Eating in "India" Walk along Jianshe Road to Shulin Street. From Shulin Street to Wenhua Lane, there are rows of snack bars and clothing stores. During lunch time, the reporter walked into a restaurant called "Indian Cuisine". The decoration style of the restaurant has an Indian atmosphere. Even the waiters are dressed in golden Indian clothes and pink veils. Order the chargrilled chicken, spicy beef curry, butter naan and homemade yogurt based on the waiter's recommended specials. It is said that the charcoal-grilled chicken is baked in a special oven brought from India, and it tastes good. Curry beef tastes spicy, and it tastes particularly good when you dip it in some curry sauce when eating the cake. The homemade Indian yogurt is very sticky and feels like ice cream. The waiter told the reporter that the yogurt was developed by the boss Khanduri, and it is sprinkled with cashews and raisins. After eating the spicy beef curry, I had a yogurt and felt the Indian flavor. Customs, fun and harmonious. After filling our stomachs with shopping in the afternoon, we started shopping for treasures in Wenhua Alley. In front of the "Indian Cuisine" there is a handicraft workshop called Lanmufang. Although the shop is small, it is full of vitality. There are a large number of novel and unique handicrafts here, most of which are made by the shop owner. If you like ladylike style, a bracelet made of small light pink pearls and silver buckles will make you unable to put it down; If you like to be alternative and unique, hanging wind chimes composed of dead rattan, hemp rope, copper bells and colored wooden beads in front of the window will make the doors and windows brighter; if you like simple and natural, there are necklaces and earrings made of colored fish scales. , there are ordinary denim paired with traditional ethnic embroidery turned into personalized bracelets. Walking back from Lanmufang, there is a very unique clothing store on the left. There are many CDs hanging at the entrance of the store. The owner is a cute girl who loves electronic music. The clothes sold in the store have a strong Japanese and Korean style. T-shirts are printed with the most popular cartoon characters, and Japanese patchwork floral skirts with full personality will definitely make you a highlight on the street. Xiao Chen, a student who often comes here to buy clothes, told reporters that here you can not only get the latest electronic music information, but also experience the most avant-garde fashion. It is not just a clothing store, but also a gathering place for electronic music lovers. Playing at the "Lanbaihong" bar at the intersection of Wenhua Lane and Wenlin Street, there is a bar decorated with an all-wood structure. The pillar in front of the store is an "advertising wall", which is full of posts about looking for a house, looking for a roommate, looking for a teacher, etc. English information. When you walk into the bar, there are small round wooden tables that can be illuminated by lights, as well as a slightly darker but warm little corner. The first floor is paved with large blue slates. Round table, big window, reading lamp. The second floor has warm-colored carpets and small grid spaces, which make people feel safe and independent. There is a small hole in the wall in front of each table, where a different small lamp is placed. The small red cushions are piled together, and they will sink if you lean on them lightly. The waiter in the store said that the boss here is French and stayed because he liked Kunming. Integrating the romance of Yunnan into the tenderness of France, “We operate a southern French style, and we also serve French home-cooked dishes, as well as French cakes, coffee, French dry red, beer, etc. It is not only a bar, but also a restaurant. . Most of the guests here are foreign students, and many locals like to come here to practice speaking foreign languages. □We ordinary people chatted with the proprietress of Hemin Japanese Restaurant. When we met Yang Wenmin, it was in the new store of Hemin Japanese Restaurant in the evening. She was the proprietress of Hemin Japanese Restaurant. The new store is in the middle of Cultural Alley, about 50 meters away from the old store. Yang Wenmin is a native of Kunming. Although she has lived in Japan for 15 years, she still speaks fluent Kunming dialect. Yang Wenmin told reporters that 20 years ago, by chance, she met her current husband through a friend’s introduction. After getting married, she followed her husband to Japan, where she studied abroad, gave birth to children, and then worked as a housewife with all her heart and soul like all Japanese women. She stayed there for 15 years. "The biggest reason for returning to Kunming is that I want my children to learn Chinese and understand China's history and national conditions. There is no language environment in Japan. Even though I sent them to Chinese training classes and taught them Chinese at home, they still couldn't learn it." Yang Wen Min said.
