Mark and his entourage, except for Marjorie, who had been to the Ming Empire, had seen the prosperity and charm of this empire, and the others were really eye-opening, and they felt very new about everything in front of them.

After walking through the bustling restaurants and shops, the crowd finally came to the downstairs of a restaurant led by George, where the huge plaque was written in the ancient Han style with three big characters 'Sanbao Zhai'. It even has a different from the Western strokes, with the beauty of waves and 磔 (zhe two sounds).

There are 5 most important writing systems in the world: Chinese characters, Latin alphabets, Slavic alphabets, Arabic alphabets, and Indian alphabets. Among them, except for Chinese characters, which are ideograms, the remaining four are phonetic characters.

As ideograms, Chinese characters express the meaning of words or morphemes in the language through symbolic graphic symbols. Such higher-level graphic symbols often express simple or complex meanings through structural components and structural relationships, and the meaning of the text has a corresponding relationship with the pronunciation of the recorded words.

To put it mildly, Chinese characters have one advantage over other foreign scripts, 3,000 Chinese characters can read newspapers, while foreign characters are impossible.

The language more or less reflects the national characteristics of this culture. Because for the most part it's not us who speak the language, it's the language that says us. When we use language, at the same time, we can also show many characteristics of our nation through language.

Comparing Chinese characters with the other four major characters, one of the characteristics they all have is that they require a very high vocabulary. For example, if you want to understand the "New York Times" and "TIME", the process of reading is relatively easy, and you don't need to look up the dictionary all the time, you need at least more than 10,000 words, and you are proficient in it. The kind of skillfulness that knows the meaning at a glance.

Chinese is different, it is also pronounced through the basic phonetic alphabet pinyin, but it is Chinese characters that are expressed through fewer pronunciations. Newspapers that understand Chinese can basically know 3,000 core Chinese characters.

To sum up, Chinese characters belong to seeking common ground and commonality. Other foreign languages seek differences and differences.

As mentioned above, Chinese characters have the characteristics that can contain all the meanings we need to express in 3,000 words. Integrate it by finding commonalities. For example, rivers, lakes and oceans related to water are all next to three points of water, such as English, River, Lake, Sea. Another example is metallic minerals, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin, all of which are next to metals. But in English, there is no commonality at all.

The show behind this is actually related to the national civilized country. A society with a huge population, a very complex society, and a very vast territory, if you want to govern such a large society, you must have commonalities to be easy to manage, and words are the same.

Therefore, Chinese characters can be said to be an absolute nightmare for learners outside the Chinese character circle. Marjorie has only learned a few simple official words after going to the East for so long, and the dialect pronunciation of Chinese characters is simply a hell plus Shura level of difficulty.

Standing at the door of 'Sanbao Zhai', sighing at the decoration rich in oriental culture here, everyone walked into the store looking around. George introduced the store along the way.

'Sanbao Zhai' is a merchant in the land of Suyang built, the main Huaiyang Su cuisine, Jinling Su cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine and so on, because Suzhou cuisine and Zhejiang cuisine are similar, so this shop specializes in Chinese cuisine of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. 'Three Treasures' here refers to three signature dishes: stewed crab roe lion's head, salted duck, and West Lake vinegar fish.

The shopkeeper originally cared about a small restaurant opened by Duli for business, but because Yiduli is really enough to stay, the Yiduli nation is a very romantic and casual nation, and they advocate freedom and democracy. Therefore, I don't understand the fanatical work attitude of the Chinese.

Sundays and public holidays are a good time for most Chinese businesses to do business, but the Italian people are against it. They believe that the whole people need to rest during the holidays, and on the premise that they are unwilling to open for business, they ask the Chinese who care about it not to open their doors, otherwise it will seriously affect their business, which is unfair. As a result, the local government issued a decree at the request of the residents, "ordering" the Chinese businessmen to rest.

Later, a change of dynasty caused the entire store to be completely burned down, and the owner and the cook who lived in the store went to the underworld in that fire. Although the person has died and become an undead, but fortunately, the craft has not been forgotten, adhering to the 'weed spirit', the owner is stunned to continue to open a restaurant in the underworld. This time, it completely relied on craftsmanship to get all the immortals and undead up and down in one fell swoop, and became one of the few well-known Chinese restaurants in the city.

George took everyone to a private room with a unique elegance, said hello to the owner, ordered a few famous dishes, and then asked everyone, very Chinese menu, but still taking into account the special dietary taboos, the owner also wrote down the basic raw materials very intimately to avoid the embarrassing situation of 'eating wrong'.

Diana put down the snack she had just bought, and ate like crazy with Monica. Clint on the side looked at every diner around him, as if he had to carry that vigilant mental habit with him everywhere.

