Malichkan banquet

The Malichkan banquet is the official royal feast of the Malichkan monarchy since 1883. First observed during St. Stephen's Day 1882, it has since become synonymous with Malichka's monarchy and often criticized by Bjergists as a "symbol of the monarchy's gluttony".

Banquet
Guests at a Malichkan banquet sit on couches made from soft cotton. They use napkins to clean their fingers and hands. It is crucial that all types of people - whether peasants, average or rich, are welcome to the banquet.

The banquet starts with a servant pouring water into a bowl over the guests' hands, which they use to wash them. Then comes a traditional drink called pirjagode, served ice-cold and garnished with shaved ice and a cherry, offered to every guests. Then comes plate after plate of the different courses.

The first course is a tomato-based soup with mushrooms, called blood soup. This is reserved for Europeans who cannot begin a meal with no soup. Asians on the other hand are given a beef broth-based noodle soup topped with green onions, soft-boiled eggs, corn, and kamaboko (fish surimi cake)

The second course: dumplings containing ground beef and pork mixed with tofu, chives, cabbage, mushrooms and some other ingredients, derived from the Korean mandu. The guests pick it up with a fork and slice it with that and their knives.

The third course, considered the main course, is a stuffed chicken - a roast chicken stuffed with mixed vegetables and its own meat. The guest tear pieces off of it with their utensils.

The fourth course is a pie that takes no less than 2 days to prepare. It is nine inches in diameter and is filled with a miscellany of corn, carrots, peas, shrimp mince, fried eggs, ground beef, pork and chicken, and the curds from soy milk.

Four more courses follow in succession. The last main course is considered the rice meal. The rice (risotto) is fried with sesame oil and made into mounds filled with beef and chicken mince, shredded scrambled eggs, prawns, and vegetables. They simply eat the rice with a spoon.

Generally the last course is the dessert, a "gooey" chocolate cherry cake (chocolate mud cake topped with cherries). As at the beginning, the guests are given pirjagode, the national beverage of Malichka, at the end of the meal.