Chapter 107 Chinatown Family Dinner

In Manhattan's Chinatown, Li Jie's grandfather Li Rong's restaurant is located here. This Chinatown is unlike any other Chinatown in America.

Most of the Chinese people gathered in other Chinatowns serve most Chinese people. Although I don't want to say that, most of the Chinatowns in the United States are not very well located in terms of location and public security.

But this part of Manhattan is different.

This Chinatown is adjacent to Wall Street, and at the same time close to the New York City government, and the famous Broadway is just a stone's throw away.

This is one of the most prime locations in New York City, and even Manhattan's Chinatown has become a recommended attraction in New York travel magazines.

The shops here are not entirely Chinese, and many people of different ethnicities come here to shop or dine.

MR·LI restaurant is located in the best part of this street. This is what Li Jie's grandfather spent his whole life trying to achieve.

This is a large restaurant with fifty countertops, and there are also boxes that are available in twelve Chinese restaurants.

Today is a day to celebrate, because Li Jie's grandfather, Mr. Li Rong, officially purchased the property, and from today the restaurant will be entirely his.

As a celebration, Li Rong invited many neighbors from Chinatown and friends from the Overseas Chinese Hometown Association to have dinner. As a Chinese, no matter where you go, the tradition of liking liveliness has never changed.

As Li Jie's friends, Peter and Harry also came to congratulate his grandfather, which is considered to respect the tradition of the elderly, and also brought their girlfriends with them.

"This is your restaurant?" The weather in New York in October turned cold, Mary Jane in a goose-yellow coat rubbed her cold hands and asked Li Jie.

"Yes, everyone is welcome." Li Jie was accompanying Harry and Peter to introduce. "Accurately, this is my grandpa's restaurant."

"My parents didn't have much interest in inheriting the restaurant."

"But you and I believe that you will become a good boss. You can make the business of this restaurant even more popular, and even be able to be listed in a world-class food magazine." Gwen said with a smile around Peter's arm.

"Yeah, come in, classmates." Li Jie pushed open the door of the restaurant and invited everyone to enter. "Welcome to MR·LI."

This is a large restaurant with nearly 400 square meters, and fifty tables are placed in the spacious hall without being crowded at all.

Each table is kept at the right distance, neither making the diners feel like they are sitting on an island nor being able to hear the conversation next door because the tables are so close together.

On the second floor, there are twelve boxes.

Wooden partitions and traditional Chinese carved wooden doors are the main decoration styles of this restaurant. Unpainted elm doors and elm windows are placed on the walls of the restaurant.

This brings Chinese style to the restaurant without being too eye-catching.

There are many Chinese restaurants abroad that use a lot of Chinese red as the main color when decorating. Of course, this is not to say that this color is not good, but as a warning color, the strong red will take too long to look at. It can give some people a feeling of unease.

The decoration style of MR·LI is more of a natural style, and the furniture and decoration style are closer to the simple Ming style.

This is unique among Chinese restaurants in the United States that are mainly decorated in Qing style.

"Wow, this Chinese restaurant looks different from anything I've been to before." Gwen looked up and down at the restaurant. "I feel more relaxed here, not as restrained as a typical Chinese restaurant."

"Yeah, Jason's restaurant is my favorite Chinese restaurant." Peter shook Gwen's little hand and said.

"Okay, Jason, where is our host today? I brought a good champagne as a gift." Harry, who was holding champagne as a congratulatory gift, was looking for Li Rong everywhere.

"Come on guys, it's upstairs." Li Jie led the crowd to a private room on the second floor and opened the door. His parents, Li En and Jia Si Li, and grandfather Li Rong were all in the room.

The fellow villagers and neighbors invited by his grandfather Li Rong were in other boxes.

"Hello, Uncle Enge, Aunt Jiasli and Grandpa Rong." Peter and Harry greeted Li Jie's elders with two beautiful girls.

"This is a gift I brought, a nice bottle of champagne, which my father helped me choose." Harry said and handed the gift he brought to Li Rong.

