Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 433 Order Meals

After roughly viewing the booths on the seventh floor, Cheng He and the others had nothing else to do.

Going back to the exhibition center on the first floor, almost everyone is here now, and they are all starting to decorate. All kinds of materials and decorations are piled up on the floor, and there is no place to set foot.

It only takes one day to arrange the booth. No matter how chaotic it is today, it will be a perfect image tomorrow.

At this moment, Cheng He and the others have nothing else to do, so they can go outside again to get familiar with the environment.

Since I have come to the United States, it is impossible to stay here and not go anywhere, it is simply a waste of time.

Now they plan to have lunch first, and then take a look in the afternoon. If there are any interesting places nearby, let's take a look first.

Ohio is a large city in the east-central part of the United States, with a beautiful environment and fresh and pleasant air. The team has the Cincinnati Reds and the indigenous Yiluoqui language. It is named after the Ohio River.

These are all news from the Internet, but there is no specific explanation, and the reference value is not very big.

However, it is true to say that the environment here is beautiful and the air is fresh.At least where Cheng He and the others are now makes people feel very comfortable.

This is not a big and complicated city like New York. There are not many people and cars here, and the roads seem to be very wide. Moreover, because of the fine weather, the sky is very blue and there are few white clouds.

All in all, it feels good to be here for the first time.

Walking out of the exhibition building, the whole family looked around in a daze, not knowing which direction to go next.

Cheng He said: "I still think you are a leader, you don't know?"

Bai Qian frowned and said, "I came to participate in the exhibition, but it wasn't here last time. It's also my first time here. It feels similar to going to your Peach Blossom Village..."

"Stop it, it's not 'Your Peach Blossom Village', it's 'Our Peach Blossom Village', you know?" Cheng He said.

While talking, he took a step forward, who cares, just take a taxi if you don't know where to go.

Anyway, looking as far as the eye can see, there is nothing to eat in their sight range, mainly because this place is really too big.

Bai Qian also stretched her neck and looked around, but this is not a downtown area, and there is no food street around, and she searched the vicinity with her mobile phone, and came up with some strange building unit names, and she didn't know which one was a restaurant.

Because the names of some restaurants are very strange, they are not directly called "so-and-so restaurant", but some strange combinations of letters, some are even Latin, some are Spanish, etc., and the literal meaning is completely unreasonable.

So, just looking at those strange letter combinations, she really couldn't tell which ones were restaurants.

For example, when a foreigner goes to China and stands at the entrance of "South Beauty" and "Haidilao", if he can't see the dining table inside, he may not necessarily know that there is food inside.

Fortunately, a taxi came soon, and the family of three boarded the car, which made it much easier.

Cheng He said the simplest sentence in his not very fluent English: "Please go to the restaurant, thank you."

The driver was a black man, and he didn't make a fuss when he saw foreign passengers. He smiled brightly and asked, "What kind of restaurant do you want to go to? French western food? Italian food? Or an authentic American restaurant?"

It's beyond the outline, Cheng He said, these are too difficult for him, and Bai Qian can only answer the next words.

Bai Qian has been to the United States before, and her spoken English is much better than Cheng He's, and she can't be troubled by the daily meal.

She replied: "We want to go to a restaurant with a more beautiful view, as long as the taste is more authentic."

The black driver enthusiastically recommended: "Oh, I've heard of a very famous restaurant that romantic ladies like to choose there, but I haven't been there because I don't have that much money to enjoy it. If you like it, I will I can take you to have a look."

The driver seemed to be a bit talkative, talking fast and often, and smiling enthusiastically.

Bai Qian said: "Thank you so much, let's go there."

The driver quickly sent them to the place. When Cheng He paid, he paid an extra $2 as a tip, and the other party was very happy.

The restaurant is a good place, as the taxi driver said, romantic ladies like to choose here.

There is a long row of dining tables along a river, and there is only a canopy above the open air, which is ventilated on all sides and extremely quiet.

There is a vase of flowers on each table, which is very uniquely arranged.

The place outside the dining table is also decorated with flowers or handicrafts, which looks like a small garden.When the breeze blows, the fragrance of flowers overflows.

It is very quiet here, and it is almost conceivable that at night, the riverside is full of bright lights, and people sit on boats and swim in the river, talk about love, talk about love, look at the stars, sing and sing, this is their romance .

