Chapter Ninety-Four: Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant
According to the address given by Da Yang, Sasha drove quickly to find the Chinese restaurant. At the end of the first floor of a five-story building near a small roadside park, I saw two red lanterns hanging at the door in the distance. Sasha said: "It's not very far from my company, I often drive from here, and I didn't even find out when a Chinese restaurant was opened here, and there will be a place to eat Chinese food in the future." ”
The door face of the restaurant is not very big, the wooden door is painted vermilion, there are two yellow copper rings hanging on the door, it looks antique, there is a black gilded plaque hanging on the door, and it is written "Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant" in Chinese and Russian, two golden dragons are painted on both sides of the word, and the two red lanterns hanging on both sides of the door are also painted with golden dragons. Tanya and Natasha said in unison, "It's so beautiful." Natasha said: "I like to watch Chinese movies, this scene is like being in a movie, is this how you China is?" The door is red, and there are red lanterns hanging in front of the house? Brother Chao and I laughed when we heard Natasha say this, Sasha said next to me: "I have been to China, and their cities are similar to ours, this kind of decoration is according to the ancient Chinese style, Vanya took me to the ancient palace museum, only the doors of ancient Chinese palaces are red, and it seems that red lanterns are only hung during festivals in China." Vanya, am I right? Brother Chao nodded and said, "Sasha, you're right, you're about to become a Chinese expert." ”
Pushing open the vermilion wooden door of the restaurant, there was a crisp sound of wind chimes, and when I looked up, I saw a wind chime hanging on the ceiling facing the door, and a red wooden sign was hung under the wind chime, which read "Fortune and Treasure", and the wind that we brought in by pushing the door shook the wind chime.
"Welcome to Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant!" A tall Asian girl in a red cheongsam bowed to welcome us. I almost thought she was Chinese, I just wanted to say hello to her in Chinese, and suddenly I felt that it was wrong, the Chinese would not speak Russian so authentically, and after looking closely, I felt that she should be Buryatia or North Korean. Brother Chao asked her where she was from? She replied that it was Buryats. Chao Ge and the Buryat hostess said: "We have already booked with the boss. The Buryat hostess said: "I know, the boss has already ordered just now, the boss is now in the kitchen, please come with me." "The Buryat hostess took us to a table next to the bar, and when we were seated, she brought us a pot of jasmine tea, poured it for us, and then went to the kitchen to inform the owner.
The restaurant is not very large, roughly more than 200 square meters, and there are more than 20 tables. It was already late, it was already past dinner time, so there were not many customers eating, and there were four or five tables of Russians seated, and in the corner of the restaurant stood four or five Russian waiters in red cheongsam.
The restaurant is very Chinese style, the four corners of the ceiling are hung with four glass palace lamps painted with ancient Chinese ladies, four Chinese ink paintings and several landscape paintings of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum are hung on the wall, and a large fan is hung on the wall behind the bar, on which a group of blooming peony flowers is painted, and the corner of the fan is written "Flowers are rich". Tanya asked me about the meaning of the Chinese paintings, and I roughly translated them, and Tanya and Natasha didn't understand what they heard. Seeing that my translation and explanation were not very good, Brother Chao accurately explained the meaning of those Chinese to Tanya and Natasha, and Natasha and Tanya listened very intoxicated. After listening to Brother Chao, Natasha took Brother Chao's hand and said: "Chinese paintings and words are as beautiful as poetry, so meaningful, I like it so much, Vanya, you teach me to learn Chinese." "When I heard Natasha say this, I laughed secretly in my heart, if this Natasha learns Chinese and likes Chinese culture, then she has to pester Brother Chao to go to China, maybe she won't want to come back when she arrives in China." Thinking of this, I squeezed my eyes at Brother Chao, and Brother Chao smiled helplessly and agreed to Natasha. I quietly glanced at Danya, and found that she was carefully admiring a landscape painting closest to us, did not pay attention to Natasha's words, I felt a little relaxed in my heart, it is best that Danya does not learn Chinese on a whim, teaching Chinese is not an easy thing, I am not very good at speaking, and Russian has not been learned well, if Danya and I learn Chinese is not a mess. I see that Danya except for Victor. Cui's oriental face is more obsessed with Chinese food, and he doesn't seem to be very interested in Chinese culture.
