Chapter 382: Reykjavik's Little Routine
You don't need to put meat in the soup, you just need to put the lamb thigh bones that Chen Xing had made before and cook them for an hour.
But with such a simple operation, now after discovering Chen Xing's true cooking skills, she now has an impulse.
That is to take out the bones and see if there is any blood.
However, this operation does hurt people's self-esteem a bit.
Chen Jiaqian looked at Chen Xing, who was eager to try, and scratched her head helplessly.
I really can't help it.
After that, Chen Xing looked at what she was going to do, and she was actually very curious about what kind of mutton soup Chen Xing was talking about.
Chen Jiaqian is also a person who loves travel, but that was when she was young, studying in the Netherlands, working in Barcelona, and then writing books that became popular in China, and because of the economic recession in Spain, she returned to China to work in Guangzhou.
She has been to many places, but she really has never eaten the mutton soup that Chen Xing said.
How is it different from Shanghai's?
"Alright, it's pretty much it." Chen Jiaqian said, "Let's go to the living room and sit down, do you watch a movie?" ”
"Ghost movies?"
It's still early, less than four o'clock, the longer the soup base of this mutton soup is stewed, the better it tastes, and after a long time, the soup is milky and milky, which shows that the taste of the mutton bones is all integrated into this pot of soup.
So there is indeed time to watch movies.
If you are two people, challenge the ghost movies that you didn't dare to watch before?
Chen Jiaqian's cold hair exploded......
"Don't ......"
She's scared of it, too.
Chen Jiaqian's side is worthy of the Nordic style, and she still uses discs at home, and now China has long used these backward things, but as a developed country, Europe can still find a large number of CDs.
Since you don't watch ghost movies, just whatever.
Chen Xing searched through a pile of bags and saw an actor he had met before.
"See this? It happened to be Christmas. He pulled the disc out.
Chen Jiaqian was teasing the kitten outside the window with a cat strip that she didn't know where it came from, and she walked back when she heard Chen Xing speak, and was surprised to see the disc that Chen Xing had found.
"True love comes first?"
"Yes, I've watched this movie several times."
Chen Jiaqian was even more surprised.
"Me too! Ah, what a coincidence, this movie I watch every Christmas!! ”
His boyfriend was only talked about at the beginning of the year, but she came to Iceland alone in 17 years.
Christmas is the most important holiday in Europe, equivalent to the domestic year, when all the surrounding rooms are brightly lit, laughter everywhere, and sometimes the sound of fireworks can be heard, which is very lively, but she can only be alone at home.
In those years, she liked to turn off the lights every Christmas and watch a true love supremacy in a dark room.
She didn't spend Christmas alone this year, but Chen Xing found this movie from her collection a few days before Christmas, what is it?
What a surprise!
From the very beginning when she saw Chen Xing, she had an inexplicable good impression of Chen Xing and a feeling of being a younger brother, so during Chen Xing's time in Iceland, she often found time to chat with him and wanted to take care of him, after all, she knew how difficult the Icelandic winter was.
Now Chen Xing has actually found out the movies he has watched every year in the past few years.
Oh my God, he really understands me!
She really wants to say now that you can be my brother?
However, Chen Xing should not agree.
"Ugh."
Before Chen Xing could speak, he saw that Chen Jiaqian's tone quickly said a few words, and finally sighed.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, you said that you watched it several times, and you should like this movie too."
Chen Xing said while putting in the disc:
"I like it, I took promotional photos of Liam Neeson when I was doing commercial shooting in Paris before, and he was a very attractive person, and my assistant was a primary school girl in our school at the time, and she was very obsessed with this old man, haha, so I was very impressed."
"You know him?"
"Acquaintance, but unfamiliar, there is a contact information."
If you say the name directly, Liam Neeson should not be many Chinese people who know this name, but the roles he plays are very famous, such as the actor on Schindler's list, the ninja master in Batman, anyway, he is a European and American actor who is more familiar in China.
"I really envy you, you should know a lot of celebrities, right?"
"Is it okay? I have contact information for French female stars, but I rarely chat, but I have a good relationship with Sophie Marceau, and she also wrote a preface to my book, a very cute elder, and there is no generation gap when communicating with her. ”
"You actually know Sophie Marceau!"
Chen Jiaqian clenched her hands!
However, I soon noticed another important point that Chen Xing said...... "She wrote the preface to your book?" You've written a book too? ”
Oops, I slipped my mouth.
