Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 21
Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bowen, Ji Ye, and Wang Jimin
When everyone participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics recalls the romantic winter day of 2022, they will think of the wonderful "food" moment at this ice and snow event. As an extremely important part of the guarantee of major events, catering services run through the beginning and end of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, covering almost all participants and providing millions of safe and nutritious Chinese and foreign meals.
IOC Catering Consultant Janet praised the catering services at the Winter Olympics for being outstanding. IOC protocol adviser Alexander Mosyeva lamented that "I have never eaten such a delicious meal".
The Beijing Winter Olympics coincide with the Chinese New Year. According to Zhou Lixia, director of the Catering Service Department of the Games Service Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, as early as the formulation of the catering policy of the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2017, dumplings, Lantern and other seasonal delicacies were fully considered and included in the nutrition menu of the Winter Olympics early. The chefs also underwent the centralized training of "online theory + offline practice", and repeatedly deliberated on the heat control and meat ratio of various cuisines to achieve the best state.
Twenty-three sugar melons, twenty-nine flower buns, chicken and fish mean great luck, and the annual Chinese New Year's Eve rice, broken five dumplings, fifteen lanterns and related text introduction cards were served together on the table, spreading the long-standing Chinese food culture.
People in the closed loop who can't reunite with their families for the New Year feel very deeply, and some staff members said: "Sometimes many foods for specific festivals that are ignored at home, this time one does not fall, they are eaten, the taste is authentic." Although these days are busy, they have gained a few pounds. ”
As the tournament unfolds, home-cooked dishes such as bean bags, leek boxes, kung pao chicken, and shabu lamb are hotter than a wave on social platforms. Each venue has successively launched the same champion dish, so that people can also eat the "taste of home" in the venue, feel the warmth of home, and also share the joy of the champion. With the popularity of "ice pier" and "one pier is difficult to find", the catering operation team has created a "yuan pier" lantern, mousse cake, fancy pastry, etc. in the shape of an ice pier, adding a touch of vividness and cuteness to the relatively monotonous closed-loop life.
At the beginning of the meal, it coincided with the Chinese New Year, and the venue catering team held interactive activities such as dumplings, writing Spring Festival, and pairs, which brought all parties closer to each other. On the 15th day of the first month, the restaurant and lounge set up a "small lantern festival" hanging traditional handicraft and modern flower lanterns, setting off a festive and peaceful festive atmosphere. Design the "Guess the Riddle" game, edify knowledge and entertainment, and everyone enjoys it. As the competition of the venue came to an end in turn, on the occasion of the farewell, the venue catering operation team carried out the "Bring Love Home" - teaching foreign friends to make a Chinese dish. In the "Ice Cube", the technical officials are no less skilled at wrapping dumplings than they are at work, and trapping, rolling the skin, wrapping dumplings, getting out of the pot, and eating the dumplings they personally wrapped. Some volunteers said that the Chinese New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival activities are like stones thrown on the calm water of the venue, splashing with good memories.
In the smart restaurant in the main media center, the back kitchen comprehensively applies automatic cooking technology to realize the standardization of action on the stove, the programming of fire control, and the automation of the cooking process, and delivers food through the "cloud rail" above the restaurant.
"I was so impressed with this (smart) restaurant, the food tasted great, the robot stir-frying, serving, all intelligent, and very efficient, eating without waiting, the whole process without hand contact, clean and hygienic." Martinus Gai, a safeguards officer at the International Broadcasting Centre, said.
Zhou Lixia said that the smart restaurant provides safe, delicious, efficient and high-tech untouched dining experience for diners, conforms to the needs of dining and epidemic prevention under the epidemic situation, and promotes the implementation of the "simple, safe and wonderful" requirements for running the competition.