My hotel connects the past and present

For example, at Chen Wen Restaurant, her parents gave gifts to her grandmother's house, and then went to her uncle's house to give gifts. Of course, her parents basically gave gifts to her elders, her parents' elders.

As for her parents' peers, it was Chen Wenjiu and her cousins ​​who gave them to her.

Drinks such as coconut palm juice, herbal tea, yogurt, and various fruit biscuits were all delivered to relatives' homes.

Oranges are the most popular fruit during the Chinese New Year. Anyway, every household will send oranges during the Chinese New Year. It would be even better if they could give one or two pots of orange plants.

Chen Wenjiu went out with his cousins ​​to deliver gifts. When he came back, he slumped on the sofa and didn't want to move. Chen Jialing, who sneaked to the hotel to be lazy, saw her face full of sympathy.

"Sister, didn't you go give gifts?" Chen Wenjiu looked at Chen Jialing and asked.

"I'm not going." Chen Jialing said while eating an orange, "Your sister and I usually just talk to you and my family, and we can't even talk for a few minutes before we can't go on."

"With my social disability, can I still give gifts?" Chen Jialing said, "I have to ask Jiarong and the others to give them, or my parents can give them themselves."

Chen Jialing is really a homebody, so much so that she almost becomes socially anxious. Although she is not afraid of strangers, she really doesn't like chatting with people anymore. Whether they are acquaintances or strangers, she always wants to run away after chatting for more than five sentences.

Chen Wenjiu looked at his cousin, nodded in understanding, took the peeled orange from her hand and ate it.

Fortunately, even though she came back to start a business here, she often chatted with everyone and interacted with many people, so she did not slowly become a social fear.

She remembered that when her sister was still studying, she had a very cheerful personality and could talk to anyone. However, after her sister moved home, she gradually stopped liking chatting with others and talking to strangers.

Chen Jialing just sat here in the hotel for a while. In the afternoon, she went back to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner with her mother.

Wei Xiaohong works in the morning, so he can still go back for the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening. Chen Jiarong and Chen Jianuo in the kitchen will get off work in the afternoon. After they prepare the ingredients, they only need to hand them over to the three chefs in the evening.

At the front desk, Chen Wenjiu has set it up to stop receiving guests after five o'clock in the afternoon. Guests who have made reservations in advance can come, but the front desk can be closed and handed over to the two robots Yuan Er Yuan and Yuan San Yuan. .

At 5:30 pm on New Year's Eve, all other hotel employees got off work, leaving only the robot employees working conscientiously.

Chen Wenjiu turned back to look at He Zui and the others and said, "I want to have the New Year's Eve dinner with my family tonight. You guys can eat it by yourself in the store."

"Go ahead, our New Year's Eve dinner will probably be after ten o'clock." He Zui said.

Now they will still receive guests in the hotel, and the New Year's Eve dinner will be prepared for the guests, so it will be their turn for the employees who are still in the store to have the New Year's Eve dinner after ten o'clock.

Chen Wenjiu made an OK gesture, waved to everyone and then went to his uncle's house.

"Is there anything I can help with?" Chen Wenjiu asked directly as soon as he arrived.

"No, no, there are enough people." Everyone else felt that Chen Wenjiu wanted to help. There were many people in the house now, so there was no need for help.

"Don't you want me to help you make this?" Chen Wenjiu asked as he sat aside and looked at the glutinous rice cakes made by his grandmother, aunt and her mother.

During the Chinese New Year, they make glutinous rice cakes. One is a salty cake stuffed with meat filling, and the other is a cake made directly from glutinous rice mixed with white sugar or brown sugar and then wrapped directly in rice dumpling leaves.

Chen Wenjiu also liked eating these two kinds of papa very much when she was a child. Of course, she preferred the salty one. She didn't have many opportunities to eat meat when she was a child, so she preferred the salty one with meat fillings.

She doesn't like to eat these two kinds of cakes freshly baked because they are too hot. She prefers cool dada, which makes it more enjoyable to eat.

"Want to make rice dumplings?" Chen Wenjiu looked at grandma and asked.

"No more. No one will eat it if I do." Grandma Chen shook her head and said. She had already made glutinous rice cakes, so there was no need to make any more rice dumplings.

Chen Wenjiu didn't say much. After all, he really bought a lot of new year's goods this year. She could buy a lot of pastries and other snacks, and there were so many snacks and rice dumplings that she didn’t need to wrap them.

Fried finger cakes are also fried during the Chinese New Year. The finger cakes made of glutinous rice are fried and then frosted. I buy some of these every year during the Chinese New Year. You can also make some yourself.

Then there are small snacks that are filled with five-nut filling like dumplings and then fried. They are also a must-have snack during the Chinese New Year.

There are also nuts such as melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts, etc., as well as biscuits. This way, you can eat more, and you don’t need to make more rice dumplings.

"There are a lot of things this year. Even the glutinous rice cakes, I didn't pack a lot." Grandma Chen said with a smile.

The glutinous rice cakes are indeed not packed too much, with eight savory and sweet portions each. These two types of cakes are used for sacrifices on New Year’s Eve. Otherwise, there is no need to wrap glutinous rice cakes.

"You are all making glutinous rice cakes, who is preparing today's New Year's Eve dinner?" Chen Wenjiu asked curiously, but she did not let He Zui be responsible for today's New Year's Eve dinner.

