The plane landed at the airport in San Francisco, and Meng Zitao and He Wanyi stepped off the plane. A few days after the wedding ceremony, they had just become newlyweds, and their faces were still full of happy smiles at the moment, and their eyes were full of sweetness when they looked at each other.

The two of them took their luggage first, pushed the luggage, brought the customs declaration form issued on the plane, went to the customs counter to go through the entry procedures, and then went through the security check and exited the customs. There were no accidents.

After leaving the customs, Meng Zitao soon saw a sign held high, with the words "Meng Zitao and his wife" written on it.

The visitor was a young woman in her early twenties, wearing black-rimmed eyes, hair covering her forehead, and she looked quite Sven, probably an international student.

When she saw Meng Zitao and the others coming over, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, what a pair of golden boys and girls!

Immediately afterwards, she smiled shyly and said, "Mr. and Mrs. Meng, hello, I am Shu Ze's cousin, Shu Huijie." ”

Meng Zitao and He Wanyi also smiled and greeted her.

Meng Zitao made an introduction and said with a smile: "Since we are Aze's sister, we are not outsiders, so you can just call us by our names." ”

Shu Huijie nodded generously, and then said, "I'll send you to the hotel first." ”

"Excuse me......"

After getting in the car, everyone chatted, mainly Shu Huijie introduced the customs of the city to the couple.

San Francisco is a merged city and county in California, USA, and the fourth largest city in California in terms of population, located on the northern coast of California, the north corner of the San Francisco Peninsula, bordered by San Francisco Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. San Francisco is the largest financial center in the western United States, with developed industry and a large number of Chinese and overseas Chinese.

San Francisco, an American metropolis, is not only full of modern atmosphere and classical tradition, but what is truly fascinating is not only the natural and cultural landscape, but also the inclusiveness of the city.

chatting all the way, it didn't take long to arrive at the hotel, everyone got off, in addition to Meng Zitao's luggage, Shu Huijie also held a small suitcase, this is because Shu Huijie's place is some distance from here, and it is not very convenient to go back, so she simply stayed in the hotel.

After checking in, the group came to their room, the waiter put their luggage in the room, Mencius gave him a five-dollar tip, and he left happily.

For this, Meng Zitao is really not very used to it, but there is no way, the United States is a country that needs to tip, and it must follow the local customs.

As for who is required to tip, there is only one condition, whether there is a service specifically for you.

For example, hotel room cleaning, according to our domestic habits, this is the responsibility of the hotel, but here there is a habit of tipping, generally every day to clean, just put one to two dollars under the pillow, if you don't need to clean every day, then put a little on the last day.

In addition, it is to pay a tip when eating (self-service depends on the situation), generally 10% to 20% of the meal fee, feel that the service is good to give more, feel that the service is not good, not satisfied can also not give, but next time it is best not to go to this hotel, the waiter will remember you, as for what treatment will be, it is hard to say.

Everyone put away their luggage and went downstairs to eat together, Shu Huijie didn't take them to a local high-end restaurant at the beginning, and found a local restaurant with a good taste.

After ordering, everyone started chatting again.

"Huijie, what major are you studying?" He Wanyi asked.

"I studied finance at Jingcheng University and then came to San Francisco State University to study business administration. ”

When Shu Huijie replied, she deliberately accentuated the word "state".

Founded in 1899, San Francisco State University is one of the 23 branches of the California State University system, which is a century-old top public university with a history of more than 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States, and is ranked nearly 100 universities in the world. The University of San Francisco, on the other hand, is just a private school, and there is no comparison between the two.

Meng Zitao smiled: "It seems that you are still a female scholar." ”

This is an obvious conclusion, Shu Huijie is only 21 years old now, and it is already amazing that she can be admitted to Beijing University, if ordinary people are still studying at Beijing University, but now she has been admitted to San Francisco State University, what is not a top student?

Shu Huijie grinned and said, "It's okay." ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "It's an honor to have a scholar as a tour guide for us." ”

After laughing and talking for a while, the waiter began to serve the food, not to mention, although they are all Western dishes, but the taste is very good, which is very suitable for the taste of the couple.

Meng Zitao glanced at the receipt and was about to pay, but was stopped by Shu Huijie: "I'll pay, I'll pay, let me do my best as a landlord." ”

Meng Zitao waved his hand: "I'm sorry to trouble you to be our tour guide and let you have a treat." ”

Shu Huijie insisted: "It's okay, I'm the landlord!"

