How is the seating arrangement of the formal dinner party?

1. Left high, right low: When two people are seated side by side, the right is usually the upper seat, and the left is the lower seat. This is because Chinese food is often served in a clockwise direction, so the person on the right is prioritized over the person on the left.

2. The center seat is the most important: when three people eat together, the person who sits in the center is higher than the people who sit on both sides of him/her.

3. Facing the door: If someone is seated facing the door and someone is seated with his back to the door, it is customary that the person facing the door should be seated on top and the person with his back to the door should be seated on the bottom.

4. Viewing is good: in some high-end restaurant dining, in its indoor and outdoor often have a beautiful scenery or elegant performances, available for diners to watch, this time should be the best viewing angle for the upper seat.

5. Pro-wall is good: in some low-grade restaurant dining, in order to prevent the interference of passing waiters and diners, usually by the wall of the seat for the upper seat, by the aisle of the seat for the lower seat.

6. Pro platform for the upper: banquet hall if there is a special podium, should be by the podium table for the main table, if there is no special podium, sometimes back adjacent to the main picture of the table for the main table.

7. Tables in the same direction: If it is a banquet place, each table on the guest of honor should be the main table with the main seat to maintain the same direction.

8. far as the top: when the table is arranged vertically, the distance from the main door of the banquet hall shall prevail, the farther away from the door, the more noble the seat.

9. When the wine parade from the chief in order to toast all the way down. If it is a round table, it is facing the door of the guest of honor, the left hand side of the order of 2, 4, 6 ...... right hand side of the order of 3, 5, 7 ...... until the convergence.

10.? If the Eight Immortals Table, if there is a seat facing the door, the right seat on the side facing the door is the main guest. If not square to the door, then face east side of the right seat for the chief. Then the left hand side of the chief sitting away for 2, 4, 6, 8, the right hand side for 3, 5, 7.

11.? If the feast, the arrangement of tables and tables between the chief predominantly in the center, the left side of the order of 2, 4, 6 seats, the right side of the 3, 5, 7 seats, according to the identity of the host and guest, status, affinity and sit.

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Singapore

The most discreet meal

Singaporeans are very cautious about their meals.

Singaporeans take a very cautious attitude towards dinner parties, they generally do not invite guests to dinner for the first time, and need to wait for the host to understand the guests before they may set up a dinner party to entertain them. And Singaporean government officials are not allowed to accept the invitation to social dinners, or they will be dealt with severely by the relevant units.

Singaporeans like light, love the slightly sweet taste, the main food on the board to rice-based, often fried plate shrimp, crispy chicken, tomato cabbage rolls, shredded chicken peas, hand-held mutton and other flavorful dishes.

Singaporeans love to drink beer, northeastern wines and other beverages at dinner parties, and also very much like the Chinese Cantonese cuisine. When going to a dinner party, men must wear a suit and tie, and women must wear an evening gown so that the host family will feel respected.

If the dinner party is at the host's home, the guests can't leave immediately after the meal, they have to help the host to do the cleaning work, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful to the host's home. And when going to the meal, the guests usually have to carry a gift with them, because Singaporeans have the habit of giving gifts. The gift remains intact during the meal and is set aside until the host opens it after the guests have dispersed.

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