chopsticks
★Let’s start with two pencils according to the cartoon here to learn how to use chopsticks. You can use chopsticks with your left or right hand, but don’t be too close to the end of chopsticks and don’t use them with too much strength. Be natural and elegant. It is very impolite that many foreigners’ hands are too close to the dishes when they use chopsticks. As to dinner, Chinese pay great attention to courtesy while the westerners pay great attention to the formal. You will handle well enough when you know exactly how to use chopsticks and the uses of the all kinds of dishware. Remember what Chinese enjoy is jollification. The main purpose is to enhance relationships by dinner. The principle is to drink and talk as much as possible. Favor and human relationship grow out from dinners.
Dinner in Chinese style
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dinner
enjoy yourself
really a wonderful dinner
★It is actually a dinner when you have by yourself while having with others takes a lot of learning. Chinese like to get together by having dinner with each other and like to have in a restaurant instead of at home. Therefore there are lots of restaurants all over the streets. The one who initiates the dinner will say“吃好喝好”to the guests to wish them a happy dinner. While the guests would have to say “好吃好喝”to show they are satisfied with the dinner. Start with learning how to have a dinner when you are learning Chinese.
table manners and courtesy among diners
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Let/permit
after you.
Leave it to me.
1 begins with the elder eating first.
2 raise the bowl up the table when getting dishes and eating.
3 have soup only with the spoon
4 make sure hands clear of vegetable juice and never lick fingers.
5 be courteous when getting dishes. It is an extreme taboo that one’s chopsticks encounter another’s.
6 can’t beat the dishware; try to not make noise with the dishware as possible
7 get dishes to the bowl at one time, don’t poke around. 8 seek others’ consent if you want to have dishes with few remaining.
2 raise the bowl up the table when getting dishes and eating.
3 have soup only with the spoon
4 make sure hands clear of vegetable juice and never lick fingers.
5 be courteous when getting dishes. It is an extreme taboo that one’s chopsticks encounter another’s.
6 can’t beat the dishware; try to not make noise with the dishware as possible
7 get dishes to the bowl at one time, don’t poke around. 8 seek others’ consent if you want to have dishes with few remaining.
to order
order dishes
meat dishes
soup
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What's the specialty here?
★Pay attention to a la carte. A la carte should start with the one who initiates the dinner or the guest. Tips for a la carte are as follows: get one and a half dishes per person with a main soup, coordinate meat with vegetables and coordinate dry dishes with wet dishes. For instance, 6 dishes for 4 people: 2 meat dishes, 2 cold dishes and 2 vegetarian dishes with a main soup. To diners, only one dish could impress them very well no matter how rich the dinner is. Most people can’t remember with what you treated them after several days. Therefore, try to get some dishes suitable to public taste instead of too expensive dishes. Only one special and valuable dish in the dinner is well enough.
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