Lai Qingde wears an apron and cooks New Year's dishes for the disadvantaged and lonely.

(Photo by reporter Cai Shuyuan)

[Reporter Cai Shuyuan/Taichung Report] Next week during the Lunar New Year, Vice President Lai Ching-de will help the old man pay homage to his early years. Today, he went to Hongdao Elderly Welfare Foundation located at No. 125, No. 125 Dream of the Old in Taichung. Grandma and the 86-year-old Grandpa Qiu, who lived alone in the mountainous area, sat around the stove. Qiu Ah publicly said, "I wish the vice president will be elected next year!" Lai Qingde also borrowed a gentleman's hat to put on for Grandpa, celebrating the New Year with joy.

It is the third year for Lai Qingde to accompany Hongdao's disadvantaged elders who live alone to sit around the stove. This year, he went to the central and southern part of Hongdao for the first time to promote silver-haired employment at the No. 125 restaurant of the old dream. Roll up your sleeves, put on your chef's apron, and work with the 70-year-old chef Huang Amian to prepare the best-selling grandma's dish "Jin Yuliang Maru Celebrating More Than Years".

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When Lai Qingde was seasoning and mixing the ground meat, the old elders yelled to stir it vigorously, "It's like the integration of ethnic groups!" Lai Qingde also echoed it very well. Go forward!" Talking with the elders while cooking, the atmosphere of the scene is warm.

From cutting celery, seasoning and mixing ground meat, weighing meatballs, hand-made Q-balls, stewed in a pot, to personally arranging and serving dishes, Lai Qingde showed his warm and male side. Grandma and Grandpa Qiu relive the long-lost family time filled with delicious food and delicious aromas around the stove. Grandma Liu said excitedly that she was very happy and had such a rare opportunity to get up early to wait.

Lai Qingde wished everyone a happy New Year. He paid his respects to the two elders in the morning, and sent New Year blessing bags including heating clothes and nutrition products. A good year to make the society more harmonious and stable.

What's interesting is that when Lai Qingde made Jinyuliang balls, his handwork was complicated, and he also showed the gesture of beating eggs with one hand. He mentioned that he can cook simple dishes at home. I cooked it for the elders, and asked Wang Yumin, the deputy mayor of Taichung who was watching, if he knew how to cook at home?

Wang Yumin responded with a smile, I am too busy and usually eat out. Lai Qingde also said that the deputy mayor used to be busy with Erfu, and the two chatted easily. Wang Yumin also praised Lai's skill in doing this very well.

Today, Lai Qingde, Wang Yumin, Wang Naihong, chairman of Hongdao, together with Liu Ama, Qiu Agong, and the cook of Bu Lao, Wang Naihong said that Lai Qingde took the initiative to ask every year to serve the disadvantaged and lonely elders. Jinshan and Pingxi went to Zhaiweilu. This year, they went south to Taichung for the first time to spend time with Dulao.

From Yilan in the north to Pingtung in the south, Hongdao has served more than 10,000 elderly people for a long time through 7 service offices and 32 volunteer stations. The care and care plan for the disadvantaged elders gathers the love of the general public. Through services such as removing the old and renovating the new ones, accompanying shopping for New Year's goods, sending New Year's vegetables around the stove, and going to the Spring Festival to welcome the new year, etc., we can drive away the loneliness and warm the body and mind of the lonely elderly.

Lai Qingde put on an apron to cook homemade meatballs for the New Year, stirring the meatballs and echoing with the elders, saying "You are welcome!" Stir vigorously, "It's like the integration of ethnic groups, you and me, Taiwan unites and moves forward!" The atmosphere of the scene was warm.

(Photo by reporter Cai Shuyuan)

Lai Qingde and Dulao sat around the fire, and Qiu A publicly said, "I wish the Vice President a smooth election next year!" (Photographed by reporter Cai Shuyuan)