The two sides pushed a few times, and Meng Zitao asked, "What did Aze say?"

Shu Huijie said: "He asked me to entertain you well." ”

Meng Zitao smiled, understood, and estimated that Shu Huijie wanted to knock Shu Ze's bamboo pole, so he didn't say anything more.

Shu Huijie smiled a little weakly, and then took out her credit card and asked the waiter to settle the bill.

In the next few days, we visited several scenic spots, Shu Huijie is indeed a good tour guide, let the couple have a lot of fun, and she knows that the couple has just gotten married, so they are left alone from time to time, if there is an evaluation of service satisfaction, Meng Zitao must give her a full score.

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 35,000 museums, which can be described as "blooming everywhere".

Of course, among so many museums, Meng Zitao is most interested in the art museum, especially the museum where China's cultural relics are placed.

It's just that after turning around, Mencius is not in a good mood, because there are too many precious cultural relics in our country here, and Meng Zitao is not very comfortable when he thinks that these Chinese cultural treasures are lost abroad and cannot be appreciated by most Chinese people.

However, when Meng Zitao saw that there were still a few pieces of precious porcelain that were high imitations, he still couldn't help but feel a little dark in his heart.

Of course, Meng Zitao still wanted to know the origin of those high imitations, so he called his colleagues in China and asked them to solve it.

After two days of visiting museums, we discussed and decided to go to Chinatown, which is a must-see in San Francisco.

San Francisco's Chinatown is arguably the largest Chinatown in the world. The most famous of them are two streets, one is the street frequented by Chinese called "Starton Street", where you can get a haircut for only five dollars and three pineapple bread for one dollar.

On the street, the delicacies of the mountains and seas produced in China, various medicinal herbs, vegetables, fruits, and meat are sold at the lowest prices in Northern California. Roast meat shops, snack bars, and grocery stores sell things that are even more inexpensive, and the ultra-low selling prices make this street always crowded with Chinese.

The other street is called "Duban Street", this street is mainly for the sale of Chinese handicrafts, and most of the people who patronize this street are tourists from all over the world, and it is also the main street of every Chinatown street meeting.

The group first went to Starton Street to experience the characteristics of Chinatown, and then went to Tuban Street.

Meng Zitao originally thought that most of the shops in Chinatown were selling some domestic modern handicrafts, but he didn't expect that some of them still bought and sold Chinese antiques Lao Tzu, and many of these old shops sold looked like "antiques" with a long history in China and some countries in Southeast Asia.

Different from the stalls selling fake "antiques" on the street, these shops dealing in antiques have a large site, and there are many kinds of antiques for various purposes, and there are a lot of them, which shows that there are many people who like Chinese antiques, in fact, it is true, many Chinese cultural relics have a place in Lao Mei's home.

After visiting a few old shops, Meng Zitao felt very boring, there are indeed good things, but the price of the shops opened in such tourist attractions can be imagined, it is rare to see a wishful one, and the price cannot be discussed.

In addition to the high cost of things, Meng Zitao originally wanted to see if there were any clues about high-quality imitation porcelain in Chinatown, but after turning around for a while, he was unable to find any clues.

Near noon, the three of them walked on the street, planning to find a Chinese restaurant directly to have lunch, after a few days of eating Western food, Meng Zitao and He Wanyi were a little tired, and missed authentic Chinese food very much.

Walking into the restaurant, the restaurant decoration is so-so, not as antique as Meng Zitao and He Wanyi thought, of course, as long as the place is clean and the food is delicious.

I ordered a few home-cooked dishes, the couple tasted it, and found that the taste is not much different from that in China, mapo tofu is not pure, and some dishes are added with unknown condiments, which tastes very weird.

After eating a few bites, the three of them were not very satisfied, so Meng Zitao called the waiter: "We are from the mainland, and we are not used to Western food for a few days, so we want to eat some more authentic Chinese food here, you see, can you help us react to the chef?"

The waiter's attitude was very good, and he immediately ran to the kitchen to react, originally, Meng Zitao didn't have much expectations, but he didn't expect the chef to really come.

With a smile on his face, the cook said to Meng Zitao, "Sir, excuse me, where are you all from?"

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "We are all Jiangnan people. ”

The chef immediately laughed: "All of them are fellow countrymen! Okay, I'll cook you a few specialty dishes." ”

Meng Zitao politely expressed his gratitude.

The chef chatted a few more words, asked everyone's tastes, turned around and left, and the next dish was really a typical Huaiyang dish, the taste was very good, and everyone was happy.