Mention the word ‘wedding dinner’, most will be happy to see 2 individuals who have met their love partner and are going to share part of their life with the other half through the power of the ring that connects them as a symbol of love!
Another excitement is to savour the environment of meeting up with family, relatives and friends and of course the dinner itself. Wedding receptions in hotels are usually served in a grand and unique style. The dishes served are also carefully choosen beforehand to ensure the invitees end up happy too after giving a big fat ‘angpow’ to the parents of the couple.
Well, I’ve just attended a wedding reception of a relative last Saturday in Hotel Equatorial, Bukit Jambul, Penang, hence all the sayings above. It has been a long time since I’ve attended such dinners.
flower girls getting ready slideshow of the lovely couple
menu card
Food tasting is part of my mission there as well, so here’s a look at what was served (photos look yellow-ish due to the lighting and my under-performed camera) and my comment;
clockwise: salad prawn, pai tee, fried dumpling, stir fried chicken cubes
First up, as usual, is the combination of hot and cold dish. Nothing spectacular about it. The prawn tasted bland but the pai tee was good, with mango kerabu filling inside topped with thai-style anchovies. The dumpling and chicken taste normal.
Next is the braissed shark’s fin soup with sea cucumber. Credits to the chef. It’s good, very thick with full of ingredients and the taste is just right. At least they are not ‘kiamsiap’ with the ingredients. Thumbs up!!
The next dish was Steamed Chinese Herbal Chicken. The chicken meat is very soft and tender as it’s steamed for quite a few hours. The meat s filled with herbal taste and it’s quite tasteful with the sweet gravy poured over it. There’s also mushrooms added to this dish.
Up next, is Braised Broccoli with Pacific Clams and Dried Sole Fish. The speciality in this dish is of course the clams and the sole fish. Taste just ok, not bad. Abit surprising is they added bird’s egg to the dish as well.
Deap Fried Tiger Prawns with Wunan Sauce is served soon after. The sauce is sweet and slightly spicy. How is Wunan sauce suppose to taste like anyway??
Next, Steamed Snapper with light soya sause. Nothing special about this dish, the style in steaming is what mom always do at home. They added some toufu with fish eggs by the side of the dish (top right corner in pic). The fish is fresh while the meat is smooth and sweet.
Almost coming to an end, the Fried Rice with Chicken Floss and Anchovies was served. The rice is fried with tiny anchovies and fish cakes and topped with chicken floss and fried onions. Taste fine.
And finally, the dessert, Honeydew with Longan Sago. Taste refreshing. The ice is blended together with the honeydew and hence taste very good and not watery. Longan and sago adds to the sweet taste of this dessert.
Overall, the food was ok but one thing was the service. In such hotel of multiple star rating, the waiter who served us was way too bad. The servings alway came late (other table has finish half the dish while we were still waiting for it to come), the way he serves was also bad and wasteful (the table got some share of the food as well).
Anyway, the night was lively with the live band and cheeky MC cum singer who came up with several ways to keep the loving and happy atmosphere alive.
Congratulations to the couple!!
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