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Table Etiquette
The Basics
Introduction
Table manners play an important part in making a good impression.
Here are some basic tips to help you…
Table manners Impression Tips
餐桌禮儀 印象 訣竅
Sitting down
At a very formal dinner name cards will show you where you should sit. If there are no name cards on the tables, the host will take you to the correct place.
Name card Host
名牌 男主人
(
東道主
)
Sitting down
If you are at a romantic dinner, the man should push the woman’s chair in for her. Sometimes the waiter will do this.
Let’s Practice!
Sit down please!
Using the napkin
Place the napkin on your lap.
– If it is small – unfold it completely.
– If it is big – fold it in half, lengthwise.
Napkin
餐巾
Using the napkin
The napkin stays on your lap the whole time.
If you need to leave the table during the meal, place your napkin on your chair as a signal to your server that you will come back.
Lap Signal Server
膝部 信號
;
暗號 服務生
Using the napkin
You should only dab your lips and should not make the napkin dirty.
Dab
輕搽
Using the napkin
Once the meal is over, you too should place your napkin loosely on the table to the right of your dinner plate.
Loosely Reveal
鬆弛地
;
零散地 展現
;
顯露出
Using the napkin
It should not be crumpled or twisted, which reveal untidiness or nervousness.
Nor should it be folded, which might show that you think your host might reuse it without washing.
Untidiness Nervousness
凌亂
;
無條理性
Using the napkin
There is a European superstition that a diner who leaves the napkin on his chair will never sit at that table again.
Superstition Diner
迷信
;
迷信行為 用餐的人
Let’s Practice!
Take the napkin and put it on your lap.
Ordering
If there is something you don’t understand on the menu, ask your server any questions you may have. Answering your questions is part of the server’s job.
Ordering
An employer will generally let you order first; his or her order will be taken last. Sometimes, however, the server will decide who orders first. Often, women’s orders are taken before men’s.
Order Decide
點菜 決定
Ordering
As a guest you should not order one of the most expensive items on the menu or more than two courses unless your host shows that it is all right.
Guest Course
客人 一道菜
The Menu
Read the menu to decide what you want to eat.
Decide
決定
The Menu
Let’s Practice!
Read the dialogue and practice ordering food.
The Table Setting
Dinner Plate Side Plate Soup Bowl
The Table Setting
Dinner Fork Salad Fork Dinner Knife
Dessert
餐後甜點
Butter
奶油 Soup Spoon Dessert Spoon Butter Knife
The Table Setting
Champagne
香檳酒 White Wine Glass Red Wine Glass Champagne Glass
The Table Setting
Setting
擺設
Using the knives, forks and spoons
In most restaurants you will only find one knife and one fork on the table.
If there are more than one, you should use the one on the “outside” first.
Using the knives, forks and spoons
There are two ways to use a knife and a fork: – The American Style – The European Style
The American Style
When you need to cut something, you should hold the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right hand.
After cutting off a small piece, you put your knife and fork down, pick the fork up with your right hand and eat it.
The European Style
When you need to cut something, you should hold the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right hand.
After cutting off a small piece, you put the food directly into your mouth with your left hand.
Using the knives, forks and spoons
When you hold the knife or fork, you should relax your fingers.
Never let the knife, fork or spoon touch the table after you started eating.
Using the knives, forks and spoons
When you take a break from eating, you simply put your knife and fork on the plate.
When you have finished eating, you should put your knife and fork together pointing to the left.
Let’s practice!
Look carefully how to hold a knife and a fork Practice the American and European styles
Posture
Sit up straight with your arms near your body.
Don’t put your elbows on the table.
posture elbow
姿勢
;
姿態 肘部
Taking something out of your mouth
Food should go out the same way it went in.
Your may take fish bones out with your hand.
Eating Soup
Dip the spoon in the soup away from your body.
Sip the liquid from the side of the spoon.
Don’t put the whole spoon in your mouth.
Liquid
液體
;
湯液
Eating Bread
Take some butter and put it on the plate.
Break a piece of bread off with your hand.
Put some butter on the small piece.
Don’t spread the butter over the whole piece of bread.
Spread
塗
;
敷
“Please pass the salt”
If somebody asks you to pass the salt, you should pick up both the salt and the pepper.
Put them on the table near the person next to you.
Do not use the salt before you pass it on.
Pass
傳遞
When you have finished
When you leave the table at the end of the meal, place your napkin loosely next to your plate.