Chapter 42 41. Wellington Cuisine
As soon as the 500,000 cash went out, Lao Wang lost half of the cash on hand immediately, so he urged Charlie to take him to Newfoundland to apply for a bank card to receive government funding.
Charlie nodded and said, "Alright, I'll take two days off and we'll set off, then come back and we'll prepare for Christmas."
Hearing this, Wang Bo felt a little moved. Time flies. It has been almost a month since he came to New Zealand in the blink of an eye. It is already the first ten days of December, and Christmas is only half a month away.
Speaking of which, Christmas in New Zealand is also a bit interesting. There is no snow and no reindeer. It is still summer, almost the hottest time of the year, and Santa Claus probably has to be shirtless to distribute gifts.
According to the seasons in New Zealand, it is summer now. Spring here is from September to November, summer is from December to February, autumn is from March to May, and winter is from June to August.
After the weekend, after breakfast, they took a helicopter to Wellington to apply for a bank card, and the army commander and young men handed over to Bowen.
Sunset Town is more than 800 kilometers away from Wellington, and it takes more than three hours to travel at the speed of a helicopter. Fortunately, they can walk in a straight line from the air, and passing through the Southern Alps, Wang Bo can pass the time overlooking the highest mountain in New Zealand.
Along the way, the helicopter passed quickly, and the snow-capped mountains and dark green forests passed by like flowing water. The environment in the mountains was almost undamaged. Although the mountains were not too high and the forests were not too deep, the original jungle smell was very strong and unique.
In the first hour after takeoff, Wang Bo saved hundreds of photos in his mobile phone. Such a pure mountain environment is really novel to him.
Crossing the Cook Strait between the South and North Islands, the helicopter entered Wellington's controlled airspace.
Charlie and the ground radar station will conduct a flight report, and after approval, they will land on the roof apron of the Green Olive Hotel, a five-star hotel in Wellington.
As the capital of New Zealand's political and cultural center, Wellington is small in size but has a great reputation. It has the reputation of "dessert station" in the southern hemisphere. Of course, there are not many delicious desserts, but to describe her cuteness and beauty-New Zealanders call this sweet.
This city is a mountainous port city, surrounded by green hillsides with dense forests, with sea breeze blowing on three sides, each hill has a viewing platform, there are golden beaches suitable for walking in the northwest, and spectacular rugged mountains in the south. coast.
However, the sea breeze here is a bit too strong, and Wang Bo's clothes were blown up when he walked on the street, so he complained repeatedly, but Charlie ignored him.
Lao Wang turned his head to look at him strangely, and found that this guy was looking around with his eyes wide open. Because of the strong wind, the skirts of the girls on the road were also flying...
The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, and the old king is now an emperor at any rate. Although strictly speaking, there is only one dog and one bird under his rule, but after all, his status is there, and he has to treat Charlie, the auxiliary minister, to a good meal.
Wellington is a professional tourist city, full of exquisite cafes and magnificent restaurants, and some streets have a strong aroma of coffee.
Wang Bo found a restaurant that looked quite high-end and wanted to go in. Charlie stopped him and shook his head, and said with a smirk, "No, not here. We're going to have Wellington's special lunch at noon!"
"Xue Te, just let go of your belt and eat hard, it will make you have diarrhea!" Old Wang said angrily, he knew that this guy wanted to kill him.
Charlie took a taxi and said that it was difficult for strangers to walk in Wellington, because there are so many one-way lanes and pedestrian lanes in this city, and if you are not familiar with it, you will have to walk a lot of wrong roads.
Indeed, after they got in the car, Charlie gave an address called 'Harbor Market', and the driver drove around, and Lao Wang quickly became dizzy.
In fact, Wang Bo has a particularly big shortcoming, that is, he has a poor sense of direction. He lost his way in his hometown county, so it was a great courage to venture into New Zealand by himself.
The driver mumbled while driving: "It's hard to go to the harbor city from here, especially now it's the damn noon traffic rush hour..."
Charlie asked Wang Bo for his police badge, then patted it on the driver's console, and said, "Fifteen yuan, anyway, no matter how far you drive, that's all you need."
"Snow!" The driver cursed and quickly turned into a small road, and then walked through four or five small roads, and a farmer's market filled with the fishy smell of the sea appeared in their field of vision.
After patting fifteen yuan and getting out of the car, Wang Bo looked dull: "Damn, you are not leading the way today, are you going to be slaughtered?"
Charlie shrugged and said, "Young man, this is the real world, let's go, don't you Chinese like to say that life is unsatisfactory nine out of ten? Now enter the one-tenth of the time, and the happy shopping time is here."
Wellington has three famous food emporiums, a farmers' market that only sells fruit and vegetables, a harbor market that specializes in seafood, and a city market full of outstanding folk food artisans.
Wang Bo then followed Charlie. Charlie went to several seafood shops with ease and bought a lobster as long as an arm, a plate of big oysters, some small whitebait, some shellfish that Lao Wang had never seen before, and freshly smoked fish. salmon meat.
These seafood are expensive in the mainland, but they are very cheap here. The total cost was only 120 yuan. Charlie didn't ask Lao Wang to pay the bill, but paid for it himself.
Wang Bo was very embarrassed, so he stopped him and said, "It is agreed that I will treat you to a meal, how can I make you pay the bill?"
Charlie waved his hand generously and said, "Don't be polite to me, Wang, just hand over the bill to me, and you can pay some processing fee later."
These seafood were all raw, so naturally they needed to be processed. After buying them, they took a taxi to another food mall, which was the famous City Market, and then Charlie found a stall for the boss to process.
The city market can be said to be a food court, with an open-air viewing platform. When two people sat down in a seat, Wang Bo could lie on the back of the chair and enjoy the sea view not far away.
The sun was shining, the wind was blowing and the waves were flying, and the crystal waves slapped the skinny coast and made a "bang bang" whistling sound. A group of seagulls flew close to the coast, so the sound of violent waves hitting the shore was mixed with chirping birds, Crisp and pleasant.
The lobster is fat. The chef took out the fresh and tender shrimp meat and divided it into two parts. One part is sliced, which is sashimi, and the other part is stewed with lobster shells and oyster meat in a thick soup. The small soup pot is opened, and there is a milky white soup inside , fresh fragrance.
For salmon, the way Lao Wang knows to eat it is sashimi, but Charlie bought freshly smoked fish, which the chef used to make a salad.
Salmon slices are served with coriander, basil, and a little pepper and watercress, so that the combination of red, green, blue, yellow and white is like a work of art.
The method of making a plate of fat oysters is more complicated. After the big plate is delivered, these oysters are used in different ways: steamed with condiments, fried oyster meat, fried oyster meat dipped in oil and vinegar, in addition to grilled oysters that Wang Bo ate. Oysters, topped with olive oil, vermicelli and chilli sauce, arrived sizzling.
Small whitebait and shellfish are easy to make. The former is deep-fried, while the latter is stewed in a pot. After stewing, it is served with Japanese miso and wasabi condiments.