Chapter 23: Mandarin Duck Hot Pot

　　 In the morning of the next day, Claire came to visit again, and Anne and Thomas were also coming. Zhen Fan let them in and made a cup of tea alone.
"Chinese tea? It tastes good!" Thomas praised, "Do you know that we have a new neighbor? Yesterday I found out. After the poor hostess on your left was killed, it has been commissioned by a real estate company. I sold it. Raymond Turner's family and two daughters were bought."
　　 "Can that house be sold too?" Zhen Fan asked in surprise, and then he was relieved. Whether it is a Chinese or American real estate agency, the house will be sold out of the blue.
　　 "If you buy it, it must be refurbished. To be honest, it takes courage to live in such a room!" Thomas shrugged his shoulders.
　　 "Would you like to remind them?" Annie said kindly.
　　 "Don't be silly, you are making trouble for yourself, don't say anything! Listen to me!" Thomas gave Annie a dissatisfied look and expressed his opposition.
　　 Zhen Fan didn't say anything. It's really hard to tell. If you say it, others might not believe it. Now nodded in agreement with Thomas. Seeing that the two men said so, Annie couldn't say anything. Then she moved the topic to cooking. In this regard, Annie could have a common topic with Zhen Fan.
　　 In order to express his enthusiasm and gratitude to the Anne family, Zhen Fan decided to stay with the Thomas family for lunch. Anyway, the ingredients are readily available, and Zhen Fan bought a lot during the last Da Cai. But this time Zhen Fan decided to make a mandarin duck hot pot, which has more Chinese characteristics.
Thomas was watching TV with Claire on the sofa. Annie went to the kitchen to help Zhen Fan. At the same time, she wanted to learn Zhen Fan's cooking of Chinese food. This is a craft that can be used in housewives’ gatherings and will make herself Stealing the limelight.
The vegetables were cleaned, and then she watched Zhen Fan prepare lamb rolls, beef thin slices, mackerel fillets, oysters, squid fillets, fish balls, fresh shrimps, and some small crabs. There are thousands of vegetarian dishes, potato vermicelli, spinach, cabbage, Vegetables, kelp, mushrooms, etc.
　　 Zhenfan is a mandarin duck hot pot soup base made of fresh chicken, and the spicy one uses the spicy seasoning prepared by himself. When the pot was just boiling, the aroma came out, making Annie couldn't help sniffing her nose all the time.
During the whole process, Annie was left with only the handing over of tools, and she couldn't get into the specific production at all. Zhen Fan's skill in the knife and craftsmanship made her work so beautiful and pleasing to the eye, which made Annie feel happy. If you are jealous, a woman is naturally envious of others' good cooking skills.
　　 "Okay, our lunch is ready!" Zhen Fan called out from the restaurant. In fact, Thomas and Claire were attracted by the fragrance without calling. The red oily soup and the white and tender soup were one side by side, and the aroma that came out made people salivate, and Claire couldn't wait to climb onto the chair.
　　 Zhen Fan took another dozen of frozen beer from the refrigerator, and a few bottles of drinks. These were for Claire. If you don’t have these in the hot pot, it will not hurt and be happy.
"If you eat Chinese food instead of mandarin duck hot pot, then you don’t really understand Chinese food." Zhen Fan asked Anne and Thomas to sit down, sat down, opened three cans of beer, and handed them to Anne and Thomas. Also took a can.
　　 "Do you want to use chopsticks?"
　　 Claire was a little uncomfortable, but she still held it in her hand, learning from Zhen Fan's appearance. Annie and Thomas have eaten Chinese food several times, and it’s okay to have chopsticks, not so strange.
　　 "Yes, we use chopsticks this time!"
Zhen Fan talked about the way of eating hot pot with three people. First, he sandwiched a piece of beef and rinsed it a few times on the spicy side. Then, he picked it out. The beef was already cooked, with the hot red oil. Fan fell into his mouth with one bite.
"what--"
　　 Zhen Fan made a sound of admiration, and then took a sip of beer.
　　 "It's great, I haven't tasted this in a long time!"
Thomas was eager to try. Annie had already followed Zhen Fan's appearance. She sandwiched a piece of mutton roll, rinsed it, and put it in her mouth. The pungent taste immediately filled the taste buds on her tongue, and her tongue seemed to be on fire. People's nerves suddenly tightened, as the fresh and tender mutton rolled around in the mouth, the spicyness suddenly transformed into a tender and mellow taste, and the spicyness was pressed down.
"beer!"
　　 Zhen Fan called out from the side.
Annie immediately picked up the beer and took a sip. A cold liquid immediately pressed down the acridity and made her tongue refreshed. The refreshing after the fierce spicyness gave people a refreshing feeling, but after the cold, the spicy The taste slowly returned to the tongue again, and then gradually disappeared.
　　 "Great! This feels really..."
　　 Annie exclaimed excitedly. Americans eat spicy food and like to make chili sauce, but how can the taste be comparable to that of hot pot? What's more, there is still cold beer.
"Wow--"
　　 It was Thomas who yelled out. It turned out that when Annie was cooking the lamb slices, he couldn't wait to also pick up a slice of fish, and then just after Annie, he made a shocking applause.
"Wow--"
　　 Then I heard a loud cry. It turned out that Claire learned to shave a slice of lamb, and when he ate it in his mouth, he couldn't stand the spicy taste, and suddenly tears and nose came out, but he forgot to drink a cold drink to suppress it.
　　'S face flushed, and he sucked his nose again and again, and there were tears on his face.
"Hurry up and take a sip!" Zhen Fan put the drink on Claire's mouth, and Claire took a sip without waiting, and then a icy cold suppressed the restless pungency, and stopped crying, although Still inhaling, but feeling better.
