66 Eating Western Food (1/2)
When she heard Zhang Xiaohua applaud, Ling Ming released a sigh of relief. Although she had performed music publicly before, since coming to HuaXiang it just felt different, there was more pressure, she felt as if she was separated from the world. Every minute and second she sang, her eyes were filled with nervousness.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaohua gave her encouragement in the past few days, and also taught her a lot of things, so she overcame some of the difficulties in her heart, and she could barely pass it if she focused on just singing and zoned out of her surroundings.
Zhang Xiaohua felt like he was leisurely floating on clouds, his face was full of the warm spring breeze. Damn, life was good.
”Director Zhang, aren't you gonna treat us to a meal?” Emma smirked while teasing him.
”Well, everyone has worked hard.” Zhang Xiaohua immediately took up the attitude of big boss, and then looked around for a circle, seeing that all the tables were empty, and there were no guests.
What's more, it was noon now, just perfect to catch up on a meal. This place was a ready-made restaurant, so he could simply eat here and reward everyone, while also bringing some business to the restaurant.
”Manager Xu, tell the boss that we will have lunch here, one steak per person, plus a bowl of borscht.” Talking to the staff, he generously said: ”Everyone, don't be polite, order what you want.”
”Thank you, Director Zhang.” Everyone said to Zhang Xiaohua in unison, Zhang Xiaohua was fully enjoying everyone calling him director. His face was full of an intoxicated expression.
”Director, how was my performance?” Ling Ming asked meticulously.
Zhang Xiaohua burst into praise: ”Well, you performed well and have great potential.”
After fifteen minutes, everyone had a top-notch California steak in front of them. Except for Xu, everyone else had started digging in.
Manger Xu just watched them with his eyebrows furrowed. It was no wonder, as a former executive of New Century, he often had to entertain big name clients.He frequently took them to both Chinese and Western places to eat, so he naturally knew how to eat Western food. The others, on the other hand, were mostly small people at the bottom of the society. For some, this was the first time they had entered a Western restaurant. They took up their tableware and dug in straight away.
Zhang Xiaohua held the knife and fork in the wrong hands and was struggling. After what seemed like half a day of attempting to slice off a piece of the steak with all his strength, he only managed to cut small section off, his image as big director was instantly destroyed, directly burned to the ground, and never to be seen again...
Turning his head and looking at the waiter, Zhang Xiaohua frowned slightly, and whispered softly: ”Can I have a chopstick?”
The waiter was first stunned, and then almost burst into laughter, saying: ”Sorry, sir, we are a western restaurant, so there are no chopsticks.”
”...” Zhang Xiaohua was depressed and continued to work at his steak in frustration.
On the side of him, Emma and Ling Ming all followed the same pattern, holding the knife and fork, forcefully attempting to cut the steak. Xu constantly listened to the sound of knives and forks hitting the plate as it was a strange thing in such a high-end western restaurant.
Seeing this scene, Manager Xu smiled and decided that Zhang Xiaohua definitely needed some help, he clearly had never eaten Western food, so he reminded: ”Xiao-Hua, you knife is...”
Unexpectedly, when manager Xu just opened his mouth to speak, Zhang Xiaohua immediately slammed his hands in frustration, indicating that Manager Xu should not remind him.
”F*** sake! What kind of crappy invention is this? It's just useless! It looks good on the surface, but how are you meant to still eat? This will take years,” Zhang Xiaohua was infuriated, suddenly throwing away the knife and fork in his hands, he immediately grabbed the whole steak and stuffed it into his mouth. It didn't even take half a minute for the whole piece of steak to be swallowed by him. It looked like a very fragrant meal, he swallowed two pieces of bread and drank a bowl of borscht afterwards. And was finished.
Manager Xu directly looked at him with his eyes, and the waiter on the side was also stunned.