Chapter Ninety-Eight: Early Morning in Amsterdam
"Anne, Nick, the restaurant we went to today is a Sichuan restaurant, Sichuan cuisine is the name of the cuisine of Sichuan Province, an inland province in China, and it is a very famous cuisine in China, known for its spicy and spicy taste, I believe you will immediately like Sichuan cuisine after eating."
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After coming out of the gym, Chen Sheng and Frank went back to Frank's parents' house.
Today, Chen Sheng plans to invite his family to Chinatown to taste Chinese food, and he chooses the Sichuan restaurant called "Fu Lu" that he and Frank have been to before.
Anne and Nick were also very happy to accept Chen Sheng's invitation, and the few of them walked all the way to Chinatown.
"Why don't you call it Chinese food in general? Rather, it is named after a province, is there any explanation for this? β
Nick asked next to him, they didn't know much about China, so naturally they didn't understand the division of cuisines.
Chen Sheng went on to explain:
"China is a very big country, due to the different customs and living habits of various places, after a long historical evolution, a lot of cuisines have been formed, basically each province has its own unique cuisine, and China has more than 30 provinces and cities, in order to distinguish different cuisines, we will name after the abbreviation of this province, among these many cuisines, there are several more famous cuisines, we call them four major cuisines, namely Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, today we are going to eat Sichuan cuisine, It's one of the four major cuisines."
Anne and Nick listened to Chen Sheng's explanation, and they were directly stupid, they didn't expect that there were so many cuisines in China, in their opinion, Chinese cuisine shouldn't all be the same.
After arriving at the restaurant, Li Xiang took them directly to the reserved box.
After sitting down, Chen Sheng asked Anne and Nick if they had any taboos.
Anne and Nick told Chen Sheng directly, and then talked about their favorite flavors.
After understanding the situation clearly, Chen Sheng ordered some representative dishes in Sichuan cuisine, and then handed the ordered menu to Li Xiang and asked them to serve as soon as possible.
While waiting, Chen Sheng began to introduce some things about China to Anne and the two of them, especially today's topic, some related knowledge of Sichuan cuisine, and Frank next to him was also constantly interspersed with his own experiences in China.
Anne and Nick were also very interested in the content and listened to it with great interest.
Soon the dishes were served one after another, and in the introduction of Chen Sheng and Frank, Anne and Nick began to taste the delicacies one by one.
"Wow, this dish tastes awesome and very tasty"
"Annie, this dish is called fish-flavored shredded pork, it is a representative dish of Sichuan cuisine, and it is also one of the few dishes that does not have a spicy taste."
Anne listened to Chen Sheng's introduction, nodded her head, and continued to attack the fish-flavored shredded pork, obviously she was very satisfied with the taste.
"I think this dish is good, this kind of beef is completely different from us, it is very delicious"
"Nick, this dish is called boiled beef, and the way Chinese and Europeans cook beef is very different, we will cook the beef completely in various ways before eating.
And your common practice is to eat it with a little raw, so when you eat it, the taste is very different, this dish is very characteristic of Sichuan cuisine, numb, spicy, fresh, fragrant, the taste is very enjoyable, and it is very popular in China."
"I like this way of eating beef very much, it is very distinctive, I think I fell in love with Chinese food, your country is so great, just this aspect of food is enough to amaze the whole world, we must go to see your country if we have the chance"
"Nick, you're welcome to China, you're going to fall in love with it quickly, just like I am now, I'm already in love with Amsterdam"
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Everyone had a great time, and the whole dinner was spent in the amazement and praise of Anne and Nick, and Chen Sheng and Frank kept introducing the two of them to various dishes and other information about Sichuan cuisine and China as they ate.
By the time dinner was over, Anne and Nick had become completely obsessed with Sichuan cuisine and said that they would come back often in the future and have the opportunity to go back to China to see and understand the real China.
After coming out of the restaurant, a few people began to wander around Chinatown, looking at the thriving restaurants all over the street, Nick and Anne couldn't help but sigh:
"You Chinese are too hardworking, it seems that you are busy all day, and it seems that only you Chinese are still working at this time, and the rest have rested, in comparison, our Dutch life seems to be too comfortable"
Chen Sheng looked at the situation on the street and replied:
"This is also a matter of no way, although our country is very large, but the population is too large, the per capita resources are too small, if you want to get a good life, then you must pay more efforts than others, this kind of hard work has become a characteristic of the Chinese, no matter where you go, it will not change"
Nick nodded and continued:
"This is very good, it is an honorable thing to get rich through hard work, and this should be the reason why your country became strong very quickly, with such diligent people, there is no reason for the country to lag behind"
Anne and Frank nodded as they listened, clearly agreeing with the same sentiment.
A few people walked slowly on the street, strolling, very leisurely, and before they knew it, the night became thicker, and the time was getting later and later.
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After yesterday's dinner, Chen Sheng's relationship with Anne and Nick has become better.
When he got up early in the morning to exercise, Chen Sheng and Nick ran along the streets on the bank of the canal, chatting while running, and they got along very well.
It was only because of the different amount of exercise and exercise intensity between the two that they were separated later, and Chen Sheng became running alone on the street.
He came out very early, the sky was just dark, there were not many people exercising on the road, occasionally you could see some runners by the canal, the rest of the place was deserted, and many unlit streets around were still shrouded in night.
Nick ran two laps and sweated, said hello to Chen Sheng and went back, Chen Sheng saw that he was left to exercise alone, and immediately accelerated his running speed.
Soon Chen Sheng ran to the vicinity of the red light district.
In the early morning, the red light district is very crowded, the pink windows and lights have long been extinguished, and everything is shrouded in a thin morning mist, so that people can't even tell that this is the most famous red light district in the world, but just an ordinary neighborhood in Amsterdam.
Only the prostitutes who hurried through the streets from time to time with their heads bowed and experienced a night of pleasure could make one understand that this place was a sea of desires only a few hours ago.
Chen Sheng glanced at the block twice, and continued to stride forward without stopping.
When he had run forward about fifty meters, he suddenly heard a chaotic sound of footsteps on his right, as if six or seven people were chasing each other, and at the same time he could hear the screams of women.
These were all voices coming from a fork in the road in front of him, and Chen Sheng was only less than two meters away from the fork in the road at this time.
Only two or three seconds after hearing the voice, he saw a black man of medium height, rushing out of the street next to the fork in the road, and he was still holding a knife in his hand, and the thing in the other hand, because of the sight, Chen Sheng did not see clearly.
Chen Sheng didn't plan to bother with this matter, because he didn't know what was going on, maybe it was a vendetta of the underworld, or a brawl between street gangsters, you must know that this is a red light district, no matter how good the law and order is, it is also an area where dragons and snakes are mixed, and there must be a lot of dark sides that are not visible.
The moment he saw this black man, Chen Sheng was ready to turn sideways and give way to the side, out of the way of the other party's escape route, and at the same time put himself out of the way.
But then he heard a cry for help, which immediately made him change his attention.
Just as he was about to move out of the way, a language came from his ears, which was very familiar to him.
I could only hear the sound of running getting closer and closer from the corner of the street, and the shrill cries of a woman for help.
At first, the woman was calling for help in English, but soon changed to a different language, and a loud voice of Mandarin calling for help came out, probably in a hurry, this person unconsciously began to use her mother tongue to call for help.
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"Help, robbery, robbery, stop him" (to be continued.) )