Chapter 23 Mandarin Duck Hot Pot

The next morning, Claire came back to the door, along with Anne and Thomas. Zhen Fan let them in, and they made a cup of tea.

"Chinese tea? It tastes pretty good! Thomas complimented, "Do you know we have a new neighbor?" Yesterday I learned that the poor mistress on your left had been sold by a real estate company after she had been killed, and it was Raymond Turner's family and two daughters who had been bought. ”

"That house can be sold, too?" Zhen Fan asked in surprise, and then he was relieved, whether it is a real estate agent in China or the United States, they will talk about the houses they sell.

"If you buy it, you must have a good haode to redecorate. To be honest, it takes courage to live in a room like this! Thomas shrugged his shoulders.

"Do you want to warn them?" Anne said kindly.

"Don't be stupid, you're causing trouble for yourself, don't say anything! Listen to me! Thomas gave Anne a displeased look and objected.

Zhen Fan didn't say anything, it's really hard to say this, if you say it, others may not believe it. At the moment, he nodded in agreement with Thomas's statement. Seeing that the two men said this, Anne couldn't say anything, and then brought the topic to cooking, which Anne was able to share with Zhen Fan.

In order to show his enthusiasm and gratitude to Anne's family, Zhen Fan decided to leave Thomas's family for lunch. Anyway, the ingredients are also ready-made, and Zhen Fan bought a lot of them last time. However, this time Zhen Fan decided to make a mandarin duck hot pot, which is more Chinese characteristics.

Thomas is watching TV with Claire on the couch, and Anne goes to the kitchen to help Zhen Fan, and at the same time wants to learn how Zhen Fan cooks Chinese food, which is a craft that can be used in housewives' gatherings, and will steal the limelight.

The vegetables were cleaned, and then I watched Zhen Fan prepare mutton rolls, beef carp slices, mackerel fillets, oysters, squid fillets, fish balls, fresh shrimp, and some small crabs; Vegetarian dishes include senzhang, potato vermicelli, spinach, cabbage, greens, kelp, and mushrooms.

Zhen Fan is a mandarin duck hot pot soup base made of fresh chicken, and the spicy side is made with his own spicy seasoning. When the pot was just boiling, the aroma came to her nose, so that Anne couldn't help but sniff all the time.

In the whole process, Anne is only left with the delivery tool, and the specific production is not interfered at all, Zhen Fan's knife skills and skills are skilled, and it is like a smooth flow, which is pleasing to the eye, which makes Anne feel jealous, and women are born to envy other people's good cooking skills.

"Alright, our lunch is ready!" Zhen Fan shouted in the restaurant. In fact, there is no need to shout, Thomas and Claire are attracted by the aroma. The red soup and the white and tender soup were side by side, and the aroma was mouth-watering, and Claire couldn't wait to climb into the chair.

Zhen Fan took a dozen frozen beers from the refrigerator and a few bottles of drinks, which were prepared for Claire, if you didn't have these in hot pot, you wouldn't be able to be painful and happy.

"If you eat Chinese food and don't eat mandarin duck hot pot, then you don't really understand Chinese food." Zhen Fan sat Anne and Thomas down, opened three cans of beer, handed them to Anne and Thomas, and took one for himself.

"Do you want to use chopsticks?"

Claire was a little unaccustomed to it, but she still held it in her hand, learning from Zhen Fan's appearance, and looked presentable. Anne and Thomas have eaten Chinese food a few times, and they are fine with chopsticks, not so rusty.

"Yes, this time we'll use chopsticks!"

Zhen Fan told the three of them about the way to eat hot pot, he first sandwiched a piece of beef slices and soaked them a few times on the spicy side, and then took them out, the beef was already cooked, with hot red oil, and was rolled into his mouth by Zhen Fan in one bite.

"Hah-"

Zhen Fan let out a sound of admiration, and then poured a sip of beer.

"Great, I haven't tasted this in a long time!"

Thomas was eager to try, Anne had already learned from Zhen Fan, sandwiched a piece of mutton roll, soaked it, put it in his mouth, the spicy taste suddenly permeated the taste buds on the entire tongue, the tongue was like a fire, which made people's nerves tense suddenly, and with the tender mutton turning around in the mouth, the spicy suddenly turned into a tender and mellow taste, and the spicy was pressed down.

"Beer!"

Zhen Fan shouted from the side.

Anne immediately picked up the beer and poured a sip, a cold liquid immediately pressed the spicy completely, so that the tongue was refreshed, the refreshment after the fierce spicy, giving people a feeling of relaxation, but after the cold, the spiciness slowly returned to the tongue, and then gradually decreased.

"Great! It's a ......."

Anne exclaimed excitedly, Americans eat spicy food and like to make chili sauce very much, but how can the taste compare to the spicy taste of hot pot? Not to mention the cold beer press.

"Wow-"

It was Thomas who screamed, and it turned out that when Anne was shabu-shabu, he couldn't wait to sandwich a piece of fish fillet shabu-shabu, and then just after Anne, he let out an alarming applause.

"Wow-"

Immediately I heard a big cry, it turned out that Claire learned to shake a piece of mutton, and when she ate it in her mouth, she couldn't stand the spicy taste, and suddenly tears and snot came out, but she forgot to drink a cold drink to suppress it.

His face was flushed, and he sniffed again and again, and there were tears on his face.

"Take a sip!" Zhen Fan put the drink on Claire's mouth, Claire couldn't wait to take a sip, and then a cold suppressed the restless spiciness, and immediately stopped crying, although she was still inhaling, but she felt much better.

