No regrets Indian wedding food:

I've only been to 1 indian wedding so I don't know what "normal" is but this one was great. The ceremony took freakin forever but we were all just seated and talking to people during the thing. Every half hour or so someone would come by with more food. Then the ceremony was over, we all took a nap for 3 hours, and there was a formal dinner afterwards that went on all night. It was all pretty awesome. 36/37 (-1 for divorce in less than 1 year). Would try to convince indian friends to get married again, would hold door for indian friends at 10 meters.

Edit: oh and it was 99% indian people. I love indian men's formal wear, that is something I could really get behind.

Yea Kurta Pyjama. Fat, thin, burly, skinny fat, tall, short everyone looks good in it!

lol my dessert pic just doesnt do justice to what I just ate. Just imagine cashyfoodporn.jpg to the nth level

Would absolutely destroy that plate that SS posted the pic of. Indian desserts are pretty terrible though.

Yea they are quite extraordinarily sweet. Acquired taste probably.

Ime pretty much every Indian wedding is normal in the sense that it is insane.

Not acquired. We rid ourselves of it as we age. Indians dial it to 11 to try to recapture their youth is my guess.

But srsly yeah I really love most Indian food I've tried and have disliked all the sweets. Those sugary dough balls are the worst. The sorta chalky stuff with silver wrapping is OK.

+1 on Indian sweets being the woat. Just too sweet. I assume KC was talking about Gulab Jamun although there are other ones that would fit his general description. Gulab Jamun is actually the only Indian sweet that I like. I could eat a ****ton of good Gulab Jamun (most of the ones you get in the restaurants in USA #1 are just OK and are seldom fresh).

Those are gulab jamuns KC is describing and they are delicious! You just can't get them good in USA. I hated them every place I ate'em in 'merica.

I actually hate the chalky stuff with silver wrapping (Burfi). It comes in tremendous variety though and I do like one that's called Milk Cake.

This does not look tasty at all.


I eat tortillas. My girlfriend eats rice.

Looks like we gave our chihuahua one of each and he got pissed and dumped a mean old diarrhea on top.


Sorry. No action. Pass. Maybe just hand me a tandoori drum stick.

loco it was gooood and deep down you know it too. I'm bad with pictures plus you kind of only have one flat plate to put everything on so what else would it look like?

Seriously loco, we need a H&F meetup in Redding (or at Khalyn's crib in Colorado if we're desperate) soon. Pretty sure it would be 37/37 for everyone involved.

But so much exactly that. Food looks legit awful. Would eat at 3 am after a drunken binge if no other food was available, would laugh in the face of the chef if served at a wedding.


Yeah no, this is your food cred right now + lol all desserts not from Europe/USA#1:


Seriously, is there a single dessert from a non-Euro/USAnian country that's legit 10/10? There's probably some being served in awesome restaurants in Tokyo or Hong Kong, but let's face it, the pastry chef still went to Paris for his training then put some ****ing ginger in the dessert to make it "Asian". Australia/NZ gets a pass since they're Euro convicts.


This, however, seems like a legit way to arrange a wedding. Just serve better food to avoid mass diarrhea and voila!

Ok let's be real: a stew/curry/whatever can be tasty as hell. Serving it at a wedding with some rice and (admittedly good-looking) naan bread is still a no-go. That's just some very unsexy-looking food.

lol, A+

Somehow I doubt soulman has been to an Indian wedding in India. You can't apply your fancylad French standards to that.

Sure the plating is ****, but I'm pretty sure it's a buffet-style serving, so I think judging by look is unfair. I'm sure some aspy chef could plate the exact same food in an appealing way.

U guys are stupid. That food looks facking delicious do want now.

You can get good Indian food on every corner in Australia.

Confirmed.

Why not, it's a wedding isn't it. Serving the food exactly the same as you do on any other family gathering makes no sense to me.


lol buffet at a wedding. lol stews at a wedding.

I say this coming from a region in Norway where a particular beef soup is considered a legit thing to serve on special occasions like a wedding, though thankfully that is a tradition being left by the wayside.


There is a slight possibility I put a bit more into food than most people, but hey man, loco agrees so I can't be too far off.


On that note, made cusk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusk_(fish)) for the first time today since it looked so awesome at the fishmonger's [is that a word you guys actually use?]. Eaten it at restaurants but first time I've made it myself. 35/37, would eat again. Really firm texture (reminscent of e.g. monkfish), slightly sweet to the taste. Very awesome with an Asian (!) inspired beurre blanc and quinoa pilaf++.

For the wine interested, drank a greek assyrtiko wine (assyrtiko by gaia wild ferment). Solid choice in the not too expensive segment here in Broway, no idea what it would go for in USA#1. Worked very well with bold flavors and lots of acid in the food. Surprised that the Greek do some things right except for trolling the Eurozone.

Does the Middle East count as Europe? Cos baklava is pretty good. Also Thai fruit slushies.

Baklava is pretty meh imo. Like all middle eastern desserts, just way too sweet. Balance is apparently not a thing over there. I'm willing to be convinced by a greek master pastry chef or the like, but then again the average run of the mill apple pie with vanilla ice cream every housewife in USA#1 makes is ****ing awesome.

Middle East def not Europe. Turkey is a corner case though.

Stews at a wedding are a total fish move.


Non-sloppy solid foods, cake, and a ****load of liquor.

My point is that the standards for what is considered proper for a wedding is just different from place to place. Different societies do things differently. Shocking, I know, but I'm afraid that's the way it is soulbro. How they do it in France is completely irrelevant.

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While I disagree with your general philosophy on wedding dining etiquette, your assessment on desserts is spot on.