Take my hometown Cenxi as an example. Cenxi is located in the southeast of Guangxi, adjacent to luoding city. The dialect spoken by our local people is mainly vernacular, but compared with Guangzhou dialect, there are only slight differences in accent. Therefore, the living habits and eating habits of Cenxi people are very close to those of Cantonese people, so the recipes used for wedding banquets at ordinary times basically belong to Cantonese cuisine, which is very close to Cantonese cuisine. For example, the basic recipes for a wedding banquet at ordinary times are: white-cut Sanhuang chicken 1, taro braised pork 1, lobster 1, white-cut duck 1, steamed fish 1, pig's hand (or pig's foot) 1, and clear. 2 plates of lean meat, 2 plates of seasonal vegetables, 1 plate of old fire soup, 1 plate of fried cashew nuts and peanuts. Some towns and villages will add three or two other dishes in due course.
How many dishes should be prepared for happy events in rural areas? This place is different. Let's talk about our local situation.
Generally, it takes at least two days for our local men and women to hold a banquet and prepare four meals. The first day begins at noon, and the next day is sunny. There was no water, no wine, no drinks and no cigarettes at noon on the first day, probably in 500 yuan, and probably in 700 yuan the next day. I won't say more about the specific dishes. Send a picture and see for yourself, and you won't know if it's worth it.
Our present banquets are generally a "one-stop" service, and they are responsible for everything, and they only handle other things themselves. Although rural people are more diligent and thrifty, they love to compare with each other at banquets, and they always feel that they are afraid of gossiping if they spend less money. From this point of view, it is obvious that everyone thinks it is a waste of money, but no one wants to start from himself and has to pass it on.
Would you like to start with you? Let's have a simple wedding reception.
I usually have the most say in how many dishes are served at rural weddings, because I am a chef in Northeast China and have hosted many banquets for relatives and friends in rural areas. The menu was made two days before the wedding, and all the dishes were bought. Generally, there were many guests, and they ate it on the first day of fishing. On the right day, this is a big meal. It's usually 28 courses. Will there be one on the 28th and 28th? Let's look at the cold dishes first: braised pig's head, cucumber peeling, salted prawns, dry fried fish, spring rolls, and hot dishes: sweet and sour carp, sweet and sour pork ribs, four meatballs, roasted elbow, braised pork, braised pork, sliced meat, banana sliding large intestine, fried silkworm chrysalis, cherry meat, roasted lamb chops, fried squid, roasted beef and eggplant in sauce.
What dishes will be prepared for rural weddings? Today, I will share with you the dishes I prepared when I got married.
Let's start with cold dishes, ten cold dishes.
Sauced beef, fruit and wood roast duck, snowflake chicken fillet, shredded red oil ear, shredded garlic tripe, crystal sugar aloe, ginger lotus root, refreshing face-lifting, etc. , a total of ten courses.
Second, there are hot dishes; Braised whole chicken, braised elbow, sweet and sour carp, braised pork with plum, spicy shrimp, steamed pork ribs with powder, crispy meat, and several vegetarian dishes, a total of ten.
Five soups; Sweet soup includes tremella soup, fruit soup, jujube and cinnamon soup.
Meat, hot and sour belly soup, hot and sour egg soup.
There are three kinds of cakes: cake, sugar corner and steamed bread.
These are all dishes from my wedding reception last year. The dishes in every place are different, but they are all very different. After all, price is also one aspect. The food I married is 400 yuan a table.
Menu one
fish in brown sauce
Dongpo pork knuckle
Braised shrimp
Steamed pork belly with green vegetables
Steamed chicken with spicy sauce
Cold platter
Roasted pork intestines
Penaeus paizhuoensis
Yipin steamed chicken
Steamed pork belly with green vegetables
Cauldron lotus root slices
Steamed sparerib
Griddle beer duck
Pickled frog
Fried seasonal vegetables
Pork seafood soup
Menu 2
Eight cold dishes:
1. Yuanyang egg
2. Ruyi chicken rolls
3. Lotus seeds in syrup
4. Satisfied fish sticks
5. Dahong barbecue
Step 6 respect shrimp cakes
7. crispy flower kernels
8. Love toast
Eight hot dishes:
1. The whole family is happy-stewed eight fresh seafood.
2. fly with me-crispy fried quail
3. Fish and water depend on each other-fish balls in milk soup
4. Concert of Qin and Se-Pipa Prawn
5. The Golden House hides the charming-North Spring Festival Volume
6. Early birth of your son-Huaren jujube soup
7. Dapeng spreads its wings-pure oil chicken wings
8. Wan Li Pentium stewed golden kick
Four fruit points:
1. Sweet honey-holiday cake
2. Happiness and joy-Sandwich shortbread
3. It's hot and noisy-fried chestnuts with sugar
4. Round and full bean paste
Menu three
Ba Cai Wei is dead.
