Jevonn is the traditional Goan Wedding meal. It is prepared by a local woman called ranpin and served at the bridegroom's place just a few days before the wedding. It consists of samareachi koddi (fried spicy massala prawn curry), melgor (gram cooked in massala), duddeachi xak (pumpkin), soji (wheat in coconut juice and jaggary), vonn (a special desert: dal cooked in jaggary coconut juice). Elders of the village prefer to savour it in a kotti (coconut shell) in memory of the ancestors; pickle as appetizer. The meal begins after a short prayer is said to wish well for the young couple and also remembering those that have departed. The prayer is said by an elder of the village. Don't miss it, should you be invited to attend it.