The Staples of Malaysian Chinese Weddings, or should i say, my pet peeves about them.
- They never start on time.
- They always have the same sequence of dishes – cold dish, shark’s fin soup, chicken, fish, prawn, vegetable, rice, desserts. Which slight variations here and there.
- The obligatory power-point presentation showing the couple as kids and how they met.
- Halfway through the dinner, they start interrupting your meal with speeches and boring stuff when all you want to do is eat peacefully.
- The football live scores SMS for the guys that have to attend the wedding but would rather be watching the game live.
- The latecomers walking in halfway through the 4th dish.
- If you are unlucky, you get stuck at the odd table, with people you don’t know.
- The foreign waiters that have a knack of ignoring you.
- The long breaks between dishes. Do they really think we eat like old people?
- “I’m sorry, but I don’t eat shark’s fin soup. How can YOU even eat it? Do you know how it’s made? First, they cut off the fin from the live shark…”
Well, okay, attending weddings are to celebrate the matrimony of your friends, so probably i shouldn’t be so negative.
13 Comments
sasha
hey no lor. My wedding start at sharp 7. Cos i wrote in my wedding card PLEASE BE PUNCTUAL!! and i told my family to close the door and dun let anyone in. But then there’s 2 idiots that came late and they entered the hall during the food presentation, Make them look like BODOH! hahaha and nope, no money to serve shark fin! kakakak
pelf
… and then, because shark meat doesn’t bring in much money, they throw the dying shark back into the sea for it to bleed and die a slow death. All because of you selfish people who think that there IS nutritional values in those cartilages. Hmmph!
(OK, I helped you finished the sentence.)
vincent
Usually, I go…
Eh? You don’t want the sharks fin? Oh, okay never mind. GIMME!
mott
i think the foreign waiters don’t know WTF you’re asking them.
the best wedding dinner so far..my cousin’s. got married secretly in the states and had the dinner several moons later, with only 15 ppl.
The best ever!
btw…it wasn’t a shotgun..more like a greencard… 😉
Zer0
Not good to waste em shark fins. *slurps*
Mentioning football scores reminds me of yesterdays Manutd-Chelsea match. ARGGGHHHHHHHHHHHh
Alex
eh the last part sounds familiar. lol. i’ve stopped eating sharks fin for about 10 years i think.
and damn when they haf karaoke sessions throughout the nite
Boone
IF you come late, then the kacang on the table will be finished. Also, there is this tradition of serving flat soft drinks, especially orange squash.
lilian
I don’t want to sit with Pelf! *makes mental note not to invite Pelf to my 50 yrs wedding anniversary*
rijac
its not about the cruelty to the sharks. its about the imbalance in the ocean’s natural food chain – a huge reduction in the number of sharks (top of the food chain) could result in a destruction of species of fish (some of which mankind relies on for food) further down the food chain by predators that should have been eaten by the (now dead) sharks…
or something like that.
ekaterina
Free food wat … (of course, my parents need to fish out their red packets for the bride and groom), but I mean, the food is still free wat …
ItchyMicchi
i’ll never forget the sight of senior citizens fighting for their spot in the karaoke limelight.
Gods Little Angel
hey simon, are you hinting me ! !
Very occasionally i get to eat shark fins soup (it taste nice)…only at my very few chinese friends weddings…And yeah, ‘ekaterina’ is right…FREE food…’beggars cant be choosers….’ hee hee sorry aah no offence to anyone ok! ! I mean not really free….you still need to give ang pow, right ?
Boone
One thing that always bugged me, was the tofu soup substitute for the shark’s fin! The real taste in the shark’s fin soup is actually the chicken stock base and the crab meat. So why can’t they just serve it like that without the shark’s fin? Don’t think the tofu soup or the sweet and sour szechuan thingy are all that appealing