Chapter 268 Invitation to Travel Together
Yue Ning's English test was indeed not as smooth as his math test, and he handed in his paper together with everyone else.
After handing in her paper, she was invited to the front by the host. The host asked her with a smile: "Ningning, how did you do in the English test?"
"It's my normal level." Yue Ning replied.
"So how many points do you think you can get?"
Yue Ning remembered that she had never calculated the total score of the paper, because the total score was not fixed, and the score was calculated according to the score percentage. She said cautiously: "Above 80, the highest should not exceed 90."
Yue Ning was about to leave when he suddenly saw Cai Zhiyuan and immediately ran over and shouted, "Brother!"
"I was just looking for you to have dinner! Where have you been?" Cai Zhiyuan asked with a frown.
Yue Ning explained softly: "I went to eat a bowl of Vietnamese pho on the street. The shop was opened by overseas Chinese who fled from Vietnam. I found that there are more and more refugees fleeing from Vietnam, but the public's attention is still focused on immigrants from the mainland."
"Isn't it because of you that there has been so much commotion recently?" Zhiyuan glared at her unhappily.
The British Hong Kong authorities are not done with her last time she bravely entered the Kowloon Walled City! With the support of public opinion, the authorities organized police to rush into the Kowloon Walled City several times to arrest suspects. Some of them were scared and ran back to the mainland, but were arrested by the mainland police. Although these people had smuggled into Hong Kong from the mainland, they had long held Hong Kong identity. Now they asked to return to Hong Kong for trial, but the mainland side refused to let them go.
According to mainland law, these people should all be sentenced to death, but Hong Kong has not carried out the death penalty for more than ten years. This has raised the issue of the ownership of judicial power, and now the Hong Kong legal community is arguing fiercely.
"The social impact has been enough, and this matter has attracted enough attention. The resistance policy will be cancelled soon, and illegal immigrants from the mainland are no longer the focus. We need to let the public see that the bigger problem at the moment is the Vietnamese refugee problem." Yue Ning thought of the Vietnamese couple who spoke fluent Cantonese and their two lovely children.
Cai Zhiyuan sighed: "It's not unreasonable for the British to push Hong Kong City out. You have to know that Vietnam is targeting the Chinese in Vietnam. The entire Southeast Asia, no matter which country, the Chinese have a huge amount of wealth. Two years ago, the Vietnamese government began to target these Chinese and confiscated their property. The wealth accumulated by the Chinese for decades was wiped out, and they had no choice but to flee. Therefore, most of the current Vietnamese refugees are Chinese. They are all Chinese who went to Southeast Asia like the Yu family and the Ye family. Our Cai family also went to Singapore in the early years. Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines have already said that they are unwilling to accept refugees. If public opinion rises and Hong Kong City does not accept them, will they be left in despair at sea? I don't want to report it, it's a pity for the same kind."
"I know. I just ate at a noodle shop opened by Vietnamese refugees at noon. You can take this opportunity to promote it and say that the noodle shop is delicious. Use a sympathetic lens to shoot Vietnamese refugees so that everyone can understand their extremely difficult situation. On the other hand, the convention says that Hong Kong is just a transit point. These refugees will be assigned to other countries. This is also a reminder to the British to try their best to coordinate so that refugees can transfer to other areas. Hong Kong is a small place and must leave as soon as possible. If the British Hong Kong government does not care, more and more people will come and the problem will become more and more serious. It will eventually explode. Will there be another Kowloon Walled City?" Yue Ning said seriously, "Brother, HTV is the largest TV station in Hong Kong. We have social responsibilities."
Cai Zhiyuan looked at her sideways and said, "I'll have someone take pictures of that small shop first, and discuss it with the elders in the next few days. This is a big deal, and we have to take responsibility and consider many aspects."
Yue Ning nodded, and Cai Zhiyuan reached out and tapped her forehead: "I came to you at noon to discuss with you. On the day of the "Chef King Contest", can you get Lucas and Yanxi over? Let's make it bigger?"
In his previous life, Yue Ning participated in the Bocuse d'Or Cooking Competition held in Lyon. This competition is known as the Olympics of the culinary world and is an important event of the Lyon International Hotel, Catering and Food Exhibition in France.
In April, Yue Ning will go to France to participate in a chef exchange, which is also an event of the Lyon International Hotel, Catering and Food Exhibition. Therefore, Yue Ning proposed that HTV cooperate with the Hong Kong International Food Expo and make the "Global Chinese Cuisine Chef Competition" an event of this exhibition.
This year, the competition will be held during the Expo. According to the plan, the entire "Chinese Cuisine Chef Competition" will last for one year, and the semi-finals and finals will be held during the Expo next year. In the future, the semi-finals and finals will be held during the Expo every year.
Yue Ning didn't know how good the Japanese team Fukuyama was in the first competition, but the two chefs from Jinhua Hotel were both national-level chefs, and their skills were impeccable, except that their presentation was slightly different from the international mainstream aesthetic.
"Okay, I'll go and invite them when I get back, and tell Lucas that my Ningyan Lu Mansion is also open, so he can come and try it. I should be able to invite Yanxi and Miyamoto as well." Yue Ning said confidently.
Cai Zhiyuan looked at the field and said, "The results are out."
In addition to the mutual marking between institutions, HTV also invited teachers from English-Chinese schools to review the papers in order to avoid unfair judging.
