Western restaurant ordering problem (100 urgent)

There are many tableware on the western table, so you should use specific tableware for everything you eat. China people regard western food as an indispensable part of learning western culture. When enjoying the elegant dining atmosphere of western food, you should behave appropriately and have a "ceremony" when eating.

Napkin cloth western-style napkins are generally made of cloth. Napkin cloth is square and flat, and its color is simple and elegant. Always put it on your legs, on your chest when you are polite, or on the table when you are relaxed. The corner of the napkin is facing your chest, pressing the plate.

Napkin cloth can be used to wipe your mouth or hands. It should be folded diagonally into a triangle or parallel into a rectangle. All stains should be wiped inside, and the appearance should always be neat. When you leave your seat, even if you leave temporarily, you should take off the napkin cloth, fold it into a square or triangle at will, and put it on the table edge or corner, preferably on your own seat.

Knife, fork and spoon used in western food have their own uses and cannot be replaced or mixed.

Knife: It is used to cut food. Don't stir the food with a knife, send it to your mouth. Remember: knife in your right hand. If there are three kinds of knives with different specifications at the same time when eating, the correct usage is: the one with small serrations is used to cut meat for food; Medium size is used to cut large vegetables into small pieces; There is also a kind of knife with a round tip and some upturned knives at the top, which are used to cut buns, and then use it to pick some jam and cream to spread on them.

Fork: Hold the fork in your left hand, and fork the food to your mouth lightly. Pick up the right amount of food and put it in your mouth at one time. When you pick up food with your mouth, your teeth only touch the food. Don't bite the fork, and don't let the knife and fork make a sound on your teeth or plate.

Spoons: on formal occasions, there are many kinds of spoons, the small ones are used to hold coffee and desserts; Buttered and cake-sharing apartments; Larger, used for drinking soup or holding small food; The biggest one is used to divide soup, which is very common in buffets.

Tableware is placed from outside to inside in the order of serving. Some dishes will remove some knives and forks after use.

Pay attention to the direction and position of the knife and fork. The knife and fork are placed on the saucer in a figure of eight, with the blade inward and the fork tip downward, indicating that you will continue to eat; Put the knife and fork on the saucer in parallel, with the knife edge facing outwards and the fork tip facing upwards, indicating that you don't eat. The spoon is placed horizontally in the soup plate with the center of the spoon facing upwards, which also means that the soup tableware can be taken away.

Elegant dining: when drinking thick soup, take the spoon horizontally and gently scoop it from outside to inside. Don't dig the spoon to the end. The outside of the spoon touches the soup. Touch the spoon with your lips when drinking, and don't pick up the soup basin to drink. When the soup is almost finished, put your left hand on your chest and gently lift the inside of the soup basin, concentrate the soup on one side of the bottom of the basin and scoop it out with your right hand. When eating pizza or other cakes, cut a piece with a knife just enough to eat in one bite and send it to your mouth with a fork.

When eating bread, one hand holds the bread, and the other hand tears off a small piece and puts it in your mouth. Don't bite the whole bread. When eating western food, you should dress neatly, sit upright, keep your back straight and stretch your neck. The most important thing is to keep your hands clean and your nails neatly trimmed.

Scholars who study western food, after long-term discussion and induction, think that the most important thing to eat western food is to pay attention to six "M's".

The first one is "menu"

When you enter the western restaurant, the waiter will show you to your seat first. When you sit down, the menu will be presented first. The menu is regarded as the facade of the restaurant and the boss has always attached great importance to it. The cover of the menu is made of the best cloth, and some even make all kinds of beautiful patterns with soft sheepskin. It seems inappropriate to call it a menu here, but it should be called a "menu".

I have a unique knack for ordering good dishes. No matter how I eat in western restaurants at home and abroad, the dishes I order are often delicious and cheap, and are often praised by my colleagues. My way is to open the menu and see which dish is named after the hotel. I often take it. I know that chefs don't joke about their own names, so the dishes they make great efforts are sure to be delicious. Please get to the point.

