When You Go To A Chinese Friend’s House
When you go to a Chinese Friend’s house, what would you expect? Let’s use an infographic to introduce what you may experience when you visit a Chinese friend’s house.
Visit A Chinese Friend’s House
- When you walk in your Chinese friend’s house, have good manners and bring a gift!
- No flip flops
- Be punctual
- Dress neatly
- Shoes off before entering (The host usually will provide indoor slippers after entering.)
- Usually, the host will invite you to have some tea and maybe walk around the house before the meal
- Tea made from tea leaves instead of tea bags
- Expect them to show you around the house if it is your first visit. Make polite small talk.
- Now it is about mealtime. When you share a meal, these are correct table manners…
- Do not dig around or pick through your food with your chopsticks to find a special morsel.
- Do not leave your chopsticks stuck vertically in food.
- Unlike in the West, spitting small bones out onto your plate or an empty bowl is acceptable.
- Family style meal
- When taking a break, leave your chopsticks to the side of your plate or bowl.
- When serving utensils are not present, turn your chopsticks around when moving food from communal bowls to your own plate.
- Offer to help after the meal, although the hostess might not let you help since you are a guest.
- Help by bringing dirty dishes to the kitchen sink.
- Offer to help do the dishes
- Here are a few ways to say goodbye in Chinese
- Ways to say goodbye in Chinese:
- 再见! Zàijiàn! Goodbye!
- 拜拜! Bàibài! Bye-bye!
- 我们再联系! Wǒmen zài liánxì! Let’s stay in touch!
- 我们有空再聊! Wǒmen yǒu kòng zài liáo! We will chat again when you are free!
- 明天见! Míng tiān jiàn! See you tomorrow!
- Ways to say goodbye in Chinese:
Infographic
Donna Ashworth
Thank you Karen for providing the excellent sources. Our teaching staff will look into this.
Karen
Thank you for your feedback! 🙂
We will keep making more useful infographics!
Linna
This is a great work! Thanks for doing this!