Eight hot dishes: Fun for the whole family - braised sea food with eight fresh fish - fried quail and fish - fish balls in milk soup
The music of the piano and the melody - Pipa King Shrimp Golden House Zangjiao - Spring rolls with shellfish to give birth to a child early - Flower kernel and jujube soup
Dapeng spreads its wings - Chicken wings galloping thousands of miles with net oil - Stewed golden kick
Four fruit points: Sweet and sweet Honey - Festive cakes with joy - Candy filled with candies - Roasted chestnuts with sugar
Perfect and perfect - Bean Paste Rice Balls
(Selected from "Chinese Banquet Banquet Ceremony" 》Chen Guangxin)
Principle 3: During the design process of the wedding banquet menu, the principle of tailoring dishes should be followed.
Our country is a multi-ethnic country. Each ethnic group has its own unique customs and dietary taboos. When designing the wedding menu, we should first understand the ethnicity, religion, occupation, hobbies and taboos of the guests. , flexibly master the combination of menus that satisfy guests. For example, the dishes in the eight and ten bowls of traditional Halal wedding banquets are usually beef and mutton, with more elaborate dishes such as native chicken, native duck, fish, etc., which have rich ethnic characteristics.
The author attended the wedding banquet of a Hui friend in June, which was very unique. The special menu is as follows:
Stewed mutton, five-spice beef, steamed noodles (beef), red braised whole chicken Three Fresh Tremella Fungus and Four Happiness Meatballs (Beef and Sheep)
Ruyi Duck Liver Braised Whole Fish Stir-fried Seasonal Vegetables Hot and Sour Soup
Staple Food: Rice, Steamed Buns, Youxiang, Glutinous Rice Balls
Based on the couple's occupation and hobbies, unique menus can be designed to please the guests. For example: Taiwanese reporters reported that Taiwanese baseball player Zhang Zhijia, who lives in Japan, held a wedding banquet at the Tonghao Hotel in Taichung and entertained many Japanese baseball stars. The menu is carefully designed by the hotel chef, and the dishes are all baseball-themed, as follows:
Seibu/Chongka (name of the Japanese baseball team) candlelight spelling, Shike/Akisei (newcomer name) dragon and phoenix roll, Red string in the ball hole, flying fins all over the field, fish shines in China, grilled sea cucumbers for relievers, World Baseball treasures, jade ring in the ball, Sapporo black bone ginseng chicken, forward to Athens with double glory, flower ball Olympic red ball soup, Guerrilla sweet fruit, etc.
The hotel chose Zhang Zhijia's song "That Day" as the background music during the banquet, and produced a "Review of the Growth of the Couple" to be played during the wedding banquet, allowing all guests to participate in the new couple's acquaintance, A romantic story of falling in love and deciding to stay together. The entire wedding banquet was carried out in accordance with an elaborate and unique design. It was so successful that it was called "the wedding of the century in baseball."
Principle 4: The selection of raw materials for wedding banquet dishes must be based on customs and pay attention to taboos.
Wedding banquet dishes are generally not restricted by bangkou styles. The ingredients do not need to be very expensive, but the portions should be slightly larger, the taste should be suitable, and the drinks should be matched as much as possible. There must never be a situation where guests are not full or feel like they have nothing to eat. The author has personally heard of a friend who attended a wedding banquet in a five-star hotel and complained after returning that he did not have enough to eat, which left a very bad impression on the guests.
The ingredients in traditional wedding banquet dishes must include chicken, symbolizing auspiciousness and joy; fish must be included, symbolizing abundance every year, and it is usually served as a meat dish at the end of the banquet; generally, jujubes, peanuts, longans, The homonym of lotus seed is used to wish the couple to have a son soon. Most of the dishes in the wedding banquet are mainly in red tones, which bring a festive feeling to the guests, generally including "sauce red, brown red, orange red, carmine, etc." Dishes such as braised pork and beetroot should appear in traditional wedding banquets in Sichuan; wedding banquets in Northeast China generally include "Four-Happy Meatballs" to symbolize happiness. In Hong Kong, dishes such as tofu and lotus leaf rice must not be included in wedding banquet dishes.
Pomegranates (because they have more seeds, which means having many children), watermelons, bayberries, and peaches (meaning a sweet and happy life in the future) are generally used as fruits in wedding banquets.
It is taboo to eat pears and oranges, because pears have the same pronunciation as "li" (li), which means separation, and oranges must be eaten separately, petal by petal.
In addition to the design of the wedding banquet menu, the layout of the wedding banquet environment and the selection of wedding banquet tableware are equally important. Here I will briefly introduce to you that the layout of the wedding banquet environment must highlight the joy, peace and excitement. There is a saying in weddings that "if there is no fuss, there will be no fuss". During the wedding banquet, humorous wedding sayings, wedding banquet sayings and wedding banquet sketches are interspersed, and some carefully designed festive games for the newlyweds can lead the wedding banquet atmosphere to a warm and warm one. in the atmosphere. Tableware should be made of red or gold round plates and bowls, red tablecloths, and red lacquered chopsticks. In the past, it was taboo to break tableware, tea sets, and wine sets.
After mastering the principles of wedding layout and banquet menu design, and combining it with the traditional wedding customs of various regions and ethnic groups in our country, we will definitely design a wedding banquet menu that will satisfy the guests. Let’s introduce it to you below. Several sets of traditional wedding banquet menus in our country and more distinctive wedding banquet menus that the author has collected in recent years are shared with readers.
