In any typical chinese wedding, having shark’s fin soup as one of the dishes served to wedding guests, is considered a status symbol.
‘Most of the couples’ parents consider this dish a premium and without it, they would lose face,’ said Mandarin Oriental’s communications director Ruth Soh.
Read the full text on Shark’s fin: S’pore takes a much bigger bite from today’s Straits Times Interactive.
Do you consider if serving other dishes as a replacement of shark’s fin considered losing face?
