Inviting a chef to make Spring Festival feast

时间：2007-01-19 02:35:26

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Chinanews, Shanghai, Jan. 17 – Although Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is still a month away, many people in Shanghai are starting to make preparations to welcome the Spring Festival Eve. Most hotels in Shanghai are already fully1 booked now for the feast2 at the Spring Festival Eve and many people are thinking about where to eat on the Eve and how. Some people choose to go home and dine3 with family members. So it might be a good idea to pay for a chef to cook at home or order some half-finished food in advance.

 

At the Shanghai Jiayan Catering4 Service Center, customers keep calling in arranging a chef that would come to their house to cook the dinner at Spring Festival Eve. A staff member in the center told this reporter that all the chefs in their center had been "booked" for the Spring Festival Eve feast. However, there were still many customers who called in to "place their orders". In a website, the reporter saw that although the price for a feast at home was by no means cheap, reservations had already been arranged for the second, or even the third day of the Spring Festival season.

 

“All chefs in our center will have to cook dinner for at least two families at the Spring Festival Eve. The early dinner will start at 4:30 in the afternoon and the second dinner usually begins at 7:30 in the evening. Some chefs will have to work even later than that,” said Yang Haiying, deputy5 general manager at the Shanghai Jiayan Catering Service Center.

 

In case they cannot find chefs to cook for them, some residents also plan to order some half-finished foods and cook at home to make a large feast on the Eve. Although these half-finished foods will not be made until a week before the Spring Festival, reservations have already started now.

 
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1 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地
参考例句：
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
2 feast tkixp     
n.盛宴，筵席，节日
参考例句：
  • After the feast she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience.大吃了一顿之后，她花了一周时间节食以安慰自己。
  • You shouldn't have troubled yourself to prepare such a feast!你不该准备这样丰盛的饭菜，这样太麻烦你了！
3 dine Cusxs     
vi.吃饭，进餐；vt.宴请
参考例句：
  • I wish I could afford to dine off fresh meat every day.我要是能天天吃到新鲜的肉就好了。
  • Let's dine out tonight，I'm too tired to cook.我太累了，不想做饭，今晚咱们到外面吃吧。
4 catering WwtztU     
n. 给养
参考例句：
  • Most of our work now involves catering for weddings. 我们现在的工作多半是承办婚宴。
  • Who did the catering for your son's wedding? 你儿子的婚宴是由谁承办的？
5 deputy fw0xE     
n.代理人，代表，副职；adj.代理的，副的
参考例句：
  • John will act as a deputy for me during my absence.我离开期间，约翰将代理我的职务。
  • She is the deputy headmistress of the school.她是那所学校的代理校长。

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