Apart from the main course, the other side dishes are a bit confusing.
Sweet and sour pork ribs, Buffalo spicy chicken wings, beef stew with curry potatoes, Cobb salad and seafood soup.
Dessert is normal, just ordinary American apple pie.
The staple food is a bit weird. In addition to the standard buns, there is also Italian hollow pasta with egg and tomato marinade. This makes Sun Dahai, who always likes to mix and match when cooking, feel weird.
Aunt Xu said apologetically: "I was supposed to go to Chinatown to buy noodles, but I was a little late, so I bought spaghetti from the supermarket downstairs. We can make do with it."
It turned out that Aunt Xu still remembered the traditional Chinese saying of "take the dumplings out and bring home the noodles", so she specially made noodles for Sun Dahai.
However, she is originally from the south, used to eating rice, and has settled in America since she was a child. Now she can make the egg and tomato noodles that northerners love, which is already very good.
Eating at Andrew's house is not formal. Everyone chats while eating, which is also very lively.
Hunter learned about some of Sun Dahai's business from Andrew. Although it was different from the direction of their fund management, he still took the initiative to speak up and gave Sun Dahai some experience in investing in the United States, which benefited Sun Dahai a lot.
Maggie was also very active and kept talking to everyone. Only then did Sun Dahai find out that Maggie graduated with a journalism major.
Her family conditions are similar to Andrew's, and she received a small share of the family business when she reached adulthood at the age of eighteen. She gets a lot of dividends every year, and she is also a person who has no worries about food and clothing.
Her dream is to become a freelance writer in the future, but now she still needs to go to some large media to gain some experience, learn from the experience of her predecessors, and build connections.
However, her family runs a large department store chain and has many advertising contacts with major media, so whether she goes for an internship or a short-term job, it will be relatively easy.
When Sun Dahai heard this, he thought he had met a member of the Wal-Mart family, which is a world-class predator. But when he asked about it, he found that he had made an own mistake.
The name of Maggie's Company is Dayton Hudson Company, and its headquarters is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the midwestern United States.
Sun Dahai had never heard of this company in his two lifetimes combined, and the Midwestern United States was dominated by agriculture, animal husbandry and manufacturing, not commerce.
Sun Dahai knew about this city. It is almost adjacent to St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, so these two cities combined are the famous Twin Cities.
Among the fifty states in the United States, Minnesota is not famous for its developed economy, but for its livability, high welfare, and complete education system, so Sun Dahai did not take this company seriously.
After enjoying the welcome banquet at Andrew's house, Sun Dahai said goodbye and left. Maggie and Andrew took him for a ride along the river and watched the night view of New York.
After a long trip, the two of them sent Sun Dahai back to the Palace Hotel and asked him to take an early rest to get rid of the jet lag, and then the two of them went home.
They already knew that Sun Dahai was going to the Citibank headquarters tomorrow morning for business, so they made an appointment with Sun Dahai to have lunch together at noon tomorrow.
Citibank's headquarters is on Park Avenue, less than 300 meters away from the Palace Hotel where Sun Dahai currently lives. Now that Alaya is by his side, he doesn't have to worry about finding a place.
Americans attach great importance to personal privacy.
They knew that Sun Dahai was going there to handle private banking business for themselves, so they would not have rashly followed him without Sun Dahai's invitation.
When Sun Dahai returned to the room, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. Alaya and the others had not come back yet. Sun Dahai took a shower, then turned on the TV and randomly found some programs to kill time.
Sun Dahai has been to the United States several times in his previous life, so he naturally knows how to cope with jet lag.
He, Hu Cheng, and Battelle started making preparations before leaving, and slept for several hours after getting on the plane, so now the biological clocks of the three of them can basically adapt to New York Daylight Saving Time.
Sun Dahai was wasting time boredly in the room, while Alaya and the others were being chased.
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In the afternoon, Alaya took Hu Cheng and Battelle out of the hotel and wandered around.
Hu Cheng had just started learning English not long after he had been with Sun Dahai, and he was basically at the level of jumping around words with a bilingual dictionary.
Battle is slightly better than him. He has studied with Teacher Xiangjiang for more or less two or three years. He can still speak simple sentences slowly.
Fortunately, Alaya has worked in Mexico for five years, and she is used to it because there are many wealthy people there who don't understand English well. So now she is very experienced and patient when communicating with Hu Cheng and Battelle.
The three people were communicating while strolling along Fifth Avenue. Not long after walking, they arrived at Broadway Avenue.
Broadway, this place is quite famous. Sun Dahai did a surprise visit to them before coming to the United States, so both Hu Cheng and Battelle knew this place.
Sun Dahai's purpose of educating them about illiteracy was very simple. Hu Cheng and Battelle were both from ordinary families. This was their first time going abroad, and they suddenly arrived in America, thousands of miles away from home.
Battelle had at least stayed with Sun Dahai in Xiangjiang for a period of time, and he had some knowledge of European and American etiquette, culture, and food customs. Hu Cheng was a pure country bumpkin and had no such experience at all.
Sun Dahai was afraid that after they came abroad, they would be out of tune with the environment and the people around them, so he conducted science popularization for them in the capital, taught them some foreign common sense, etiquette and taboos, and introduced them to some distinctive places.
, including Broadway.
Alayah saw that they were very excited after hearing the word "Broadway", so she misunderstood and thought that they liked the art of opera. So Alayah took them to buy tickets and watch a musical that was about to start.
"cat".
Since its performance in 1982, the musical "Cats" has been enduring and has become the most popular representative work in today's musicals. It almost dominated Broadway for several years until the equally classic musical "The Phantom of the Opera" was staged.
There is an opponent to contend with.
The total performance time of "Cats" is about two and a half hours, divided into two acts, with a fifteen-minute break in between.
When the first act ended, Alaya stood up and applauded vigorously with other audience members, only to realize that Hu Cheng and Barter had just been woken up.
Alaya smiled and shook her head. Let's forget about the next scene. How could she continue as the host when all the guests were asleep?
So the three of them quietly left the theater while the actors were taking a break between the two acts, preparing to find a place to have dinner.