I was thinking about it when Da Yang and Xiao Zhang came out of the back kitchen, only to see that they were both dressed as chefs. Da Yang hugged us: "Welcome to everyone, not long after the opening of the small shop, you two are still the first batch of Chinese after the opening of the small shop, I heard Xiao Zhang say that you are a large domestic company, and the business you do here is very large, please take care of it in the future, what you want to eat today, I will treat you." Brother Chao and I also hugged Dayang in return, and Brother Chao said: "We wish the hotel a prosperous business and a wide range of financial resources!" We must settle the bill when we come to dinner today, you also have a cost to do business, and we will inevitably trouble you in the future. Da Yang clenched his fists again and said, "Thank you very much!" You are welcome to come and sit down often in the future, what do you think you want to eat? Brother Chao said: "You just look at the arrangement, you're done, let's sit down and drink two glasses together." Da Yang said, "Okay, Xiao Zhang, you greet them, and I'll go to the kitchen to cook." With that, he turned around and went back to the kitchen.
Xiao Zhang glanced at the tea we drank and said, "Don't drink this tea, I'll go make a pot of Longjing that I brought." After speaking, Xiao Zhang went to soak in the pot and brought it over to Longjing. Brother Chao said to Xiao Zhang: "You don't rest as soon as you come, you immediately enter the working state, it's really good." Xiao Zhang was a little embarrassed to be praised, "I'm not tired and don't need to rest, because you guys are coming, so I'll go to the kitchen to help my cousin, and by the way, I will familiarize myself with the environment." After glancing at Danya and Natasha, Xiao Zhang quietly asked me, "Dapeng, these two beauties are your girlfriends and Brother Chao?" I nodded, and Xiao Zhang said with envy on his face: "It's so beautiful, you can also help me find such a beautiful girlfriend." I smiled and said, "The Russian waiters in your restaurant are all good, and you have more opportunities to contact them every day." Xiao Zhang shook his head and said, "None of them are as beautiful and temperamental as your girlfriends, did you know both of them in the dormitory?" I nodded and said yes, Xiao Zhang said: "Then I must go to your dormitory to play with you when I rest in the future, Dapeng, you help me find a girlfriend in your dormitory." Brother Chao smiled and said, "You just need to go over and cook for us, and we will take care of your girlfriend's affairs for you." Natasha asked Brother Chao what we were muttering, Brother Chao said that Xiao Zhang wanted to find a Russian girlfriend, Natasha said: "This is a trivial matter, I am responsible, does he have a Russian name?" Brother Chao said, "No, I'll help him make one." I translated the conversation between Natasha and Chao Ge to Xiao Zhang, and Xiao Zhang asked me when he heard it: "Dapeng, do you have a Russian name?" I replied: "My name is easier to call in Russians, so I don't have a Russian name." Xiao Zhang said: "My cousin's name is Yang An, his Russian name is Andrey, my name is Zhang Zhengping, is it convenient for Russians to call me Zhengping?" Brother Chao shook his head and said, "It's hard for Zhengping Russians to remember, so let's give you a Russian name." Xiao Zhang said: "I like Peter the Great, can you call Peter the name?" Brother Chao smiled and said, "No problem, then you can call it Bejia, Bejia is Peter's nickname, and Peter sounds too strict." Xiao Zhang said: "Okay, I'll call it Beijia in the future." After chatting with us for a while, Xiao Zhang went to the kitchen to help.
It didn't take long for the dishes to come up one after another, Kung Pao chicken, braised carp, sweet and sour pork ribs, back to the pot meat, fried pork with fungus, shredded hot and sour potatoes, stir-fried snow peas, Yangzhou fried rice, all of which were made from local materials, only the fungus was brought from China, and snow peas should be canned. Natasha and Danya were dazzled and began to say "It's so fragrant!" before they could eat it! "The tantalizing aroma of the dish made my stomach rumble and drool. Dayang came out of the kitchen and asked what kind of wine we were going to drink? He has Beijing Erguotou and Russian vodka here. At this time, I remembered that there was a bottle of Shanxi Fenjiu that I had brought with me in Sasha's car, so I asked Sasha for the car keys and retrieved the wine from the car.
The Russian customers are running out one after another, and we are the only ones left in the restaurant. After Da Yang and Xiao Zhang were busy, we sat together, happily eating authentic Chinese food and drinking Chinese liquor, and I felt like I was back in China all of a sudden.