Tuesday 18 March 2008

Update on today's neighbourhood wedding

Update on today's neighbourhood wedding

The coyote dancing happened already, according to my wife, but I didn't hang out to witness it. Before the girls hit the stage, you had to sit through a couple of hours of Thai slapstick scenes by a kind of theatre group, which isn't that funny if you don't understand what they're saying. So I decided to give it a miss.

Before that though, when we went for the food, was the first time I witnessed some gun slinging and life rounds were fired along with some fire crackers by at least two wedding party guests, which nobody really found disturbing and was rather accepted as normal, it seemed.
The guns were aimed at the sky and not meant to harm anybody, just hope the slugs didn't come down too hard on anybody!
Especially at the mainland this seems to be common practice but not so much on Samui. As already mentioned, it's the first time I witnessed this and it seemed to be a rather casual thing to the people attending the party.





The food however was outstanding, with bottom left, Yam saam krob (Salad of Three crispy things; dried shrimp and squid and pork skin), under the foil is Yog Yuan, which I initially mistakenly took for Hor Mo, a very nice dish which is very rare nowadays.
On top is fresh fruit, next to is a soup, below right hand side is an excellent fish in a mild curry and below that is more soup. In the middle is a pork curry, Southern style (=spicy).
As drinks water, soda, Coke and Thai Brandy were served with plenty of steamed rice to accompany all of this.



Hope this gives you an idea how big the party was, I guess at least 800 to a 1000 could be seated.
It's past 9 pm and there doesn't seem a finish in sight for the music yet! The party is in full swing.
The interesting part about the Thai weddings is that there are two party's, one at the grooms house and one at the bride's house! Normally the two parties are separated only by a few days.
Camille

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