Sunday, November 30, 2014

Jiangnan: Multi Talented Chefs

In Shanghai, we were taken to a Japanese Restaurant known for cooking all their food on a hot plate - teppanyaki barbecue style. Chefs manning the stations were young and they looked more like fresh university graduates than chefs. Suddenly, they all stopped cooking when music of guangnam style was played. They all proceeded to line up in the alley in the restaurant, put on dark glasses and began to dance. That was cool!

In China, survival is a challenge. It takes more than normal trained skill for a working adult to be gainfully employed and to excel.

In many countries, any such demand of an employee to work beyond the normal scope of duty probably would have triggered resignation or filing of a complaint to the Labour Authority.

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