Chapter 218 Golden Gate Bridge
Tang Zhengqing didn't know that many people saw him on TV and recognized him. He and Joubert arrived at the Hilton Hotel and began to rest.
It was already ten o'clock in the evening. Even though Tang Zhengqing had no intention of sleeping, Joubert could no longer hold on. He drove for two hours in the afternoon and watched half a football game in the evening, shouting until his throat was broken.
I am dumb and mentally exhausted. I have to say that the American people are very contagious in some things.
Just when Tang Zhengqing was thinking about things, there was a knock on the door. Tang Zhengqing opened the door and saw that it was Li Zhenghai. Tang Zhengqing thought he was here for door-to-door service.
"What's going on tonight?" Although Tang Zhengqing asked, he still let Li Zhenghai come in.
"Brother, there is something I want to tell you. If I don't tell you, I'm afraid you will beat me up." Li Zhenghai felt that this time the documentary about his trip to the United States must be told to Tang Zhengqing in advance.
Otherwise, if he makes his cousin unhappy, Li Zhenghai will suffer.
He didn't know it until he came to the United States. After arriving, Li Zhenghai realized that his cousin's energy in the United States was able to attract so many Hollywood superstars. Even if it was because of Joubert, Li Zhenghai also knew that Joubert wanted to show off.
elder brother.
"Tell me what's going on." Tang Zhengqing sat on the sofa. There were only two people in the huge room.
"Brother, it's like this. When the time comes to document your trip to the United States, should I leak your information? Or should I hide it all?" Li Zhenghai directly asked the question to Tang Zhengqing.
Tang Zhengqing thought for a while, "You should hide it. I don't want to be exposed directly, and I don't like to be exposed proactively. This will make many people look down upon." Tang Zhengqing knew that Li Zhenghai was live broadcasting, and during the entire live broadcast,
It is not mentioned in the document. If this information is released in the documentary, Tang Zhengqing is very doubtful that the people who want to take advantage of it will scold Li Zhenghai.
"Brother, let's do what you want. Whatever you say, we'll do it." Li Zhenghai nodded, and everything in this matter will be done according to his cousin's wishes.
"Brother, are we going to sleep next?" Li Zhenghai was very concerned about the upcoming trip.
"I don't know either. Just do whatever comes to mind. Why do you care about this?" Tang Zhengqing asked.
"Uh, brother, aren't I preparing for the next step? Then I can let those watching the live broadcast know some information."
"If I make any decisions then, I will tell you in advance." Tang Zhengqing said to Li Zhenghai.
Tang Zhengqing doesn’t have any special plans. After visiting the wineries in Napa Valley, he will go to Montana to see ranches and Texas to see farms. Then he may also go to the east coast of the United States to see the east coast.
What America looks like on the coast.
"Brother, I understand. If nothing happens, I will go back." Li Zhenghai saw that his cousin didn't know what was going to happen next, so he could only leave first.
After Li Zhenghai left, Tang Zhengqing remembered that he had nothing to do tomorrow, "How about going to visit Chinatown in San Francisco?"
Tang Zhengqing knew that the Chinatown in Los Angeles was one of the best in the entire United States and one of the earliest Chinatowns in the United States. There were many Chinese living here. Here, store plaques all use Chinese characters, and the language is generally Cantonese.
, of course, you can also speak Mandarin.
"Then let's go see Chinatown. Take a stroll and see what good things there are in Chinatown." Tang Zhengqing made up his mind to go to San Francisco's Chinatown tomorrow.
San Francisco, also translated as "San Francisco" and "San Francisco", is a port city on the Pacific coast of California, USA. It is a world-famous tourist destination and the fourth most populous city in California. San Francisco is adjacent to the world-famous high-tech industrial zone Silicon Valley and is the world's most populous city.
An important high-tech research and development base and the most important financial center in the western United States, it is also the birthplace of the United Nations. The United Nations Charter was promulgated in San Francisco in 1945.
San Francisco has a subtropical Mediterranean climate. It is home to the world-renowned San Francisco Bay Area, the Golden Gate Bridge and Fisherman's Wharf. The climate is warm in winter and cool in summer, with plenty of sunshine. It is close to many U.S. national parks and the Napa Valley, California's wine producing area, and is known as "the most popular city in the United States."
A welcoming city.”
