Practical Knowledge Of Table Manners In China

Practical knowledge of table manners in China, we hope to help you!

Generally speaking, the seat is "Zun Zun Dong" and "facing the gate to respect".

If the round table is on the main gate of the gate, the location of the host and guest is on the left and right side. The distance from the subject and the guest is closer to the host and guest. The same distance is left on the right side.

If it is a table for eight immortals, if there is a seat that is facing the gate, then the right side of the gate side will be the guest.

If the door is not right, the right side of the east side is the chief.

If it is a feast, the arrangement between the table and the table should be in the middle of the chief residence, the 2, 4 and 6 seats on the left, and 3, 5, 7 seats on the right.

If you are the host, you should arrive in advance, then wait at the door, and take seats for the guests.

If you are invited, you should listen to your host's safety.

Generally speaking, if your boss is present, you should bring the boss to the main seat, and ask the client to sit on the left side of the main seat at the highest level.

Unless the leadership of this guest is very high.

Two, ordering dishes

If time permits, you should wait for most guests to arrive, then pass the menu to guests and ask them to order.

Of course, as a public banquet, you will worry about budget problems. Therefore, to control the budget, the most important thing for you is to do more homework before meals. It is more important to choose the right place to invite guests, so that the guests can understand your budget well.

Generally speaking, if you pay the bill, the guests are not too comfortable to order. They will let you decide.

If your boss is at the banquet, don't ask him or her to order because he respects him, or thinks he has enough experience and feast, unless he or she asks for it.

Otherwise, he will feel inadequate.

If you are a banquet, you should know that you should not be too active in ordering, but let the host order.

If the other party is very demanding, you can order a dish that is not too expensive and not everyone's food.

Remember to ask people on the table for advice, especially asking "what are not eating?" or "what do you like to eat?" so that everyone feels taken care of.

After ordering, you can ask, "I ordered vegetables, I don't know if I agree with a few dishes," or "what else do you want?"

When ordering, you must have a good idea.

According to the following three rules when ordering dishes:

Look at the composition of the staff.

Generally speaking, per capita food is a general rule.

If there are more men's meals, they can be added appropriately.

Two look at the cuisine mix.

Generally speaking, the best thing for a table is to have meat and vegetables.

If there are more men on the table, you can have more meat dishes. If you have more women, you can have more light vegetables.

Three look at the importance of banquets.

If an ordinary business banquet is served, the average price will be between 50 yuan and 80 yuan.

If the object of this dinner is a key person, then the main points are a few enough dishes, such as lobster, saury, shad, and then specifications, abalone, fins and so on.

Another point to note is that you shouldn't ask the waiter for the price of a dish or haggle over the price when ordering dishes, which will make your company look a little small in front of customers, and customers will feel uncomfortable.

Attachment: guidance for Chinese food ordering

A standard Chinese meal usually starts with cold dishes, followed by stir fry, followed by the main course, and then refreshments and soup. If you feel a little greasy, you can order some dessert, and finally the fruit tray.

In order to take orders, we should take into account the dishes of different procedures.

Preferred dishes

1, dishes with Chinese characteristics.

When we entertain foreign guests, we should pay more attention to this.

Such as fried spring rolls, boiled yuanxiao, steamed dumplings, lion heads, and kung pao chicken are not delicacies, but because of their distinctive Chinese characteristics, they are highly praised by many foreigners.

2, local cuisine.

For example, Xi'an's mutton steamed bun, Hunan's hairy roasted meat, Shanghai's red burning lion's head, and Beijing's Shabu mutton, when banquing guests from other countries there, these specialties, I'm afraid, are much better praised than the monotonous seafood.

3, the specialty of this restaurant.

Many restaurants have their own specialties.

The last special dish in this restaurant shows the owner's care and respect for the invited.

When arranging menu, guests' taboos must also be taken into consideration, especially the dietary taboos of the guests.

There are mainly four taboos in these diets.

1, religious taboos can not be negligent at all.

For example, Muslims usually do not eat pork and do not drink.

Domestic Buddhists eat less meat and meat. They not only refer to meat, but also include pungent food such as scallion, garlic, leek and mustard.

