Chapter 356: Distinction (2-in-1)
(... This chapter has been updated... )
Thinking of those almost indistinguishable colors, mixed with all kinds of ingredients, Luo Yumin couldn't help but feel goosebumps, thinking, the older generation of people say that Lao Maozi is a natural love of drinking blood and hair, this food is not particular, replaced by us Chinese people, this cooking and cooking, this collocation is very important, it will never be like them in a pot of stew, soup and water are served, such a heavy taste, they still drink with relish. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
For example, in the hands of Chinese chefs, the chicken can be stewed, fried, roasted, sauced, or marinated, and can be made into dozens of dishes with different flavors, and the finished product is not only very distinctive in taste, but also very appetizing in color.
However, the Glasgow Chicken Curry, if you don't have the name of the dish, will never make people think that it is made with chicken, the whole thing is a pile of red tomato sauce, and there is a lot of chili mixed in it, and the finished product has no attractive appearance at all.
And this Welsh Barapolis fruit bread, which looks like moldy and speckled bread, and the hard gang is unappetizing.
These two are not the most peculiar, the most unappetizing, after reading the most impressive is the so-called "London specialty", a very famous dark dish, in fact, it is a bowl of sticky pea soup, how to look at the excrement of some kind of animal....
Knowing this, Luo Yumin had to sigh for his stomach, and he could only give up the idea of looking for local specialties and walked into a roadside restaurant.
Coincidentally, this casual restaurant gave Luo Yumin a surprise, because this restaurant specializes in Sichuan cuisine.
Imitation of the decoration of the Republic of China, about 200~300 square meters wide on the first floor hall is supported by four huge pillars with red paint, the first floor is the hall, the second floor and the third floor are the boxes.
The two pillars facing the gate are lined with large golden characters with dragons flying and phoenixes dancing.
——Rong Zu Rong Xian, the four seasons color and fragrance soup ding;
——Leshan and Leshui, Bazhen Delicious Association gathered.
(Leshan, it is Chongqing refers to Sichuan, hee-hee, this couplet is excerpted from Baidu, please forgive Ye Zi's writing too much, I can't think of a good pair)
Many of the dishes in the university cafeteria are filled with chili peppers, the Han Wu people are already spicy, and Hunan cuisine occupies a place in the eight series of Chinese dishes.
What's more, it is still spicy, although there are some differences between Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, the key is that this chili pepper is Miss Luo's great love.
Entering the hall, Luo Yumin found that the walls on all sides displayed the classic dishes in the Huaxia Sichuan cuisine series with large color photos, such as spicy chicken, boiled fish, Mao Xuewang, Gong Bang chicken, husband and wife lung slices, back pot meat, dried flat eel, fish-flavored shredded pork, spicy chicken, strange chicken, strange rabbit head, splendid fish facet, slate bullfrog and so on.
That red, that glamorous, in this cold foreign country, as long as you are a Chinese person, you will have a deep sense of return when you walk here.
Is it beautiful or not, hometown water, whether you are close to your hometown or not, here it has become a kiss or not, hometown cuisine...
If the large hall is full of guests, walk around, and the whole body will be covered with the unique fragrance of Sichuan flavor - spicy and numb...
"Miss, good evening, just the two? Do you have any reservations in advance? A foreign waiter wearing a blue jacket of modified brocade brocade in the ancient Chinese style greeted him.
Sensei said that the blonde-haired, blue-eyed and snow-white foreigner wore a Chinese-style dress, which was quite festive, because the other party greeted him in Huaxia and was quite standard, Luo Yumin couldn't help but take a few more looks.
"Yes, just the two of us, we haven't made a reservation, please find a refreshing place..."While speaking, a vegetable student was holding a tray to serve food to the guests in the hall, and then turned his head and said with a smile with Luo Ren, "I really didn't expect to find such an authentic Sichuan restaurant in London, this waiter's Mandarin is quite authentic..."
Luo Ren smiled silently.
Waiter, "All the staff of the Eight Treasures Pavilion must be able to speak Huaxia..."
After speaking, he took Luo Yumin to shuttle through the lively hall, and Luo Yumin asked casually with interest, "Is business good, usually like this?" ”
"Isn't this the Spring Festival in China, our Bazhen Restaurant is the most authentic Chinese Sichuan restaurant in London... But usually we have a good business here..."The waiter replied with a smile, and his attitude was just right.
Luo Yumin asked again, "Your boss is also from Huaxia?" How many years has he been here? ”
"Our boss is from Chongqing Province in Huaxia Province, and he is a doctoral student at Oxford University, and this hotel was founded by him on the second day of his visit to Country E..."
When it comes to his boss, the waiter is proud.
