novelkee Chapter 2066
Chapter 2066
Chapter 2066
Kai couldn't stand the torture and abuse of his mother tongue, so he just ordered the food himself.
My fluent Mandarin really impressed the old man next door... Although they are more accustomed to speaking Cantonese, Mandarin is not unacceptable. After all, a foreigner who speaks fluent Mandarin at least proves that he really understands the culture of this country.
Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to learn it so fluently.
Although Kai is not a social bully, being a criminal policeman at least proves that he has no problem with social skills. You have to know that criminal police cannot solve cases by sitting in the office like on TV. In fact, criminal police need to visit a lot to solve cases. People with poor communication skills cannot do this job.
So soon, he was happily chatting with the uncle next door in the midst of Strange's stunned expression. Although one spoke Mandarin with a slight accent from his hometown, and the other spoke Cantonese, which didn't sound like the same language, they were still chatting enthusiastically.
"So what does 'chicken tastes like chicken and fish tastes like fish' mean?"
The old man didn’t seem to be stage-shy, and he proudly introduced their authentic Cantonese cuisine to Kai!
People from every place will feel proud when talking about their local delicacies to outsiders... Even if they don't think these things are anything special at ordinary times, once they meet outsiders, their attitude will change immediately... The most typical example is the big brother in "Rotten Dayan Pagoda".
Of course, you can't expect normal people to describe home-cooked food in scientific terms. Not everyone has studied food safety or related chemistry. When Cantonese people say chicken tastes like chicken, it actually means chicken tastes like inosinic acid, and when they say fish tastes like fish, it actually means fish has a mixed taste of sufficient amino acids and fatty acids.
You can't expect the word "original flavor" to be very inclusive, otherwise chicken flavor can also include chicken smell, fish can also have a fishy smell, and the sheep smell of northern sheep may not be liked by Cantonese people (but I do), and pork has a unique smell of fatty pork. So when Cantonese people say original flavor, it is actually the aroma they tasted when they were young and ate with a Cantonese stomach. Later in life, they will encounter different ways of cooking the same ingredients. The important thing is that no matter how they are cooked, you can taste a little of the same aroma. Then when you ask the elders, the elders will tell you that this is the original flavor of the ingredients!
This is the origin of the "original flavor", so when Cantonese people eat some heavier dishes and don’t taste the familiar flavor, they will say that there is no "original flavor".
It is difficult to verify whether the "original flavor" is common to all ingredients or unique to Guangdong. At least it can be confirmed that some chicken flavors are local chickens in Guangdong, and even locked in Qingyuan and Zhanjiang. Therefore, the term "original flavor" is not very rigorous, because if it is not a three-yellow chicken, you basically can't taste the original flavor that Guangdong people like. The same is true for other meats. Sometimes when eating pickled fish and boiled fish, you can only taste the "mud taste" and the fishy smell of red meat, and lack the fresh fragrance of fish. However, the grass carp commonly used in pickled fish and boiled fish - that is, the grass carp in Guangdong people's mouth, is difficult to make the fresh fragrance of other common steamed fish. Guangdong people remember more of the taste of sea bass and crucian carp (which one tastes more fragrant among steamed grass carp, steamed sea bass and steamed crucian carp, Guangdong people should have their own answer), so when eating pickled fish out, it is very likely that you will be evaluated as "no fish taste" and "no original flavor".
Many Cantonese people never say they want to eat the original flavor when they are not in the Pearl River Delta. When they go to Chaoshan, everything is delicious as long as the ingredients are fresh. When they go to Zhanjiang and Taishan, you can't even find anything without the original flavor, and they don't even bother to find fault with the original flavor. Outside of Guangdong and Guangxi, if the ingredients are normal, who would still care about the original flavor? Don't like the spicy and fresh meat? Don't like the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty taste of Shandong cuisine? Don't like the strange taste of Zheergen? Don't like what to add to the lamb skewers as long as your arm? Don't like eating too much in Northeast China?
However, in central and western Guangdong, and in the Cantonese-speaking areas of Guangxi, the Cantonese people believe that the original flavor of ingredients is the most fragrant and refreshing. This is irrefutable and is definitely not due to the Cantonese stomach.
