Taiwan Trip Part 3- Reception banquet
As you know, Baby Bro’s girlfriend recently came back from her annual winter trip to Taiwan. You can read about part 1 and part 2 here. She’s continuing to send me photos with some notes of her trip so that I can share them with you all.
I was really excited to see these pictures from The Landis, which held the wedding reception for BBG’s older sister. I’ve been to a few reception banquets in Taiwan and the setting is always so pretty and the food so delicious.
Here is a little party favor/gift for each guest:
And of course, the food:
The first one is a cold platter with lobster. A cold platter is almost always the first course in a chinese banquet meal.
These appear to be sticky rice balls (tang yuan)
I believe this is quail.
Shark fin soup
Chicken soup:
Shitaki mushrooms stuffed with seafood
Eggrolls
Fish. Another must for a chinese banquet.
Rice wine soup
Mango pudding
Fruit platter. I spy my beloved guava.
Here is the dessert all dished out.
A delicious looking slice of cake:
I thought the mango pudding looked like nacho cheese!
My friend says that at one banquet she went to, a woman thought the quails were parakeets. Now every time I see quail, I think of parakeets.
Haha, parakeet? I’m guessing that woman refused to eat hers? Hmm, I just thought the pudding looked like pudding, but then I had saw it with the pic of it dished out in the glass.
Once at a banquet style dinner they served quail and one of them still had a teeny little feather attached to it. So gross.
Ew. I don’t think I’d be able to eat it if it still had feathers…
Is it just me or does that mango pudding look like a curry? 😛