Chapter 299 New Year's Eve Dinner

For example, at Chen Wenjiu, her parents sent gifts to her grandmother's house, and then to her uncles' houses. Of course, her parents basically sent gifts to the elders, her parents' elders.

Her parents' peers were sent by Chen Wenjiu and her cousins.

Coconut juice, herbal tea, yogurt and other beverages, as well as various fruit biscuits, were all sent to relatives' homes.

Oranges are the most popular fruit during the Chinese New Year. Anyway, every household has to send oranges during the Chinese New Year. If you can send one or two potted oranges, it will be even better.

After Chen Wenjiu went out with her cousins ​​to send gifts, she collapsed on the sofa and didn't want to move. Chen Jialing, who secretly ran to the hotel to be lazy, saw her like this and was full of sympathy.

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

"No." Chen Jialing said while eating oranges, "I, your sister, usually only chat with you and the family, and we can't even chat for a few minutes."

"With my social barriers, can I still go to give gifts?" Chen Jialing said, "I always ask Jiarong and others to give gifts, or my parents go to give gifts themselves."

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

Chen Wenjiu looked at her cousin's appearance, nodded in understanding, snatched 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 didn't gradually become socially anxious.

She remembered that when her sister was still studying, she was very cheerful and could chat with anyone. As a result, after her sister became a homebody, she gradually stopped liking to chat with others and talking to strangers.

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

Wei Xiaohong was on the morning shift, so she could still go back to eat the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening. Chen Jiarong and Chen Jianuo in the kitchen would both get off work in the afternoon. After they prepared the ingredients, they only needed to hand them over to the three chefs in the evening.

At the front desk, Chen Wenjiu had set it up to stop receiving guests after 5 pm. Guests who made reservations in advance could come, but the front desk could get off work and hand it over to the two robots Yuan Eryuan and Yuan Sanyuan.

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

Chen Wenjiu looked back at He Zui and the others and said, "I will have the New Year's Eve dinner with my family tonight, you can eat in the store by yourselves."

"You go, our New Year's Eve dinner will probably be after 10 o'clock." He Zui said.

Now they will also receive guests at the hotel, and the New Year's Eve dinner will also be prepared for the guests, so it will be the turn of the employees who are still staying in the store to eat 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." Others thought that Chen Wenjiu's proposal to help was a suggestion. There were many people at home now, and no help was needed.

"Don't you let me help with this?" Chen Wenjiu sat aside and watched her grandmother, aunt and her mother wrap glutinous rice cakes together.

They would wrap glutinous rice cakes during the Chinese New Year. One kind is a salty cake stuffed with meat fillings, and the other is a cake that is directly mixed with glutinous rice with white sugar or brown sugar, and then directly wrapped in zong leaves.

Chen Wenjiu also liked to eat these two kinds of baba when she was a child. Of course, she liked the salty one better. She didn't have many opportunities to eat meat when she was a child, so she liked the salty meat-filled baba more.

She didn't like to eat freshly baked baba, because it was too hot. She preferred the cooled baba, which tasted better.

"Making zongzi?" Chen Wenjiu looked at her grandmother and asked.

"No, no one will eat it even if I make it." Grandma Chen shook her head and said that she didn't want to make zongzi anymore since she had already made glutinous rice baba.

Chen Wenjiu didn't say much, after all, she really bought a lot of New Year's goods this year. She bought a lot of snacks such as pastries, and there were so many snacks that she didn't need to make zongzi.

During the Chinese New Year, finger biscuits are also fried. The finger biscuits made of glutinous rice are frosted after frying. She buys some every Chinese New Year, and she can also make some herself.

Then there are small snacks filled with five-nut stuffing, like dumplings, and then fried, which are also essential snacks during the Chinese New Year.

There are also nuts such as melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts, and biscuits. In this way, there are more things to eat, and there is no need to make more rice dumplings.

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

There are indeed not many glutinous rice cakes, about eight salty and eight sweet ones. These two kinds of cakes are used for sacrifices on the night of New Year's Eve, otherwise there is no need to make glutinous rice cakes.

