Chapter 213: Three Michelin Stars
Qi Ling's yacht has also been wandering around them, they don't fish, they either send duì to drink and play games, or play games, dance and sing, compared with them, Li Han and they suddenly feel old, and the whole ship is dull.
The brothers glanced at each other and let out a long sigh. Well, they are indeed old, and although they may not like this kind of pie when they are still in college, they will not fish and bask in the sun every day like they do now, and they will not feel too boring and boring.
Of course, they don't just do these two things, when the mood comes, they will jump into the water to swim a few laps, or put on an oxygen tank to dive in the water for a while, touch a few shellfish or something, and play cards and board games at night. Chen Jing loves to play mahjong, but unfortunately Li Han is not prepared on the yacht, but there is a mahjong at home, and he played with Benedict and a few of them when he first came.
"I'll ask them if they have mahjong." Chen Jing didn't have much love for playing cards, he hadn't touched mahjong for several days, and his hands were itchy, so he walked to the bow of the boat and shouted to the air.
The two ships were less than ten meters apart at this moment, and they only needed to raise their voices slightly to be heard by the people on the other side. It just so happened that there was neither a party nor a dance party on the other side at this time, and it was rare to be quiet, and Chen Jing easily talked to them.
It's a pity that the other party doesn't have mahjong either. That's a group of rich second-generation officials from China, and a few foreigners, it's strange to go to sea to play mahjong, not to mention that the other party is still a new ship that has just arrived, maybe there are no cards and board games.
Li Han looked at Chen Jing Zhile, and the three of them would also play mahjong when they were bored, but they were not addicted. At most, touch a few laps when you are free and there are people. So they were in the mood to watch Chen Jing scratch his ears and cheeks for fun, while shouting: "Let's go play board games for a while, seven people are enough to be lively." ”
Louis wants to drive the boat, and there should be eight people left, and they say that seven people naturally don't count Chen Jing. Chen Jing was depressed, glared at them for a while, and then suddenly laughed, and said, "I haven't played a killing game for a long time, how about playing a few killings?" ”
This time it was Li Han's turn to be depressed. He doesn't like to play Kill and Three Kingdoms, because he is not very good at playing this kind of game that requires scheming. Especially when he was a police officer, he always killed civilians by mistake. It's really this kind of analysis of people's hearts. Even their own people like to mess up and pretend to kill. It's not his dish at all, I'd rather play something without using my brain.
He really didn't understand, why did he have to fight wits and courage to do so tiring when playing a game, isn't playing a game just for relaxation?
It's a pity that there are still many people who like to masochist. So the killing game has been popular for many years and has endured. Li Han could only grit his teeth and accompany his friends when they said they wanted to play. It's like being at work, and accompanying the business partner is fighting wits and courage. But to be honest, he really doesn't have the brain cells to do that. Fortunately, his own work does not require him to fight wits and courage.
After three days at sea, plus two days each from London and Windermere, Shang Wang Zi and his sisters have been in England for seven days. Although Fu Yuanjin and Chen Jing have calculated the time, Shang Wangzi's vacation has been almost used, and it will take time to return and adjust the time difference, so they have to go back.
"The boss wants to go to work, and you two don't need it, what are you doing in a hurry to go back?" Li Han said, "Let the boss and the big. Sister-in-law just go back first, you don't have to worry at all. Especially the second child, who has to sit on a plane for more than 11 hours if his leg is broken? ”
Fu Yuanjin shrugged his shoulders and said: "No way, my old man abused his son, and he had already thrown away a bunch of jobs waiting for me to go back to work, and he specially told me that those are all jobs that don't require me to use my legs, which can be completed by sitting in the office, and it is more suitable for recuperation than traveling outside." ”
Chen Jing also said: "I opened such a small company by myself, it would be good to be able to come out and play for a few days, and if I continue to play, the company should go out of business." ”
Li Han was helpless, the brothers had their own careers and lives, and there were naturally differences when they got together, so they could only tell Louis to sail back.
They booked a ticket for the next day, and naturally had a farewell banquet that day. Li Han booked Gordon Ramsay's four-o'clock meal at the most famous restaurant in the Chelsea area, and his family's dinner may not be scheduled a month in advance, and lunch must be at least a week in advance.
As a three-Michelin-starred restaurant, it is naturally known for its exquisite deliciousness, and those who go to eat it are for the sake of tasting the deliciousness, and filling the stomach is secondary, especially the French food is outrageously small in portions, so you can bear it if the time is not right.
Gordon Ramsay was a former footballer who was forced to end his career as an athlete at the age of 15 with a knee injury. In 1998, he began his career as a TV host, and his various cooking shows were popular in Europe and the United States. He is known as the top chef in the UK and the world, and has been dubbed "Chef of Hell" by the media for his rudeness and strictness in various celebrity cooking shows, as well as his pursuit of perfection.
