Chapter 9 Overseas lingering fragrance

In Humboldt Bay, California, the United States is famous for its fish products. Whether tourists from China or the West, as long as they visit the Eureka Redwood District, they always go to Lazio's, a well-known seafood restaurant, to taste all kinds of fresh fish caught ashore at any time.If you go through the door without a big meal, it is like not eating Quanjude Hanging Oven Roast Duck in Beijing, or not eating Zhenbin Lou Minglu Suckling Pig in Bangkok.I'm notorious for being gluttonous. Since I'm visiting Humboldt Bay, how can I not go to Lazio's to have a gluttonous kiss!My son knows that I have a special fondness for crabs. Although the quantity is not as elegant as Li Baixie, the Taoist of the Qing Dynasty, every year when the chrysanthemum blooms and the crab paste is full of fat, I recommend meals on the plate. I eat as many meals as I can. Lazio's skirts are like a cloud, and sometimes you have to wait an hour to be seated on weekends and holidays. People come here because of the reputation, and they can wait patiently. Few people go to other places to eat, which is a testament to how their dishes attract tourists.It's a pity that crabs are not yet on the market. Now is the time when oysters are strong and trout and scallops are in the market, so they are called fresh oysters in milk soup, smoked trout, and fried scallops.The oyster soup is served in a giant sea bowl, the oysters are as big as a fist, and the meat is tender and juicy, which is more delicious than Australian oysters.The smoked trout has fine scales and white meat, and it is more intimate and delicious to smoke with mahogany sawdust than with bagasse brown sugar.Because the smoked fish and smoked chicken sold in the red cabinets in Beiping were all smoked with sawdust, and the smoked food had a clear and woody fragrance.When dining overseas, suddenly there is a woody aroma that has not been seen for 30 years. Regardless of the taste of the trout, the soft aroma is enough to make people aftertaste.Fresh scallops are also produced in coastal areas such as Donggang and Wuqi in Taiwan. Most restaurants in Taiwan either fry or braise them. The scallops they fry are charred on the outside and tender on the inside, crisp and plump. Much smarter.

It would be a pity not to go to Disneyland to rejoice when I came to the United States, so on August 7th, I set aside a whole day to visit Disneyland.There are many motels and restaurants outside the park that surround Disneyland. Because these shops are different from each other, they only want to be cheap, the quality is beautiful, and the service is not thoughtful.The Park Vun Motel I stayed in was booked through a long-distance call from a travel agency I knew a week ago. It is very difficult to find a hotel near Disneyland. The bathtub and washbasin in the bathroom of this hotel have been leaking. If you don’t keep it on forever, it will leak instantly , when taking a bath, just can't take into account the conservation of resources.The constant temperature in Los Angeles is in the 80s and there is no tea or coffee available, so I had to take a small ice bucket to the ice cube machine downstairs to buy some ice cubes for drinks.Unexpectedly, Luozhao has not yet sunk into the mountain, and there is no ice supply.The food and accommodation here are not ideal, which naturally has a great impact on the business of Disneyland.The park wanted to buy these hotels and restaurants at a high price, and improved the operation with the spirit of a relationship business, but those landowners and bosses just saw this piece of fat and refused to let go, so angry that the Disneyland consortium opened another I bought a piece of land that is several times the size of the current site, and built a Disney World. Food, accommodation, and entertainment are all managed by the park itself, so that tourists can feel at home without being controlled by others!

There is a Shuanglong restaurant opposite the hotel. The neon lights of Jinmangzhaoye have the four characters of "Chinese Cuisine", which is dazzling. With the addition of golden nails and vermilion doors, the platform is red, and it is quite the style of a large Chinese restaurant.After eating foreign food for many days in a row, it is always good to have a Chinese meal for a change of appetite.There is a male foreman in front of the door, who can speak standard Mandarin and claims to be from Taiwan. He also admitted that it is called Chinese cuisine, which is actually American Chinese food.Now that we know the general situation, we can't make a la carte and make foreign dishes. I think it would not be too outrageous for each person to order a dish of fried rice.I haven't eaten for many days, so I ordered fried rice with shrimp and eggs.The rice is served on a high-legged silver plate, and there is a silver cover that fits tightly. When the cover is opened, it seems that the lotus leaf rice that has just been opened is stewed with soy sauce, and it is not greasy.After poking and pulling for a long time, I couldn't find any egg remains. There were a few shrimps and a few pickled vegetables.The fried rice is served with pickled vegetables, which is really a foreign meat, the so-called dog with horns-sheep style.When I got the bill, I found that my shrimp and egg fried rice cost US$6.50, which is equivalent to the official price of 38 to 1. The price of this plate of fried rice was about NT$200.My old friend Chen Guogan knew that I had a record of eating seventy-two meals of egg fried rice in a row, and named me the king of egg fried rice. However, the fried rice with pickled vegetables cost more than NT$200 per plate, which is the highest among the egg fried rice I have ever eaten. The price is off.