"caf é" doesn't just mean a coffee shop.-how do you pronounce cafe in French? what does cafe mean?

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As a gourmet kingdom, Taiwan has not only many special cuisines, but also a lot of exotic customs in recent years. Eating is no longer just a knowledge, but also an art where to eat.

Do you know what to say about the dazzling array of restaurants on the street? Learn about these 11 different forms of dining to make you a gourmet!

Restaurant

Restaurant is the general name of the restaurant, is a place for customers to buy or enjoy food and drinks, but in foreign countries restaurant refers to higher prices, better service dining places, and according to different sources of dishes, can be divided into Japanese Japanese style, Korean Korean style, Thai Thai style, Italian Italian style and other different types, today is to introduce according to the way of serving, ordering or eating different restaurant name and introduction.

Diner

Diner is an American restaurant, usually eating hamburgers, French fries, pie and drinks. The most important feature of diner in the 1980s and 1990s is interior decoration. The common diner interior floor tiles are black and white, with a row of counter (bar) and bar stool (high chair), and other seats that are not bar are sofa booth (soft sofa chair). The main character of the movie Cinderella's Glass Mobile phone owns a typical diner shop. But this kind of retro style decoration is relatively rare now. Now generally speaking, diner refers to places that eat American food such as hamburgers, French fries, pies and so on. There is a the Diner restaurant in Taipei that eats American cuisine.

Buffet

Buffet is a buffet to full restaurant, diners can choose their own food, more common in hotels or some banquets, the earliest rise from Europe, so many early buffets are mostly Western-style, but now the buffet is also a lot of foreign food, such as: Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hong Kong.

Bistro

Bistro is generally translated into French restaurants, small restaurants, the original origin of Paris to provide ordinary dishes in small restaurants, bistro is a cheap restaurant in France, the food is French home-cooked food, such as beef stew (beef stew), ratatouille (French stew). Some bistro in Taiwan can be written as French restaurants, but in fact, it is more correct to write French restaurants.

Pizzeria

Pizzeria knows at a glance that it has something to do with pizza. The word pizzeria means Italian pizzeria. Nowadays, English pizzeria is also called pizzeria, which is where pizza is made and guests enjoy pizza. Pizzeria usually sells Italian pizza, not American pizza.

The biggest difference between Italian pizza and American pizza is its thickness. Italian pizza crust is thinner and crisp, while American pizza crust is thicker.

Cafe

Cafe is not just a coffee shop. Besides selling coffee (coffee), beverage (drinks), and light meal (light food), such as salad (salad), sandwich (sandwiches) and baked goods (baked goods), cafes are more light meals and are suitable for people to sit and chat leisurely.

Food court

Food court Food Street, also known as Food Plaza, usually appears in department stores, shopping malls or airports. Food court usually has different kinds of food. The biggest feature is that it has public dining space and self-service.

Cafeteria

Cafeteria is similar to the Chinese canteen and somewhat similar to food court, but cafeteria usually appears in the school's "student cafeteria" or the company's "staff cafeteria". It usually has fewer choices than food court. Cafeteria is mostly in the form of self-help, but unlike buffet, it is not full, but it costs as much as it eats, but it is not necessarily a buffet, or it may be a meal.

Fast food restaurant

Fast food restaurant fast food restaurant refers to the restaurant where the food is served quickly and the service is kept to a minimum. Generally speaking, most of our impressions of fast food restaurants are fried or unhealthy food, such as McDonald's McDonald's, KFC KFC and California's famous In-N-Out Burger.

But in recent years, many fast food operators have changed routes and started selling more diverse and healthier foods such as salads and fruits. At present, many fast food restaurants and even Starbucks have drive-thru express service, that is, the ability to order and pick up meals in the car, which first appeared in the United States in the 1930s and then spread around the world.

Food truck

Food truck diners sell food on large mobile trucks, selling many kinds of food, from dim sum, ice cream, coffee, muffins, hamburgers, sandwiches to burgers. In the United States, they often appear on college campuses, garden fairs and farmers' bazaars. The movie "five-Star Chef Fast Food truck" sells Cuban sandwiches in the dining car. Different dining cars can also be seen in places such as the north coast near the highway and the parking lot next to the MRT West Lake Station.

Concession stand

Concession stand refers to places where food and drinks are usually sold in cinemas, playgrounds or stadiums where sports events are watched. They usually serve snacks and drinks, such as hot dogs, popcorn, French fries, cola, Sprite, etc. Concession stand has a long counter and many windows to order.

Food stall

Food stall refers to food vendors, which often appear in Taiwan's night markets, markets, garden fairs, roadsides and other places, selling a wide variety of food, such as fried chicken, lo mei, drinks, fruit juices, ice cream, and so on. Different regions also have different cultures of food stalls. Generally speaking, food vendors in Asian countries are more common, while in the United States, because of its vast territory, the more common is the mobile food truck dining car.