Every year, he eats rice balls, and this year he sent them to the snow shoveling and de icing site

Mondo Gastronomy Updated on 2024-02-24

Yangtze River ** Wuhan client on February 24 "Don't come to eat glutinous rice balls this year? "The owner of Qijun dessert shop, Zhu Wenqi, as in previous years, gave the Jiang'an sanitation **.

I'm afraid I won't be able to come this year, and the sanitation workers are all shoveling snow and ice on the front line. The sanitation replied.

It's okay, we can send it. Zhu Wenqi decided to send the boiled rice balls to the de-icing site this year.

Zhu Wenqi (right), the owner of Qijun dessert shop, delivers freshly cooked rice balls to sanitation workers. Photo by reporter Liu Bin.

On February 24, the Lantern Festival, Wuhan's secondary roads, connecting passages and back streets and alleys can be seen everywhere shoveling snow and removing ice. Zhu Wenqi got up early to cook rice balls and distribute them to different snow shoveling points, so that the sanitation workers can still eat the rice wine rice balls he made this year.

Sanitation workers are invited to eat rice balls during the Lantern Festival. Photo by reporter Liu Bin.

At 9:30 a.m., the Yangtze River ** reporter came to the Qijun dessert shop next to the Wuhan Theater, and Zhu Wenqi set up a cauldron at the door, boiled water, and boiled rice balls. At the scene, melon seeds and sugar oranges were also placed on a large round table.

Before 2011, my father set up a stall selling desserts at the entrance of Hongyan Village near his home. Zhu Wenqi said that he later took over the dessert shop, and discussed with his father in 2015 and decided to invite 150 sanitation workers to eat rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, which can be regarded as giving back to the society to help their family. Because of its genuine and delicious raw materials, its reputation is getting louder and louder, and it has also opened a branch on Jianghan Road.

Sanitation workers are invited to eat rice balls during the Lantern Festival. Photo by reporter Liu Bin.

During this year's Lantern Festival, Wuhan unfortunately encountered low temperatures, rain, snow and freezing weather. Zhu Wenqi invited sanitation workers to come over to eat rice balls, and when he learned that everyone was shoveling snow and ice on the front line, he decided to send 200 rice balls to various sites this year.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, a sanitation team passed by the door of the store, ready to go to the vicinity of Jianghan Road to remove the ice, "eat a bowl of rice balls before going." Zhu Wenqi stopped the team, cooked the rice balls, put a spoonful of rice wine, and served it to everyone. The sanitation workers sat down one after another, ate the hot rice balls, and warmed up physically and mentally.

Sanitation workers shovel snow and ice on Tianjin Road. Photo by reporter Liu Bin.

Chen Zhonglan, a sanitation worker, told reporters while eating rice balls: "I sweep the floor nearby, and I come to this store to eat rice balls every year during the Lantern Festival. She said that in previous years, during the Lantern Festival, from morning to night, sanitation workers could come to eat at any time, but this year there was no time to shovel snow, and she was stopped just now. Ten minutes later, the sanitation team finished eating the dumplings and immediately set off to shovel snow around Jianghan Road.

At 10:30, Zhu Wenqi packed the freshly cooked 20 rice balls and sent them to Tianjin Road with the staff of Jiang'an Environmental Sanitation Group. Tianjin Road is a connecting channel, connecting Yanjiang Avenue, Zhongshan Avenue, etc., more than 20 sanitation workers are shoveling snow and de-icing, we first use shovels to chisel the ice surface, and then shovel up the pile on the side of the road, clear the motorway. Then, transport vehicles come and remove the snow.

Zhu Wenqi (left), the owner of Qijun dessert shop, delivers freshly cooked rice balls to snow shoveling and sanitation workers on Tianjin Road. Photo by reporter Liu Bin.

This time the snow was much more difficult to shovel than the previous round, difficult to pry, and very heavy. Sun Anrong, a sanitation worker, said that he got up too early at 4 o'clock in the morning, and then went to Qingdao Road at 5 o'clock to shovel snow, and then to Tianjin Road to shovel snow.

According to the relevant person in charge of Jiang'an Environmental Sanitation Group, according to the requirements of the urban area, the current snow shoveling and de-icing operations are being comprehensively promoted to secondary roads, connecting passages and back streets and alleys, and Taipei Road, Shengli Street, Shanghai Road, Tianjin Road and other roads are being fully shoveled and de-iced to clear and transport snow.

Yangtze River ** reporter Tao Changning correspondent Feng Xiaxue Chen Ting).

Editor: Zhao Ke].

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