　　 "Baby, it seems you really have no good fortune!" Annie couldn't laugh or cry. She wiped Claire's face clean with her handkerchief, put a piece of cabbage in the white soup, and put it on Claire's plate.
　　 This tastes good too, Claire can bear it.
　　 This hot pot meal made Thomas and Annie sweat profusely. Although the restaurant has air conditioning and iced beer in their mouths from time to time, they were still sweaty and wiped their faces with a napkin. Even at the back, Claire couldn't help holding a slice of hotpot shabu from time to time. Although the spicy hot pot was still inhaling, she was not as embarrassed at the beginning with the pressure of the iced drink.
　　 "It was so refreshing today!"
　　 Thomas hurriedly put down his chopsticks, touched his stomach, shook his head and sighed again.
　　 "I have eaten Chinese food before, but I have never encountered such a way of eating and such a delicious food. It seems that we have missed a lot of good things before."
　　 "I have to learn more from you, you can't help me!" Annie said with a smile.
　　 "In this case, I have the benefit!" Thomas laughed, looking very proud.
　　 "And me!" Claire interjected in time, as if to warn the adults not to forget her. The little girl was brushing up on her sense of existence, "I want to learn too!"
　　 "Do you want to learn to cook Chinese food? You are too young!" Annie couldn't help but touched Claire's head and laughed.
　　 Claire raised her face with a serious face, looked at Annie with disdain, and looked at Zhen Fan with expectation: "I am a girl and I will be a mother in the future. Why can't I learn to cook Chinese food?"
　　 "Punch!" Zhen Fan couldn't hold back, this little girl is so cute!
　　 "Of course it can, but learning to cook Chinese food requires strength. Claire's strength is still small now. When Claire grows up, shall I teach you how to do it again?" Zhen Fan squeezed her face.
　　 "Okay!" Maybe Claire also felt that he was not high enough and not strong enough, so he temporarily gave up this idea. After Zhen Fan cleaned up, the four people sat on the sofa again.
　　 Thomas was holding his belly, and when he sat down, he had to loosen his belt.
"Claire’s cousin will be here tomorrow. Her name is Lottie. Havenell, a very beautiful girl, but she said that she might bring a classmate of hers who is also her good friend. I want to have one more People are not bad, I believe this journey will be very interesting."
　　 Annie and Zhen Fan talked about the upcoming camping barbecue.
　　 "A lot of people is of course good. My time in the United States is also short. It is best for me to know more friends."
　　 Zhen Fan expressed no opinion, and told Annie some of the things she had prepared. Annie nodded, very happy: "It's great for you to think so well. If it's camping, is your tent ready?"
　　 Zhen Fan was taken aback, and then laughed. He just prepared to eat, but forgot about the big event. The tent was not prepared, so he smiled and said: "This...I will prepare tomorrow, but I forgot! Thank you for reminding me, thank you!"
Having said this, what does Thomas have when Zhen Fan talks about fishing? Zhen Fan is also more interested in this topic, but Zhen Fan did not prepare a fishing rod. Instead, Thomas made a ticket and said that he had extra fishing rods that he could lend. Zhen Fan use it!
　　 Several people chatted for a while, Thomas drank two more cups of Zhen Fan's tea, feeling that the food in his stomach was digested a lot, and it was not so full, so he hugged Claire and went back with Annie.
　　 "Goodbye, Uncle Zhen!" Claire jumped out of Thomas' arms, ran over to kiss Zhen Fan, and then satisfactorily held Annie's hand.
　　 "Goodbye Claire, goodbye!" Zhen Fan waved to Thomas and Annie again. Seeing their family go back, Zhen Fan only then entered the house, watched TV for a while, had nothing to do, and went to the study to surf the Internet. I waited for my penguin number and saw a flashing portrait. It is the brother Li Xingguo who has played with him before, one is sister An, and the head of a stranger.
Zhen Fan has been abroad for almost a month, and basically has no contact with China. This is the first time he has waited for his number and clicked on Li Xingguo's news to read. They are all greetings and asking when he will return to China. ~EbookFREE.me~ I want to drink with myself or something.
　　 clicked Kai An's again, and there were two comments on it.
　　 The first message: Fanfan, I have gone abroad, please adapt, don’t forget my sister!
　　 The second message: Fanfan, no one massages my head anymore. I am really uncomfortable. It is all because of you. However, I recently got a promotion recently. After being promoted, I may be sent to the head office in the United States for training. I know that you are in Los Angeles. I will contact you when I get there. By the way, send me your mobile phone number. That number in the United States saves me from contacting you! Don't try to forget your sister, or you will settle the account!
　　 This is a bit ambiguous. Zhen Fan couldn't help but smile when thinking of Sister An, always so warm. Just like my family!
　　 But is sister An really coming to America? Zhen Fan still has some expectations.
　　 Zhen Fan also clicked on the stranger's message. After opening it, the man claimed to be Wei Chao, played basketball with Zhen Fan, and was recently selected for the Liaoning team of the CBA, and hopes to compete with Zhen Fan again!
　　 It seems that this guy has been unconvinced, Zhen Fan just smiled, ignoring the provocation. However, he knows his number. It is estimated that it may have been leaked to him by the buddies who played with him, but this is nothing. Everyone is just for fun.
　　 The heads of several people are all gray. Zhen Fan wants to return a few, but he doesn't know what to say, so he hesitates and gives up.
　　 Anyway, when I go back, I will get together with these buddies. Turn off the Penguin, look up outside the window, it is already night, the lights are flashing in the night...