This is the restaurant that the black taxi driver introduced, and it feels pretty good.

Where you eat western food, people are more gentlemen, they speak softly, no one makes loud noises, and no one smokes or anything like that.

Cheng He held Cheng Xinxin in his arms, and whispered to her all the way: "Honey, did you see that? People here are not allowed to speak loudly, you are obedient here, don't make noise, you understand?"

Cheng Xinxin was a little restrained in a strange place, she nodded honestly, and said, "Yes, okay, I see."

In fact, seeing that there are all people with yellow hair and green eyes here, who still can't understand what they are saying, it really makes her a little flustered.

So Cheng He chose to bring her out as well, to see more people she hadn't seen before, and to have greater insight and courage, which is always good for her growth.

When they got to the dining table and sat down, Cheng Xinxin refused to sit on the stool by herself, insisting on sitting on her father's lap.

Cheng He knew that she was still a little scared. Anyway, she had just arrived, so let her get used to it slowly.

The time difference between the United States and China is about twelve hours, but the seasons are basically corresponding. It is also summer here, and the temperature is roughly the same.

But these dining tables are by a wide river, and they are in the open air, with cool breeze blowing all around, so they won't be too hot.

The water in the river is very clear, the stones at the bottom of the water are clearly visible, and small fish can be faintly seen swimming by.

Cheng Xinxin sat on her father's lap, not making loud noises, but her feet were shaking comfortably, which showed that she was in a good mood now.

She pointed to the river and whispered, "Dad, I see a fish."

Bai Qian, the party leading the way, ordered the food. At this time, she was studying a menu seriously.

Cheng He pinched his daughter's two little hands with both hands, patted them one after another, and said, "What if there are fish? You want Dad to catch them? It's not allowed here."

He was just telling a joke to tease his daughter, telling her to relax as much as possible, not to be so scared, let alone restrained.

Cheng Xinxin shook her head seriously and said, "I didn't ask Dad to catch him, I just said I saw it."

Cheng He nodded and said, "Well, yes, you didn't say it, it was all said by Dad himself."

Then, he put Cheng Xinxin's little hand to his mouth, and let out a "poof".

Cheng Xinxin felt her palms itch, and she wanted to break free with a smile, but her strength was not as strong as her father's, and she couldn't get rid of it even after twisting and turning, so she could only whisper, "Mom, save me... Mom, save me... ..."

Well, even though she was playing around, she still remembered that it is not allowed to make loud noises here, so she even whispered for help.

Cheng He glanced at Bai Qian who was thinking hard about the menu, and asked, "How is it? Is it hard to order?"

Bai Qian raised her head, shook her head and said with a helpless expression on her face, "Honey, I don't understand these menus..."

There seems to be Spanish on the menu!The names of the dishes consisted of some inexplicable words, so she didn't know what each dish was!
As far as she feels, it's probably like when foreigners look at the Chinese menu and see the names of dishes such as "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall", "Couple's Lung Slice", "Ants on the Tree", "Three Non-sticks" and so on?
From the literal point of view, I don't know what kind of dish it is.

She couldn't understand it, and Cheng He couldn't understand it even more.

It's not like "pickled fish", "spicy crayfish" and so on. You can know what it is at a glance, and you can also know the general taste.

So Cheng He said: "Forget it, let the waiter order for us, you just ask him to order a set meal of any grade."

This is also the experience of the predecessors. It is said that some people eat like this and think it is not bad.

After Bai Qian communicated with the waiter, the two chattered a lot, and the waiter took orders to leave.

Cheng He mocked Bai Qian: "Hey, I still expect you to be the leader."

Bai Qian was furious, and protested softly, "I never ordered food myself before."

That's true, when she came out with a group of people in the family, how could she do these trivial things of ordering food and staying in the restaurant by herself?

And the ordering of food really cannot be judged by the level of English, because they may not belong to the English category.

Cheng He said again: "What about tomorrow's exhibition?"

Bai Qian was so bullied by him that she didn't know what to say, she gritted her teeth and said, "Isn't there still you?"

Hmph, laugh at my bad English, you can do it yourself!
If it's not that it's not noisy here, if it's not... Bai Qian secretly "hummed", turned her face away, and went to look at the river on the other side.

Cheng He said with a smile: "Okay, okay, I'm making a little joke with you, so I won't be angry!"

(End of this chapter)