At this time, the waiter gave everyone a menu. Sun Dahai looked at it and found that it was a relatively authentic Cantonese morning tea dish, but he didn't know how it would taste after it was made.
No wonder Sun Dahai was worried. In his previous life, he had heard many people complaining, saying that Chinese food in the United States had dishes and flavors unknown to Chinese people, and they also called it new-style Chinese food, which was expensive and unpalatable.
Now this Nanhua Teahouse is like an ordinary restaurant, ordering and delivering food, instead of the traditional teahouse where waiters go around with carts and customers pick up their own food, so Sun Dahai is a little worried.
The waiter was Chinese, but he couldn't speak Mandarin, and Gao Ren didn't understand Cantonese, so the two of them could only communicate in English, and they stumbled for several minutes before they finished ordering.
Many dishes in Cantonese teahouses are prepared in advance, so the dishes are served very quickly. In a short time, the dishes are placed on the table.
Everyone started working together, and Sun Dahai tasted it. The food here tasted pretty good, much better than Sun Dahai expected.
Crystal shrimp dumplings, black bean pork ribs, barbecued pork buns, quicksand buns, rice rolls, siu mai... Gao Ren ordered a large table.
In addition to these morning tea snacks, he also ordered a few stir-fry dishes. Anyway, the table was full.
This was the first time Alayah ate authentic Chinese food. Her mouth was full of oil and she didn't even raise her head. It wasn't until she couldn't eat anymore that she joined everyone in the chat.
It turned out that she had listened to a colleague's recommendation and had a Chinese takeout, which was dumplings filled with creamy mushrooms. She thought it was not very delicious, and she never had Chinese food again.
Dumplings stuffed with cream mushrooms? Several Chinese people looked at each other and laughed out loud.
Sun Dahai smiled and said: "Alaya, you must have been fooled. It seems that Italian food has dumplings stuffed with creamy mushrooms, but real Chinese food does not have this kind of stuffing."
"I read a market survey done by a Chinese classmate. Currently, more than 80% of the so-called Chinese food in the United States is American-style Chinese food, mainly take-out.
In other words, most takeout Chinese food is modified Chinese food based on American tastes and habits. If you use these American Chinese food as the standard, you will miss the real Chinese food culture," Gao Ren said.
"Brother Ren, where is the remaining 20%?" Sun Dahai asked without understanding.
As an amateur chef, Sun Dahai is quite concerned about the development of Chinese food culture in the United States.
"The remaining 20% are real Chinese restaurants, which are expensive and have mostly Chinese customers. Cantonese restaurants account for more than half of them, followed by Sichuan cuisine and Shanghai cuisine, and northern cuisine is relatively rare." Gao
Ren replied.
Everyone looked around.
Indeed, there are almost fifty or sixty customers dining in Nanhua Tea Room, almost all of them Chinese, or foreigners like Alaya and Maggie who came to dine with the Chinese.
"So, which of these two situations is better?" Maggie asked.
Sun Dahai thought for a while and said: "Each has its pros and cons. American Chinese food is actually just a low-end fast food in the name of Chinese food to make money.
Nowadays, high-end Chinese restaurants have gained a reputation, but they are basically just entertaining themselves and doing business within a relatively fixed Chinese circle."
"Bah!" Gao Ren clapped his hands and said, "What Dahai said is right and to the point. I already want to invest in this industry. Dahai, if you are interested, you can come over and help me after graduation." Gao Ren is very serious.
He looked at Sun Dahai.
Gao Ren wants to recruit Sun Dahai? Everyone here wants to laugh in their hearts.
"Thank you, Brother Ren. However, it's still early for me to graduate. Let's wait until then!" Sun Dahai didn't care and casually pushed Gao Ren's invitation to a few years later.
Gao Ren thought about it, it was too early to say this now, so he changed the topic and started talking about something else.
We ate and chatted for more than two hours before everyone left happily.
Before parting, Sun Dahai and Gao Ren exchanged their addresses and phone numbers in the capital. The next time they see each other, they will probably have to wait until they are both in the capital.
Neither of them know yet that they had crossed paths on the previous Clivia project. It was just that one of them pretended to be an ordinary staff member to participate in the transaction, and the other never showed up at all.
Speaking of which, Sun Dahai took advantage of Gao Ren in the Clivia project.
First of all, Tianfu Investment Company bought out all Clivia, and Zhuangzhi Life quickly recovered the funds without wasting manpower and energy.
Secondly, it is the Japanese yen that makes up my living income. This money is still deposited in the bank! The financial income brought by the appreciation of the yen alone is enough to make up for my life for several years.
Finally, Chen Feng resorted to repurchase and took back 8,000 Clivia plants that could not be sold due to policy changes at a low price of 100,000 yuan.
This move not only gained the friendship of Gao Ren and Miao Renjie, but also improved their lives. Within half a year, all the plants were included in the greening contract at the government price limit of 200 yuan per plant.
This alone has brought profits of more than one million yuan to Zhuangdian Life. As for the extra storage fees charged by Zhuangdian Life, it is not worth mentioning.
Sun Dahai didn't know that Tianfu Investment Company, the money-giving boy that everyone talked about afterwards, was actually a company run by Gao Ren himself.
If Sun Dahai knew about it, he would probably be even more enthusiastic towards Gao Ren. At least he would prepare a big good guy card and give it to Gao Ren.
For this meal, Gao Ren spent less than three hundred dollars in total. Because Nanhua Teahouse is in Chinatown, it is exempt from New York State consumption tax, and a tip of twenty dollars is enough.
The steak dinner at noon cost Sun Dahai and the six of them a small five hundred dollars. If Sun Dahai was asked to comment, he would definitely feel that it was not as comfortable as this dinner.
Hunter and Aunt Xu left New York this morning and went to the Caribbean to enjoy the free vacation provided by the E&M Fund.
The day before Sun Dahai came to New York, Hunter rushed back from Mexico City to pick up Feng. Now that the pick-up had been completed, the couple left together.
Therefore, Andrew and Maggie did not need to go home today. Instead, they returned to the Palace Hotel with Sun Dahai and the others with their full stomachs. They happened to share a room with Sun Dahai and Alaya respectively.
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At the same time, in an office in the CPC2 office area of Citibank headquarters.
Chen Xi is still working intensively.
She was assigned to this office in the afternoon, and her position has been promoted. She is now the CPC2 account executive.
"Tuk-tuk", there were several gentle knocks on the door.
"Please come in." Chen Xi put down the pen in his hand and looked up at the door.