Speaking of ordering food, reading the menu reminds me of an incident that happened in Maxim's restaurant nearly 20 years ago. Four young "ten thousand households" farmers walked into this luxurious restaurant. They have money and want to try a famous French dish. The restaurant manager and waiter were overjoyed, warmly welcomed them to their seats, politely showed their recipes and respectfully asked them to order. Unexpectedly, one of them pushed the menu aside and said disdainfully, "What do you want? You see, what is expensive, we have plenty of money! " Four farmers spent nearly 2000 yuan to eat a famous French dish, but they made a fool of themselves from time to time. They didn't know how to use a knife and fork, so their napkins finally turned into handkerchiefs. ...

Later, the French general manager talked to me about this matter, and I was very moved: "From these four young people, I was very excited to see that China farmers were really rich. But it is hard for us to understand that China friends eat western food without looking at the menu. In France, even President Charles de Gaulle and President Destin have to look at the menu to order western food. There is no problem of having money but not money, because looking at the menu and ordering food has become an indispensable procedure for eating western food and a way of life. "

The second is "music"

Luxury and advanced western restaurants should have bands and play some soft music, and ordinary small western restaurants should also play some wonderful music. However, the most important thing here is the "audibility" of music, that is, the sound should reach the level of "listening but not listening", that is, if you concentrate on talking with your friends, you can hear it, if you want to rest and relax, and you should master this temperature.

The third is "mood" (atmosphere)

Western food pays attention to elegant environment and harmonious atmosphere. There must be music, white tablecloths and flowers, and all tableware must be clean. At dinner, the lights should be dim and there should be red candles on the table to create a romantic, charming and elegant atmosphere.

The fourth is "meeting"

In other words, you should choose who to eat western food with, and it must be friends, relatives and like-minded people. Eating western food is mainly to connect feelings, and rarely talk about business at the western food table. Therefore, in western restaurants, there are few red-faced scenes.

The fifth is "demeanor" (customs)

Also known as "eating" and "eating", in short, we should follow western customs and don't do anything abrupt, especially when holding a knife and fork. If we dance, we will "lose our manners". When using a knife and fork, you should hold the knife in your right hand and the fork in your left hand. Cut the food into small pieces with a knife and fork and send it to your mouth. Generally speaking, Europeans do not change hands when using knives and forks, and always use the fork of their left hand to put food into their mouths. Americans put down the knife after cutting, and put the food into their mouths with a fork in their right hand. But at any time, the knife must not be sent to the entrance. At western banquets, the host will arrange for men and women to sit next to each other, and western gentlemen who pay attention to "ladies first" will show hospitality to ladies.

The sixth is "rice" (food)

An American food friend of mine once said, "Japanese people eat with their eyes, and the form of cooking is beautiful." When they eat our western food, they use their noses, so our noses are very big; " Only you great China people know how to eat with your tongue. "Our Chinese food takes" taste "as the core, and western food takes nutrition as the core. As for taste, it can't compare with Chinese food.

Cuisine: A meal in western food is divided into seven steps, namely: 1. The first course (appetizer, divided into cold dishes and hot dishes) is actually very similar to our cold dishes, with great flavor and characteristics. ) 2. Soup (also divided into clear soup, cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup) 3. Side dishes (usually things that match, such as aquatic dishes and eggs, bread, crispy box dishes, etc. ), and eat some meat. The main course may be a sauce. Main course (meat and poultry dishes) 5. Vegetables (mostly salads and other vegetables with main courses) 6. Desserts (such as pudding, ice cream, cheese, coffee, etc. ), if coffee should be coffee with sugar and whipped cream, it is actually a light time to drink after meals, and there is also a choice of "tea". ) 7. fruit.

Ordering: I know that western food can be divided into seven categories, so I must have at least one item in every step of formal western food activities. If you are together, the first course, soup, main course, dessert and coffee will be fine! As a side dish, you can order a piece or two of bread for each person and add some butter according to your personal needs. ) Western food is divided into meals. It is customary for individuals to order their own dishes, so the guests should pay attention to this, instead of doing everything when ordering Chinese food. If the guests can accept the host's taste, they will generally say the same or similar dishes as the host.

