Britain in the 80s, in Li Yadong's eyes, there was a feeling of twilight.

For example, he now walks the streets of London, surrounded by people hurrying by, everyone is unusually quiet, without words, not even looking around, as if this city full of historical monuments is not half attractive to them.

And most of them are middle-aged, as well as the elderly, and young people are very rare.

This reminded Li Yadong of Japan thirty years later, he had been there once in his previous life in 2017, and the streets were full of hobbling old people, as if the whole country was dying.

Is it that if the prosperity is too much, it will usher in desolation?

This desolation does not refer to physical objects, but to changes on a psychological level.

It is said that the people in the developed regions are not keen on passing on the ancestry, is it the detachment of thought, or the lack of responsibility?

Li Yadong didn't know, but when he crossed the zebra crossing just now, he was verbally warned by the traffic police because he didn't avoid a pregnant woman in time, which made him understand: In the UK, once a woman is pregnant, she can probably do whatever she wants.

According to Jack, there is a strange law in the UK. The law states that pregnant women can urinate in any public place.

This means that pregnant women can ask the police to take off their large-brimmed hats and use them as urinals if necessary, and the police cannot refuse.

Seeing that foreigners took such pains to encourage childbirth, Li Yadong was also a little drunk, and he wanted to spread the word: In the far east, there is a magical country that is implementing family planning, fines for overbirth, and it has little effect, you can learn about it if you are interested.

Walking in this angry country shows more and more how energetic the Chinese working people are at this time.

This may also have a lot to do with the fact that he just came from Hailan.

According to the information provided by the domestic servant, the group searched for a long time before finding a Chinese restaurant.

The boss is indeed a yellow-skinned face, which makes Li Yadong faintly look forward to it, even if the dishes on the menu have no technical content at all, they are all scrambled eggs with tomatoes, sour and hot potato shreds, etc., a braised pork is the most complicated dish, and the price is not ambiguous, 3.5 pounds, which is equivalent to more than 50 yuan, a month's salary of ordinary domestic workers.

As a result, after a piece of braised pork with a good appearance was stuffed into his mouth, Li Yadong suddenly had the urge to hit someone.

The addition of sugar to braised pork is normal, and some provinces in the central region of the country are also so sweet, but his meat is completely like a layer of honey, so sweet that people wonder if it is a piece of sugar just stuffed into their mouths?

After chewing twice, the firewood is not good, and the soft glutinous feeling of the braised pork is completely gone.

Putting aside the poverty factor, this kind of braised pork is not eaten by dogs in China, and it dares to sell it for fifty oceans.

This is unbearable!

"Call your boss, I'm going to talk to him. Li Yadong beckoned a waiter, she was the only Chinese waiter in the store.

"Excuse me??" the little girl looked at him with a confused expression.

"......" made Li Yadong realize that in addition to having a yellow-skinned face, the other party was actually not a Chinese at all.

Huang Deping translated his words, and the little girl instantly understood and called the boss.

A middle-aged man in a straight suit, when he entered the door, he saw him sitting behind the cash register, covering his head and not looking, it did have a bit of the taste of an English gentleman in a movie.

He spoke Chinese and told Li that the dishes in the restaurant had been modified by British tastes and were probably no longer suitable for Chinese consumption.

"Then you still call it a Chinese restaurant?" Li Yadong looked at his rather smug look, and couldn't help but get angry, "You are selling dog meat with a sheep's head, do you understand?"

"What's the matter with you?" said the boss, smiling.

Li Yadong was angry for a while, as if he really didn't care about his business.

The reason why he is angry, he is angry that this guy has no real ability (you can see the clues from the recipe), but he changed Chinese food beyond recognition, this kind of behavior will make foreigners mistakenly think that Chinese food is like this, it is so unpalatable.

To put it mildly, it is a sign of smashing Chinese food.

In a big way, it is to discredit the Chinese.

"Thanks to you, you're still Chinese!"

"Who told you I was Chinese? I'm an authentic British citizen, grew up in the UK, oh, forgot to introduce, this is my daughter, she's the same, she was even born in the UK." He said, pointing to the waitress.

The little girl, on the other hand, looked at her father curiously, and the young man with an angry expression, not knowing what they were talking about.

Li Yadong glanced at her and felt a little sad, she obviously has Chinese blood, but she has been far away from the motherland since birth, and her father did not even teach her her own mother tongue.

"Deping, check out. ”

In order to express his anger, Li Yadong poured all the dozen dishes they ordered into the trash can next to him in front of the boss, all the employees in the store, and four or five tables of customers.

Then, in the surprised eyes of everyone, he said in broken English: "This is not Chinese food at all!

"You ......"

Looking at the guests, there was obviously some change in their eyes, and the boss, who had always maintained his "gentlemanly demeanor" just now, suddenly changed his complexion and shouted: "I want to sue you! You affect my business and slander my restaurant!"

"Sue me? Okay, you go and sue, our twelve authentic Chinese here do not recognize your dish as Chinese food, you go and try it, see if the judge believes you, a fake Chinese, or believes us?"

Li Yadong smiled disdainfully and walked out of the restaurant without looking back.

The restaurant owner almost lost his lungs, but the annoyance was much more than that, and the customers at the tables did not know when they agreed to ask for a waiver because they felt that they had been deceived by the consumption, otherwise they would use legal means to defend their legal rights as British citizens.

……

Walking a short distance from the restaurant, he actually came across a farmer's market, which made Li Yadong very excited, turned his head to the people behind him and smiled and said, "I know that many of you think that the dishes just now are still edible, but I can tell you very clearly, those are garbage, let you see today what is called real Chinese food!"

