Chapter 490: Local Food
"Excuse me, where are the restaurants in this town?" Seeing that the residents of the town didn't seem to be hostile to him, Jiang Hai thought for a moment and asked a man walking by.
Hearing Jiang Hai's words, the man was obviously stunned for a moment, and then a string of words that Jiang Hai couldn't understand came out of his mouth.
"Uh, what do you mean?" Listening to this man's words, Jiang Hai couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. What is going on?
"Boss, he speaks Spanish." Looking at Jiang Hai's 13-year-old appearance, Bell Lester next to him couldn't help laughing.
Ever since Columbus discovered the American continent, for a long time, almost three to four hundred years, South America was actually the territory of Portugal and Spain, and the original indigenous people here had actually been killed by them.
The rest are the slaves they transported. Most of these people are from Africa, so now there are many countries where almost all the people are similar to the black people in Africa. They can also be said to have the same origin, such as This is the case in countries such as Cuba and Jamaica.
Puerto Rico was also a Spanish territory at the beginning, and almost all the indigenous people were killed. However, due to the Spanish-American War, the United States actually did not have many restrictions and requirements on the colonies. Anyone who has read the history of various countries will know that Americans only value money. He is not too interested in power, status, etc. He is the kind of person who just wants to make a fortune.
So before World War I, Americans had almost no status in the world. At that time, the world leader was Britain, the army leader was France, and the place of rise was Germany. The Netherlands was the former leader, and Spain was the former leader...
The United States has never been the boss, after all, it has only just become independent.
But took over Puerto Rico. Then they had to send people over anyway, so they sent a large number of white people.
Local whites, blacks, and surviving Indians mixed together. The current generation of Puerto Ricans are indeed pretty good-looking. They have the body of a black man and the appearance of a white man. The Indians belong to the Asian Mongol family, so they have the black hair of the Orientals and exquisite facial features. They also have very fine pores, which are not as coarse as the white people. It's not like black people have weirdly developed bones. Because of this, Puerto Rico is famous as a place rich in beautiful women.
The most powerful country in beauty pageants in the world is Venezuela, but the beauty industry is very popular there. Puerto Ricans can hardly afford food, so they don't have money for plastic surgery. However, they are famous for their appearance, especially women, who are quite popular.
Has a slender figure and exquisite five senses. The plump busts, I have to admit, are all stunners.
One of the more typical beauties is Roseraine Sanchez. That is to say, when Cheng Long acted in Rush Hour 2, the foreign agent who deceived Cheng Long was indeed not bad in appearance. In the movie, he surpassed the international Zhang.
The topic is a bit far-fetched... Although Puerto Rico now wants to join the United States and become the 51st state of the United States, their official language here still continues the original Spanish language. People here mainly speak Spanish language.
And English. There really weren't many people who knew it, so Jiang Hai talked with this person for a long time. It's really a tie between chicken and duck. Jiang Hai couldn't understand what he said, and he couldn't understand what Jiang Hai said.
In the end, he had no choice but to let it go. After letting this person go, Jiang Hai could only go find someone he knew. The only person who could speak English was the guard chief. When the guard chief saw Jiang Hai coming over, he naturally It's very happy.
So he introduced it to Jiang Hai. Although this small town is not big, with only more than a thousand people living here, although it is small in Massachusetts, it is very complete. It not only has shops, restaurants, hotels, and even... bar.
Because Americans sometimes come here, but they all come by plane. It is the first time for them to see people like Jiang Hai coming by boat. After these Americans come here, they will choose Diving and stuff like that.
The Caribbean is known as the cleanest water in the world. The sea here is really crystal clear, especially in the coral reef area. It is really a holy land for diving, so many people come to dive every year. In order to cope with the consumption of these people , Naturally, the town also prepared a lot of things. After asking about it, Jiang Hai determined where he wanted to go.
He was going to go to the restaurant to have something to eat first, and then he would consider sitting in the bar.
Of course, Bell was the one who mainly wanted to go to the bar, while Jiang Hai was just a companion, and he was not interested in these places.
After asking for directions, Jiang Hai also gave the guard chief a hundred dollars. This was considered a tip and protection fee. With him, a local snake watching over him, Jiang Hai would feel more at ease.
After taking over Jiang Hai's money, the guard captain became even more enthusiastic and even personally took Jiang Hai to a restaurant in the town.
Entering this restaurant, Jiang Hai found that there were quite a lot of people in this restaurant. He took a look at the food on the table and found that it was basically fish. After all, they didn't have much land here, and they mainly had to grow cocoa.
