21. Comrade Shen Yue's 2B Hotel
On the other hand, after a full three hours of traffic jams on the streets of downtown London, Wang Qiu and others' "Chinese Strange Ability Organized Tour Group" finally came to a 2B hotel opened by Comrade Shen Yue near London's Chinatown and got off the bus to rest in a hurry.
- 2B Hotel, that is, B&B, short for BedandBreakfast, is a cheap inn that is common in British cities, and usually doubles as a bar.
Then, after overcoming motion sickness and vomiting, they began to enjoy the day of their badly late lunch β or a slightly earlier afternoon tea.
Then, Wang Qiu discovered the huge difference between some domestic Western-style meals and genuine products of Western origin.
ββ¦β¦ This bread ...... It's hard enough to grind the teeth of a mouse! I can't break it, I have to cut it with a knife......"
ββWhen Boss Shen Yue beckoned the waiter to bring them bread, jam, butter, coffee and fruit, Wang Qiu picked up a loaf of bread according to the habit of eating breakfast in China, and when he wanted to break off a piece and stuff it into his mouth, he was surprised to find that he couldn't break it at all.
ββ¦β¦ Well, it's really crunchy when you bite into it, how does this feel like the black leba of the Russians? β
He used a plastic dinner knife that was obviously too soft to "saw" back and forth for a long time before getting a small piece of this rectangular bread down, and it felt like nibbling on a biscuit, with a slight sour taste, in short, it was completely different from the bread he ate in his hometown.
ββ¦β¦ I'm not fooling you with the black leba, it's just plain bread! β
A certain chubby girl with glasses, a Chinese female student and retired time-traveler who came to work in Shen Yue's boss's 2B store, pouted. Said with a little disdain, "...... I haven't brought you harder dry bread yet, how bad are your teeth? β
Originally. The bread that Chinese currently eat in China should be regarded as an improved version of the Japanese and Hong Kongers, characterized by the addition of a lot of eggs, milk and sugar, and sometimes cream and ghee, making it very soft and sweet. Foreign dim sum bread is relatively close to the bread commonly used by us Chinese. But the dinner bread popular in Western Europe and the United States is a normal-shaped version of the hard baguette. Generally, it is necessary to use a knife and fork to cut it. As for dry bread with coffee...... It's a little stiffer than a French baguette......
Of course, no matter how hard the bread is, it is not firm enough to compress the biscuits. Wang Qiu and the other young people were only a little unaccustomed to it, but those few grandmothers and grandfathers who were not very good at their teeth were worriedβfortunately, a few old British men next to them gave a countermeasure with their actions: soak the bread in the coffee and soak it before eating. There was also a white man who seemed to be from southern Europe, and actually ate bread soaked in olive oil.
Besides. That pot of colorful looking fruits. It also makes people frown when they eat - the taste of melons is not sweet at all, the skin of apples is tough like brown paper, and only the oranges taste good...... Ask Boss Shen Yue, who was told that these fruits are cheap imported from the United States, and belong to "industrial products" produced by genetic engineering and factory production, which are good in appearance but taste good...... That's it.
Men who are not too picky about eating and drinking, can deal with it with a so-so stomach filling. But the girls in the tour group can't afford to eat like this. He coaxed Boss Shen Yue, saying that he wanted to eat hot rice. But Shen Yue said apologetically. Since dinner time has not yet arrived, the chef has not yet come to work, so please wait patiently for another two hours...... Or how about a bowl of Lanzhou ramen at a ramen restaurant 300 meters away?
Hey, Chinatown's Lanzhou ramen has risen to ten pounds a bowl! Besides, I made a special trip to the UK to eat Lanzhou ramen...... That's embarrassing!
Fortunately, there is a pastry shop selling desserts next door to Boss Shen Yue's 2B Hotel, and there are many desserts on the counter, rich in variety, and many strange things, such as small pieces of cheese decorated in various shapes, which are rare in most places in China. Seeing that the distance was not far away, several ladies went out and bought a lot of small pastries, and brought some grilled sausages and grilled chicken thighs for the men.
It's just that when they came back, their faces were a little strange, saying that they met a Chinese woman outside the door of the pastry shop, and asked them loudly, "Are you satisfied?" If you go out after buying something from the store, and you encounter someone guarding the door and asking, then it is possible that the superior unit is conducting a service attitude survey, but the customer has not yet entered the door, so you come up and ask, "Are you satisfied?" ββ¦β¦ What the hell is going on!
ββ¦β¦ hahahaha, in fact, what they are asking is, 'Do you buy cigarettes?' But because he spoke with a bit of a Fujian accent, he became, 'Are you satisfied?' ββ
Boss Shen Yue explained with a smile, "...... Right now, Chinatown is full of Fujian girls selling cigarettes like this......"
Hearing that there were people selling cigarettes outside the door, several old smokers in the "China Strange Ability Organization Tour Group" touched their wallets and prepared to go out to get a pack of British cigarettes to taste, and then they were immediately dissuaded by Boss Shen Yue - because these cigarette girls were selling fakes!
