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Foreigners joining a Chinese dinner party should know and follow Chinese table. The following manners areto all meals. Share them with your friends and discuss why they'relearning.
Before dinner you sometimes get a hot, wet cloth, with which you can clean your face and hands. It's ain China to have some tea or other drinks before the meal is served. First, some cold dishes are provided, which are placed on a round glass plate in theof the table. Rice or noodles are served and should not be mixed with other food. Chinese people areto using chopsticks instead of forks and knives. It'sto use your hands when eating meat with bones. When the soup arrives at the end of the meal, ais used. If the soup is very hot, foreigners like blowing to cool it. In China it is better to wait a little while. Of course, you are notto make bad comments (评论) about the food. Someone has spent time andmaking the meal and bad comments can only hurt feelings. At last, you should thank your host and whoever prepared the meal.
