Fei Fei and I... Iron Chief status??...
On this fine Saturday morning, I was fortunate enough to travel with my SUFE program classmates to Totole for a company visit. All expenses for this trip was covered through our program, thanks Wang Kai! :p
Totole's slogan Art
For the first part of our visit, Totole's spokesperson gave us a brief introduction to this company.
According to the brief presentation, the following list of characteristics about Totole are what stood out to me:
1. Totole was able to boost its sales by making unique commercials, with themes such as: affection, Chef, karate, and family.
2. It donates lots of money to Hope Primary school in order to provide more schooling for the poor.
3. Also in 2008, it donated millions of RMB to support the disaster caused by the SiChun earthquake.
4. Totole provided a total of 4 "earthquake food drives" which cost a million RMB for each drive.
5. Being a Chinese company, it is quite surprising to me that all Totole plants have met FDA hygiene standards, which allow them to import thier products abroad.
6. Lastly, the work place is very people oriented, the plant provides a very good nature ish working environment for its employees.
Based on the belief of \"bringing more palatable taste to the 1.3 billion people\", TOTOLE has undertaken relentless proactive moves to research and develop new condiments. With strong support from the powerful R&D team, the corporation has achieved a secured resource for a continuous roll-out of leading products.
Totole is a joint venture with Nestle, with 80% of the company owned by Nestle. Totole is famous for its granulated chicken bouillon product. During our visit, we were able to witness the production line of this product. If I remember correctly, for the making of Totole's granulated chicken bouillon, a 1000-1500 chickens are used every hour, and upwards toward a 100,000 chickens a week. Think about it!! damn, that's a lot of white meat! mmmhh
After our short tour of the production line, we were escorted to their kitchen. One of their top chiefs greeted and hosted us. He taught us how to cook 4 local dishes. As a group of 12 people, we split up into to groups of 3 and took turns cooking. We cooked: tomato egg soup, boiled celery with squid, Chinese meatballs named (Lion's head- 狮子头), and fried chicken strips.
Of course all dishes were topped of with their special flavoring products.
Overall, I was quite satisfied with the dishes we made :) It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. I am confident to say that I will be able to repeat these dishes in my own kitchen or dorm room haha. However, there was one downside to its chicken flavoring product. The more you ate, the more numb your tongue and lips feel, but at the same time it has such a good flavor that will make you not able to stop eating.
Its like drug I tell you haha... and a smart business plan.. At the end of our visit, they gave us each a packet of their famous product, probably trying to brainwash us and turn us into Totole lovers... idk, its China alright, anything is possible!
Our group made the celery and Squid "Fruits of labor"
My group and I with the Master Chef
再见 for now!!
Peace,
-Mo
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