"You are all making glutinous rice cakes, who will prepare the New Year's Eve dinner today?" Chen Wenjiu asked curiously. She didn't let He Zui be responsible for the New Year's Eve dinner today.

After all, He Zui still has to be responsible for the New Year's Eve dinner at the hotel restaurant, so everyone can be free to play with her family's New Year's Eve dinner.

"Originally, your brother Yang prepared hotpot for the New Year's Eve dinner, but our family objected." Deng Shurong said with a smile, "So, let your brother Mingyang and Jiayang prepare dinner together."

Chen Wenjiu: "..."

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

She forgot that nowadays, people rarely cook other dishes during the New Year and other festivals, and basically eat hotpot. Even now, wedding banquets, such as full moon banquets, wedding banquets, birthday banquets, etc., are hotpots, and there are not as many dishes as before.

In the past, when holding banquets, chefs would be invited to make dishes such as preserved vegetable braised pork, sweet and sour spare ribs, pineapple chicken, white-cut chicken, etc., but later gradually stopped doing so.

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

It was similar during the Chinese New Year. People were too lazy to continue cooking, so they would just cook a pot of chicken soup as the soup base and eat hot pot.

"We won't eat hot pot this year?" Chen Wenjiu asked.

"Well, let's ask your brother to cook something more hearty." Grandma Chen said with a smile.

"Anyway, the weather is not cold today, so cooking so many dishes will not get cold and frozen quickly, so just cook big dishes." Deng Shurong said.

Chen Wenjiu was very worried. Although her two cousins ​​usually cook and their cooking skills are pretty good, although they are not as good as professional chefs, the food they cook is not bad.

But can they perform stably today?

As it turned out, the performance of the brothers Chen Mingyang and Chen Jiayang was still very stable. This year's New Year's Eve dinner made a total of ten dishes and one soup, which was very hearty.

They, the people of Qiongnan, absolutely cannot do without chicken during the Chinese New Year, so today's is white-cut chicken, because her grandfather needs a complete cooked chicken for sacrifice, so after stewing a chicken, it was chopped up and made into white-cut chicken after the sacrifice.

There was also a braised fish, which used six or seven kilograms of tilapia - they still prefer tilapia, and rarely eat other fish.

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

Then there were braised prawns, each of which was about 20 centimeters long and was cooked and placed on a plate, with a broccoli in the middle, and the presentation was quite delicate.

Braised pork, beer duck, stir-fried beef with green peppers, stir-fried lamb with green onions, whole roast goose, oyster sauce cabbage heart, and chicken soup with 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 is no crab, of course it is because her family thinks it is troublesome to eat crabs, so they did not prepare crabs.

Prawns are very good, with a lot of meat and not troublesome to eat, and they are also very delicious. So, today there are about five kilograms of braised prawns.

Crackling——

After the sound of firecrackers, Chen Wenjiu and her family sat in the yard to eat the New Year's Eve dinner.

Today, they had to eat 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 they could eat directly here.

The big table was filled with various delicacies. Everyone poured wine and drinks, and then raised their glasses together.

"Happy New Year!" Chen Wenjiu said, holding up a glass full of orange juice.

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

After clinking glasses and taking a sip of the drink, Chen Wenjiu began to taste whether the food today 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 was definitely not bad.

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

She didn't dislike it. Even though she ate too much of the food made by He Zui, she didn't dislike the food made by her cousin. She ate happily.

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

"We have to talk about it slowly. My parents have already talked to her parents. After going through the procedures and finding relatives to propose marriage, we will decide when to get married." Chen Jiayang said.

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

Then after the proposal is agreed, it is engagement, betrothal, and then wedding, etc. The series of procedures are quite troublesome.

Of course, there are also people who get the certificate directly, but these are all without a wedding. As long as the wedding is held, the procedures must be thrown down.

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

"Congratulations, Brother Jiayang."

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

Of course, he was very happy to be able to get married early and marry his beautiful girlfriend.