Sesame Green Bean Garlic

Chapter 73 Falling Down the Rabbit Hole

Beijing Summer is finally here.The temperature often soars above 35 degrees, so hot that people feel like an old train, smoking every time they walk.

It was almost dusk, and the power of the sun remained undiminished, making people squint their eyes.Huo Zian unbuttoned his neckline, feeling that he couldn't breathe freely.

"You're really afraid of the heat, let's take a break." Seeing that Huo Zian was uncomfortable, You Liangchen dragged him to the shade of a tree.

Huo Zian wiped the sweat from his forehead, but a wisp of sweat still fell on his eyelashes. After he blinked, his eyes immediately looked watery.You Liangchen felt itchy to watch, and regardless of the pedestrians around, he leaned over and kissed him.Huo Zian's eyelids heated up, and he said with a smile: "You can't control yourself if you are in the public."

That being said, he felt very sweet in his heart, leaned over and hugged You Liangchen's waist, and slid onto his ass along the way.The two eyes met.Huo Zi thought to himself: I am going to have dinner now, and I will have Yu Liangchen after dinner.You Liangchen thought to himself: I gave Huo Zian the few times before, it's time to make a move tonight...

The two had their own ghosts, looked at each other and smiled affectionately, and then continued to walk towards their destination.

Turning a corner, they saw an abandoned railway station.In the evening, most of the tourists on 798 dispersed, and a few people took pictures in front of a train.There is a coffee shop next to the train station. According to the waiter's description, the restaurant they are looking for is behind the coffee shop.

Huo Zian was in a daze for a while at the train.You Liangchen asked, "What's wrong?"

Huo Zian said with emotion: "I think of my father. I came to Beijing to find him, but I didn't expect to open a restaurant, so I was too busy to find out. Do you think he is still in Beijing?"

You Liangchen shook his head, feeling confused.He heard from Huo Zian about his father running away. After 30 years, with the rapid changes in Beijing, even a village could not be kept, let alone a single person?And if his father wanted to be reunited, he would have gone back a long time ago. He hasn't seen him for 30 years, so there must be a reason why he can't see each other.

He put his arm around Huo Zian's shoulder, "Don't think about it, maybe it's a good thing if you don't see it."

"En." Huo Zian looked at You Liangchen's face and smiled helplessly.Don't expect Yu Liangchen to say good things, but what he said is the truth - finding someone who abandons you is like catching a train that didn't buy a ticket, whether you catch it or not, the ending is the same, isn't it?

They are all coming to 798 for the first time.Following the navigation instructions, they walked to the door of a large red brick factory building, got on the elevator, and reached the roof.A waiter in a pink T-shirt stood at the door of the elevator. After checking the reservation information, the waiter led them into a corridor.The corridor was dimly lit, and at the end was a large western-style pocket watch, engraved with Zi Chou Yin Mao and other twelve hours.The hour and minute hands are fast and slow, forward and backward, moving in a mess, with an old Beijing rabbit master drawn in the middle.

Huo Zian said with a smile: "What you are doing is the theme of "Alice in Wonderland", how could there be a rabbit master?"

The waiter said mysteriously: "Because this is a rabbit hole in Beijing." Turning to the left as he spoke, trees, stones, and two... holes appeared in front of him.Huo Zian and You Liangchen looked at each other, but the waiter said in a deep voice of a movie narration: "Please come in."

The two walked to the entrance of the cave as they said, and went down. It was dark, and it was vaguely a slide.So the two sat down, slid their bodies forward, and fell into the hole.

This slide actually had several bends, and it wasn't short. Three seconds later, their eyes lit up, and their buttocks sat on a soft thick carpet.Looking around, they seem to have fallen into another world. The surroundings are dressed up like a fairy tale kingdom, with bright and cute colors, clowns on stilts, rabbits eating vegetables by the tree, and waiters wearing hats like Mr. Mad Hatter. The top hat shuttled back and forth.

The two were a little embarrassed, but both felt fresh.Huo Zian stood up and praised: "The concept is very thorough."