Luo Yumin was stunned for a moment, and blurted out, "Then isn't your boss very young?" ”
"Of course, our boss is only 28 years old, you see, there's a picture of our boss there..."The waiter pointed to the billboard on the wall on one side of the hall, which contained many photos.
Before going abroad, Luo Yumin made up for Western etiquette, she knew that gringos have a lot of exquisiteness, and they should avoid some things when chatting, such as the other party's age, salary, and whether they are married, especially for ladies, asking about age is the most impolite behavior.
She regretted it a little after she blurted out the other party's age just now, but she didn't expect the waiter to answer more cheerfully than the person she asked, it seems that the owner of this shop is really a little unusual.
But also, at a young age, he can create such a big industry in a foreign country, and he is still a student, it is strange that this kind of person can be simple.
The waiter led Luo Yumin and Luo Ren to a secluded corner of the hall, where there was a half-wrapped soft mat, and in the corner of the long table covered with a golden tablecloth was a small tall glass bottle with a budding rose in the bottle.
Luo Yumin was a little puzzled, because she didn't see flowers or anything on the empty tables she passed by just now.
Before she could ask, the waiter took the initiative to explain, "This position was originally reserved for a couple, but later they called and said that they couldn't come because of something." ”
Luo Yumin then remembered that he had seen many flower sellers on the street just now, and when he asked later, he realized that this was Valentine's Day, which Westerners pay the most attention to.
Thinking of this, she smiled and picked up the rose, held it in both hands and gave it to Luo Ren with a smile, "Happy Valentine's Day, dear..."
Luo Ren didn't know what his master was doing, so he cooperated to take the rose, and the waiter on the side was stupid, could it be that these two Chinese people were lace????
The poor waiter is puzzled, these two beautiful Chinese girls, who don't like men who have a good hair, but like to play with the same love...
"Luo Ren, what do you want to eat, I'll have a treat today, and we'll go shopping in the best shopping malls in London later, and buy some gifts for my grandmother and grandfather..."
If she has the ability to guess people's minds, she will probably be stunned by the perverted thoughts of the waiter, NND, Miss Ben is a flower and a moon, where it seems to be playing with the same love.
How could she know that an inadvertent action would cause others to be suspicious.
"For meat dishes, come with a boiled fish, a Mao Xuewang, a spicy chicken, a tea-fragrant Guanyin bone, a tea tree mushroom stewed intestine, a camphor duck, a home-style braised pork, and vegetables will have a celery lily, a spicy shredded potato, a cold powder and a spinach with meat sauce.
Luo Ren took the menu and flipped through it casually a few times before reporting the name of the dish, and the waiter wrote a few strokes, and if anyone noticed his movements, they would find that there was a pause in between.
"SORRY, I'LL INTERRUPT, I WANT TO REMIND THE TWO YOUNG LADIES, THE DISHES IN OUR BAZHEN PAVILION ARE VERY LARGE, LOOK AT THE BOILED FISH YOU ORDERED, MAO XUEWANG IS ALL IN A BIG POT, THERE ARE ONLY TWO OF YOU..."
Luo Yumin understood as soon as he heard it that the waiter was reminding himself that the two of them ordered too much of this dish, and it was likely to be wasted, thinking to himself, if this is in China, people still wish you to order as much as possible, anyway, as long as the money is settled in the end, where will it matter if you order too much will be wasted.
What a real child.
"Thank you for your kindness, it's just that we both have a lot of food, don't worry about us going to waste..."
She raised her eyebrows at the waiter, and her eyes blinked a few times, as if she was teasing the other party, and the young man was stunned for a moment but his face turned red, because he had never seen such a beautiful oriental girl, everyone said so, and he had fulfilled his obligation, and he had no position to insist on not letting people order food anymore.
The waiter turned around and was about to leave, only to hear the voice of the beautiful girl from behind him, "Please talk to the kitchen, add a little more soybean sprouts to the boiled fish, and add more offal in Mao Xuewang, remember to be extra spicy, I won't pay for it if it's not spicy..."
The slightly playful voice made the waiter stumble in a hurry, almost staggering away.
"Girl, you're bad at learning.." Luo Ren sighed lightly, reached out and unpacked the packed tableware in front of Luo Yumin and laid it out.
"Be a man, don't be too old-fashioned, it doesn't hurt to joke once in a while."
When the two came to the restaurant, it was the peak time for dinner in the evening, because the Chinese New Year had just passed, and the decoration in the hall was still very full of New Year's flavor, and the fresh and elegant silk and bamboo music rippled in the ears and hearts of every diner.
It didn't take long for the ordered dishes to be served to the table one after another, and the small table was soon full, especially when the basins containing two oversized containers of boiled fish and Mao Xuewang were put on the table, which almost accounted for half of the country.
