After the first day's visit, Huang Chong had dinner with the team, which officially marked the completion of their meeting.
Afterward, he and Chen Junyi stayed at a nearby hotel for two days and took the chance to look around Germany.
After all, before the contract was actually signed, there was no way the two of them could rent a place in advance.
Even though Huang Chong was confident he would be fine and had a 99% chance of passing the tests, as long as the contract remained unsigned, there was still the possibility of unforeseen changes.
Aside from traveling to Thailand for the Asian Championships, this was Huang Chong's second trip abroad.
But he quickly discovered that Germany was not particularly special compared to home. And after only two days of eating here, he was already struggling with the food.
By the first meal, it was novel. By the second, he was starting to question things. By the third, he had completely lost any desire to explore, because it all looked like the same damn crap.
Western food was primitive and rough to the extreme. A lot of dishes were simply cooked until done, then served with a pile of inexplicable sauces for people to dip them in. There was little actual culinary skill involved, much less any special treatment of the ingredients.
One fish plus two boiled potatoes cost twenty-eight euros. The fish was fishy, too. They did not even know to marinate it beforehand with scallion-ginger water and cooking wine to remove the odor. Huang Chong nearly gagged after eating it.
"Is this the Western world? If this keeps up, I won't even need to join the team. These insanely expensive yet unbelievably terrible meals alone will scare me into going straight home."
Huang Chong stared despairingly