Chapter 616: French Feast

When the two chatted, the appetizer was also prepared, generally speaking, everyone is used to talking about French food, it is difficult to say how big the meal is, but there is a lot of attention in it.

Yu Guangzhong doesn't know Zhao Zhihan, he doesn't know much about cooking, and he doesn't eat much Western food, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't know anything about Western food, but when he was in the peacekeeping army, he also received systematic training in Western food etiquette.

Basically, the things of the current special forces are very mixed, in addition to military skills, various social etiquette, and various Chinese languages, these years can be mixed in the army to a half-official position, not a turtle.

Of course, Yu Guangzhong was trained, but also because when he participated in the mission, he no longer lost the face of Chinese soldiers in front of those black ghosts in Africa, and he was limited to understanding Western food, and he really couldn't be as skilled and elegant as Tang Gujin.

After tasting traditional French cuisine, as long as people who have a little understanding of Western food know that some steps of French food, generally a big meal, must take 3 hours, at least the following 5 steps, the first step, is the so-called aperitif, then needless to say, generally to the restaurant, if it is a regular customer, and like to pretend to be forced, will snap a finger at the waiter, and then say: "Take my wine!" "It's an aperitif, of course, it doesn't matter if you're not a regular customer, as long as it's a local tyrant, you can wave your hand, and then say to the waiter, bring me a bottle of 82 Sprite! Oh no, it should be said that it is a bottle of 82-year-old Lafite, and at this time, the word "Lafite" is not in English but in English "Laffey", well, anyway, how to pretend to be forced to come.

If you really want to talk about the best red wine, it's definitely not Lafite, but it can't stand the fame of this thing.

When not before eating, the French like to have an aperitif, especially at banquets or parties. Aperitifs are generally wine, champagne, cocktails, juices, sodas, etc., which have the function of stimulating appetite. More people prefer to drink a glass of champagne before a meal, and generally do not drink strong liquors that spoil the palate. Drink with some appetizers, such as pistachios, almonds, peanuts, olives, cheese, etc. The appetizers aren't too greasy, and simply eating a little will whet your appetite.

Yu Guangzhong doesn't have a wine store in the restaurant, but he is a chairman, does he need to store wine?

The basic mountain can open whichever bottle you want, but the right to choose red wine is still given to Tang Gujin, this woman's taste is very good, and she will come directly to a bottle of Romanée Conti, of course, not 82 years, generally speaking, Romanée Conti, the most collectible is 90 years of red wine.

Romanée Conti is known as the number one winery in the world, and the most expensive Romanée Conti wines are not found on the market and are not retailed. The mecca of the world's red wine is Bordeaux in France, where 60 of the 61 châteaux were in Bordeaux when Bordeaux was classified in 1855, and nine of the world's top ten châteaux were in Bordeaux. For Burgundy, which is also well-known, Château Romanée Conti was able to elevate its Burgundy wine region to the same status as Bordeaux with a single effort, which shows that Romanée Conti's prestige is unmatched.

In a certain movie, there is a million-dollar 90-year-old Romanée-Conti statement, whether this thing is really worth a million, if it is at auction, it is not unusual.

At Sotheby's Hong Kong auction on October 4, 2015, a group of 114 bottles of Romanée Conti became the most expensive wine auction in history, with a single auction price of $1.6 million. This equates to $14,121 per bottle of wine and $1,700 per glass.

On 16 January 2016, Zaci held his first auction of the year in Hong Kong, where a case of 12 bottles of 1990 Romanée Conti sold for HK$1,592,500.

Over the past 7 years or so, the price of Romanée Conti has been basically increasing, although there has been a slight pullback in it. Today's collectors are paying more for 12 bottles of Romanée Conti than for 105 bottles of 61-year-old 1.5-litre Mouton.

However, Tang Gujin's net worth is calculated in tens of billions, even if he really wants to drink a million yuan of 90-year-old Romanée Conti, no one will say a word.

Fortunately, this woman was not so loser, and directly opened a bottle of 2011 Latash red wine worth about 30,000 yuan. In the words of this woman, thousands of dollars of red wine cannot be drunk.

Fortunately, Yu Guangzhong's classmates are also rich, and they can drink tens of thousands of yuan for a bottle of red wine, even this woman's mouth is also a loser, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to support in the future.

In fact, whether it is 82 Lafite or 90 Kanti, these wines are chosen in film and television dramas through this rare and expensive disposable consumer goods to achieve the effect of rendering the luxurious life and amazing financial resources of the people in the play.

There are many other such expensive and rare wines, such as Drippet in 1811, Cheval Blanc and Haurbus in 1961, Margaux in 1980...... The collision of these top wineries with their own top vintages has resulted in "legendary" creations – often seen in legends and rarely drunk.

That's why some wine connoisseurs say that Romanée Conti is a millionaire's wine, but only billionaires drink it.

But for Tang Gujin, this is not a matter, before, this woman admitted to him in person that she was worth more than 10 billion.

