[Modified Version] Lin Wei, who was flipping through the menu, couldn't help but rolled her eyes when she heard this, and then said to the manager while flipping through the menu: "Don't worry about frying the steaks now, just follow the normal order.
A piece of caviar as a starter, then a piece of baked snails, um, a piece of foie gras. "
"As for soup, give me an oxtail consommé. What do you want?"
After hearing Lin Wei's words, Wu Hao looked at the menu with some depression and said, "Just have a piece of borscht."
Lin Wei nodded when she heard this, and then said: "As a side dish, give me a piece of charcoal-grilled cod, how about you."
"Fried salmon," Wu Hao said without waiting for Lin Wei to ask.
"For the main course, give me an Australian beef eye, medium rare."
"Another salad, and for dessert, panna cotta, fruit, and coffee, with less sugar."
"Okay." After hearing Lin Wei's words, the manager made a few neat strokes on his notebook, then nodded and said, "As for drinks, what would you two like to drink? We have people from various wineries here. Red wine, white wine, ice wine, champagne, etc.”
“Just have a bottle of Margaux. It doesn’t need to be too old, just five years.”
"Okay, please wait. Thank you for coming to our restaurant. I wish you a pleasant meal." The manager led the staff out, leaving only Wu Hao and Lin Wei in the entire private room.
At this moment, it was getting dark, and the landscape outside was all lit up. Several landmark buildings in the distance came into view, and Lin Wei was unconsciously fascinated by them. Compared to boys, girls are more likely to be immersed in beautiful things.
As for Wu Hao, of course he felt a little emotional when faced with such a scene. However, he was relatively rational and did not immerse himself in it. Instead, he immediately took out his transparent folding device, unfolded it, took photos, and sent them to the family group.
Unexpectedly, there was movement in the group shortly after I posted it.
The first was his sister Wu Tong. She sent a few expressions first, and then started to complain: "Smelly Wu Hao, you won't take me with you even if you go to Shanghai. Sister-in-law @林伟, cry!"
When Lin Wei saw this, she immediately took a selfie with her back to Wu Hao and posted it to the group, which instantly aroused the girl's dissatisfaction.
"You two are bullying me, huh!"
Zhang Xiaoman: "It looks good. This is that restaurant. Come when we return to China."
Wu Jianhua: "Is there anything going on in Shanghai?"
Compared to his stepmother, his father Wu Jianhua was much more practical. The first thing that came to his mind was that they came to Shanghai at the same time, so something must have happened.
Before Wu Hao could speak, Lin Wei explained in the group.
After waiting for a while, the waiter started to serve the food.
Seeing this, Lin Wei picked up her transparent folding device to take photos and tasted it. This made Wu Hao very helpless. Why do girls have this habit of taking pictures before eating?
Seeing this, Wu Hao said helplessly: "Are you here to eat or to take pictures?"
Hearing Wu Hao express his dissatisfaction, Lin Wei smiled and said: "Eat, eat, I am sharing with my sisters."
With that said, Lin Wei raised her wine glass and said, "Here, take one!"
Wu Hao picked up the wine glass, clinked it, and then tasted it slowly. This wine is indeed pretty good. He has also drank a lot of red wine in the past few years because of Lin Wei, so he can still taste the quality of this red wine.
This red wine is really good, the vintage is just right, so it has a mellow, smooth and rich taste.
We all have a misunderstanding about red wine. We think that the older the wine, the better. In fact, this is not the case. Red wine has a shelf life. Beyond this shelf life, the quality of the wine will be greatly reduced.
In fact, it’s not just red wine, but also the white wine we drink.
Why do you say this? Because the main component of wine, besides water, is alcohol, and alcohol is easy to evaporate. Therefore, if these wines are stored for too long, the phenomenon of "wine running" will occur. The so-called alcohol leakage actually means that the alcohol in the wine has evaporated, so the alcohol content and taste quality will decrease.
Furthermore, those of us who study chemistry know that ethanol is also an organic solvent. These wines stored in various containers will corrode and decompose the components in the containers due to the ethanol in the wine.
This is also the reason why oak barrels are used to store red wine. In this way, oak substances are integrated into the wine, thereby adding different flavors.
However, bottled wine like the ones we buy will corrode the corks and even glass wine bottles due to being stored for too long.
So over time, these wines will have certain problems.
Therefore, most red wines taste best within 3-5 years. Red wines that are older than 5 years will gradually lose flavor and taste worse. Red wine will continue to grow in the bottle. Generally, it is the best drinking period within 5 years. Then it will enter the decline period and the flavor will deteriorate. Only a small number of high-quality red wines have the potential to be stored for more than 10 years.
Therefore, the five-year-old bottle of wine that Lin Wei ordered was considered to be the one with the longest period of optimal taste.
Foie gras is good, you really don’t want to try it? Lin Wei took a spoonful of foie gras and put it into her mouth, then showed an expression of enjoyment and said happily to Wu Hao.
Wu Hao shook his head when he heard this: "Forget it, this baked snail is pretty good."
Wu Hao has no interest in this kind of French foie gras, and even rejects the plan. This is mainly because he understands the breeding methods of these French foie gras. In order to ensure the dense and tender taste of this French-style foie gras, these foie gras are very plump, which is commonly known as fatty liver.
To ensure that these foie gras are huge and plump. Therefore, farmers will force-feed these geese, restrict their movement, and use some drugs to guide the geese's livers to rapidly expand and become fatty livers.
However, severe fatty liver will have an impact on the health of the goose, so farmers must closely observe the condition of the goose and control the entire breeding cycle to select the best window for slaughtering and harvesting livers.
This breeding method is very cruel, but it is regarded as a delicacy in the West. This goes against the animal protection and animal rights that the West boasts about. Could it be that this group has not seen this industry? Obviously not.
To put it bluntly, everything is business, so this group of people chose to ignore it.
Therefore, never believe these people. They talk about benevolence, justice and morality, and dress themselves up as the saviors of the world. But in the world, the blood of robbers and gangsters is soaked in their bones. He does one thing openly and another behind his back, he is also a hypocrite!
In comparison, this baked snail is quite good. The Maoguo snails used in the baked snails currently sold in restaurants and the white jade snails commonly used in China are all artificially raised and cultivated edible snails, so there are no problems.
In comparison, at least it is much better than that foie gras. (End of chapter)
