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How to eat three-tier snacks?

Three layers of snacks should be eaten from bottom to top.

Snacks are usually packed in three layers of silver trays, followed by sandwiches, English muffins, cheesecakes and fruit towers from bottom to top. Usually the order of eating is from bottom to top, from salty to sweet. This is the same as the order from main course to dessert in dinner.

English afternoon tea English afternoon tea is a tradition for British people to drink tea and eat snacks in the afternoon. The British have a history of drinking black tea for 300 years and are a country that loves black tea. Sugar and milk often become a must-have drink after meals, so the consumption of black tea in Britain is the largest. It can be said that no country has the taste level of black tea, and there is a British specialty. What kind of magic does the traditional English afternoon tea have to make the British appetite? If you haven't tasted English afternoon tea, you will immediately feel the exquisite and aristocratic atmosphere of English afternoon tea when the waiter brings the three-tier dim sum to the table. After tasting layer by layer, you can better understand what kind of food makes people want to stop. Usually, the first floor of a three-story tower will be filled with salty sandwiches, such as ham and cheese, but these sandwiches are not made by the pastry chef, but by another sandwich chef. There are desserts on the second and third floors. Generally speaking, there is a strawberry tower on the second floor, which is necessary for English afternoon tea. Others, such as puffs, biscuits or chocolate, are matched by the chef at will. There is no fixed dessert on the third floor, but the chef will choose suitable snacks, usually cakes and fruit towers. After the traditional English afternoon tea, which pays attention to everything, was introduced to China, refreshments also made some changes and developed various new flavors. For example, there are only bite-sized desserts decorated with caviar and cucumber, handmade biscuits, and an English muffin called scone, which can be eaten with cream or jam. More than 20 kinds of refreshments are delicate and delicate, with different flavors, just like elaborate works of art, which make people linger in appreciating the elegance of fine products and are unwilling to savor them.