Asinine Alliteration

With Thanksgiving approaching, I can’t help but thinking about gigantic meals.  The kind of meals that make you seriously consider whether or not your stomach might physically burst.  I’ll save the Thanksgiving stories for later and talk about Chinese weddings instead.  Why?  Because they love to eat a lot…  

This is a measly two photos from a billion* course Chinese wedding dinner I went to a few months ago in Hong Kong.  Having visited HK so many times and living in Singapore for almost 3 years, this was the first Chinese wedding I attended.  I knew there were a lot of courses, but this being Asia the portions are small.  Let me just say, portion size does not matter because 10 courses is still a lot.  In western weddings we can rely on a few moments of YMCA/Electric Slide/Chicken Dance to get up and move around.  This is not included in Chinese weddings.  Instead you just eat.  Pork, fish, abalone, kailan, soup (a PC-non-shark fin soup!).  By the time the wontons, noodles and rice showed up…I had to quit.  Ok, I ate a wonton.  But the thought of rice and noodles expanding in my stomach did make me think about the possibility of my stomach bursting.  

All in all, a brilliant wedding celebrated with a table full of my friends.  So, when everyone in the US is enjoying their short holiday week, I’ll just remember the uncomfortable full feeling and be satisfied with Chinese weddings and prepare myself for Christmas!

*Billion = 10 or so from what I recall…but then again, I had to sit out some of it.