China News Service, Nanjing, January 11 (Reporter Zhu Xiaoying) Small-family-style "big dishes", semi-finished dishes, "quick hand dishes"... The Spring Festival is approaching, and the "fast-track" New Year's Eve dinners in the Yangtze River Delta are becoming popular, gradually entering the peak of reservations and hot sales.
At present, the local epidemic situation in China is spreading sporadically and locally clustered.
More than 20 provinces and cities, including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Hebei, proposed to celebrate the Spring Festival on the spot.
Many places across the country require the cancellation of unit annual meetings, group worship, gatherings, group condolences and other activities, and family gatherings and dinners should be limited to less than 10 people.
The economically developed Yangtze River Delta is a densely populated area of migrant workers across the country.
Many catering businesses and new retail stores have used their own tricks to make people who do not return home or travel far to eat well-made and delicious heart-warming New Year's Eve dinners.
A reporter from China News Agency visited a number of new retail stores in Nanjing on the 11th and saw that a full set of express packages including soup and hot pot for the Spring Festival have been distributed to a prominent place in the store.
Jiang Jun, the person in charge of the Nanjing area of Hema Workshop, told the reporter of China News Agency that this year Hema has launched a "small family New Year's Eve dinner" for families of 4 to 6 people for the first time for local Chinese New Year. the Lord.
“Consumers who don’t return home don’t need to book banquets or dine out, they can eat New Year’s Eve dinner with a simple operation at home. New Year dishes from all over the country are also launched online to bring people hometown’s New Year’s goods.”
When the "Spring Festival travel migration" becomes "at home", the importance of easy operation is highlighted.
"This year we developed Hong Kong-style Buddha Jumping the Wall, Flower Maw Chicken, Hainan Wenchang Coconut Chicken, Old Beijing Sheep Scorpion Hot Pot, Local Eight Treasure Duck, Sichuan-style Boiling Bullfrog, and nearly a hundred kinds of'Quick Hand Dishes' from all over the country, encouraging citizens to stay at home. Enjoy the reunion dinner. The foreigners who stay in the Yangtze River Delta can enjoy the taste of the hometown at home." Xiong Wei, vice president of Dingdong Maicai, said in an interview.
"Fruit and fresh products are not easy to stock up. This year we will be'not closed during the Spring Festival'. We will purchase fresh fruits from our one-stop shop and implement self-pickup or door-to-door delivery of high-quality fresh ingredients such as high-quality vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs, milk, rice, noodles, and oil. Sun Peng, general manager of the Fresh Food Business Department of Baiguoyuan Group, told reporters.
Yu Xuerong, executive chairman of the Jiangsu Catering Industry Association, observed that many hotels, restaurants, and catering chains in the Yangtze River Delta this year, combined with the experience of fighting the "epidemic" during the Spring Festival last year, responded in advance and prepared the New Year's Eve dinner.
Ancient Nandu, Jinling Restaurant, Little Chefs, Nanjing Big Brands, etc. have launched the "One Table Meal" New Year’s dishes gift box quick finished products. Consumers can make a large table of New Year’s dishes by heating in a microwave oven and simply cooking.
Because families staying in the city for the New Year are relatively small, lightweight "big dishes" and "hard dishes" are popular.
Yu Xuerong told reporters that many catering companies combine the dining characteristics of small families to make “old brand” dishes smaller and more refined to reduce waste; increase cooperation with distribution platforms to deliver dishes home.
Yang Zhengfeng, the executive chef of Nanjing Jumeirah Hotel, said that the New Year's Eve dinner launched this year insists on small private rooms and small environments to facilitate the reunion of small families.
The hotel also uses scientific and technological means to disinfect the environment regularly.
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