Great Single Player of the Heavens

May 2013.

London, England.

Chinatown.

As night fell, it was dinner time, and people came and went on the street.

Whether it is a London resident who loves Chinese food or a yellow-skinned Chinese, they are all looking around, trying to find a moment of comfort for their hungry stomach.

And a Chinese restaurant named "Hua Ji Chinese Cuisine" was already buzzing with people, and there were no empty seats.

"Half a roast duck, mapo tofu, fried noodles, fried mixed vegetables... Is that all? OK, I'll place an order for you right away."

The waitress who just placed an order for a table of guests heard the call from another table not far away before handing the order to the kitchen:

"Waiter, order!"

"Okay, come right away."

Replying in this way, the waitress wearing a cheongsam did not go over immediately, but walked quickly to the kitchen outlet, and handed the order to a middle-aged man in a white chef uniform.

After taking the list, the man quickly glanced at it, pressed the list with a heavy object, turned around, and shouted loudly in Chinese to the equally lively kitchen:

"Table No. 5, one serving of mapo tofu, fried noodles, and dried vegetables. Hurry up!"

After finishing speaking, he took a roast duck brought over by another waitress, went to a chopping board in the kitchen, and began to process it.

The kitchen is not too big, but well organized.

Six kitchen staff are working in an orderly manner to complete Chinese dishes that are delicious in color, flavor and taste.

And the middle-aged man who is handling the roast duck is the owner and chef of this "Hua Ji Chinese Restaurant".

He is the second generation of immigrants in the 1980s. In order to inherit his father's restaurant, he gave up the financial industry and turned to learn cooking.

Since taking over in the late 1990s, it has been in operation until now and has become a well-received Chinese restaurant in Chinatown...

Put the half-cut roast duck on the plate, and put two green broccoli as decoration. After finishing, the boss immediately looked up at an Asian young man in a white T-shirt standing by the sink,

commanded:

"Aqi, chop some more cabbage and onions!"

"receive!"

As soon as the words were finished, the young Asian picked up a slender kitchen knife, took out a cabbage from the basket, and put it on the cutting board in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by a quick knocking sound of "De De De", the kitchen knife quickly contacted and separated from the cutting board, and the cabbage was also quickly turned into a cabbage of the same thickness under the neat knife skills of the young man. Silk!

But the young man didn't stop, but flew his fingers, turned the kitchen knife in his hand, and took out an onion from the basket again.

In just a few minutes, he cut seven cabbages and six onions in the basket into desired shapes...

And this vegetable chopping madman is exactly Lu Qi.

A month ago, he woke up on the cold floor of an apartment in Chinatown.

This time, the [System] was very generous and directly arranged his identity and residence.

However, before he started collecting information and confirming which game the current world is, the landlord came to his door and urged him to pay the rent.

In desperation, Lu Qi could only allow the landlord a few days' grace to get through the first wave of survival crisis.

To make money to pay the rent, he left the apartment and wanted to find a job.

When I first came downstairs, I happened to see a notice on the entrance of "Huaji Chinese Restaurant" opposite to the door, posting a notice to help the chef.

So, he came for an interview.

The restaurant owner liked this polite and handsome compatriot guy very much, so he decided to hire him without saying a word.

That's why, he will chop vegetables here...

After cutting the vegetables in the basket, Lu Qi flicked the vegetable knife in his hand, and inserted it into the cutting board with an "orbital" sound.

"Aqi, wash the dishes!"

"receive!"

As a kitchen assistant, his job is not only to help the chef chop and serve dishes, but also to clean the chopping board and countertops and wash the dishes. He is basically the panacea in the kitchen and has to do everything.

It wasn't until after the busy dinner time that the kitchen suddenly became idle.

At this time, the kitchen staff, who had been busy for about three hours, had time to enjoy their own dinner...

Just as Lu Qi was holding a plate of chicken rice with shiitake mushrooms and eating deliciously, the kitchen door was pushed open, and the waitress in a cheongsam raised an eyebrow at him, jokingly said:

"Aqi, your little girlfriend is looking for you again..."

Hearing this, Lu Qi was taken aback for a moment, then he came to his senses and replied angrily:

"I've said it several times, she's not my girlfriend..."

Putting the last bite of rice into his mouth and wiping his mouth with a tissue, he stood up and walked out of the kitchen under the ambiguous eyes of everyone.

As soon as he walked out of the kitchen, he heard a familiar voice in his ear:

"Hey! Alex!"

Following the prestige, Lu Qi saw a young girl with short black hair in a graffiti T-shirt, sitting at a dining table, waving happily to him.

Smiling back, Lu Qi quickly came to the dining table, opened the chair and sat down, and asked:

"Hey Samantha, why are you here?"

Hearing Lu Qi's words, the short-haired girl blinked and smiled sweetly, "I'm here to find you! Come and try my favorite mapo tofu."

The short-haired girl in front of her is a Portuguese-Japanese hybrid named Samantha Nishimura.

She just graduated from University College London and is now a trainee documentary filmmaker.

She is the first friend Lu Qi met in this world.

About half a month ago, when Lu Qi was shopping in Chinatown, Lu Qi happened to meet Samantha who forgot to bring her wallet.

Lu Qi kindly offered to help, and paid off the purchase price for the other party.

Samantha was grateful to him and wanted to repay him, so she asked him for his phone number.

The second time they met, Samantha offered to invite him to dinner. As a reward, Lu Qi took her to the "Huaji"

Unexpectedly, Samantha, who had eaten Mapo Tofu, immediately fell in love with this famous Sichuan dish.

In the next few weeks, she would come over to eat almost every few days.

After going back and forth, the two people of the same age soon became friends...

"Are you free tonight? My classmate is going to have a party at home, do you want to go together?"

"Sorry, I may not be free tonight, I have to go out for a while."

"It's okay, I don't really want to go alone anyway..."

After chatting with Samantha for a while, the waitress took a plate of hot mapo tofu and put it on the table.

After seeing the delicious food, Samantha's eyes lit up, and then she clasped her palms together and said in Japanese:

"I'm going to start!"

After finishing speaking, she immediately picked up the spoon and began to feast on it.

Seeing this mixed-race cherry blossom girl eating so unrestrainedly, Lu Qi twitched his mouth and couldn't help persuading:

"Eat slowly, no one will grab yours..."

"This is the way to eat mapo tofu, it's enjoyable enough!"

While putting the hot tofu into her mouth, Samantha did not forget to say:

"I really want Laura to try this dish, I think she will like it too..."