Chapter 132: The Feast
The traditional customs of the people of Shenzhou, when entertaining guests, how can they not have a good meal?
No one has recruited this alien guest, but there is also a plan for how to entertain Xinghe.
So Gao Yuan wants to participate in the state banquet, it is a state banquet, a state banquet!
How much the people of Shenzhou respect you is how exquisite the food is, because this represents the etiquette and self-confidence of an ancient civilization.
Of course, there is no way to compare the conditions with the past, the dining environment cannot be compared with the past, and the food cannot be compared with the past, even if this is a state banquet with the highest level of hospitality in a country.
There's a lot of new stuff that doesn't work.
However, just looking at the menu, Takato also knows that there is a blessing today.
The soup is a mountain soup of matsutake mushrooms.
The cold dish is rich beef, fragrant bean sprouts.
The hot dishes are braised lion's head, roast duck, braised sea cucumber with green onions, and chestnut rape.
The dessert is white fungus lotus seed soup with rock sugar.
And dim sum.
The menu looks ordinary, right?
But don't forget that this is the end times, it's the end times!
There were two large round tables, and everyone present was basically on the table, as for Gao Yuan, of course he was sitting next to Xinghe.
"This is chopsticks."
"Isn't it a chopstick?"
"Well, the ancient name is chopsticks, commonly known as chopsticks, you can't use chopsticks with knives and forks, this is simple."
Xinghe looked at the dishes in front of him, because it was a state banquet, it was a separate meal system, that is, one per person, and then the dishes were served one by one.
It's a ritual to eat.
The first dish was soup, the aroma was tangy, Gao Yuan picked up the soup spoon and took a sip, and then he found that the taste was indeed good, but it seemed to be a little too light.
"What is this?"
"Mushrooms, mushrooms, you know what you mean, right?"
"I know."
After asking Gao Yuan, Xinghe took a sip with a soup spoon, then he frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly said, "The feeling of eating is strange, but I need to get used to it." ”
After speaking, Xinghe finished his soup, and when he finished the soup, the waiter immediately removed the soup and served it with cold dishes.
"What is this?"
"It's beef."
"Meat, beef, ......"
Xinghe frowned, Li Wen sat opposite him, and after finding that Xinghe's expression seemed to be a little wrong, he immediately said with concern: "What's wrong?" Can't you eat meat? ”
Xinghe frowned and said, "We wouldn't have killed other lives for food a long, long time ago, in our opinion, it was cruel and unnecessary. ”
Li Wen immediately said: "Remove the meat and replace it all with vegetarian food." ”
Who knows how this alien should entertain, so everything has to be groped for, this menu is still personally asked by Li Wen, and now he is only glad that he has two hands to prepare, and he can still cope with the vegan dishes.
The waiter was about to come up and remove the cold dishes, but Gao Yuan said urgently: "Wait a minute, wait a minute." ”
For Gao Yuan, it was hard to rub a state banquet and eat vegan? Isn't that a joke!
"I think you should give it a try, you see your home planet is destroyed, isn't it, your civilization is also ...... Anyway, in that case, I think you should try a different civilization, such as our food civilization. ”
Xinghe hesitated for a moment, then he nodded and said, "Okay, it should be regarded as an exchange between civilizations." ”
Xinghe picked up a slice of beef with a fork and put it in his mouth.
The aliens don't know how to eat, and the action of Xinghe eating looks rusty, but soon, Xinghe sped up the speed of chewing.
The two slices of beef were quickly eaten by Xinghe, and then he was silent over there.
"Is it delicious? Okay, right? ”
Xinghe was silent, as if he hadn't heard Gao Yuan's words.
The next cold dish came up, and Xinghe took a bite of the fresh vegetables that were precious in the apocalypse, and then he immediately said, "I don't need this, please give me another beef just now, thank you." ”
Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment, Li Wen also looked at Xinghe in surprise, and then Gao Yuan hurriedly said: "No, no, it's just an appetizer, and the delicious ones are behind." ”
Xinghe picked up the fork in his right hand, but he quickly put it down and picked up the chopsticks as if he were lofty.
The hot dish came up, braised lion's head.
Xinghe took a piece with chopsticks, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and then he quietly stuffed the whole large meatball into his mouth.
Putting down the chopsticks, Xinghe looked at Gao Yuan.
"What is this?"
"Pork."
"Anything else?"
Takato looked at the waiter behind him.
The waiter immediately served the braised sea cucumber with green onions.
Xinghe took a bite, he frowned, but he still ate a whole sea cucumber.
Xinghe didn't ask, which means that he is not very interested in this dish.
The third dish is roast duck, the kind that comes up directly after wrapping, there is only one roll, Xinghe learned to be lofty, put the roast duck roll in his mouth, and then he nodded lightly and said, "What is this?" ”
"Duck."
"Oh, the perfect combination of duck and wheat flour, is there?"
The chestnut rape came up, Xinghe took a bite, and then he put the chopsticks aside.
After a moment of silence, Xinghe looked at Gao Yuan and said, "What about the next dish?" ”
Gao Yuan immediately looked at the waiter, who immediately served the rape that he had only eaten one bite of, and then served a dish of rock sugar white fungus lotus seed soup.
Xinghe finished drinking, he showed a very satisfied look, and then he looked at Gao Yuan.
Gao Yuan looked at the waiter, who brought a snack.
Xinghe finished eating the snack, and then he continued to look at Gao Yuan, Gao Yuan was helpless, and he was embarrassed to say anything on this occasion, so he looked at Li Wen.
Li Wen immediately said to the waiter, "Continue to serve food to our guests." ”
This time Xinghe was not polite, he immediately said: "I want beef, pork, duck." ”
After finishing speaking, Xinghe's face suddenly looked a little weird, he looked at Gao Yuan, and said, "According to your ancient etiquette, you shouldn't talk when eating, and besides, isn't it rude for me to eat like this?" ”
"You've said it's an ancient ceremony, now we can speak, and the more you eat, the happier we are, really."
Xinghe nodded, and then he said with a serious face: "I now have a new understanding of the meaning of life, a new understanding of animals, and a new understanding of the way to care for animals. ”
As he spoke, Xinghe suddenly raised his head, and then he seemed to be a little sobbing and said, "What did I miss......"
Gao Yuan said very sadly: "I think so, in a long life, don't eat anything, then ...... What's the point of being alive? No wonder someone would go crazy, I would have gone crazy if I had been replaced. ”
Li Wen frowned and shook his head lightly at Gao Yuan, Gao Yuan immediately realized his gaffe and gaffe, so he immediately said to Xinghe Road: "I'm sorry......"
Xinghe nodded heavily and said, "I was thinking that when our ancestors decided not to eat anymore and instead relied on nutrient solutions to meet their energy needs, they were already crazy. ”