Chapter 535: Little Tricks in Western Restaurants

French restaurant.

Out of professional habit, the two chose a seat by the window.

"5J ham, provolone salad, well-cooked tomahawk, pumpkin soup. Thank you." Julie did not take the waiter's menu, but simply reported a list of dish names.

Seeing the waiter turn and leave, Chen Shu was a little discouraged: "So you've eaten here before?"

Zhu Li felt a little happy about Chen Shu's expression at this time. Such regret just showed that he was really preparing for this date with her.

Well, a date.

"Hey, I forgot to ask you what you like to eat. You don't mind, do you?" Julie, who was sitting at the table, held her chin in one hand and put her other hand on the table with her index finger, sticking out her tongue in a playful way. .

Chen Shu waved his hand: "To be honest, this is my first time in such a high-end restaurant. If I hadn't been holding a question in my heart, I wouldn't have dared to be so honest."

"What's the problem?"

"Didn't you say that the steak is not well-done? Usually when you come to the restaurant, you order a seven-point steak."

"Hey, they don't have the technology to make a well-done steak, because a well-done steak is the most difficult to make. Keeping the steak fresh and tender while not letting it get old is a great test of the chef's skills.

"In the past, those steakhouses didn't really matter how mature they were, because most of the chefs couldn't control the so-called 50% to 70%. Anyway, what they cooked all depended on their mood. No matter what the percentage, it was all fake."

Watching Zhu Li talk, Chen Shu felt that this criminal investigation forensic doctor was quite interesting in terms of daily life. He didn’t know if this was a professional habit. Anyway, after listening to other colleagues talking about the forensic doctor in the branch, he was probably a arrogant and serious person. , old-fashioned guy.

Chen Shu was firmly opposed.

He smiled and said: "Julie, I have a problem with what you said."

"Oh? What's your opinion?"

"Actually, they don't look at their mood, but at the watch. When frying steak, you look at the watch to check the time. It's the same as the assembly line. Fry for a few minutes when it's medium-rare, and a few minutes when it's medium-rare. I've seen it in the kitchen."

".You have to compete with girls for such a small thing. Aren't you tired of being a human being?" Zhu Li covered her face and sighed.

Chen Shu suddenly lost his temper.

Zhu Li looked at Chen Shu's frustrated expression through her fingers, and decided to let the straight man go at the right time: "Okay, okay, let's get over it. But having said that, you like it even when you go to a restaurant to eat. Going into someone’s kitchen?”

"Thanks."

At this time, the pre-meal bread was served.

Julie took a piece of bread and tore off a small bite, then used the tip of a knife to spread a little butter on it, and dipped it in some of the vinaigrette provided by the restaurant.

After looking around a few times, he placed the finished product on Chen Shu's bread plate with satisfaction.

Chen Shu shrugged: "As a professional habit, I always like to wander around when I go somewhere. Maybe I can discover something."

"Oh, tell me what you found. Thank you."

A male waiter who looked like a foreigner placed a plate of sliced ​​ham on the table. Before leaving, he nodded to Chen Shu and Zhu Li with a smile and made a sign to please enjoy.

"For example, the waiter who served us just now should be the owner of this restaurant." Chen Shu said leisurely.

He held a piece of ham in front of his eyes, wondering why such a thin piece of meat cost so much.

Julie picked up the ends of her delicate eyebrows, her eyes filled with surprise and curiosity: "Tell me how you found out. By the way, how does this ham taste?"

Chen Shu stuffed the ham meat about 1mm thick into his mouth and swallowed it without realizing it.

Apart from feeling a little bit of salty taste, it is not even remotely as satisfying as the three-layer pork with plums and vegetables cooked by Mrs. Chen at home last night.

Glancing at the seven or eight pieces of meat on the plate, he felt that they were all not enough for him to swallow in one bite.

"It's salty, but it should go well with porridge. Well, it tastes pretty good!"

Chen Shu was not a gourmet expert and could not say many good things. He could only say what came to his mind, but his frankness made Zhu Li feel quite good.

After all, some people like to pretend as soon as they enter a Western restaurant, and they act bravely.

Zhu Li covered the corner of her mouth and chuckled: "With the way you, Zhu Bajie, eat ginseng fruit, what kind of texture can you taste?"

"Exactly." Chen Shu curled his lips and retorted, "Don't look down on Zhu Bajie. In heaven, he was also a marshal who ate all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas. He was tired of it! So he didn't bother to taste it and just gulped it down."

"Hey, have you admitted that you are Zhu Bajie? Then do you want to add some wine and find a Moon Palace Fairy to accompany you?"

"Forget it, there is already one."

As soon as these words came out, the scene suddenly became quiet.

Both of them felt that the conversation was a bit ambiguous and stopped talking.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward, so Chen Shu pointed at the foreign waiter and changed the subject: "It's actually quite simple to infer that this person is the owner of the restaurant, just three points.

"First, it is not uncommon for foreigners to work as chefs in Dongzhou, but waiters are rare. If it is for money, you can earn more by just finding an English training institution and earning a living than working as a waiter."

Zhu Li put her finger on her bright red lips and said in agreement: "Indeed. Even though his English is broken, he can still teach children to read ABCD in a Dongzhou training institution with mixed reputations with the face of a foreign friend." That's enough."

Chen Shu held up two fingers: "Second. You see, those pre-meal breads or fruit salads are served by other waiters, and those expensive dishes will be served to the guests by him personally. This is not only a check, but also the general psychology of the boss's habit of grasping the key points."

Juli was not particular. While listening to the explanation, she stretched out two white and green jade fingers and directly picked up a piece of ham and ate it.

"Hmm~" She hummed lightly, raised her chin slightly, closed her eyes with satisfaction and enjoyed the aftertaste of the food.

The exposed smooth neck and the vaguely three-dimensional collarbone were dazzlingly white under the light, as flawless as a carefully polished work of art, making people unable to resist the slightest thought of picking it up.

"Hmm? Just two points? I feel that the evidence for the case is still a little thin."

Juli opened her eyes slightly, and her carefully crafted smile was like a butterfly spreading its wings and sent to the man sitting opposite her.

This kind of mature woman's charm is something Chen Shu has never experienced before.

He stared blankly for a moment before he suddenly came to his senses and quickly shifted his gaze elsewhere, but he still couldn't hide the blush gradually rising at the roots of his ears.

"Um, there's more." Chen Shu adjusted his mood and looked at the food handover table between the transparent kitchen and the outside world. "Look, although this man is standing outside the window, he is not just standing there waiting like other waiters. You see, he will also point fingers at the chef in the kitchen, and the chef's expression in response is also quite interesting. Does he look like a student in school responding to a teacher's test with a frown?"

"Great, great. I didn't expect you, a special police officer, to be quite capable." Zhu Li covered her mouth and chuckled, with admiration in her eyes.