It turns out that in order to reduce the incidence of cancer, reduce the pressure on the publicly-funded medical system and increase fiscal revenue, the British government began to raise tobacco taxes significantly at the end of the last century, and the price of cigarettes has been rising, making many smokers complain. Savvy Chinese soon found a business opportunity and began to buy a large number of low-quality tobacco to make counterfeit cigarettes, and then smuggled them to the United Kingdom to sell, especially in Fujian.
According to Boss Shen Yue, the price of fake cigarettes is usually only half of the price of genuine goods, but the quality depends entirely on luck. There are some good cigarettes, but there are also a few that are almost impossible to eat, and the worst cigarettes feel like smoking leaves - it is estimated that only people who make special materials can smoke these special materials......
After dispelling the idea of buying cigarettes, everyone began to taste the various desserts brought back by the ladies, such as fruit tarts and so on. I have to say that although the UK is rumored to be famous for its dark cuisine, the British desserts are still amazing. Even men are full of praise for it.
As dozens of people feasted together, the desserts that had been piled up into small mountains were quickly swept away, and a few ladies who hadn't eaten enough went out to buy another batch of pastries. While flipping through the travel magazines on the counter, I kept stuffing dessert into my mouth.
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All in all, according to travel magazines, the British are the most "gentlemanly" people in all shijie, except for what seems to be a natural defect in tasteβprovided they aren't watching football or getting drunk, of course.
On the contrary, immigrant settlements. It's synonymous with crime, danger and violence in this country β travel magazines have highlighted dangerous neighbourhoods with high crime rates on a map of London in different shades of striking red. There is also a list of dangerous neighbourhoods for violence in London, with the black neighbourhood topping the list, followed by the Muslim neighbourhood of North Africa, followed by the Indo-Pakistani and Hispanic neighbourhoods...... Violent crime is not rampant in Chinatown. It's a pity that there are the most scammers of all kinds......
According to Boss Shen Yue's explanation. Nowadays, the social order in London is turbulent, everyone is in danger everywhere, and many places have really changed from the original stealing to open robbery, and the best way to protect yourself from harm is to try not to appear in unsafe places - especially when there is only one person - so everyone must bring a map with dangerous areas when going out to visit, and try not to pass through those dangerous neighborhoods, even if there is really no way. You have to go inside these neighborhoods, and you have to be careful, careful, and careful...... Belch. If anyone insists on resting or eating in these neighborhoods for the sake of something new, congratulations! Hurry up and buy a cross and pray for yourself!
In response to such alarmist intimidation, the "Chinese Strange Ability Organized Tour Group" was initially very unimpressed. However, they soon heard on the radio a London Muslim office radio about a recent encounter with twin sisters in a Muslim ghetto. In the tragedy of rape, one of the radio hosts went so far as to comment that the Muslim men who assaulted the two nuns were not worthy of condemnation:
ββ¦β¦ The women went out into the streets at night in naked and debauched clothes, drunk, wearing heavy makeup, and full of provocativeness. When you see her being violated, there should be no pity at all......
β¦β¦ Weishenme said so? When you take a piece of meat or a fish to the street, or go to a place such as a park, without any packaging, completely exposed, the zuihou cat comes and eats the meat. So who is at fault? Is the cat to blame or the bare meat? The problem, of course, is this piece of bare meat. If they wear veils and headscarves, (strong. These problems will not exist......"
Oh my God, it's even so strong. You can say anything reasonable! So if a tourist is robbed, should he be blamed for bringing too much money? If this is the moral standard of foreign immigrants in London, then it is really dangerous for tourists to travel without weapons for self-defence......
However, just as Wang Qiu was talking about the low moral literacy of some foreign immigrants and the dangers of certain neighborhoods in London, his sister Wang Yao answered the phone, then hurriedly stood up and shouted at the crowd in the hotel lobby: "...... Deng Wenwen! Is Wenwen Deng here? Did you go shopping? What the? Didn't see her in the car in Hyde Park?! β
ββ¦β¦ What are you talking about...... Deng Wenwen It shouldn't be that little girl from Hunan! Isn't she supposed to be with the "Into Science" crew? β
Someone replied in wonder that when they got off the bus at Hyde Park, Wang Qiu's "China Paranormal Organization Tour Group" parted ways with the film crew of "Into Science", because the latter had to go to the Chinese Embassy in Britain not far away to do some business...... And Deng Wenwen was an intern brought by the gang of "Into Science", and Wang Qiu and they all thought that she should go to the embassy with her. But this is clearly not the case......
ββ¦β¦ Now it's the gang of "Into Science" who is asking Deng Wenwen's whereabouts! Looks like she's been left behind in Hyde Park! β
Wang Yao knocked on the table angrily, "...... Okay, what are we going to do?! β
Just as everyone in the 2B Hotel was jumping again, Miss Deng Wenwen, who was unfortunately left behind, experienced an incredible journey like Alice in Wonderland...... (To be continued......)