How to eat correctly Chinese food? (Part 1)
Chinese do not like to eat alone. As a rule, ten - fifteen people sit at the big round table, who for all two hours of a lunch break eat one dish after another and discuss their urgent business.
So, how to eat correctly? We shall start that lunch time is special for Chinese. Schoolboys, students and office workers leave for a break at midday to start work or study again only in two o’clock in the afternoon. In the large companies and business centers the dinner lasts for an hour and is obligatory.
Chinese do not like to eat alone. As a rule, ten - fifteen people sit at the big round table, who for all two hours of a lunch break eat one dish after another and discuss their urgent business.
In the middle of a table there is a turning disk with viands. Everyone has a plate, small plate for soup, spoon, and sticks.
Firstly are served cold dishes: bean sprouts, salad from asparagus, reps, radish, meat pieces, fried peanuts, wood mushrooms, rice noodles. Sometimes crust jellyfishes are also served as a cold dish, but there are some dishes, when it is better not to know, what you eat.