Chapter 240 Seafood Dinner
Chapter 240 Seafood Dinner
The two of them walked around several streets and even went to a vegetable market to ask about the prices of crabs and sea cucumbers.
There were only two people selling aquatic products in a vegetable market, and one was selling sea cucumbers.
"Uncle, how much are the sea cucumbers?" Tongqian asked with a smile.
"Do you want the ready-to-eat one, or the dried one? I have the dried ginseng here, which is the Liao ginseng." The uncle promoted the Liao ginseng in his hand.
"Are these all Minnan ginseng?" Tongqian was surprised that he did not recommend Minnan ginseng.
"Everything else in southern Fujian is good, except the sea cucumber, which is not as good as the Liaoning sea cucumber." The uncle said very objectively.
"Why? Why is Liao ginseng so good?" Tongqian also asked curiously.
"The temperature of the waters in Liaoning is just right, and sea cucumbers like to live in cold waters. The sea cucumbers here hibernate when the temperature gets high, and they don't grow anymore." When the uncle saw that someone was listening to him, he patiently shared knowledge about sea cucumbers.
"Then if I raise sea cucumbers in Lu Province, is that okay?" Tongqian was still searching for all the knowledge.
"The sea cucumbers in Shandong Province are not as good as those in southern Fujian. Raise something else," the uncle gave a warning.
"Then can I raise crabs? The kind of swimming crabs." Tongqian asked reluctantly.
"The swimming crab is okay, I don't know either." The uncle gave up the conversation until he mentioned the sea cucumber.
Tongqian saw someone selling eels and asked about it. He found out that they were very expensive. No one in his hometown ate this kind of food. One time, his elder brother caught a few eels from the river, boiled them, peeled the skin and fried them. Tongqian also found them delicious.
But even if people in my hometown accidentally catch a few eels while fishing, they will throw them away out of dislike. No one likes to eat them.
There are such huge differences between the south and the north, and the customs and cultures are even more different.
They walked around the vegetable market but didn't buy a single vegetable.
They continued to circle the Duke Hotel until their legs were straightened out, then they walked back to the hotel.
"I've used up all the food in my stomach. Let's go have a big meal." He said happily after washing the copper coins.
They came to the ninth floor, where a high-end restaurant was located. They sat down and the waiter came over immediately to make tea and asked them what kind of tea they would like.
"Do you have scented tea? Please make some for us." Tongqian said with a smile. Ye Xuanji acted as a quail at this time.
After the waiter made the tea, he asked, "Would you like to order the meal or the standard meal?"
"Order. Is your hotel's signature dish seafood?" Tongqian asked again.
"Do you want to eat seafood?" the waiter asked them again.
"Yes, give me the menu." Tongqian looked at the menu in the waiter's hand and stretched out his hand.
The first page of the menu is the signature dish - "Five Dragons Playing in the Water".
"Which five dragons are these five dragons playing in the water?" Tongqian asked the waiter again as the menu was not very clear.
"The five dragons we are talking about are fish, turtle, shrimp, crab and sea cucumber." replied the waiter.
"Both turtles and crabs are called dragons?" asked Copper Coin in confusion.
"They are all aquatic products, so you all need to play in the water." The waiter said with a smile.
"Okay, let's have this, and a spicy crab and a garlic lobster." After Tongqian ordered a few dishes, he asked the waiter, "Do you have a low-proof red wine? Give us a bottle."
"Okay, I'll bring you a bottle of milk wine, only eight degrees." The waiter looked at the two little girls and knew they must like milk wine.
"Okay, serve the food right away." Tongqian said directly when he saw that there were only a few people in the restaurant.
"Please wait!" the waiter said politely and immediately left their table.
Tongqian looked at this high-end restaurant. It was in a semi-enclosed state, with a flower stand in the middle as a screen, exuding elegance in its half-hidden and half-exposed state.
Perhaps because there were not many people around at that time, the dishes they ordered were served in 20 minutes.
Tongqian saw that the wine bottles were from Germany, and everyone got a glass. "Let's try some foreign wine."
So the two of them ate and drank, very happily.
At this time, Ye Xuanji ate the spicy crab, and her little mouth turned red from the spiciness. "This spicy crab is still the best. It tastes good only when it's spicy." She took a bite and immediately took a sip of wine.
"This wine is sweet, so it doesn't seem to be very spicy." Ye Xuanji enjoyed eating and drinking.
"I still like to eat garlic lobster. This Five Dragons Playing in the Water is too nutritious." Tongqian also ate it very happily.
"The fish here is eel. You can try the sea cucumber. This is the first time I eat sea cucumber." Ye Xuanji was attacking the Five Dragons Playing in the Water again.
"This is my first time eating sea cucumber too." Tongqian picked up a sea cucumber and took a bite.
"It has no taste and is a bit crunchy and chewy." Ye Xuanji said after taking a bite.
Both of them were tasting delicious food for the first time in their lives, in such a high-end hotel.
Suddenly a voice came over, "You also call turtles and crabs dragons here?" The voice seemed familiar, and the questions were the same as those asked by Tongqian.
Tongqian wanted to listen quietly, "We want the Five Dragons Playing in the Water, and a Spicy Crab." The voice was too familiar.
The copper coin stood up strangely and walked towards the sound.
"My voice sounds so familiar, you are here too!" Tongqian saw an acquaintance.
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