Chen Xing looked at the gift she had been taking back and had not yet opened, nodded and said, "Well, I also wrote a book that is considered a travelogue, about France, and that gift is, now you can open it." ”
She looked at Chen Xing and then at the gift box.
Today's Chen Xing gave her a lot of surprises.
"No, I'm going to take it apart for Christmas." She thought about it for a while, and finally decided to take a good look at Christmas, because at that time she was not at work during the holidays, and she had a lot of time to study the books written by Chen Xing.
This is what my brother wrote...... She thought so.
The movie begins, and the familiar Christmas songs come to the TV.
Having said so much, in fact, Chen Xing likes this movie more because of an actress in it.
The film is made up of a number of short stories that happened on Christmas Day, one of the storylines is - one of the male protagonist's best buddies is married, but he has always had a crush on the bride, and he has been filming the bride when he got married, so that he was finally found when people came to look for the wedding tape.
Chen Xingting doesn't look down on such a man.
However, he liked this actor named Keira Knightley, and he liked it immediately when he watched Pirates of the Caribbean when he was a child.
If he meets it in the future, he can also say that he grew up watching her movies.
Halfway through, I went to the kitchen to look at the stewed mutton bone soup, and watched the soup gradually change from bright to milky white, Chen Xing still had a sense of accomplishment, although he used a simple seasoning packet, but this was also the first pot of soup he made.
Let's try to see if it tastes good, and if you can, bring a pack from my uncle at the hot pot restaurant back to Paris and make a meal for Hedwig.
At the end of the movie, Chen Xing couldn't wait to take the lamb bones out of the soup pot, put all the cut mutton in, and finally sprinkle salt and chopped green onions.
As for MSG chicken essence, of course there is it in the kitchen, but the mutton soup has a natural umami flavor, and the MSG is not a snake to add to it? You must know that the word fresh is composed of fish and sheep, so you don't need to put MSG when making mutton soup and fish soup.
Chen Jiaqian had been watching from the side, and when she saw that Chen Xing said that it was OK, she kicked Chen Xing out of the kitchen and found a soup bowl to scoop out the soup in the pot.
After taking the table, I went to look at the rice in the rice cooker.
Chen Xing habitually sat on the sofa, watching what strange things the Icelandic news said, and watching Chen Jiaqian walk in and out for a few minutes.
Hey? Isn't it that I'm going to be the chef today?
Chen Xing considered whether to help, but finally sat on the sofa and watched the news with peace of mind.
In addition to the mutton soup that Chen Xing 'made', Chen Jiaqian also fried two new dishes, one was green vegetables, and the other was scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Chen Xing secretly tasted it, and it tasted very good.
Chen Jiaqian finally put the dishes and chopsticks.
"That's it!" She clapped her hands and was done.
In fact, looking at this mutton soup, Chen Jiaqian felt that it was similar to that in their hometown, except that there were two more small bowls of chili peppers.
"When we eat mutton soup in Shanghai, we don't have a dipping sauce, so we eat it directly. The soup is also very sweet and delicious, and I will see how this soup you highly recommend is different from what I have tasted. She poured some soup into the bowl and took a small sip.
"Well, it smells strong."
"That's right."
Chen Xing didn't know what was in the ingredients of the soup, but he knew that the dishes in Sichuan Province were basically like this.
It's more important to taste.
Xi'an mutton steamed bun is very famous, in fact, the soup base is the soup made of mutton bones, but Chen Xing feels very dull when he drinks this, and it is not that it is not delicious, anyway, the tastes of people everywhere are different, and people who are used to eating in other places can slowly adapt to Sichuan Province.
But in Sichuan Province, I am used to eating, and I can only eat fresh food in any food.
Not only Chen Xing, but every one of his friends will inevitably eat an authentic hot pot when they return to Rongcheng after leaving Sichuan Province for a long time, often muttering: "A bird fades out of his mouth" and the like.
The two of them were very quiet during the meal, and they could only hear the sound of the bowl and chopsticks colliding, Chen Jiaqian originally said that he would also eat a meal of rice balls today, and he wrapped them all, but now it seems that he can't eat them, so let's keep them for tomorrow morning.
Their meal today is actually the daily diet of many domestic people on the winter solstice, which is very Chinese.
But the two of them had such a meal on a small island far away from mainland China and even far from the European mainland.
It was snowing outside the window, but it was warm inside.
………………
Rejecting Chen Jiaqian's request to stay in her guest room, Chen Xing walked out of here carrying a small bag of rice balls.
