DifferencesBetweenChineseandAmericanTableManners(中美餐桌礼仪).pptVIP

Table Manners  The way of have dinner Dinner Utensils The orders of serving Proprieties of have dinner The orders of seats The way of have dinner ??? In China, people like to sit together and all the dish are put in the center of the table, and then they share the food together. While in America, people have their own plate of food, and enjoy their food individually.? ? American Utensils Chinese Utensils The orders of servingin America 1 Appetizers(开胃品) the appetizer is the first dish, it always makes up of fruits, vegetables, and meat, or fresh seafood which accompanies with salad and sauce. The dish’s quantity is not so much, but it looks nice, which increases people’ appetites well.  2 Soups (汤) There are two kinds of soups, cold and hot soup or consomme and cream. If people have the appetizer, they will not have soup, or if they have soup, they do not have appetizer. 3 Salads(色拉) 4 Main Course(主菜) 5 Dessert(甜点) The orders of servingin China 1 Appetizers(开胃品) The appetizers always make up of four kinds of cold dishes and hot dishes, sometimes more than ten kinds. The famous dishes are preserved egg and cold nettlefish fur. After the cold dishes are the hot dishes. For example, the fry shrimp and fry chicken, however, most of the time, the hot dishes are elided. Main courses(主菜） There usually are eight courses of main dishes. But in big dinners, the quantity may reaches sixteen or thirty-two. The same feature is that, the number of the course should be even, because Chinese consider the even is the luck number. All of dishes make up of different kind of tastes, acid, sweet, bitter and peppery. And they are cooked in different ways, fry, braise, decoct, roast, and stir-fry, etc Dim-sum(点心） There are lot of dim-sum in Chinese dinner. For instance pie, cake, bun, bean curd etc. After the dim-sum is water and fruits. Proprieties of have dinnerin America Food is passed around the table If something is out of your reach, you ask po