fork in their left hand from cutting to feeding. After cutting, the Americans put down the knife and took the fork in their right hand to the food entrance. Take it from outside to inside in the order of knife and fork when eating. After eating each dish, put the knife and fork together on the plate to show that you have finished eating. If you haven't finished eating, put it in a figure of eight or a cross, and the knife edge should be inward. When eating chicken and lobster, the host indicated that you can tear it with your hands, otherwise you can cut the meat with a knife and fork and cut it into small pieces to eat. When cutting meat with bones or hard shells, the fork must firmly hold the meat, and the knife should be cut close to the fork edge to avoid slipping. When cutting vegetables, be careful not to hit the plate too hard and make a noise. Foods that are not easy to fork, or foods that are not easy to fork, can be gently pushed onto the fork with a knife. Eat without a spoon except for soup. Soup is served in a deep plate or a small bowl. When drinking, scoop it up from the inside out with a spoon and put it in your mouth. When you finish eating, you can lift the plate out slightly. Eat fishy food, such as fish, shrimp, game, etc. Add lemon. You can squeeze out the juice by hand and drop it on the food to remove the fishy smell.

The basic principle is to hold a knife or spoon in your right hand and a fork in your left. If there are more than two, you should take them from the outermost one in turn. The way to hold a knife and fork is to gently hold the tail end and press the index finger on the handle. The spoon can be held with a pen. If you feel inconvenient, you can change your right hand to hold the fork, but it is impolite to change it frequently. When eating big vegetables, you can fold and cut them with a knife and fork. Soft food can be put on a fork and arranged with a knife. In case of an accident, if something unusual happens due to carelessness during the banquet, such as the knife and fork hitting the plate too hard, making a noise, or the tableware falling to the ground, or the drink spilling, etc. You should be calm and don't worry. When the tableware makes a noise, you can gently say "sorry" to your neighbor (or your host). If it is dropped, the waiter can send a set of tableware. If the drink spills on the neighbor, apologize and help dry it; If the other person is a woman, just hand me a clean napkin or handkerchief and dry it yourself. Correct and standardized etiquette sitting posture requires dignity and elegance, giving people an elegant, steady and natural aesthetic feeling. Sitting, as a kind of etiquette, is divided into beauty, ugliness and elegance. The correct etiquette sitting posture requires "sitting like a clock", which means that people sit as straight as a clock, of course, the end here is up to the upper body.

(1) Sit gently, steadily and slowly. Go to your seat, turn around and sit down gently. If the chair is in the wrong position and needs to be moved, you should first move the chair to where you want to sit, and then sit down. It's against social etiquette to move around in a chair.

(2) The expression is calm and comfortable (lips are slightly closed, the jaw is miniature, and the face is calm and natural).

(3) The shoulders should be flat and relaxed, and the arms should be naturally bent on the legs, or placed on the armchair or sofa armrest, with the palms down.

(4) When sitting in a chair, stand up straight and chest out, and the upper body is naturally straight.

(5) Knees are naturally close together, legs are upright or placed sideways, and feet are close together or overlap or form a small "V" shape. A man's knees can be separated by one punch or so, and his feet can be slightly stepped or slightly divided to show the beauty of natural freedom, but he can't open his legs and feet at will, which will appear vulgar and arrogant. If you sit up for a long time, your legs can cross and overlap, but pay attention to the recovery of the upper thigh, with your toes down.

(6) Sitting in a chair, at least 2/3 of the chair should be filled, and the sofa with a wide seat should be at least 1/2. Don't lean back in the chair for at least 10 minutes after taking a seat. After a long time, you can lean back gently.

(7) When speaking, according to the direction of the speaker, turn the knees of the upper body to the speaker and keep the upper body straight, so as not to show inferiority, compliment and please. Pay attention to manners and respect others, but don't lose self-esteem.

(8) When leaving the seat, naturally and safely, step back half a step with your right foot, and then stand up.

(9) When a woman is seated, if it is a skirt, it is not elegant to slightly close the skirt by hand and then pull the skirt after sitting down. It is polite to sit on the left side of the chair in formal occasions and leave it when you leave your seat. The lady should sit gracefully, quietly and gently, with her legs together, her feet on the left or right at the same time, and her hands folded on her left and right legs. If you are sedentary, you can cross and overlap your legs, but you should pay attention to the recovery of your thighs. The toe down gives people a noble and generous feeling.

(10) When men and women need to sit sideways, they should turn their upper body and legs to the same side at the same time, but keep their heads forward.

(1 1) As a lady, the choice of sitting position depends on the height of the chair and whether there are handrails and backrest. There are many ways to swing your hands, legs and feet, but it is not advisable to cross your legs or cross your legs.

(12) The most suitable way to sit in a restaurant is to sit on the left. When the chair is opened, the body will stand up straight at a distance that almost touches the table. The leader pushes the chair in, and the legs bend and touch the chair behind, so you can sit down. After sitting, sit upright, and your upper body can lean on the back of the chair. Don't put your cheeks or elbows on the table with your hands. Don't often leave the table or move your seat. When eating, your upper arms and back should lean on the back of the chair, and your abdomen should keep a fist distance from the table. It is best to avoid sitting with your feet crossed.

(13) Sitting in jeans, sit sideways first, with one foot supporting the body weight and the ankle of the other foot resting on the toe of this foot. You can also sit cross-legged, with your toes up and your hands naturally on your knees. If you sit on the sofa, you don't have to be too restrained, just sit naturally and keep an elegant sitting posture.

After sitting, sit upright, but not stiff. Don't put your cheeks or elbows on the table with your hands. Don't tamper with tableware and napkins at will, and avoid some impolite behaviors, such as taking off your coat, tie and sleeves at will; Speak with lively gesticulations, often leave the table, or move your seat; Headrest, yawning, stretching, rubbing eyes, scratching hair, etc.