Dining_Preference_in_America

Dining Preference in America One of the American dining practices that stands out in contrast to eastern cultures is how food is served and eaten, in a traditional restaurant setting. Each person is expected to order an entrée for himself, along with any appetizer, salad, soup, or desserts he wishes to have. Over the course of the meal each dish is served sequentially, usually at a rectangular table, and everybody concentrates on his own dish with sharing kept to a minimum unless among closer friends or relatives. Napkins are used to keep off messy stains and loud eating noise is usually considered bad form. On the other hand, a traditional Chinese meal would involve a collection of different dishes of meats and vegetables, soup, all served together with bowls of personal servings of rice to consumed with the dishes. Instead of forks and knives, each person is equipped with a pair of chopsticks and a soup spoon that he or she uses to pick up food from the communal dishes. The sharing of these different dishes is facilitated with a round table that places each person at equal distances to them. Chewing food with your mouth open, resting meal, food, time, table, each, meals, fast, eating, dishes, served, seem, own, one, hands, different, cultures, culture, chinese, american, world, traditional, today, tables, soup, show, rice, practices, person, people, out, much, having, family, even, dining, chopsticks, beliefs, without, within, value, type, try, styles, style, structures, structure, someone, social, sharing, round