Chapter 138 The Restaurant Encountered a Hollywood Director! Take Anger for Anne
Chapter 138: Encountering a Hollywood director in a restaurant! Here’s the chance to vent anger for Annie!
Author: You want Cayenne
Chapter 138: Encountering a Hollywood director in a restaurant! Here’s the chance to vent anger for Annie!
Chiltern Firehouse.
Just by hearing the name of this restaurant, you can tell that it was converted from a fire station.
This fire station is not a fire station in the ordinary sense, but an antique fire station with historical value built in 1889.
The main building of the entire old fire station is in the Victorian Gothic architectural style. The small courtyard before entering is covered by an open-air glass dome, so that you can enjoy the night view and protect it from wind and rain.
There are also a few small round tables set up in the small courtyard. Although it is not a weekend, the attendance rate is pretty good.
The layout inside the old fire station is even more classically styled, with every brick and tile carrying a sense of history.
This is also the selling point of this restaurant.
Just as Gu Ran and Annie were about to walk into the small courtyard of the fire station restaurant, a restaurant manager who looked like an old British butler in a tuxedo greeted them with a serious face.
"Good evening, ma'am, good evening, sir."
The restaurant manager's tone was kind, but his expression and behavior revealed the arrogance of the British upper class.
Anne said: "Good evening, sir, we have an appointment."
With that said, Annie reported her assistant's phone number.
"Of course, madam, you are welcome." The restaurant manager smiled coldly and raised his chin slightly, "But I'm sorry, this gentleman's dress does not meet the requirements of this restaurant."
Gu Ran looked down at his sports jacket with the Southampton school emblem printed on it.
This is indeed not a formal dress.
In foreign countries, most high-end Western restaurants have a dress code. Even if you don't wear a suit, you must at least wear trousers, leather shoes, and a shirt.
Is this civilization?
No, Gu Ran doesn't think so.
When European workers went on strike for the first time, they had never gone on strike before, so they didn't know how to strike, so they imitated the upper class and spent money to buy a suit and dress and took to the streets.
Since then, Europeans have become so sick that they are required to wear suits even when eating.
If this were in China, those who wear big vests and flip-flops are the real rich people - they can wear whatever they want.
Gu Ran frowned slightly, "I came in a hurry today, can you please be accommodating?"
The restaurant manager's lips curled up with a slight hint of scorn, "Sorry sir, I can fully understand your eagerness to come to this restaurant to eat, but this restaurant is a Michelin-starred restaurant, and our chef is the star Michelin chef Nu.
Noor Mendis, you may have seen his column on London TV's midnight food program. We often have celebrities visiting here. Your dress will affect the quality of the restaurant and the good mood of other guests.
.So I suggest you change into formal attire first and come back to dine - we will reserve your table for 15 minutes..."
Damn it...
Are you discriminating against me?
Don’t say you have one Michelin star, so what if you have three Michelin stars?
Gu Ran's eyes immediately turned cold.
Anne beside her couldn't help but protest, "What? Only give us 15 minutes? This is so unfair! Even if we find a men's clothing store and buy a new set now, we won't have time!"
The restaurant manager put on an indifferent smile and said, "We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience caused to you, but this is the rule of our restaurant. If you feel uncomfortable, you can choose to leave."
"You!" Annie was so angry that her delicate body trembled slightly.
She originally wanted to use this opportunity to treat Gu Ran to a meal and express her gratitude to Gu Ran, but she did not expect to encounter such discriminatory treatment!
It's just because Gu Ran is Asian and wears a sports jacket from an unknown school, so this restaurant manager is like this!
If there are rules in Western restaurants and you really must wear formal attire, then it doesn't matter if you buy a formal suit, but if you only reserve a seat for 15 minutes, this is not just a matter of formal attire or not!
Annie grabbed the brim of her sunhat and prepared to take it off to reveal her identity and seek justice for Gu Ran!