Baked Canadian lobster with butter
Tiger and crab baked Thai fragrant rice
Penaeus paizhuoensis
Steamed Duobao Fish in Cantonese Style
Steamed scallops with garlic
Japanese roast beef
Gusu Wanshan dike
Rock crispy duck
Roasted Pleurotus eryngii with cowboy granules
Xiqingtang Sam sun
Fall in love with four happy parties
Nowadays, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, banquet dishes are also improving simultaneously. There are more and more kinds of fresh vegetables, with an average of at least 12 bowls per table. For example: chicken, fish, turtle, meat, belly, peanuts, chicken feet, beef and mutton, seafood, and a bowl of side dishes. A bunch of people can't finish every table, and some guests pack it and take it home. Every tourist is flushed, full of energy and happy.
This is a professional problem. Just a few days ago, a friend's grandmother celebrated her 80th birthday. Because his parents divorced when he was a child and his friends were brought up by his grandmother, he was especially filial to his grandmother. Let's take a look at the wedding reception for her 80th birthday.
1, Happy family dinner
Hong Bao Xi Lin Men (Ambassador's platter)
Phoenix Exhibition Hall (Steamed Scallops with Garlic)
The golden ball shines in the shadow (dragon and phoenix ball with sauce)
Mars Yaochi Dance (Braised Shark's Fin with Abalone)
Love flies high (stewed abalone slices)
Arowana Yongde Water (Steamed Sea Bass)
Soul mate (typhoon shelter ribs)
Yin Yan Fubaolai (Stewed Three Treasures with Fish Lips)
Magpie announces good news (coral roasted vegetables)
Yongjie Xi Tong Xin (Fried Glutinous Rice)
A century of harmony (lotus seeds and red bean paste)
Beautiful scenery adds color to a beautiful day (seasonal fresh fruit)
Distribute meat by hand
2. Love is like an oxygen banquet
The red robe of the Imperial Capital adds joy (suckling pig platter)
Yuanyang emerald gold belt (steamed lobster with garlic)
Jinxiu Baihua Ruyi Ball (Xing Bao Bei)
Dragon and phoenix flapping their wings to heaven (original cup of chicken stewed wings)
Online abalone (coral abalone)
Bibo Youlong Qing Chang (Ancient Steamed Stone Spot)
Xing guang Jin sha man Hua Tang (mushroom tender lamb chop)
Zhi de ru yi Bei (northern huajiaodun)
I am very happy to get jade unicorn (fresh lily asparagus)
Bai nian mei Juan Qing Hao he (scallop taro cake)
Couples are always United (curry bean paste)
Holding a gift
Cliff Hakka, love to eat Hakka food! Cliff is a Hakka, and Cliff loves Hakka girls! A guest's song "Cliff Hakka", you should know what dishes I introduce ...! Hakka's farmhouse banquet is a table for eight people, commonly known as the Eight Immortals Table. During celebrations, weddings, birthdays, full moons and banquets for relatives and friends, Hakka people will set a table of "eight dishes" to entertain guests, which is called "eight dishes banquet".
"Hakka eight dishes" are actually eight delicious dishes with the most Hakka characteristics. Unlike most happy events held in hotels now, in the past, Hakkas usually held banquets in ancestral temples. Hakkas are simple neighbors. No matter whose family holds a wedding or funeral, the villagers nearby will help. Usually people clean the ancestral hall early, and the children set tables and stools together in the ancestral hall under the guidance of adults. After the formal banquet began, the strong women brought the steamed rice with rice retort, and then the younger generation began to put Hakka wine, snacks, fruits and other things on the table. Finally, when everything is ready, we can go to "Hakka Eight Disks". In this "eight dishes", the general order is: first stir-fry pig offal with gold needles, or stir-fry sauerkraut with fungus, stir-fry bamboo shoots with sauerkraut and so on. This is called appetizing; Then there is taro braised pork. Hakka people like to cut pork into cubes. This dish is a taro sandwiched between two pieces of pork belly, which not only avoids the greasy feeling of large pieces of pork, but also mixes the meat slices with taro. In addition to these two dishes, these eight dishes also include traditional boiled mushroom pork hands, fried rice noodles with sliced meat, Hakka meatballs (usually pork meatballs) and Hakka fermented bean curd, which is known as the first dish of Hakka. Of course, you can't have a banquet without chicken, but you should serve a plate of boiled chicken, which is a local chicken raised by yourself and an essential dish for Hakka people to entertain distinguished guests. Finally, there is one more point: vegetables grown by farmers themselves (usually cabbage and cabbage, meaning unity and unity). These are the most common "eight dishes" in Hakka rural wedding banquets. In fact, Hakka cuisine has its own deep-rooted food culture, which emphasizes "pastoral beauty". In addition to these common eight dishes, some people will also add their own fish, some wild vegetables picked in the mountains and other dishes that can reflect the rural customs.
