Colorful skin

Bitter chrysanthemum mixed with peanuts

Beef seasoned with soy sauce

Homemade jelly

Cucumber mixed with thorns

Three kinds of cold vegetables

Hot dishes:

Braised sea slug

Salted prawns

Fried crab with ginger and onion

Steamed Chinese Bass

You Xiang Shuangxian

Homemade roast chicken

Braised meat with wild vegetables

Five-color shrimp granules

Four Joy Meatballs

Yi ru wa wa Cai

Chaozhou sixi

A happy marriage/a hundred years of summer

-The latest scan of the wedding banquet in Changzhou wedding market

I didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway; I didn't want to come, but I came anyway; Originally, I wanted to be small-scale, but the scale has expanded.

Holding a big wedding banquet has almost become the core procedure that Changzhou people can't get around-getting a marriage certificate has become a "form". Because if you want to succeed, you must kiss.

It is widely announced among friends, which seems to be only through wedding banquets.

But if you look at this table, there are generally more than 20 hot and cold dishes. How many? Anyone who has been to a wedding reception knows-

Wedding dishes must be very difficult to cook.

Mr. Wang works as a sales manager in a company, which can be regarded as an old foodie. This time, I married my daughter and specially chose the hotel that my family usually appreciates most. Hotel managers have eaten mature people. I can't be wrong. So, Mr. Wang strongly recommended this restaurant to the man.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the wedding March was played, the food began to flow, and Mr. Wang's face became more and more wrong. The dishes we usually eat are fresh and delicious, with bright colors. Now all the dishes on the table are bland and taste too old. Looking at the in-laws' faces is also a bit off, and Lao Wang is very annoyed with his smiling face. As soon as the wedding reception was over, the store manager was severely scolded.

Don't blame the store. The manager of a restaurant in Jinling Middle Road Catering Street explained the reason. Now there are more and more wedding tables, at least 20 at a time and 60 at most. So many tables should serve one dish at a time, and the interval between serving should not be too long, so we should prepare in advance. Some are prepared in the morning, and some are prepared overnight. When serving, you can pour it with boiling soup or heat it in a pot to serve. However, the freshness of dishes is greatly affected, and the poor cooking of wedding dishes is one of them.

Secondly, the diners rushing to the wedding banquet are very different, which makes the store unable to guarantee the taste. First, diners have different physical strength. If the food is tender and smooth, don't overcook it. However, if a guest is particularly sensitive to "medium-cooked" dishes and has diarrhea, the restaurant will be overwhelmed. Therefore, the restaurant can only sacrifice the taste of the wedding dishes, try to make it as thorough as possible, and even dare not serve seafood in summer. Second, diners have different tastes, which also makes some new dishes with special tastes unable to appear at the banquet.

For the guests attending the banquet, perhaps the psychological gap is the key to the poor impression of the wedding dishes. Generally, people with flat heads go to eat, 100 yuan is the bottom line, and 200-300 yuan is very common. Good relations should be sent to 500 yuan. According to the average person's idea, since the money has been sent, it is somewhat an idea of "making up" from the wedding reception. Faced with such a dish, the guests are definitely not satisfied. but

Why did the banquet hall become a wedding hall?

Wedding banquet dishes have almost become the target of public criticism, but we are faced with some data: according to the preliminary statistics of the health supervision department, during the eleventh period, there will be more than 350 thousand guests in Changzhou alone, most of whom are wedding banquets; The standard of each table for wedding banquets in high-end hotels is generally above 900 yuan, while that in mid-range hotels is generally above 600 yuan. Some well-known hotels were basically fully booked as early as 1 year ago, and other hotels were basically fully booked for the National Day wedding banquet this year.

The main content of the hotel is dishes, and the wedding dishes are not satisfactory, but why is there still a stream of people?

Gong Jianfeng, the national judge of the catering industry, the referee of the national cooking competition and the general manager of Changzhou Xinhuaiyang Catering Management Company, believes that this is a tradition.

One of the traditions lies in the concept of family and emphasizes communication. In the eyes of China people, a person is not a simple individual, but bears the honor and disgrace of a family and is an integral part of this family. Getting married and starting a family is a major event for a family, so it is reasonable to "show the same family". It is an honor for outsiders to be invited like this. This is an expression of their respect and friendship. A meal is actually an important ceremony, which can deepen family ties and friendship.

The second tradition is to emphasize "reality". The hotel holds banquets with luxurious furnishings, convenient service and no trouble. The host drinks and the guests eat well, which is not only the Changzhou people, but also the best choice for Chinese wedding banquets.

But the problem is that some wedding banquets are becoming obsolete.

One of the bad tastes is collecting money. A table of tobacco and alcohol costs more than 1000 yuan to hold a banquet in a high-end hotel. However, if you go to a restaurant of this grade, the guests will have to pay about 10 for a table, and at least 2000 yuan as a gift. These small amounts of money are actually just interpersonal communication, and they are likely to "return the favor" in the future. The key is that power and money transactions are also "humanized". If the host is afraid to accept the guests' gifts, he will simply "protect the table" and let the host open several tables of banquet invoices for reimbursement.

The second bad taste is "dead support". Obviously, there is no financial source, but we still have to work hard to raise money for the wedding. Once a couple found that the gift money was not enough to pay for the banquet after the wedding reception. As a result, they had a quarrel with the store, and a good wedding ended in a farce. In fact, many guests at the dinner party died. This year is a good year. As the last wedding banquet, the National Day holiday is naturally full. Xiao Li, who just graduated from college, spent 1000 a month, but got seven wedding invitations in his hand. This "hole" makes Xiao Li worry about how to make up.

The third bad taste is waste. More than 20 hot and cold dishes and snacks per table make diners "crawl forward". So, after drinking the wine, I saw that there were still a few dishes left untouched. Although this is the guest's painstaking efforts, I understand that the host wants to take the food back, but it is actually "rammed". Finally, we had to throw out a lot of leftovers. When pouring vegetables, the Sichuan girl who just went to work in a restaurant in Changzhou shivered: in her hometown, leftovers alone were enough for the whole family to eat beautifully for a week. Xiao Leng's master said, "Don't be stingy. You got used to it in the first half of the year."

The public opinion at the wedding banquet, whether it is the organizer, the participant or the bystander, is full of derogatory terms. But it is like a winding pendulum, following a rigid trajectory and never stopping. Perhaps, we should start with the extravagance and waste of wedding banquets. But in this interactive society like gear sets, who can and dare to slow down first? (Editor: Zi Qiao)

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