Chapter 4: Chinatown
Genius remembers in a second [Aishang Novel Network biquge.info] to provide you with wonderful novels to read.
The entrance of Chinatown is at the south end of Grant Street on Bush Street, the gate is covered with green tiles, several vivid dragons are very Chinese, the entrance is a very large archway, the book is four big characters "the world is for the public", I heard that this is written by Mr. Sun Yat-sen himself, An Yuxi habitually brainwashed Jessica, talk about how powerful China is, with a long history, a large land, outstanding people, profound culture, the people are industrious and brave, and the people are industrious and brave. She didn't notice that Jessica was just unconsciously hugging her waist, not knowing what she was thinking.
Chinatown, whose English name is "net", is the main street of Grant Street, which is flanked by many Chinese souvenir shops and Chinese restaurants, and is often crowded with people who come here for sightseeing and shopping. Stockton Street, which runs parallel to Grant Street on the west side, is a shopping street for local Chinese Americans, and the price is fair, and the bowl for Little Sika was bought here.
Historically, the expansion of the Chinese community has been strongly hindered by municipal governments, such as in 187o, when a bill was introduced to strictly control the housing and work of Chinese people. When a fire caused by the earthquake of 19o6 destroyed Chinatown, the city government planned to evict the Chinese from the area to develop real estate, but the plan was aborted despite strong resistance from all the Chinese.
To this day, Chinatown is still unharmed next door to the most prosperous financial district, but it is almost impossible to continue to spread horizontally, so we have to find a way to do it at a high level. There are many strangely shaped buildings here, but they were not built in the same era. For example, the Mazu Temple on Tin Hau Temple Street was built on the roof of the shop and the laundry, although it was a bit deformed, but An Yuxi personally felt that this was not bad, it was a model of the combination of Chinese and Western, the main body of the Victorian style, and then the roof was a cornice of intrigue, a combination of Chinese and Western, there is a unique beauty, An Yuxi likes this style very much, from this point of view, An Yuxi is not a traditional person.
Say hello to people you know, walk through the streets and alleys, Chinatown is not a traditional Chinese-style street, nor is it the kind of street of the modern big 6, it may be like Hong Kong on TV, the billboards of various shops have complex and simple fonts, and some stores advertise discounts, which is very lively, most of the greetings are in Chinese, occasionally with a little accent, if it is not for the frequent appearance of whites and blacks, it is still similar to China.
The most interesting neighborhood in Chinatown is Waverly Place. Many of the buildings here were donated by Chinese charities. Ross Lane is a typical example of the narrow alleys hidden deep in the block, and the smell of desserts wafts from the alley from time to time.
An Yuxi and Zheng Xiuyan's favorite snack is Hutchison Fish's sauce-flavored pig's trotters located in Ross Lane, because there are five kinds of spices in the seasoning, also known as five-spiced pig's trotters, the pig's trotters made with zuò sauce only take the hind legs, and only the first third is removed after the pig's trotters are removed, according to Chef Hutchison Feng, the hind hooves are more chewy and elastic than the front feet, and only the first third is for fear that the guests will eat too much. In fact, they are all cheats, because each diner pays the whole pig's trotters.
The practice of pig's trotters is not difficult, after washing the pig's trotters, soak them in cooking wine for two hours to taste, then smear them with sauce and stew them, and then coat them with a layer of sauce to fry the outer skin, the taste is fragrant, and the golden oil is shiny and easy to arouse people's appetite, of course, it is also a great taste! The skin on the outside is fried crispy, the meat on the inside melts in the mouth, it is soft and not greasy, and the most important thing is that the hoof tendons are chewy and not bitten, and the heat is just right. It is not difficult to make it, but it is rare to make sauce and cooking wine.
An Yuxi's master likes the drunken chicken here the most, An Yuxi suspects that the old man accepted his senior brother Chen Fulong as an apprentice because of his own appetite, and the most hateful thing is to let himself take it every day. However, An Yuxi obviously didn't think that he should actually thank his master, if it wasn't for his master accepting his senior brother, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to gnaw pig's trotters every day.
"Senior brother, did you bring your girlfriend to play again?" locked the bicycle outside the store, took Xiao Lori's little hand and entered Hutchison Feng, and heard the sharp-eyed Chen Fulong calling him from afar. Hutchison has a lot of specialties, so it is very popular, but since Chen Fulong's limited sale, he has also begun to be cold, and there is no longer a long queue outside the door.
Seeing that Chen Fulong, whose face was full of meat, was pinching a cucumber and munching it, An Yuxi's eyes revealed a thick longing, swallowed saliva, and then snatched the cucumber that Chen Fulong had just bitten half, resisted the urge to stuff it into his mouth, and threw it into the trash can regretfully.
"Didn't you say that Da Mao doesn't like all kinds of melons?" An Yuxi swallowed his saliva, and then Chen Fulong, who was righteous and righteous, glanced at his senior brother.
Jessica, who was hiding behind An Yuxi, could understand this sentence, pursed her lips and nodded violently, she was a child who hated cucumbers.
