: : Hilton ~ Wedding Banquet : :
I went to a wedding banquet today as my cousin from my father’s side was getting married. Was a pretty packed dinner and my Dad and other cousin thinks there were about 60 tables alone! It was pretty hard to get to our table as there was very little space to move. Definitely tough to go to the washroom.
The pictures aren’t that great because :
-Lighting was bad
-I was shy to take pictures with flash at a major wedding
-Too lazy to edit out the yellow colour
So, please bear with me.
First dish to come out of the kitchen was the appetizers. It was the traditional Chinese cuts where we had 4 different varieties. From the left, clockwise, it was :
-imitation abalone with fruit salad
-jellyfish that was crunchy, sweet and spicy at the same time
-a roll with chicken meat and crabsticks
-cold prawns with salad cream and lettuce
It was a first time for me tasting imitation abalone and Dad explained that it was a Japanese idea. Well, it still tasted good and very tasty. Then again, I’m not that fussy about shell food.
Next on the list was the Shark’s Fin with Seafood and Assorted Mushroom soup. Not a lot of shark’s fin but a lot of sea cucumber slices added in. A very starchy soup but goes great with black vinegar.
After that, came the the Steamed Sulta Fish “Cantonese” style i.e. a lot of soy sauce and ginger+garlic. The flesh was very sweet and delicious but slightly boney. Not as bad as terubok but one has to be careful when eating this sort of fish.
Roasted Chicken is a favourite amongst the Chinese especially when the chicken skin is very crispy. We had this with plum sauce and some sea salt. However, the lime juice was missing. Usually, lime juice is added with the rock salt to give it a tangy flavour.
This was very nice. It’s Fried Prawn with Honey Sauce and was pretty sweet. Crunchy too.
The Yong Chow Fried Rice came next. I asked Dad what it meant and he said it was Cantonese cooking? Anyone can verify this?
Next was the Broccoli with Double Mushroom. Well, it was mostly sliced black mushroom (rehydrated dried mushroom) and the oyster mushroom (can’t remember the Japanese name. Anyone?).
This was the 8th and final dish of the night : Snow Fungus with Dried Longan and Lotus Seed. I just love lotus seed and fungus. Yum yum. A cold and sweet dessert dish and it was a nice way to end a very big dinner.
I enjoyed watching the Powerpoint presentation of the bride and groom. It’s always interesting to see how they look like while growing up and always good to have a good laugh.
Dinner finished at 10 p.m. which was fine by yours truly. Later left with my parents to my Auntie’s place. Had some coffee and then later came back home to blog about the dinner. Hee hee hee!
Nite nite people! Don’t drool too much! :p