Chapter 2066
Kai couldn't stand his mother tongue being tortured and ruined. So he just ordered the dishes himself.
His fluent Mandarin really attracted the favor of the uncle next door... Although they were more accustomed to speaking Cantonese, Mandarin was not unacceptable. After all, a foreigner who spoke fluent Mandarin at least proved that he really understood the culture of this country.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have learned it so fluently.
Although Kai was not a social gangster, being a criminal policeman at least proved that his social skills were not a problem. You know, criminal police can't solve cases by sitting in the office like on TV. In fact, criminal police need to visit a lot to solve cases. People with defective communication skills can't do this job.
So soon, he was chatting happily with the uncle next door in Strange's stunned expression. Although one spoke Mandarin with a slight hometown accent and the other spoke Cantonese "Putongfa", it didn't sound like the same language, but they were still chatting enthusiastically.
"So, what does 'chicken tastes like chicken, fish tastes like fish'?"
The old man was not afraid of the stage, and he introduced their Guangdong original flavor to Kai in a fluent manner!
People from every place will feel proud when talking about their local delicacies to outsiders...even if they don't think it's anything special, once they meet outsiders, they will immediately change...the most typical example is the big brother of 'Rotten Wild Goose Pagoda'.
Of course, you can't expect normal people to describe homely meals to you in scientific language, not everyone has learned food safety or related chemical knowledge. When Guangdong people say that chicken tastes like chicken, it actually means that chicken has inosinic acid, and when they say that fish tastes like fish, it actually means that fish has enough mixed flavors of amino acids and fatty acids.
You can't expect the word "original flavor" to be very inclusive, otherwise the chicken flavor can also include the smell of chicken, fish can also have a fishy smell, and the sheep smell of northern sheep may not be liked by Guangdong people (but I like it), and pork has a unique smell of fatty pork. So when Cantonese people talk about the original flavor, they are actually referring to the aroma they ate when they were young with their Cantonese stomachs. Later in life, they will encounter different ways of cooking the same ingredients. The important thing is that no matter how they are cooked, you can taste a little of the same aroma. Then when you ask your elders, they will tell you that this is the original flavor of the ingredients!
This is the origin of the "original flavor", so when Cantonese people eat some heavier dishes and don't taste the familiar flavor, they will say that there is no "original flavor".
It is difficult to confirm whether those "original flavors" are common to all ingredients or only in Guangdong - at least it can be confirmed that some chicken flavors are local chickens in Guangdong, and even locked in Qingyuan Zhanjiang. So the term "original flavor" is not very rigorous, because if it is not a three-yellow chicken, basically you can't taste the original flavor that Cantonese people like. The same is true for other meats. Sometimes when eating pickled fish and boiled fish, you can only taste the "mud taste" and the fishy smell of red meat, and lack the fresh fragrance of fish. However, the grass carp commonly used in pickled fish and boiled fish, which is also called grass carp by Guangdong people, is difficult to make the fresh fragrance of other common steamed fish. Guangdong people remember more the taste of sea bass and crucian carp (which one tastes better among steamed grass carp, steamed sea bass and steamed crucian carp, Guangdong people should have their own answers), so when eating pickled fish out, it is very likely to be evaluated as "no fish taste" and "no original taste".
Many old Cantonese never say that they want to eat the original taste when they are not in the Pearl River Delta. When they go to Chaoshan, as long as the ingredients are fresh, everything is delicious. When you go to Zhanjiang and Taishan, you can't even pick out anything without the original taste, and you don't care about the problem of picking the original taste. Outside of Guangdong and Guangxi, if the ingredients are normal, who will still miss that little bit of original taste? Spicy and fresh meat are not pleasant? Shandong cuisine is sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. Don't you like it? Are you unhappy with the strange taste of Zhe Er Gen? What's wrong with the long lamb skewers like arms? Are you unhappy with eating too much in Northeast China?
But in central and western Guangdong, in the Cantonese-speaking area of Guangxi, the old Cantonese believe that eating the original taste of the ingredients is the most fragrant and refreshing, which cannot be refuted, and it is definitely not because of the Cantonese stomach.
Of course, after saying so much, Kai still couldn't understand... But I have to say that the roast goose in the tea restaurant is really good.
