Hunny's Bavarian Dinner

Hunny wrote me a very interesting story.. He went for this Bavarian Dinner in Germany, it sounded too interesting that I've decided to post it in my blog to share.

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Hi Bei,

My update for my 2nd days here at Kaufering. Nothing much on my day in the conference and workshop. Just more talk and talk and talk and listen listen listen only. Still managed to keep awake the whole time. Don’t ask me how I managed to do that but I did hehe. Our session end around 5.45pm and we all leave the office around 6pm. All of us went back to the office and just to get ourselves refresh abit and wait for the bus to take us to Aubsburg or something for our Bavarian dinner.

The bus arrived around 6.40pm and we all took off for our surprised dinner. The ride took us around 40 minutes. The distance was around 40km from our hotel. We arrived at the town center and all the building is very old type. Just like something in Vienna. I guess all the building here look alike. The road is those old type cobbler stone road. We arrived at the restaurant a bit earlier and the people there is not ready yet. We have to wait outside like for 10 minutes for them to open up the place.

After for awhile, we all marching into the unknown and what the surprise hold for us. First, we walked down the stair and it look like a dungeon or something near like that. All of us hang our jackets, coat or whatever on the closet first. After that, we process to enter the mysterious place. There is a lady waiting for us at the entrance with a pot of water and a basin. We suppose to put our hand in the basin and she will pour the water for us to wash our hand. Then there is a towel for us to dry our hand. Next, we process to enter deeper, this time a guy waiting for us and pass us this cow horn cup (u know the cow horn, they make a hole in it and turn it into a cup). It contain some sort of honey beer which is quite nice and strong. Taste a bit like honey mixed with liquor. As we standing there to finish our welcome drinks, there another big guy tie a big big white napkin over our chest.. like a big baby napkin.

The enter to a small room and the place look like those old ancient type of dungeon where you see old knight or old England type of diner place. They have a very special rules in this restaurant on how we should eat our foods and how it will be served. On the table, we only have a wooden board as our plate and a dagger (yes a big dagger) as our tools to replace fork and spoon. Haha..On the table, there this bread call rock break which you suppose to break it into half and share it with your neighbors. To eat along with it, they prepared some sort of fatting cheese type to swap on the bread. This tasted not too bad. Kind of weird taste but nice. So, as I was saying in the beginning, there are certain house rules that we need to follow.

We have to use our hand to eat the foods like what people do in the older time.
There is no other tools other than the dagger provided.
Normally in the older time, men’s and women’s don’t sit together for dinner but when they do, they are there to serve the other guest..haha
For the current time, If there is not women present at the table, then the waiter or waitress will select one of the guy to be elected as the women for the table for the night.
The elected maiden for the night only need to serve one of the course only. (the whole dinner is already pre-order, just like Chinese banquet style) We have about 7 course dinner at this restaurant.
The maiden have to serve every single person at the table. She/he need to fill everyone cup to make sure it is always full and when the foods arrived, she have to serve the foods to everyone plate. The rest of us are not allow to serve ourselves. If we do that, then we will be punish by kissing the waitress (if a guy commit the crime) or kiss the waiter (if a gal commit the crime).
The style of eating the foods there. Everyone suppose to make a lot of noise while consuming the foods. For example, if the soup is serve, we need to drink the soup with a lot of noise and if there is any noodle or meat, we have scoop it up with our fingers.
After the first course is serve, the hat the maiden force to wear will pass to the next person and his turn to serve the rest hehe…

A few of them got punish for making a few mistake like one of them, they didn’t serve fast enough that one of the guest on the table have to pour the drink himself. He was put into a big huge wooden handcuff and get spank by a big spoon spatula hehe. Another one, a bit drunk already himself, was pouring the beer around the table and he accidentally pour the beer to one of the sauce cup haha…the cup was full of apple sauce. He was punish the same way.

The meals was quite different and nice in a way. The first meal was some type of lamb soup. Just taste like kambing soup haha. The second dish was some fried fish meat that they roll into fishball type. The next dish was something like a square. It some sort of pork meat with pork fat. Taste funny but dun care, just put inside the mouth and swallow it. The fourth dish was something meaty. I kind of forgot what was it haha. I remember we have to leave some foods on the plate. We cannot finish our foods because it is the Bavarian way of leaving some foods for the poor people. All the leave over foods we put inside a bowl and the waiter will leave it outside for the poor. The last dish is roast goose. The waiter will chop it to pieces and the next person will serve it to everyone. I had the goose leg which is crunchy and nice.

In between the meals, there is this person with a guitar will come in and sing some songs with us. He will sings all the old folk songs and some children songs with action with us. We have to follow him and do all the actions just like when we were kids hehe.

After that, they serve us some fruits as the final dish and we depart from the restaurant to our hotel. That the end of the day two for me hehe.