Recap and Thoughts<\/h2>\n
In the previous episode, Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> was hurled into the water after losing to a strong force at the other end of her fishing line. Han Jie<\/em> saves her, but she is unconscious. The man who’s fishing rod that Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> took over and resulted her being hurled into the waters suggested for Han Jie<\/em> to perform CPR immediately. When the man makes a move to do the CPR himself, Han Jie<\/em> motions to perform it. When Han Jie<\/em> is in position to make contact with Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> to perform CPR, he gets thrown back by a spout of water into his face.<\/p>\n Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> has come back around. Han Jie<\/em> wipes and clears his mouth off of the water and backs away from Fang Xiao Rou<\/em>. The students clap and cheer, relieved to see their teacher is okay. Liu Xuan<\/em> and Amy Fan<\/em> go to help Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> sit upright.<\/p>\n The person Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> sees in front of her is the man—her savior, she believes. The man puts forth a hand: he’s not her savior. It’s Han Jie<\/em> over there. She turns to Han Jie<\/em> a little surprised and is something between embarrassment and sorry towards Han Jie<\/em> as she explains to him why she wasn’t able to swim. "It was you who saved me?" she asks. Yes—and you even sprayed your saviour, Han Jie<\/em> replies with a little joking tone in his serious one, gaining him laughs from the students. Ma Chong Sheng<\/em> asks Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> if she needed to go to the hospital. Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> waves it off and shows how alright she was with a joke about how salty all the water she gulped was. Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> is helped to stand up by Han Jie<\/em>, Liu Xuan<\/em> and Amy Fan<\/em>.<\/p>\n Han Jie<\/em> disappears off the screen for some moments then returns with a denim shirt in his hands. He plops it onto Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> head and tells her to wear it to not catch a cold. Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> is charmed by the kind gesture. "Don’t look at me with those eyes," Han Jie<\/em> says. He adds, "Don’t tell me you’re thinking those wicked thoughts of giving yourself to me again?"<\/p>\n Wow. Goodness. Where did that come from? It really took us back when Han Jie<\/em> said that. We didn’t think Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> appeared charmed enough to look like she’d be thinking those wicked thoughts. He truly amazes us with the things and words that comes out of him. What kind of a character is Han Jie<\/em> to be able to speak out this kind of a sentence so casually in front of a crowd?—and in front of his students of all crowds, too. What we would have loved to see was Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> play back and take him on just so we can if he shrinks back or not! :oP :oP. Saying that though, we are loving and enjoying all the banter, comments, and flirtatious sentences that Han Jie<\/em> comes out with. Nothing seems to be off-limits to him, so it’s entertaining seeing what suprising things Han Jie<\/em> will throw at Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> next!<\/p>\n Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> is stumped on how to respond to those words; but, with the students teasing her and chanting—’Give yourself’, the atmosphere turns into a fun and cheerful one and it snaps Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> back to the easy-going and fun-loving teacher who brings her students back down from their cheers and concludes the field trip pleasantly.<\/p>\n It is many hours later and day has turned to night. Han Jie<\/em> is driving Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> home. Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> is seen wearing the denim shirt that Han Jie<\/em> gave her to wear. It is a quiet atmosphere in the car, but not awkward. It seems Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> is wishing to say something to Han Jie<\/em> as she is seen constantly turning to face Han Jie<\/em>, but is seen turning back to the front as many times as she turns to face him. "Are you done looking?" Han Jie<\/em> asks Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> after she does it again. Han Jie’s<\/em> awareness of her looks makes Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> go on the defence: concentrate on driving; taking eyes off the road is dangerous. Like Han Jie<\/em> does with all unpleasantries that come his way, he just smirks it off. This breaks the ice for Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> and she come out with the ‘thank you’ she had wanted to say to him. Han Jie<\/em> responds in his usual mean way that always manages to provoke Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> to react negatively to it: know your limits and don’t take on things that needs him to come in and clean up the things he doesn’t have time for. Stop the car and let her off, Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> asks. "What is it? Are you mad?" Han Jie<\/em> asks. When he goes on to ask if she can walk from the current location to wherever she needs to be at and Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> begins to respond to a question he didn’t seem to actually want an answer to, Han Jie<\/em> cuts her off and asks where it was that he needed to go in order to drop her at the place she needed to be. It will be the restaurant her dad works at.