The area of ​​​​the villa is more than 6,100 square meters, almost the size of a football field, located on the shores of Lake Washington. According to The New York Times, the villa includes a spa room, an 18-meter swimming pool, a gym that is paved with stones from the Pacific Northwest mountains, a trout stream and other fish species. The mansion is commonly known as Xanadu 2.0. In particular, Xanadu is the name of a large, lavish property belonging to the tycoon in the movie Citizen Kane. The suffix 2.0 refers to the technology initiatives of Bill Gates. Details of Mr. Gates’ mansion remain confidential. Photo: Wikipedia According to TechCrunch, details about the mansion are kept secret by the Gates family. A tour of the area was auctioned for $35,000 in 2009. A Microsoft Corporation intern is allowed to write about the visit to the mansion on the company blog. According to him, it was built with “orange wood” and sand imported from Hawaii. “Walking down Bill’s driveway was like going to Jurassic Park. The view was overwhelming,” the person described. The villa, designed by architects James Cutler and Peter Bohlin, is divided into terraced areas into “a hill” 50 meters long. Melinda Gates, Bill Gates’ ex-wife, once said that the mansion caused her “crisis” and was “a nightmare for a bride”. It has “all kinds of software and high-tech screens to make it feel like living in a video game”. Mr. Gates built his dream home before marrying Ms. Melinda in 1994. But construction was halted when she visited. Gates once mentioned the idea of ​​a smart home, where guests would be given a badge to be able to communicate with sensors around the mansion. As they walk through the rooms, the lights will dim or light up, music will play, the temperature will automatically adjust to their preferences, and the walls will become displays of digitized artwork. It is not clear if these ideas were included in Xanadu 2.0. According to Forbes, Gates and Melinda are worth an estimated $124 billion. They announced their separation in a joint statement posted on their personal social networking site on May 3. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2 are co-chairs), said that the organizational structure will not change. Meanwhile, the fate of the Xanadu 2.0 villa is still open.

Green crocodile fruit – Photo: Dak Lak newspaper Sour soup with pickled water spinach – Photo: Dak Lak newspaper Crocodile is one of many typical summer fruits in the North. Water spinach is boiled, picked out, then put in to make sour, the same crocodile when finished cooking, it is soaked in a bowl of fragrant garlic fish sauce. Just that alone makes the tray of rice cool but wastes rice immensely. Sour soup cooked with tamarind Young tamarind leaves – Photo: Women Online Sour soup with young tamarind leaves – Photo: Women Online Sour soup cooked with young tamarind leaves or tamarind fruit really has a very strange sour taste, both fragrant and sweet, especially when tamarind is cooked with seafood sour soup. The way to cook is very simple: first, fry the onions very fragrant, add a few pieces of pineapple (fragrant) and then add tamarind and water to boil. When we see enough acidity, add seafood (fish, clams, shrimp…) in. Just boil the water again and have a delicious pot of soup, now if you like a little color, add a few pieces of tomato to make it beautiful and then add onions, cilantro, and coriander to have a delicious pot of soup again. It’s easy to eat! In some areas in Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan, and Quang Nam, at breakfast, you will cook a pot of soup like this and a pot of rice to have a solid meal and enough quality to work until noon. Sour soup with leaves of Giang leaves lá Giang leaves often grow wild on the banks of ponds and fences – Photo: Food in green fields Sour soup with leaves of Giang leaves – Photo: Delicious dishes every day If you have come to the West and tried the chicken sour soup, you will definitely not forget it because the taste is great. Giang leaf, also known as nom leaf as it is called in the North, is a type of leaf that often grows wild in fences and is very popular. The leaves are washed, lightly crumpled, then cooked with water first, then the chicken is added. The sour taste of Giang leaves mixed with the fatty and aromatic taste of chicken will really make any tray of rice “perforate”. In the Northwest, there is also buffalo meat cooked with nom leaves, which is also an extremely attractive specialty. There are also many sour soup dishes such as vegetarian sour soup, sour bamboo shoot soup… extremely delicious in summer. The sour soup is not too difficult to prepare, the sour taste of the fruits and leaves will help your soup to be delicious in any way. Eating with fresh vermicelli or hot rice is “standard”.

According to Forbes magazine, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp has a fortune of up to $ 130 billion. This huge fortune includes the charitable foundation jointly named and the largest in the world by the billionaire and Bill Gates, a large-scale private investment firm and a series of expensive real estate. in U.S.A. The Xanadu 2.0 mansion of the billionaire and billionaire Bill Gates is currently worth more than $ 130 million. (Photo: TNS) In addition to the 98,000-hectare ranch, the once-happy couple owning homes across the United States have been acquired for nearly 30 years including in Washington, California, Montana and Florida. One of the most expensive real estate properties of the billionaire Bill Gates is in Medina, a suburb of Seattle. It is famous for being home to billionaire Bill Gates and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The mansion worth more than $ 130 million is also known as Xanadu 2.0 with an area of ​​more than 6,100 square meters located in Medina. The house has an indoor swimming pool up to 18 m long. In addition, the mansion also has an artificial stream to raise salmon. The villa has 7 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms, an indoor cinema with 20 seats and a dining room of 92 m2 with 24 seats. 195 m2 library in Xanadu 2.0 mansion includes 2 secretly rotating bookcases. Depending on the divorce resolution process, Xanadu 2.0 mansion can be sold to divide the Bill Gates and his wife’s divorce property. According to the divorce document that Bill’s family sent to the court and was announced by TMZ, the couple asked the court to divide the property based on separate contracts and did not mention the prenuptial contract. The divorce petition of the couple was filed with the King County court in Washington and this is also one of the 9 states that have communal property laws of the couple, According to Colleen Sparks, the leading lawyer dealing with family affairs at Talkov Law, in states with communist property laws, divorced couples are required to divide all assets in the period. live together fairly. Since billionaire Bill Gates bought the Xanadu 2.0 mansion after he got married in 1994, this means that the world’s fourth-largest billionaire is not the complete owner of this $ 130 million estate. . According to Mr. Sparks, if Bill Gates and his wife do not reach an agreement to buy a mansion in Medina, the court may be forced to sell expensive real estate. But according to Ellen Griffith, an expert in charge of the division of real estate upon divorce, because the Bill Gates and his wife’s house was bought after they got married, it is likely that this fortune will be divided equally by 50 / 50. But according to Ms. Griffith, “They can make an absolute effort to have real estate. It will be a great fight ”. In addition to the large mansion in Medina, Bill Gates and his wife also own 3 homes in California. In 1999, the couple spent $ 12.5 million to buy 1,263 square meters of land in the resort city of Indian Wells. In 2014, the couple continued to withdraw a $ 18 million purse to buy a 92-hectare horse farm owned by weight loss expert Jenny Craig. Bill Gates and his wife are the most expensive deal in California in 2020 when they spend $ 43 million to buy a house overlooking the sea in Del Mar. This house is just 36 meters from the beach. This is the 2nd most expensive real estate deal in history in the city of San Diego.