Gu Ran grabbed Annie's white wrist and said with a faint smile: "No need, Annie."
Annie was still very angry, "Gu, I don't allow them to treat you like this!"
Gu Ran smiled and said, "Then let me reason with them."
Annie said worriedly: "Gu, can you reason with them?"
Gu Ran did not respond, but calmly opened his sports backpack and took out a thick wad of pounds from it.
Each pound note has a face value of 50.
There are a hundred pieces in this pile!
Anne was severely surprised.
She knew that Gu Ran was rich, but she didn't expect that Gu Ran was so rich that he could easily take out 5,000 pounds from his sports bag.
Gu Ran cut the pounds one by one into the face of the arrogant restaurant manager like a knife cutting noodles, "Can I eat at your place? Can I? Can I?"
The pound hit the restaurant manager's old face like snowflakes. The restaurant manager was shaking with anger and said, "Sir, you are insulting me!"
"Yeah, I'm just insulting you."
After Gu Ran finished cutting a pile, he took out another pile and continued to cut into the face of the arrogant restaurant manager.
So cruel, so rough, so direct!
The surrounding guests and passers-by were all shocked by Gu Ran's operation!
A few passers-by even picked up their mobile phones and took secret photos - after all, this kind of scene of throwing money at people's faces is not something you often see.
Gu Ran finished cutting the second stack and then cut the third stack, "Can it be done? Can it be done? I'm asking you the f*ck, can it be done!"
The originally arrogant restaurant manager suddenly started to tremble all over.
That’s already £15,000!
Although it is very insulting, but...it is really a lot of money!
The restaurant manager breathed heavily: "Sir, please don't do this. I don't value the money. Ours is really a high-class restaurant... Why don't you go buy a suit and come back? I'll give you your table."
You keep it."
The arrogant restaurant manager is starting to give in!
Gu Ran sneered: "I thought you were some kind of tough guy!"
With that said, Gu Ran took out the fourth wad of pounds and continued to cut the restaurant manager's face, "I want to go in now!"
The restaurant manager's feet were covered in pounds!
This is a real twenty thousand pounds!
How can someone be an ordinary person who can easily spend 20,000 pounds for fun?
The arrogance on the restaurant manager's face immediately disappeared, and his attitude turned 180 degrees, "Sir! Sir, you look like a super upper-class person with an extraordinary status! I was really sorry for my poor service just now."
The restaurant manager bowed to Gu Ran repeatedly!
...it’s better to have money!
Gu Ran sneered: "So, I can go in?"
The restaurant manager nodded and bowed: "Yes, yes! Of course! Our restaurant will provide you with services in the most professional manner, ensuring that you and your girlfriend enjoy first-class service."
The restaurant manager was going crazy with joy at being able to earn 20,000 pounds at a time. He wished he could treat Gu Ran as a foreign god of wealth!
Gu Ran smiled coldly, "Well, how nice of you to have such an attitude earlier? Okay, you can help me pick up the money first, and then I'll see if your first-class service is good, and then I'll decide whether or not I want to eat at your house."
.”
What……
The restaurant manager was completely stunned.
"Sir, I thought...the money was for me."
Gu Ran frowned and said, "Did I say I would give it to you? I just wanted to show you how rich I am. Can you see it now?"
The restaurant manager opened his mouth and said with difficulty: "Look, I saw it."
Gu Ran said coldly: "If you see it, pick it up and return it to me. I'm telling you, even if you miss one piece, it won't work. If you miss one piece, your restaurant will be deemed as not serious!"
Who is the crooked one?
The restaurant manager was shaking with anger!
I was dumped on the pound, but I still can’t get it!
This, this, this is so bullying!
The key point is that with so many people around watching, the British upper class has lost all its face!
The restaurant manager wanted to kick Gu Ran out.
But he really didn't dare to do that.