But the old customer next to him couldn't understand why Kai thought that the sour plum sauce and Cantonese chili sauce were not delicious...
"You are not authentic to eat like this." Faced with Kai's request to the waiter for chili oil, a man sat on the chair next to him very impolitely, and then said very naturally.
"Tsk..." Strange saw the person coming, and he tsk unhappily, and then said very impolitely: "Why can't you wait until we finish eating before showing up?"
"Hello, my name is Zhang Qiang, you can call me Brother Qiang." The man was wearing a weird suit, but his temperament was very weird. At least Strange looked like a lousy salesman, but Kai felt a familiar aura from him - the temperament of the system.
He was not wearing a suit, but a standard executive jacket.
This guy was really dressed in a standard outfit, white shirt, executive jacket, dark suit pants, polo shirt, simple and rustic black leather shoes...
A proper leader's suit!
But as soon as he spoke, he had a street temperament.
"Brother Qiang... what's your initials?" Kai said with a smile.
This made Zhang Qiang stunned. He didn't expect that this foreigner not only spoke Mandarin so fluently, but also knew the initials.
"Shenmao Bureau, Special Zone Director."
Zhang Qiang didn't pretend to be mysterious and said directly.
Kai said helplessly: "Okay, you are really responsible, but it's not illegal for me to eat, right?"
In fact, Kai doesn't have any ill feelings towards Zhang Qiang, but feels very close to him. But the problem is that reality does not allow him to stand up directly and get close to the organization now. He is just a ghost now!
"Of course it's not illegal to eat, but it is illegal to enter the country illegally. I especially don't like you Western superpowers. You seem to never learn to abide by the law."
Zhang Qiang didn't lie. In recent years, their biggest headache has been those people with super powers who entered the country illegally. These idiots never seem to know how to abide by the law. They feel that they come to the East just to show off their power... I really can't understand these. People are doing such nonsense in their own hometown, why do they think they can prosper after coming to the East?
Other people's extraordinary power is just hidden, it's not that it doesn't exist!
Most of these people take it for granted. At first glance, hey, there are no superheroes here, and there are not so many people with super powers... Wow! This is a blue ocean!
Then it plunged in and began to expand.
Then he was arrested and sent to a labor camp.
"Um... This seems to be the case. But it doesn't matter. I will arrange for my lawyer to take care of it." Kai was not too panicked. After all, there will always be privileges in this world... This is human nature and cannot be avoided.
Strange was unhappy about this.
He is a typical Western ghost guy. They naturally don't like China's atmosphere of having to control everything.
He felt like he had done nothing, so why should he be monitored?
This is a violation of human rights!
"You are violating human rights!"
As soon as he thought of it, he said that Uncle Strange was not in the habit of swallowing his anger.
"Don't come if you don't like it!" Zhang Qiang was even worse than him and choked back.
To be honest, they don't welcome these outsiders at all. You can come as you please and follow the rules, but these people will never learn to follow the rules and always like to let others accommodate themselves to their habits. Why?
This is our territory, our country. You come to my land and you actually ask us to adapt to your habits... Where did you get your confidence?
"Do you know how busy we have been recently because of you guys? Why can't you just find a job and live a down-to-earth work life? Why do you always want to be independent? What's the human rights issue? It sounds like you The government talks more about human rights.”
In fact, Tokyo University has always had grievances against the West. There is nothing we can do about it. Europe and the United States used to have the right to speak, and they always like to smear Dongda no matter what.
The West especially likes to blame Dongda for what it has done.
The most famous one is 'cotton'. Who the hell uses people as farm tools to harvest cotton? As a result, after so many years, they no longer use niggas to harvest cotton, so they slander Dongda...Who the hell is so stupid and uses people to harvest cotton?
Isn’t it nice to use farm machinery?
In short, there are many similar examples.
This has led to everyone generally not having a good impression of foreigners... After all, the University of Tokyo in this time and space is very different from the one in Kai's original time and space, and there is not so much hatred for the Kuomintang.
And these foreigners do bring a lot of security problems to the local area.
Although Strange is a good person, he has not escaped from the inherent arrogance of Westerners. He keeps emphasizing some so-called universal values in an attempt to persuade Zhang Qiang to relax supervision.