Some Guanyin Buddhists are particularly forbidden to eat beef in their diet, especially when they want to entertain Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese compatriots.

2, for health reasons, for certain foods, there are taboos.

For example, people with heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and sequela of stroke are not suitable for eating dog meat. Hepatitis patients do not eat mutton and soft shelled turtle. Gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer Decoction and other digestive system diseases are not suitable for eating turtle.

3, people tend to have different dietary preferences in different regions.

For this, we need to take account of the arrangement of menus.

For example, people in Hunan Province generally like spicy food and less sweets.

In Britain and America, people usually don't eat pets, rare animals, animal viscera, animals' heads and claws.

In addition, when the foreign guests are invited to dinner, try to minimize the number of dishes that are hard to eat. Foreigners are not likely to throw food out of their mouths during meals.

4, some

For some reason, there are different special taboos in catering.

For example, the state civil servants are not allowed to eat when performing official duties. They are not allowed to eat or drink in public banquets. They must not exceed the standard meals prescribed by the state and are not allowed to drink strong spirits.

Again, drivers should not drink during their working hours.

If we ignore this, we may make the other party make mistakes.

Three, eat vegetables

Chinese people are very particular about eating, and they are also very particular about eating.

With workplace etiquette getting more and more attention, eating and eating at business tables is also more particular.

Let's take Chinese food as an example to show you how to be polite and courteous on the table.

At the beginning of the Chinese banquet, the first wet towel towed by the waiter was to wipe his hands, not to wipe his face with it.

When the lobster, chicken and fruit are served, a small water Mencius will be sent, with lemon slices or rose petals floating. It is not a drink but a hand washing.

When you wash your hands, you can wet your fingers in both hands, gently rinse and dry with a small towel.

Attention should be paid to civility and courtesy when eating.

Don't repeat the dishes to the foreign guests. You can tell the other side about the characteristics of Chinese food and not eat them.

Some people like to advise others, or even serve vegetables for each other.

Foreign guests do not have this habit. If you are polite again and again, you may be disgusted with others: "what do you want me to do if you have not eaten?"

If you wait for others to serve your own dishes, you will have to stomach.

Do not start feeding immediately after the guests are seated.

But when the host greets, the host can raise the glass to start, the guest can start; the guest can not grab in front of the owner.

The dishes should be civilized. When the dishes are turned to their own faces, they should move the chopsticks instead of grabbing them in front of their neighbors.

To chew slowly, this is not only conducive to digestion, but also the etiquette requirements on the table.

You mustn't stick it in your mouth and devour it. This will leave a greedy impression on you.

Don't be picky eaters, don't just watch your favorite food, or hurry up with your favorite dishes on your plate.

The meal should be gentle and elegant. If you don't touch your neighbor, don't put the dishes on the table. Don't spill the soup.

Do not make unnecessary noises, such as "gurgling" when eating soup, and "mouthing" when eating dishes, which are vulgar expressions.

Do not eat while chatting with others.

Don't spit on the table, use a napkin to cover your mouth, use chopsticks to get it out and put it in the dish.

Don't eat anything on the table.

Don't play with the bowl or chopsticks, or use chopsticks straight to others.

Don't use your hands to pick your mouth.

When using a toothpick to remove your teeth, use your hand or napkin to cover your mouth.

Don't let the dishes make any noise.

After the meal is finished, you can wipe your mouth with napkins, napkins or small towels sent by the waiter, but not to wipe your head or breast. After meals, do not belch or belch without control.

Four, drinking

As the saying goes, wine is thicker and thicker, but there are also a lot of knowledge about wine table. Here are some small details that you have to pay attention to on the wine table.

First, leaders should drink to each other before they finish drinking.

Toast must stand up and raise your glasses.

Details two: you can be respected by many people. You must not respect many people unless you are the leader.

Details three: respect others, if you do not clink glasses, how much you drink depends on the circumstances, such as the amount of alcohol consumed by the other party, the drinker's attitude should not be less than that of the other person.

Details four: respect others, if you clink glasses, one sentence, I finish drinking, you are free to show great generosity.

