Today's pick up of Zhou Fangyuan was initiated by Mark, who was friends with Robert Downey Jr., so he asked each other.

It just so happened that Donnie had nothing to do today, so he came over and dragged Chris over by the way.

The car ended up in front of a steakhouse, a restaurant that Mark frequented and was said to taste quite good.

As we all know, Westerners and Easterners are different in that they do not have the habit of talking and enhancing feelings at the dinner table, and Western societies are more accustomed to getting closer to each other at a drinking party or party. Here, let's talk briefly about this table culture.

When it comes to table culture, we must first talk about food culture, and then we can go deep into the national culture.

China has a vast territory, rich products, and many ethnic groups, but the overall is based on Han culture, and Han culture is derived from agricultural culture, so China's diet is based on grains, that is, rice and wheat, supplemented by meat, and the daily diet is mainly vegetarian, only when the festival or life is high, the amount of meat and other meat dishes will be increased, and the drinks are mainly tea and wine. Western culture, on the other hand, originated from animal husbandry, where the food of Westerners was mainly meat and dairy, supplemented by plants, and the drinks were mainly coffee, milk and wine.

Chinese people like to sit together as a family and share a table when they eat.

The banquet should be held at a round table, which creates an atmosphere of unity, politeness, and common interest in form. Delicacies are placed in the center of a table, which is not only the object of appreciation and tasting of a table of people, but also the medium of emotional communication between people at a table. This kind of dinner system handed down from ancient tribes fully reflects the cultural characteristics of the Chinese people who emphasize the whole and weaken the individual, and is also in line with the concept of "harmony" in traditional culture. Westerners eat a separate meal system, even if they sit at a table, they are each person in front of a set of utensils, first sort the food they want to use into their own plates, everyone does not cross each other, and they will not talk to each other during the meal, not to mention toasting and persuading the dishes, which is the embodiment of Westerners' emphasis on independence and respect for individuality.

In terms of tableware, the difference is even more obvious, as we all know, the Chinese people, including some Asian countries of the yellow race, use chopsticks, spoons, and bowls for eating, while Westerners use plates to hold food, cut and eat with knives and forks, and have special spoons for soup. Chopsticks and knives and forks are the two most representative tableware in the East and the West, chopsticks and knives and forks have influenced the different lifestyles of the East and the West, representing two different wisdoms. Chopsticks represent moderation and roundness, while knives and forks mean going straight, representing the duality of the West, either/or.

Westerners pay attention to science and nutrition in their diet. When processing dishes, it is necessary to keep the original nutritional value of the dishes from being lost, and it can provide the necessary nutrients and energy to the human body after eating, so it will not require too much taste, but only do some small processing in color matching and shape processing. Chinese people are different, the pursuit of taste has reached the extreme, in order to achieve the best taste, using various cooking methods such as frying and stewing, at the expense of the nutritional value of the meal. Line is the embodiment of the external of the dish, the taste is the inner thing of the food, the emphasis on the inside without deliberately modifying the appearance, the heavy taste without excessively showing the shape of the dish, which is an important embodiment of Chinese food culture, but also the embodiment of Chinese culture introverted and unassuming.

Westerners' functional positioning of dishes is to satisfy hunger, so they specialize in eating "hard dishes" such as large pieces of meat and whole chicken, mostly raw and cold foods. However, China's dishes are "delicious" and must be carefully cooked before they can be enjoyed, so China's dishes are mainly cooked and hot. This reflects the characteristics of Westerners who pay attention to reality, Orientals who pay attention to form, Westerners who are rational, and Orientals who are emotional.

When the Chinese people are at the banquet, the elders and the guests sit in the main seat, and the others accompany each other sideways, and the banquet is indispensable to persuade wine, pick up dishes, greet, and guess the fist when they are happy, while the Westerners sit on the main seat, the male host sits opposite the host, and the guests sit in the guest seat, and the banquet is only for the guests to clip a dish, and the other is eaten by the guests independently, and they rarely talk to each other, which is also the embodiment of the cultural differences between the East and the West.