"Don't you like sweet potatoes either?" Chen Fulong swallowed the cucumber in his mouth, wiped his mouth, and made an ok posture, the meaning of this gesture is what I understand.
"What is a sweet potato?" Jessica doesn't understand such complicated Chinese yet.
"It's sweet potatoes." Ahn Woo-seo immediately explained in Korean.
"Don't show your affection for the little couple, don't leave her alone when you take my daughter later." Chen Fulong teased.
"I'm ready for food, and the girl is still upstairs dressing up." Chen Fulong handed An Yuxi a big food box, which was the girls' lunch, and then said regretfully, "It's a pity that you have a big hair, otherwise I would have forced your father to order a doll." ”
"Senior brother, don't be so feudal, okay." An Yuxi didn't expect that he also had the rhythm of an arranged marriage, "Ah Xiang is still so young, you think too much." ”
"What's this, your family conditions are so good, you are so smart, you will at least be more handsome than your father when you grow up, you and Ah Xiang are childhood sweethearts, the two have no guesses, oops, it's better to let Ah Xiang make you a second room." Chen Fulong spat for a while, and the more he talked, the more energetic he became.
"Senior brother, you're crazy, no matter what, you can't let Ah Xiang be wronged." An Yuxi was speechless about this strange senior brother, in fact, this mention yì seems to sound pretty good.
"Well, you're right." Chen Fulong pondered for a moment and nodded.
"Ah Xiang, you're here."
An Yuxi suddenly appeared Chen Xiang, who was standing behind Chen Fulong, his face flushed, and he was twisting his fingers uneasily. Although Ah Xiang's name is earthy, it is a little beauty embryo, with long eyelashes, big eyes, clear and innocent, clear eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, soft and weak can arouse men's desire to protect, and has the temperament of a goddess, but now no matter how good-looking it is, it is just a little Lori, not pretty, only cute, and An Yuxi usually has no resistance when facing Little Lori, because his psychological age is also an uncle.
I don't know how the mental age is calculated, but now An Yuxi is just a child. Even if you can't wait to show your ambitions, it's a pity that it's not time yet, so let's play with Lori first, and I'll have to work harder in the future.
Seeing Chen Xiang's embarrassed appearance, she listened to her father's crazy words.
"Ah Xiang, let's go play with your uncle." Chen Fulong snorted embarrassedly, and glanced at An Yuxi by the way.
"Let's go, Ah Xiang, let's go to the martial arts hall." An Yuxi understood the meaning of the senior brother very well, and quickly changed the topic.
"Okay, uncle." Ah Xiang responded sweetly.
"Uncle Shi..." opened the distance between An Yuxi and the goddess with one sentence... An Yuxi felt a little sad about himself.
* Silk has no human rights, when I was still * silk I felt that I would never have love, because a beautiful girl around me had paper, but when my brother was reborn, the beauties appeared in front of me one by one, what is the reason! An Yuxi thought indignantly.
Chen Fulong's wife heard that she was a well-known beauty, and the people who pursued her at the beginning were estimated to be able to fill a street, but Chen Fulong, who was not very good-looking, had the essence of picking up girls - that is, to catch a person, you must first grab a person's stomach.
At the beginning, Chen Fulong conquered his wife with love pig's trotters, making her a foodie, and then slowly fattened his wife, but later when he gave birth to Ah Xiang, he died of dystocia because he was too obese, which made Chen Fulong blame himself and be disheartened, in order to commemorate his wife, he only made 25 pig's trotters every day. At the beginning, An Yuxi was a little skeptical that Chen Fulong was afraid that others would worry about his wife, so he fattened her, so he won't say anything more.
Because of his wife, Chen Fulong has been fond of his youngest daughter and his affection, Chen Xiang has been like her mother since she was a child, but Chen Xiang has been weak and sick since she was a child, and she had to be sent to an old Chinese medicine doctor in Chinatown for treatment.
Chen Fulong saw that An Yuxi liked pig's trotters so much and wanted to teach him the technique of making pig's trotters, An Yuxi originally refused, it was too troublesome to cook or something, and he smelled of oily smoke, but then he thought about it, if he was not here in the future, he would not be able to eat it! So I agreed, every day at lunchtime to come to Chen Fulong here to learn cooking, of course, those high-end foreign dishes are not learned, not to mention time-consuming and laborious, the key is not to eat a full stomach, more importantly, so many dishes have to learn which life, it is troublesome, so only learn a few home-cooked dishes and a few special snacks. However, since An Yuxi learned to cook those dishes, and invited Zheng's father and Zheng's mother to taste them together, An's father is no longer satisfied with An's mother's cooking skills, An's mother is also a little princess at home, and she doesn't know anything about cooking, and then after a lot of hardship, she finally learned to make dumplings, because An's father likes to eat dumplings very much. Of course, An's mother was also happy to let An Yuxi prepare dinner, and during that time, the two families had dinner together, but they were pitiful An Yuxi, who was still young, fortunately they were just cooking, and the two housewives came to wash and cut vegetables.