Chapter 344: Life is not easy
Zhang Nan is really worried about the health situation in India, although before he was reborn, he had also heard that the water in the star-rated hotels in Indian cities was drinkable, just boil it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
But my impression of everything that can be imported in India is so bad that I decided to refrain from drinking water from the faucet except for bathing, washing my face and brushing my teeth, not even boiling it!
Besides, I am not too confident in my stomach, I have heard that someone drank Indian tap water diarrhea, not because the bacteria in the water have not been eliminated, but because the water is over-disinfected and improperly treated, and the residual chemicals in various water have put people down!
Went to wash my face, and like all 5 star hotels, there is hot water here.
As soon as he finished washing, Zhang Nan decided not to drink India's tap water - the smell of bleaching powder and chlorine was several times greater than the smell of bleaching powder and chlorine in Shanghai!
When I got out of the bathroom, I asked Nicole, who was reading an English movie magazine provided by the hotel, "Got a cold?"
Nicole looked up and said with a confused expression, "No, what's wrong?"
"The tap water bleach powder smells so bad, I didn't even hear you complain just now, and I thought you had a stuffy nose. ā
"I washed it in bottled water. ā
As soon as he finished speaking, he looked down at her magazine again.
Well, a whole Mrs. Kuo from the United States.
Don't complain, it's all about scaring your own men.
When she went to Shanghai a year later, Nicole complained about the smell of tap water in Shanghai, and joked that after taking a bath, she was equivalent to eliminating the poison.
No wonder Nicole is squeamish, before the 90s, every time Zhang Nan went to Shanghai, he would complain about the tap water in Shanghai, and by the way, he complained for the people of Shanghai - in the 80s, the water source of Shanghai's tap water basically came from the Huangpu River, and it could only be disinfected with large doses of chemicals.
In the past two years, even if it is used to make tea, Zhang Nan will still feel that the tap water in Shanghai has a taste - since the 21st century, the tap water in Shanghai has been much better, at least the obvious smell of bleaching powder is gone.
And this will taste like the tap water at the Taj Mahal Hotel...... Eight streets worse than the feeling of running water in Shanghai in the 80s!
"After taking a bath, it is estimated that the whole person smells of bleaching powder!"
After thinking about it, I picked up the phone in the living room and called the main desk: "...... Yes, Presidential Suite, bring me 50 litres of mineral water...... Okay, big bottle, that's the brand you have in the room. ā
Jenny heard the conversation between the two and simply went to freshen up, and after a try, she completely agreed with her man's behavior: he planned to take a shower with bottled water after bathing.
As for those sheets and so on, I don't pay so much attention to it: I have to put detergent in my own washing.
Just now Jenny also found that the bath products and toothpaste in the bathroom are all British goods, these brands she knows: I want to bring them myself before I come, Zhang Nan told her women that there is no need for that, and the hotel will definitely provide imported goods from the West.
As soon as Jenny talked about her discovery, she praised her man for his good preparation before he came.
"Don't praise me, there don't seem to be many modern toiletry factories in India, and many of the toothpaste, shower gel, and shampoo on the market are imported.
A bottle of shampoo costs $5, the poor can't afford a whole bottle, and many of the ones on the market are in small packages. Even the toothpaste comes in small packets that are enough to brush your teeth twice, and the absolute 100% of the products in these hotels are imported. ā
Zhang Nan "does not take credit", this is the truth. Not to mention the 80s now, India will still be like this in another 20 years: it is incomprehensible that a country that wants to build a "world-class aircraft carrier" has to import most of its toothpaste and shampoo!
There are also homegrown Indian products, and a toothpaste costs about 50 rupees, or $0.75, after 20 years - a heavy Indian worker in low-class work earns about $10 a month.
I can't afford it.
Faced with the doubts of the two women because of disbelief, Zhang Nan said: "The poor can't afford to use it, so there are naturally substitutes; the rich don't care, they are used to importing goods; if they can't get up or down, they can buy special small packages, and who will sell those large packages?"
Well, that's the reality in India.
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Zhang Nan went to the kitchen to see Daniel who was opening the bow left and right, the chef brought ingredients from West Germany, anyway, when passing through customs, he took a special channel and would not check, and even Mumbai could say that it was extinct refrigerated insurance beef with a lot.
If you don't bring it, you can't bring it, otherwise you'll have to wait to be vegetarian!
Zhang Nan estimated that he had to eat behind closed doors, otherwise he would definitely become an unpopular figure in the whole city.
Divine cow!
Daniel, who was preparing the dishes in advance, saw the boss come in, and hurriedly said: "Boss, I prepared braised beef in the evening, stir-fried broccoli, and an eggplant, a dish of deep-sea shrimp provided by the kitchen here, which is quite fresh, and it is also braised in braised blood."
You eat rice, Jenny and Miss Nicole want to eat steak, and I have prepared black pepper sauce, medium rare.
And some freshly baked English bread, what else do you need to order?"
Zhang Nan thought for a while, "Another bowl of shredded pork and egg drop soup, Daniel, we Huaxia people generally like to have some soup at the end of the meal, but unfortunately there is no mustard, otherwise it would be better to put a little." ā
Mustard, Daniel has never seen it at all, "It is probably a magical ingredient!"
"By the way, cut me some salted radish, pour some sesame oil, and don't put sugar. ā
Daniel nodded: "No problem, boss." ā
My brother-in-law still pickled a whole bucket of salted radishes in the manor, although the craftsmanship is not as good as pickles, but some are better than nothing.
As for pickles, don't think about it: unless you bring seeds from your hometown and grow them on the estate, you won't be able to buy the snow mushrooms you need in the whole of America!
Leaving the kitchen and passing by the restaurant, Zhang Nan felt that he was a bit "heinous" in India: all pork and beef were served in one meal, and everything was offended!
Many of the Indians who believe in Hinduism are vegetarians, even if they are not vegetarians, they only have chicken and goat meat, and they eat very little, and it is not easy to find meat if they want to buy it, let alone hygiene.
There are some places where fish is eaten, but there are also many places where fish is resolutely not eaten, and the reason is clear when you think about the Ganges.
Fortunately, Mumbai is close to the sea, and although the offshore sea is heavily polluted, you can still get some seafood caught in the far sea: the people here still eat seafood, but the cooking method is similar to the fried fish in the UK, at most with a lot of spices that you don't understand.
There are also those who take the "Indian stew" to make fish, which is terrible when you think about it.
Mutton Zhang Nan only eats white cuts, and unfortunately, Andy Lue, the mutton flavor he likes, has not yet taught Daniel. When it comes to slaughter, there is little hope for lamb in India.
Fortunately, there are fish and chickens, otherwise Zhang Nan doesn't know what else he can eat.
Chinese people in India, life is not easy.