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Chapter 855 The food is poisonous
Bernice, who came to pick everyone up for dinner, said, "Boss, Sequoia Capital is coming to visit you tomorrow."

"Oh?"

Su Chen was happy for a moment. He was thinking of getting in touch with Valentine before, but he didn't expect that the other party would come to visit him first. This is a good thing.

"When is the appointment?"

"11 o'clock in the morning."

"Okay, I happen to be at the company tomorrow, so I'll wait for Mr. Valentine to come and visit me."

Since most of the visitors were Chinese, Bernice arranged a Chinese restaurant.

Many times, when you are in a foreign land, you will really miss the authentic Chinese cuisine. The ingredients are rich and the aroma is compelling!

However, the Chinese restaurants in the United States are full of mines, and you can't eat the authentic Chinese food you want to eat. Instead, you can find various localized dishes that are still called Chinese dishes.

And those Chinese restaurants in major cities in the United States in the early years are also inseparable from the Chinese laborers who came to the United States to build railways.

In the 19s, with the construction of the Pacific Railway, the number of Chinese workers coming to the United States reached its peak, approaching 60.

The Chinese laborers endured a high workload, but received extremely low wages, and their lives were extremely difficult.

To save money, they choose to cook for themselves.

In stark contrast to native American workers who ate only meat, Chinese workers who ate rice and vegetables were considered inferior.

As a result, their eating habits were vilified by the locals.Americans ridicule Chinese food as a "crude omnivorous food", describing Chinese workers as "whether it is from the sea or the soil, even if it is the most disgusting thing in the eyes of others, they will greedily give it to their mouths."

In the consciousness of Americans, "Chinese people eat everything", "cat meat, dog meat, and rat meat are common food for Chinese people".

A San Francisco newspaper in 1850 described the scene at that time like this: The Chinese restaurant was just on the side of the road. In just two or three years, the Chinese occupied every corner of the West Coast.

The representative of the first batch of American-style Chinese dishes is "Chop Suey", which is written in English as "Chop Suey".

This dish uses animal offal that Americans do not eat, such as chicken liver, chicken gizzard, chicken heart, duck heart, duck gizzard, pig intestine, plus mushrooms, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, celery, and a little onion, cabbage, served with The seasoning is mixed together and fried.

Because all leftovers are used, it is called "chicken suey".

When Li Hongzhang visited the United States in 1896, he praised the chop suey very much. Therefore, Chinese who are good at business took advantage of this opportunity to use the American media to publicize and hype it, and fabricated legends about chop suey and Li Hongzhang.

It is said that after Li Hongzhang came to the United States, he was warmly welcomed.

In order to express his gratitude, he held a banquet. Americans who had never eaten Chinese food devoured the food, and the food was swept away in a short while.

I didn't expect Americans to have such a good appetite, but the banquet is only halfway through, what should I do?

Li Hongzhang was quick to gain wisdom, and ordered: "Pour all the dishes that were served just now together, re-fry them into a pot, put them in a larger container, and serve them up again."

As a result, the guests praised the deliciousness after eating, and Li Hongzhang proudly said that this is a finale dish in China, called "chicken suey".

So 'Chop Suey' became 'Li Hung Chang's Chop Suey'.

The Chinese restaurant Bernice found also has this dish.

Anyway, when Su Chen saw the name of the dish, he really didn't want to order this dish.

Xue Fang showed great interest, "This dish looks good, why don't we order one."

"Are you sure you want to order this dish?" Su Chen held back his smile, "I suggest you think about it, don't regret it later."

"I think I still want this dish. If you don't eat it, I will eat it alone." Xue Fang insisted on her opinion.

Since my sister-in-law wanted to eat this dish, she asked the restaurant to serve it as well.

However, this restaurant is also very Americanized, and there are no authentic eight major Chinese cuisines.

The recipes are sweet and sour pork, broccoli beef, Mongolian beef, General Tso's chicken.

They are all Chinese dishes that Chinese people have never heard of and that can only be eaten in the United States. These dishes can only be called American Chinese dishes, which can be completed mainly by stir-frying, frying and deep-frying.

Bernice ordered a Zuo Zongtang chicken, and introduced: "At that time, the American Broadcasting Corporation TV station added a special program to report this dish, making it one of the most famous American Chinese dishes. Yes, I have learned it before."

Su Chen was a little dumbfounded.

Zuo Zongtang probably would not have thought that his name is well-known in the United States because of Chinese food.

Soon, the restaurant served all the dishes that everyone ordered.

Originally, Su Chen planned to call the bodyguards to the same table for dinner.

However, Frank firmly believes that if he is also at the same table, it will arouse the vigilance of some people who want to disadvantage the boss.

So he chose to sit at the outermost table with Zhang Qianqian.

Because he felt that sitting at this table, if someone rushed in and shot, he would be able to close the door immediately, block people in the store, and at the same time seize the favorable terrain.

Since Frank decided so, Su Chen didn't ask him to sit at the same table.

When the fried chop suey dish was served, Xue Fang's face was not very good-looking.

Because the appearance of this dish is not good-looking, and the taste is a bit weird.

After all the food was served, Su Chen waved his chopsticks, and Xue Fang first tasted the fried chop suey in front of her.

As soon as she entered the mouth, her expression changed slightly, but she still swallowed it bravely.

Su Chen said with a smile: "If it's not delicious, don't eat it."

"That's not a waste of food." Xue Fang said in a muffled voice.

The secretary and the assistant didn't show much emotion, they were both swallowing slowly.

Su Chen picked out a dish at random, tasted it, and it really didn't taste very good, so he could barely eat it.

But because this restaurant was chosen by Bernice, he didn't blame her too much, besides, she is still an American, so she can't be expected to understand Chinese tastes.

When Su Chen was about to take another bite, Frank and Zhang Xiangqian who were beside him suddenly rushed up, and the former snatched his chopsticks away.

With a fierce look in Frank's eyes, he looked left and right, then lowered his voice: "Boss, there is poison in the vegetables!"

"Huh?" Su Chen put down his chopsticks, "Are you sure there is what you said in the dish?"

"Yes." Frank looked extremely serious.

The girls were also a little overwhelmed with fright, because they all ate several mouthfuls just now.

Su Chen quickly asked everyone to stop their chopsticks, and asked Frank in a low voice: "Is someone poisoning me?"

"There is a suspicion." Frank said, "I don't think we can stay in this restaurant now, we should go out immediately, Zhang, you go out and find a car first."

Zhang Xiangqian's English is very poor, Xue Fang hurriedly translated to him: "Old Zhang, there is a problem with this restaurant, you go out immediately and find our car to pick us up."

"it is good."

Zhang Xiangqian responded, turned around and was about to go out, but suddenly fell to the ground...

(End of this chapter)