Gu Ran said coldly: "What? You just said that I am a super-upper-class person with an extraordinary status and you want to provide me with super-first-class services. Are you saying that you are just looking at the money?"
"No, no, no," the restaurant manager blushed, "Sir, you misunderstood, we are not that kind of people! We...we will pick up the money for you right now."
The restaurant manager bent down towards Gu Ran and picked up the money one by one.
Gu Ran looked down at this arrogant guy with an indifferent expression, feeling happy in his heart!
Annie, who was beside her, hugged Gu Ran's arm tightly and almost screamed with excitement.
It turns out that this is Gu Ran's "reasoning"!
This kind of truth is too domineering, too wild, and a direct slap in the face!
And slapping someone in the face with money is not the most exciting thing. The most exciting thing is that after slapping you in the face with money, you also ask the other party to pick up the money and exchange it back!
...ahhhh!
Gu Ran, why are you so bad!
It's so bad that I want to knock him to the ground!
Gu Ran's whole body and every pore was full of strong hormonal charm!
Annie felt like she was about to lose control of herself...
Lamp~
The restaurant manager dropped a blue bubble.
Gu Ran didn't even concentrate on looking at it.
The last pickup progress is not prepared for this kind of people.
"Sir, we have picked them all up, please count them." The restaurant manager handed over a few thick wads of pounds with a wry smile.
Now it was Gu Ran who looked arrogant. Gu Ran accepted all the money and opened his backpack directly, "If you are too lazy, just take less. The things you stole from the British Museum are much more than mine.
, what else do I care about? Let them all in."
The restaurant manager was about to be driven crazy by Gu Ran, but he didn't dare to have an attack!
"Sir, why don't you order some?"
"I said no, no need!" Gu Ran frowned, and then put his arms around Annie's soft waist, "Annie, it's getting late, and since the service here is pretty good, we'll just have a few bites here.
Bar."
"Well, okay, I will listen to you." Annie was extremely well-behaved, and half of her delicate body took the initiative to lean into Gu Ran's arms.
So cool...
Gu Ran is so arrogant!
The restaurant manager was almost crying.
Gu Ran helped Annie walk halfway, then suddenly stopped and turned to the restaurant manager behind him: "Oh, by the way, I still prefer your unruly look just now."
The restaurant manager almost fainted and fell to the ground.
Under the guidance of the waiter, Gu Ran and Annie walked through the small courtyard with a glass dome and walked into the quieter and softer interior of the restaurant.
The two found a quiet corner and sat down.
Annie asked anxiously: "Gu, do you think it's OK here?"
Gu Ran smiled and said: "The environment is not bad."
The waiter said quite proudly: "Sir, madam, we are a well-known one-Michelin-starred restaurant. We are often visited by celebrities, such as David Beckham and Jennifer Lawrence."
As soon as he heard David Beckham, Gu Ran suddenly became energetic.
There is another chance for free prostitution today. If I can meet Little Bei here, it will be really awesome!
By the way, Brother Bei probably doesn’t recognize me since we last saw each other...
When Annie heard Jennifer Lawrence's name, she was immediately upset, "Hey, I called my assistant to book the restaurant, but it turned out that all the Michelin three-star restaurants in London had no seats. I should have known that Jennifer had eaten here too.
For food, I'll just...Oh, forget it, it seems we can only make do with this one-star restaurant today."
The waiter's mouth twitched slightly: ...Who are you? Do you think you are Anne Hathaway?
Gu Ran smiled and said, "Annie, take your order."
"OK."
Anne took the menu and took a quick glance at it, "The appetizer is a seaweed crisp, the appetizer is baked Hokkaido scallops, the salad is lime strawberry avocado, the soup is abalone and spring bamboo shoots clear soup, and the side dish is grilled mushrooms.
Hot spring egg, black truffle, for the main course...charcoal-grilled American purebred Black Angus beef tendon, and for dessert, Italian parfait."
