[Comprehensive British and American] Panda's Struggle

"Hello, welcome to the Chinese restaurant. May I ask what you want to order?" Pan handed the menu to the guests. The menu is very simple. It is a fixed menu on Thursday. Each is accompanied by a picture and the name of the dish in Chinese. The English is just simple. The main ingredients are introduced.The customer is also a frequent visitor here, and he skillfully ordered meals and drinks. Pan recorded the order, took back the menu, and then sent the order to the kitchen and bar.

This is just the most common daily life of a Chinese restaurant. The owner of the Chinese restaurant is a young man from China, Lin Yang.With good cooking skills, it not only attracts Chinese customers in the United States, but also many native-born Americans who are used to burgers and pizzas have gradually become repeat customers.The popularity and ratings on yelp are also very high, and the restaurant business is booming. However, the owner is also a chef, but he has never planned to expand. Over the years, Pan has been the only increase in staff in the store.The store has not been expanded in ten years.In terms of profitability, even in New York, a world-renowned first-tier city, it is more than enough to rent out the adjacent storefront.It's a pity that the boss doesn't seem to be aiming at making money, and the shop assistants don't think anything bad about it.

"Your dishes have been served, please eat." Pan smiled slightly and said to the guests.The exquisite oriental face, with the youthful temperament of a teenager, is so beautiful that it is somewhat indistinguishable from male and female, and the voice is as gentle as jade, and a simple greeting makes the guests feel very comfortable. Many good reviews on yelp mentioned the good looks of the shop assistants.

In addition to Pan and the boss, there are two clerks in the store, Kathy and Xiaoyu.A man and a woman, both of them have just come of age, they have the appearance of oriental people, just like Pan, in the eyes of westerners, they thought they were underage at first, several times customers looked at the three of them hesitantly, and there were also some Many well-meaning customers repeatedly confirmed whether they were adults, for fear that they would have to work illegally here because they were illegal households, and they would not even be able to go to school.Every time Pan and Xiaoyu would explain with a smile that they were adults and there was no need to worry about their studies, while Kathy responded simply and rudely with indifference.

There is a panda live broadcasting station on the TV in the store. As a national treasure of China, pandas have become popular all over the world with the development of the Internet in recent years.As a Chinese restaurant, Panda Live is already one of the standard configurations.Panda Live is a webcast platform that can be watched directly on any TV that can be connected to the Internet.The content of the live broadcast is just the most common daily life of pandas, and because of the lazy habit of pandas, the screen may be static for several hours, making you think you are watching pictures.

But even if the number of viewers in the room remains high, people watch the live broadcast for a variety of reasons. In addition to the most common liking for pandas and their cuteness, there are also those who use panda live broadcasts as eye protection and relaxation. After all, apart from the black and white dumpling in the middle, the pandas in the live broadcast Each base has its own villa.During the day, the cubs are all in the green yard outside their villa.There are also those who need to decompress. The audience said that even if they didn’t take the initiative to be cute or roll around, watching the panda sleeping on its stomach was very decompressing. Some viewers even said that their depression was relieved by watching the live broadcast.

Pan doesn't understand what is going on with this global panda craze, and every time he sees a panda live broadcast in the store, Pan feels a little ashamed!This is simply spying on his clan bears eating and drinking Lazard!These human idiots!

Pan, whose full name is Panda Pan, was chosen by the boss.When Lin Yang picked him up, Pan, who had just traveled to this world at that time, changed back to his original form—a panda because of unstable energy.And it's a panda in the form of a cub.

Pan is the first panda in the world. He was favored by the master of heaven and transformed into a human form at a young age.It stands to reason that this is a very high starting point, but due to the nature of pandas, Pan Baibai wasted a lot of time, letting go of cultivation and not practicing, Xiongsheng was addicted to eating, drinking and sleeping.In a blink of an eye, it was the time when Da Luo Jinxian was walking everywhere, so Pan, who was still a celestial being, moved himself to a nest and went to sleep in the old bamboo forest deep in the southwest.Occasionally wake up hungry, get food on the spot.In the vicissitudes of life, Pan is still the half-baked Pan, but the world is no longer the world full of aura.

Pan, who fell asleep again for an unknown number of years, time-traveled when he woke up. He didn't even know how to time-travel, and was later picked up by the store manager Lin Yang.

Although he has lived for a long time, Pan has no common sense, doesn't know how to conceal his identity, turns into a human in front of Lin Yang, and can't even speak.Lin Yang did not change his face, picked up Pan back to the store, and together with Kathy Xiaoyu and the other three taught Pan to speak, read, read and common sense, and concealed his identity.

Pan ran to the cash register, grabbed the remote control from Casey and switched the TV to other content.Some guests were dissatisfied at first, but they put away their dissatisfaction after seeing the content after the channel change.

"It's Iron Man!" Xiaoyu, who was clearing the table, looked at the figure of Tony Stark on TV in surprise.

Kathy snorted softly beside her, her sapphire blue eyes slightly slanted.

