The significance of the dishes served at a wedding ceremony.

Each dish is a blessing for the bride and groom.

1. Gac sticky rice: A symbol of complete happiness.

Gac sticky rice, with its vibrant red color, symbolizes love and perfect happiness. The red color of gac fruit is a natural color of the earth and sky, bringing harmony and balance to married life. This dish has the chewy texture and fragrant aroma of glutinous rice grains, the richness of gac fruit, and the nutty flavor of mung beans. Besides being a staple at wedding banquets, gac sticky rice is also served during holidays, birthday celebrations, and New Year's Eve offerings.

In modern wedding feasts, gac fruit sticky rice can be replaced with other types of sticky rice such as sticky rice with shredded chicken, sticky rice with coconut, or sticky rice wrapped in pandan leaves.

2. Boiled chicken: Warm inside, soft outside

According to ancient beliefs, boiled chicken symbolizes prosperity and happiness. Therefore, boiled chicken is often chosen as an indispensable dish on the wedding banquet table.

To add more creativity, many families replace boiled chicken with roasted chicken, grilled chicken, or chicken stew.

3Pork sausage and ham: A close bond.

On the wedding feast table, the chef will slice the pork sausage into rounds and arrange them on small, shallow plates. The pork patties will be sliced ​​into diamond shapes and arranged into an 8 or 10-pointed star to bring good luck. The arrangement of the pork sausage and patties close together serves as a reminder of the faithful and enduring love between husband and wife. The sausage wrapped in banana leaves symbolizes togetherness and the nurturing of happiness.

4. Nem: United in overcoming difficulties

Spring rolls (Nem) are a familiar and popular dish in all regions of Vietnam. The main ingredients include minced meat, vermicelli, shiitake mushrooms, eggs, scallions, bean sprouts, etc., all mixed together, seasoned, then wrapped in round rice paper and fried until golden brown. Depending on taste and preference, the ingredients and seasonings can be adjusted to suit individual tastes.

The harmonious blend of ingredients in spring rolls symbolizes the unity and shared joys and sorrows of married life. The spring rolls, fried at high temperature yet remaining fragrant and crispy, represent the husband and wife's shared determination to overcome life's challenges and hardships.

Nowadays, traditional fried spring rolls are often replaced with seafood spring rolls, mushroom spring rolls, and so on.

6. Jellied meat: Eternal purity, beautiful love life.

This dish, with its jelly-like texture, symbolizes the serenity and purity of love. The harmonious blend and connection between the ingredients naturally serve as a blessing for the newlyweds.

7. Braised Pork: Harmony above and below

Braised pork is a familiar dish, deeply connected to family members. To make authentic braised pork, the chef uses pork belly with an equal ratio of lean and fat. The harmonious blend of the meat symbolizes the close bond and harmony within the family. The duck eggs used in this dish are not cut during cooking but left whole, signifying complete happiness.

In modern wedding feasts, braised pork is often replaced with roasted pork, braised pork trotters, etc.

According to Ngoisao.net