George told everyone about the unique history of this place, although even George's own background is a mystery, but according to his own words, he doesn't know how he came to the Western Underworld, and it seems that he can't remember his previous memories. However, with his skillful creativity, it became very popular, and it quickly became part of it.

After a while, the owner of the shop specially came to deliver the dishes, with burn scars on his face, but he couldn't stop the kind smile, everyone here couldn't believe it, after experiencing life and death, but he could still laugh at life, and the 'weed spirit' belief really made everyone admire it.

on the dining table

Stewed crab roe lion's head, salted duck, West Lake vinegar fish, Dongpo meat, squirrel mandarin fish, snail shrimp, jade shrimp bucket, snowflake crab bucket. A total of eight dishes. In consideration of the different food cultures, knives and forks and common spoons are also prepared.

"The seafood and meat here are fresh!" George said with a little pride.

"You're welcome!" Mark's foodie heart was impatient from the first time he first came in, and the fragrant smell had already hooked out the worms in his stomach.

The nerves of eating meat are about to explode in Mark's body! The red is translucent, the color is like agate, the fork forks up a piece to taste, soft but not rotten, fat but not greasy. The crowd was frightened by Mark's appearance.

Monica couldn't put on a reserved look anymore, no matter what lady's reserve, she also started to move in the same pot. The sweaty forehead, coupled with the direct removal of the duck leg from the food guard, makes it hard to imagine that this girl is really a princess?

Clint was the only one on the side, who suddenly had a nervous irritation, and thought carefully about the fact that there was no clean lake and sea outside, where did the fresh ingredients come from?, so he asked, "This is the underworld, why are there these ingredients?"

"This is very simple, because someone will send it from the human world every day!"

The speaker was also a man, who looked to be in his forties, and although the apron was a little dirty, the cuffs were very clean. A clean chin without a trace of beard, a high-spirited temperament, and always a sense of confidence.

"You made all these dishes?" Monica asked as she ate the shrimp.

"Yes!" said the chef, "under Chen Luoping"

Chen ...... Gauze...... Ping ...... "Everyone imitates and learns Chinese Tao unfamiliarly.

"These two are shrimps, but the taste is completely different, I've never eaten shrimp with this texture!!" Diana exclaimed, pointing to the Biluo Shrimp and Jade Shrimp bucket on the table. Diana is simply a haute crow black chef, and grilled fish scales and grilled crocodiles are her masterpieces.

"Well, one is to use Biluochun tea leaves as the material, and the other is to use sweet green peppers as the material. Therefore, the taste of shrimp can be brought out to an unprecedented level. Chen Luoping said.

"Sweet green peppers?" said Monica.

"Can you also work together (team) to cook?" Mark misheard for a while because he was patronizing and eating, and Chen Luoping's pronunciation was not particularly clear.

"No, it's tea, it's not a collaboration!" Diana corrected Mark.

Although Clint was still a little worried, he saw that his friends were eating very well, and he also tried the taste of vinegar fish. Not for anything else, when he just heard the word vinegar (Vinegar), his eyes lit up, because the sour feeling is simply unwanted, it can be said that among boys, there are really few people who love to eat sour.

There is still a lot of West Lake vinegar fish left on the plate, perhaps because the juice poured on it does not look so attractive, but it can still be seen that this West Lake vinegar fish is half over the water and half is over the oil.

The fork went down, and the vinegar sauce that broke through the surface melted into the fish, and put it in his mouth, and Clint couldn't speak.

The sweet and sour sauce is sandwiched between the tender fish and blends in with the fish, and the melted meat texture and moderate elasticity are simply unstoppable.

"Wow!!" Cint stood up abruptly, pressed against the table, and looked at the West Lake vinegar fish on the table, a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes.

Everyone in the circle was stunned, even Mark, who was stuffing meat into his mouth, was startled by this sudden suddenness. Everyone looked at Cint in bewilderment.

Clint who suddenly realized his gaffe hurriedly sat down, eased his mind, and said calmly: "This...... It's not delicious, so I'll eat it......" After speaking, he had to pick up the other half with a spoon and put the other half of the fried West Lake vinegar fish on his plate.

"Wait!" Monica grabbed Clint's arm with one hand, and with the other hand, she grabbed a piece of fried fish and poured the juice into her mouth, savoring it.

Crispy, soft, sweet and sour. It's hard to imagine that the integration is so appropriate!

After swallowing, Monica actually used brute force to hold Clint's arm firmly and said, "Clint...... You're really 'wonderful'! I'll eat it!!!" he moved it to his plate.

The others are not blind, but they didn't expect that the two of them were robbing, could it be ...... Seeing this, everyone rushed up with a hula.

Mark and others never imagined that Chinese food would have such a taste.

The time to eat passed in this way, in the midst of everyone's scrambling and giggling......