As the wedding banquet began, relatives and friends sat down one after another, and people from the same village who came to help began to shuttle between the dining table and the earthen stove for cooking.
According to the custom in Yangjia Village, cold dishes are usually served when serving food, but it is a bit unreasonable to let people eat cold dishes in the cold winter.
What's more, because there are too many tables, even if a large tent is set up and the cold wind is not blown out in the open, the temperature is not that good.
Therefore, the eight cold dishes that were originally supposed to be served were directly cut into four. This means that we can just follow the local serving rules, and the rest should be served as some of the guests' favorites.
After all, they are here to congratulate you. If you have diarrhea because you eat too many cold dishes, it would be a bit unethical.
"This dish is rare." When they saw the hot dishes served directly after the four cold dishes, the eyes of some elderly people who couldn't eat cold dishes lit up.
Especially the dish that was served was not a local dish, but a plate of fried sea cucumbers with green onions, which was a dish that was rarely seen in wedding banquets in the village.
After all, Anhui Province is an inland city. If you say that freshwater fish and shrimp are not unusual, this seafood is really rare.
Because the current transportation chain is not perfect, and more importantly, there are no large supermarkets in rural areas, the freezing chain cannot keep up, so seafood cannot be stored for a long time.
Even though there is no need for freezers and cold storage in the cold winter, there are no cement roads leading to every village. In addition, the roads will freeze in rainy weather in the north, which makes transportation more difficult.
Coupled with the consumption capacity in rural areas, seafood and other things are indeed fresh in rural areas and can only be seen in some large supermarkets in the city.
But this is not a problem for Yang Dongxu. He can just say hello to Millennium Supermarket directly and bring it back from the cold storage of Millennium Supermarket in the city when ordering in advance.
As for the price issue, to be honest, if you buy this thing in bulk, the price is not as high as expected.
After all, the sea cucumber used for the wedding banquet only needs to be a healthy food, and there is no requirement that it be wild or how big it must be. As long as it meets the basic requirement that it is a serious sea cucumber, the size does not matter.
In fact, many people think that seafood is expensive. One of the most important reasons is the transportation cost. Because it is long-distance transportation, the price of seafood is definitely higher than the price of freshwater fish and shrimp in the mainland.
The second reason is that I have never seen seafood since I was a child in the Mainland. The only place where I can see seafood is on TV. If the wealthy people on TV eat sea cucumbers, they will definitely pick them up and buy them. Otherwise, how can they show that they are rich?
This gives many people who have no real understanding of seafood the illusion that seafood is expensive. In fact, according to the income level of the people in Yangjia Village, there is no financial pressure at all to eat a few meals of sea cucumber occasionally.
Nowadays, the good sea cucumbers do cost tens of thousands per catty, but ordinary sea cucumbers cost tens of yuan per catty. Of course, the sea cucumbers used in the Yang family's banquet definitely don't need to be the cheapest to fool people, but they don't need to be the most expensive to show off.
The cost of this generous plate of sea cucumber is only about 200, which is considered a very economical dish. Not only can you eat it fresh, but you can also taste the taste of sea cucumbers, and the price is not that exorbitant.
In fact, the inclusion of sea cucumber in the dishes is still my aunt's request, if it is done according to the previously agreed wedding banquet standards of being low-key but not stingy. The dishes at this wedding banquet will definitely be based on local wedding banquet dishes. At most, the specifications can be upgraded to include more hard dishes, such as big knuckles, big fish, pig's trotters and the like.
But although the aunt didn't say it, she definitely wanted to show off her family's differences and add a little more color to her son.
So after she talked to Zhou Ya in a vague way, Zhou Ya contacted Yang Dongxu. Although the family didn't say anything, and Yang's father was the one who spoke on many occasions, in fact, the family knew that it would be better to talk to Yang Dongxu when encountering such a thing.
After listening to Zhou Ya's story, Yang Dongxu gave a suggestion to serve more seafood dishes.
In this way, the cost of the banquet will not increase much, and the dishes will not only look fresh, but also save face.
Of course, the seafood is also included in the higher-grade hard dishes, after all, it is not bad at all. Therefore, in addition to seafood, the Yang family also prepares mutton soup for the mutton soup that is usually served at banquets, and also serves mutton chops.
It’s not like a hotel where there are only eight lamb chops on a plate. In rural areas, it’s impossible to seat only eight people at a table. Some children and adults can’t even sit at a table with ten people.
Therefore, the lamb chops are served directly on a large plate with twenty pieces, which not only ensures that each person at the table can have one, but also can eat one more if they like it.
Dishes are being served to the table in a hurry. When the waiter returns after serving the dishes, there are many empty plates on the plate.
There are so many dishes that the table is so big that there is no room for them all to be placed on the table. Therefore, many tables take advantage of the time when the food is being served to put some empty plates that have been finished, or those that no one is eating on the table, on the dinner plate. , let the person who serves the food take it back.
There are two criteria for judging whether the banquet is good or not when eating in rural areas. One is how much of the dishes are left after being eaten, and the second is the time it takes for the guests to leave the table.
In fact, these two points can be regarded as one point, because the banquet dishes include at least eight bases and twelve soups, which is still the minimum preparation.
The slightly better banquets have sixteen dishes as a base, eight cold dishes, eight hot dishes and soup, which makes it twenty. It’s impossible to eat so many dishes from start to finish in a short time.
In addition, there are people drinking and boxing, so it is normal to take an hour to eat.
If the food is not good and no one eats it, there is no point in sitting at the table. It will definitely be early to leave the table, so the two can be considered as one.
The Yang family's banquet is undoubtedly very good. The seafood is not only fresh but also tastes good, because the seafood is cooked by a separate chef, and the master chef invited from the nearby village only cooks local dishes.
The Yang family's banquet consisted of twenty-two dishes and eight soups, and every dish tasted good. In the middle of the banquet, Yang Dongjie and Dong Yao, who were hosting the wedding today and called uncle according to seniority, started to toast under the leadership of their neighbors.
There were too many tables and it was obviously too late to toast one by one, so the relatives and elders toasted in person one by one, and then Yang Dongjie ran to have a few drinks with his classmates.
The guests at other tables thanked the wedding host, and the couple toasted two glasses together. After finishing the toast in the aunt's courtyard, the two of them hurried to the courtyard of Yang Dongxu's old house, where there were more than fifty tables of guests who needed to toast.
(End of chapter)
