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Last year I got married in Taiwan, I got to pick between Cake Cutting, or a giant pyramid of glasses. I picked cake thinking I get cake. So come wedding day we
by philliphaydon 8y ago
Last year I got married in Taiwan, I got to pick between Cake Cutting, or a giant pyramid of glasses. I picked cake thinking I get cake.
So come wedding day we have this giant cake next to the stage, we do the cake cutting and we leave.
My best friend at the wedding was shocked I had such a large cake, he was telling people at the table it was huge, my group of friends informed him it was fake, he didn't believe them.
So he got up in front of everyone, nervously walked across the room to inspect the cake, touched it and realised there was dust on the lower pieces and it was hard, then he went to see my father in law to confirm if it was fake or not.
Well it turned out the only real bit was the top bit which was super cheap and not edible, just show for cutting. He was disappointed he wasn't getting cake, after the wedding my wife informed me I wasn't getting cake and I was sad. :(
Apparently this is the norm in Asia.
- windows_tips 8y agowtf
- faizmokhtar 8y agoGot married in Taiwan > Norm in Asia. That's a huge jump mate.
- philliphaydon 8y ago> That's a huge jump mate. I live in Singapore and after speaking to people about this, I'm told its the norm, at-least in Taiwan, China, Singapore, Vietnam.
- stingraycharles 8y agoCan confirm for Thailand and Cambodia as well. Honeymoon pictures are typically of the couple being photoshopped on pictures all around the world as well. (Got married in Cambodia, got fake cake and said pictures as well)
- jac_no_k 8y agoNorm for Japan as well.
- puranjay 8y agoPeople forget that about 2.5B Asians live in the Indian sub-continent and Middle-East There are no cakes at Indian weddings
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- acchow 8y agoI assure you, people do not forget that more than a billion people live in India.
- puranjay 8y agoI've seen people make sweeping statements about "Asians" without including Indian people at all. For instance, I often hear comments like "Asians don't consume much dairy" when they're actually talking about Chinese/Koreans/Japanese people.
- gowld 8y agoMany people think of India and the rest of their side of the Himalayas as a different cultural subcontinent from Asia, much like Europe over the Urals. It's OK.
- evgen 8y agoEvery definition of Europe I am familiar with defines the area as east of the Urals. What bits of Europe are on the other side? Were you perhaps thinking of the area south of the Carpathian chain?
- slyall 8y agoIt depends. ie one dictionary definition: Asian 1. belonging to or relating to Asia or its people 2. in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, belonging to or relating to China, Japan, or countries near them 3. in the UK, belonging to or relating to India, Pakistan, or countries near them
- taneq 8y agoMight have skipped a couple of steps there, buddy. It was probably more like: Got married in Taiwan > Was surprised about the cake not being real > Asked some Taiwanese friends if this was normal > Friends say yeah, and not just in Taiwan > Really, what other places do this? > Norm in Asia
- puranjay 8y agoA friend who lives in Singapore attended his first Chinese wedding last month. He kept saying that they had a HUGE cake that they never fed to any guests. He kept waiting for the cake to make its way to his table, but it never did. He kept saying that the cake must have been a fake, but I never believed him. And yet, here we are
- jacobush 8y agoAlso the norm in (parts of?) the Balkans. Typically a cake for cutting, another cake (or several kinds) served in slices afterwards.
- samastur 8y agoReally? Which parts? I am from Slovenia and never heard of this. Reasonably certain it is not common in Croatia either.