Sichuan Folk Wedding Banquet - Tian Xi
Tian Xi - Sichuan Folk Festive Banquet, also known as Three Steaming and Nine Buckling Banquets, began in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and was originally a celebration for farmers after the autumn. Harvest banquets were held to invite relatives and friends from the countryside, and later developed into banquets used for wedding banquets, birthdays, spring greetings, and funerals. They were named because they originated from the countryside (from Professor Xiong Sizhi)
Menu 1 (Included in Professor Shen Tao's "Feast Menu Design")
Steamed pork elbows with ginger sauce, salty braised pork with white flour, steamed pork with braised pork, steamed eggs, fresh bamboo shoots, braised pork slices with shredded crispy broth
Glutinous rice
Menu 2 (recorded by the author)
Steamed chowder chicken with shredded pork and whole duck, crispy pork, steamed elbows, braised white and braised fish with glutinous rice
Menu Three (collected by Professor Xiong Sizhi) Chengdu high-end field banquets
Cold dishes: middle plate (golden hook), eight single plates (sweet and sour pork ribs, red oil liver, sesame Sichuan tripe, deep-fried hoop sticks, cold salad Stone flowers, lotus cabbage, red melon seeds, salted peanut kernels)
Hot food: braised mullet eggs, water-smooth pork slices, braised chicken pine mushrooms, braised lily soup
Big bowl: Shredded chowder, braised pork with bamboo shoots, stewed Tuotuo pork, chicken nuggets with pepper and sesame seeds, braised peas with meat, steamed pork with rice noodles, salty pork belly roast, steamed sweet braised pork belly, steamed elbow
Soup: crispy pork Soup with silk and butterfly roll
Flower banquet in the bridal chamber of Confucius Mansion
A wine banquet prepared in the bridal chamber for the wedding celebration of Duke Yan Shenggong of Confucius Mansion. It has the meaning of "happy bonus, early birth of a precious child, long life together, and a happy family".
Four dried fruits: longevity fruit, chestnuts, longan, red dates
Four fresh fruits: pomegranate, banana, orange, peach
Four pairs: anchovies—— Ruyi rolled jade shrimp balls - white jade cake crystal cherry - hydrangea jellyfish golden egg pine - sun pine flower
Four large pieces of eight lines with two points: Phoenix shark fin (large piece), hibiscus scallops, Fried chicken fan, eight-treasure duck (large piece), peach blossom shrimp, mandarin duck chicken, dim sum - single sesame cake and white fungus soup (each portion), grilled mandarin fish (large piece), sweet-scented osmanthus fish cake, fried mushrooms, scallops Shangchao (large items), rock sugar lily, fried chewing gum, dim sum - lily cake and longan soup (each portion)
Four pressure table: Butterfly sea cucumber, Luohan tofu, mandarin duck braised sub, Fulu elbow
(Selected from "Chinese Banquet and Banquet Ceremony" by Chen Guangxin)
Shanmeng Oath Banquet
New style family wedding banquet, all twenty dishes are named after symbolic meanings , focusing on the theme of "Wedding Celebration", closely combining good wishes with wonderful food, so that guests can obtain maximum satisfaction in taste and aesthetics at the same time.
One color combination: Playing with dragons and phoenixes (like raw cold dishes)
Surrounding dishes: Tiannu scattered flowers (cut and carved fruits and flowers), Yue Lao Xianguo (shaped with dried fruits and honey preserves) , Sanxing Gaozhao (Assorted Meat Ingredients), Si Xilinmen (Assorted Vegetarian Ingredients)
Ten Hot Dishes: Luan Feng He Ming (Pipa Duck Palm), Qilin Sending Zi (Kilin Mandarin Fish), Marriage in the Past Life (Three Silk egg roll), Zhulianbihe (shrimp balls and green beans), Xichuangjianzhu (ham and melon cup), Dongbed Kuaisu (roasted pork with winter bamboo shoots), Biyi Qifei (crispy quail), Zhijielianli (roasted lamb on skewers), Beauty Huansha ( Boiled cabbage), Yulang Cultivated (corn sweet soup)
One soup: Mountain alliance and eternal vows (family portrait)
Two snacks: Five sons offering longevity (bean paste sugar buns), four daughters offering marriage ( Four-color tofu skin)
Two fruits: Liukai Baizi (carmine red pomegranate), Hot Money (Liangxiang fried chestnut)
Two tea foods: Yuanbaohua (egg soaked in sugar water), Show your ambitions (Qimen Black Tea)
Shanghai Jinjiang Hotel Wedding Banquet Menu
Happy Marriage - Tuna Salad
Business and Good Market - Eight Flavor Bowls
Flying together - Pearl Shrimp
Full of joy - Salted Egg Yolk Blue Crab
Good luck in the bull market - Black Pepper Steak
Gold Medal and Good Luck - Jinjiang Roast Duck
Wealth and Treasures - Scallop King with Black Pepper
Money Rolling in - Mushroom and Choy Sum
More than Wealth - Pine Nut Gui Fish
Shen Yu Luo Yan - Turtle, Suckling Pigeon Soup
Hundred Years of Harmony - Vegetarian Three Silk Spring Rolls
Having a Takako Early - Jujube, Peanut and Lotus Seed Soup
Send:
A happy house - Jinjiang fruit