Chapter 19 The Cuisine
"Brother Zhao, Sister Yu, this way."
Zhou Cheng came to the mouth of the alley and found that Zhao Chenan did not come alone, and his wife Yu Ruolan went to the banquet with him.
"Zhou Cheng, I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm a lot more handsome." Before Zhao Chenan could speak, Yu Ruolan on the side was already greeting Zhou Cheng with a smile on her face.
"Sister Yu, with your compliment, I instantly became a lot more confident." Zhou Cheng cooperated with this Yu Ruolan and smiled a little exaggeratedly: "With your words, I can use it to scare Zhou Ya." ”
"I haven't seen Zhou Ya for a while, and I called her today, I heard that I went to the gym." Zhao Chen'an, as Zhou Kezhi's secretary, his wife is also familiar with the Zhou family.
Zhou Cheng smiled and said to Yu Ruolan: "It is estimated that she also doesn't want to delay you and Brother Zhao in the two-person world." I just didn't expect you to let me pull it out. ”
Yu Ruolan stretched out her hand to hold Zhao Chenan's arm: "Sister, I want to thank you." Your brother Zhao has been busy recently, and your appointment made him take time out of his time, and he just let him go shopping with me in the afternoon. ”
Zhou Cheng smiled, and followed Yu Ruolan's words and said to Zhao Chenan: "Brother Zhao, you must pay attention to the combination of work and rest, you can't focus on work and ignore your sister-in-law." ”
"There's no way, the minister has just assigned a job, let us find out the teaching and auxiliary materials of primary and secondary schools in Yanjing City, I'm afraid there are some new propaganda tasks."
"Don't tell us, we know it's affecting your work." Yu Ruolan waved her hand: "I just want you to accompany me to go shopping in the afternoon." ”
"Brother Zhao, look at how high your sister-in-law's consciousness is. In the afternoon, you must be prepared for heavy bleeding, and when you arrive at the mall, you are not your husband, but pay the bill, one word 'buy'. ”
Yu Ruolan listened to Zhou Cheng's words and couldn't help laughing: "Haha, Xiaocheng said this well, you are the one who pays the bill......"
Zhao Chenan also showed a wry smile: "I used to be a husband within one zhang, but now my wife will pay ...... with a bill."
The three of them laughed along the alley road as they walked forward. Although Zhou Cheng was talking and laughing with the two of them, his heart was not as calm as it seemed. It seems that my father really listened to his own words and began to pay attention to the problem of cultural invasion. It's just that there are too many interest groups involved, and if you are not careful, you will be counterattacked, and some things still need to remind your father more.
Zhao Chen'an and his wife followed Zhou Cheng along the entrance of the alley less than 100 meters when they saw a renovated courtyard house, and next to its vermilion gate hung a delicate wooden signboard: "Qingsongyuan Private Restaurant", Chen Li and his wife were standing at the door of the courtyard waiting at this time.
"Qingsong Garden? Is this Shanghainese cuisine? ”
Yu Ruolan saw the signboard and asked Zhou Cheng in some surprise.
Shanghai used to be called Songjiang, this Songjiang is the ancient name of Wusong River, even the Yangtze River estuary is called "Wusongkou" by Shanghai people. Therefore, in addition to "Shanghai", what can represent Shanghai is the word "Song".
Hearing Yu Ruolan's question, Zhou Cheng nodded. Zhao Chenan and Yu Ruolan are both from Shanghai, and the two used to be high school classmates, so the dinner arranged today is also a local dish from Shanghai.
Later, Zhou Cheng, as an intermediary, began to introduce them to each other: "Brother Zhao, this is Chen Li, the senior brother in my school, who has always taken good care of me, and next to him is his lover Qian Lele." Brother Li, this is Director Zhao that I mentioned to you, he has a good relationship with Director Wang of our Yanjing Terrace, and this is my sister-in-law next to him, you can call her Sister Yu with me. ”
"Director Zhao, Sister Yu, hello. Thanks to Zhou Cheng today, I am very honored to be able to invite the two of you. Chen Li and Qian Lele hurriedly reached out to shake hands with the two, and then turned sideways to let the two in.
"We have been friends with Xiaocheng since he was in elementary school." Zhao Chenan didn't hold it up, and motioned for Chen Li and a few people to enter the box side by side with him.
Several people sat separately, Zhao Chenan did not shirk and sat in the main seat, Yu Ruolan was on the left, and then Qian Lele was in the past, as for who was next to Zhao Chenan's right hand, Chen Li and Zhou Cheng had different opinions.
