Chapter 487 Nyonya Delicacies and the Old Location of "Lust, Caution" "Long Time No See"
At the end of November last year, Li Xiaofan invested $2 million in OmniVision Technologies and obtained 15% of the shares. Taiwanese angel investor Stanley Chiu continued to hold 25% of the shares, and the remaining 60% of the shares were held by four co-founders including Hong Youying and Chen Datong.
The Yifan No. 2 Venture Capital Fund that Li Xiaofan plans to raise includes plans to continue to increase the capital of OmniVision Technologies.
For the Yifan No. 2 Venture Capital Fund, Li Xiaofan's original idea was to hedge risks. If $200 million can be successfully raised, $100 million of it will be invested in Cyrix's CPU project, which is a relatively risky project.
The remaining $100 million will be invested in OmniVision Technologies' CIS sensor, a relatively safe high-tech project.
In the future, even if the investment in the Cyrix project loses money, it can be balanced with the high returns of OmniVision Technologies' CIS and other projects, and the venture capital fund will still be successful.
Now that Dr. Chen Datong's CIS product has been successfully developed and is on the eve of a performance explosion, it is the best time to increase investment chips!
Now, no matter how the fundraising of the No. 2 Venture Fund progresses, I must speed up the investment in this project.
Li Xiaofan quickly sent an email to Chen Datong and other co-founders of OmniVision, including Hong Youying, to express his congratulations. In addition, Li Xiaofan said in the email that now that the CIS product has been successfully developed, large-scale production will definitely require a lot of funds. He is willing to invest another round and ask Hong Youying, Chen Datong and other co-founders to estimate how much investment is needed...
After a series of high-intensity business trips and work, it is indeed necessary to relax.
This Saturday, Li Xiaofan gave Tan and Wang Danrong a half-day holiday, and everyone went to Malaysia to play together.
Wang Danrong's hometown is also in Ipoh.
Li Xiaofan asked the company to help him rent an MPV business car, and Tan was responsible for driving. After picking up his girlfriend Alian, everyone set off from Singapore early in the morning.
Alian gave Li Xiaofan the first impression that she was a very shy and timid girl. She was not tall, looked very honest, not good-looking, but not ugly. She was a very ordinary Malaysian Chinese girl. But compared with Wang Danrong who once studied in the United States, she was much more rustic.
However, since the two girls were from the same hometown, they immediately had many common topics after getting on the bus, and the bus became lively all of a sudden.
With Ah Tan's witty remarks and various jokes, they sang and laughed all the way.
Malaysian girls generally give people a simple and lovely impression, and are more simple than boys.
Li Xiaofan enjoyed this kind of liveliness.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, they arrived at the first stop: Malacca.
Malacca is one of the thirteen federal states of Malaysia, with its capital Malacca City, adjacent to Johor in the south.
Malacca is a place that is often mentioned in middle school history books. Zheng He led a fleet to the West seven times, five of which were in Malacca, bringing Chinese silk, tea, porcelain and other products and advanced production technology here, making Malacca a prosperous trade center for a time. Therefore, for mainland tourists like Li Xiaofan, this may be one of the most well-known places in Malaysia.
This is the first time that Li Xiaofan has returned to Malacca after his rebirth. When he stood on the top of Mount St. Paul again and looked at the beautiful Malacca Straits in the distance, he could not help but feel a lot of emotion...
Recalling the time when Zheng He led a huge fleet to the West seven times, how majestic he was, he had won three tough battles, and by the way, destroyed a small country, showing the power of the Ming Dynasty to the Southeast Asian countries, and firmly established the majesty of the Ming Dynasty in the world!
I was reborn in Lion City in this life, and it seemed that I had a tragic feeling of sailing in the West in the business world...
When I came to Malacca, of course I couldn't forget to pay homage to the Sam Po Temple in memory of Zheng He.
The Sam Po Temple that Tan took Li Xiaofan to was built at the foot of Wang'an Mountain, with the mountain behind and the sea in front, magnificent and unique in architectural style. The tall and antique temple gate is solemn and beautiful, and a stone plaque with the words "Sanbao Shengci" is inlaid above the temple gate. Two stone lions and two stone-carved Chinese figures in ancient costumes stand on both sides of the gate. The eaves of the temple gate are covered with golden glazed tiles, which shine brightly in the sunlight.
The couplet on the gate is implicit and the calligraphy is elegant. The upper couplet is "The history of Yunnan people in the future", and the lower couplet is "The well water and cave mountain leave thoughts".
The courtyard inside the temple is spacious and deep, with lush trees, elegant and quiet. There are Fuxing Temple, Chuanzhouye Temple, ancient tombs and the giant anchor and Guandao used by Zheng He in the courtyard.
There is an ancient well with a well circle of more than one meter outside the Sam Po Temple. It is said that it was dug when Zheng He sailed to the West. It was Zheng He who brought Chinese culture to the Malay Peninsula. Since then, Malayans have had the technology of digging wells and the custom of drinking well water.
Wang Danrong and Tan originally wanted to take Li Xiaofan to visit the most famous Baba Nyonya Museum in Malacca.
"No, let's save some time and go eat delicious Nyonya food. After eating, we have to rush to your hometown Ipoh!"
Li Xiaofan is not very interested in this beautiful old house. His interest is in delicious Nyonya food.
Nyonya refers to women born after the early Chinese and local Malays intermarried.
Before Li Xiaofan was reborn, a TV series "Little Nyonya" was popular in China, which described the family feuds between several generations of wealthy families in Nanyang and Nyonya.
