第1篇：中国餐桌礼仪英语作文
Table Manners
The main difference between Chinese and western eating habits is that unlike the West, where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food. Chinese are very proud of their culture of cuisine and will do their best to show their hospitality.
And sometimes the Chinese host use their chopsticks to put food in your bowl or plate. This is a sign of politeness. The appropriate thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say how yummy it is. If you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there.
Eating No-no's
Don't stick your chopsticks upright in the rice ,lay them on your dish. The reason for this is that when somebody dies,the shrine to them contains a bowl of sand or rice with two sticks of incense stuck upright in it. So if you stick your chopsticks in the rice bowl, it looks like this shrine and is equivalent to wishing death upon a person at the table!
Make sure the spout of the teapot is not facing anyone. It is impolite to set the teapot down where the spout is facing towards somebody. The spout should always be directed to where nobody is sitting, usually just outward from the table.
Don't tap on your bowl with your tap on their bowls, so this is not , when the food is coming too slow in a restarant, people will tap their bowls. If you are in someone's home,it is like insulting the cook.
Drinking
Gan Bei! (Cheers! “Gan Bei” literally means “dry [the] glass”) Besides beer, the official Chinese alcoholic beverage is Bai Jiu,high-proof Chinese liquor made from assorted grains. There are varying degrees of Bai Jiu. The Beijing favorite is called Er Guo Tou, which is a whopping 56% alcohol. More expensive are
Maotai and Wuliangye
Chinese table manners
Chinese table manners of families have no intrinsic quality even there are different region and position. No matter three meals a day or guest’s arrival, always bowls with chopsticks, food with soup. There is no rule for how to put the tableware. What people care about more are not the gorgeous tableware but the sumptuous food. People’s dining position reflects the most obvious etiquette of Chinese table manners. In ancient society, men are supreme, and women are not allowed to sit with men on the same table. Although this is modern society, this kind of ancient etiquette still remains. Today in China, the phenomenon that men sit on the table before women can be found everywhere. The master of a family usually sits on the first-class seat. The first-class seat is usually near the interior of a room facing to the door. Once there is a guest, the master will offer the first-class seat to the guest politely. If it is an ordinary meal of family, families should start after the elder. If there is a guest, the master offer the food to the guest is essential from the beginning to the end. And the tradition of urging others to drink is also a special phenomenon.
Even there is no official “table manners’ in china, while there is “eating behavior”. Once there is “eating behavior”, there must be some eating manners up to standard.
Here are some characteristics on Chinese eating:
a. Keep your eyes on the meal, especially at the beginning of the meal.
b. When eating, keep your bodies forward, and face to your food.
c. It is allowed to spit the bone on the tables.
d. When chewing, it is allowed to make some rhythmical noisy of chewing.
e. Traditional Chinese meal doesn’t need the public chopsticks.
f. Traditional Chinese meal doesn’t have the sweet snacks after meal.
第2篇：中国餐桌礼仪英语作文
China Dining Custom Table Manners The main difference between Chinese and western eating habits is that unlike the West, where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food.
Chinese are very proud of their culture of cuisine and will do their best to show their hospitality. And sometimes the Chinese host use their chopsticks to put food in your bowl or plate. This is a sign of politeness. The appropriate thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say how yummy it is. If you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there.
第3篇：中国餐桌礼仪英语作文
The culture differences between the East and West.
As we know ,there are so many differences between culture of the East and West that I can not list all of their different will focus on the differences of diet custom and teaching your better understanding ,I will set examples of China and is no doubt that it is a tradition to use chopsticks for people in America prefer to forks and different result is based on different food they are like .Americans choose to eat beefsteak,bread,and salad,while Chinese people choose noodles ,pancakes and is more,the custom of drinking tea in China and drinking coffee in America are stand out ,there is a trend that the food in both countries has been mixture.
For example,the coffee and bread have introduced to famous KFC is very popular at gap of teaching system between China and America is students always complain about their much homework has limited the time to exercise and have to recite many things as to get a high mark.
Homework comes the first to my opinion,the study in America is more interesting .Teachers pay attentions to training students skills in thinking in realastic life not to emphasis on the importances of a addition,the rate of going to school ,the salary of teaching ,and the job of gruduates are quite different, should say that Chima government should make great efforts to improve its teaching syetem.
I am also expect to be one day ,the West give more cheers to our country.
第4篇：中国餐桌礼仪英语作文
Soup:soup with spoon rather than the entire bowl up to drink drink the soup with a spoon a spoon should be made by your side outward scoop avoid any soup or mix with the mouth avoid noise is the most basic courtesy when the soup the soup with the left thumb and forefinger hold outwardly inclined to get drinking the soup the spoon should be placed in the soup or Thomas Cup saucer.
Coffee and tea:drink coffee or tea the restaurant will attach a small spoon it is used to disperse the sugar and cream so as not to take the sugar and creamer in the spoon to stir your drink do not use the spoon to taste the sweetness of coffee or that you'll get the whole the table stares.
When you drink coffee or tea you should use your index finger and thumb to hold it up and drink it for the dishes you don't have to carry you have finished place the spoon on the don't steal it into your bag.
第5篇：中国餐桌礼仪英语作文
British families known as "the table as the traditional classroom" on the table from children, parents began to tangible or intangible "dine education", the purpose is to help children to develop good habits, learn good meal etiquette, the dining with various admirable quality or character.
British peop
le normally speech language, "please" and "thank you" is very popular in the family, even so. Parents and children having dinner, father son on the table that bottle of salt, soy sauce, or other things, also say: "give me the salt, please." When the father to son, the father must say: "thank you". Between husband and wife, mother and also. If children at the table to mother for a piece of bread, said, "give me a piece of bread," his mother answered him: "what, give me a piece of bread!" Children will have to say: "please give me a piece of bread. These expressions in English is very strict.
English families always have the tradition that called 'turn the table into the class':since the first day of dinning,parents have taught a lesson that a available 'dinning education' or not in order to help the kids to get into the good habits,learn the nice manners and keep all kinds of worth-saying personality and quality.
in the often talking of English,'please'and 'thanks'are very common,even if in the families. When parents and children have dinner on a table,father often ask his son to bring salt ,sause or others, and says'Please bring salt to me.'When son asks his Dad the bread,as his father ,he need to say,'thanks'.So do the kid asks his mother."Give me some bread."His mother will answer,'WhatGive me some bread' The kid must say it again.'Please give me a piece of bread'.These daily sentenses in English are very strict.