"I am from Jinling. I went to college in the United States after graduating from high school in 1980. After graduation, I worked at Citibank." Chen Xi answered.
"Jinling? That's too close to my hometown. My hometown is in Jiangdu." Hu Cheng interrupted.
The distance between Jinling and Jiangdu is less than 100 kilometers, so the two of them can really be regarded as fellow villagers. It must be a great fate that the two of them met in New York on the other side of the ocean.
"Are you also from mainland China?"
"Yes, we are all living in the capital now."
Hu Cheng's answer made Chen Xi realize that he had made a mistake. Sun Dahai was not a Chinese from Xiangjiang or Wanwan, but a pure mainlander like her.
"Okay, Mr. Sun, do you have any objections to Selena becoming your full-time customer service?" Randy Orton asked.
"Yes, I accept Ms. Chen to be my full-time customer service staff."
Naturally, Sun Dahai would not have any objections. They are all mainlanders, and Sun Dahai also feels that this is more comfortable.
"Okay, Selena, from now on, you will become Mr. Sun's full-time customer service supervisor. You will select the other members of the customer service team as soon as possible.
Mr. Sun, I still have a meeting, so I'll take my leave now. You can leave the other things to Selina."
After Randy Orton left, Alaya came to explain the details of the work to Chen Xi. Itinerary arrangements, charter flights, hotel reservations and vehicle arrangements, as well as security issues after Sun Dahai arrived in Mexico City in a few days, there were a lot of miscellaneous things.
After everything had been explained, it was almost noon. Sun Dahai proposed an invitation to have lunch together, but Chen Xi politely declined.
Her team hasn't been formed yet, and Sun Dahai has left her with a lot of things to do, so Chen Xi will be very busy these days.
Sun Dahai and his party left the Citibank headquarters, took a taxi, and went directly to the restaurant that Andrew had reserved in advance.
Andrew wanted to treat Sun Dahai to a steak at noon, so he ordered Peter Luger in Brooklyn.
This is a very famous century-old restaurant, and it also has one Michelin star.
Sun Dahai has been to this restaurant in his previous life, and I can only say that the steak tastes okay, but the name is a bit untrue.
This is a bit like the Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant in the capital. A few decades later, almost all the people eating in Quanjude were tourists from other places or foreign countries. Few real people in the capital would go there to eat roast duck.
It's now 1986, and business here is already booming. Sun Dahai and the others arrived at the restaurant at almost twelve o'clock, and there were already many customers sitting at the bar outside, drinking and waiting for a table.
Fortunately, Andrew had made a reservation. Sun Dahai and the others followed the waiter who was leading the table and walked in. They saw Andrew and Maggie who had been waiting for a while.
The restaurant was already overcrowded, the crowds were surging, and the atmosphere was noisy. It took some effort for Sun Dahai and the others to squeeze through.
The situation was roughly the same as in the previous life. Peter Luger's restaurant did not have many types of dishes. After Sun Dahai and the others took their orders, they waited for a long time before all the dishes were served.
The appetizer is thick-cut bacon, which is what this restaurant is most famous for. It is not greasy as expected, the meat is tender and chewy, and the smoky flavor is just right.
The Caesar salad and onion rings were only average, but the two ladies ate them with gusto.
Because the waiting time was a bit long, the pot-bellied Han Bater had already started to eat bread. The pre-meal bread here felt a bit oily, and it was served with butter, which Sun Dahai didn't like very much.
The steaks at Peter Luger's restaurant are all dry-aged for 28 days. The quality is quite high. You don't have enough experience to cook it well.
Sun Dahai ate rib-eye steak in his previous life, which was very average. So today he ordered T-bone steak, with filet on one side and New Yorker on the other. It tasted very satisfying.
Sun Dahai didn't like the side dishes here. Whether it was creamed spinach or German-style fried potatoes, they were both poorly cooked. If you have that kind of appetite, you might as well eat some of their chocolate sundaes.
Sun Dahai and his party were all full. When they left Peter Luger, they found that there were more people waiting in line at the door.
Sun Dahai couldn't help but shake his head. The food here is really not that good, and the price is quite high. The six of them, Sun Dahai, ate more than four hundred dollars. It would be really uncomfortable if they still have to wait in line for a table.
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Sun Dahai has finished all his business in New York, and the remaining day and a half is purely for traveling. Andrew, a homebody, is a bit unreliable, so Maggie's arrangement is more suitable.
There are many places to visit in New York, but speaking of it, what Sun Dahai hopes to visit the most is the Metropolitan Museum.
The Metropolitan Museum, also known as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is one of the four major art palaces in the world, together with the Louvre, the British Museum and the Hermitage Museum.
Due to the large number of treasures in its collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will change its exhibits every once in a while. In addition, it will also hold some special exhibitions from time to time, as well as temporarily exchange exhibits with other museums.
Therefore, some people have said that if you visit the Metropolitan Museum once a year, you will never get tired of it for ten consecutive years.
Maggie drove a rental car and took them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 82nd Street on Fifth Avenue.
Today, there is an exhibition of African wood carving art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many black men in suits and ties appeared in the lobby on the first floor. They were probably embassy personnel from several African countries who came to visit the exhibition. They were surrounded by many reporters.
In the center of the hall is a huge vase of flowers. Together with the other four vases of flowers in the hall, there are five vases in total, all donated by Mrs. Wallace for free.
Next to the vase in the middle is the service desk of the Metropolitan Museum. Sun Dahai and the others each received a guide map, and then they made an appointment to gather at a time, and went to visit separately according to their personal preferences.
It was said that they visited separately, but in fact the six people were divided into four groups. Andrew and Maggie moved freely, while Hu Cheng followed Sun Dahai closely.
Battle was dragged away by Alaya, under the pretext that he wanted to see medieval weapons and armor.
Even Sun Dahai didn't know many words about such a professional thing. How could they communicate? Sun Dahai was deeply doubtful about this.
Sun Dahai followed the route on the tour guide map and came to the Asia Pavilion upstairs. As soon as he entered the door, there were several calligraphy works and traditional Chinese paintings.
This area is called the Asian area, and there are not only exhibits from China, but also some art treasures from Japan and Southeast Asia.
To say that Japan really learned a lot from China, Sun Dahai took a quick look at several meticulous paintings of ladies and thought they were Chinese works. However, he found that the people in the paintings were actually Japanese geishas wearing kimonos with white powder on their faces.
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The works in Southeast Asia are mainly Buddha statues made of various materials, as well as some gold and silverware inlaid with a large number of gems. Compared with Chinese bronzes, porcelain, Tang Sancai, stone carvings, murals and antiques, they are much simpler.