"Baby, it looks like you're really out of luck!" Anne couldn't help but laugh, wiped Claire's face clean with a handkerchief, took a piece of cabbage and soaked it in the white soup, and placed it on Claire's plate.

It tastes good too, and Claire can handle it perfectly.

Thomas and Anne were sweating profusely from this hot pot, and although there was air conditioning in the restaurant and cold beer in their mouths from time to time, they were still covered with sweat and kept wiping their faces with napkins. Even in the back, Claire couldn't help but clip a slice of spicy hot pot shabu from time to time, although the spicy one still kept inhaling, but with the pressure of the cold drink, it was still not as embarrassing as at the beginning.

"It's been a great day!"

Thomas hurriedly put down his chopsticks, touched his stomach, shook his head again, and sighed again.

"I've eaten Chinese food before, but I've never encountered such a way to eat it, and it is so delicious, it seems that we have missed a lot of good things before."

"I have to learn more from you, you won't teach me!" Anne said with a smile.

"In this case, all the benefits will be mine!" Thomas Hahadaxiao, looking very proud.

"And me!" Claire interjected in time, as if to warn the adults not to forget her, this little girl is brushing her sense of existence, "I want to learn too!" ”

"Are you going to learn how to cook Chinese food? You're too small! Anne couldn't help but touch Claire's head and laughed.

Claire raised her face with a serious face, looked at Anne with disdain, and looked at Zhen Fan with expectation: "I am a girl, and I will be a mother in the future, can't Weishenme learn to cook Chinese food?" ”

"Flutter!" Zhen Fan couldn't help it, this little girl is so cute!

"Of course you can, but it takes strength to learn to cook Chinese food, and now Claire's strength is still small, when Claire grows up, will I teach you to do it well?" Zhen Fan pinched her face.

"Okay!" Perhaps Claire also felt that she was not tall enough and not strong enough, so she gave up on the idea for the time being. After Zhen Fan cleaned up, the four of them sat on the sofa again.

Thomas had his belly propped up, and when he sat down, he had to loosen his belt.

"Claire's cousin will be coming tomorrow, her name is Lottie Haverne, she is a beautiful girl, but she said that she might bring a classmate of hers, who is also a good friend of hers, and I think it would be nice to have one more person to go, and I am sure this trip will be very interesting."

Anne and Zhen Fan chatted about the upcoming camping barbecue.

"Of course, it's good to have a lot of people, and my time here in the United States is short, so it's the best for me to be able to make more friends."

Zhen Fan said that he had no opinion, and told Anne some of the things he had prepared. Anne nodded, delighted: "It's great that you've thought so well." If it's camping, is your tent ready? ”

Zhen Fan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, he was only preparing to eat, but he forgot about the big thing, the tent was not prepared, so he smiled and said: "This...... I'm going to get ready tomorrow, but I forgot! Thanks to your reminder, xiexie! ”

After saying this, Thomas has Zhen Fan talking about fishing, Zhen Fan is also more interested in this topic, but Zhen Fan did not prepare a fishing rod, but Thomas made a package ticket, saying that he had a spare fishing rod and could lend it to Zhen Fan!

After chatting for a while, Thomas drank two more cups of tea made by Zhen Fan, felt that the food in his stomach had digested a lot, and it was not so bloated, so he hugged Claire and went back with Anne.

"Zaijian, Uncle Zhen!" Claire jumped out of Thomas's arms, ran over and kissed Zhen Fan, and then took Anne's hand with satisfaction.

"Zaijian Claire, Zaijian!" Zhen Fan waved to Thomas and Anne again. Watching their family go back, Zhen Fan entered the house, watched TV for a while, and had nothing to do, so he went to the study to surf the Internet. Wait for your penguin and see an avatar flashing. is the brother who has played with him before-Li Xingguo, one is Sister An, and there is a stranger's avatar.

Zhen Fan has been abroad for more than a month, and there is basically no contact with China, this is also the first time he has waited for his number, clicked on Li Xingguo's news and looked at it, all of them were asking Haode, and when he would return to China, he wanted to drink with him or something.

clicked on Sister An's again, and there were also two messages on it.

The first message: Fanfan, go abroad, adapt to it, don't forget your sister!

The second message: Fanfan, no one massaged my head anymore, it's really uncomfortable, it's all your fault. However, I have recently been promoted, and after the promotion, I may be sent to the head office in the United States for training, I know that you are in Los Angeles, I will contact you when I get there, by the way, send me your mobile phone number, that number in the United States, so that I can't contact you! Don't try to forget your sister, or I'll settle accounts with you!

This is a bit ambiguous. Zhen Fan thought of Sister An, and couldn't help but smile slightly, every time it was so warm. It's like your own family!

But is Sister An really coming to the United States? Zhen Fan is still a little looking forward to it.

The stranger's message, Zhen Fan also clicked, opened it and saw that the person claimed to be Wei Chao, who had played basketball with Zhen Fan, and was recently selected for the Liaoning team of the CBA, hoping to compete with Zhen Fan again!

It seems that this guy has not been convinced, and Zhen Fan just smiled and ignored this provocation. But he knows his number, and it is estimated that it may have been leaked to him by the buddies who played with him, but it's nothing, everyone is just playing, and it can't be taken seriously.

The avatars of several people were gray, and Zhen Fan wanted to reply a few, but he didn't know what to say, so he hesitated and gave up.

Anyway, when I go back, I'll get together with these buddies. I turned off the Penguin and looked out the window, it was already night, and the lights were flickering in the night......