"Las Vegas" comes from Spanish and means "fertile green grassland". In the vast desert, there is only one spring and an oasis here, hence the name. Las Vegas was originally a small village and developed into an international metropolis in just ten years. Las Vegas is one of the four major gambling cities in the world, with 247 casinos. It is a tourism, shopping and resort city centered on the gambling industry. Among the top ten resort hotels in the world, 9 are here. There are some entertainment projects and shows that are unique in the world. It is also easy to register a marriage. People of the same sex, opposite sex, married or unmarried can apply for marriage procedures. If you want to hold a super luxurious wedding, there is no problem. There are 38.9 million tourists from all over the world here every year, of which the majority come for shopping, entertainment and food, and only a minority come specifically for gambling. Las Vegas is truly the "Entertainment Capital of the World" and the "Wedding Capital". The whole city is open 24 hours a day, and the streets are always bustling with people. Because Las Vegas is located in the desert and has a very hot climate, it is more lively at night than during the day. It is a true "city that never sleeps". Among tourists, there are a group of "night owls" who stay up during the day and come out at night. They sleep in the hotel during the day and only come out at night. If you drive to Las Vegas at night, you will find that in the long night, over a hill and through a barren land, your eyes suddenly light up. The horizon is filled with lights and lights, just like the Milky Way falling in the sky. Generally speaking, that is: Las Vegas - the luminous pearl in the desert.
Coming to Las Vegas changed my understanding of hotels. In the past, I thought that a hotel with hundreds of beds was large enough; in addition to accommodation, it also had restaurants, saunas, gyms, and swimming pools, so it was considered to be fully functional. However, hotels in Las Vegas generally have thousands of beds, tall rooms, and luxurious decorations. They also have large casinos, restaurants with thousands of seats, shopping malls that sell various luxury goods, and theaters that perform different types of programs. theaters and a variety of entertainment facilities. In a word, hotels in Las Vegas are comprehensive places of enjoyment that integrate accommodation, dining, gambling, shopping, and entertainment. After tourists check into the hotel, they can satisfy all their enjoyment needs without leaving home for ten days and a half. In China, except for Macau, there is no such hotel.
Las Vegas hotels also have another characteristic: no one is the same, they all have different styles. The Hollywood Hotel where we stayed had colorful neon lights flashing at the door and giant photos of celebrities hanging on it. People who didn’t know it thought it was a movie theater! As soon as you enter, there are so many slot machines and rows of gambling tables that you can't even see the end of it. A beautiful woman was dealing cards at the table, and the gamblers were thinking nervously about how to place their bets. A sultry three-point dancer stood on the table and danced on the spot, while loud music filled the hall. I thought, with the beauties dealing cards on one side and the seductive girls on the other, how could any gambler not be distracted and not lose money? Before going to Las Vegas, I heard this saying: "If you are so poor that you only have a few dollars left, go to Las Vegas and try your luck! Maybe overnight you can become a wealthy person." A rich man with a fortune; if you can’t spend all your money, come to Las Vegas! Maybe you will become a penniless pauper the next day.” When I arrived at the Las Vegas casino, I found out. What I imagined was different. Not all gamblers' eyes were shining with greed. On the contrary, I saw many educated old men and women sitting in front of the slot machines, skillfully pressing the buttons of various colors, as if they were playing video games. It seemed that they did not care about winning or losing, but just killing their extra time. .
Next to the Hollywood Hotel is the Paris Hotel. Take a stroll around a Paris hotel and you’ll see a different scene. The Eiffel Tower stands in front of the Paris Hotel, and there is a Arc de Triomphe in the hotel, as well as French-style streets and bars. There are white clouds in the vast blue sky, and the white clouds are still fluttering, which is very realistic and has a strong sense of space.
However, my favorite is the Venetian Hotel. This hotel cost US$1.8 billion to recreate the scenery of Venice's water city, including the Bridge of Sighs, Bell Tower, stone road, and St. Mark's Square. Visitors can take a gondola ride and enjoy the scenery along the coast. It is said that both the gondola and the gondolier came from Venice. The gondolier wearing a wide-brimmed hat sang authentic Italian folk songs, attracting tourists on the bridge to stop and admire.
The small bridge, flowing water, gondolas, gondoliers and reflections in the water form a scene at the Venetian Hotel that cannot be seen in other hotels. In addition, the artificial sky that changes every 20 minutes makes it feel like you are really in Venice, which is really disappointing! Who would have thought that this is the view from the second floor of the hotel?
Walking along the Las Vegas Strip, no matter day or night, it is crowded with tourists of different colors 24 hours a day. Only when we got here did we know what the "Entertainment Capital of the World" is. My impressions of Las Vegas can be summed up in eight words: “Lightning, feasting, eating, drinking and having fun”. Compared with Los Angeles, Las Vegas has a completely different style and atmosphere: Los Angeles is a city of entrepreneurship and culture, while Las Vegas is a city of consumption and pleasure. The entertainment projects here are only what you can’t think of, and there is nothing you can’t do. All the performances are world-class, all the food is top-notch in the world, and ordinary performances and restaurants simply cannot mix here. People from all over the world come here with only one purpose, which is to spend a lot of money and enjoy happiness that cannot be enjoyed elsewhere.
The Mirage Hotel has a volcano eruption show every night. As soon as 7 o'clock arrived, the stone mountain in front of the hotel exploded, and then the fire shot into the sky, the earth shook, and it was deafening. The fire was wrapped in thick smoke and rushed towards the audience, burning their skin and causing pain. After 10-12 minutes, the volcano stopped erupting. It broke out again half an hour later and into the night. The sound, light, fire, and vibration here are all controlled by computers, and thousands of dollars in gasoline and other expenses are consumed every night. Doing this every day all year round is an astonishing expense!
