After seeing off the last table of guests, the staff of Xiyuan Restaurant finally ended the busiest time of the year. However, the last day of the year is not over yet. After bringing reunion and delicious food to others, they also have to eat their own belated New Year’s Eve dinner!
Everyone re-lit the fire, and the specially made signature dishes such as crab meat lion head, abalone and braised pork were slightly heated up, and they became delicious again. The chefs were busy and excited. Everyone made a specialty dish to fill their New Year's Eve table.
Ye Tian was lazy and didn't participate. A guest had just seen her and everyone had seen it, so she didn't want to be in the spotlight anymore.
"Let's make dumplings!" someone shouted.
Ye Tian and Xiao Juan gathered together and began making dumplings. She still loved rolling out the dough. Watching the wrappers fly out like large snowflakes, she felt her thoughts slow down, and everything around her went into slow motion.
Some people don’t know how to make dumplings, so the shapes they make are all weird, but that doesn’t affect the joy of celebrating the New Year together after finishing work.
The dumplings served in the restaurant today are made with colorful wrappers made from the juice of various colorful vegetables like spinach, carrots, and purple sweet potatoes, to make them look good. For their own consumption, there's no need to go through all that trouble; just plain dumplings will suffice.
But of course you have to wrap coins in it, and you have to wrap more so that more people can eat it. It’s the New Year, so you also want to have a good start.
While making dumplings, Ye Tian's cell phone, which she left in the locker room, kept ringing. Only after she finished making dumplings with everyone did she have time to take it out and look at it.
It turned out that she had received New Year's greetings from so many people, and she actually knew so many people in this world!
The other three people in her dormitory had already started chatting in the group chat. Guessing she was still busy, they started sending red envelopes to each other. When she opened the group chat, there were just a lot of red envelopes to grab.
Ye Tian happily checked all the red envelopes from beginning to end, then she gave out three red envelopes at once and competed with her roommates for them. It was the first time she realized that grabbing red envelopes during the Chinese New Year could be so interesting.
Ye Tian's uncle and cousin also sent her WeChat messages, asking how she was spending the Lunar New Year at the restaurant. She had previously told her cousin that she would be working at the restaurant over winter break and spending the Lunar New Year there, so her uncle knew about it. But he had been too embarrassed to contact her, perhaps out of guilt, and only checked in on her through his son. It must have taken him a while to muster up the courage to send her a Lunar New Year's greeting.
Of course, there is also their lovely No. 3 Canteen. Master Yun, who is far away in Beijing, posted pictures of their restaurant's roast duck and New Year's Eve dinner, and also gave out red envelopes to everyone. At this moment, he looked very proud and probably didn't even play with his bracelets. There seemed to be a lot of fruit dishes in Master Sun's New Year's Eve dinner. Xiao Du steamed cute buns. Aunt Liu posted a photo with her daughter, and Li Bing asked Master Ye to give him a red envelope, or introduce him to a girlfriend.
Ye Tian looked at Xiaojuan next to her and inexplicably felt that she and Li Bing were a good match. They were both optimistic people. If there was a chance, she could really introduce them to each other.
She returned to the restaurant with her phone and found Sous Chef Yu also sitting at the table. He had taken blood pressure medication and was feeling much better after a rest, so he didn't rush home and stayed to have New Year's Eve dinner with everyone.
The restaurant also has a group for all staff members. Everyone encouraged the deputy chef to send out red envelopes, so he cooperated and sent out a big red envelope.
Chen Chi also joined the group. After grabbing the red envelopes that Deputy Chef Yu said, he also sent out a big red envelope. Then he pulled his second uncle and father into the group and forced them to send out even bigger red envelopes.
The employees were so excited in scrambling for the food that they barely had time to eat. They also temporarily forgot all the hard work of the day and the regret of not being able to go home for the New Year.
Of course, there are also those who don’t want to go home for the New Year, such as Xiaojuan, whose family always asks her to go home for blind dates and get married. She is only 22 years old and doesn’t want to get married yet, nor does she want to go back and listen to her parents and relatives nagging her. So she told her family that she couldn’t take leave during the New Year at the restaurant and insisted on staying to work. Her family couldn’t do anything about her.
"Wow, this one I got is so big, it's over 60!" Xiaojuan grabbed Ye Tian's shoulders excitedly.
Then she opened the receipt details and found that the two bosses had given out huge red envelopes of 8,888 yuan, while Ye Tian next to her had grabbed over 200 yuan, and others had 300 or 400 yuan. Her 60 yuan was very little. She was immediately depressed and stomped her feet on her chest, thinking that she shouldn't have acted so quickly, and that there was even more left. Her frustrated look was very cute.