Every place is different. My family lives in a small town in Jingshan, Hubei. Pork is the main raw material of meals. Meatballs, quail eggs, lean meat, pork liver, egg skin, ham, sausage, black fungus and other family soup. , slightly sour and delicious. In addition, because it is close to Zhongxiang City next door, there is also their famous dish Panlong cuisine, and there is also a fried thousand pieces, which tests the chef's kung fu most. Whether 1000 yuan is delicious or not directly represents the level of the chef. Then there are eels, some of which are spicy and stir-fried, and some are steamed with garlic. A table of dishes is usually 12, and occasionally it comes across 14 prepared by the owner, which is neither too much nor too little.
Q: What dishes are served at the rural wedding banquet?
There are many dishes in rural wedding banquets, including chicken, duck, fish, pig, sheep, beef and seafood. Vegetarian dishes are all kinds of vegetables sold in the market now, and almost all dishes can be served.
Because there is not one wedding banquet, but thousands, your family may use this dish instead of that one, and his family may use that dish instead of this one, which makes the number of people unclear and can only say that there are all kinds of dishes.
But no matter what dishes are used, they are served with plates and bowls. The number of plates and bowls is exquisite, that is, how many plates and bowls make up a table. No matter what dishes are in it, there are a fixed number of plates and bowls. What is the name of the seat? There are so many plates and bowls in this seat.
At present, most banquets only say how many dishes, twelve dishes, sixteen dishes, or twenty dishes, etc. I don't know what to call them.
In the past, banquets in rural areas all had names, and banquets with various names and specifications all had various plates and bowls, which could not be wrong.
In the past, most people couldn't afford a big meal because of lack of materials. This banquet is divided into low specification, medium specification and high specification. No matter how many dishes are not up to standard, it is not a banquet. Only if it meets the specifications can it be counted as a banquet.
In the past, there were four or five seats, thirteen seats, twenty-eight seats and thirty-eight seats in the countryside with seafood, and only these numbers were counted as seats. The minimum standard for a banquet is four or five seats.
Four or five seats are four dishes and five bowls, four dishes and five bowls for drinking and eating. Don't underestimate these four dishes and five bowls. In the past, only wealthy families with upper middle peasants could afford these four dishes and five bowls in rural areas, while those below middle peasants could not afford them, while those below middle peasants accounted for the majority in rural areas. These four dishes are two cold dishes and two stir-fried dishes. Cold salad can be sliced with sausage and cold lotus root. Cooking can be done with eggs, garlic and the like. Five bowls are square striped meatball fish and a bowl of soup. This is four or five seats.
The medium size is thirteen, and the so-called thirteen means adding four plates of drinking on the basis of four or five seats, that is, drinking eight plates and eating five bowls. In the past, this kind of banquet was affordable for rich peasants and small landlords in rural areas.
Twenty-eight seats with high standard, that is, three bowls are added on the basis of thirteen, that is, eight bowls, eight bowls for drinking and eight bowls for eating. These 28 seats are very rich. In the past, only big landlords in rural areas could afford this.
The highest standard banquet is March 8 seafood. March 8 seafood includes eating and drinking a total of 24 dishes, of which there must be seafood. Before serving wine, there should be four dry and four fresh. After removing the four dried and four fresh foods, March 8 seafood was officially served. According to the elders, this kind of March 8 seafood feast has been heard of in the countryside before, and few people have eaten or seen it.
Nowadays, the rural banquet, March 8 with seafood, is definitely not new. I have eaten several times, but I can't eat this banquet without at least 800 yuan's gift money.