The two had a quarrel there, but Kai was not affected.
He calmly asked the tea restaurant to pour chili oil on him... This was his habit of eating roast pork or roast goose... It was definitely not authentic, but he couldn't help but like it. Cantonese-style barbecued meats are all sweet, and he doesn't hate it, but he prefers to add chili peppers, but Cantonese-style chili peppers... To be honest, can that thing really be called chili sauce? The chili sauce must be spicy at least, right?
The waiter at the tea restaurant looked at Kai as if he were an idiot.
After all, no one here eats like this.
Generally speaking, this kind of old-fashioned tea restaurant is very insistent on its own products. If ordinary people dare to do this, they will definitely be scolded by their boss...
But not this time, because an ordinary-looking man walked over and asked the waiter to leave first. Then he took out a bottle of chili oil from his arms.
"You and I have very similar tastes. I like barbecued pork with chili oil."
Kai was not afraid of being poisoned, so he just took it and ate it.
"Yeah! It smells good!"
If you want chili oil to taste delicious, you have to be very particular about it. Kai remembered that when he was studying, his favorite thing was the chili oil from a breakfast shop. It was fragrant, spicy and tasted great. Kai grew up eating snacks, but after they were demolished, the owner of the breakfast shop immediately realized financial freedom... That breakfast shop was no longer open. Kai felt lost for a long time after he joined the army and returned. He didn't eat anymore before time travel. I’ve never had that kind of chili oil...
In fact, roasting pork with chili oil was a habit that Kai had when he was in high school. At that time, there was a Cantonese-style barbecue restaurant near their school...the name of the store was Authentic Cantonese-style barbecue...Of course Kai knew that it must not be authentic.
The owner of that store used to work in Guangdong, and later returned to his hometown to open this store. He figured out the raw materials, techniques, etc. by himself.
But his chili oil is great.
Kai's parents both work, so he rarely eats lunch at home except during holidays, so for a long, long time, his lunch is served there. His best time is to ask his boss to give him a spoonful of brine, and then Add chili oil wildly, then mix with roast flavor and green vegetables to eat.
It feels so good!
At this moment, he was recreating the feeling he had before.
"The way you eat..." Seeing the amount of chili Kai added, even the ordinary middle-aged man felt a little frightened. He was from Jiangxi. When it comes to chili, the spiciness is more important than the fragrance, but Kai's way of adding it is a bit unacceptable to him.
Kai didn't react much. His taste is very unique. He likes spicy food, but he doesn't like numbing, so he doesn't like many Sichuan dishes with peppercorns. He likes Hunan or Jiangxi cuisine very much.
The middle-aged man is called Wang Jianguo. To be honest, when he saw Kai's operation, he always felt that the other party was Chinese, because except for native Chinese, other people generally don't eat like this, even Hong Kong people don't eat like this.
Especially chili oil mixed with rice... Even ordinary Chinese people probably find it difficult to accept.
"Great!"
Kai doesn't care.
After all, no matter how big these people's imaginations are, they can't guess Kai's true identity. So there is no need to worry about being exposed.
Strange also noticed Kai's side at this time.
Facing Kai's approach, he had a question mark on his face.
What is this special way of eating?
"You don't have to worry about me doing anything bad here. After all, I don't believe you don't know who I am. To be honest, I like your way of doing things. Those guys in the West are too hypocritical. They always talk a lot of nonsense, and then when things happen, they turn around and blame us police for not protecting the people... Fuck! If we had the Skynet system, the crime-solving rate would be very good... But those rich people seem to be afraid that they will be discovered by us if they do bad things, so they just don't let us install surveillance... Damn it! We police are not omnipotent!"
Kai really doesn't like the hypocritical Western way.
The two people from the Shenmao Bureau looked at each other.
Then Zhang Qiang said: "You seem to be a Westerner too."
"Yeah, that's right. But it doesn't stop me from hating their ways."
Kai said very straightforwardly: "So you don't need to worry about me doing anything, I'm here just to help."
Speaking of this, Kai said to Zhang Qiang: "To be honest, you actually managed to get Kamar-Taj registered here... You are quite capable. You know, the Americans only knew about Kamar-Taj recently."
Yes, the Hong Kong Temple is registered with the S.H.I.E.