So looking at this woman elegantly holding the goblet, shaking her fingers, and letting the red wine shake in the transparent glass wall, the afterglow center is constantly emotional.

In front of this woman, he can't admit his dick mentality, he can't afford it now, and he can't afford it to the level of tens of thousands of yuan for a bottle of wine.

Every bite is hundreds of yuan, distressing!

In fact, in Western restaurants, even the wine glasses used for drinking are very particular, and the medium glass is used for red wine. Small glasses are used for white wine. Elongated glasses are used for champagne.

So looking at the red wine glass shaking in the woman's hand, the heart in the afterglow was also rippling.

And the appetizers cooked by Zhao Zhihan himself were served in this situation.

After the aperitif, the main event is the appetizer. Only when the appetizer comes up, a French meal can be considered to enter the theme. The so-called appetizers, generally salads, cold cuts, seafood and vegetable soups, etc., are not large, to put it bluntly, it is to let you pad your stomach and "warm up" first.

First course?? The caviar salad, which is a frozen appetizer, is actually made with very simple ingredients: eggs, caviar, onions, lettuce and French eggs.

The ingredients are simple, but the style is beautiful, the egg yolk is cut in half, the lettuce is shredded and mixed as the base, and the egg is placed on top, and the caviar is decorated with a wooden spoon on the egg yolk, and lettuce is used as a decoration for added ornamentality.

Because of Zhao Zhihan, when he originally ate Western food and basically started as soon as it was served, he also began to observe the appearance of the dishes.

No matter how Tang Gujin despised the other party, he also had to admit that Zhao Zhihan's cooking skills were really good, and the taste of the appetizers was very good.

Because Tang Gujin ordered an extra seafood plate, oysters and shrimp are indispensable, so the waiter served lemon and mayonnaise. According to Tang Gujin, the flesh of the freshest oysters will tremble slightly when the lemon juice is squeezed on.

Lemon is eaten with oysters to cover up the fishy smell of seafood, which is similar to the vinegar used to eat seafood in China.

As for mayonnaise, it is said that because you eat too much raw seafood, the body will lose vitamin B, which can be compensated for with mayonnaise.

Then the main course, before serving, the waiter is very professional to clean up the knives, forks and plates for the appetizer, and then put on the tableware that matches the selected main course.

Let Yu Guangzhong once again feel the greatness of service industry practitioners.

To be honest, Yu Guangzhong doesn't like to eat either, so there are always two young and beautiful waiters standing by his side, but Tang Gujin does eat with peace of mind.

There was a burst of emotion in the afterglow, I was cheap, and I couldn't stand the service of others.

There is no absolute distinction between appetizers and main courses in terms of ingredients, and sometimes even the appetizer can be a heavy meat pie, while the main course is a light boiled fish. However, the appetizer is about half the size of the main course, so there is usually no "mass destruction" meat, and it is an important part of the diner's relaxation and slow down to the meal.

The main dish is a steak of foie gras with black mushrooms, imported sirloin steak 4 mature, imported foie gras fried on both sides, with black mushrooms and wine added to the beef roast sauce, the sauce is poured on the fried sirloin and foie gras, and the cooked vegetables are served on the side!

The top Australian snowflake Wagyu beef is still used, or the sirloin part, and the selection of materials is exquisite and luxurious.

Because Yu Guangzhong couldn't understand the French menu, he ordered Tang Gujin to do it on his behalf, but Tang Gujin asked for salmon. The French like to eat steak with a sauce with cream and pepper and a glass of wine. The salmon ordered by my friend was served with white wine and white rice, according to French rules.

To be honest, in terms of Western food, even if you get it in China, it is still not enough for foreigners to eat it.

Anyway, I don't know what is authentic or not, in short, such an expensive thing, the taste is not bad.

After eating the main course, the rest is dessert, which is Yu Guangzhong's favorite, he is not the same as the locals in Jiangcheng, he can eat spicy, but he doesn't like it the most, but prefers sweets.

French desserts are famous, with a variety of cakes and ice creams, as well as a wide variety of cheeses. This is a part of French food that can be eaten or not, and the key depends on personal taste and fitness diet plan.

Anyway, the amount of exercise in the afterglow is so large, I won't worry about gaining weight because I eat such a small thing.

Zhao Zhihan's dessert is a mango sorbet, which means that it will be made of local materials, fresh fruit with Häagen-Dazs, sorbet is a kind of Western-style dessert, and the taste is similar to ice cream. It's just that the approach is a little different. The biggest difference from ice-cream is that it does not contain milk, which is very suitable for people who are sensitive to milk. And sorbet doesn't need to add extra sugar, so it's definitely healthier than regular ice cream.

After eating and drinking, it is time to serve coffee, which is the habit of the French, who generally like to drink a cup of coffee, they believe that coffee can relieve oiliness, so on the streets of France, you can basically see cafes all over the street.

Of course, Zhao Zhihan, a French-Chinese, is not exempt from vulgarity.

In the end, he personally mixed two cups of coffee with Yu Guangzhong and Tang Gujin.