Tamil Sri Lanka Catering, Food and Beverages.
All the Sri lanka Tamils weddings are focused in one thing, to get the blessing for the newly married couple from the people who witnessed the Matrimonial ceremony. In Saiva religion ceremony, All the visitors are welcomed with opened hand served with Beatle leaf, Beatle nut ,white lime(chunnambu) along with chewing tobacco, then cool drinks or milk tea or milk coffee will be served with specially made wedding short eats(Palakaram) of many kinds. which are in Tamil called "murukku, payaththm urundai, sohi, Shippi, Boonthi Laddu, ravai laddu, ariyatharam, seedai, palrotti, sittundi". After the wedding ceremony the Priest who did all the ceremony will be presented with All kind of available vegetables, rice and other goods as they don't eat outside of their homes of their tradition. This is the first person who gives the blessing to the nearly married couples.
Then Brides father will give water in a small brass pot called "Sembu" to all visitors to clean their hand and to join for Lunch. Normally weddings take place in the day time to serve the people lunch. Even if it takes place in the Night they will give the food equal to lunch although there will be "Idiyappam" or "Pittu" for those who can't eat rice and curry in the night. The "Manamedai" where the marriage ceremony takes place will be looked as a worshiping place, so, non-veg food will not be served in the Tamil Hindu weddings.
At the Dining floor A long mat (Panthip pai) will be laid down. After every guests sits down, they will serve water in silver tumblers. Then banana leaves will be laid down in front of the guests for to serve the food. Salt will be served first in little amount by the servers. Then the rice will be served by "akappai" (Wooden spoon) minimum three times for each guest. Following that rice, vegetable curries will be served one by one to all the guests. Papadam and fries too will be served. Finally Mysoor Dhal -"Mysoor Parippu" will be served with Gow Ghee. "Drum stick-Murungai kai" and "Maravalli- tapioca" are not served in the wedding as curries. On the second serving of rice they will add Kulambu (hot chili sauce) and rasam or coconut milk spiced water(Sothi).Finally Sweet "payasam","Vadai" and Banana will be served to finish the servings. The wedding food is called "aru suvai unavu", it means There will be minimum 6 kinds of tasty Items.
- Inippu - Sweet Taste
- Uraippu - Hot(chilie) Taste
- Kasappu - Bitter Taste
- Uvarppu - Salty Taste
- Thuvarppu - Taste of Beatle nut
- Pulippu - Sour Taste
In the Jaffna region there were best cooks with their own cooking team and big pans and utilities. They were called in many names. And their foods too were delicious and remembered by people. And in many villages many houses kept bigger cooking pots which can cook rice for 100 people at a time and can cook curry in large amount. Also they kept curry serving pans buckets and spoons. Some houses kept narrow longer mats where at a time nearly 50 persons can sit and dine on a banana leaf. In these villages when a wedding take place all relatives get together and cook foods for the wedding guests.
So, the parents of the bride and the bride groom try to find the best cook in their place for the wedding cermoney. But today like in Colombo city, there are plenty Catering Service providers who take care of every thing to make the serving of the food to the visitors. And they will bring the food in silver containers to the place in vehicle with serving pans, plates, spoons etc. This saves the families of the Bride and bridegroom a lot of work. Some time it makes them nervous too, if the Service didn't reach in time to the wedding hall due to the city traffic. It's better for you to tell them about this problem and get prepared for it.
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Things to remember when order for catering service.
Wedding Caterers, food and beverage In Colombo.
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Dehiwala.
Sai Ganesha
Galle Road,
Bambalapitiya
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