Chapter 180 Qiao Junxian's factory year-end party

The ingredients and equipment were loaded onto the truck. Yue Ning got on the truck and took A Xing and Uncle Asong's apprentice A Zhong to Qiao Junxian's Yimei Electrical Appliance Factory.

This was the last glorious era of Hong Kong’s industry, and Kwun Tong was full of industrial buildings.

Yimei Electric Appliance Factory was sandwiched between two industrial buildings. The factory gate was closed at the moment, and A Zhong honked the horn.

There was a dog barking inside, and the factory door opened. Dahei stood at the door, wagging his tail.

A Zhong was about to drive into the factory when he heard Dahei bark: "Woof woof".

The young man who opened the door came over and said, "Dahei asked you to come down and register."

Yue Ning got out of the car, Dahei walked around her trouser leg, and Yue Ning saw the visitor registration form on a table next to the concierge.

Yue Ning filled in the information and rubbed the dog's head: "Filled in."

Dahei wagged his tail and looked up at Yue Ning, asking for praise.

The truck drove in

The guy who opened the door said, "Dahei is so smart. When I told him to register, he remembered it very well."

Did Qiao Junxian really let Dahei do the work?

Yue Ning tapped its head and said, "So good."

Dahei grew up in the northwest, herding sheep with her, running up and down the mountains every day.

After arriving in Gangcheng, it either lived upstairs or was taken by Yue Ning to Ning Yan and Baohualou. Ning Yan and Baohualou also had to be tied with ropes. For a dog that was used to freedom, it almost became depressed after a long time.

Even though Yue Ning took it for a walk every day, the last time she brought it to Qiao Junxian's place to check on the situation in the cafeteria.

This guy was playing secretly by himself, and after catching five mice, he became energetic.

From then on, whenever Qiao Junxian said, "Take it to the factory," its tail would wag faster than Hot Wheels.

After Qiao Junxian took it to the factory, he also took it to Qiao Garden. Qiao Garden was such a big place that it could have enough fun. The old lady also had a Teddy bear, which was particularly noisy when it saw it.

Dahei liked to bully the little creature. From then on, he looked forward to Qiao Junxian's calls more than Yue Ning did.

Yue Ning knew that it wanted to go out and play, so he asked Qiao Junxian to bring it to the factory every few days. Unexpectedly, it came here to work.

This factory is not big, but it still has plenty of space compared to the small factories in the industrial building next door.

There is a row of factory buildings on each side, and opposite the entrance is a two-story building with offices upstairs and a canteen downstairs.

When Qiao Junxian took over this factory, there were only a dozen employees left, dilapidated factory buildings, a pile of old machines, and a warehouse full of obsolete inventory.

It's only been half a year, and even without counting Pengcheng, there are already more than sixty employees.

After the warehouse was emptied, the development of the rice cooker began.

Qiao Junxian came down from the office and saw Yue Ning working with the workers in their factory to lift things off the truck.

Today, the long table in the cafeteria was cleared and replaced with eight round tables. A square table was placed in the front, and workers were setting up and hanging up the decorations for the annual meeting.

"Wow... Chef Ma is here!" A young lady who was hanging colored ribbons climbed down the ladder in surprise and ran to Ah Xing. She took out a book from somewhere and said, "Chef Ma, please sign for me."

After being stuffed with a notebook, Ah Xing could only sign his name.

"Chef Ma, you will make Niannian Youyu today, right?"

"The Baohua Building version." said Ma Yaoxing.

The young lady said happily: "That's great too!"

“…”

Ma Yaoxing has quickly become popular in Hong Kong these days after the semi-final of the "Hong Kong and Macau Chef Competition" was broadcast.

Everyone is familiar with Lu Peide and Zhang Junming. Since Lu Peide is known as the inheritor of northern Cantonese cuisine, it is not surprising that his skill of flipping the spoon is said to be miraculous.

Ma Yaoxing was different. In the past, Ma Yaoxing had always been doing auxiliary work for Zhang Junming, and no one paid much attention to him. But his stewed yellow croaker turned things around, and everyone noticed him.

"The MasterChef Contest" will be broadcast before the New Year. After the semi-finals, the third and fourth place competition will be held four days later.

Everyone has been paying attention to Ma Yaoxing. In this game, he made a Jiangnan Hundred Flowers Chicken.

This is another dish that tests your knife skills. The whole chicken is skinned, leaving the head, wings and skin. Shrimp is placed on the chicken skin instead of the chicken meat and steamed. Other chefs dare not try this, but he is very skilled at peeling the chicken skin.

Steaming the chicken skin stuffed with shrimp paste requires careful control of the heat. If the heat is not too strong, the meat will be tender. If the heat is too strong for too long, the shrimp meat will become rough.

In Cantonese cuisine, "Bai Hua" means shrimp paste, and he took it seriously, carving, plating, and pinching it, and actually surrounded the dish with more than a hundred flowers of various shapes and sizes.

The judges were full of praise for this dish, and he and Zhang Junming won the third place in the chef competition with an absolute advantage.

Although everyone agreed with what Yue Ning said and hoped that Lu Peide could show his strength, they also felt that the two chefs Zhang Junming and Ma Yaoxing were wronged. If Yue Ning did not help Lu Peide, the two would definitely be able to win the title of Chef King.

Especially this Ma Yaoxing, he is the best looking chef in the competition. He became popular all of a sudden. Seeing his popularity, HTV was reluctant to let the traffic escape, so they made a special news report, editing his performance in the past few episodes of the competition, his knife skills, and his ability to make lion-shaped steamed buns.

Ningyan and Baohualou both have the dish "Nian Nian You Fish". Ningyan serves stuffed yellow croaker in soup, while Baohualou serves braised large yellow croaker.