Order wine: If the dish is meat, it should be served with red wine and fish with white. Have a glass of champagne, sherry or Jill before serving, so that you can usually choose more than one drink when eating western food. In addition, the acid in western-style salad has greatly damaged the mellow wine, so you can choose acidic wine to match it, so that the acid contained in the wine will be decomposed by the lactic acid of the salad, which is absolutely matched.

How to eat: 1. Napkin: After ordering the food, open the napkin before the food is delivered, fold it inward by one third, and let two thirds lie flat on the leg to cover the leg above the knee. It's best not to stuff napkins into the neckline. 2. Drink soup: you can't suck when you drink soup. You should first scoop up the soup from back to front with a spoon, and put the bottom of the spoon on your lower lip to deliver the soup to your mouth. The handle of the spoon forms a 5-degree angle with the mouth, and the upper body leans forward slightly. When there is not much soup left in the bowl, you can lift the bowl slightly with your fingers. If you put the soup in a bowl with a grip ring, you can drink it directly with the grip ring, not with other bowls. 3. Bread: First tear it into small pieces with both hands, and then eat it with your left hand. When eating hard bread, tearing it by hand is not only laborious, but also crumbs will fall all over the floor. You can cut it in half with a knife and then tear it into pieces to eat. Don't cut bread like a saw. First, insert the knife into the central part, cut it near the body, and then turn the bread around to cut off the other half. You can fix the bread when you cut it to avoid making noise. 4. Eat fish: Fish is tender and crisp, so the restaurant uses a spoon instead of a knife. This kind of spoon is slightly bigger and flatter than ordinary spoons. It can not only divide vegetables, but also scoop sauce. If you want to eat other mixed vegetables, you'd better use a fork. For fishbone, you should first stab a straight line near the gills with a knife, and the tip of the knife should not pierce through, but should pierce through half. After picking up the upper body of the fish, start from the beginning, put the knife under the bone, cut it in the direction of the fish tail, remove the bone and move it to the corner of the plate. Finally, cut off the fish tail. 5. Meat dishes: British people hold a fork in their left hand, with the tip of the fork facing down, and tie up the meat and send it to their mouths. If it is a burnt vegetable, they will put it on a fork with a knife and send it to their mouth. Americans cut meat in the same way, then put down the knife in their right hand and put on a fork, with the tip of the fork facing up under the meat. Without knives, they shoveled the meat into their mouths and ate the burnt vegetables in the same way. 6. Sauce: The use of a spoon for sauce is the same as that of a general spoon. You should use a fork to push the dish onto the sauce spoon, instead of fork the dish and pour the sauce with the sauce spoon, because the latter is against etiquette.

Precautions for knives and forks: western food uses knives and forks, so the basic action is: cut with a knife in your right hand and fork with a fork in your left hand. If there are more than two knives and forks, you should use them in turn from the outermost one. The way to hold a knife and fork is to gently hold the tail end and press the index finger on the handle. Hold the pen and hold the spoon. 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. If you want to put down your knife and fork to have a rest or talk about something in the middle of a meal, you should put your knife and fork in the center of the plate in a figure of eight. If the knife and fork stick out of the plate, it is neither safe nor beautiful. It's impolite to wave a knife and fork when talking. Put the knife and fork at four o'clock after eating.

The French pay absolutely equal attention to food as we do in China, and even better than us in treating food as an art. In addition to paying attention to the color, fragrance and taste of food, the French also pay special attention to the artistic conception of eating, such as exquisite tableware, faint candlelight, elegant environment and so on.

It is an "art" to match every dish and drink in French cuisine. An aperitif is essential, and the variety and even color of wine are very particular when eating. Order meat with red wine, eat seafood such as fish and shrimp with white wine, and some people like to drink brandy after meals. The glass used for each kind of wine is different. Look at the tall and thin glasses in front of you. Don't be nervous if you can't drink well. Eating French food and wine is just an interesting thing at the dinner party, just a taste.

It is difficult for busy office workers to have the energy and financial resources to enjoy expensive French dinners, let alone travel to France and enjoy French dinners in charming scenery. But it doesn't matter. We specially invited Master Zheng Hongbin, the head of western food in Beijing VIP building, to teach you how to make the most exquisite and romantic French dinner with the simplest raw materials.

Braised lamb chops with prunes

Suitable for people: couples who can't afford to eat foie gras in western restaurants.

