Since you want to eat western food and steak, you should learn western manners, especially in some mid-to high-end restaurants, otherwise you will be complained by customers in the same restaurant.
Steak is a big meal, suitable for entertaining the right people, wedding anniversary and distinguished guests, and there should not be too many people dining at the same table, otherwise it will spoil the atmosphere. If more than six friends have dinner together, hot pot is still recommended. The environment there is more suitable for talking and laughing.
I present a set of cartoons with more explanations.
Restaurants are usually divided into smoking and non-smoking areas. If you don't want the embarrassment of waiting in line or being arranged in an area you don't like, it is very important to reserve seats.
In terms of clothes, clothes that are not suitable for business buildings are not suitable for western restaurants. Men should not wear jeans/shorts, and women should not wear halter tops. T-shirts/jeans and sneakers are not too restrictive.
The host and guests had better go at the same time. The host can lead the way before arriving at the restaurant, and after arriving at the restaurant, under the guidance of the guests, let the ladies or guests go first; When the hostess leads everyone to the reserved table, the waiter will open the seat. The host can invite the other person to sit down and sit down from the left side of the seat unless the left side is against the wall. The man or host should sit in the aisle, and the woman or guest should lean against the wall to make the other person feel safe.
If the host and guests can't arrive at the restaurant at the same time, the host should not be late than the guests; Even if it is a lady's treat, men should not be late. If there is a time sequence for parking, you can ask the other party to wait at the exit of the parking lot or the elevator.
The western restaurant won't prepare tableware after you sit down. You can complain.
Before you sit down, the tableware is ready on the table. The paper gold on the left and the cup on the right are for your own use. As for the knife and fork, take the plate as the center, and the tableware used by which hand is placed on the side of which hand.
When you sit down, the waiter will hand you a wet tissue to wipe your hands, even though you may have just washed your hands before you sit down.
The golden paper is folded into a big triangle and placed flat on the leg, or one corner is placed under the plate and the rest is placed on the leg; It is wrong to put a piece of paper in your neck.
When the corners of your mouth or fingers are stained, you can lightly print it on the corner of your napkin, but don't vigorously wipe it. If you want to leave the table halfway, you can fold the napkin twice and put it neatly on the chair. Remember that the soiled napkin should be folded inward so that no one can see your soiled napkin.
Be sure to let the lady or guest order first. In terms of drinks, red wine with red meat (steak) and white wine with white meat (seafood).
You don't have to drink. Two people can't use up a milliliter of wine, especially after dinner.
The first course is steamed stuffed bun before dinner.
Although the bread is small, it must be torn into small pieces and stuffed into your mouth. Western food is very important. You must eat everything in your mouth in one gulp. You can't take out half and take another bite.
This is very different from our usual breakfast, and many people don't pay attention to it.
Maybe you have this bread in your left hand and the torn one in your right. Where is the support point of the hand? It can't be hanging in the air.
Both men and women can't be supported by elbows; The correct way is to lean your wrist against the edge of the table.
Pre-dinner salad
If there are multiple sets of tableware, use them from outside to inside in turn.
Salads can be made with forks. Avoid using spoons and knives, which are for the later dishes.
After using a dish, the waiter will take away the tableware together with the plate. If you use inappropriate tableware, the soup left on the knife and fork will pollute the tablecloth, which is very bad.
Try to finish everything on your plate. This is polite and moral. It is hard to eat a grain of millet. If it is embellishment, the waiter will tell you that if you really don't like it, don't bite.
After eating, pass the tableware to your right hand, put it diagonally down on the plate and put it at four o'clock; If the salad plate has a special shape, it is always right to put the dishes on the right.
soup
You can use the spoon now.
Soup should be scooped up slowly with a spoon and sent to your mouth. Spoons should be suitable for not loading too much, which will be impolite and avoid soup dripping in the middle.
When eating western food, you must look forward. You can't lower your head to drink soup, and you can't lift any plate to your mouth to eat.
Because most of the soup is served on a plate, it may be inconvenient to use a spoon at the end. You can lift the inside of the plate slightly with your left hand, and the spoon scoops the soup from the inside out, which is different from the traditional outside-in in China. You should also pay attention to it.
You can't smack your lips or snore, because the soup tastes good. If it is very hot, you can wait for a while to avoid blowing. Remember that western food should always be quiet.
Yesterday, the man next to me made a loud noise when he was drinking soup. I pointed this out to him rudely. Hehe, the lady opposite him feels embarrassed, too.
The main course finally came up.
In the past, bread, salad and soup may make you feel full, and some restaurants will serve a small appetizing sour plum soup.
Don't get excited when the long-awaited main course finally appears. As emphasized many times above, western restaurants are not suitable for noisy places.
Don't rub each other's strokes with a knife and fork, it's just an animated picture.
If you order a steak with a big bone, you can ask the waiter to remove it for you, especially for women who don't have this skill. It is impolite to let the knife and fork come into close contact with the plate and make a noise.