Bright red spicy seeds, dripping green coriander and minced green onions, snow-white fish, dark gray beef offal, transparent baby's finger-thick vermicelli mixed with white and tender soybean sprouts, the spicy aroma that rushes straight to the nose is mouth-watering.
Luo Yumin happily ordered another bottle of Cotes.du.Rhone red wine from the Rhône Valley in country F.
The waiter who brought the wine to the table also brought two raffle tickets with the secondary tickets torn off, and told them that the secondary part of the lottery tickets had been thrown into the lottery box.
Luo Yumin smacked his spicy red mouth, picked up the warm little towel on the side, wiped it lightly, and then put it down, his bright eyes swept the lottery ticket, "What, there is still a lottery in the Eight Treasures Pavilion tonight?" ”
Maybe seeing that the interest of the guests was not high, the waiter guy straightened his chest and explained, "Today is Valentine's Day, all the guests who consume in our store tonight will get a different number of lottery tickets for each table according to the amount of the dishes you order, the grand prize is a lotus sports car, the first prize is a set of kitchen appliances, and the second prize is a new mobile phone..."
Listening to the prize of the second prize, Luo Yumin couldn't help but be a little speechless, thinking to himself, although this Eight Treasures Pavilion has three floors up and down, this hall looks like it can hold forty or fifty tables at most, how many boxes can there be upstairs? And she also looked at the menu just now, the price is quite reasonable, it is a mid-range restaurant, and it is necessary to release such a high-end prize, what a good business it must be to obtain such a high profit.
No wonder business here is so good today, I can be regarded as a blind cat who ran into a dead mouse, and I hit it, if I really hit the jackpot, how can I move back.
I wanted to think about it, but the words she asked changed taste, and it also made the waiter unhappy.
"Is this true? Don't you can't draw the jackpot at all, right? Luo Yumin couldn't help but ask, she heard some work-study seniors say in school, don't look at those shopping malls in order to attract customers, what lottery is held today, and what promotions are held tomorrow, it is all a gimmick, the prize is very high, and the name is very loud, but the grand prize is not placed in the lottery box.
And this kind of prize promotion usually does a good job for a few days, catches the greed of ordinary people, and does the advertising to the extreme, and on the last day, the big prize will be released.
But as soon as she finished speaking, she found that the waiter guy who was still a little shy just now gave her a blank look, "I have been working in the Bazhen Pavilion for three years, and every year on Valentine's Day and Christmas Eve, there is a lottery in our restaurant, and there has never been such a situation as you said..."
Luo Yumin shrunk his neck, a little annoyed by his recklessness, "SORRY, THAT'S WHAT I SAID, I DON'T KNOW WHEN THIS LOTTERY IS?" ”
She thought that she would be back to Edinburgh tomorrow, and if this was a lottery in the future, where would she know.
Waiter, "The lottery starts at nineteen o'clock, there are still more than twenty minutes, and then our boss will come to the scene and draw the grand prize in person, and lo and behold, the two over there are notaries sent by the city hall..."
With the waiter's fingers, two uniformed men and women sat on a small table on the side of the cash register, drinking tea and chatting.
Luo Yumin stuck out his tongue, thinking that he was really a little dirty, what kind of place is country E, although the hierarchy of nobles and commoners is very strict, but the merchants here attach great importance to credibility, once they are reported for fraud, it will be very difficult to clear it in the future.
In order to hide his embarrassment, Luo Yumin hurriedly picked up his wine glass and gestured to Luo Ren.
Although Luo Ren has intelligence similar to that of humans, the prototype of the body is still a puppet, so it has no digestive organs, in order to move outside without being detected, special types of puppets like it will use high-tech materials to make a stomach organ in the body in order to store food and liquids, and then when it is in a no-man's land, the puppet people will handle and clean it themselves.
According to the intelligent chip installed in his brain, Luo Ren learned the etiquette of Western aristocratic style, picked up the high-legged crystal wine glass, approached the tip of his nose and sniffed it gently, took another sip, half-squinted his eyes, as if he was savoring, and swallowed the wine after about half a minute.
"Yes, in 58 years, due to the abnormal weather in the Rhône Valley, the grape production of that year was reduced by more than half compared with the past, so there were not many finished wines, and the stock in the world is only thousands of bottles, but I didn't expect that what you took out from the Eight Treasures Museum was actually genuine..."
Luo Yumin opened his mouth wide, a mouthful of wine almost squirted out in his throat, and it took a while before swallowing, he picked up a small towel and wiped his mouth and gave a thumbs up, "You cow, you belong to the dog's nose, smell it, taste it, and even the grapes of which year have been tested." ”
In fact, what should be praised the most is a certain big-headed ghost hiding in a dark place where people can't see people, Luo Ren drank this sip of wine, through the internal discrimination system will send the various parameters recorded back to the system center computer, the central computer will soon feed back the quality of the wine and other information back to the crystal chip of Luo Ren's brain, so that it can be taken out to pretend to be a high person.