Of course, after saying so much, Kai still didn’t understand...but I have to say that the roast goose in the tea restaurant is really good.
But the old customers next to him could never understand why Kai thought plum sauce and Cantonese chili sauce were not tasty...
"The way you eat it is not authentic." In response to Kai's request for chili oil from the waiter, a man sat down on a chair nearby very rudely and said very naturally.
"Tsk..." Strange tsk'd unhappily when he saw the person coming, and then said very impolitely: "Why can't you wait until we finish eating before showing up?"
"Hello, my name is Zhang Qiang, you can call me Brother Qiang." The man was wearing a strange suit, but his temperament was very strange. At least to Strange, he looked like a crappy salesman, while Kai felt a familiar breath from him - the temperament of the system.
He wasn't wearing a suit either, but a standard executive jacket.
This guy is really dressed in a standard outfit, white shirt, executive jacket, dark suit pants, polo shirt, simple and plain black leather shoes...
A perfect leadership outfit!
But once he opened his mouth, he had a commonplace temperament.
"Brother Qiang...what's your surname?" Kai said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
This actually stunned Zhang Qiang. He didn't expect that this foreigner not only spoke Mandarin so fluently, but also knew the radicals of Chinese characters.
"Shenlei Bureau, Special Zone Director."
Zhang Qiang didn't try to be mysterious and spoke directly.
Kai said helplessly: "Okay, you are really responsible, but it's not against the law for me to eat, right?"
In fact, Kai had no ill feelings towards Zhang Qiang, but felt very close to him. But the problem was that reality did not allow him to stand up and approach the organization. He was just a ghost now!
"Of course eating is not against the law, but entering the country illegally is. I particularly dislike you Western superpowers. You never seem to learn to abide by the law."
Zhang Qiang didn't lie. In recent years, their biggest headache has been those superpowers who entered the country illegally. These idiots never seem to know how to abide by the law. They think they come to the East just to show off... I really don't understand, these people are doing so badly in their own hometown, why do they think they can be successful after coming to the East?
Other people’s extraordinary powers are just hidden, they don’t really exist!
Most of these people took it for granted. When they saw it, they thought, “Hey, there are no superheroes here, and there aren’t that many people with super powers… Wow! This is a blue ocean!”
Then it dove in and began to swell.
Then he was arrested and sent to a labor camp.
"Um...it seems like that. But it doesn't matter, I will arrange for my lawyer to handle it." Kai was not too panicked. After all, there will always be privileges in this world...this is human nature and there is no way to avoid it.
Strange was very unhappy about this.
He is a typical Western ghost. They naturally don't like the atmosphere in China where everyone wants to control everything.
He felt that he had done nothing, so why was he being monitored?
This is a violation of human rights!
“You are violating human rights!”
He speaks his mind as he thinks it, and Mr. Strange is not in the habit of swallowing his anger.
"If you're not happy, don't come!" Zhang Qiang was even more arrogant than him and retorted directly.
To be honest, they don't welcome these outsiders at all. You come here and follow the rules, but these people will never learn to follow the rules and always want others to accommodate their habits. Why?
This is our territory, our country. You come to my land and ask us to adapt to your habits... Where does your confidence come from?
"Do you know how busy we are recently because of you foreigners? Why can't you just find a job and work hard? Why do you always like to be different? And you're talking about human rights, as if your government cares about human rights."
In fact, the University of Tokyo has always been resentful of the West. There is no way around it. Europe and the United States used to have the right to speak, and they always liked to discredit the University of Tokyo for no reason.
The West particularly likes to blame the University of Tokyo for what they have done.
The most famous one is "cotton". Who the hell used people as farm tools to harvest cotton? After so many years, they no longer use black people to harvest cotton, so they slandered Dongda... Who the hell is stupid enough to use people to harvest cotton?
Wouldn’t it be nice to use agricultural machinery?
In short, there are many similar examples.
This leads to a general lack of favorability towards foreigners... After all, the University of Tokyo in this time and space is very different from Kai's original time and space, and there are not so many people who hate the country.
Moreover, these foreigners do bring many security problems to the local area.
Although Strange is a good person, he has not escaped the inherent arrogance of Westerners. He keeps emphasizing some so-called universal values in an attempt to persuade Zhang Qiang to relax their supervision.