Therefore, everything such as meat must be imported from the United States, but as you can imagine, the price of imported goods is definitely not cheap.
Even if the U.S. doesn’t have to pay tariffs when sending it here, the shipping cost will definitely cost money, so the beef here is very expensive.
Basically no one can afford it. Their main food is fish, and sometimes they have chicken as a change.
After Jiang Hai and Bei Er arrived at the restaurant, they really attracted almost everyone's attention.
They didn't care and just sat at an empty table in the restaurant. Not long after, a girl from Puerto Rico came over and asked Jiang Hai in slightly unfamiliar English: "What do you want to eat?"
"Is there no menu?" He understood what she said, but Jiang Hai was a little surprised because he didn't know what to eat.
"We only have four ways to cook here, boiled, roasted, stewed and fried. You have to choose what you want to eat first, and then just tell us what you want to eat." Hearing Jiang Hai's words, it was obvious that this This was not the first time for the girl to meet such customers, so she just shrugged and said helplessly to them.
"Well, what raw materials do you have here?" Jiang Hai couldn't help but be speechless after hearing what the girl said, and then asked.
"Only chicken and fish." After listening to Jiang Hai's words, the girl pointed directly at the wall. She knew that Jiang Hai would definitely ask about the fish, so it was better to let him see for himself. Sure enough, following the girl's pointing, Jiang Hai He also looked at the wall.
Only then did he realize that there was a painting posted on the wall. There were many fish on the painting, which was divided into three columns and four parts.
In fact, this painting is posted inside all restaurants, hotels, and dive shops throughout the Caribbean.
This is a unified fish sales list in the Caribbean. Of course, this does not refer to price, but to variety.
It is divided into four parts, one is recommended to eat fish, some is OK to eat fish, some is not recommended to eat fish, and some is not allowed to eat fish, like this In the restaurant, there are only fish in the first two columns.
Jiang Hai took a look and saw that in addition to a cartoon image of the fish on the painting, there was also an English word behind it.
It seems that this is prepared for people like them. To be honest, Jiang Hai has been drying the fishing ground for almost a year.
Basically, he recognizes most of the fish in his fishing ground, but there are many fish here that he doesn't recognize.
If he didn't know it, Bell would make even more nonsense. The first recommended fish to eat was lionfish.
This kind of fish is also called lionfish. It was originally a fish that was not found in the Caribbean. The reason why it appears here is because a typhoon blew up an aquarium in Miami. The ancestors of these fish came here on the typhoon. .
After settling here, the lionfish itself has good fighting ability and the thorns on its body are venomous.
Therefore, except for sharks, this fish is not afraid of any fish, but sharks are limited after all, so this fish is just like the hare in Australia. It is now a pest here. All stores recommend eating this fish, and diving tourists also You can catch this kind of fish and feed it to sharks. It seems that these people are quite helpless.
Under the lionfish, the second type of fish is called cero in English. You will definitely not be able to save a woman by this name.
This kind of fish is called king mackerel, also called giant mackerel. The fish below this fish is called kingfish. According to the translation, it is king fish, but it is not. This kind of fish is called king mackerel, which is also a kind of king mackerel, but Very big.
The fish further out is called spanishmackerel, which looks like a very high-end fish, but it is also available in China and is very cheap. People who live near Lianyungang City know this fish, and the Spanish mackerel dumplings are quite delicious. famous.
But here, this kind of fish is much bigger than the domestic fish. Compared with the fish here, the domestic Spanish mackerel is just a fry.
The fish at the back is called trevallies, and the fish at the back is trevallies, which is translated as devil fish, but in fact it is called trevally here, and it is also a kind of fish. The most famous one is the trevallies, which are very big but have a mediocre taste.
After the mahimahi, there is a fish that Jiang Hai doesn’t recognize, called mahimahi. This fish is also very strange in appearance. It is the first time Jiang Hai has seen it. Jiang Hai knows the two types below this fish, yellowtailsnapper. The species fish is called yellow snapper.
Snapper Jiang Hai knew that there were some in his manor, but he had never seen any yellow ones.
The name behind this fish is tuna, which is tuna. In the Xiangjiang area, this fish is called tuna, which is how it is translated. However, when it is translated into Mandarin in China, it is called tuna.
The last recommended food is squid and squid. This is all the recommended fish. (To be continued.)
ps: Today’s update is still three chapters in a row. I went to have my teeth repaired today. Now half of my face is numb and my head is a little blurry. It’s uncomfortable...