The basics of coffee etiquette: how to add sugar to coffee and the use of cups

Except for drinking only black coffee (without sugar or cream). When adding sugar, if you are adding cube sugar, add it in the following order: first put the cube sugar on the spoon, then gently put the spoon into the cup. Only in this way can you avoid spilling coffee out of the cup when adding cube sugar. Cream can be added directly. Similarly, in order to avoid spilling coffee, the position should be as low as possible.

Use of coffee cups and saucers:

The coffee you drink after a meal is usually served in a pocket cup. The ear of this kind of cup is so small that you can't get your fingers out. But even if you use a larger cup, you don't need to put your finger through the ear of the cup and carry the cup. The cups and saucers for coffee are also special. You should put them in front of you or on the right, with the ear pointing to the left.

The correct way to hold a coffee cup is to hold the handle of the cup with your thumb and forefinger and lift the cup. When drinking coffee, hold the cup ear in your right hand and hold the coffee plate gently in your left hand, slowly sipping to your mouth to avoid making a noise. It is not advisable to raise a cup and swallow, or bow down to drink coffee. Sometimes there are some inconvenient situations, for example, sitting on a sofa away from the table, inconvenient to drink coffee with both hands, you can use your left hand to place the coffee plate on the chest and the right hand to hold the coffee cup to drink. After drinking, you should immediately put the coffee cup on the coffee plate, not the two separately.