The two of them quarreled loudly, but Kai was not affected.
He calmly asked the restaurant to add chili oil to his food… This was his habit when eating roast meat or roast goose… It was definitely not authentic, but he liked it. Cantonese roast meat was always sweet, and he didn’t dislike it, but he preferred to add chili peppers. But Cantonese chili peppers… To be honest, can that thing really be called chili sauce? Chili sauce should at least be spicy, right?
The waiter at the tea restaurant looked at Kai as if he were an idiot.
After all, no one here eats like that.
This kind of old-fashioned tea restaurant generally insists on its own products. If ordinary people dare to do this, they will definitely be scolded by the boss...
But this time, nothing happened, because an ordinary-looking man walked over and asked the waiter to leave first. Then he took out a bottle of chili oil from his pocket.
"You and I have similar tastes. I like roast meat with chili oil."
Kai was not afraid of the other party poisoning him, so he just took it and ate it.
"Mmm! It smells good!"
Chili oil is a very delicious thing, but it is very particular. Kai remembered that when he was in school, his favorite thing was the chili oil from a breakfast shop. It was fragrant and spicy, and tasted great. Kai had eaten it since he was a child, but later the breakfast shop was demolished and the owner of the breakfast shop became financially independent... The breakfast shop was closed, and Kai felt lost for a long time after he returned from the army. He had never eaten that kind of chili oil again until he traveled through time...
In fact, eating roast meat with chili oil was a habit Kai developed when he was in high school. At that time, there was a Cantonese roast meat shop near their school... The shop was called Authentic Cantonese Roast Meat... Of course, Kai knew that the food was definitely not authentic.
The owner of that store used to work in Guangdong, and later returned to his hometown to open this store. He figured out the raw materials, techniques, and so on all by himself.
But his chili oil is great.
Kai's parents are both working, so he rarely eats lunch at home except on holidays. So for a long time, he had lunch there. When he had the best time, he would ask the boss to give him a spoonful of marinade, then add a lot of chili oil, and then eat it with roasted meat and vegetables.
That feels so good!
At this moment, he was replicating the feeling from before.
"The way you eat it..." Seeing the amount of chili Kai added, even the ordinary middle-aged man felt a little frightened. He was from Jiangxi. When it came to chili, the spiciness was more important than the fragrance, but Kai's way of adding it was a little hard for him to accept.
Kai didn't react much. His taste is very unique. He likes spicy food but not spicy food, so he doesn't like many Sichuan dishes with peppercorns. But he likes Hunan and Jiangxi dishes very much.
The middle-aged man's name is Wang Jianguo. To be honest, when he saw Kai's actions, he always had a feeling that the other party was Chinese, because except for native Chinese people, other people generally don't eat like this, even Hong Kong people don't eat like this.
Especially the rice with chili oil...even ordinary Chinese people would probably find it hard to accept.
"Cool!"
Kai doesn't care.
After all, no matter how imaginative these people are, they can't guess Kai's true identity. So there's no need to worry about being exposed.
Strange also noticed Kai at this time.
Faced with Kai's actions, he was full of question marks.
What is this special way of eating?
"You don't have to worry about me doing anything bad here. After all, I don't believe you don't know who I am. To be honest, I like your way of doing things. Those guys in the West are too hypocritical. They always make up a lot of nonsense, and then when things happen, they turn around and blame us police for not protecting the people... Fuck! If we had the Skynet system, our crime-solving rate would be very good... But those rich people seem to be afraid that they will be discovered by us if they do something bad, so they just don't let us install surveillance... Damn it! We police are not omnipotent!"
Kai really doesn't like the Western pretentiousness.
Instead, the two people from the Spear of Divine Power looked at each other.
Then Zhang Qiang said, "You seem to be a Westerner too."
"Yeah, that's right. But it doesn't stop me from hating their way of doing things."
Kai said very straightforwardly: "So you don't need to worry about me doing anything. I'm here just to help."
Speaking of this, Kai said to Zhang Qiang: "To be honest, you actually managed to get Kamar-Taj registered here... You are quite capable. You know, the Americans only knew about Kamar-Taj recently."
That’s right, the Hong Kong Temple is registered with the S.H.I.E. Bureau.