Gayako lowered his head a little shyly, and looked at his clothes.
As if to recall the past, when Takeo Saeki came out with Kayako this time, he was wearing a coat from when he was young, and Kayako was also a skirt from when he was young.
A couple looks like an antique fished out of an old time, simple and austere.
Takeo Saeki walked to the front desk with Kayako in his arms, and the waiter at the front desk bowed.
"Sir, do you need any help?"
Takeo Saeki took out his phone.
"I have an appointment, take a look."
The waiter took the phone, checked it and handed it back.
"Sir, would you like to eat now?"
Takeo Saeki nodded.
"I'm here to eat."
"Sir, please wait a moment, I will find another waiter to serve you."
The front desk took out a closed-circuit phone and dialed. After a while, a very capable male waiter came over and made a gesture of please beside Takeo Saeki.
"Sir, madam, please follow me."
Takeo Saeki followed the waiter to the elevator and went up to the fifth floor.
After the elevator opened, elegant music poured in from outside the elevator door.
Kayako came out following Takeo Saeki. Kayako, who had never been out of his home city, looked left and right.
Kayako saw the white people whose skin color was different from the neon people, saw the luxurious and huge lighting above their heads, and saw bands in beautiful tuxedos playing in the center of the restaurant.
Takeo Saeki also jokingly asked the waiter leading the way.
"I heard that many of the bands here are graduates from the Tokyo Music University?"
Tokyo University of Music is the No. 1 university in neon music major and the oldest music university in neon. The students who come out of it are the real winners in life just like Tokyo University.
The Tokyo Grand Hotel was able to invite students from the Tokyo University of Music as a resident singing team, obviously paying a lot of money.
The waiter is a little proud.
"Yes, sir, look at that Mr. Jieme Kiyomoto who is playing the piano. He is an outstanding graduate of the Tokyo University of Music, and he was also the president of the student union of the Tokyo University of Music."
Kayako opened his mouth in surprise.
An outstanding graduate of a top university, student council president...
Takeo Saeki asked again.
"I heard that the waiters in your hotel are also excellent college students?"
The waiter showed a lot of pride on his face.
"Yes, for example, I am a graduate of Kyushu University. The other waiters are similar to me. The most powerful one is a master of linguistics. It seems to be proficient in eight languages. It is specially used to receive foreign guests. I am relatively poor and can only speak three languages."
Jiaye looked at the waiter around him in surprise. Kyushu University is one of the top ten universities in Nihongo University, and it is not the best.
The waiter took Saiki Takeo and Kayako to a corner table and sat down.
"Sir, madam, please wait a moment, the food will be here soon."
The waiter bowed towards Saeki Takeo and Kayako, got up again, turned and left.
Waiting for the waiter to go away, Kayako said to Saiki Takeo.
"Aren't the waiters and the environment here a bit... formidable?"
Takeo Saeki joked.
"That's why we can cheat more money, Jiaye, do you think that the food we eat later is worth it no matter how expensive it is?"
Kaya smiled dryly.
The wife from the country was really shocked by the environment of the Tokyo Grand Hotel.
You must know that any waiter who nods and bows here, with a high degree of education, can step on Kayako.
Takeo Saeki persuaded.
"Gayako, don't think wildly, you know? You are actually better than everyone in here, oh no, better than all of them combined!"
Gako didn't believe it at all.
"Gangxiong, what you said is too much."
Takeo Saeki smiled without saying a word.
Kayako turned his head to look around.
After all, it is a high-end hotel, and the environment is really good. The surroundings are not noisy, but there are elegant and soothing music reverberating. The waiters seem to have been trained in both walking and service, and their appearance is very eye-catching.
Most of the diners are high-class people in suits and leather shoes. During the visits, Jiaye felt as if he had entered a movie composed of gorgeous pictures, which was beautiful and dreamy, but lacked a sense of reality.
The waiter who brought Takeo Saeki and Kayako came up.
"Sir, here are the cutlery."
The waiter put brand new knives, forks, and plates in front of Kayako and Takeo Saeki.
"This is the first cold appetizer, fruit jelly."
Two fist-sized dinner plates were placed in front of Saiki Takeo and Kayako.
There is a piece of jelly the size of a thumb in each plate.
Takeo Saeki picked up the fork, picked up the jelly, and put it in his mouth.
The entrance is fruity and full of sourness, which is really appetizing, but the taste is better than ordinary jelly.
Kayako also put the jelly into his mouth, and immediately frowned.
The wife felt that she could make this jelly, and even started to think about how to make it. If Takeo Saeki liked to eat it, she could make it for Takeo Saeki to eat every day.
The waiter who brought the hot soup said.
"This is the second dish, hibiscus fresh vegetable soup."
A small cup half the size of a fist was placed in front of Takeo Saiki and Kayako, and they drank the soup with their heads down.
