Joël Robuchon | Las Vegas

Lù Míngfēi had thought that this seemingly unsophisticated girl would surely widen her eyes in amazement upon entering Chateau Joël Robuchon — like seeing Disney’s Snow White Castle — revealing a look of pure happiness and delight. He planned to teach her how to use the cutlery, explain each course, tell her that beyond this there were many more wonderful things in the world, and that five-ingredient fried rice was hardly the pinnacle of cuisine… smoothly inviting her to visit America.👍👍 But this “country girl” turned out to be utterly familiar with French fine dining. The restaurant felt like her own dining room — though arranged with round tables, it seemed to stretch like a ten-meter-long banquet table, with Her Highness sitting proudly alone at the far end.❤️😍 “Do you come here often to eat?” Lù Míngfēi wrote quietly in his notebook. “Cafeteria,” Huàyī replied with just two characters.❤️🙌 Huàyī clearly knew the layout of the restaurant well, pulling Lù Míngfēi through the corridors. Suddenly she stopped and showed him a note she had written earlier: “Was I not good? Did I do something wrong?” Lù Míngfēi silently looked at this girl who knew so little of the world. Being good isn’t enough, he thought. To survive in this world, you need to be clever, cunning, and pleasing to others. Even if you’re good, you can still be seen as a nuisance. “Huàyī is very good. It’s not Huàyī’s fault,” he said softly, gently stroking her hair. The call connected, and the voice on the other end laughed:👍😊 “Go to xxxx! Who’s your good child?” That crude retort hit Lù Míngfēi like an incantation, shattering the haze and fragmented images in his mind. All that remained was a sea of yellow flowers and a girl standing in white light, reaching out her hand to him.💕😘 This year, I still couldn’t make it to Tokyo, so I had to settle for Joël Robuchon in Las Vegas to quench that Dragon Raja longing. Maybe it was because I’d been forced to endure several overly extravagant Vegas-style fusion meals during team dinners, or because tonight the restaurant was nearly empty — practically a private booking until dessert — but the experience here felt genuinely good. It suddenly reminded me: as a kid, I was firmly Team Nono, but now when I look back, it seems all my tears were for Huàyī and Chǔ Zǐháng. #DragonRaja #Huàyī #LùMíngfēi #DragonRajaZero