Iceland is very safe, which may have something to do with the fact that there are basically no refugees here. So there is no need to worry too much about any danger at night, Chen Xing finally has a sense of security here.
But I still don't feel at ease in my own country.
Chen Xing wore a down jacket hat and walked briskly towards the hotel where he was staying.
Compared to Norway, Iceland's winter temperature is not too low, and today's minimum temperature is only -2 degrees Celsius, but probably due to the dry climate, you can still see a layer of snow at the door every morning.
One day before, Chen Xing got up early, and the snow on the ground had not yet been trampled.
So Chen Xing also learned to fall on the snow and play like those children...... It should be that no one sees it, otherwise his idol image will definitely collapse.
It's a little late now, Sister Jia Qian lives in a residential area, and there are no people at night, unlike the downstairs where Chen Xing lives, there are so many bars at night, even if it is three or four o'clock in the morning, you can see some drunks helping each other home.
"It's good that I didn't watch a ghost movie." Chen Xing suddenly thought for a moment.
Then I was cold......
"It's okay, it's okay, Huaxia's drifting can't come to Iceland."
Chen Xing walked all the way to the street.
There are more people here, and some tourists who have not yet adapted to the polar night in Iceland can't sleep at this time and also go out shopping, but at night there are no shops still open on the streets of Iceland, only 24-hour convenience stores and bars.
Back at the hotel, Chen Xing put the rice balls into a small Xiaoice box in his bedroom.
"Huh? How can I cook rice balls without a pot to eat? ”
It's a serious problem.
Sister Jia Qian also said that she would cook it herself tomorrow morning, and it seems that these rice balls can only be taken back to China in a few days.
Time passes.
Iceland is getting more and more tourists.
At Christmas, many foreigners will come to Northern Europe to experience Christmas, after all, this is the hometown of Santa Claus, and there are many atmospheres that are not found in Asia, even many European countries, and Iceland is also a popular tourist destination.
Every day, you can see a lot of tourists queuing up to get on the boat at the Whale Pier, waiting to go out to sea to see the whales.
Chen Xing has been there once, and he can only say that there are whales, but people with bad eyes may not be able to see clearly, even if there is a light on the boat to shine for you, but it is definitely not as broad as the field of vision in the daytime, and even looking at the sea at night has a sense of fear.
Iceland is still a great place to visit in the summer.
After Chen Xing was recognized again, he specially posted a video recorded in the hotel at the beep station, specifically talking to fans about this matter.
If you want to participate in Christmas, go to Norway.
If you want to come to Iceland to see the black sand beach, come in summer.
In winter, Chen Xing thinks that only the night view of the streets and geysers are worth visiting, but if there are tourists who want to live here for a long time like Chen Xing, experience the customs of Iceland and meet some Icelandic friends, then they can come at any time.
Otherwise, they were all deceived by their last video, and then the travel experience was extremely poor, which is not good.
The day before Christmas, Chen Xing saw a new civic activity in Reykjavik at the Icelandic forum, saying that he was going to the black sand beach where Chen Xing went before to collectively put Kong Ming lanterns, so he also posted this matter to the news of the beep station.
He has been recognized several times wearing a mask, and it is estimated that there are many fans who have come to Iceland recently.
Chen Xing felt that this matter was quite interesting, so he shared it with them.
At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky was still bright, Chen Xing took Sister Jia Qian's boyfriend's car to the black sand beach, and encountered a traffic jam on the way.
Chen Xing felt accustomed to it, but for Icelanders, encountering a traffic jam when leaving Reykjavik is definitely a rare occurrence in ten years, and Jia Qian's boyfriend was so surprised that he stepped out of the car and took a video of the traffic jam with his mobile phone.
"This ...... As for it? Chen Xing asked in Mandarin.
"There are very few traffic jams in Iceland, and it's probably all people who go to the black sand beach, so it seems that there are a lot of people participating in this event."
Chen Xing said: "When I went to my aunt's place for dinner yesterday, I saw a long queue at the door of her store, and they should all buy Kong Ming lanterns. ”
The Chinese shops in Iceland have been selling this thing lately, and they are making crazy money.
It is estimated that the whole of Northern Europe, and even the Kong Ming lanterns in Europe, have been absorbed into Iceland, after all, this is not a very popular product. If it weren't for Chen Xing's hot search that made Icelanders think it was very interesting, maybe Icelanders would know what Kong Ming Lantern is until they die.