Chinese wedding traditions: 10. Our wedding lunch menu

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Depending on the regions in China, the lunch/dinner menus on a Chinese wedding are different, the venue we reserved provides 3 kinds of wedding lunch menus(10 persons/table), the one we chose is displayed above. The first column is a Chinese idiom representing luck, happiness, or long last marriage, the second column is the actual menu which is also translated below.

Our Chinese wedding lunch menu

The menu contains the following dishes:
凉菜 – Cold dishes:

吉祥如意 – 特色烧鸡 – Chicken cooked in a local way
称心如意 – 卤肉拼盘 – Marinated meat combo
携手一生 – 徽州酱蹄 – Pork leg with sauce ‘a la Maison
牛气冲天 – 特色牛肉 – Specialty beef
浓情蜜意 – 蜜汁金枣 – Chinese dates with honey (vegan)
五谷丰登 – 丰收蘸酱 – Vegitable combo (vegi)
鸿运当头 – 葱油海蜇头 – Jellyfish with spring onion and oil sauce
花团锦簇 – 醋椒木耳 – Chinese mushroom with spicy and sour sauce (vegan)

热菜 – Warm dishes:
玉龙呈祥 – 澳洲大龙虾 – Lobsters
山盟海誓 – 冰岛红石斑 – Rudds
飞黄腾达 – 虫草炖母鸡 – Slow cooked hen
团团圆圆 – 四喜圆子 – Four happy meatballs
独占鳌头 – 大甲鱼烧肉 – Soft-shelled turtle cooked with meat
东床快婿 – 红烧大排 – Ribs
招财进宝 – 风味咸猪蹄 – Salty flavor Trotter(pork leg)
包罗万象 – 牛肉火锅 – Beef cooked in a hotpot
天长地久 – 香辣肉串 – Spicy meat string
锦上添花 – 金瓜雪糯 – Steamed pumpkin with rice (vegan)
大展宏图 – 香脆烤鸭 – Crispy roasted duck
蒸蒸日上 – 花蟹蒸蛋 – Steamed crab with eggs
甜甜蜜蜜 – 八宝甜汤 – Sweet soup with 8 treasures (vegan)
春色满园 – 时蔬一道 – Seasoned vegitables (vegi)
五彩缤纷 – 水果一道 – fruit to finish (vegan)

Some other information about a Chinese wedding menu can be found here.

More about Traditional Chinese wedding:

0. Introduction
1. Wedding decorations
2. Gate crash
3. Tea ceremony
4. Chinese wedding outfit and Chinese sedan
5. Formal ceremony – Bai tang(拜堂)
6. Bridal chamber rituals
7. Wedding Proposal
8. Pre-wedding photo shooting(Behind the scenes)
9. Chinese wedding agency
10. Our wedding lunch menu
11. Our wedding program 1: Fetch the bride
12. Our wedding program 2: The lunch ceremony
13. Our final wedding video
14.
The hazing of wedding couples – Naohun

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