I just got home from my friend's wedding banquet. As usual, I was in one of the rowdy tables waaaaay in the back of the restaurant and the bride approaches us with some degree of fear in her eyes.
The groom happens to be one of the "fun" people in wedding banquets past and had other (now married) friends do all kinds of strange things on their wedding day. One friend was made to kiss the duck's head (roast duck was on the menu that night), not to mention all the yelling and demands for the bride and groom to kiss.
So ... tonight was pay-back time for all my married friends. The groom was asked to kiss a chicken's head, a lobster head, a baby's head and his bride on her lips in succession. The only one he declined was the baby head. Go figure. Probably didn't want to make her cry (the baby, not his new wife).
Banquet itself consisted of a very respectable menu. There were a total of 10 courses altogether (always even numbers for weddings and odd numbers for funerals).
Of note were the shark fin soup. Not that it's spactacular-ly good, but there were LOTS of shark fin (in clumps) for everybody; and the abalone. I just haven't been to many banquets where they serve whole ones like we did.
Overall, the whole day turned out very nicely. Weather was great and I get to catch up with a lot of friends whom I haven't seen in a long time.
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