The Spanish discovered this place in 1769, so the original name of San Francisco was a Spanish noun. It joined the United States in 1848. In the mid-19th century, San Francisco developed rapidly during the gold rush. The overseas Chinese called it "Golden Mountain", which was later distinguished from Australia.
Melbourne was renamed "San Francisco".
The city has a population of about 850,000, of which 180,000 are Chinese. It has one of the highest Chinese population densities in the Western Hemisphere, and the total number of Chinese is second only to New York.
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most important scientific, educational and cultural centers in the world. It is home to world-famous institutions of higher learning, including the public University of California, Berkeley, and the private Stanford University, as well as the world's top medical center, the University of California, San Francisco, and more than 100 Nobel Prize winners.
Award winners, Fields Medal winners and Turing Award winners work or study in the Bay Area; more than 200 Olympic champions have come from the San Francisco Bay Area.
The San Francisco Bay Area has been one of the centers of American hippie culture, modern liberalism and progressivism since the 20th century, as well as the San Francisco Art University, the largest art school in the United States.
When Tang Zhengqing and Li Zhenghai arrived in San Francisco, it was already the evening of the next day, which was also the time for dinner.
During the day, Tang Zhengqing and Joubert visited the more famous buildings in San Francisco.
"Let's go, I'll treat you to a big dinner." San Francisco's reputation in California is not as good as that of Los Angeles, but it's not far behind. At least Tang Zhengqing likes it here more than Los Angeles.
There are many delicious places in San Francisco, among which Chinatown is the most famous.
San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the earliest and largest Chinatowns in the United States. There is not just one street in Chinatown.
San Francisco is rich in products. The rich seafood dishes at Fisherman's Wharf have always been San Francisco's specialties. San Francisco's food tastes are also diverse, and Chinese restaurants are an important part of it. San Francisco claims to have the most authentic Chinese food in the United States. Of course, this so-called authenticity
In Tang Zhengqing's opinion, it is not authentic. Chinatown has always been a world of diners.
In line with the ethnic distribution in San Francisco, places where various ethnic groups gather always have their own food culture. The Italian community "North Beach" is naturally the best choice for tasting Italian meals.
Mexican food is another major cuisine in San Francisco, and Japanese food is also very common. When transplanted to San Francisco, these foreign cuisines inevitably encountered some "improvements", which resulted in the formation of local California cuisine.
Coffee in San Francisco is a major part of its food culture. Street coffee shops are as ubiquitous as fast food restaurants, and the wide variety of coffee categories once became the research object of those who are passionate about this.
Because there are many immigrants in San Francisco, immigrants of different nationalities each live in one place, forming a small country like Chinatown, where restaurants full of exotic flavors are born. In addition to the original California cuisine, there are also many exotic cuisines. Local
With abundant raw materials and references to foreign cooking, chefs in San Francisco use brand-new recipes to prepare food that is both delicious and in line with nutritional science. There are a large number of chefs in San Francisco who break the traditional boundaries, and menus in multiple languages are tongue twisters. Indeed.
It is a gourmet paradise.
To taste fresh seafood, you have to go to Fisherman's Wharf, a treasure house of seafood. You can buy fast-food seafood, such as seafood sandwiches, boiled crabs, etc., at the rows of stalls around the Fisherman's Wharf sign.
The most distinctive dishes in San Francisco are Dungeness crab and old bread. The two most famous food streets in San Francisco are Chinatown and Italian Restaurant Street.
In Chinatown, the leading city in Europe and the United States, there are countless Chinese restaurants. In addition to dinner, the breakfast here is also quite rich and exquisite.
Italian Restaurant Street is known as Little Italy. Located on Columbus Avenue in the center of North Beach, it is full of fashionable Italian restaurants and cafes decorated with green, white and red colors representing Italy.
In addition, Russian food, Brazilian food, Cambodian food, Korean food, Greek food, and Swedish food can satisfy gourmets from all over the world. Local newspapers and the "San Francisco Manual" of the San Francisco Municipal Tourism Bureau also have restaurant guides.
Since Tang Zhengqing had eaten Chinatown food in the United States, he knew that these delicacies in Chinatown were modified for Americans and were not suitable for the original Chinese people like him.
Tang Zhengqing really didn't like eating that kind of sweet food, so he and Li Zhenghai had to go to another food street, which was the Italian Food Street.
