Chapter 190: Fish and Chips
After coming out of Room 33, I didn't choose to continue browsing the British Museum because I was congested, but left the British Museum with Flower.
Standing at the entrance of the museum, I took out my phone and glanced at the time, half past one in the afternoon. I was a little surprised to see the time, if I remember correctly, I arrived at the museum at nine o'clock in the morning, just walked around the Egyptian Pavilion and the Huaxia Pavilion in a No. 33 exhibition hall, and the time passed for four and a half hours.
Flower stood beside me with his hands crossed, and he took out a pair of sunglasses out of nowhere and put them on his face, and the blue sun hat on his head made him look like he had a unique sense of fashion in the urban-rural area.
The old man looked at me, "Where are you going next?" ”
I didn't feel good and said: "I should ask you about this, you are a tour guide and I am a tourist." ”
Flower raised his sunglasses, "Isn't this the tour guide asking for the opinions of tourists, where do you want to go, tell us a place and we'll leave immediately." I know every attraction in London, and I'm a London pass. ”
I suddenly remembered the explainer I had just taken and returned, "Oh, Mom, don't talk about your London Pass and the door cleared, I'm afraid that if I say a place, you will get there and send me away." ”
Flower cut off, "Don't believe it." Then find a place to eat first, I was thirsty and hungry after walking around for so long. ”
"Eat at this point? That's nothing, it's neither lunch nor afternoon tea. ”
Flower walked in the direction of the car and waved his hand at me without looking back, "You can think of it as a postponed lunch or an early afternoon tea, whatever you like." Is it possible that you will have to go hungry for a few more hours to catch a meal? If you're hungry, you don't have to eat. ”
Looking at Flower's back, I suddenly remembered one thing - it seems that I haven't had a lunch at the right time since I came to England, or rather, I haven't had a serious lunch since I came to England!
After getting in the car, I drove aimlessly on the streets of London, and after ten minutes, Flower suddenly pointed to a fast food restaurant on the street and smiled at me: "That's it, there are few people." ”
With that, Flower parked his car on the side of the road and walked into the fast-food restaurant.
Walking into the store and walking to the front desk, Flower didn't look at the menu behind the clerk, and said neatly: "Two fish and chips, two Cokes." By the way, do you have a York pudding here? ”
The clerk nodded.
"Then two more York puddings, well, how much."
Seeing that Flower was so neat that I didn't have to look at the menu, I couldn't help but ask, "Have you been to this store before?" ”
Flower took the number plate from the clerk and turned to me and smiled, "No, never." This is the first time I've been here, and I had no idea of a restaurant with such a name. ”
"So you're so skilled at ordering? Don't even look at the menu? ”
Flower scoffed, "Eat in restaurants in the UK, especially fast food restaurants down the street." If you don't know what's good to eat at this restaurant and don't want to listen to the staff's recommendations and think their building will cheat you, you can't go wrong with fish and chips. Every British chef is probably different at something. But every British chef must be good at making fish and chips. ”
That's right, as the UK's number one and only national dish, fish and chips should be cooked by every British chef and are good at it.
After walking to the pick-up gate and waiting for a while, the food came up, a plate of fish and chips with fish on the left and chips on the right, and sauce in the middle, a York pudding that looked like a pizza that had not been sprinkled with anything, and a glass of Coke.
Deep-fried fish is a process in which fish with bones and bones removed, sliced and coated in wet dough, and then fried. It tastes like the fish underneath the dough is very tender, and the smell is not heavy, but has an umami taste. Compared with the so-called cod sticks and cod burgers in a fast food restaurant with the head of an old man in China, it is hundreds of times more delicious.
As for the fries, I feel like these fries on the plate are more called "potato sticks" than fries. Because it's not as thin as the fries I've eaten before, each one is very thick, the thinnest is about my index finger, and the color is darker than the fries I've seen before.
After eating two pieces of fish, Flower looked at me with a smile, "You know, when I was younger, fish and chips weren't packed in cardboard boxes if they were taken out. ”
"What's that for?"
Flower smiled, "Newspaper, and it must be the Thames newspaper of the day." Every morning when I go to work, I can see countless office workers eating fried fish and reading the newspaper. Some people read the newspaper and were engrossed in it, and after reading it, they subconsciously wanted to turn it over, and the fish and chips were all scattered on the ground with a bang, and breakfast was lost. I can only work hungry all morning. ”
I looked at Flower and teased, "Looks like you've been through this more than once." ”
"Me? No, no, no, I rarely eat this for breakfast. I usually go out after eating at home, and the sandwiches Ruth made me were much better than that. ”
Looking at Flor, who was emitting a light called "Single Dog Must Die", I silently lowered my head and concentrated on dealing with the fries.
I'm afraid I'll take another look at Flor and I'll drag him away.
As soon as I had eaten all the food on the plate, Flower smiled and asked, "How does it taste?" ”
I smacked my lips, "It's okay, it tastes better than I expected." I thought that the British diet was not only barren but also dark, like stargazing, for example. ”
Flower was stunned, "Looking up at the starry sky pie, how did I not know that there was this dish in the UK?" ”
I gestured and said, "It's a pie, take it out and snap a few eyes on it when you're done." Each eye has a fish's head on it, and it looks like a fish looking up at the stars. That's why it's called stargazing. ”
Flower rolled his eyes and said angrily: "How can there be such a thing, in your opinion, the British diet is like this?" It seems that I need to tell you about the British diet. ”
"Is there still food to talk about in the UK? I heard that in the 2012 Olympic Games, the good guys in the cafeteria of your Olympic Village had two dishes, a plate of boiled beans on the left, and a plate of pasta with tomato sauce on the right. The athletes ran away after eating for two days, and the canteen staff took a holiday in advance. ”
", where did you hear this nonsense? Although the British diet is not as rich as the eight major cuisines of China, it also has a history, is it? The British diet is very simple now, but that was after the Industrial Revolution. Before the Industrial Revolution, the British menu was also very rich! ”
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