Good Luck Life: The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture by Rosemary Gong

Author:Rosemary Gong [Gong, Rosemary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Tags: food
ISBN: 9780060735364
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-01-13T03:43:50+00:00

banquet cuisine

The wedding banquet menu is carefully selected for a culinary balance. To accomplish this feat, various cooking methods are adopted to achieve an array of flavors to awaken the palate. Cold balances hot, salt neutralizes sweet, boiled offsets fried, steaming equalizes braising. The presentation and color of the food is also important so that the combination of courses harmonizes with the eye as well as the tummy. Generally, the Chinese prefer lighter-over darker-colored foods, thus traditional Chinese wedding cake tends to be light in color. Devil’s food cake would be a rare sight.

The banquet menu typically includes nine items because of the number’s everlasting connotation. A sample menu of wedding banquet courses is below:

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