American Ranch

Chapter 27 Differences in Food Culture【Please recommend, collect】

Bai Xiaoou glanced at Jennifer from time to time, seeing her chatting and laughing with a few girls coming over, grabbing Chen Mo's neck...

"Hey, we're all very old. Like Luo Chen, everyone has a second child. The eldest should be in elementary school, right?"

"It seems that you can only enter elementary school in September. Why do you suddenly become sentimental? Are you planning to marry Jennifer?"

"Not so fast." Bai Xiaoou smiled and winked: "Look at the girl on Jennifer's right, the one with pure looks, single and no boyfriend, why don't you think about pursuing her."

"I still like girls with Chinese faces..." Chen Mo looked over, and the girl Bai Xiaoou said was eye-catching, with long hair and delicate faces.Compared to most European and American women, she is small in stature, but not short at all...

Bai Xiaoou pursed her lips and smiled: "Her name is Hill, sky blue, blue sky... used in the name means 'sunny day'. Her personality is the same as her name, with a cheerful personality, which just matches you, a boring gourd. "

"It's really pretty." Men are visual animals, especially when faced with a good-looking girl, it's hard to say that they are not tempted and have no idea.

"Introduce you guys." Bai Xiaoou put Chen Mo's shoulders, and the two walked over: "What are you talking about, so happy."

These friends of Jennifer all knew Bai Xiaoou, and they looked at Chen Mo curiously...

"Talk about women." Jennifer took Bai Xiaoou's hand: "This is Chen Mo, Xiaobai's friend."

"Hello."

"Hello."

Jennifer introduced her friends one by one: "Jenny, Demi, Hill, we are good friends who grew up together."

"Hey, Hill, didn't you say you wanted to find a traditional Chinese boyfriend. Chen Mo is a standard Chinese traditional good man... think about it?" Bai Xiaoou said with a grin.

Hill stared and said with a smile: "I have to observe carefully."

Hill looked at Chen Mo with a pair of rare amber eyes, making Chen Mo very uncomfortable: "He's joking, don't take it seriously."

"I did say before that I want to find a Chinese boyfriend... but not like your good friend Zhang Kun." Hill is about 170 tall, which is considered tall among European and American women.However, her frame is so small that she looks a little petite... At first glance, I think she should be the character of the girl next door.

Seeing that Chen Mo was silent, Hill pursed his lips and smiled: "Are you shy?"

Chen Mo covered the black lines on his forehead.

Jennifer and the others all laughed...

"Don't tease Chen Mo, he is a very traditional Chinese man." Jennifer said, "And he just came to America not long ago."

Bai Xiaoou looked at the time: "I'll invite everyone to dinner tonight and try our restaurant's signature dishes. Don't leave in a hurry."

"Of course we have to stay when someone treats us to dinner."

"What's the signature dish?"

"Ginseng Chicken Soup." Bai Xiaoou made an invitation gesture, and the group walked towards the parking lot.

Bai Xiaoou called the kitchen in advance and asked them to prepare a pot of ginseng chicken soup, and ordered some other dishes...

It was almost evening at the restaurant.

There are many guests in the restaurant, and the hall of more than 100 square meters is almost full.

The restaurant is divided into halls and private rooms. Chen Mo took a look and found that they ordered ordinary Chinese food, mostly American style, broccoli beef risotto, beef broccoli noodles?Chinese is not Chinese, western is not western... But seeing diners enjoying the delicious expressions on their faces, what the hell.

Chen Mo smiled, and exchanged a glance with Bai Xiaoou... A group of people went into the box.

"The restaurant's business is not bad. When it's a holiday, you have to queue up to eat at the restaurant. However, the sales of the restaurant's signature dishes are not very good..." Bai Xiaoou took the teapot handed over by the waiter and poured tea for everyone, and continued: " Ginseng culture is prevalent in Asia. In the United States, not many people accept ginseng... You must have complained about why I held free tasting activities every three days, mainly to revitalize the market."

"Eating ginseng often is good for the body. I have a deep feeling for this. But most of the people here are not interested in ginseng, so I let them taste ginseng a few times for free...they clearly experience the benefits , there will naturally be repeat customers in the future.”