When making a TV show, you definitely can’t release all the results at once. They released Yue Ning’s results first, and as she expected, she scored 87 points.
With the full score in the morning, it is obvious that no one is very satisfied with this 87 points.
Housewives console themselves: "Ningning has only been out of mainland China for a year, and this result is already very good."
"No! I just grew up in Hong Kong, and my grades are pretty good." A young man next to him added, "This exam is harder than the normal college entrance exam. In the normal college entrance exam, you can get an A with 85 points, and only 10% of people can get an A."
At this time, a complete list was posted on the field. The highest score in English was from an institution called Hengxin, with 94 points, followed by another 91 and 88. Yue Ning ranked fourth.
Two teachers from the English Middle School sponsored by the Cai family stood in front of the list. The teacher holding the microphone cleared his throat: "At noon, our teacher Li has reviewed the math paper. Its difficulty is far beyond the regular entrance examination questions. Although the English paper is slightly milder, it also exceeds the average level of the entrance examination. The difficult questions are concentrated, especially in the third reading comprehension and writing part of the English paper. The literary metaphor analysis and cross-cultural argumentative essay questions, which are rarely mentioned in the syllabus, put forward almost strict requirements on the candidates' vocabulary depth and logical structure ability..."
The teacher put her hand on the tenth place: "The scores are quite concentrated this time. According to our experience, all the above grades can get an A. Ningning's score is between A and A+. In fact, her English is already very good. She said her English is not good, is it compared with her math?"
Today's live broadcast ended with laughter from the audience.
When the result came out, the people from HTV immediately went to interview the professional. The professional said a few words awkwardly, and finally said politely that they would wait until Yue Ning got good results in July.
That night, HTV's lifestyle program visited the shop. Yue Ning named the shop as delicious, so naturally it was packed with customers.
HTV's social news produced a follow-up report program on Vietnamese refugees, looking at the Vietnamese refugee issue with a sympathetic eye, while also telling the current difficulties faced by Hong Kong. It also said that with such a steady influx of refugees, would another Kowloon Walled City be formed?
This report caused a great response in society. Various TV stations interviewed government officials and celebrities, hoping that they could pay more attention to this issue.
The social focus shifted from mainland immigrants to Vietnamese refugees. According to reports, 250,000 people have entered mainland China through the Sino-Vietnamese border since 1977 or 1980. The mainland settled these people while being hungry and cold. Germany, which had never accepted people of other skin colors, also began to accept Vietnamese refugees.
Yue Ning also began to pay attention to this history. The history of overseas Chinese is a history of blood and tears, from the Manila Massacre in the Philippines, to the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States, the tragedy of 1965 in Indonesia, and even the Chinese in Vietnam today who are escaping by boat...
In his previous life, Yue Ning grew up during the era of China's rise and had never had such a feeling.
Walking in Victoria Harbour and looking north, she knew that this country would rise at a speed that astonished the world, but she still hoped that the pace of the motherland's rise could be faster, faster...
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The Hong Kong International Food Expo is about to open. At last year's expo, Yue Ning promoted the Guangdong Agricultural Products Import and Export Company, and met Qiu Chunming. He and he had a foie gras competition, which is still fresh in people's memory.
The Durand Group was successful in the East Asian market last year, and this year's booth was super luxurious. With their deep pockets, they also invited French chefs, Japanese chefs, and chefs borrowed from Baohua Building to demonstrate their products on the spot.
Causeway Bay is now known as "Little Tokyo", and Hong An is sold out by Japanese tourists. In addition to Hong Kong restaurants such as Ning Xiaochu, Baohualou, Kunhelou, and Chunfenglou, Japanese businesses have also come in one after another. Causeway Bay is now full of Japanese food stores, and Japanese businesses also attach great importance to this food expo.
This year there are many more heavyweight exhibitors than last year.
Yue Ning has added another piece of heavyweight news to the expo.
She invited three Michelin three-star chefs, Lucas, Pierre and Valere, as well as two Japanese cooking masters, Miyamoto and Iwanishi, and a food critic, Ishikawa, for "Chinese Chef's Dishes".
These days, it is a great honor to invite a Michelin three-star chef, but three came at once, including two Japanese chefs and a Japanese gourmet.
The reporters were more excited than chasing stars, and the TV station even held a special discussion.
What the TV station is most concerned about now is where Yue Ning will be and what kind of dishes he will use to welcome his colleagues?
Yue Ning spread the word that the venue for the banquet for his colleagues would be the Ningyan Lu Mansion which was in trial operation.
During the one-month trial operation period, Ning Yanlu Mansion did not accept reservations from outsiders and only did favors for relatives and friends.
If you want to book a banquet at the Ningyan Lu Mansion during the trial operation period, it will become a face-saving thing for the wealthy people in Hong Kong City.
Everyone who has been to Ningyan Lu Mansion has been full of praise for this restaurant, and some even say it has opened their eyes.
Anyone who could go to Ning Yanlu Mansion at this time was either rich or noble, and they could all say things that opened their eyes.
On that day, HTV filmed a clip of Yue Ning's handwritten menu, saying that these were the dishes for a banquet for French and Japanese chefs.
If you can’t afford the Ningyan banquet at Lu Mansion, can’t you just let everyone see it?
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