Sometimes, Ang Lee's 1993 romantic comedy came to mind when talking about wedding banquets. The Wedding Banquet, a movie about a gay man being pestered to get married by his tradition bound parents was such a delight to watch as with dishes served in a Chinese wedding. Of course, in the movie, you don't get to see them, the dishes, I mean; for there are just too many ; ten as in a Hong Kong or American Chinese wedding banquet but in Malaysia, maybe Singapore too; it is just an 8-course dinner. A typical 10-course HK banquet probably starts with a whole suckling pig, crab claw, a soup, abalone, fish and chicken, and ends with rice, noodles, dessert and petit fours. There are variations and adaptations depending on the place naturally; and in a recent wedding banquet I attended, the dinner started with a cold platter and while there were fish, seafood, abalone; no pork was served as there were Muslim guests. That was even though they had their own table with their very own set of menu.
Let's just feast on these...
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