The third course is snail baked with French cheese.

This is Xu Xincheng's first time eating snails, at first he was a little afraid to eat, but watching others eat with relish, he also tasted one with the mentality of trying to try, I have to say that French snails are really much more delicious than imagined.

In addition to cold dishes and desserts, all the hot dishes are freshly prepared or processed in the kitchen one by one after the chef starts the dinner, and the preparation time for each dish is different, some only need to wait for ten minutes, and some need to wait for about half an hour.

During each dish, everyone rarely spoke, they were all concentrating on the food, and only after eating the dish, while waiting for the next dish, everyone let go and chat.

Xu Xincheng noticed that people usually first evaluate the previous section, discuss the materials and production methods, and then slowly move the topic to other places.

For example, after eating the first course, the president of BMW, who was sitting next to Xu Xincheng, politely asked Albert if the dish was caviar from Caviar house & Prunier, the top caviar brand in Europe for a century, and Albert said: "Yes, sir, that is correct. You have an excellent taste.” ("Yes, sir, exactly. You have very good taste. ”）

Everyone praised the delicious taste of this brand of caviar, and then talked about the specific production method of this caviar, and then talked about how to pair it with other foods to get a different delicious experience, and then talked about the crazy soaring price of caviar in the past ten years, as well as their predictions and judgments on price and market changes in the next few years.

The topics of conversation are wide and all-encompassing. Xu Xincheng knows that it is precisely this kind of chat that talks about astronomy and geography throughout the ages that tests a person's quality, cultivation and heritage the most. Therefore, this seemingly relaxed and pleasant dinner party is actually a big test for Lucy and him.

After realizing this, Xu Xincheng became more cautious, and in addition to continuing to pay attention to the etiquette at the table, he also paid special attention to everyone's every word he said, so as to make an appropriate response at the right time. Of course, he knows very well that if it is a topic that he doesn't know much about, such as the caviar just mentioned, then it is better not to say anything, and the best response at this time is to listen carefully and give a heartfelt compliment at the right time.

Lucy has obviously been through countless occasions like tonight, so she is calm and calm throughout the whole process, and she doesn't say much, but she always speaks at the right time, and every time she speaks, she can say something refreshing and even enlightening.

For example, everyone has a pessimistic attitude towards the future market situation of caviar, they believe that because of illegal fishing and overfishing of sturgeon, coupled with water pollution and other reasons, the number of sturgeon and caviar production will continue to be seriously reduced in the next ten or twenty years, and even face the crisis of extinction, and the market demand will be more and more large, so its price will soar all the way in the next ten or twenty years.

Lucy, on the other hand, has a different point of view, saying: "Personally, I think there are other reasons for the soaring caviar prices.

In the past ten or twenty years, with the efforts of many environmental protection organizations in Europe, especially with the joint efforts of hundreds of caviar companies, sturgeon has been protected more and more, in the past few years, the number of sturgeon and the production of caviar have stopped the downward trend, and has entered a stable recovery stage, and the price of caviar has become higher and higher in recent years, there are other reasons.

First, the huge advertising investment and large-scale marketing activities of the caviar company have greatly increased the demand in the market.

Second, some of the largest caviar companies have a monopoly on the supply and market, and they control the production of caviar every year according to market conditions, and at the same time, use their monopoly position in the market to control the annual market volume of caviar, so as to create a market situation in which supply exceeds demand, so as to continuously increase its price.

Thirdly, the media constantly publishes news about the decreasing number of various sturgeon and caviar production, and even the crisis news that some sturgeon are about to become extinct, which strengthens the scarcity of caviar in public opinion, thus exacerbating the continuous soaring prices. ”

Everyone nodded their heads and praised the analysis as reasonable, and the German economy minister immediately asked Lucy if she had any hard evidence to support what she had just said.

"I have a colleague friend who specializes in luxury food investment, and she has a team in Europe who has been researching the caviar industry for six years, and has accumulated a lot of data and analytical reports, which I have browsed and can support the point I just said," Lucy said calmly.

And her company has made larger investments in two of the largest caviar companies based on this data and reports, and has already paid off in the past two years, and she believes that these two investments will pay off even more over the next decade. ”

Everyone nodded their heads with the same expressions on their faces. Then, they praised one after another, praising that the opinions of investment bankers are indeed more unique than ordinary people, and they have been inspired by what they just said.

At this time, the fourth course was served, which was truffle salmon with white wine cream. The biggest highlight of this dish is definitely the black truffle, which is known as the diamond of the table. As soon as the dish is served, the whole table is enveloped in an indescribably rich aroma.

It is said that no one can accurately describe the taste of black truffle, and Xu Xincheng can't describe what the fragrance is, maybe he can only describe it as "the taste from heaven". The moment he smelled the fragrance, he had a sense that the olfactory meridians were completely opened, if the caviar completely opened his taste buds, then the truffle completely opened his sense of smell.

The fifth course is the main course, the black mushroom foie gras steak.

Europeans rank truffles, caviar and foie gras as "the world's top three treasures", and Xu Xincheng did not expect him to taste them all in one meal. He cut a small piece of foie gras with a knife, and sent it to his mouth, the outside layer of burnt fragrance immediately filled the entire mouth, and before he could bite hard, the foie gras inside had melted, and the unique aromatic juice of foie gras flowed out of his mouth, the juice was delicate and tender, filling every corner between the teeth and tongue, and every taste bud was like a flower.