"Oh~ and mine, this is the chocolate cake I made with Gwen. Although it's not very good, I still hope you like it." Peter said and took out his own gift.

"Thank you, thank you Harry, and thank you Peter." Li Rong took the gifts from the two children with a smile.

Li Rong is 65 years old this year, but his body is still very strong, and his lifestyle is very healthy. Go to bed and eat on time every day, and maintain a moderate amount of cardio and muscle building.

This made Li Rong look like a middle-aged man in his early fifties, and he couldn't look old at all.

As an old man who has experienced many ups and downs, Li Rong's mind has always been peaceful. He is a master of Chinese cooking in the United States.

After years of struggle, it is his ideal to finally have a restaurant that belongs to him completely, and the scale of MR·LI is not a small restaurant on the side of the road.

Although their son and daughter-in-law clearly have little interest in inheriting the restaurant, they prefer to commute 9 to 5 at the bank in suits.

But anyway, his grandson Li Jie is willing to inherit his career, especially since Li Jie has clearly stated that he does not want to go to college, Li Rong hopes that he will officially take over the restaurant after graduating from high school.

But today Li Jie was late on this important day, which still made the old man unhappy. "Xiaojie, you are late today, we are all waiting for you." Li Rong's voice was a little serious.

"Oh~ Grandpa, you know, I don't really like toasting with people from the Chinatown Association." Li Jie was late on purpose.

He doesn't like the habit of toasting each other whether it's in the past or this life, but many Chinese people like to do it, which makes him speechless.

And some people don't care about the law that minors can't drink alcohol at all, and even drag him to say that a few glasses of wine for such a big man are nothing, and there are some nonsense such as beer.

Li Jie has no desire to deal with such kind of people.

"Okay, I know that Pharaoh's guys are kind of bastards, but they are all neighbors, so don't take some things too seriously." Li Rong said.

Li Jie shook his head and didn't want to argue with his grandfather about this kind of thing. If he really wants to take over the restaurant in the future, the style of the restaurant will be overturned and rebuilt according to his ideas.

He couldn't tell his grandfather about this, because he was afraid that the old man's heart would not be good.

"Jie, you should also find a girlfriend. Look at what a good girl Harry and Peter have found." Li Jie's father, Li En, talked about this topic again.

"Yeah, Gwen and Mary are the two most beautiful girls I've ever met." Mrs. Justice also said.

"Okay can we eat first?" Li Jie immediately wanted to end the topic.

"Don't be shy Jason, I can introduce girls to you on dates. There are many girls on Broadway who like your type." Mary Jane said with a slight smile.

"Yes, Jason, there are quite a few beautiful girls in Midtown Middle School. Maybe one day we are having an outdoor barbecue party, and I can invite a few over to join." Gwen also winked her beautiful Big blue eyes said.

"Okay, thank you." Li Jie touched his neck uncomfortably. "Grandpa, today I see that there are no other customers in the store, what's the matter?"

"Today is a family banquet, so I turned off all the reservations and took a day off for FITs." Li Rong opened the champagne Harry had given him and poured himself a glass.

"And for some unknown reason these days, there are suddenly more RB people on the market."

"Is it because the tourist season is coming?"

"I don't know, but a few days ago, the gift shop opened by Lao Chen's house had an argument with a RB person and he was beaten by the RB person. The RB person really broke both of Lao Chen's hands."

"Today is a good day, and I don't want to cause such bad luck, so I simply don't open it."

When did RB people become so arrogant? Fighting on the streets in the US by the way? Well, today is a good day, don't think about that for a while.

Li Jie is now thinking about other more important things, Harry Osborn and Norman Osborn.

He didn't know if the green goblin would still appear according to the original plot, and he didn't know whether the green goblin appeared because of a virus or because of chemical pollution.

But looking at Harry, who was chatting happily with his family and smiling happily, Li Jie felt that it might be necessary to check the situation of the Osborn Group.

Hmm~ That "intern" should be able to help a lot.

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