The Bellagio Hotel has an artificial lake covering an area of ??32,000 square meters. The colorful musical fountain here has more than 1,000 water spouts. Each spout has different water heights and angles, and the highest one can reach 140 meters. Every night, spray every hour. When the music is played, the colorful fountain dances gracefully to the rhythm of the music. The scene is extremely spectacular and it is worthy of being the originator of the world's musical fountain. The hotel rooms are equipped with luxurious marble bathrooms, and there are five outdoor swimming pools of different shapes, where you can enjoy massage services. The hotel also has a lush botanical garden and an art gallery with many world-famous paintings. Visitors who love nature or art can find their own spiritual satisfaction.
At Bellagio, we also watched an "O Show". "O" is the pronunciation of "water" in French. This is a high (high-level), big (big production), and high-end (high-end) performance with the theme of water. The performance theater corresponds to the "O" and is a ring-shaped structure costing US$75 million. The theater has 1,800 seats and is divided into 4 floors. There is a half circle above the 2nd floor for viewing boxes for wealthy people. Although the ticket price was high, the venue was full and the event was unprecedented. The performance broke through the old stage concept and successfully used 3D technology and flexible stage scheduling. The stage could be transformed into a pool in an instant, perfectly presenting a three-dimensional performance of aerial, ground and underwater. The diver jumped from a height of more than 10 meters with graceful and capable movements. It can be seen that the pool water on the stage is deep enough, otherwise it would be difficult to ensure the safety of the diving actors. The "O Show" in Las Vegas is one of the "Three Major Shows in the World", bringing together well-known Olympic diving and water ballet players as well as the world's top aerialists, Mongolian cartwheels, gymnastics acrobatics and other masters to form a super luxurious performance lineup , which integrates a variety of art forms and achieves the perfect combination of beautiful art, superb technology and modern technology, can be described as the top feast of literary and artistic performances in the world. The "O Show" performance is full of high-spirited, healthy and enterprising positive energy, and there is no pornographic performance or other low-level fun. The difficult moves were performed one after another, each one more exciting than the last, but none of them failed, which is really commendable. The audience from all over the world was enthusiastic, and during the whole performance, in addition to being amazed, they were applauding and screaming. My feelings after watching this can only be described in four words: breathtaking.
In today's world, the most famous restaurant is the Michelin restaurant, and the highest-paid chef is the British Gordon Ramsay. He is the most famous chef in Michelin restaurants and the only chef in the world who has won the title of Michelin "three stars" seven times in a row. He made a catering TV show in the United States called "Hell's Kitchen", which became popular all over the world and has more than 3 million fans.
Gordon Ramsay's fifth store in Las Vegas is named after the world-famous TV program "Hell's Kitchen."
This is also the world's first Hell's Kitchen, located at Caesars Palace Hotel in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip. There are many diners who come here because of its reputation, and you have to queue up to eat in Hell's Kitchen. We specially queued up here to experience the taste of "Hell's Kitchen".
Hell’s Kitchen was designed by Pierce International Design Company and is highly personalized and experiential. The Hell's Kitchen symbol stands at the door: a large barbecue fork and a blazing flame, which vividly reflects Gordon's character. Gordon is very demanding in the preparation of fine dishes and has a fiery personality. Working in his kitchen is like being in "hell". He once defended his hot temper by saying: If the fire in the kitchen is not strong, how can the chef be enthusiastic?
The design of the restaurant is bright, transparent and full of vitality, and can accommodate more than 300 people. As soon as guests enter the restaurant, they think they are walking into the studio of a TV show. The open kitchen puts the ingredients, kitchen hygiene, and operating processes in full view of the public, allowing customers to feel like they are watching the "Hell's Kitchen" TV show. The waiters are also good. They are always smiling and familiar with the dishes. They always explain patiently and act as good advisors to customers. Of course, tips are also higher than in other restaurants, and the waiter's income is quite considerable.
Hell’s Kitchen lives up to its reputation. Their dishes are indeed exquisitely prepared, and the taste is obviously superior to other restaurants. We tasted steak, foie gras, salmon, lobster barley, onion soup, ice cream...all exquisite and delicious. The famous Beef Wellington emits an alluring aroma when it is served, making you salivate. When I cut off a piece and put it in my mouth, I felt that the seemingly red beef turned out to be so tender and delicious, without feeling raw at all. The shiitake mushrooms and seasonings poured on the steak are a perfect match. Mixed with the steak, they create a special aroma that makes you want to stop eating. You will never be able to stop after one bite. The most popular burger is also quite exquisite. It is not just a piece of meat and some vegetables, but every ingredient is carefully prepared, and a few "small essences" are combined into the "big essence" of the entire steak. When I was tasting the burger, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: Isn't that what it means to write articles, paint, or even do things for others? Doing every detail well and accumulating small things into big things is the way to do things as a person, and this is probably the secret of Gordon Ramsay's success!
The various delicacies ordered were almost tasted, and the last thing served was ice cream. Eight milky white balls are placed in a circle on the plate, like white flowers. After the waiter poured liquid nitrogen, the liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees vaporized instantly. Liquid nitrogen forms a layer of fine ice crystals on the surface of the ice cream, which removes the slushy feeling and gives the ice cream a better taste. It still steams up when you eat it, giving you a feeling of puffing up clouds. The white smoke lingers around the ice cream, just like the snow lotus in the Yunwu Mountain, creating an artistic conception of searching for a path in a fairy mountain. I seemed to have forgotten that I was in a luxurious and busy city, and entered another cold and quiet world.