With the popularity of the TV series "Little Nyonya", foodies like Li Xiaofan are not only attracted by the plot, but also by the Nyonya food in the play.
Not only does the Nyonya cuisine in the drama look very tempting, but the production process is also quite eye-catching. The entire production process is smooth and full of the temptation of delicious food, while giving people a sense of tranquility and refinement.
Nyonya cuisine has been passed down through generations, perfectly combining traditional Chinese cooking methods with Malay spices, blending a variety of flavors such as sweet and sour, spicy, and slightly spicy. The taste is strong, and the sauces used are made from more than ten spices, which is very special.
In his previous life, when Li Xiaofan first came to Malacca for a visit, he was moved by the delicious Nyonya cuisine, just like Liu Yidao's mother in the play who was obsessed with this delicacy.
Wang Danrong recommended a long-standing Nyonya restaurant in Jonker Street.
Not long after Li Xiaofan ordered the dishes, several exquisite snacks were served all at once.
Like the golden cup, a traditional snack of Nyonya cuisine, it is filled with crab meat, small onions and lemongrass. Li Xiaofan took a bite, and the rich taste brought by the refreshing spice flavor, a long-lost taste of Malacca!
Roti is similar to Indian pancakes. It is made of dough on the outside and beef tongue wrapped inside. It is also seasoned with black bean sauce. The beef tongue is soft and tender when you bite it, and the black bean sauce is just right.
Tiger prawn balls are coated with a sauce made from Malacca palm sugar. Palm sugar is not as sweet as cane sugar, and it tastes very delicious and special when paired with firm shrimp meat.
The most famous satay pork skewers are served with a local sweet sauce, a satay flavor that only Malacca can have.
A bowl of meatball soup before the meal. The meatballs are made by chopping seafood and beating it into a meat paste. Mushrooms are added to the soup and boiled together. Finally, coriander is added to make the soup base fresh and rich.
There is also a very special winged bean salad, which also contains tiger prawns, anchovies, cashews, and lime. A spoonful of fresh vegetables, dried goods, seafood and nuts, several tastes balanced together, and a particularly sour and refreshing lime seasoning, made Li Xiaofan feel that it was the most delicious and cool salad in summer.
The next dish was a pan-fried red snapper with a Nanyang-style hot sauce. The heat of this dish was well controlled, the snapper skin was crispy and the snapper meat was tender.
The most special thing was that you could taste a variety of spices in the hot sauce. Li Xiaofan and his friends asked the waiter to serve a few bowls of rice. It felt that this dish was a great companion for eating rice.
The tiger prawns next were paired with lemongrass, presenting another flavor. The meat of the tiger prawns was particularly firm and sweet.
There was also a very tasty red curry duck. When eating in restaurants in Singapore and Malaysia, people always feel that curry is one of the indispensable dishes.
Li Xiaofan felt that the spiciness of this red curry duck was a bit beyond the general limit he could accept, and of course lemongrass was inevitably added to it.
They ate heartily and drank ice water, exclaiming that it was very satisfying.
The last main course was spicy stir-fried wagyu beef, which was made with laksa leaves, Vietnamese mint leaves, lemongrass, and chili peppers. The seasoning mixed with various spices was unforgettable.
After the main course, it was dessert. The first refreshing dessert ordered by Li Xiaofan was called dragon fruit smoothie. The yellow one inside was jackfruit, and edible flowers were added. The heart of the flower tasted sweet, and the petals tasted sour, which was just right for refreshing the mouth and removing the taste of the main course with strong spice flavor left in the mouth. The smoothie was surrounded by a large piece of basil seeds, and the colors were very rich.
The last dish was a dessert called crystal dew in Malacca, and it was called cendol in Singapore. Add red beans and long green pandan jelly to the smoothie, and then drizzle with coconut milk and syrup.
This crystal dew dessert with red beans can be seen everywhere on the streets of Malacca. Eating a bowl of it at an outdoor stall on a hot summer day feels like an excellent dessert to cool down.
Just before Li Xiaofan and his friends paid the bill, the restaurant gave them a coconut milk pudding made with pandan leaves, with a rice cake base and sorbet on top.
After finishing the sweet coconut milk pudding, Li Xiaofan and his friends touched their bulging stomachs and laughed, "We ate too much at noon, and it's hard to walk!"
Ah Tan stretched and said, "I feel like lying down and taking a nap..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ah Tan's forehead was gently tapped by Ah Lian, "You guys must not sleep, Mr. Li is in the car, and we are counting on you to send us to Ipoh safely in the afternoon!"
"Oh, I'm just joking, look at how serious you are!"
Wang Danrong smiled and said, "It's okay, I have a driver's license, if not, we can take turns driving on the road."
"Don't worry, I'm an experienced driver, I will definitely send you to Ipoh safely!"
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It's about 300 kilometers from Malacca to Ipoh. They stopped and walked on the road and ate a few durians. It was already evening when they arrived at the ancient city of Ipoh.
Ipoh is a slow-paced town with a scattered urban layout and old streets and alleys, which retain the original charm of the old times to the greatest extent. The streets and alleys of this ancient city later became the filming location of the once popular movie "Lust, Caution", recreating the scenes of old Hong Kong.
At the door of a coffee shop at the entrance of the old street, a tall beauty in a light blue short skirt waved hard at Li Xiaofan and his car from a distance.
In the sunset, her long legs and slender figure are particularly charming.
This scene under the golden sunset is very touching, as if Li Xiaofan's ears are reminded of the classic song "Long Time No See":
I came to
your city
walked the way you came
...
Will you suddenly appear
In the coffee shop on the corner
……