The number of dishes should be even.
The number of wedding dishes is usually eight dishes symbolizing wealth, ten dishes symbolizing perfection, and twelve dishes symbolizing the happiness of the month.
For example, the popular "August 8th Banquet" in Jiangnan consists of eight cold dishes and eight hot dishes. Moreover, the wedding date is generally chosen on the eighth, eighteenth and twenty-eighth day of the second lunar month, which means that "if you want to get rich, you can't do without August 8 and get rich again". Common menus are as follows:
Eight cold dishes: roasted bones, fried chicken, red duck, wind fish, prickly skin, eggs, mushrooms and celery.
Eight hot dishes: Ruyi Sea Cucumber, Babao Crispy Duck, Stuffed Mushroom, Sanxian Haiyuan, Lotus Seed Chicken Chopped, Yipin Jujube Lotus, Kirin Pine Nut and Shijia Albizia.
Name dishes with auspicious words
Mainly to give good wishes to newcomers, set off the atmosphere and entertain guests.
For example, we can name pearl shrimp as flying with me, fish balls in milk soup as fish water, and lotus seed peanut soup with red dates and longan as Zaosheng. ......
If the dishes at the wedding banquet are matched with color, material and taste, we usually name them after Yuanyang, such as Yuanyang fish fillet, Yuanyang chicken brain, Yuanyang crisp and so on. I wish the couple harmony and happiness.
The following is the menu of a celebrity wedding banquet. You can see the sweetness and momentum of her wedding from the name of the dish!
Singing with the Same Rhyme in the Four Seas —— Dragon and Phoenix platter —— The couple happily reflected the fairy pool —— the mini Buddha jumps over the wall
A Hundred Years of Good Harmony —— Yuhuan Yuanyang Cup and Dragon and Phoenix vowed to each other —— Steamed lobster with garlic
Old Moon Red Line Leads Deep Feelings —— Braised Stichopus japonicus and Braised Fish Belly —— Fly with me to Huihe Bridge —— Braised Chicken Wings with Money.
Celebrate forever sweet and sour fried tuna screen window embroidered mandarin duck pillow assorted stew
Red sturgeon rice cake lovers holding hands on Tanabata.
Flowers are clustered and lotus is connected-reunion lotus seeds, Guo family portrait-global fruit bowl
At present, the common names of wedding banquets in Beijing hotels mainly include flying with me, dragon and phoenix banquets, and vows of eternal love banquets, among which the naming of dishes always follows the principle of "auspiciousness":
Fly to the seat with me.
Eight cold dishes: mandarin duck eggs, ruyi chicken rolls, lotus seeds in syrup, satisfied fish sticks, red barbecue, shrimp cakes, crispy flower kernels and love toast.
Eight hot dishes: the whole family is happy-stew seafood, fly with me-stir-fried quail, fish and water depend on each other-fish balls in milk soup, harps and harps-pipa prawns, the golden house is hidden-North Spring Festival rolls, early birth-Huaren jujube soup, Dapeng wings-pure oil chicken wings, Wan Li Pentium-stewed golden kick.
Four fruit points: sweet honey-holiday cake, happy-sandwich crisp sugar, lively-sugar fried chestnuts, round red bean paste jiaozi.
Taboo of raw materials of dishes
Traditional wedding dishes are usually made of chicken and fish, symbolizing this auspicious and festive occasion. They are usually the finale dishes.
The main raw materials for dessert in the banquet are jujube, peanuts, longan and lotus seeds. This is mainly homophonic. I wish the new couple an early birth.
Of course, "red" is indispensable for traditional happy events. Most of the dishes at the wedding banquet are mainly red, generally including "sauce red, brown red, orange red, carmine and so on." Bring a festive feeling to the guests.
Different nationalities in different regions have different preferences, customs and taboos;
At traditional wedding banquets in Sichuan, there should be braised pork and beets, such as sweet boiled vegetables; Wedding banquets in northeast China generally have "four-happiness ball" as a symbol of celebration; Muslim people don't eat pork. In the "eight bowls" and "ten bowls" of Muslim wedding banquets, beef and mutton are usually the main dishes, with a little attention to dishes such as native chicken, native duck and native fish, which have strong national characteristics. ; In Hong Kong, there must be no dishes such as tofu and lotus leaf rice in the wedding banquet.
The fruit in the wedding banquet also plays an important role, which should not be underestimated. Pomegranate (because of its many seeds, meaning many children and grandchildren), watermelon, bayberry and peach (meaning sweet and happy future life) are generally used for traditional banquets; Avoid pears and oranges, because pears sound the same as "leaving", and oranges should be eaten separately.