"I'm a rice eater today, don't push me up." Seeing that Chen Li still wanted to be polite, Zhou Cheng directly confirmed the location, sat at the end of the seat, and reached out to hand the menu brought by the waiter to Yu Ruolan.
Yu Ruolan looked through the recipe, and Qian Lele came over: "My Chen Li heard from Zhou Cheng that Director Zhao and Sister Yu are both from Shanghai and like to eat local dishes, so they specially asked someone to find this private dish." ”
Yu Ruolan said suspiciously: "There are not many authentic local dishes in Yanjing, and even the old restaurants in Shanghai don't have the same taste as those eaten in Shanghai." ”
"It's up to Sister Yu to come and taste it, after all, you are an expert."
"I can't be called a connoisseur, but I've been a gluttonous since I was a child and likes to taste."
Zhou Cheng followed up and praised: "Sister, you are not called gluttonous, now you are called a gourmet, and someone has made a blog to introduce food, you can also try it." ”
"Now I can really speak, but Uncle Zhou and Aunt Lin are still worried that you are like a stuffy gourd, and it is difficult to find a girlfriend." Yu Ruolan glanced at Zhou Cheng with a smile in her eyes.
Qian Lele was surprised: "No, Zhou Cheng doesn't have a girlfriend yet?" There are a lot of beautiful girls in our station, my sister will help you introduce them. ”
When it came to his girlfriend, Zhou Chengcheng begged to let him go, Yu Ruolan once mentioned several times that she wanted to introduce her cousin who was studying in college to Zhou Cheng, but Zhou Cheng refused.
Yu Ruolan looked at the recipe and ordered a few authentic local dishes, including river shrimp Zhengyan and Babao duck, which were more tested, and then handed the recipe to Qian Lele and asked her to choose her favorite dishes.
"It's just five of us, so we don't have to waste too much, just enough to eat. Today is mainly to taste the taste, if it is authentic, we will come often in the future. Zhao Chenan looked at Qian Lele and ordered two more dishes and a soup, and said something to stop him.
Qian Lele took the menu and looked at Chen Li a little overwhelmed, just now she and Yu Ruolan ordered a lot, in fact, there are four cold dishes, four hot dishes, plus one soup, consider the amount of each dish in this dish, I am afraid that it will be a little cramped, and both the guest of honor will be a little embarrassed.
Or Zhou Cheng helped her out of the siege, and reached out to take the recipe from her hand: "Brother Zhao, I finally slaughtered Senior Brother Chen, and I don't want a few more, this flowing yellow crab bucket will help us get a share, is the braised paddling a fish tail?" …… Sister Yu, you Shanghainese are petty bourgeoisie, and a fishtail can be called so poetic. ”
Zhao Chen'an probably also remembered the weight of this dish, smiled at Zhou Cheng, and then explained to him: "Braised paddling was not our local cuisine before, it originally belonged to the Hui cuisine, and later it was passed to Shanghai by Hui merchants to join this cuisine. ”
"Brother Zhao is still knowledgeable, and you are worthy of being a top student of Beijing Normal University." Zhou Cheng's words were echoed by Chen Li and several people, and they gave a thumbs up.
"I also liked to eat this dish when I was a child, so I learned a little bit." Zhao Chenan was humble for a moment, and then continued to the waiter: "The paddling of this dish uses the big herring tail to do, and the fish tail has to be turned over several times, and the difficulty is very high. He is very particular about the chef's technique. ”
The waiter who was recording the dishes on the side said to Zhao Chen'an when he heard this: "Don't worry, this gentleman, our chef was originally the chef of Deyue Tower in Shanghai, and he is very good at this dish." ”
After the waiter left with the menu, Yu Ruolan said to a few people: "It turned out to be the chef of Deyue Building, it seems that the dishes must be very authentic." ”
Zhao Chenan stretched out his finger and pointed to some photos hanging out of the box and said: "It shouldn't be wrong, you see these people in the photos, but they are all stars from Shanghai." ”
"Hey, Xi Meijuan, Wang Zhiwen, Lu Yi...... It's really all of us from Shanghai, and the one who took a photo with them in the middle should be the boss. Yu Ruolan looked around, and the more she watched, the more surprised she became: "I didn't expect Lu Yi to come here too, you see that he is as handsome in the photo as on TV." ”
"Ahem......" Zhao Chenan was a little speechless when he saw his wife pointing to Lu Yi's photo with an obsessed look.
Qian Lele came up and said to Yu Ruolan: "Sister Yu, I didn't expect you to like Lu Yi too, he is also my idol." When he played Xiao Tong back then, I was fascinated by him. ”