A report from the Christmas Tables for our friends, by Satyavrata Muni prabhu. As he points out at the end, not only the love and ecstacy is steadily growing but also the number of visitors. And the popularity. The bookings are coming earlier and earlier. A few days ago (January thus), last year's record (March) was broken when we received the first booking from one of our friends of friends, who wanted to be sure to get a place for him and his family at this year's coming Tables, in 11 months.
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By Satyavrata Muni Das
The 2016 Christmas tables at our Swedish temple Nimaihuset were yet
another success! A Christmas table is a Swedish tradition where you
visit a restaurant with friends or coworkers in the middle of December
and eat from a large buffet of Christmas dishes, where meat, fish and
alcohol play prominent roles. We are offering a vegetarian Christmas
table two times each December for our friends, for the affordable price of 150 SEK, which
is roughly the price of a main course at an ordinary restaurant.
We served 19 dishes and 9 varieties of sweets. It is
quite a challenge to handle the growing number of visitors since Nimaihuset is a
small temple. The lounge, the temple room, the office, the loft – all
areas were turned into dining rooms, and the buffet was served in the
kitchen. In our temple, necessity is the mother of invention.
The
guests were overwhelmingly happy and praised the food! Many were
curious about the temple and Sevananda das was basically giving lectures
on demand, about the basics of Krishna consciousness.
We
have held Christmas tables since 2007 and many of the guests are
returning year after year, bringing more friends every time, so the
number of visitors is steadily growing.
The flyer advertising the Christmas Buffet Table event at Nimaihuset |
Guests at the Christmas Table enjoying the prasadam |
Preparations waiting for the guests |
The cooking process!!! |
More guests at the Christmas Table in Nimaihuset enjoying the prasadam |
More happy guests at the Christmas Table in Nimaihuset enjoying the prasadam |
Prem Sita Devi Dasi doing the dishes |
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