Tang Zhengqing quickly took Li Zhenghai to find a supposedly famous Italian restaurant, Cotogna Italian Restaurant.
Cotogna is an Italian restaurant located in Jackson Square in San Francisco, USA. It serves Italian country-style dishes. The menu changes daily. Its specialties are grilled meat and fish, brick-kiln pizza and homemade pasta.
Tang Zhengqing always wants to try delicious delicacies that he has never tried before. Only after eating them will he understand whether they are delicious or not.
This time Tang Zhengqing tried this brick kiln-style pizza and found it very good. It was much more delicious than the scallion pancakes he made himself.
After eating, the sky was already dark, so Tang Zhengqing thought for a while and took his wife and children to the Golden Gate Bridge to have a look, and at least to say that he had been to San Francisco.
The Golden Gate Bridge is to San Francisco what the Great Wall is to the imperial capital. If you don't visit the Great Wall, you are not a true man. If you don't go to the Golden Gate Bridge, you won't dare to say that you have been to the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a landmark building in San Francisco. It is also a miracle of modern bridge engineering. The Golden Gate Bridge is 2,737.4 meters long, 27.5 meters wide, and 227.4 meters high. It spans the Golden Gate Strait that connects the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, and is a link between San Francisco and northern cities.
It is an important transportation hub. The bridge took 4 years and more than 100,000 tons of steel to be built at a cost of 35.5 million US dollars. It was designed by bridge engineer Joseph Strauss. Because of its historical value, it was co-produced by the United Kingdom and the United States in 2007.
Documentary of the same name. The bright orange color makes it clearly visible to distant ships even in foggy weather. It is a must-see for everyone traveling to San Francisco.
There are places for tourists to park, sightsee and take photos at the north and south ends of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the scenery seen on the south and north sides of the bridge is different. There is a toll to cross the bridge from north to south, and the one-way fee is 7 US dollars; use
The electronic toll is US$6, and there is no toll from south to north. Cyclists and pedestrians are free and share the same channel.
Tang Zhengqing didn't care about the matter of a few dollars. After paying the money, he started taking Li Zhenghai to play.
Li Zhenghai was very interested in taking many photos with his mobile phone and posted them on his Weibo.
"Everyone, guess where I went?" Li Zhenghai's Weibo just posted, and he received a lot of complaints. Almost everyone knows about this obvious building, so Li Zhenghai's Weibo below
Opportunities are for teasing and sarcastic replies.
"Does the sea think we are fools?"
"I think Dahai just thinks you are a fool. You still need to ask such an obvious question. I think there must be a deeper meaning in Dahai's words."
"I think so too. I think there are a lot of people who don't recognize the Golden Gate Bridge. What does the word "sea" mean?"
"Speaking of which, isn't Dahai doing well in San Francisco? Do any of your friends in San Francisco go looking for Dahai?"
"I'm in San Francisco, just near the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm going now. Maybe I can see my cousin."
"Oh no, if you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten that Dahai must be with my eldest cousin. It was a mistake."
"I don't know what my eldest cousin looks like. I really want to see my eldest cousin's front photo and my side photo. I really want to see my eldest cousin's side photo.
Very handsome."
There were several replies in a row, all saying that they were in San Francisco and were going to find Li Zhenghai now. I didn’t know whether it was true or not.
After a while, Tang Zhengqing felt that the Golden Gate Bridge didn't seem to be that good, except that people were just people, and the scenery was not what he particularly liked. This kind of modern architecture was not Tang Zhengqing's cup of tea, so he just took Li Zhenghai to another place.
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Coincidentally, right next to the Golden Gate Bridge there is another place to visit, Golden Gate Park.
Golden Gate Park has the same function and nature as New York's Central Park. It is the urban lung of San Francisco.
An iconic green space on the West Coast of the United States, there are three places in Golden Gate Park that are particularly suitable for visiting, namely the Japanese Tea Garden, the California Academy of Sciences and the de Young Museum.
Golden Gate Park is located at the southwest corner of the Golden Gate Bridge. It is a very large park. Like Central Park, it is also rectangular in shape. If you want to go there, you must drive. If you don’t drive, you can’t play because it is too big. If you walk,
Even in three days, you can't complete a complete tour. You can park wherever you want when driving. There are many small lakes and water birds. They are not afraid of people and can get up close. Because the park is very big, it feels like
Chapter completed!