Monday, June 16, 2003

The wedding feast was fit for royalty. Headlining the appetizer was the tandoori chicken. The appetizer is really a misnomer because it was a full meal in of itself. The terminology "feast" is quite appropriate because the guests were fed to the gills. Ironically, the stuffed guests are then supposed to dance the night and the calories away to bangara music.

The tandoori chicken was accompanied by breaded fish which is very different from the Western concept of breaded fish. The fish itself measured 1 inch by 2 inches by 1 inch. The ouside skin / breading was crispy fried while the inside had the consistency of meat. For a few minutes, I had to stop and analyze the texture of the food to determine whether it was chicken or fish. Another meat dish that was breaded and fried was most likely lamb, although I could not detect the smell of lamb. The dish had the texture of pork, but since the celebrants were Sikh, I can only assume that they do not eat pork.

I just went surfing and found this website which discusses eating meat and being a Sikh. So, the meat that was fried could most likely be pork. Just had to figure this out because this would drive me to walk outside of the lines.

The samosa which is potato stuffed into a wrapping that is then fried also made an appearance. The two sauces which accompanied the appetizers were the sweet tamarind sauce and the a spicier green chutney sauce. And the desert was a sweet rice cake that was flavored with coconuts.

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