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Yiran Cai
02/28/2014
Culture Tips: Chinese Dining Etiquette
Where do I sit at the table?
At traditional Chinese restaurants, tables are
often round and seat 8-10 people.


How do I order food?
Typically, only one menu will be given coz
usually one person will do the ordering for the
entire table as all dishes are served family
style: all dishes are meant to be shared
Sometimes, the host will order several dishes
and then pass the menu around and ask each
person to order one additional dish.

Fu wu yuan
It is not uncommon for the waiter or waitress
to present the menu to the table and then
stand at the table while the guests are reading
the menu and decide what to order.
Art of ordering: combination of nutrition &
color
Cold Appetizer- meat dishes- vegetable
dishes- staple food(rice, noodle, bun etc.)-
soup/ beverage/hot tea
Chinese Dish Item
Tomato Stir fried with Egg
Spinach in ginger sauce
Peking/Beijing roasted duck
Fresh shelled shrimp stir
fried with lotus

Four happiness meat balls

the lions head
Ants climbing up the trees

Sauteed vermicelli with spicy minced
pork
Tipping
Tipping is not generally expected in mainland
China. Although bellboys and staff may have
become used to the international traveler
giving small tips in large hotels, it is not
expected or required.
Most larger hotels and some good restaurants
charge a service fee, e.g. 15%
Tips for tipping
If you do decide to leave a tip, like the change
leftover after a meal, your waiter may look
puzzled or even try to chase you down to give
it back. In larger cities, wait-staff are becoming
used to foreign visitors leaving tips so they'll
probably happily keep it. However, the bottom
line is, in China, it certainly isn't necessary or
expected to tip
hi d lo: f w ti ho!!!!
hand stretched noodles
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Who pays for the dinner?
1. When the check arrives, it is good manners to offer to
pay for the meal. Not offering to pay the check is seen
as impolite.
2. With work colleagues/friends: going dutch is ok
3. Close friends will often take turns paying the bill
4. If someone pays for you, it is expected that you repay
the favor by inviting and paying for him or her to dine
at a similar or slightly more expensive restaurant.
5. Men dining with a girlfriend and her family are
expected to pay for the bill or at least offer to pay it.

Asking price of an item
Item Price
Bottle of water $1.25

Map of China $3.6
Map of Britain $4.06
Map of German $2.99
Pencil $0.95

pinyi: (adjectival verb) cheap
gu: (adjectival verb) expensive
png shu kui ling mo fn qin, gu b gu?
zhng Zhnggu dt kui mo qin, gu ma?
zhng Ynggu dt kui fn qin, gu b gu?
zh qinb mo fen, gu ma?

Gu b gu?/ Pinyi b pinyi?
Possible responses
Hn gu.
B gu.

B pinyi.
Hn pinyi.

d: (adjectival verb) big
xio: (adjectival verb) small
Zh zh b d b d?
Zh zh b gu b gu?



Zh zh qinb xio ma?
Zh zh qinb gu ma?

$95.00
$0.95
d vs. xio
D xusheng Zhng xusheng





Xio xusheng

Ti + adj./v. + le (too; very) (6.12)
Ti: intensifier. Always precedes adjectival
verbs.

TOO BIG!
TOO SMALL
TOO EARLY!
TOO GOOD= WONDERFUL!
TOO TALL!
TOO EXPENSIVE!
TOO CHEAP!
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Finish every item for the required part.

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