For regular Western food, ordering is also very particular.
The order of tapas, appetizers, salads, soups, side dishes, main dishes, and desserts cannot be messed up.
Let’s not talk about whether the Western food is delicious or not. Anyway, it is full of flavours.
After Annie finished ordering, she handed the menu to Gu Ran.
Gu Ran took it and took a look - there were no pictures, just a line of cursive English, and there wasn't even a price.
...Europeans have only had enough to eat for 400 years in total, but they are really good at showing off.
Gu Ran glanced at it and threw away the menu, "An appetizer of veal with caviar, a starter of mango and nut foie gras, salad... Oh, why is there such a thing as a salad? Let's have tomatoes mixed with sugar.
"
The waiter said with a depressed face: "Sorry, we don't have this dish."
Gu Ran said: "It's very simple. Just slice the tomatoes and sprinkle some sugar. Tell your celebrity chef that if he doesn't know how to cook it, I can go and teach him in person."
The waiter's mouth twitched, "...Okay sir. Where are the others?"
Gu Ran sighed and continued: "For soup, I want abalone and pine mushroom soup. For side dishes, lemon pulp ball salmon and black truffles. For main course, black pepper tomahawk steak 5 mature, and for dessert, I want peak pudding."
Although he doesn't like eating Western food with so many rules, as an international student, Gu Ran still has experience in eating Western food.
The waiter said respectfully: "Okay, what would you like to drink?"
Annie bit her lip and said softly: "Gu, just make your decision."
Gu Ran waved his hand, "I don't drink."
"Oh, then no."
Annie smiled and thought to herself: Gu Ran is indeed a gentleman and has no intention of getting me drunk - but why do I feel a little disappointed in my heart?
The waiter walked away with the menu.
After a while, the appetizers and appetizers were served.
The professionalism of the service in this one-Michelin-starred restaurant is truly unparalleled. When Gu Ran and Annie ordered the dishes, the waiter did not take notes with a pen, but he could accurately remember each dish and knew which dish was served.
To whom should it be given?
Gu Ran was dumbfounded when he looked at the veal with caviar and foie gras with mango and nuts in front of him.
He has eaten Western food before, but... this is indeed the first time for him to eat such exquisite Western food.
Exquisite not only describes good-looking, but also small.
The portion of veal with caviar was only as big as a little finger, and the caviar on it was simply given by the grains.
Look at Annie's seaweed crisps, they are half the size of the boli seaweed.
well.
It’s so weird that you can eat so much.
Gu Ran swallowed the veal with caviar into his mouth with a sad face - not to mention, the taste was good, the caviar was very full, the veal should be raw meat from the tenderloin, and it was made that afternoon, so it was very tender.
It's just... too little.
"Sir, you want tomatoes mixed with sugar." The waiter brought a large plate and placed it in front of Gu Ran.
I saw seven thin tomato slices sliced into pieces with the best knife skills, and decorated like a blooming flower in the center of the large plate, with a layer of snow-like white icing sprinkled on the petals.
The tomato slices were as thin as gauze.
Gu Ran:......
Even a cherry tomato has more content than these tomato slices!
Gu Ran couldn't help but ask: "Waiter, I can't help but be curious and want to ask, how much does this plate of tomatoes mixed with sugar cost?"
The waiter said with a smile: "Sir, this dish is not expensive, but no other chef can make this dish. It is cooked by the famous star chef Nuno Mendez himself."
, so the price will be slightly more expensive.”
"How many?"
"It's only £159."
Gu Ran:......
Fortunately, it's cheaper than a pair of stockings with suspenders.
Gu Ran sighed and handed the tomatoes mixed with sugar to Annie, "Annie, you can eat it."
"Ah? Okay, thank you." Annie took it, gently picked up a thin tomato slice with a fork, and put it into her mouth.
"Wow, it's so delicious! So sweet and refreshing! Gu Ran, the dishes you created are so creative! I think you should ask for a creative fee from the celebrity chef Nuno Mendez!"
