My hotel is ancient and modern

Chapter 299 New Year's Eve Dinner

The two days of the 30th and the [-]th of the new year are basically the time for each family to give gifts to relatives.

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

And her parents' peers were given by Chen Wenjiu and her cousins.

Coconut coconut milk, herbal tea, yogurt and other drinks, as well as various fruit biscuits, are delivered to relatives' homes.

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

Chen Wenjiu went out with his cousins ​​to deliver presents, and 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, was full of sympathy when she saw her like this.

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

"I'm not going." Chen Jialing said while eating oranges, "Your sister and I usually chat with you and our family members, and we can't even chat for a few minutes."

"With a social barrier like mine, can I still give gifts?" Chen Jialing said, "It's all done by Jiarong and the others, or by my parents."

Chen Jialing is really a nerd, she is almost becoming a social horror.Although she doesn't get scared when she sees strangers, she really doesn't like chatting with people anymore. Whether it's acquaintances or strangers, she wants to run away after chatting with people for more than five sentences.

Chen Wenjiu looked at his cousin, nodded understandingly, snatched her peeled orange from her hand and ate it.

Fortunately, even though she came back here to start a business, she often chatted with everyone and dealt with many people, so she didn't gradually become social terror.

She remembered that when her elder sister was still studying, she had a very cheerful personality and could chat with anyone. As a result, after her elder sister moved to the house, she gradually stopped liking to chat with others, and didn't like talking to strangers.

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

Wei Xiaohong is on the morning shift, so he can still go back to eat the New Year's Eve dinner at night. Chen Jiarong and Chen Jianuo in the back kitchen will both get off work in the afternoon. After they have prepared the ingredients, they only need to hand over to the three chefs in the evening.

At the front desk, Chen Wenjiu has been set to stop receiving guests after [-]:[-] pm. Guests who have booked in advance can come, but the front desk can get off work, and the two robots Yuan Eryuan and Yuan Sanyuan can do it. up.

At 05:30 in the afternoon of the New Year's Eve, all the other employees of the hotel were off work, leaving only the robot employees to work conscientiously.

Chen Wenjiu looked back at He Zui and said, "I'm going to have the New Year's Eve dinner with my family tonight, so you can eat in the restaurant by yourself."

"You go, our New Year's Eve dinner will be after ten o'clock." He Zui said.

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

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

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

"No, no, there are enough people." Everyone else felt that Chen Wenjiu wanted to help, since there are quite a lot of people in the family now, they don't need any help.

"Don't you let me help you make this?" Chen Wenjiu said while sitting aside, looking at the glutinous rice cakes made by his grandma, aunt and her mother.

During Chinese New Year, they will wrap glutinous rice cakes, one is salty cakes stuffed with meat, and the other is cakes that are directly mixed with white sugar or brown sugar and glutinous rice, and then directly wrapped with zong leaves.

Chen Wenjiu liked to eat these two kinds of cakes when she was a child. Of course, she liked the salty cakes more. She didn't have so many opportunities to eat meat when she was young, so she preferred the salty cakes with meat fillings.

She doesn't like to eat these two kinds of cakes freshly baked, it's too hot.She prefers the cold papa, which tastes better.

"Do you want to make zongzi?" Chen Wenjiu looked at grandma and asked.

"No, no one will eat it anymore." Grandma Chen shook her head and said, don't make zongzi anymore since the glutinous rice is already wrapped.

Chen Wenjiu didn't say much, after all, he really bought a lot of new year's goods this year.She can buy a lot of pastries and other snacks, and there are so many dim sum dumplings that don't need to be wrapped.

During the Chinese New Year, finger cakes are also fried. The finger cakes made of glutinous rice are fried and then covered with icing sugar. I buy some of these every year during the Chinese New Year, or you can make some yourself.

Then there are small dumplings that are stuffed with five kernels, and then deep-fried, which is also a must-have snack during the Chinese New Year.

Nuts such as melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts, etc. are also available, as well as biscuits, so that there are more things to eat, and there is no need to make more dumplings.

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

The glutinous rice cakes are indeed not packed much, with eight salty and sweet ones each.These two kinds of cakes are used for sacrifices on the night of New Year's Eve, otherwise there is no need to wrap glutinous rice cakes.