Ingredients: New Zealand lamb chops 300g.

Accessories: 50g plum, red wine, white pepper, salt, onion, celery and a little carrot.

Small jelly: similar to China jelly, except mint, garlic or rosemary. Small jellies are generally hard to buy in China. If couples want to follow suit, they can use jelly from the supermarket instead.

Plum-stuffed lamb chops give people a unique three-dimensional sense of French cuisine, and achieve the characteristics of color, fragrance and shape.

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Production process:

1. First, chop onions, celery and carrots, add salt and red wine, and marinate the lamb chops for half a day, which takes at least 4 hours to taste.

2. After curing, put the sheep in a special container to rotate, and then brew the dried plums into lamb chops.

3. Because the heat is uneven when roasting, you should first put the sheep in the pot and fry it in oil until it turns golden yellow. Then put the mutton in the oven, adjust it to about 250 degrees, and bake it for about 5 minutes, until the lamb chops are 78% mature.

4. Take out the lamb chops and cut them into large pieces, and spread mint-flavored sauce around them.

French fried foie gras

Foie gras is foie gras in French, and the soup is fried, so if you see "fried foie gras" in the appetizer of a French restaurant, it is French fried foie gras. When frying foie gras, it is best to match the sauce cooked with sweet wine, or add dried figs to fry together, so that the aroma of foie gras can match the aroma of figs, and the taste is different. French fried foie gras is known as the three most delicious foods in the world, and it has its unique features in the process of raising French geese. However, gouty people in China can only condescend to choose foie gras from China when cooking this dish.

Suitable for people: suitable for all ages.

Raw materials: fine foie gras 150g.

Accessories: apples, potatoes, carrots, flour, black pepper, red wine and a little boiled juice.

Ingredients: sliced carrots and eggplant.

Cooking juice: Due to the addition of black pepper, the cooking juice is fresh, tender and salty with a little spicy taste. You can make different sauces according to different tastes. The basic ingredients for cooking sauce are beef bones, onions, celery and carrots, plus tomatoes and ketchup. Then put all the raw materials into the oven and bake at high temperature for at least 3 hours. Generally speaking, refined beef powder can be selected for cooking juice at home. When preparing, pour boiling water on the refined beef powder, then add a little salt and cook it in boiling water. You can thicken it a little at home to make the juice thicker.

Nutritional analysis: rich in vitamin D, soft and delicate in taste and rich in nutrition. If you want fashion, it will taste more delicious with red wine.

Production process:

1. First slice the foie gras, sprinkle with black pepper and salt, dip in flour and heat it with a torch.

2. Put the foie gras in the oil and fry the livers on both sides with medium fire. The fried foie gras is golden yellow. The foie gras slices of about 0.8 cm should be fried for about 5 minutes.

3. Peel and core the apple, then slice it. Then dip it in flour and fry the apple over medium heat until golden brown. Carrots and mashed potatoes are fried until golden brown, and apples can help relieve boredom. Foreigners and China people eat differently. They like to eat fruit and cooked food together, which can relieve boredom.

4. Mix the cooked juice and pour it on apples and foie gras, and serve with side dishes of various colors such as carrot slices and eggplant slices.

onion soup

Suitable for people: insufficient blood gas, MM with cold hands and feet in autumn and winter.

Ingredients: onion (enough for two people) 250g.

Seasoning: 1 cup of liquor, 4 slices of bread, some butter and Swiss cheese, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of flour, salt and pepper.

Nutritional analysis: In the crisp autumn season, drinking some soup rich in calories can promote human metabolism and speed up blood circulation. Women often feel cold feet because of insufficient blood gas in autumn and winter. Drink more French onion soup to replenish your energy and refresh yourself.

Production process:

1. Slice the onion, melt the butter in a large saucepan, add the onion and heat for five minutes on medium heat.

When they are soft, sprinkle flour on them and stir until they are completely mixed.

3. Then stir fry for five minutes, add wine, warm water, salt and pepper, and heat over low heat 15-20 minutes.

4. Put the soup in a soup plate with a cover, put bread slices on it, sprinkle grated cheese on the bread slices, and finally bake in the oven for a few minutes.