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Chapter 70 Black Pearl Restaurant

The sound of Didi's horn on the street brought back Ye Kai's thoughts. He looked at the scenery outside the car window and felt a little familiar: "Monkey, are you approaching Kuanzhai Alley?"

Sun Shang answered vaguely, and was concentrating on finding a parking space:

"Almost, just a little ahead."

As a landmark scenic spot in Rongcheng, Kuanzhai Alley is an important check-in place for outsiders to visit Rongcheng. The whole is an antique courtyard courtyard with indigo bricks and tiles. It is a rare Qing Dynasty ancient street in Rongcheng.

But their goal today is not Kuanzhai Alley, but a small street not far away, Changfa Street.

After getting off the car, Zhou Sihui took a few steps forward and said, "This should be a community, right?"

Ye Kai observed the surrounding environment and said affirmatively: "Be confident, you should go, this is a community. Monkey, shall we eat in this community?"

"Don't underestimate this community." Sun Shanggang parked the car, walked over and said, "I have never eaten at the place I took you this time, I heard it is a black pearl two-diamond restaurant on a certain review site, all This is the only one in Rongcheng."

"black Pearl?"

Ye Kai understood, he often looks for food on this website, and knows a little about this rating.

Modeled after Michelin's restaurant star rating, Dianping.com also divides the better restaurants in China into three levels, calling it China's Michelin-starred restaurants.

Compared with restaurants rated by Michelin, Black Pearl is obviously more in line with the tastes of Chinese people.

Ye Kai was looking forward to it.

However, the first step in enjoying delicious food must be to enter the restaurant first. They have already walked back and forth on this street twice, but they still haven't found where the entrance of the restaurant is.

"I... I'll make a call." Sun Shang gave up.

The phone was connected quickly, and Sun Shang listened to the voice from the microphone and looked around, and finally set his gaze behind Ye Kai.After pulling aside Ye Kaipa who didn't know why, he said.

"Is it a black door with two knockers and the one with two stone lions?"

After that, he stepped forward and grabbed the door knocker and knocked.

"Here?" Ye Kai asked in surprise.

They passed by this place three times, and they were still discussing who lived in such a stylish place. They didn't expect that this was the restaurant they were looking for. It really was hidden in the city.

The door was opened, and a woman in a green Republican button-up collar opened the door and asked, "Are you the one who called just now?"

"Yes." Sun Shang said, "My surname is Sun."

She opened the way and led a few people in, and said, "Come with me."

The restaurant is not big, or very small. It is just a restaurant transformed from a three-room residential house. The restaurant is decorated with simple and exquisite decorations.

This restaurant only accepts one table of guests for a meal. Sun Shang was lucky. His reservation for dinner today was canceled and he did not come. Otherwise, it would be difficult to make a reservation one day in advance.

They were taken to a room with four chairs.

On the wall are lotus flowers and herrings in the style of ink and wash, which seem to have an abnormal texture. Ye Kai was a little curious, and touched it with his hands, and felt the uneven and unidentified gelatin.

It should be that after the painting is finished, the paint is used to add texture to the painting, making the painting look more real.

Let Ye Kai comment, as a traditional Chinese painting, this is a bit nondescript.

Below the painting is a table with porcelain, which is in the same style as the log of the dining table, and two tableware with exaggerated shapes are placed on it.

It is the style of blue and white porcelain, but it is made into tableware.

The woman I saw just now walked into the room carrying the dishes, she should be the waiter of the restaurant, she put the appetizers on the table and said, "This is the pre-dinner dessert and the appetizer."

After she put it down, she introduced: "The dessert is jam ice powder, sweet potato cake, and the appetizers are chicken feet with pickled peppers, charcoal-roasted pork with cumin, rice fungus with pepper, and cashew nuts in sauce."

"Please enjoy slowly, the next dish will be served soon."

Saoirse held up the fork eagerly, and said to Ye Kai: "It looks great, can I eat it?"

"Of course you can eat it."

Ye Kai unceremoniously tasted the taste first. Anyway, it is a meal-sharing system, and everyone is given a ration.

With some fungus in it, it has a sweet and sour taste. The overall taste is not much different from the pickled fungus outside, but this one tastes more elastic, and you can feel a springy feeling in your mouth.

"Delicious—" Saoirse said as she ate the ice powder in one bite.

Ye Kai gave her his own too.

The ice powder is very small, about the size of their cup of tea, so even two girls can eat a dish in one bite.

"How does it feel?" Ye Kai asked.

With a fork in her mouth, Saoirse said without hesitation, "Sweet and delicious."

The next dish came, and the waiter continued to introduce: "This dish is five-color noodles with prawns, and the strange sauce is poured on the noodles. You can eat cold dishes slowly, and I will serve hot dishes after you press the bell."

Ye Kai translated for Saoirsa, then lifted the sauce in the small cup and poured it directly on the face.

The noodles look like ordinary cold noodles, but as the name suggests, they are colorful noodles, yellow, green, brown, etc., but they are still very small, and they are also a bite size.

Sun Shang tasted it exaggeratedly, looked at the door, and whispered to Ye Kai, "Why do I think it tastes like cold noodles?"

The razor clam next to it is shelled, and the leaves are opened on the surface and eaten into the mouth together.

It's delicious, but too little.

The aroma of wheat is very strong, and the noodles are not just wheat, the colorful colors are due to the sap of other plants, not the use of pigments to change the color.

The sauce of the noodles is a bit similar to the sauce of sweet water noodles, but the magic is that it does not have the taste of MSG, and other ingredients are used to enhance the umami of the sauce.

It seems that my sense of taste has also improved. It was impossible for my previous self to taste so many flavors.Maybe just like Sun Shang, I think it tastes like cold noodles.

Seeing that Saoirse enjoyed the food, Ye Kai felt that the trip was worthwhile. The most important thing during this time is to accompany Saoirse well.

As a foreigner who has just arrived in China, this meal has just begun.

When you're done eating, press the bell.

The waiter brought four bowls of soup: "This is our restaurant's signature, and it's served with golden noodles. The noodle soup is boiled cabbage soup, please enjoy."

"Boiled cabbage?"

Even though Ye Kai didn't know much about eating before, he often heard about boiled cabbage.

The broth of this dish is golden yellow, and there is a small cabbage inside, but the noodles like silk threads are the real protagonist of this dish.

It was so famous anyway, Ye Kai didn't taste it first, but put it under his nose to smell the hot steam from the soup.

It doesn't have a very strong smell, it is a light fragrance, but you can also smell the umami of chicken soup.

(End of this chapter)