Huh, that’s it?
Gu Ran shook his head and drank the abalone and pine mushroom soup - Gu Ran was still very satisfied with this soup. The pine mushroom soup was very delicious and the three-headed abalone was big and elastic.
While eating, Gu Ran secretly paid attention to the guests entering the restaurant.
Anyone who can dine at a one-Michelin-star restaurant where a dish of candied tomatoes costs 159 pounds must be either rich or expensive.
Unfortunately, after watching it for a long time, there were no stars.
Xiaobei, although my eldest cousin has been here before, it doesn’t mean that she can come here every day.
Seeing that more than half of the meal has been eaten, there is still another chance to pick it up today. Otherwise, why don't we go and prostitute the famous chef for free?
Celebrities are definitely prone to dropping blue skill bubbles, but the problem is that Western food and Chinese food are completely different systems. Even if you use the Western food skills of a famous celebrity chef, you won't be able to use them on a daily basis.
While Gu Ran was thinking about it, Annie suddenly lowered the brim of her hat nervously and huddled in the corner.
Gu Ran quickly asked with concern: "Annie, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Annie lowered her voice and said: "A Hollywood director, screenwriter and critic came here for dinner! He once commented on my acting skills and said that I was garbage in a vase... I didn't dare to breathe when I saw him."
Gu Ran suddenly frowned, "Who is it?"
Annie said quickly: "Shh, Gu Ran, keep your voice down, don't let him find me - we'd better eat quickly and leave here as soon as possible after eating."
Gu Ran grabbed Anne's trembling cold hands and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here. Our location here is also relatively hidden, and you are wearing a big sunhat now, so others won't find out that you are Anne Hathaway. Tell me.
Me, who is that guy?”
Anne calmed down and said cautiously: "There is a man in the third row at the door who is about fifty years old, wearing a black suit, and has a somewhat chubby figure - his name is Rob Marshall."
Rob Marshall?
Gu Ran looked back and saw a fat white man with a swollen face chatting and laughing with a young black man.
As soon as he saw Rob Marshall's face, Gu Ran immediately activated the relevant memories of his previous life.
This director, screenwriter, and film critic was quite talented when he was young. His masterpieces are "Chicago", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.
He is also a gay man - in Hollywood, having this status is a BUFF for yourself.
The director's biggest controversy is not the above works, but that he directed a live-action version of "The Little Mermaid" movie in 2022, which will be released in 2023 - his Little Mermaid starring turned out to be a
black girl.
This kind of forced stacking of BUFFs just to be correct is really ridiculous.
Even if you really want to star a black girl, you can just find a prettier one. Even if Black Pearl Halle Berry is too old and Gamora Zoe Saldana can't be hired, "Ant-Man 2"
Couldn't the villain in it be Hannah Jon-Kamen?
It's really too much to have to find a girl who can't even accept black people to play the role.
…Hollywood’s anti-intellectualism has reached the point where it’s right for the sake of being right.
Fortunately, it was not that serious in 2010.
Gu Ran is very glad that he will be reborn at the end of 2022 and will not see "The Little Mermaid", let alone "Snow White" starring a black man and starring Gal Gadot as the evil mother, which is scheduled for 2024.
snow White".
Moreover, Rob Marshall publicly insulted my goddess!
It’s okay if you haven’t met him, but now that you have met him, it’s hard to let go of the hatred in your heart if you don’t do it to him!
Gu Ran stood up and said, "Annie, wait here, I will vent your anger for you."
Annie said in fear: "Gu, no! Don't -"
Before he finished speaking, Gu Ran took off his coat from Southampton Private School, left his seat, and strode behind Rob Marshall——
At this time, Marshall was happily bragging to the young black man at the same table.
Gu Ran didn't mess around at all, and slapped Marshall on the back of the head with a round hand!