The waiter listened, yes, this is really a connoisseur, this 58-year-old red wine, the entire Bazhen Museum is only two bottles, each bottle can be sold for more than 1,000 pounds (equivalent to Huaxia coins can get 10,000 yuan), generally guests here are reluctant to consume.
You must know that the average annual income of dual-income families in the richest cities in China is only more than 10,000 yuan, excluding family expenses, it is too much to save a thousand yuan all year round.
But that Chinese girl didn't hesitate at all and ordered a bottle of red wine for 10,000 yuan, did she guess wrong, they are not Chinese people, but which rich Chinese children living overseas?
Although the waiter guy speaks Huaxia fluently, he is not a native of Huaxia in the end, he doesn't know about the situation in China, and he doesn't know anything about officialdom, E has a state-owned Anti-Corruption Office, which specializes in supervising government officials, and the municipal government also has a national supervision hotline, and the whole people are on the front line to prevent corruption, so he never thought that there are not only rich tycoons in the mainland of China, but also a kind of rich people, that is, corrupt officials.
One hundred thousand snowflakes of silver in the prefect a year, this truth can be memorized by even children in Huaxia.
Picking up a piece of snow-white and tender fish meat and gently shaking off the peppercorns on it and putting it in her mouth, Miss Luo's throat made a swishing sound, and her beautiful big eyes were already teary because of the strong stimulation of chili peppers and peppers.
Even the pink nasal cavity began to suck the suspicious object uncontrollably, and the tip of the nose oozed crystal beads of sweat.
"It's really TMD enough, what kind of pepper is this, it doesn't look like the number is much, but this spicy taste is really enough..."This is Miss Luo's most profound experience at the moment, she still thinks in her heart, she will have to find a way to get some pepper seeds of this variety back, those peppers in the system are not so spicy.
The two large pots containing boiled fish and Mao Xuewang are more than 30 centimeters in diameter, and the materials inside are all piled up, spicy chicken, tea tree mushroom stewed intestines, are also packed on large plates, and the braised pork is about a pound of meat, plus the camphor duck that can be called a must in shape and color, the crispy duck skin makes a sizzling sound when you bite it, and a table full of dishes, Luo Yumin is belly is full of oil, and his expression is flying.
The music in the hall stopped abruptly, and then a deep voice came from inside,
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our Babao Zhenchuan restaurant on Valentine's Day... In order to show fairness and justice, this restaurant specially invited notaries Mr. XXX and Miss XXX from the notary office, and they will jointly supervise the following lottery activities with your public, and now, I invite Mr. Dong Yuping of our Babao Zhenchuan Restaurant to speak..." This voice first said the welcome speech in Chinese, and then repeated it in E.
When the sound stopped, the hall on the first floor was full of people, and the aisles were full of people, all eyes looking at the small stage in front of the hall.
There is a lottery device on the table, and through the transparent protective cover, anyone with eyes can see that there are dozens of plastic balls of the same color the size of a table tennis ball.
The plastic balls can be separated, and the middle is stuffed with the sub-ticket of each ticket.
There is a small hole with a flap at the bottom of the lottery machine, and when the lottery machine rotates, the blower at the bottom of the instrument blows up the air and lifts the plastic ball into the protective cover.
At the same time, the piston gate on the movable hole will twitch back and forth, and after a few seconds, the wind stops, the ball falls, and the ball that lands in the hole is the winning number.
The people in the hall who had lottery tickets were all nervous and excited, Luo Yumin was not exempt from vulgarity, her attention was the same as that of the big guy, staring at the small plastic ball blown by the wind, gathering hundreds of people, if the big restaurant, at the moment it was so quiet that only the sound of the blower and the plastic ball colliding.
Because the first prize was drawn in the fifth prize, and there were eight fifth prizes, and the prize was a £300 voucher from the Eight Treasures Pavilion restaurant, so the lottery machine shook five plastic balls in a row.
"Come, let's see who the first lucky winner will be..."The two notaries with white gloves took out five small plastic balls that had fallen into the passage outside the small hole from the passage, and broke them along the snap button, the balls were divided into two pieces, and the five pink coupons were placed in the tray, and the female emcee in a red Chinese cheongsam held the microphone to read out the results.
"XW349, XW132, XW079, XW257, XW008 Congratulations to these five lottery ticket holders, you have won a coupon worth 300 yuan from the fifth prize restaurant, please take the lottery ticket to the brother exchange office to receive the prize later."
The bilingual announcement in Chinese and English was not finished, and the sound of cheers sounded in the hall, but after a while, some of them were disappointed.
Because they won the fifth prize and lost the qualification to compete for the grand prize. (To be continued.) )