"Tangxia Yipin should be opened in a city with a large number of Chinese people, so that it will be successful." Chen Mo said.

"This is my next plan. Let's see if this restaurant can operate again, and we have to wait for the chicks from the Snow Mountain Ranch to grow up. By the way, where did you get the chicks from the black-bone chicken and reed chicken?"

"Bought online."

Jennifer didn't quite understand Chen Mo and Bai Xiaoou's native dialect. These women sat together and chatted...

Bai Xiaoou took a sip of tea and said, "The ginseng chicken soup is not selling well, mainly because the price is too expensive. We have calculated the cost here, and a pot of ginseng chicken soup with half a chicken is not profitable at 30 yuan including the labor cost. Now The price is 40 yuan per pot, and the reed chicken and black-bone chicken are the same price. In this way, the profit is not much, it is better to sell ordinary meals. The price of ginseng chicken soup is expensive, and the per capita consumption level of Billings is relatively low. I plan to use it in the future Restaurants have opened to cities like Seattle, California, and New York."

"Ambition is not small."

"That is, people without ambition are no different from salted fish. This restaurant in Billings is just testing the waters. I want to see how much ginseng chicken soup can retain repeat customers. Then learn from experience and train employees."

"I saw on the Internet that Chinese hot pot is very popular here?"

"There were a few hot pot restaurants in Seattle before, but they all closed down. All of them had good business when they first opened, and then gradually lost their business. As for the business of hot pot restaurants in other places, I don't know."

After chatting in the private room for more than ten minutes, the dishes finally started to be served. First, a few vegetables were served, followed by celery and beef buns, followed by steamed pork ribs... Finally, ginseng chicken soup was served.

Not to mention, the ginseng chicken soup made by the chef really looks like that.There are few drops of oil stains on the soup surface, and the soup is clear, showing the original color of ginseng.Then there are wolfberries, red dates, and some other traditional Chinese medicines... The taste of ginseng in the soup is obvious, and the taste of unknown Chinese medicines is very weak, which is overwhelmed by the smell of chicken soup.

Chen Mo stood up and filled a bowl for everyone, and when he handed it to Hill, Hill raised his head and smiled at Chen Mo.

"Well, very good, very special chicken soup." Hill took a sip and gave Chen Mo a thumbs up: "Especially...it should be the taste of Chinese herbal medicine, I have never tasted it before."

"This is the taste of ginseng, as long as it doesn't taste bad."

The unique taste of ginseng leaves a deep impression after one taste.

Europeans and Americans have a sharper sense of taste, which is related to their food culture. Europeans and Americans like sweet food and food with a lighter taste.Ginseng soup is just more ginseng, astragalus, red dates and wolfberry.

The flavor of traditional Chinese medicine is left by Beiqi, and there is some ginseng flavor, but the main flavor is chicken soup.

Normally boiled chicken soup, few people find it unpalatable.

“Very good ginseng chicken soup...”

Demi also gave a thumbs up: "This is the most unique soup I have ever tasted, bar none. Compared with the soup made by my mother, it can be called a staple food." Demi means that her mother can only cook thick soup...

"What is this? It tastes good too." Hill asked while eating tamales.

"Steamed pork with rice flour, should it be?" Chen Mo said.

"Well, tamales with rice noodles."

"Traditional Chinese food tastes good. But there is one bad thing, it's too greasy. I feel greasy after not eating much, and I can't eat it." Hill looked at Chen Mo again, and made an opinion.

"Chinese food is divided into staple food and vegetable food. For example, in southern China, we are southerners of China, and the staple food is rice. These are vegetables, and the relationship between rice and vegetables is like two slices of beef burgers. Bread, and beef and vegetables in the middle." Good-grade Chinese restaurants will serve rice, and small Chinese restaurants, mostly rice is covered with vegetables...

Cultural surprises are troublesome to explain.

As well as different eating styles, it is impossible for Yankees to accept a complete Chinese meal.Unless the Yankees are allowed to live in China for a period of time, they are forced to accept and change...

Foreigners feel that Chinese food is too greasy, mainly because they take 'vegetables' as their staple food, and they are not used to rice and Chinese noodles.But if you are used to Chinese food, it will be difficult to quit. This is the charm of Chinese food.

(End of this chapter)