These are the differences between Eastern and Western dining cultures, but this difference is also becoming blurred with the development of society. More and more Chinese people no longer only pay attention to the color, aroma and taste of the dish, but pay more attention to its hygiene and nutrition, and Westerners have also begun to pay attention to the problems caused by dietary structure and other reasons, and the combination of Eastern and Western cultures is increasing, and the dividing line between each other is becoming more and more blurred.

And under different cultures, the specific etiquette is actually different.

In fact, there is a set of unwritten etiquette in our country, but nowadays, there are not many people who really fully observe it.

For example, in the etiquette of seating, guests should be invited to sit first, and then the elders should be seated, and then the guests should be seated in turn. When you are seated, enter from the left side of the chair, and do not move your chopsticks, let alone make any noise, and do not get up and walk around. If there is something to say hello to the host.

At mealtime. First, please ask the guests and the elderly to use chopsticks. Eat less dishes each time, eat less dishes far away from you, don't make a sound when eating, and don't make a noise when drinking soup. Drink the soup with a spoon and take a small sip of it, it is not advisable to bring the bowl to your mouth to drink, and drink it after the soup is too hot and cold, do not drink it while blowing. Some people like to chew food when eating, especially chewing crunchy food to make a very clear sound, which is not in line with etiquette. Especially when eating with a large number of people, try to prevent this from happening. Don't burp or make other noises while eating. If you have an involuntary sound such as a sneeze or bowel sound, say something like "I'm sorry", "I'm sorry", or "I apologize."

If you want to serve dishes to guests or elders, it is best to use chopsticks, or you can send dishes far away from the guests or elders to them. According to the habits of our Chinese nation, the dishes are one by one. If there are leaders, elderly people, and guests at the same table, ask them to move their chopsticks first whenever a new dish is served, or take turns to ask them to move their chopsticks first to show that you value them.

When you eat fish heads, bones, bones, etc., put them on your own plate or on pre-prepared paper.

Take the time to chat with the people around you at the right time to calm the atmosphere. Don't eat barehead and ignore others, don't gobble up a big meal, and don't be greedy.

It is better not to pick your teeth at the table. If you want to floss your teeth, cover your mouth with a napkin or your hands. It is necessary to clarify the main task of this meal. It is necessary to clarify whether the main thing is to talk about business, or to contact feelings, or to eat. In the case of the former, care should be taken to place the seats of the main negotiators close to each other when arranging the seats. If it's the latter, just pay attention to common sense etiquette and focus on appreciating the dishes.

At the end of the day, you must thank the host or invite him to his home at this time as a return.

For high-end occasions, as well as some more important occasions, such etiquette can still be maintained.

Ordinary people, just be free, table manners are important, but too strict, life is too tiring.

In the West, there is a different set of etiquette, some of which are similar to those in China, but some are quite different.

For example, when you are invited to a banquet, you are probably more interested in the people at the table and the conversation at the table than in the food. Therefore, when eating, you should make as little noise as possible and make as few movements as possible. As soon as the hostess picks up the napkin, you can also pick up your napkin and put it on your lap. Sometimes a small loaf of bread is wrapped in a napkin, and if that is the case, take it out and place it on a small plate next to it. If the napkin is large, put it on your lap on top of each other, and if it is small, open it all. Never pin a napkin to your collar or vest, and don't rub it in your hands. You can wipe off grease or dirt from your mouth or fingers with the corner of a napkin. Never use it to wipe knives, forks or dishes.

The main meal usually starts with soup. The biggest spoon in front of your seat is the tablespoon, which is next to the plate on your right. Don't mistake the spoon in the middle of the table, as that might be for vegetables and jam. Guests are not allowed to eat any dish until the hostess has picked up her spoon or fork. The hostess usually waits until every guest has their dishes before starting. She won't be like the Chinese habit, please eat first. When she picks up a spoon or fork, it means that everyone can do the same.

If there is a fish dish, it is usually served after the soup, and there may be a special fork for fish on the table, which may also be similar to a fork for eating meat, usually smaller, in short, the harpoon is placed on the outside of the meat fork on the side farther away from the plate. Usually the bones are removed before the fish is served, and if the fish you eat still has spines, you can hold a bread roll or a loaf of bread in your left hand and a knife in your right hand to remove the thorns. If there is a thorn in the mouth, it should be removed with your fingers quietly, as unnoticed, as possible and placed on the edge of the plate, not on the table, or thrown on the ground.

