is also customary for younger people to ask/wait for the elders to eat first and the woman who sits right next to the rice pot serve rice for other people. People should "invite" the others to enjoy the meal (somehow similar to saying "Enjoy your meal"), in order from the elders to younger people. They also pick up food for each other as an action of care. Feast A feast (, ) is a significant event for families or villages, usually up to 12 people for each table. A feast is prepared for weddings, funerals, and festivals, including the longevity wishing ceremony. In a feast, ordinary foods are not served, but boiled rice is still used. A Vietnamese feast has two courses: the main course ( – salty dish) and dessert ( – sweet dish). All dishes, except for individual bowls of rice, are enjoyed collectively. All main course dishes are served simultaneously rather than one after another. The major dish of the main course is placed in the center of the tables, usually big pots of soup or a hot pot. A basic feast () consists of 10 dishes: five in bowls (): (fried fish belly), (cellophane noodles), (bamboo shoot), (meatball), or (bird or chicken stew dishes) and five on plates (): (Vietnamese sausage), , or (boiled chicken or duck), (Vietnamese salad) and (stir-fried dishes). This kind of feast is traditional and is organized only in northern Vietnam. Other variations are found in central and southern Vietnam. Four dishes essential in the feast of Tết are (spring rolls), (in northern Vietnam, refers to a spring roll called or ; in southern Vietnam, mainly refer to , fermented pork rolls), (stew dishes) and (noodle soup). At this time, the feast for offering ancestors includes sticky rice, boiled chicken, Vietnamese rice wine, and other preferred foods by ancestors in the past. Gifts are given before guests leave the feast. Royal cuisine In the Nguyễn dynasty, the 50 best chefs from all over the kingdom were selected for the board to serve the king. There were three meals per day—12 dishes at breakfast and 66 dishes for lunch and dinner (including 50 main dishes and 16 sweets). An essential dish was bird's nest soup (). Other dishes included shark fin (), abalone (), deer's tendon (), bears' hands (), and rhinoceros' skin (). Water had to come from the well, the pagoda,