Chapter 172: Top Food
Xia Ruofei came to the top restaurant ten minutes earlier than the agreed time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
To his surprise, Monica arrived earlier than he was, standing on the restaurant's huge terrace overlooking the river.
Monica wore an elegant and fashionable blazer with ruffles on the top, with a belt to perfectly highlight the small waist, and with black wide-leg pants and stiletto heels, she had a fashionable workplace style.
"Excuse me...... I seem to be late. Xia Ruofei said.
Hearing Xia Ruofei's voice, Monica turned around, she reached out and took off her sunglasses, and said with a smile: "Xia, it should be that I arrived early, I just like the beautiful scenery on the top floor, so ...... Uh-huh!"
With that, Monica shrugged.
Xia Ruofei smiled and said: "It just so happens that the seat I set is on this terrace, and you can have a 360-degree river view without dead ends!"
"Great!" Monica said happily.
At this time, the waiter of the restaurant came over and politely led the two to the seat that Xia Ruofei had booked in advance.
Xia Ruofei opened a chair for Monicala.
"Thank you!" Monica smiled and sat down.
After Xia Ruofei came to the opposite side and sat down, the waiter took the menu, Xia Ruofei stretched out his hand and said, "Lady first!"
"Very personable!" Monica chuckled.
Xia Ruofei said with a smile: "Actually, I'm just a big boss, in order to have lunch with you, I specially went online to find information to make up for it!"
Monica, who was looking down at the menu, chuckled.
In fact, Xia Ruofei was not joking, he really didn't understand Western food etiquette, he was a veteran veteran, and his family was average before he became a soldier, so he didn't have the opportunity to contact this kind of knowledge at all.
Soon the two of them ordered the food, and after a while, the food began to be served.
Aperitifs, appetizers, soups, starters...... Coming up in turn, Xia Ruofei and Monica chatted quietly while enjoying delicious French Western food at this invincible terrace booth.
At this time, the chef of the restaurant, Mark Lawrence, came to the two with two main dishes.
Lawrence said very enthusiastically: "Ms. Grasso, Mr. Xia, welcome to the top restaurant of Jiahua! The main dish is my hand-cooked Rossini steak, please taste it!"
At last night's auction, Ma Xiong auctioned two huge white truffles, one of which was sold from the Grasso family's auction and was reserved for the top-floor restaurant, so Lawrence was also quite enthusiastic to see Xia Ruofei and Monica.
"Being able to taste the craftsmanship of a Michelin-starred chef is really worth my trip today!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.
"Thank you, Mr. Lawrence!" Monica said with a light smile.
Rossini's steak is a famous dish in French Western food, Xia Ruofei saw a slice of foie gras on top of the fried beef tenderloin on the plate, and the fragrance was fragrant after it was accompanied by black mushroom juice, and just smelling it would make you have an appetite.
Mark Lawrence explains: "The main ingredients of this dish are the finest filet mignon and the most authentic Strasbourg foie gras, cooked with black mushroom juice, and I will complete the final process of this dish!"
After speaking, Lawrence uncovered the lid of a closed container on the small dining cart next to him, and Xia Ruofei and Monica immediately smelled a familiar fragrance.
It was the finale white truffle that the Grasso family auctioned last night.
Lawrence reached out and picked up the white truffle, took the truffle shaver from the pocket of the chef's coat, and after shaving a few white truffles into each of the two of them's plates, he said, "Please use it slowly, you two!"
With that, Lawrence carefully put the white truffle back into the dining cart, closed the lid, and stood aside.
Xia Ruofei and Monica picked up their knives and forks and began to enjoy today's main course.
"It tastes so good! The steak is just right!" Monica smiles.
Xia Ruofei's attention was more focused on the foie gras, and he said to Lawrence: "Mr. Lawrence, this foie gras is really delicious!
"Thank you for liking my cooking!" Mr. Xia, this foie gras is the Strasbourg foie gras that we flown directly from France, and our King Louis XVI tasted it more than 200 years ago and exclaimed that it was the best delicacy in the world, and since then, foie gras has gradually become known to the world. And His Majesty Louis XVI tasted the Strasbourg foie gras!"
"It turns out that there is such an allusion!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "Then this foie gras must be very precious, right?"
Monica smiled and took over the conversation: "The authentic French foie gras is quite precious, it and the truffle auctioned yesterday, as well as caviar are called the three top delicacies, the French foie gras is the first in Strasbourg foie gras, followed by Landes foie gras and Toulouse foie gras, and the most precious caviar is the caviar made from Beluga sturgeon eggs, which is also the most precious and rare caviar in the world, Beluga sturgeon catches less than 100 fish a year, and its caviar is extremely precious, known as the 'pearl of the Caspian Sea'......"
Speaking of food, Monica is also a treasure, which really opened Xia Ruofei's eyes and gave her a very intuitive understanding of the world's top food.
After tasting the top Strasbourg foie gras, Xia Ruofei also had the idea of developing new ingredients.
After all, among the world's three major cuisines, he can basically produce top-quality truffles every year, and caviar, sturgeon grows in the sea, and the current environment in the space is obviously not suitable for breeding, so the most likely thing for the time being is foie gras.
Of course, Xia Ruofei only had a preliminary idea, he didn't know the breeding process of foie gras in France, and foie gras was not like truffles, which were rare and expensive, and they needed to raise a large number of geese.
This means that Xia Ruofei must find a way to raise it in the outside world, otherwise not to mention the problem of whether it can be raised inside the space, the biggest problem is that he can't complete such a heavy job even if he is tired to death!
Therefore, to realize this initial idea, it still needs to be explored step by step.
Chef Lawrence's cooking skills were affirmed by the distinguished guests, and he went down very happily, and Xia Ruofei also put aside his whims and chatted with Monica.
Monica said with a smile: "Xia, I have carefully looked at the white truffles I photographed yesterday, and the quality is even higher than the top white truffles produced in the Alba region, so I really want to know, where did your Taoyuan company find those excellent truffles?"
Before Xia Ruofei could react, Monica immediately smiled and said, "But I know that this must be your company's core trade secret, so please rest assured, I won't inquire at will......"
"Thank you for your understanding!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.
Monica changed her tone and said, "But I still hope that there will be some commercial cooperation between us!"
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