Business Culture

China/Taiwan

Tips for dinning habits

1.      Whenever there is a dinning invitation, you can bring a gift for the host. A good wine is an appropriate gift for the dinning invitation.

2.      Ask an intermediary to company to the invitation. Respect and follow your intermediary’s suggestion.  

3.      Waiting the host or your intermediary to arrange your seat. In the traditional custom, there is a rule of arranging the seats. (See the under picture)

4.      The guest has to wait the host to arrange the seats. It’s very impolite to sit on the wrong position.

5.      Under the rule, guests have to wait the host sit down first; guest can start to eat the food until the host start to eat.

6.      Before starting to eat the food, the host usually invite every one to drink first.