One Piece of Food

Chapter 116 New Year's Eve Dinner (Please recommend a ticket)

Although the pace of people's life is now faster and the standard of living has improved, for the Chinese people, having a reunion dinner every New Year's Eve is also an essential tradition.

Rao Mingyang didn't know how to eat reunion dinner in other places.But in Mae Tan, it is not really until the [-]th night of the twelfth lunar month that the whole family eats the New Year's Eve dinner.

The custom in Mae Tan is that from the 27th and 28th of the twelfth lunar month, several families in a family start to line up, and each family holds a reunion dinner, and then dozens of people from a family, old and young, have a reunion dinner together.

The larger the number, the more prosperous and united the family is.

This is a real family dinner.

In Rao's famous family, his grandparents have all passed away, and the father's family lived close to his uncle, third uncle, youngest Rao Dexin, and a cousin. There are more than 30 people in total.

The uncle is the oldest, and although he didn't say it explicitly, he can be regarded as the current Patriarch of the Rao family.Therefore, the New Year's Eve dinner at the uncle's house was kept at the end, and the real New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve was eaten at the uncle's house.

Then, after discussion, the lunch on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month will be eaten at Rao Mingyang's Sanbo's house, and the dinner will be eaten at Rao Mingyang's house.On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, I eat lunch at my cousin's house, and dinner at my uncle's house.

To prepare a reunion dinner for dozens of people, it is natural to prepare in advance.

In the past, this reunion dinner was dominated by mother Tian Wenying, with Rao Dexin and Rao Mingyang as helpers.

However, this year Rao Mingyang took the initiative to take over the job.Because he already has the rank of a senior chef, it is definitely not a problem to hold a reunion dinner, which will definitely make everyone in the family happy and satisfied.

In the past six months, Rao Mingyang occasionally cooked a few dishes. Tian Wenying knew that Rao Mingyang's cooking skills had really improved, so he agreed.

On the morning of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Rao Mingyang drove his BMW to the street to buy groceries.

Up to now, many migrant workers and workers have returned to their hometowns, shopping for vegetables, holding reunion dinners, and shopping for New Year’s goods on the street. The empty city is in stark contrast.

Rao Mingyang walked around the vegetable market, but couldn't find a parking space, so he had to park far away, and then went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables with a basket on his back.

It took more than two hours for Rao Mingyang to buy all the chicken, duck, fish, and vegetable seasonings he needed, and filled a basket full of more than 2 catties.

Fortunately, Rao Mingyang's physical fitness is extraordinary now, and he has no pressure to squeeze through the crowded crowd in the vegetable market with a load of more than 30 kilograms on his back.

After buying the vegetables and returning home, it was almost past 11 o'clock. Sanbo's house called for dinner, and Rao Mingyang and his parents closed the door and went to Sanbo's house.

When we arrived at Sanbo's house, quite a few members of the family had already arrived, and Rao Mingyang greeted them one by one.

"Uncle!" "Auntie!" "Second sister-in-law!" "Third brother!" shouted all the way.

Of course, there are also nephews and nieces named Rao Mingyang who are a generation younger than Rao Mingyang, and they are basically the children of several cousins.

"Uncle!" "Uncle Yao!" "Uncle Tang!" "Uncle!" "Uncle Yao!"

Rao Mingyang also smiled and responded one by one. Some of them were studying, and they also cared about their studies.

After the dishes were cooked, Sanbo's family paid homage to all the gods and Rao's ancestors under the incense fire shelf in the main room, set off firecrackers, and burned some ghost coins, and then the family began to have a reunion dinner.

There were a total of more than 30 people in the four families, and three tables were set up. Some half-sized children had no stools to sit on, so they had to stand and eat.

But a family usually does their own things, and it is almost only when they have a reunion dinner during the New Year that they can get together so neatly and lively.Even if they are crowded to eat, everyone eats happily and lively.

For children, not only is the reunion dinner the most lively and fun time, but also the elders hand out lucky money after the reunion dinner, which is also the happiest time for them.

After the meal was almost finished, the third uncle and the third aunt took out the red envelopes and began to distribute lucky money to several children.

However, those who can get lucky money are children who are still in school or under the age of 6. Those who have graduated and entered the society like Rao Mingyang do not need to give red envelopes to children.

However, instead of giving red envelopes to children, it is necessary to show some filial piety to the elderly.

Therefore, after the third uncle and the third aunt finished distributing the children's lucky money, Rao Mingyang and other cousins ​​of the younger generation and cousins ​​who had worked but were not yet married also took out the red envelopes they had prepared and paid respects to them. I lost my third uncle and third aunt.

Rao Mingyang used to give 500 per person in previous years, but this year he made a lot of money with the gourmet system, and his filial piety to his elders is much more generous.He gave the third uncle and the third aunt each a red envelope of 2000 yuan, and the other elders did the same.

Of course, you can't give too much.It's not good if you are too different from other cousins ​​of the same generation, it's a bit of the nature of getting rich.Just show respect to your elders and do your best.

After the reunion dinner at Sanbo's house, other people were still chatting, playing cards, and watching TV at Sanbo's house. Rao Mingyang and his parents returned home and started preparing their family's reunion dinner.

With the support of a level 3 diamond body, Rao Mingyang didn't feel tired at all.He was in charge of the cooking, and his parents occasionally helped out. By 5 pm, Rao Mingyang had prepared three sumptuous reunion dinners.

Bucket bowl, fish in sour soup, sauerkraut and folded ear root, big bone radish soup, spicy chicken, stir-fried duck, fried pork with sauce, twice-cooked pork with cabbage, fried pork with green pepper, three delicacies soup, cold cucumber, scrambled egg with tomato, minced meat tofu, fish Fragrant eggplant, steamed sausage, tempeh bacon, steamed trotter, etc. There are more than 20 dishes per table, which is quite rich.

With so many dishes, it must be impossible to finish.But this is the custom in Mae Tan. When every family has a family dinner, they always make too much, and there must be leftovers, which means "surplus every year".

If any family really eats up all the food or even not enough food for the reunion dinner, it will not only be considered stingy, but also considered unlucky.

Naturally Rao Mingyang will not destroy this custom, anyway, he is not tired, and his cooking skills are also good, so just do more.As long as you know how to do it, just make it out.

When the meal was almost ready, I called the other three families to come to my house for a reunion dinner.

The procedures for Chinese New Year are the same. After setting off firecrackers, burning incense and paper, and honoring the ancestors and spirits, the family begins to have reunion dinner.

Before starting to eat, except for a few underage children, Rao Mingyang poured everyone a glass of wolfberry medicinal wine he made.

After about ten days of soaking and the effect of wolfberry medicinal wine powder, and the baijiu I use is a relatively high-end Moutai Town loose wine, as soon as the famous medicinal wine is taken out, a strong aroma of wine begins to spread in the room.

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