Drake's Sword Chapter 19 Chinatown of the Underworld
"Yike............ Roar ............"
Marjorie took a sip of the freshly stewed seafood soup, which was a little hot, but she still tasted it lightly, and the taste from the nerves on her taste buds was simply delicious!!
"Hey, stop advertising...... Yahoo was bought the year before......" Mark complained as he played with the special card in his hand.
"Poof...... Where is it......" Marjorie glanced at Mark, looked at the special card in Mark's hand and said, "Hey, be careful, the ...... that Brother George left before leaving"
“YYYYOOOO...... Also George...... Brother...... [manual funny]" Mark ghost laughed and said, "It's only been a few days, it's been called so close?"
"your ......" Marjorie said in a rare coquettish voice, but after thinking about it, she immediately said arrogantly: "People are good, where is it like you as a straight man with cancer, your emotional intelligence is so low! Sister Diana is so good to you, you just can't see it! Do you want to shake out your romantic history!!"
"Uh...... Obviously, the story of the past is obviously Mark's weakness, he naturally knows that Diana likes him, and he doesn't want to lose his already little favor. At the moment, he immediately relented and confessed......
It was at this moment that George mysteriously returned.
"George's back! someone was thinking about you just now!" Mark leaned over to see what was delicious.
"Brother George is back~~" Marjorie walked over sweetly, stood behind Mark, pinched the most tender piece of Mark's arm, and said between his teeth: "If you don't want to die, shut up!!"
"This woman ......" Mark endured it with a smile, walked to the side and said leisurely: "It's mating season on the grassland again~~"
Marjorie was instantly furious, grabbed a handful of wine bottles on the table, turned around and threw them at Mark!
"I'm going to take you somewhere!" George said, and Marjorie was slightly stunned, a rare blush on her cheeks, could it be a ...... But Marjorie was still unrelenting, and was still immersed in a stupid giggle, George looked at the group and said, "Come, come, take you to a good place." ”
"Where are you going?" asked the little princess Monica, who still loved to play.
"A place that will open your mind!" George said mysteriously, pinching his waist.
Everyone didn't know what to do, but looking at the situation at Hades just now, George had no ill intentions, and he also had a request for Hades, which brought him and Mark's team together.
Mark jumped up happily and said, "Since I came to the underworld, I haven't gone out for a walk, tell me, where are we going in a while?"
"Well...... Chinatown, I don't know if you've heard of it?" said George as he walked.
"Chinatown?...... I've heard that there is a Chinatown in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France, located in the center of Paris, and I have passed through it several times before, and it looks like a lively feeling. Diana suddenly realized.
"What are you doing in Chinatown?" asked Marjorie, puzzled.
"To complete the mission of Makaria, of course!" said George.
Just now, in the palace of the Hades King Macarya, when the Hades assigned the second task - to make an authentic braised lion head, everyone was very puzzled, as a Western Hades King Macaria would like a local food in the East, these are really incredible.
To put it simply, nearly a hundred years ago, several successive unknown energy fluctuations eventually caused the spatial rupture, which completely disrupted the Eastern and Western worlds and the small worlds in other places. The originally relatively closed dimensional space has been stirred up like a mess in the Northeast.
As a result, under this wave of operations, as the leader of the underworld in the West, Makaria had already driven her to many places before she took up her post, and she had been to the Iranian world where black robes were mysterious everywhere, and the Indian world where Buddhism was prevalent, but the only thing that could shake her heart as a foodie was to come to the Ming Empire.
Although I once vowed to eat all over China before going home, it took half a year to eat the south of the Yangtze River, and there were many delicious foods that I had to return because of the itinerary without trying them. And in this one, the most wanted to eat is a relatively ordinary home-cooked dish - braised lion's head.
It can be said that this trip also made this Makaria who had only stayed in the Western world for a long time have a great change in his understanding of the previous worldview, especially immersed in the world of oriental food, and has a latent dream, that is, one day he can eat all over the world. However, when Macaria becomes the new generation of Hades, this dream may become more and more impossible to achieve.
It's like an iron rice bowl, it's really good to hold, everyone wants to get it. But if you want to change jobs in the future, it will be a lot of trouble, so Macaria heard that George would also make braised lion head this time, so naturally it was to satisfy her appetite as a foodie.
On the other side, George took Mark and his party to Chinatown, which is located in the underworld, and it can be regarded as a real acquaintance.
Chinatown is an area where Chinese people live in cities from other countries. Chinatowns were formed because the Chinese emigrated overseas and became a local minority, and they lived together in the face of the new environment, so most of the Chinatowns are a kind of witness to the history of the Chinese diaspora.
Due to the great influence of the Tang Dynasty on overseas, in the Song Dynasty, "Tang" had already become the name of China in the southeastern overseas countries. From the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, foreign countries referred to China or things related to China as "Tang". Not only "Tang" as a synonym for the land of "China", but also called Chinese "Tang".
This is mainly due to the fact that the Chinese have a deep historical complex, and the Tang Dynasty was a powerful dynasty in Chinese history. Overseas Chinese often call themselves "Tang people", and the place where they live is called Chinatown or Tang Street.
As for the origin of Chinatown in the underworld, there is some history, for thousands of years, all kinds of merchants have come to the Western world to carry out business activities, and naturally many merchants of various nationalities have come, and many of them have come here, and some have even intermarried and settled in the Western cultural circle.
Because everyone has all nationalities, and everyone is here to do business, that kind of narrow nationalism is not popular, and no one will believe that, after all, harmony makes money, plus the more simple quality and hard-working quality of the Chinese, the life of the Chinese overseas is not bad.
With the migration of Chinese, it also brought with them the unique food and culture of the Oriental world, clothing, architecture and many other aspects. After that, after the Chinese died in a foreign country, their souls were also taken in and disposed of by the Western Hades, after all, no one can escape this.
Later, with the opening of the underworld, some people who were born or dead, everyone would establish a city in the underworld called 'Pluto', which was taken from Pluto. George led the group to a Chinese-populated Chinatown in Pluto.
The entrance to Chinatown is at the southern end of the main north-south thoroughfare of Pluto Street, and the gate is covered with green tiles, and several vivid dragons have a very Chinese flavor. The feeling of the buzzing voices makes people feel out of place with the lifeless atmosphere around them, like a world away, making people feel that this place is not the underworld, but the real city that never sleeps in the Eastern world. The east-west Chinatown runs through the entire southern city, and the streets are densely packed with shops, restaurants, and gorgeous facades that attract not only the undead, but also many treasure-seeking explorers to come here to see the unique charm of oriental culture.
One of the most interesting neighborhoods in Pluto's Chinatown is the Netherworld Square, where traditional acrobatic performances are always present. Many of the buildings here were donated by Chinese charities. Jill Lane is a typical example of the narrow alleys hidden deep in the block, and the smell of dessert snacks wafts from the alley from time to time. There is also a 'Sun Erniang Bun Shop' in the alley, and I don't know what kind of meat it is made of (manual funny).
It can be said that in the bright lights of Chinatown, people can always feel a different kind of comfort. Because the history of this mysterious oriental country is always based on pathos and tribulation, creating a place to settle down, and you can see, hear, and eat the hard work and dedication in Chinatown.
At the beginning of the construction of the city, these yellow-skinned Oriental immigrants were transported here like "selling piglets", these are the undead, but their bones and blood still have the idea of settling down, the kind of memories of home, maybe others will forget, but the taste and memories of home in the thought of Oriental culture are like a belief in gods.
And all of this is contained in the unique oriental food culture......