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Chinese Food

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Chinese Food

Chinese food isn’t exactly what comes to mind when organizing a wedding, but if you’re on a tiny budget, this is definitely an economical option you should take into consideration, especially as Chinese food is pretty widespread – there’s a reason Chinese restaurants and fast-food joints are popping up everywhere.

SERVICE

While you could certainly waste money and hire waiters to serve Chinese food to seated guests, the good thing about this kind of  food is that you can present it banquet-style so that your guests can serve themselves.

MENU IDEAS

For appetizers, egg rolls, spring rolls and dumplings (balls of dough) are a no brainer.

When it comes to entrees, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Chow Mein, beef and broccoli, ribs, stir fried vegetables, rice (steamed or fried) and noodles are popular dishes that should satisfy most of your guests plus there are enough veggies to make your vegetarian guests happy.

The good thing about Chinese food is also that there are also plenty of soups to choose from including Hour & Sour soup, Egg Drop soup, Manchow soup and Corn soup, which can be served as entrees, sides or even appetizers.

Regarding desserts, I’m assuming you will get a wedding cake from a bakery, though you could serve some Chinese sorbet or mocha ice cream (small balls of ice cream wrapped in sticky rice cake) right before the wedding piece. Other than that, candies and jellies might not be of everyone’s taste and I can’t imagine using fortune cookies as desserts!

If you think about serving drinks, I don’t think sake might be the right choice or you might take the risk to get your guests drunk. That said, you could go for some Chinese beers such as Tsingtao (the easiest to find here), Yanjing, Harbin and Snow Beer or you can cheat and serve Sapporo, which is Japanese.

PRICES

Here’s the best part about picking Chinese food for your wedding – it’s dirt-cheap should cost you less than $10 per person and, in some cases, even less than $5 a pop, depending on the caterer you select (not including service, alcohol and cake).