Today, he is the author of dozens of cookbooks and owns 28 restaurants, 12 of which are Michelin-starred. His restaurants are named after Gordon Ramsay, and his first restaurant in Chelsea was awarded three Michelin stars within three years, in fact, the highest of three Michelin stars.
They almost went ashore and went straight to Gordon Ramsay, time was a bit tight, and they didn't have time to change anything. Fortunately, because they went to Reims Manor before, they all had dresses in their suitcases, while Gordon Ramsay did not have a high dress code, and only needed to wear collared clothes.
Several of them don't know French, but fortunately there is Lydia, to be honest, there are countless low-key students like her in the UK who know many Chinese, at least Li Han's friends, such as Benedict, Tom and Gavin are multi-foreign.
Gordon Ramsay is extremely strict in the selection of ingredients, deeply exploring the spirit of French cuisine, with delicate tastes, delicious sauces, and elegant tableware, so that they can enjoy the most luxurious meals from mouth to eye. Each dish is cooked in a unique way, preserving the original flavor of the food and enhancing the umami of the raw materials, and the dining procedures are also very particular, although they are not in France, they experience the most original French style.
The restaurant is not large, it can only accommodate 45 people at the same time, but the decoration is simple and bright, and it is pleasing to the eye. Their service is also very enthusiastic, timely, in place, there is a feeling of really treating customers as God in the palm of their hands, even if the country says that they want to treat customers as God, but even in a five-star hotel, it is difficult for you to experience this feeling, Li Han has also enjoyed this kind of service on a six-star cruise ship.
In addition to the dishes they ordered, the restaurant also gave them chocolate trees and ice cream balls, which won the hearts of several ladies, who did not hesitate to praise the manager who came to greet him personally, an amiable old man. The old man was so pleased that he invited them into the kitchen.
The kitchen of the western restaurant is relatively clean and bright, this three-star Michelin restaurant is not big, and the kitchen is not very spacious, but it can be said that it is spotless, and there is no oil smoke at all, and there are no stains. At this time, there was still a period of time before the dinner rush, but the chefs were already preparing in a nervous and orderly manner, and Li Han was embarrassed to disturb them too much, so they said goodbye to the manager and retired after a visit.
"Let's go back and book a place for dinner on the official website, shall we?" Li Han said to Lydia, "You can book it whenever you want, but unfortunately it can't be set temporarily, otherwise wouldn't it be nice to come over for dinner on your birthday in two days?" ”
Lydia smiled: "It's the same every day, but it's not on my birthday, my dad has prepared a birthday party for me, and we have to go back to the manor." ”
"Well, I forgot that you have a party every year on your birthday." Li Han thought dejectedly, and suddenly found that although he didn't work during this time, he was actually quite busy, and he had forgotten to prepare a birthday gift for her...... What to do?
Can he just give Lydia a card and use the phrase "swipe casually" as a birthday present?
Lydia knew that she wouldn't know that her boyfriend had forgotten to prepare a birthday present for her, let alone anyone else. They are still reminiscing about the service and delicious food they just enjoyed, Fu Yuanjin is also a person who has enjoyed everything in China, he smacked his lips and said: "Those so-called 'quasi-Michelin' restaurants in China, this level is more than three stars away, but I am afraid that the word 'quasi' is not so easy to get rid of." ”
Li Han said with a smile: "In the final analysis, Michelin restaurants are only a criterion for judging restaurants in European and American countries, and it is not very fair to take them to Asia, and the habits and food styles on both sides are too different." Even if it's the top level in a Chinese restaurant, the Michelin inspectors don't necessarily like it. ”
It is said that the Michelin rating criteria are very strict, and restaurants that appear in the Michelin Guide must at least receive a "pair of knives and forks" mark, which is the guide's basic rating criteria for restaurants, ranging from "the highest 5 pairs to 1 pair", indicating the comfort level of the restaurant. The selection above this is the Michelin star, which ranges from one star to the highest three, and is mainly based on the culinary level.
Once the inspection is complete, the inspector will not be able to appear at the restaurant for the next few years to ensure the fairness of the next inspection. And the inspectors have to pay out of their own pockets, so much so that there are only 106 three-Michelin-starred restaurants in the world today. They are usually decided by multiple inspectors, if an inspector finds a good store, he often has to visit several times before he dares to submit a report to the next level, and then there will be other inspectors to certify again, if the opinions are not consistent, then a qiē has to come over again, a restaurant with one or two stars often has to go through 15 repeated inspections a year to have an answer, and a three-star restaurant has to go through 15 repeated inspections a year to have an answer, and a three-star restaurant has more.
Therefore, as long as a restaurant has a Michelin star, it is also a restaurant worth trying, and the criteria for three levels are: one star is "worth visiting", and the restaurant is particularly excellent in the same style of eating; The two-star restaurant is very good at cooking, and it is a restaurant that is "worth a long detour" to visit; The three stars are restaurants that are "worth a special trip" to visit, and they have delicious foods that will never be forgotten, and it is said that they are worth a special trip to eat.
And what they went to taste today was three Michelin stars. (To be continued......)