2192 Food Culture Clash
"Crab-making orange? What the hell is this? How can crabs be put together with oranges? You still need to make wine! Do you make wine? Remove crab-making wine!
A good menu of half of the dishes were belittled by the Duke of Newcastle, and Liu Dadao finally couldn't help it. The part-time Man Qing Dynasty work completely broke out.
What exactly is Liu Dadao's job? He himself can't explain it clearly. He should say that his job is a slave to Cixi from the Qing Dynasty, but it doesn't look like it. After all, this guy has an external identity as an imperial chef, and he has been a chef for decades.
He really likes cooking and really treats cooking as a pleasure. It is this extremely dedicated spirit that deceived the CIA. In addition, the Qing Dynasty sacrificed several secret lines to protect his identity, which made him successfully break through the CIA's review.
So, Liu Dadao's job is to be a chef, and the profession of spy has become a part-time job.
In order to maintain his reputation as an imperial chef and to avoid being humiliated by his craft, Liu Dadao broke out completely. He snatched the menu from the duke's hand and shouted, "Change! This dish cannot be made. Are you an imperial chef or I an imperial chef? You don't know anything and you are talking nonsense?"
"Will you eat it? Do you have any taste!"
The Duke of Newcastle was stunned at that time. He really didn't expect a chef to yell at him. When he listened to the translation, the Duke was also angry.
"What? Do you dare to say that I can't eat it? Do you dare to laugh at our British aristocrats for not having taste? Every high-ranking nobleman in the empire is a top foodie!"
"We may not cook, but if you want to talk about food, you are definitely not a match! Because we have the entire earth's food supply chain."
The Duke of Newcastle roared angrily, saying that he wanted to teach this unsavvy Chinese chef a lesson. Dare to say that my British Empire’s nobles have no taste? Dare to say that we can’t eat it?
The colonies of the Empire of the Sun never set across the entire earth. Three years ago, the British Empire's colonies had reached 33 million square kilometers of land.
Such a vast colony naturally provides London's big names with a rich source of food, the top wheat in North America and Odessa, the top dates and palm oil in Arabia, and beef and mutton produced in New Zealand and Australia.
The top cod in the deep sea of the North Atlantic and even the rare specialty dodo in the Indian Ocean are all common things on the dining tables of British aristocrats.
Not to mention the variety of wild game produced in the vast Africa, the top coffee produced in Kenya alone consumes more than half of the production in the UK in a year.
The best cashews in the world are produced in Mozambique, the top abalones are produced in South Africa, and the Duke has even tasted the lion and zebra meat with very rough meat.
Have you ever eaten these things in Chinese? How dare you say that I, British, do not have the ability to appreciate food?
The prosperity of the Empire of the Sun never sets is something you backward nations unimaginable. Now even the whole of Europe is providing us with delicious food.
The best beer comes from Prussia, the best ham comes from Spain, the best wine comes from France, as well as the Russian-made caviar and the unique Nordic pickled herring, these best ingredients are served to restaurants in London as soon as possible.
How dare you say that the London nobles don’t know how to eat it? Is it really intolerable!
Liu Dadao didn't know what the Duke was saying, but the Duke's translation obviously couldn't adapt to such a fast speech speed, and many sentences were translated intermittently.
This is simply a conversation between chickens and ducks, but the Chinese present can still know the general meaning of the Duke through intermittent words. To put it bluntly, it is to boast that the British are all gourmets and they have the best ingredients in the world.
"Enough! Is there any end?" Liu Dadao shouted, "You have the best ingredients, and we in China still have the cooking experience accumulated over thousands of years! Without good skills, what's the use of having good things?"
"I haven't even eaten crab-stewed oranges, and I'm saying you're a gourmet? I'm also making wine, but I'm not afraid of people laughing at crab-stewed oranges. I'm taking off the crab paste, yellow and meat and then putting it in. The process is complicated and extremely challenging, which tests the chef's skills."
"Tell you the truth, these raw crabs are specially fished out from Yangcheng Lake in Jiangnan, China. They are kept on a sea boat and finally arrived in Europe for several months! I really don't know the goods."
The duke was stunned when he heard this, "Jiangnan? Amber? God, do you want to give us freshwater crabs? Can you eat that kind of small and ugly thing?"
Of course, there are freshwater crabs in Europe, but the number is too rare and the variety is not as good as that of Chinese river crabs. In addition, Europeans do not know how to cook this delicious food, so this crab appears completely from the perspective of Europeans as pests.
Today, when the Duke broke down when he heard that Chinese chefs were going to cook with such ugly little things.
"God! I really can't stand it anymore. I must see the Head of State. Please let me see the Head of State immediately. This banquet is about to be destroyed by you!"
"I ruined?" Liu Dadao jumped up in anger. "I am the imperial chef! I am the imperial chef in the Forbidden City! I ruined it and I don't believe it today. I don't change a dish on this menu, so I don't believe it."
Liu Dadao's anger aroused the common hatred of all the Oriental chefs present. Although they did not dare to argue directly with the Duke, they all stood behind the chef, stared at the British with anger, and supported and cheered the chef with practical actions.
"Crazy, you Chinese are crazy! I can't tell you clearly, I'll go find your head of state."
But when the Duke turned his head and wanted to leave, the few soldiers on duty stopped him. Wang Chen, who was on the lead, said with a smirk, "I'm sorry, the head of state is resting, I can't see you, you'd better go to the study to rest for a while and have a tea!"
"Why do I notify Director Wang and they will accompany you?"
"No, I want to see the head of state, I want to see the person in charge! I want to find someone who can give orders"
"I'm sorry, I just said that the head of state is resting. No one can disturb you without orders. I can't let you go."
"You dare to stop me? You are so presumptuous. This is the land of Britain. Do you dare to stop me?" The duke's spit was flying around, and his forehead was so angry that his veins jumped straight.
Wang Chen was not afraid at all and raised his head and sneered, "It's true that this is British territory, but the head of the Chinese people live at this moment. So before we leave, this place is a diplomatic occasion."
"Don't you Europe have such rules? Embassies and consulates belong to the territory of other countries, so I can also think that this is the Eastern Palace. When he exercises the effectiveness of embassy and consulates, it is the territory of our Chinese people!"
"On our own territory, of course we have the final say!"
Chapter completed!