Rich people go to Ningyan to ask Ma Yaoxing to cook for them, while the working class people go to Baohualou to eat.

After eating, everyone found that Ma Yaoxing’s cooking skills were indeed amazing.

Ma Yaoxing has been forced to cook these past two days and has gone crazy. He is not Abang, who only thinks about making money. He just wants to learn more skills and gain more experience.

It just so happened that Yue Ning was going to host the year-end banquet for Yimei, and he volunteered to come and join in the celebration.

"We've gone in to prepare. I hope you enjoy your meal later," said Ma Yaoming.

"Okay!" The young lady replied, and immediately ran out of the cafeteria, saying to everyone she met, "Not only is Miss Yue here today, but she also brought Chef Ma with her! I can't imagine how delicious the food tonight will be."

Yue Ning took the two of them into the kitchen. There was a brand new oven in the kitchen, which was brought from Ning Xiaochu’s warehouse.

Even though Baohualou is not far from here, the taste of the roast meat is affected after being packaged, and it needs to be put in the oven and baked again.

Hang the roast in the oven first.

Yue Ning and Ma Yaoxing started to serve the hot pot. How could a year-end banquet not have a hot pot that symbolizes reunion and a plate full of food?

Poon Choi has a history of hundreds of years.

According to legend, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the remnants of the defeated army fled all the way south and came here. At that time, the army was exhausted and supplies were scarce, so the common people took out food from their homes to reward the troops.

Everyone put all the pork, chicken, fish, radish, bean curd and other ingredients at home into a large wooden basin and cooked them together.

What was once a casual pot of stew has become more and more sumptuous now. The hot pot prepared by Yue Ning today is especially sumptuous.

The two of them put the prepared ingredients into the casserole.

The fried golden soft taro and braised radish are placed at the bottom, and on top are the shiny red braised pig's trotters and flower mushrooms, as well as roast goose, roast pork, and salt-baked chicken. Fat moss symbolizes wealth and is indispensable. Sea cucumbers are neatly arranged on one side, and shark fins also have a place. Yue Ning handed him the freshly fried oysters, and he placed them on top one by one, with soft dried abalone and goose feet on the side. On top is an Australian lobster, added with thick abalone sauce, and the pot of food is ready.

Ah Zhong was cutting and preparing the marinated platter. The marinated Chenghai goose is now the signature dish of Baohualou and Ningyan.

In a braised platter, the goose head, goose wings, goose meat, goose liver and goose feet each have their own characteristics and flavors.

The squab and barbecued pork were taken out of the oven, cut into pieces and put on a plate. Yue Ning then hung the suckling pig back into the oven and roasted it again.

The workers came into the kitchen to serve the food.

When the time was almost up, the staff entered the cafeteria and saw the hot pot already served, and exclaimed: "Wow!"

The employees were all seated. Qiao Junxian went upstairs and bowed: "Dear colleagues, hello! Today, we gather together to hold this annual meeting..."

In addition to thanking everyone for their hard work, he also proposed their year-end bonus plan, with the benchmark being a bonus of more than one year and three months.

The wages in the manufacturing industry are generally not high, and the bonuses are also low. When Qiao Junxian set the wages, it was higher than other small factories like this. It was basically based on the wages of large trading companies. In addition, the employment was also very standardized, and all the necessary benefits were provided.

When this factory was acquired, the outdated inventory was sold to the mainland at a very low discount, and the price was very good.

The unexpected surprise is the European and American markets, where demand for fans has surged due to inflation in the United States.

Within half a year of taking over the factory, it became profitable, and a lot of profit. Qiao Junxian was very happy. Seeing that Yue Ning was generous with his bonus, he also gave him an additional bonus.

We had said before that we would get double pay at the end of the year, but we didn’t expect there would be a bonus. When we heard the news, everyone was excited. After all, most of us had only been here for a few months. How could other factories get this?

While they were still excited, a fragrance wafted over. It smelled so good!

As they were eating the food on the table, they looked towards the kitchen and saw a dish being brought out. On the plate was a whole suckling pig sliced ​​into slices.

"Ning Yan's suckling pig baked rice?"

Seeing that everyone was already attracted by the food, Qiao Junxian said, "Please forgive me, I haven't arranged any programs this year. Please eat and drink well."

"Boss, there is no need to arrange any programs for next year. All we need is for the boss lady to prepare the year-end banquet for us."

"Yes! Yes! Which company's year-end banquet can have a banquet prepared by Hong Kong's best chef?"

"This suckling pig is so delicious. This is the first time I've eaten such delicious suckling pig."

"To eat this roast suckling pig at Ningyan, you also need to make reservations in advance. Only 30 are sold every day. One costs 388!"

“So expensive?”

"This hot pot is even more expensive. Ning Yan's lobster hot pot costs one thousand five hundred and eighty-eight!"

"One month's wages are gone?"

Another person said: "This hot pot is not expensive at this price. A serving of abalone and goose feet at Ningyan costs 188 yuan."

"So, my meal today will cost at least one month's wages?"

“…”

Everyone was eating and counting at the same time. Qiao Junxian looked back at the busy figures in the glass window. Yue Ning turned around and smiled at him.

He smiled and stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of suckling pig. The skin of the suckling pig was bright red, just like the crispy glutinous rice chicken. It was boneless and filled with glutinous rice with eight treasures.

The pig skin is crispy, and there is a thin layer of fat under the skin, and the fat has soaked the rice grains. Qiao Junxian has eaten it several times and still thinks it tastes good.

Dahei rubbed his trouser leg and looked up at him. Qiao Junxian took the roasted suckling pig's head and gave it to him...