Chennai wedding receptions or International food malls!
Wedding Reception Menu have become a show of mindlessness. As a matter of show off rather than any sense of quality. The choice of food resembles more of a food mall rather than a feast or a wholesome meal. The old fashioned 'bandhi' has long since given way to the buffet where the more choice has come to indicate better food. I have long since decided not to attend these parade of food where each person could waste eventually 50 gms of plastic, including water bottles, cups, spoons, forks and several other paper cups for different food items.
Just now R came back from yet another of those mindless wedding receptions and listed out the menu, decided to record it as she narrated the same. North Indian, Chinese, Chaat, Salad Meal, South Indian traditional and a Sandwich (this I haven't heard before, looks even more out of place)...and this is a completely vegetarian family fare. invariably no cook can excel all of these types of items and much of it only serves enumeration value than placate any palate. people invariably pile up their plates and finding that the food is not as good as it looks, end up wasting much of it, resulting in high wastage despite the very logic of buffet meals being that the food may not be much waster.
look at a typical list below (courtesy R):
outside the wedding hall:
cotton candy
pop-corn
chaat items: pani puri, bhel puri, masala puri, dahi puri
outside the dining hall:
ice cream
paan corner
inside the dining hall:
vegetable sandwich
pav bhaji
soup
bengali sweet
spring roll
cauliflower manchurian
rumali roti
channa masala
mini oothappam with thengai chutney
vegetable fried rice with raitha
sambar saadam with vadaam and potato fry
curd rice with vathal kuzhambu and mango pickle
fruit corner with apples, water melon, ash melon and other seasonal and unseasonal fruits!
salad corner with 12 different varieties of salads and lentils
juice - grape and musabmi
coffee
I was talking to a friend from UK some time back who was in the process of planning her wedding. She expected 40 people (no less, no more) to attend her wedding and she was planning a simple meal for these 40 people. she said that 10 had told her that they were vegetarians and 2 were vegans and she had to plan where each of these will be seated and ensure that they were all served food according to their liking. she wondered how in India we manage food for a typical wedding meal of a couple of hundred people! I enquired about the wedding reception, she said that would be attended by about 100 people and her reception menu will be tea and cup cake!! ...phew! that's penury in comparison!! but, isin't a low quality imitation international food court for a wedding reception criminal indulgence!?
Just now R came back from yet another of those mindless wedding receptions and listed out the menu, decided to record it as she narrated the same. North Indian, Chinese, Chaat, Salad Meal, South Indian traditional and a Sandwich (this I haven't heard before, looks even more out of place)...and this is a completely vegetarian family fare. invariably no cook can excel all of these types of items and much of it only serves enumeration value than placate any palate. people invariably pile up their plates and finding that the food is not as good as it looks, end up wasting much of it, resulting in high wastage despite the very logic of buffet meals being that the food may not be much waster.
look at a typical list below (courtesy R):
outside the wedding hall:
cotton candy
pop-corn
chaat items: pani puri, bhel puri, masala puri, dahi puri
outside the dining hall:
ice cream
paan corner
inside the dining hall:
vegetable sandwich
pav bhaji
soup
bengali sweet
spring roll
cauliflower manchurian
rumali roti
channa masala
mini oothappam with thengai chutney
vegetable fried rice with raitha
sambar saadam with vadaam and potato fry
curd rice with vathal kuzhambu and mango pickle
fruit corner with apples, water melon, ash melon and other seasonal and unseasonal fruits!
salad corner with 12 different varieties of salads and lentils
juice - grape and musabmi
coffee
I was talking to a friend from UK some time back who was in the process of planning her wedding. She expected 40 people (no less, no more) to attend her wedding and she was planning a simple meal for these 40 people. she said that 10 had told her that they were vegetarians and 2 were vegans and she had to plan where each of these will be seated and ensure that they were all served food according to their liking. she wondered how in India we manage food for a typical wedding meal of a couple of hundred people! I enquired about the wedding reception, she said that would be attended by about 100 people and her reception menu will be tea and cup cake!! ...phew! that's penury in comparison!! but, isin't a low quality imitation international food court for a wedding reception criminal indulgence!?
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