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bar mitzvah party chinese style; urgent help needed!!!
Topic Started: Sep 22 2009, 04:28 PM (1,093 Views)
4hope
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i urgently need good ideas for a chinese themed bar mitzvah party - decoration, flowers, food, party favors - whatever! oh, and i can't buy via internet, not enough time. we are not in the states or israel. i just need ideas, and then i can look for it here.
hope to see lots of ideas here from you creative women :nod !
thank you in advance!
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zuncompany
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A few first thoughts- origami, bamboo mechitzah, sesame beef or chicken, fried rice, egg rolls (we have a great recipe here from zoonana), stir fry station, sesame noodlessweet and sour chicken. Chinese is great for a buffet.
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I like Zun's origami idea. If any of your kids are creative you can probably find instructions online for simple origami flowers; pipecleaners as stems and you can always use coloured printer paper cut to the right size if you can't get "real" origami paper. (Though origami is Japanese, not Chinese, most of your guests probably won't know the difference.) Stick a few in a vase and you have flowers/centrepieces. Also cranes (which are considered good luck) can be hung around the room if you want more decorations.

Chopsticks. Dim sum (pastries) for dessert, instead of a full blown cake & sweet table.
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oops on the origami!
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Neelie
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How about chopsticks to eat the food, and little cardboard boxes (like Chinese take-out) instead of plates. Lots of red decor. Find some Chinese characters that have meaningful translations for the event, and paint them on large sheets or paper to hang up.
Good luck!
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Here are some fortune cookie recipes. Maybe ask some of the women in the community to come over and help you bake them?

http://www.fancyfortunecookies.com/recipe.shtml
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4hope
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thanks very much!
it's not for a home-kind of event, but for a full blown catering, for 100 people, among which all the rabbi's of the area... we did think about the chopsticks, lampions, lots of red, maybe kimono's for the waitresses. but need to figure out if there are flower arrangements that go with this theme... i was thinking of bonsai plants, but that's really japanese...
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Marion
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Lotus (silk if you can't get fresh)
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ElTam
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I think little pots of bamboo would be cute. A party store would also have chinese lanterns that might be good for centerpieces.
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ElTam
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Or you could make the dessert the centerpieces. Get the chinese takeout boxes as someone suggested (chinese restaurants should sell, or a restaurant supply store). Fill with shredded red paper (the kind that you use to put in gifts, it sort of looks like folded noodles) from a party store and put fortune cookies on top. I know our local kosher store carries kosher fortune cookies. You could group three in the middle, maybe two with red paper and one with gold...
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eitam, very good idea! only kosher fortune cookies i can't find here... but maybe i can think of something else now. again, thank you very much! also marion, for the lotus, will look into that!
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4hope
Sep 24 2009, 03:38 PM
thanks very much!
it's not for a home-kind of event, but for a full blown catering, for 100 people, among which all the rabbi's of the area... we did think about the chopsticks, lampions, lots of red, maybe kimono's for the waitresses. but need to figure out if there are flower arrangements that go with this theme... i was thinking of bonsai plants, but that's really japanese...
Kimono is also Japanese. (You can tell by the word structure.)
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what about those almond cookies you often get at chinese restaurants? I bet the local kosher baker would make them for a bulk order...
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chinese lanterns? I like the idea of the take out containers.
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yes, chinese lanterns are a real option. i was mostly struggling with the flowers. but now it seems that the family (one of the rabbi's) is not really looking for a whole chinese themed evening, but mainly wants the chinese food and classy looking tables. so there will be large silver candlesticks for 6 candles, and white tablecloths, but with red ribbon-kind-of on the tables. and the rest we will have to see what we can find, but no flowers. is too complicated and too expensive.
again, thank you very much for your input - highly appreciated!
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