Tibetan Dining Etiquette 藏族
Tibetans have rituals for guests with respect：milk tea, buttered tea and barley wine
Three glasses of barley wine, Guests must drink show the respect to the hosts
Tibetans have a lot of rituals of drinking tea and wine. At ordinary times, people should use their own bowl, you can not use other people’s bowl.
When drinking tea, the tea in the bowl should not be drunk casually, but drink half , and then drink it when it is full, and then finish the tea without drinking it all, and leave a little to say that the tea is never finished, rich enough and deep meaning.
If the guest arrives, the hostess will take out the precious polished porcelain bowls and place them in front of the guests, gently shaking the teapot several times, and hand the bowl to the guests. Each time the guests drink tea, the host will soon fill up, keeping the tea bowl full. It is not good to drink only one bowl of tea. You can’t drink all the tea in the bowl, otherwise it will be considered as uneducated.
Hui Diet Etiquette 回族
Seniors enter the seats first
The owner put on a bowl of tea first
Uncover the bowl cover in front of the guests
Guests should stand up and pick up the teacups with both hands
The seniors of the banquet first move the chopsticks
Hui is a very hospitable and warm nation, attaches importance to hospitality etiquette. When the guests arrived at home, the host immediately stood up and offered tea. When the host talks to the guest, the hostess should wash her hands before preparing a good meal in the kitchen. If the elderly sit on the table, before the meal, the host must first cover the bowl to pour tea in front of the guests to open the bowl cover, then add water cover, holding hands. On the one hand, this cup of tea is not the rest of the tea that others have drunk. On the other hand, show respect for the guests. The guest should stand up and pick up the cup with both hands.
The Hui people believe in Islam. Islam is a strict religion, so etiquette and religion have a certain connection.
Mongolian diet etiquette 蒙古族
Two ritual of table
- 米拉呼 MiLahu：
Spread food (jam or cream) on something that needs blessing Means: Good luck
Mi La is to apply food and drink to some new things that need to be blessed, as a wish for good manners and customs. The ceremony is usually performed by respectable elders and is often saluted with butter and cream from dairy foods. Because butter, cream is the best in milk food, and rich in grease, suitable for smear. The saluter anointed the food over the blessed object with his right ring finger and chanted the eulogy. The first spring rain of every year carries on the Mi La ceremony, sprinkles the milk tea to the sky, recites the eulogy, prays the wind and rain to be smooth. The elder carries on the new baby Mi La, spreads the cream on the baby forehead, wishes him to grow healthily. When children wear new clothes to visit their elders, the old people apply a little cream to their neckline symbolically. Mi La ritual is a noble courtesy of Mongols expressing their good wishes for new things through food and drink.
- 萨察 ShaCha: Praying and sprinkling food and wine to heaven and gods, thanks to God’s given.
A ritual of offering food to the gods of heaven and earth before eating or performing a ritual sacrifice, thanking God for his blessings, and asking God to grant him happiness and well-being. The Mongols believed that all food was given by heaven and earth and ancestors, so they made salutation before eating to show their gratitude. Scoop milk tea into the sky three times before drinking tea. It is interpreted as “three times”, meaning first to sacrifice the sky, second to the earth, and again to the ancestors. The person who carries on the salutation must be right, with the right hand devout this ceremony, expresses to the day, the earth ancestorundefineds sincerity.