Xiaoyu is a fan of Iron Man. From the first time Tony Stark announced that he was Iron Man, he fell into the pit.In Xiaoyu's words, Tony Stark is a real man and a real hero, which is different from other superheroes who hide their identities.Every major social media, news is not missed, even in the superhero forum also occupies a moderator position, it can be said that the fans are very professional.

And Casey is a fan of Batman, who agrees more with Batman's ideas and behaviors.Although not as professional as Xiaoyu, but the big and small reports never let go.Of course, he especially scoffs at Xiaoyu's idol, Iron Man. Casey, who is a fan of Batman, always feels that Tony Stark is too high-profile and too frivolous.

The two have fought countless times about this. Who is the better superhero, Iron Man or Batman? Xiaoyu is not as strong as Casey, but as a woman who is Iron Man, she will never admit defeat. Xiaoyu uses her The stubbornness persisted until Casey lost the patience to continue arguing, and finally ended in a draw.

So Pan was used to the different reactions the two had to Tony Stark on TV news.Fortunately, the rush hour for dinner has passed, and the store is close to closing, and there are no new customers, so I am not in a hurry to wait for Xiaoyu to clear the table.

After seeing off the last customer, the store manager and chef made all the remaining ingredients into delicacies. Xiaoyu looked at her slender arms but easily carried two pots of food to the table.These two bowls are special bowls that Xiaoyu ordered online for Pan, who eats a lot of food. They are at least ten times the size of ordinary bowls.

"The boss bought a lot of bamboo shoots for you today, Panda~" The small jade basin was placed in front of Pan, pointing to the braised bamboo shoots in oil and fried pork with sliced ​​bamboo shoots.

Although there is no plate at all, the color of the food in the bowl is attractive. The braised bamboo shoots need thick oil red sauce, ruddy color, and the right sauce is evenly blended in every part of the bamboo shoots.Bamboo shoots are not easy to taste, so it needs to be simmered to collect the juice, so that the taste of soy sauce and seasoning can be absorbed into the bamboo shoots.And the right heat keeps the taste of the bamboo shoots to the best.The oily luster and the strong aroma are the perfect fusion of the fragrance of bamboo shoots and the aroma of lard.

The aroma of fried pork with bamboo shoots rushed into Pan's nose. After the high-temperature stir-frying, the surface of the bamboo shoots was coated with a layer of crystal clear oil.The skin of the marinated meat is fresh and tender. The boss uses Sichuan cuisine. During the frying process, he added watercress. The slightly pungent aroma of chili permeates the air.

Soon the boss came out with two more small dishes. This time, the dishes were served on ordinary plates, which formed a stark contrast with the two bowls in front of Pan.

After the boss took his seat, it was naturally time for dinner.

There is no rule in Chinese restaurants not to talk when eating or sleeping, so Xiaoyu ate and talked about the current situation of her idol Tony Stark in the news just now.Casey made some sarcasm routinely, and Pan buried himself in the two pots of food in front of him.The boss asked everyone what they want to eat tomorrow, so I can go shopping in the evening.

Chinese restaurants close early, at eight o'clock, because the boss doesn't care about making money.It is open five days a week, and there are different fixed menus every day from Wednesday to Sunday. Except for the ingredients of the fixed menu, Lin Yang will also purchase the orders of the shop assistants.Pan is naturally a bamboo shoot that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and the rest is optional.Casey prefers seafood and fish. Today, I made a special dish of squirrel fish just for Casey. Xiaoyu doesn't like meat, but he doesn't choose any kind of meat, which is the best satisfaction.

Lin Yang thought for a while and then set the menu for tomorrow, "For breakfast, I will make pork buns with sauce, for lunch, seafood braised noodles, and for dinner, I will make a decision based on the leftover ingredients tomorrow."

Everyone nodded without any objection. In fact, with the skill of the store manager, they absolutely eat even the most common ingredients with gusto, not necessarily their favorite ingredients.

After eating, Kathy and Xiaoyu stood up to clear the table, while Pan was already yawning again and again, his eyelids almost closed.

When Xiaoyu put the washing in the dishwasher and came out, she saw that Pan by the table had disappeared, and there was only a pile of red pandas lying on the cushions on the chair, sleeping soundly.The white and tender buttocks are facing up, the small black paws rest on the edge of the chair, and the arms are stretched horizontally. It may be that it has slept too soundly. The mouth of the little panda is slightly opened, and the small tongue is faintly visible as it breathes evenly.

"Why did it change back to the original body? Haven't you been here for so long? Is it still unstable?" Xiaoyu hugged Pan to the chair next to the cash register, and went back to help tidy up while asking Casey who was cleaning the table.

"The store manager said that because the spiritual energy here is thin, it is more 'energy-saving' to change the body. In particular, he has no defense against us at all." Casey said with a little helplessness, with a pampering in his eyes that he hadn't noticed.

After Xiaoyu and Casey cleaned up the dining room and Lin Yang finished cleaning up the kitchen, the three went back to their place of residence together with Pan in their arms.

Xiaoyu put Pan on his big black and white bed, touched the little panda's head, and whispered in the little panda's ear, "Pang Da, good night~"