The two attended a "theater-style dinner."The form of the dinner will be designed according to a theme. In addition to the food, it will also be accompanied by the environment, lighting, music, props, etc. to tell the story.This is a pop-up restaurant run by a friend of Huo Zian's, and it's only open for two weeks.

As soon as the waiter brought them to the table, the chef came over to say hello.He is tall and slender, with a triangular face and triangular eyes. He also likes to wear Yohji Yamamoto's black robes. He is a bit gloomy, like a villain in a fairy tale.He hugged Huo Zian, but his smile was very affectionate.Huo Zian introduced You Liangchen to him, and his triangular eyes lingered on You Liangchen.

Huo Zian hurriedly said: "My boyfriend, don't think about him."

The chef gave a "bah" and said, "I've learned a Beijing accent." He was surprised that Huo Zian had a boyfriend, "A Beijinger?"

You Liangchen himself replied: "People from Beijing."

The chef stretched out his hand and shook him, "Please give me your advice."

Huo Zian asked: "This place is not small, so it was empty?"

"It turned out to be a gallery, which was bought by local tyrants and planned to be developed into a high-end apartment. The factory will be demolished in two weeks. I heard that the apartment will be sold to middle-class people, artists, and celebrities. It takes a lot of thought to promote it, so let I'm doing a pop-up here, to put it bluntly, it's just for publicity. Look over there—"

Huo Zian and You Liangchen followed his fingers to look at an art installation in the middle of the restaurant, a city made of chocolate, marshmallows, marshmallows, meringues, cakes, etc. In the middle is a ten-story apartment, suspended in the air , surrounded by trees of different proportions, Mr. Rabbit, Queen of Hearts, Gryphon and more.

Huo Zian was amazed: "In the middle is the building to be built?" It's been a long time since the sand table for selling buildings can be made like this.

The triangular-eyed chef said mockingly: "Why not? Welcome to the rabbit hole in Beijing!"

He patted Zian on the shoulder and went to another table to socialize.

Huo Zian and You Liangchen sat down, and the waiter brought cocktails.The cocktails were made into popsicles, and the waiters cut a hole for them to suck out themselves.Popsicles are actually jelly-like, and they melt into cold wine in the mouth.You Liangchen asked with a smile: "Did you eat this when you were young?"

"Well, I ate it when I was very young. My mother wouldn't let me eat ice cream. My father took me with him when he went to work and secretly bought it for me." Huo Zian's cocktail was plum-flavored, which was also his favorite plum when he was a child The taste of sugar, Yu Liangchen's is orange - two days before dinner, the waiter asked them to fill out a small questionnaire in advance, which was related to childhood food memories.The answers in the questionnaire are directly applied to the food, so everyone's is different.

"What does your father do?" You Liangchen asked.

"Speaking of which, if you get to know him, you might be able to chat with him. He is a tattoo artist. There were not many tattoo artists in Shanghai at that time, and he was quite famous among foreigners. My mother has as many tattoos as you do. .”

You Liangchen felt a novelty, no tattoo artist he knew was over 45 years old, "Then why is he coming to Beijing?"

Huo Zian smiled sourly, "His ambition is to be a painter, and tattooing is just a job for subsistence. My mother told me that he has a lot of guests, but he is not doing well. He especially wants to paint. Painting that Huo Zi Anshun pointed to the sand table in the middle of the restaurant, "How can such a large work be placed in a small house in Shanghai? So he complained all day that Shanghai is just a pigeon cage. At that time, Beijing left the Yuanmingyuan Artist Village , my dad thought that was where he belonged."

The appetizers are here, and the two snacks are homely and nostalgic foods, mixed with elements of Alice in Wonderland: the cereal box printed with the Queen of Hearts contains oatmeal, bacon, and dehydrated vegetables, and the truffle egg mousse is poured into it to mimic Western style The cereal breakfast; the fluffy fried dough sticks, take a bite, and the sweet milk made of green tea and black soybean milk flows out of it, one hot and one cold; the bag imitating "Langweixian" is poured out, and the inside is fish Dried and lobster slices; the bag of "fool melon seeds" is filled with cranberries, pumpkin seeds and seaweed crisps, which are stirred into yam porridge to become a crunchy and sweet condiment.