Everyone looked at each other, and they were all a little happy, who didn't know that the boss was going to cook himself?

Regardless of whether it is delicious or not, just eating a meal cooked by a billionaire is enough for a year for this cow.

Because of the large number of people, Li Yadong purchased a lot of ingredients, although many dishes are called the same, but the appearance is not familiar to him, and he can only make do with it.

When he returned home, he took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and dried, vowing to justify the name of Chinese cuisine and let these Hong Kong compatriots, who have been poisoned by Western culture, taste the most authentic taste of the motherland.

Several ladies helped to help, Chen Qiaoyi was the most devoted, and went upstairs to change into sportswear, and also rolled up her sleeves and worked in full swing, picking the dirtiest and most tiring work, killing fish and chopping meat.

made Li Yadong a little embarrassed, and asked her to rest for a while and didn't listen, so she had to give up.

Li Yadong's skillful knife skills and sharp spoon shaking made everyone present breathtaking, which shows that he is a chef with super high skills!

After making sixteen dishes, all the eight major Chinese cuisines were ready, and by the time the dishes were put on the oval table one by one, everyone had no other ideas than to offer their knees.

"Boss, you can't accept it. Jack said, swallowing his saliva.

"yes, I'm afraid the average hotel chef can't make these dishes. ”

"What's even more difficult is that many of the ingredients in the UK are different, and using these ingredients to make such authentic Chinese food is not a standard that ordinary chefs can have. ”

"Watching the boss cook is simply appreciating an art, it's really eye-catching. ”

The crowd chimed in.

"Okay, don't pat yourself on the back and get ready for dinner. Li Yadong scolded with a smile.

Everyone smiled, did it together, put the tableware on the tableware, pour the wine on the wine, and was about to start eating, when there was a sudden sound of a car honking outside the door, Li Yadong ran to the window to take a look, only to see a silver little MiNi, slowly driving in from the gate of the courtyard.

Li Yadong walked out and found that it was the female secretary who came with Ji Chaozhu the day before yesterday, and asked with a smile, "Miss Ling, isn't there something going on?"

Ling Xue smiled, "Yes, Elder Ji asked me to come and pick you up, he was waiting at the embassy." ”

"How embarrassing is this, just call me and come over by myself, and I have to bother Miss Ling to run it yourself. ”

"It should. ”

This Miss Ling, although Li Yadong doesn't know what the details are, it is not difficult to see from Ji Chaozhu's loving eyes when he looked at her, I am afraid that it is not as simple as the identity of the secretary, and the two of them should have some kinship.

"Okay, Miss Ling will sit in the room for a while, and I'll go change my clothes. ”

After Ling Xue entered the house, he found that everyone was sitting in the restaurant eating, even though Li Yadong repeatedly emphasized that he was not hungry (mainly because he was afraid that Ji Lao would wait for a long time), he still asked him to finish the meal first, saying that Ji Lao actually had some other things to deal with, and he didn't know if it was true or not.

"Miss Ling, why don't you have some food together, let's just start?" Li Yadong stood at the dining table and smiled at Ling Xue who was sitting in the living room.

"No, I've already eaten it. Ling Xue smiled and waved her hand.

Jack turned his head and quipped, "Miss Ling, you will definitely regret it if you don't eat it, you will definitely not be able to eat this meal in the UK." ”

"Oh, what are you eating?" Ling Xue was actually twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and after hearing him say this, she felt a little curious, and walked over.

When I saw a table full of Chinese food on the table, I was surprised, "This ...... Who did it?"

She subconsciously looked at the maid who poured her tea just now, it was the first time she had seen an Englishman who could cook such authentic Chinese food.

"I did. Li Yadong smiled.

"You ......" Ling Xue looked at him in disbelief.

"Yes. Come, Miss Ling, how about tasting it?" Li Yadong handed her a pair of chopsticks.

Huang Deping went to several supermarkets to buy this thing, and the British were selling it as a handicraft.

Ling Xue took it by mistake, sat down and tasted a piece of boiled meat with chopsticks in front of him, and his eyes lit up suddenly.

"It's so fragrant, it's better than the chef in our embassy!"

"That is, our boss's craftsmanship is miraculous, and this table of Chinese food is unique in the whole of the United Kingdom. Jack laughed.

"You talk a lot, and you can't stop your mouth when you eat. Li Yadong glanced at him angrily.

Jack smiled wryly and said no more. Ling Xue nodded and said: "He's right, I've been in the UK for more than a year, and it's the first time I've eaten such delicious Chinese food. ”

"Oh?" Li Yadong was surprised and asked jokingly, "Isn't Ji Lao also a glutton?"

"It's not right to say that the gourmet, it should be said that it is a senior gourmet, the chef of the embassy is what he personally found, but the craftsmanship is still not as good as yours. Ling Xue said with a smile, the chopsticks in her hand did not stop, in this foreign country, such an authentic hometown delicacy is simply impossible to find.

"That's easy. Li Yadong smiled, "Ji Lao has worked hard and done his best for the country, and when he arrives at the embassy, I will make him a few hometown delicacies to try." ”

"Really?" Ling Xue's eyes were bright, she knew very well the identity of the person in front of her, if he didn't bring it up, she wouldn't dare to ask him to cook.

"Really. Li Yadong nodded.

"Huh...... Then thank you, Mr. Li, it seems that Ji Lao has a good mouth tonight. ”