America: I came here to study, not to show mercy.

Chapter 114 Taking the American Girl to Eat Chinese Food 2
The bone soup was boiling, the two pieces of corn and white radish in the pot were floating up and down, and the water vapor condensed into white mist was rising continuously.

Li Xiaoen picked up two thin slices of meat with snowflakes with chopsticks and put them into the pot, letting the boiling soup stir them up and down. Seeing the color of the meat slices change clearly, he let go and quickly moved the chopsticks to another part of the meat slices.

"Are you worried that the chopsticks won't be picked up in the familiar place?"

Sufeil looked at it with a frown, tilted his head and asked curiously.

"you are right."

Li Xiaoen nodded. After about ten seconds, he brought the sliced ​​meat back up and placed it in the bowl in front of Sufeil. "Just like this, dip it in the sauce I gave you."

"Is it that simple?"

Sufeier glanced down and grabbed his chopsticks. "I thought it would be complicated."

According to her impression of Chinese food, most of the cooking processes are complicated and involve the use of open flames.

"That's stir-frying, hot pot just needs to be cooked through."

Li Xiaoen replied, picking up two more pieces of meat and putting them into the small pot.

Sufeier carefully watched the posture of Li Xiaoen's hands, lowered his head and tried to hold the chopsticks, and reached out to the blanched beef in his bowl with uncontrollable trembling.

Li Xiaoen blanched the beef, dipped it in some seasoning and put it in his mouth. Feeling the greasy and tender taste in his mouth, he couldn't help but nodded.

Being able to eat authentic beef hotpot in America was a feeling of happiness for him at the moment. He couldn't help but glance at Sufeil who was still trying but always failed. Li Xiaoen's face became strange.

"These are chopsticks, don't use them as skewers."

Noticing that Sufeil poked the chopsticks through the beef and lifted it up in the air like a skewer, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but say something.

"The fact is, I succeeded, didn't I?"

Sufeil said lightly, looked up and carefully placed the meat on the chopsticks on the seasoning bowl. Unexpectedly, when he lifted it up again, there were only two empty chopsticks, and the meat slices on them had fallen off.

"Ah……"

Li Xiaoen couldn't help but sneer, which immediately attracted Sufei's sidelong glance, and then the leg under the table bumped into him.

You're just trying to be brave, what's with that look?

Li Xiaoen was amused, but reluctantly took the knife and fork that had been placed aside and returned it to Sufeier. "No one asked you, an American, to use chopsticks. Who are you competing with?"

After hesitating for a moment, Sufeil put down his chopsticks and picked up the knife and fork. His movements suddenly became much more efficient. He picked up the piece of beef in the seasoning bowl, rolled it into a ball with a twist, and lifted it up easily.

If you don’t know how to do it, you might think you are eating pasta.

Li Xiaoen was a little surprised. He saw Sufeil put the beef dipped in satay into his mouth, chewed it for a few times, and a look of surprise lit up in his eyes.

The satay in this shop tends to be salty and sweet, which should suit the tastes of some Americans.

Li Xiaoen thought to himself, picked up two slices of meat and put them into the pot again. Suddenly, Sufeil bumped into him lightly, and he couldn't help but look over.

"Put a little more." Sufeil looked at the steam rising from the small pot.

"it is good."

Li Xiaoen nodded, looked at the plate of tripe in front of him, and couldn't help but ask again, "Do you eat... cow stomach?"

There seems to be a proper noun for "money belly" in English, but non-professionals are not familiar with this word, so Li Xiaoen chose the popular term.

"A cow's stomach?"

Sufeier's eyes widened when he heard this, and he quickly shook his head, "No, no, no."

"Okay." Nodding indifferently, Li Xiaoen picked up two slices for himself and a few slices of thinly sliced ​​beef for Sufeil.

Foods like beef offal are not widely accepted in the mainstream American diet, so it's normal for this young lady to feel resistant to it. When she had Western food with Victoria before, she also couldn't accept the French baked snails.

By the way, in America, would ingredients like tripe and beef tripe be cheaper in this store?

Li Xiaoen pondered in his heart that he did not know much about these aspects. If that were the case, wouldn’t it be possible for a beef offal lover to achieve beef offal freedom in America?
The atmosphere at the table gradually became warmer as the steam rose from the small pot.

After having a good meal and a few drinks, Luo Zhanpeng took the initiative and insisted on paying for lunch. However, Li Xiaoen hesitated because the amount was not that large, so he gave up the idea of ​​giving him two extra shares.

After walking out of the restaurant and feeling the hustle and bustle of the street, Li Xiaoen finally felt a little cooler and more comfortable.

"Hey, Sean, where's that beautiful older girlfriend of yours?"

Meng Yufan suddenly came over and asked mischievously.

"She's not my girlfriend."

Li Xiaoen rolled his eyes and explained, but he couldn't help but fall into deep thought, "By the way, how do you know she is the eldest daughter?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Li Xiaoen realized that judging by Sufei's outward appearance, he really gave people the impression of being a young lady.

Noticing Sufeil coming out of the bathroom, Li Xiaoen said goodbye to Meng Yufan.

Meng Yufan's eyes became ambiguous, and he nodded with a smile: "I know, you two are going on a date alone."

"Forget it, I won't tell you anymore."

Li Xiaoen shook his head and greeted the others.

He had already decided to slip away after lunch, and now with Sufeil's sudden arrival, his decision seemed even more convincing, without even needing to give a reason.

Watching the group walk away, especially Gu Menghua who kept looking back every few steps, Li Xiaoen turned around and found that Su Feier was curiously looking at the fish in the fish tank outside the restaurant.

"Is there anything strange?"

Li Xiaoen approached and asked, "You Americans usually eat fish in pre-filleted form. Have you ever seen a real fish?"

In fact, it's not just fish, but also beef, pork and other meats. Americans don't like to spit out bones from their mouths, so what they buy and sell in supermarkets are almost all completely cut whole slices of meat.

"Are you naive, or do you think we Americans are naive?"

Turning around, Sufei glanced helplessly and said, "I suspect you have a strong stereotype of us Americans."

"To each other, and to you too."

Li Xiaoen replied that in this country of immigrants, the clash of nations and cultures was inevitable, and he had long been accustomed to it. He took a deep breath and looked around, "Okay, you can go about your business for the rest of the time. I have somewhere to go, too."

"hey-hey……"

Su Feier was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then he quickly grabbed Li Xiaoen who was about to leave and asked, "You separated from your friends, do you really have things to do?"

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't come to such a boring party."

Li Xiaoen shrugged and looked at Su Feier with a teasing look in his eyes, "You don't think that I'm going somewhere with you by separating from them, do you?"

"..."

Sufeil opened his eyes wide and stared at Li Xiaoen, then his eyes gradually narrowed again.

(End of this chapter)