But when I pay the bill, I no longer feel at home because the price is many times higher than in China. French friends told us that as long as the restaurant in Chinatown has a stingy appearance and low-end decoration, the owner must be from Vietnam or Cambodia. On the contrary, as long as the facade is grand, the Chinese culture is strong, and the red lanterns are hanging high, then it must be an authentic Chinese restaurant. Later, I found that this is not only true for restaurants, but also for shops and supermarkets. . These discoveries gave some blind satisfaction to the national vanity: Look, we Chinese are just different. Venice is an ancient city in Italy, located on the Adriatic coast of Europe. It is surrounded by the ocean and consists of 118 islands. Only a causeway in the northwest corner is connected to the mainland. It is known as the "Water City" and "Hundred Island City". There are 117 large and small rivers crisscrossing the city, connected by more than 400 bridges. Venice was founded in 451 AD and has a history of more than 1,500 years. Venice has beautiful scenery and many historic sites, including 120 Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque cathedrals, 120 bell towers, 64 monasteries and 40 palaces. It is a world-famous tourist attraction. More than 5 million tourists visit every year, and tourism has made this medium-sized city with a population of only 360,000 very wealthy. The city of Venice is very lively, but there are no cars or bicycles in the city, and there are no traffic lights. The boats are just "buses and cars". Venice's dinghies are also world-famous. Venice is the hometown of Marco Polo, the ambassador of friendship between the Chinese and Italian peoples. In order to perpetuate the long-standing friendship between the Chinese and Italian peoples, Venice and Suzhou in my country became sister cities in March 1980. 1. Food and entertainment on South African Airways
The flight from Hong Kong to Sao Paulo, with a stopover in Johannesburg, takes 23 hours.
My first impression is that South African Airways does not have stewardesses, only stewardesses. They are all stewardesses with skin as dark as midnight and bulging figures, as well as plump stewardesses, who all smile very much. Sweet and very white teeth.
The drinks include original juice and apple juice. I like the sour orange juice, which seems to be squeezed from wild oranges.
Compared with those on domestic airlines, the dinner meals are equally unpalatable, but the feeling of unpalatableness is different. South African Airways cooked courgettes in butter. I took a bite and immediately closed the box while trembling. .
The pasta is just a lump of batter, and the chicken doesn’t taste like chicken.
The highlight is the dessert, strawberry pudding, which is delicious. Those who spend a lot of time abroad say that desserts are foreigners’ strong point and they will never taste bad no matter how they make them. It seems that this statement is true.
I ordered a bottle of white wine, which tasted very bad and did not taste good.
You can watch movies on the way, all in English, without subtitles. You can play games, all of which are old and shabby games. When you see the interface, you will think that you have accidentally traveled back more than ten years ago.
The only thing that surprised me was the breakfast served two hours before arriving in Johannes. It included omelettes, sausages, fruits, desserts, yogurt, and juice. The cheese that went with the bread was divided into fruits and There are two kinds of original flavor, they are very delicious, I ate them all. The physiques of yellow people, white people, and black people are different after all. Drinking frozen juice early in the morning soon made my stomach uncomfortable. But others happily drank the frozen juice and asked the flight attendants for another cup.
As for the entertainment on the plane, you can watch old programs and watch movies, but only English movies without Chinese subtitles. You can play games, but they are all crappy old games, such as Tetris and Lianliankan. Something like that. When you see the interface, you might think you have traveled back to the 1980s.
One of my favorite entertainments is the wine provided on the plane, including dry white and dry red, as well as Amarula liqueur produced in South Africa.
I ordered one bottle each of dry white and dry red, and the taste was average.
Amarula is also called elephant wine, with an elephant written on the logo. Its color and taste are almost the same as Bailey's. In addition to the fragrant milk flavor, you can taste a faint taste when passing through the tip of the tongue. fruity aroma. I like it, so in these twenty-three hours, I drank four or five bottles. (Of course it’s a small bottle, the very small promotional bottle.)