Similarly, this kind of etiquette is more common in banquets, and in ordinary life, not everyone in every household can observe it.

In addition to the above, there are also some etiquettes in the daily meals of the people in our country, which are very popular.

For example, don't stir around in the dish with your own chopsticks, stirring and stirring in a public dish is uncomfortable enough, and some people can actually do the dish halfway through, see if they don't like it, and send it back to the plate, seriously, as long as you see this kind of scene, it is amazing that other people can guarantee not to spit it out.

Also, don't move the plate during the meal, many families with young children tend to ignore this etiquette. Usually when eating, the child likes to eat what in front of the child, when it comes to the dinner invitation, it is also correct, in front of the guest to move the dish to the child, in such a situation, it is really impolite, will give people a sense of poor tutoring and feeling.

Also, don't stick chopsticks on the rice bowl, because this shape is more like the New Year's festival is to worship the ancestors, and it looks like incense worship, which doesn't feel very comfortable.

Also, don't "tree" chopsticks and knock on dishes. The former is more common in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, where the elderly will use "tree" chopsticks to ask about "murder". It is to take a pair of chopsticks and recite a word, and then put the chopsticks "tree" in the middle of the water bowl, after the hand is released, if the chopsticks tree / vertical in the bowl does not fall, it means that the thing just read is accurate, to start to deal with; For this reason, it is considered disrespectful to mess with chopsticks at the dinner table.

And knocking on the bowl should be known to everyone in the whole country, because it was considered to be the "professional cry" of begging people in the past, and it was also forbidden by the elders. Knock on the plate and knock the bowl, and say that if it doesn't sound good, you just want to eat, and a fool will do it.

Eating fish without turning it over is the habit of following the fishermen's habit and taking a good omen. When fishermen sail at sea, what they are most afraid of is that they will capsize in case of accidents, so after the fish eats one side, they do not flip over and eat the other side, but pick out the backbone of the fish and eat the remaining piece of meat directly. Of course, it is not like this all over the country, some places do not pay attention to turning or not turning, but pay attention to the word "turn", for example, Zhou Fangyuan's hometown of Beitong City, you can turn over when you eat fish, but you can't say "turn", but you should say "swing". Because it is always not good to hear, whether it is capsizing the ship, and then flipping, it is not good, or it is more exquisite.

Some of these are really related to a person's face, and some may be ancient habits, but in the end, it is better to abide by them.

Far away......

Today's meal, in fact, Zhou Fangyuan had simply eaten it on the plane, he was going to get off the plane and sleep for a while, and then eat, but he couldn't stand the warmth of Mark and them.

And it can be seen that they don't really understand these habits of the East, and they should have inquired about inviting people to dinner or something.

Going to the steakhouse to treat guests, to be honest, is a bit nondescript, but their kindness Zhou Fangyuan still understands it, in the final analysis, they just want to please themselves, and now even Robert Downey Jr., who is relatively the most successful, has just started his career. And even if they mix better, they are not enough to see in front of Zhou Fangyuan, if they want to get a better development, it is completely understandable to ask Zhou Fangyuan to rejoice in you, so he will go to the house and take a shelf, or rather, he tries to make himself appear approachable, so that they don't have to be nervous.

But he had to say that the shop that Mark brought him here tasted really good. The steak is medium-rare, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, full of juice, and when you eat it, it is full of the aroma of beef.

American steak is not the same as French steak, mainly because of the different cuts.

American cutting can be simply divided into eight parts, such as the shoulder blades, chest and abdomen, such as the American T-bone steak, this kind of cutting is not available in French cutting. The French cut, on the other hand, is like cutting between the naked eye and the chest and abdomen, which is not found in the American cut. The Australian cut is different, they will directly separate the eye meat from the upper cover meat, which is cut together in France. In terms of cooking methods, French steak is more commonly fried in a pan and grilled after frying. In the U.S., most of the time it is probably grilled straight to the grill. From the point of view of the sauce, the sauce of American steak is mainly boiled gravy, and the side dishes are mostly paired with potatoes and corn, while the French steak is more light.

In contrast, Zhou Fangyuan still prefers American steak, which has a better and richer taste and is more enjoyable to eat.