After all, He Zui still has to be responsible for the New Year's Eve dinner in the hotel restaurant, so she can just let everyone have their own way with the New Year's Eve dinner.

"Originally, your brother Yang planned to have a side stove for the New Year's Eve dinner tonight, but our family objected." Deng Shurong said with a smile, "So, let your brother Mingyang and Jia Yang prepare the dinner together."

Chen Wenjiu: "..."

"...This is very good." Chen Wenjiu couldn't help but cover his face.

She forgot that nowadays, people rarely cook other dishes during the New Year and festivals, and basically eat the side oven. Even today's wedding banquets, such as full-moon drinks, wedding banquets, first-year banquets, etc., are all done on the side of the stove, and there are not as many dishes as before.

In the past, when hosting banquets, the chef would be asked to make dishes such as braised pork with pickled vegetables, sweet and sour pork ribs, pineapple chicken, blanched chicken, etc., but gradually they stopped doing this.

When hosting a banquet, you only need to boil a large pot of soup, or just add boiling water and set up a side stove. Just prepare the cut ingredients and serve them to the table, and the guests can eat while cooking.

It’s similar to the Chinese New Year. When people are too lazy to cook any more, they just boil a pot of chicken soup as the soup base and eat it on the stove.

"This year's Chinese New Year, you won't be eating the side oven?" Chen Wenjiu asked.

"Well, let's ask your brother to make it more generous." Grandma Chen said with a smile.

"It's not cold today anyway, so if you cook so many dishes, it won't get cold and freeze quickly. So we might as well just cook big dishes," said Deng Shurong.

Chen Wenjiu was very worried. Although her two cousins ​​usually cooked and their cooking skills were quite good, although they were not as good as professional chefs, the meals they cooked were not unpalatable.

However, can they both perform stably today?

Facts have proved that the performance of brothers Chen Mingyang and Chen Jiayang is still very stable. This year's New Year's Eve dinner included ten dishes and one soup, which was very rich.

The Qiongnan people cannot miss out on chicken during the Chinese New Year, so today’s meal is white chopped chicken. Because her grandfather needed a complete cooked chicken for sacrifice, he stewed a chicken and then chopped it up to make white chopped chicken.

There is also a braised fish, using six or seven pounds of tilapia - they still prefer to eat tilapia and rarely eat other fish.

The steamed fish was a grouper bought by Chen Wenjiu, a grouper weighing about ten kilograms. She bought the most delicious grouper, the Eastern Star Grouper.

Then there are the braised prawns. Each prawn is about 20 centimeters long and is cooked and placed on the plate. There is also a broccoli in the middle. The presentation is quite exquisite.

Braised pork, beer-beer duck, fried beef with green pepper, stir-fried lamb with green onions, whole roast goose, oyster cabbage, and mushroom stewed in chicken soup.

There are ten dishes and one soup in total, which is very rich.

Today's New Year's Eve dinner included fish and shrimp. As for why there were no crabs, it was of course because her family felt that eating crabs was troublesome, so they didn't prepare crabs.

Prawns are very good. There is a lot of meat and it is not troublesome to eat. It is also delicious. So, today I have about five kilograms of braised prawns.

Crackling——

After the sound of firecrackers sounded, Chen Wenjiu and his family sat in the yard and ate New Year's Eve dinner.

Today, we ate in the yard because there were too many people. The yard of her uncle's house was paved with cement and a tin shed was built, so you could eat directly here.

The big table was filled with all kinds of delicacies. Everyone poured wine, poured drinks, and then raised glasses together.

"Happy New Year!" Chen Wenjiu said, holding up a cup filled with orange berries.

"Happy New Year!" Everyone raised their glasses and clinked their glasses with her, and then blessed her together.

After clinking glasses and taking a sip of the drink, Chen Wenjiu began to taste whether today's food was delicious.

The roast goose must be very good. It was made by He Zui and she bought it from the hotel restaurant, so the taste is definitely not bad.

The rest of the dishes were cooked by her two cousins. Although the taste was not as good as the three chefs in their restaurant, it started to taste much better than Chen Wenjiu's own cooking.

She didn't dislike it either. Even though she ate too much of He Zui's food, she didn't dislike the food her cousin made because it wasn't delicious and she ate it happily.

"Brother Jiayang, when are you going to get married?" Chen Wenjiu secretly asked his cousin. He has a girlfriend and has been dating for two or three years. When are you going to get married?

"This needs to be discussed slowly. My parents have already talked to her parents. We will go through the process and find relatives to talk about the marriage together before deciding when to get married." Chen Jiayang said.

According to their customs, both parties must discuss their wishes for marriage, and then the man brings his parents and relatives to the woman's home to talk about the marriage. This is also called betel nut placement.

Then after the marriage is settled, there is the engagement, the appointment, the wedding, etc. The series of processes are quite troublesome.

Of course, there are also people who can get the certificate directly, but these are all without weddings. As long as you have a wedding, you have to go through the process.

"We should get married within a year." Chen Jiayang said with a smile.

"Congratulations to you, Brother Jiayang."

"Haha..." Chen Jiayang smiled happily and happily. After all, he still liked his girlfriend very much and they got along very well.

Of course he would be very happy to be able to get married early and have a beautiful woman in his arms.