Ye Tian could even see the freckles on her round face, so lively and vivid. In comparison, she felt that she didn't look like a girl at all, she didn't have that kind of vitality.
Although her mindset has become younger as she's gotten younger, she's still somewhat constrained by the traditional way of thinking. It's easy to say, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," but it's actually not that simple. Many things have become ingrained thinking habits, and they can't be completely changed in a year or two.
But this does not affect her love for this world, her love for campus life here, nor does it affect her love for cooking, and she will continue to learn to make more delicious food.
"Crunch!" Ye Tian ate a dumpling with a coin in it. Because she was a little distracted just now, she really bit the coin and it hurt her teeth.
Chen Chi specially put the dumplings into her bowl. Seeing her teeth hurting made her laugh like crazy!
In fact, he had been very tired today. For a grown man, standing and serving dishes all day was not easy. His father and uncle had never expected him to be so hardworking and felt that they could safely hand over the company to him.
This 18-year-old boy is still so childish most of the time, but he increasingly realizes that everyone has his responsibilities and must always face responsibilities and bear pressure in his own way!
After this period of interaction, everyone in the branch, from top to bottom, became particularly fond of this young boss. Even Master Zhang was convinced and willing to accept Master Yu's management. Chen Chi didn't kill Master Zhang or actually drive him away. After all, he had the ability. He was just a little too proud and needed someone to bring him back to earth. It also helped him realize who the real boss was.
After a busy day, everyone relaxed in the evening. Except for Old Yu who was afraid to drink, everyone else toasted each other and got a little drunk.
As the clock strikes midnight, the year is truly over!
For different people, this year may have been a complete success, but it may also be filled with regrets. But once you turn the page, there's no turning back. In life, there's no turning back; you can only move forward without hesitation!
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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the restaurant was only open for dinner, so everyone could sleep in and come back to work in the afternoon. Since there weren't many customers eating out that evening, the work wasn't too busy, so Ye Tian resumed her job of preparing the staff meals with Da Xiong.
The other masters all saw her performance on New Year's Eve. Of course, some thought she was talented, while others were dissatisfied with her.
Ye Tian didn't expect that the person who was most dissatisfied was not Master Zhang and Chef Xu's other two apprentices, but Master Jin who had always followed Deputy Chef Yu.
Chef Jin had been at Xiyuan for nearly 10 years, making him a veteran. However, he hadn't expected Sous-Chef Yu to let intern Ye Tian make the preserved pork with preserved vegetables instead of him. He was furious, but out of concern for Sous-Chef Yu's health and the greater good, he didn't say anything at the time. However, he kept thinking about it, wanting to compete with Ye Tian.
He also tried Ye Tian's preserved pork with preserved vegetables. It was indeed delicious, but he found it a little bland. She didn't add any seasoning, which was rather casual. She shouldn't be so willful at such a young age, relying on her own talent. She should be punished.
When he challenged Ye Tian to a match, she refused. "Master Jin, you're a professional, and I'm just an amateur. How dare I compete with you in cooking? You're just embarrassing me!"
"It's not a competition. We're just cooking the same dish and sharing our experience. Sharing and learning doesn't count as a competition," Chef Jin insisted. "I've always been limited to the traditional methods in my restaurant, but I also want to see different experiences outside. Sharing is the key to improvement!"
When he spoke, he also emphasized the word "traditional". In fact, he seemed to be saying subconsciously that his method was authentic.
Deputy Chef Yu came over and instead of being unhappy, he said with a smile, "Xiao Ye, why don't you guys cook a dish together? It's just right for the staff meal tonight, so everyone can try it!"
Seeing that Deputy Chef Yu had spoken, Ye Tian couldn't refuse. "So what should we cook? I really don't know how to make some of these dishes." She took the initiative to show weakness to Chef Jin.
"I guarantee you can do it. Let's make a simple lychee fish!" Master Jin had already thought about it in his mind.
The dish of lychee fish requires frying the fish meat and then shaping it into the shape of lychees. Without a certain level of skill, it is difficult to achieve a perfect shape.
Chef Jin is a big fan of detail and loves to research how to make the dishes more beautiful. He saw that Ye Tian's dishes were all served in large bowls and didn't have much of an appreciation for aesthetics, so he wanted to show off his skills in this area and let Ye Tian see the quality of Xiyuan's dishes.
Ye Tian smiled in her heart. She naturally understood what Master Jin meant, but since they were going to compete, she would definitely not admit defeat easily. Besides, she would never lose!
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