Chapter 030: The Chef is in place

After about fifteen minutes or so, Mo Yun changed into a looser suit and rushed back, ready to take Tang Xiang to the dining place.

Tang Xiang looked at his watch: eleven o'clock at noon, it was just lunch.

Along the way, although Mo Yun was still calm and steady, Tang Xiang obviously noticed that she was a little afraid to look at him.

This woman is really a little bold, Tang Xiang smiled when he thought of this.

After about ten minutes, Mo Yun took Tang Xiang to a large auditorium with an area of more than 500 square meters, and the exterior of the auditorium was very traditional in the architectural style of the Forbidden City.

And inside, it's a world.

The dome of the auditorium is more than ten meters high from the ground, and there are many wooden squares on it, each of which has an abstract ink painting.

There are black, white and brown tiles on the ground, but these three colors are combined with a visual blinding effect, making people feel that the ground seems to rise and fall, as if walking on the mountain.

The interior of the auditorium is a collision of traditional Chinese aesthetics and abstract post-modernism, and the designer's amazing artistic skills combine the two.

Tang Xiang remembered that Xiaheyuan Chengyuan Villa also had a similar feeling.

He asked, "Why do you all have a bit of a different feeling about the buildings of Dongquan Villa?"

Tang Xiang's voice echoed in the huge auditorium.

Mo Yun understood what he meant, and replied: "Actually, five years ago, the villa was very traditional inside and out, but then our new manager took office and felt that the original style was too old, so the interior scenery was renovated. ”

"What you're seeing now is the interior set that we hired to design by Lawrence, a Chinese designer. ”

Lawrence Xu?

Tang Xiang has heard of this name, and he has also seen the works he designed:

In 2010, the cold actress surnamed Fan wore the Oriental Xiangyun dragon robe dress on the red carpet in Cannes, which came from his hands.

Tang Xiang nodded affirmatively: "The transformation is very successful." ”

And when he thought of Bingbing's face, Tang Xiang suddenly remembered Ruan Lingling's appearance.

If Lawrence can be invited to design an identical dragon robe for Ruan Lingling now, the final effect is estimated to be very interesting.

It seems like I haven't seen Ruan Lingling for a month, Tang Xiang thought to himself.

After all, men are often obsessed with beautiful women.

On both sides of the auditorium are mahogany shelves tens of meters long, on which a variety of porcelain artworks are placed.

Tang Xiang slowly paced to the wooden frame and browsed through these utensils, he was surprised to find that not only were they not good-looking, but they were also probably worth a lot of money.

Walking to the middle of the cabinet, Tang Xiang saw five extremely unique small cups, the body of which resembled pottery and non-pottery, iron and non-iron, and there were bright blue feather-like markings inside, which were as brilliant as the vastness of the galaxy under the light.

Tang Xiang felt as if he had seen it in the documentary, thought for a while and asked, "Jianzhan?"

"Yes, Mr. Tang, you are really good eyesight. ”

Mo Yun introduced: "These are Jianzhan, oil droplet Tianmu, partridge spots, from the hands of the intangible cultural heritage inheritor Cai Yuanhe master, what you see is a set of tea sets, worth more than 200,000 yuan." ”

Walking further, Tang Xiang saw many precious porcelain.

Clearing the Golden Flower and Bird General Jar;

Qing Xuantong official kiln sky blue glaze three-hole gourd bottle;

filigree cloisonnΓ© ruyi ornaments;

......

After seeing a lot of precious porcelain, a very modern bracelet appeared in front of Tang Xiang's eyes.

Mo Yun took the initiative to explain: "This is the work of British jewelry design guru Ethan Smith who won the diamond category of the World Jewelry Design Competition, and the whole body is made of wavy black porcelain, with a platinum frame embedded in the surface and 1,200 broken diamonds. ”

"Two months ago, Prince William's girlfriend Catherine had taken it on camera for 16 seconds, so its value skyrocketed, and we spent a lot of money to get it back, and it's one of the most expensive of these devices. ”

Tang Xiang naturally knows Catherine, she is Princess Kate, who married Prince William three years later, and became a member of the royal family from Cinderella.

It seems that this black porcelain diamond bracelet still has room for appreciation in the future.

"These are all the private collections of our villa manager's family, and this auditorium is never open unless there are special circumstances, so Manager Zhao stored them here, which can be regarded as welcoming VIPs. ”

Tang Xiang nodded slightly.

After taking a look at the things on this row of mahogany shelves, he already had a rough estimate in his mind, and the combined value of these utensils was probably more than 10 million.

It's a lot of extravagance.

It turned out that I was going to eat in what seemed to be a private collection.

Mo Yun led Tang Xiang to a well-furnished room at the corner of the auditorium: "Mr. Tang, wait a minute, the time has not yet come, the chef you hired is still preparing, I will go and ask them to come out." ”

Normally, if you go to a more upscale restaurant, the chefs will not come out to meet the diners directly.

But now it's different, Tang Xiang directly called them to serve himself, so of course he can see them if he wants, and it is more convenient to communicate face-to-face.

After a while, I saw ten people from the back kitchen coming to Tang Xiang's room.

Two of them are white, and the other eight are Chinese chefs, who specialize in eight cuisines.

One of the two white chefs was a man in his fifties with hair that had begun to turn gray, and Tang Xiang knew that he was Haston Blumenthal, the head chef of the three-Michelin-starred Waterside Inn.

He just smiled and nodded to Tang Xiang, and did not deliberately please with enthusiasm, Tang Xiang didn't care at all, the three-Michelin chef can be regarded as an artist in food in a sense.

Artists, after all, have to have a little cold temperament to create excellent works.

The other white woman who accompanied her was very young, estimated to be in her early twenties, and Tang Xiang felt that she looked more like a mixed-race Chinese than a white person.

As he expected, the woman's opening was actually an authentic Beijing film: "Hello Mr. Tang, I'm Anna Wu, you can call me Wu Yinfei, the pastry chef of the Waterside Inn, French-Chinese, and your translator this time." ”

Tang Xiang took the list of dishes she handed over, skimmed through them briefly and asked, "What is the amount of each meal?"

Wu Yinfei thought for a while and said, "Generally, you can't eat enough for three bites. ”

Tang Xiang nodded, exactly as he expected.

Tang Xiang deliberately asked the amount, because he used to eat Northeast restaurants, and the amount of Northeast cuisine, one plate is enough to eat, and the belly of the person is bulging as if he is pregnant with Nezha.

However, the more high-end the restaurant, the less the portion, like the vast majority of Michelin three-star meals, Tang Xiang is gone.

So a little bit more.

Tang Xiang took the bilingual menu in Chinese and English, and ordered: "Mille-feuille with sea shrimp sesame seeds, scallops broccoli and white truffles, three seasons of honey, San Sebastian ribs, ......"

After ordering about ten things, Tang Xiang stopped.

Because he remembered that he had to leave half of his stomach for the chefs of the eight major cuisines.