You Liangchen: "He left you all because of this, and came to Beijing by himself?"

"Well, it's because of this." Huo Zian stirred the porridge, the thicker it became, it became a paste.He sighed: "I used to hate him for being irresponsible, but now... now I am like him, I have come to Beijing, and I am also at this age. So, I can understand him, I can live a good life in Shanghai , but after a long time, you will be nailed to a position and pushed away by the interests and needs of others. What you want, you will gradually become powerless. Moreover, this age is a time point. If you don’t leave, you may be gone again I don't have the courage anymore."

You Liangchen took a sip of the porridge, almost sticking his tongue.He frowned and said, "Will it be different in Beijing?"

Huo Zi'an was silent.The question asked by You Liangchen is also what he has been thinking about.What's different in Beijing?The more he stands firm, the more people's interests and needs get entangled with him, whether it's the people who work for him in the restaurant, or Qiu Xinzhi, Lao Bao, and Aunt Kong.They are helping him, and they are also pulling him with their own will...

But he couldn't show such negative thoughts in front of You Liangchen, so he replied: "Of course it's different. I'm the boss here, and I have the final say!"

You Liangchen looked at Zi'an and smiled, but didn't answer.After a while, he put down the spoon and said, "This thing is really fucking unpalatable."

Huo Zian took a sip and felt the same way.The food concept here is well played, but the cooking technique is rough.

Then something strange was placed on the dining table.The waiter set out a wooden plate, and then brought three bowls of brightly colored balls one after another.This is - checkers?

The waiter said: "After breakfast and snacks, it's time to play. Slow down, both of you!"

Huo Zian looked at "checkers" and said with a smile, "Let's play."

You Liangchen: "It's boring to just play, if you want to play, you have to have rewards and punishments."

Huo Zian looked into his eyes and knew what it meant, "Okay, whoever loses will be obedient."

With the lottery, the two immediately became excited.They put the balls on the plate, the outer layer of the ball is tin foil, and the food is wrapped inside.After walking a few steps, they discovered that the other party turned out to be a master!Sometimes they fight hand to hand, sometimes they go round and round, after more than a dozen rounds, it is Liangchen who is superior, and he enters the hole in one step.

"Admit defeat!" You Liangchen proudly said, "You are still two steps away."

Huo Zian calmly extended his hand to the chessboard, but instead of taking his own chess piece, he picked up the chess piece that was about to be won by You Liangchen, peeled off the paper, and ate it in one bite.

You Liangchen scolded with a smile: "Huo Zian, you are a fucking rascal! Is it delicious?"

Huo Zian smiled and said, "It's delicious, it tastes like beef. Would you like me to try this?"

Yu Liangchen took a bite of the green ball, which looked like a scallop wrapped in longan meat, salty, spicy and sweet.There were all kinds of flavors in his mouth, and thoughts were spinning in his mind: Huo Zian is old and cunning, and he has a good job. He is really difficult to deal with. How can we make him submit?

The author has something to say:

A new chapter begins.As I was writing, I forgot about the stalk of Xiao Zian looking for his father, so this part is where did father go, where did he go, where did he go...

In addition to the line of finding his father, of course there is also the main line of restaurant development. Michelin is approaching. To Huo Zian, whether to get a star is no longer a matter of personal reputation, but the choice and dilemma he faces.Then there's the dog food, and the broth, and stuff like that.

The emotional line is not cruel.I hate abuse the most.Ha ha.

The plot is still scattered, the progress is slow, the nagging is cumbersome, there are many fancy dining scenes, and various Beijing one-day tours

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The Pop-up mentioned in this chapter has been translated as a pop-up restaurant, which is the kind of temporary restaurant that has become quite popular internationally in recent years.In addition to the short time, I will also cooperate with various places, organizations, and enterprises, such as pop-ups in art museums, and cooperation with luxury brands, etc., which is a very interesting form.

The theme of Alice in Wonderland and certain dishes refer to the British restaurant FatDuck, because after my brain damage and tampering to adapt to China's national conditions, I will not point out which ones.This restaurant is said to be very interesting, those who go to the rot country remember to go.