Chapter Ninety-Four: The Biological Clock and the Boyfriend
Like most American steakhouses, Keens Steakhouse's menu is limited in variety.
The lunch menu is only one page, and even if it is a dinner menu, the appetizers, main dishes, desserts, etc., are not very long.
Beef and potatoes together account for one-third.
Another feature of the American steakhouse is that the tableware is relatively "simple" and has no aesthetic attellect, and the knives used to cut the steak are relatively rough.
The Keens Steakhouse menu features a hand-selected and USDA-certified Prime grade for all of the beef on the menu. (Note 1)
In addition to the pottery pipes that hung all over the ceiling and didn't know which celebrity Yashi belonged to, Yan Yun also found a strange place when he ordered.
On the meat menu of the steak order, the first meat to be recommended is not beef, but "Our Legendary Mutton Chop" (the name of the dish is "Our Legendary Mutton Chop").
Except for this lamb chop, the rest of the meat is a very regular name.
"Is the mutton here really legendary?" Yan Yun didn't have the habit of going to a steakhouse to eat mutton chops.
"I haven't eaten it, and the people who recommend this restaurant only say Prime Ne York Sirloin and Filet Mignon (Filet), and I'm still here for the first time, so I don't dare to recommend it to foodies, you can see what kind of meat you like to eat and then decide. Qi also told the truth.
Since Qi Yi didn't know what to eat, Yan Yun decided that it would be more reliable to ask the waiter to recommend it.
Finally, the two men ordered Lincoln's Oysters, Lump Crab Cocktail, Keens's Creamed Spinach and Prime Porterhouse for To, a five-tiered cooked steak for two. (Note 2)
When the Red House steak came up, the portion was a bit amazing, and the beef was beef, and a large plate came straight up, with no side dishes and no plating.
If you need a side dish, you have to order it separately.
The waiter will add a side dish such as pureed spinach and salt and pepper to the meat in front of the customer, or you can add it yourself.
"My biological clock tells me it's breakfast time, and my boyfriend tells me it's dinner time. Do you say my biological clock is more powerful, or is my boyfriend more powerful?" Yan Yun was very satisfied with the crab cocktail that came up first.
Crab cocktail doesn't really have anything to do with alcohol, it's just that the crab salad is put into the cocktail glass and brought up.
At this restaurant, the same method is used for the Iced Shrimp Cocktail.
The time difference between Melbourne and China is only two or three hours, and Yan Yun has never been to a place where day and night need to be reversed before.
This "early in the morning", he started to eat a steak dinner, and for Yan Yun, it was definitely the first time in his life.
"I don't think your body clock and your boyfriend are as powerful as your stomach. Qi Yi is very confident in Yan Yun's foodie attributes.
"You have a point, and in that case, I feel like I need to pray that my bowels are just as heroic. Yan Yun saw the second oversized plate of oysters with ice cubes on the table, and let out a heartfelt sigh.
"Can you wait until you've finished eating? After all, I might not be willing to leave your hotel even a step out of your gut of caution. Qi Yi began to bring the topic back to the discussion that he had not been able to win yesterday.
"Oh, grandpa, you're old, can you not do this?" Yan Yun already had a hunch that Qi Yi was going to pull every topic to where he wanted to talk next.
Yan Yun originally thought that Qi Yi thought that lifting her intestines during eating would affect her appetite, so she said that she would wait until she finished eating before praying.
"Do you think I want to? Who told you to leave tomorrow! Don't you want to be with me all the time and not waste every second of the next moment?" Qi Yi felt that his request was extremely legitimate.
"If I tell the truth, will you believe it?" Yan Yun looked at Qi Yi a little amusedly.
"I don't think you're ready to tell the truth. Qi Yi did not directly answer Yan Yun's question.
"It's my business whether I tell the truth or not, whether you want to believe it or not is your business, and I ask if you will believe it. Yan Yun looked at Qi Yi and waited for Qi Yi's answer.
"It seems that I have no second option other than to say that I believe. Qi Yi quickly decided to give in, he didn't come to make Yan Yun unhappy.
"That's right, I'll tell you, what about me~ I especially want to be with you all the time, I'm just worried from the bottom of my heart, the beautiful man is on the side, and I will plot against me. You are a male god in my mind, and you can be seen from a distance and cannot be blasphemed. In order to prevent you from being spoiled by me, I must leave before I can. Yan Yun continued his ability to gag.
"So, you mean, you only plan to look at me from a distance in the future?" Qi Yi couldn't believe his ears, he wasn't worried about Yan Yun playing indecently, what he was worried about was that Yan Yun didn't play.
"How is that possible? I will soon let you step down from the altar and go straight from a male god to a little Qizi. "Yan Yun often has some divine logic, just like at this time.
"Directly become a eunuch?" Qi also decided to add some oil and vinegar to make Yan Yun's logic a little more outrageous.
"Haha, grandpa, I like the way you have such a sense of humor right now. Yan Yun smiled very happily.
"Where's the humor? I didn't set a goal for my future. Qi Yi looked at Yan Yun with a serious face.
Qi Yi was obviously dissatisfied, but he didn't know why, seeing Yan Yun smiling so brightly, Qi Yi couldn't help but want to laugh a little.
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Note 1:
The United States is a big beef country, and the USDA (US Dept. of Agriculture) also has its own steak grading standards. From high to low, there are eight levels: Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Commercial, Utility, Cutter, and Canner.
Prime beef has a very beautiful marbled texture and a fat content of about 10%. U.S. beef, capable of reaching this level, will not exceed 2%.
Note 2:
【Little Ink Classroom】
The name of the steak is like sirloin and filet, which are transliterations of the meat in different positions on the cow's body. I'll have the opportunity to write more about it later.
Today is a very simple and practical Xiaomo class.
When ordering steak, you inevitably have to face a question: how many layers of cooked steak do you want?
This is a question that many people who go abroad for the first time and speak good English often make jokes.
Chinese like to eat seven-layer cooked steaks.
So the question is, what is the English of seven-layer cooked steak?
I've heard several people in restaurants and waiters say they want 70 percent (70%) steaks.
Foreigners don't understand what this means at all, and usually think that you are only going to buy 70% of the portion.
Restaurants don't offer such services, so many people are turned down.
The term "seven layers" is unique to the Chinese.
For foreigners, the maturity of steak is mainly expressed in three words, Rare (medium rare), medium (medium medium rare), and ell done (full rare).
These words also have their own meanings, and they are all very simple, and they have these specific meanings when describing steak.
With these three, the remaining three layers of cooked and seven layers of cooked are also a matter of permutation and combination.
Medium rare is medium rare and medium rare is medium ell.
People who order steaks at Keens's Steakhouse rarely order more than Medium doneness.
The higher the maturity of the steak, the higher the temperature inside the beef, and the more noticeable the gravy increases.
Gourmets like to order the Medium Rare three-layer cooked steak, Prime beef, which is truly melt-in-your-mouth at this level of maturity.
Medium-rare, the gravy remains relatively intact, and the temperature inside the steak reaches 140 degrees, which is the highest maturity that steak eaters can accept.
If you really want Mediunm ell to be cooked in seven layers before you dare to eat it, the taste will be worse.
As for eating ell done fully cooked, it is recommended to leave it directly, so as not to defile such a good piece of meat.
After all, it's not too easy for a cow to grow its own meat to the Prime level.