When eating, hold the bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other. Don't put the elbow of the bowl on the dining table.
Chewing soup makes no sound.
Before eating, you must wait for the elders to move chopsticks first, and the younger generation can start eating to show respect for the elders.
Don't cross chopsticks on other people's chopsticks when taking food, don't insert them into rice, don't have different lengths, and don't point at others when taking chopsticks.
You can't clip the same dish more than twice in a row.
No matter how small the dish is, it must be eaten in a bowl, not directly in your mouth.
The dishes in the bowl should be eaten clean, which is the beauty of saving.
You can't look in the mirror or fiddle with your hair when you eat.
When eating, you can't use a spoonful of chopsticks, which will be considered greedy and rude.
You can't eat it directly with a big spoon, nor can you eat it directly from soup pots and woks. This will be considered as a sign of greed.
The round table banquet must be on the upper floor across the door, with accompanying seats on both sides and the door on the bottom floor.
Western table manners
If you eat at someone else's house, remember to bring a bunch of flowers or red wine to the hostess, but the gift should not be too expensive.
Need to eat in a formal restaurant or banquet, and pay attention to dress. Because western restaurants that basically need to pay attention to table manners have dress codes. A lady's knee-length dress. Men want suits and jackets, and some also require a tie, not slippers.
The phone needs to be set to mute or vibration mode.
Regarding the use of tableware, you don't need to remember the specific purpose of the knife and fork, because as long as you order the dishes, the waiter will come and help you arrange the tableware from outside to inside in the order of serving. Use tableware from the outside to the inside in the order of each dish. Pay attention to avoid the sound of knives and forks when using them, and make as little noise as possible when eating.
When drinking soup with a spoon, the spoon should touch the tableware as little as possible to make a sound. If the soup is very hot, you can dry it for a while before drinking it. Don't take a spoonful and blow twice before drinking, because only babies usually eat like this.
If the process of drinking soup needs to be paused, the spoon should be put back on the plate, not directly inserted into the soup. Pick up the spoon from the plate and use it when you need to continue drinking. Similarly, when drinking coffee and tea, the teaspoon must be put back on the saucer after stirring. You can't just put it in a teacup and pick it up to drink. On formal occasions, even the saucers need to be served together.
As for the placement of napkins, please don't press them under the plate. A lady should fold a pair of square napkins into a triangle and put them on her knees. Men can usually say this, but if men are afraid that juicy food such as steak will bounce on your black tie or white collar belt, they can put napkins directly into the neckline. If you need to leave the table halfway, the napkin should be folded and put on the chair.
When you eat steak, lamb chops and fish chops, please cut them into pieces. Don't chop them all up, poke them one by one. The cutting direction is from lower left to upper right. When talking to others, remember to put down your knife and fork first.
If you need to drink water or drink water during the meal, you need to wipe your mouth before drinking to avoid leaving greasy lip prints on the rim of the cup. In addition, please don't use napkins to wipe your sweat, face, nose and tableware ... napkins can only be used to wipe your mouth and can be put back on the table after eating.
If you need to leave halfway, if you want to continue eating that dish, you can put your knife and fork in a figure of eight. Put the fork on the left (as opposed to cutting steak) and the knife on the right (with the blade to the left) so that the waiter won't take your food away. If you don't want to eat any more, put the knife and fork flat on the plate like chopsticks, or put them back on both sides of the plate on the dining table.
When eating western food, you can't put your elbows on the dining table. Remember that your elbows are facing outwards.