Eat every piece of meat you cut, don't cut it all at once, the steak will be tasteless when it is cold.
If you feel that the taste is not palatable, you can add other seasonings; Remember to put the fork on the edge of the plate, not casually on the edge of the plate.
If you need to leave the table halfway, the knife and fork should be placed on the plate in a figure of eight and the paper should be folded and placed on the seat.
Don't wave your knife and fork when you are talking, the other person will feel dangerous because the knife for cutting steak is very sharp. There is meat in your mouth, meat on your fork, or it's best not to talk when cutting meat. It's ugly to grin Also, close your lips when chewing meat.
Enjoy the steak as soon as possible. If you can't eat, you can put down your knife and fork, take a sip of water and sit down and have a rest. Remember not to sit in more than half of the chairs.
There are desserts and drinks behind the main course.
If there are any inedible decorations on the dessert, the waiter will tell you clearly, otherwise you will eat them all.
The last cup of coffee or tea can be brought to your mouth with the base in your left hand and drunk slowly with your right hand.
Ok, fold the paper and put it on the table, and signal the waiter to come. First, picking teeth in public is uncivilized: the tableware in western food is mainly knives, forks and spoons, that is, spoons and napkins. For example, there are some common things on the western food table, such as no wet towels. Because foreigners regard eating as a social activity and wipe their faces with wet towels, makeup disappears. Besides, there are no toothpicks. Picking your teeth in public is an uncivilized behavior, which destroys the appetite of others and your image, so don't look for toothpicks on the western food table.
(2) napkins can indicate the beginning and end of the banquet: napkins are important props for western-style banquets and have many functions. At a formal banquet, the hostess spread a napkin on her lap to mark the beginning of the banquet. This is the first function of napkins, which can indicate the beginning and end of a banquet. In the west, ladies are given priority, and the hostess is the first at western banquets. If the hostess doesn't sit, no one else can sit. The hostess spread the napkin on her lap to show that everyone can start. On the other hand, the hostess will put napkins on the table, which marks the end of the party. In addition, it must be noted that napkins can only be laid on your legs and cannot be placed anywhere else. Napkins should be spread on the legs, generally folded into strips or triangles to avoid soiling skirts or pants with vegetables and soup during meals.
(3) If you leave your napkin on the way, put it on the chair surface: for example, when I was eating western food, someone suddenly called. This code is very important, I have to pick it up, but it is not appropriate to pick it up at the dinner table. I want to go out to play. Where can I put my napkin? Remember, generally speaking, you should continue to eat after dinner. One of the most standard practices is to put a napkin on the chair surface of your seat, which represents a meaning and takes up a lot of space. In addition, napkins can wipe your mouth, but you can't wipe your knife and fork or sweat.
(4) If you haven't finished eating, you can't put the knives and forks side by side. Western dinner is different from fast food. Sometimes fast food can be cooked without a knife and fork. But there are usually knives and forks for dinner, and there are more than one pair, often two or three pairs. No matter what kind of knife and fork you take, it's usually left fork and right knife. It pays attention to the use of knives and forks in western food. There is one of the most convenient rules of the game: eat a dish for a knife and fork. General salad, seafood, main course fork. Tridents are taken from outside to inside in turn. Take the outermost pair first, usually eat salad, then take the middle pair, usually eat seafood, and finally take the innermost pair, usually eat main course and steak. If you eat half a meal, how to place the knife and fork is particular. Just as it is impolite for China people to point at others with chopsticks when eating, knives and forks in western food should not point at people. And when cutting knives and forks in western food, pay attention to it. What are the general habits? The elbow joint of the left hand and the right hand should be clamped on both sides of the waist, so as to control your cutting action. Don't be like a carpenter, the noise is annoying. It has a special point. If you talk to others, put the knife and fork on the plate in Chinese characters, with the blade inward, not outward. Fork up, teeth down. This action is to tell the waiter and others that I haven't finished this dish. You must never put it together. If the knife and fork are placed side by side, with the blade inward and the fork teeth upward, it means that you don't eat them, so take them away.
(5) Spoons can't be taken into your mouth: Generally speaking, there will be several pairs of spoons in western food, which should be placed outside the knife in your right hand. There will probably be two or three spoons. If there are two spoons, one for soup and the other for dessert. If there are three spoons, they are used to drink red tea and coffee. No matter what you drink, you should pay attention to the usage of the spoon. First, we should shoot from the outside to the inside. Second, you can't put a spoon in your mouth. Third, don't stand at attention in the cup when the spoon is not in use. If you don't use it, let it lie flat on the plate. Besides, you notice that when scooping soup, the spoon goes into the soup, scoops it far away, and then turns back. Because that soup is thick, if you just rush to your mouth and rush to your body, you may get it all over your body.
Well, the amount of western food will be relatively large, so it is the right choice to go shopping after eating, and there will be no activities after shopping.