Insert an introduction to Elephant Wine here.
"There is a tree called Marula in Africa. It only grows on the subtropical grasslands of Africa and can only grow naturally in the wilderness. The local indigenous people like it very much and call it the "marriage tree." , and often hold weddings under the tree, because they believe that its fruits can make people fall in love, and the wild fruits produced on this tree often receive special care from the elephants because of their high sugar content. They eat until they are satisfied and then leave excitedly singing. Therefore, the marriage tree is also called the "elephant tree".
In the ripe season, the fruits eaten by the elephants in large quantities become fermented. The story became well-known, and South Africans later made this kind of wine from Marula fruits, but it was not until September 1989 that South Africa introduced this sweet wine to the world for the first time. It shows that there are indeed exciting ingredients in the Marula fruit. The locals collect its pulp to make wine, then distill it into a taste similar to Brandy, and then add the freshly squeezed juice and milk fat of the Marula fruit to mix it into South Africa. The special Amarula, commonly known as "elephant wine""
I have had thousands of dreams, but there is one dream that stands out in my memory.
It was a Saturday night. I watched a TV series called "Farewell, Vancouver". It was about a few Chinese people who went to study in the Canadian port city of Vancouver. I remember some of the storylines shown on TV, and more importantly, I remember the scenery of Vancouver.
At night, I had a dream. I dreamed that I had arrived at the Beijing Airport and was preparing to go to Canada. After boarding the plane, I was delighted beyond words. As soon as the plane left, I felt even happier. The plane flies over the Pacific Ocean.
The next morning, the plane landed smoothly at the cold Vancouver Airport. At that time, it was just dawn, as if it was only four or five o'clock. I looked out through the glass and saw that many trees were bare and without leaves. But these trees also have their own style: their roots are thick and neat. There are many such trees in the green belt around the airport taxiing area.
After getting off the plane, we followed the passage directly to the airport lobby. There were night crystal screens hanging around the lobby, which showed the arrival station of the plane. After leaving the airport lobby, I saw six red letters "CANADA" written on the wall from a distance. After a while, I took a taxi and left the airport. On the airport highway, I still saw such trees lined up in a row in the distance, with no end in sight.
An hour later, the driver took me to a hotel. The receptionist inside welcomed me warmly and arranged a room for me. Once inside, it's very big and stylish. The windows of the hotel are made of high-grade unbreakable glass, which is glued to the floor of the room to facilitate viewing. What I pay most attention to is that the hotel is not as wasteful as in China. There is not so much tea and mineral water given away, and you have to buy it yourself.
I went to the beach to take a boat ride. There is also a place to drink coffee on the beach. People can drink coffee and watch the scenery. How elegant! I got on the boat and climbed to the top. I had a panoramic view of the sea. The sea scenery in Vancouver is so beautiful! In the distance, there are occasionally a few green trees dotting the snowy Vancouver. On the boat, a Canadian maple leaf flag fluttered in the wind. I looked up at the blue sky, and then looked down at the deep blue sea water. White clouds reflected in the sea water were much bluer and more beautiful than the sky in China. The sky in China is very light, and the sky in Canada is very blue. This shows that China's environment is relatively poor, while Canada's environment is much better than China's. This is because they continue to protect the environment. Although our country is also protecting the environment, some People are still discharging large amounts of sewage and garbage, so our country's sky is not as blue as Canada's sky. We should stop those who discharge sewage and garbage, so that we can better protect the environment and make China's sky very blue.
Thinking about it, I continued to enjoy the beautiful scenery. Looking at the blue sky and turquoise sea water, I couldn't help but shout loudly: "Vancouver, I love you!!" But at this moment, I woke up. Recalling the dream of being in a foreign country, but a dream is a dream, and dreams are opposite to reality.
However, I will try to study in Canada in the future, so that I can truly see the scenery of Vancouver. This is one of my life goals.
Vancouver, you are a beautiful city. You have made Canada so beautiful and your environment so good. Finally, I have to say: "Vancouver, your beautiful environment has infected me. But I believe that China's environment will become as good as yours in the future!