Banquets in rural areas were limited by economic and human reasons more than a decade ago. Basically, they had to buy food and cook by themselves, and sometimes they could even eat their own food at the banquet. It's different now. Banquets in rural areas are basically very ostentatious. Whether it's a small matter like buying a car for further study, or a big event like young people getting married or old people's birthdays, special chefs will be invited to cook in rural areas. So now the banquet dishes in rural areas are much more delicious. Most banquets in rural areas are ten dishes. According to the variety of dishes, pay attention to the order of serving, so what is the order of serving?

In my rural hometown, serving is in this order. First, the first dish on the table is not one of the ten prescribed dishes, but an appetizing side dish, usually cold kelp shreds or a large plate of fried peanuts. Then when the main course is served, the first course is usually a soup, mainly meatballs and mushroom chicken soup. The second course is grilled steak or stewed mutton. If it's grilled steak, it's usually ten pieces, because ten people sit at a table, so one person can eat one.

The third course is a side dish, such as appetizing sauerkraut, for example, fried pork skin, or fried pork intestines with sour radish. The fourth dish is stir-fried beef, which is usually fried with pickled peppers and a little celery. This dish is very popular and very delicious. The fifth dish is braised pork, which is served in a big bowl. Generally, few people eat it because it is too greasy. The sixth course is Zharou, a local specialty, which is rarely eaten by people. Maybe it is overeating, and basically there will be banquets without eating.

The seventh course, most of the time, is a plate of boiled shrimp, or it may be baked shrimp with salt. The eighth course is stewed trotters with radish, which is my favorite dish. The ninth course is rice flour meat, a local specialty, which is steamed with lotus leaves wrapped in meat and flour. The tenth dish has a special meaning, which will never change. It is fish, either steamed fish or braised fish. No matter how it is cooked, it will be fish, which means that it is more than enough every year.

The above is the order of serving in my rural banquet.