Kayako suddenly laughed.
I learned how to make this dish, Kayako, from the Internet, and made it for Takeo Saeki. The taste is actually not much different from that produced by this big hotel.
Is the production of Tokyo Grand Hotel on this level?
This idea of Gayako was slapped in the face by the fifth course, Beef Wellington.
When the delicate beef and plump mushrooms entered his mouth, Jia coconut couldn't imagine how to make this dish for a while.
Takeo Saeki also nodded after eating.
"Okay, finally there is a taste that I haven't tasted before."
But the dishes after that were lackluster.
Until the eleventh course of pineapple buns and the last course of eating sweets, Jia coconut didn't feel the so-called amazing and the most delicious food in the world.
But I have to say that the ice cream ball at the end tasted pretty good.
Gayako scooped up half a mouthful of ice cream with a dining spoon and put it in his mouth. The rich milky aroma and the sweet and sour taste of pineapple melted away.
It tastes like a high-end ice cream.
Also, this ice cream is too little, it looks like it can only be eaten in one bite, and Gayoko has already eaten half of the ice cream in just one bite.
Takeo Saeki didn't have such a small mouthful of Kayako, he put only one bite of ice cream into his mouth with a spoon, and asked Kayako in front of him.
"The food is finished, how do you feel?"
Gayoko smiled wryly.
“The dishes are exquisite and the environment is also very good.”
It may be because the sense of expectation is too high and I have been looking forward to it for half my life. After eating at the Tokyo Grand Hotel, even if it is Kayako from the countryside, I have to sigh in my heart. The Tokyo Grand Hotel is good, but not amazing.
In other words, somewhat disappointed.
Takeo Saeki added.
"And you didn't eat enough?"
Kayako was powerless.
"Gangxiong, don't spoil the atmosphere like this, okay?"
It's true that Kayako is not full. Just eat one bite of these high-end dishes, and now Gayako has only eaten 13 mouthfuls.
But looking at the upper-class people around, most of them are in good shape. Maybe they also eat these unsatisfactory dishes every day to maintain such a slender figure.
Takeo Saeki spoke again.
"It's good to destroy the atmosphere. In fact, eating is a relaxing thing. But Jiaye, look around, everyone around you is sitting in a serious state, and there are top students from the University of Music playing in the middle. Sitting here, I always feel that I can't relax. You have to maintain your posture, how tired you are."
"It's not as easy and delicious as the Chinese restaurant on the corner of the street we ate before."
Kayako suddenly entered the memory.
The Chinese cuisine restaurant on the street corner, the canteen for Kayako and Takeo Saeki during the most difficult time.
The period of time when the two young people have the most sincere feelings for each other and cuddle the closest.
I don't know if there are too many memories, but suddenly an old man wearing a white chef's uniform and pushing a dining car appeared in front of Jiaye. He was the chef of the Chinese cuisine restaurant back then.
The chef pushed the dining car to the front of Takeo Saiki and Kayako, showing a smile that Kayako can only appear in memories, full of imagination.
"Gayako, Gangxiong, are you here for dinner again?"
The old man's voice is more gentle and kind than it was more than ten years ago.
Kayako blinked, and after confirming that the chef in front of him was not hallucinating, he looked at Takeo Saiki in surprise.
Takeo Saeki smiled.
"I have always kept Mr. Sakai's cell phone number."
There are more than a thousand contacts in Takeo Saeki's mobile phone address book, more than half of which have not been contacted for ten years.
The chef of the Chinese restaurant, Sakai Mitsuru is one of them.
As for the mobile phone number, as long as the mobile phone is not stolen by someone, there is a high probability that it will be used to death.
Takeo Saeki winked at Kayako.
"Before I came to Tokyo Grand Hotel, I contacted Chef Sakai and hired him to let him at this moment..."
Chef Sakai opened a dome cover on the dining car, and suddenly there was a gurgling sound and a strong spicy taste.
Kayako saw the mapo tofu that was no different from what he remembered.
Chef Sakai said with the usual smile.
"Today's mapo tofu is on sale, what, you can't afford the special price, so you can only buy one?"
Chef Sakai put a plate of mapo tofu that was still bubbling and kept warm in a casserole in front of Takeo Saeki and Kayako, and served two bowls of rice and a complimentary bowl of kelp soup.
Takeo Saeki picked up his chopsticks.
"Gakoko, let me tell you."
Takeo Saeki sandwiched a piece of tofu into Kayako's bowl.
"It's creme brulee."
Then there is the minced beef in the mapo tofu.
"This is premium Wagyu."
Takeo Saeki put the kelp in the kelp soup into the bowl of Kayako, and Kayako complained.
"It's paella."
Chef Sakai next to him shook his head while looking at it, making a tsk-tsk sound, exactly the same as back then.