Northeast flavor lamb braised noodles before the "Workshop Spring Festival Gala"

Changchun, February 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese New Year's Eve firecrackers sounded and thousands of households wafted out the aroma of Chinese New Year's Eve rice, but Sun Chuansheng, a northeastern chef with 5 years of experience in handling spoons, was slightly embarrassed - in order to let the Henan employees who stayed in the company for the New Year eat the flavor of their hometown, he cooked lamb braised noodles for the first time in his life, and the method was temporarily learned on mobile phone video.

"The taste is not very authentic, a bit of a combination of northeast and Henan. It was a feeling though, and I was very impressed. Wang Zhansheng, an employee from Lankao County, Henan Province, showed his family at the other end of the mobile phone video steaming lamb braised noodles, and incidentally displayed the braised pork ribs, spicy braised three scales, braised meat segments and other northeastern "hard dishes" on the table.

Lamb braised noodles after preparation (photo taken on February 11, 2021). Courtesy of respondents

Making Northeast "hard dishes" is not a problem for Sun Chuansheng, but the Henan flavor of temporary learning art really makes him feel bottomless. When the lamb braised noodles were served in the form of Chinese New Year's Eve rice "Easter eggs", the Henan employees were surprised and immediately tasted it, and everyone's tasting results made Sun Chuanchang breathe a sigh of relief.

This is the staff canteen of Jianhua Building Materials (Jilin) Co., Ltd., located in Jiutai District, Changchun City, Jilin Province. Zhang Luo's table Chinese New Year's Eve is a "post-90s" Zhejiang person - Shi Nengjun, manager of the company's production department.

Before Shi Nengjun was transferred to Changchun from Jiaxing last December, the only northeastern dishes he could name were pork stew noodles and dipped pickles, and now the 16-course Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has warmed up the staff and made him feel proud.

Since the beginning of the year, sporadic sporadic cases of new crown pneumonia and local clusters of epidemics have occurred in some parts of China, and various localities have successively issued the initiative of "not returning home unless necessary during the Spring Festival". Therefore, Shi Nengjun decided to stay, and more than 30 Henan employees also stayed. According to statistics, this year, 895 employees from 22 provinces such as Henan, Shanxi and Jiangsu chose to celebrate the New Year in Jiutai District of Changchun City alone.

In order to ensure the quality of life of non-local employees, the local government has recently carried out activities such as "sending warmth", "sending cultural tourism" and "sending traffic". "Employees staying at the factory can receive epidemic prevention materials for free, and during the Spring Festival, they can enjoy preferential prices at attractions such as ski resorts in the city." He Jia, director of the Jiutai District Comprehensive Service Bureau, said that the operator also distributed free mobile phone traffic red envelopes to non-local employees, allowing them to more smoothly "connect with their families".

After the lamb braised noodles Chinese New Year's Eve night, the "Workshop Spring Festival Gala" was launched. Although the hardware facilities are rudimentary, the employees are both actors and spectators, and in the laughter, they put the two-person turn, Yu opera, song, dance and other programs on the stage, and even once seized the attention of the TV live Spring Festival Gala on the spot.

"I was in the northeast for the New Year, people in a foreign country but did not feel that they were strangers, there were braised noodles to eat, there were programs to watch, and this year had a taste." Henan employee Yuan Duo said.