Details five: remember to add wine to leaders or customers. Do not blindly give the leader a substitute for wine. That is to say, they should be substituted for the leader or the client, and pretend to be drinking because they want to drink instead of drinking wine for the leader.

For example, if a leader is not capable of drinking, he can intercept people who are prepared to lead the armour by beating around the bush.

Details six: hold up a glass (beer cup), right hand cup, left hand cup bottom, remember that your cup is always lower than others.

If you are a leader, you should not be too low, or else how do you call the next person?

Details seven: if there are no special characters present, touch the wine preferably in a clockwise order.

Details eight: touch glasses, toast, have to say words, otherwise, why do I TMD drink your wine?

Details nine: no business on the desktop. If you drink well, your business will be almost the same. Everyone will know clearly, otherwise people will not drink with you.

Details ten: if, purely, if the wine is not enough, the wine bottle is placed in the middle of the table, so that people can add it to themselves. Do not dump the wine in a single way, or else the people behind will not have the wine.

About toast

1, the host respects the guest.

2, accompany guests to honor guests.

3, guest of honor return.

4, accompany each other.

Remember, guests must not be noisy and toast. It is impolite and disrespectful to their masters.

The time of general reception and tea party is very long, about two hours or more.

Maybe after a few laps and a few people, you quickly want to leave.

At this time, you can't fail to understand some skills that you have left halfway.

A popular banquet was in full swing when people wanted to leave, which led to the result of the crowd's rush.

To avoid the consequences of this kind of scenery, when you want to leave halfway, do not say goodbye to everyone in the circle. Just greet two or three people around you and leave.

When you leave the reception, you must explain and apologize to the owner who invited you.

If you greet your host, you should go right away. Don't hold your master talking at the gate.

Because there are many other things to do on the same day, there are still many guests waiting for him to greet her. You take up too much time of the host and will cause him (her) to be rude to other guests.

Some people attend a reception or tea party. When they are about to leave, they will ask each person she wants to know whether they want to leave together.

As a result, she was so excited that the scene was so early that she left the scene in advance.

It is the most difficult thing for a banquet master to understand this kind of scene. A man of grace must not make such a mistake.

Eating with chopsticks has eight taboos: one is not to lick chopsticks; the two is to avoid chopsticks; they can't make up their minds; they hold chopsticks on the dining table; they don't stop chopping; they just eat one dish, then eat another dish, and they don't stop in the middle. They don't fit in with meals. They don't stick to chopsticks, and they stick to chopsticks and use chopsticks to stick vegetables.

Avoid chopsticks and stick chopsticks on the rice leaves; six avoid crossing dishes; when others are eating vegetables, cross over the past to pick up another dish; seven avoid eating, and use chopsticks to pick up the food in the middle of the dish; eight avoid to pick chopsticks and use chopsticks to pick teeth.

Most of these taboos are related to health, modesty, and politeness.

Hiccup: it's very impolite to hiccup in the room. If you can't control it, you can drink water and hold your breath to reduce the symptoms. If it is still invalid, you'd better go to the bathroom and return to the seat after the waste gas has gone.

Sneezing: if it is just a temporary sneeze, of course, you can minimize the contamination by napkin.

If sneezing is constant, it is better to leave the seat and deal with it. If you really can not handle it, you may as well leave the table first. No one will mind.

Makeup: many Chinese female compatriots do not know this etiquette. Makeup should be in the bathroom or less.

Makeup in public is like combing your hair and wearing clothes.

Smoking: almost all restaurants are divided into smoking areas and non-smoking areas. In order to prevent other people from taking secondhand smoke, addicts should try their best to curb their addiction. If they are too addicted to smoke, they can use up their meals, and the people who have already started to leave the kitchen with dessert and coffee will not be rude or hurtful to others' health.

Pick your teeth: take care of your teeth. It's disgusting. If you really want to vomit, please cover it with napkins and spit on a paper towel.

If you use toothpicks in your plate, don't bite a toothpick and talk to people like a hooligan.

Some people even talked about toothpicks around the mouth after they finished their meal, and that was outrageous behavior.

Knife and fork fall: if the knife and fork fall down on the ground at meal time, it is only necessary to inform the service staff to clean the knife and fork without cleaning it, and not to wipe it up with a napkin.

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