"You are all making glutinous rice cakes, who is preparing for 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 in charge of the New Year's Eve dinner at the hotel's restaurant, and her family's New Year's Eve dinner is just for everyone to play freely.

"Originally, your brother Yang planned to have a side stove for the New Year's Eve dinner, 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 covering his face.

She forgot that now everyone seldom cooks other dishes during the Chinese New Year, and basically eat side-burning stove.Even the current wedding wine, such as full moon wine, wedding banquet, birthday banquet, etc., are served on the side stove, and there are not as many dishes as before.

In the past, when hosting banquets, I would ask chefs to prepare dishes such as pickled pork with preserved vegetables, sweet and sour pork ribs, pineapple chicken, boiled chicken, etc., but gradually I stopped doing this.

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

It’s the same during the Chinese New Year. People are too lazy to continue to cook, so they will directly cook a pot of chicken soup as the soup base, and eat it with a side stove.

"This year's Chinese New Year, don't you want to eat side stove?" Chen Wenjiu asked.

"Well, let's ask your brother to make something bigger." Grandma Chen said with a smile.

"Anyway, the weather is not cold today, and cooking so many dishes won't get cold and freeze quickly, so let's cook big dishes." Deng Shurong said.

Chen Wenjiu was very worried. Although she said that her two cousins ​​usually cook, and their cooking skills are quite good. Although they are not as good as professional chefs, the food they cook is not unpalatable.

However, can the two of them perform stably today?
Facts have proved that Chen Mingyang and Chen Jiayang's performance is still very stable. This year's New Year's Eve dinner has a total of ten dishes and one soup, which is very rich.

The Qiongnan people absolutely cannot do without chicken during the Chinese New Year, so today is the white chicken, because her grandfather needs a complete cooked chicken sacrifice, so after stewing a chicken, chop it up and make the white chicken after the sacrifice.

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

The steamed fish was the grouper bought by Chen Wenjiu, a grouper weighing about ten kilograms, and the best grouper she bought was Dongxingban.

Then there are braised prawns. Each prawn about 20 cm long is cooked and placed on a plate, with a broccoli flower in the middle, which is quite delicate.

Braised pork, beer duck, stir-fried beef with green peppers, lamb with scallions, whole roast goose, cabbage sum with oyster sauce, and chicken soup with stewed mushrooms.

A total of ten dishes and one soup, very rich.

Today's New Year's Eve dinner has fish and shrimp. As for why there are no crabs, of course, it is because her family thinks eating crabs is troublesome, so they don't prepare crabs.

The prawns are very good. It is not troublesome to eat a lot of meat, and it is delicious.Therefore, today there are about five catties of braised prawns in oil.

crackling-

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

Today, I 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 she could eat here directly.

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

"Happy New Year!" Chen Wenjiu said while holding a glass full of oranges.

"Happy New Year!" Everyone raised their glasses to clink glasses with her, and then wished together.

After clinking glasses and taking a sip of the drink, Chen Wenjiu began to taste whether today's food is good or not.

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 that of the three chefs in their restaurant, it was much more delicious than Chen Wenjiu's cooking by herself.

She didn't dislike it either, even though she ate too much of He Zui's food, she didn't dislike the bad food made by her cousin, and ate it happily.

"Brother Jiayang, when will you get married?" Chen Wenjiu secretly asked his cousin, he has a girlfriend and they have been dating for two or three years, when will they get married?

"This has to be discussed slowly. My parents have already talked to her parents. After going through the process, I will discuss with my relatives and decide when to get married." Chen Jiayang said.

According to their customs, both parties have to talk about their wishes for marriage, and then the man brings his parents and relatives to the woman's house to say goodbye, which is also called releasing betel nuts.

Then, after the marriage negotiation is settled, the engagement, the appointment, and then the wedding, etc., a series of procedures are quite troublesome.

Of course, there are also those who get the certificate directly, but these are not weddings.As long as you have a wedding, you have to leave the process behind.

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

"Then congratulations, Brother Jiayang."

"Haha..." Chen Jiayang smiled very happily. After all, he still likes his girlfriend very much, and the two of them get along very well.

Of course he was very happy to be able to get married early and embrace a beautiful woman.

(End of this chapter)