<\/p>\n Through the window of a modern and stylish frontage of a restaurant decorated with ornamental plants, we see a man in a fine restaurant waiter uniform cleaning up and wiping tables.<\/p>\n We move inside and we see a woman in a vintage apron with a striped green-white fabric hairband plating up what the woman describes as a Taiwanese style capitolade risotto with soybean sauce. The man comes to take a look and has a differing opinion of the dish the woman had made sound so elegant and fine: it is simply braised meat on rice, the man says. (We agree. It sure does look like braised meat on rice!) The woman continues to praise her dish: it is worthy of a rating beyond the maximum three Michelin stars rating of seven Michelin stars! The man chokes on the bite he took of the woman’s dish. "Wouldn’t you need to fly to Heaven to get the seven Michelin stars?" the man says. "Do you believe that the three stars will change to seven stars if I enter a competition?" she asks before storming off without listening to his response, offended.<\/p>\n These two people bickering are Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> father, Fang Min Kai<\/em> (Zhu Lu Hao), and Hao Mei Li<\/em> (Huang Jia Qian)—owner of the restaurant.<\/p>\n The scene cuts to Han Jie<\/em> pulling up to the restaurant. Here, we hoped for Han Jie<\/em> to head in when Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> asks Han Jie<\/em> if he wanted to come in so she could shout him dinner (for being her saviour today we would assume). We wanted Han Jie<\/em> to finally meet Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> father and find out that her father was his old cooking teacher; however, Han Jie<\/em> declines with the reason that meeting the parents after having saved her would bring about the wrong idea in people’s minds. Even though Han Jie<\/em> doesn’t come face-to-face with his old cooking teacher, we see that he is starting to connect the dots: he’s finding it a coincidence that Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> father is not only a teacher, but runs a restaurant as well and Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> father has the same surname as his teacher.<\/p>\n Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> and Han Jie<\/em> partways. We follow Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> into the restaurant. In this scene, it brings in two developments: Han Jie’s<\/em> name is being mentioned by Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> in front of her father after she tells her story of falling into the water and she tells that Han Jie<\/em> was the one who saved her. The time for teacher and student to meet is inevitable and nearing; and Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> may have resentment towards Han Jie<\/em> when a scene of Hao Mei Li<\/em> being concerned for Fang Min Kai’s<\/em> hand and takes over the cutting of fish for him has Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> bringing up the incident that had caused her father to be unable to use his hand properly. We find her asking her father if he blamed the student who made him this way. The way in which Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> asked isn’t clear in telling us whether she, herself, resented Han Jie<\/em> for making her father this way, but there seems to be a bit of reluctance to forgive the student when her father responds with saying teachers have to be forgiving to their students and she neither agrees or disagrees to it.<\/p>\n A new day at school sees students up to student-like activities. With hair like Super Saiyan<\/em> (Dragonball Z<\/em> character), Ma Chong Sheng<\/em> has prepared a confession to Liu Xuan<\/em> on vertical celebration banners up on the announcement area between bleachers at the sports ground. Liu Xuan<\/em> is amused at first, but as soon as the bell sounds, she bolts out of the scene as if the bell had just made her realise that what was before her was a confession. Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> and his possé, who had been there as spectators from start to beginning, laughs as Ma Chong Sheng<\/em> calls her back, but she is gone.<\/p>\n Nerdy teacher, Li Zhi Chao<\/em>, enters and comes at the student with a whistleblow: break time is over.<\/p>\n The students stampede out of the area, stampeding quickly pass Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> and Han Jie<\/em> who is wondering what it was that they were fleeing from so fast. Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> heads up to the announcement area and reads one of the banners. She tugs at banner she has in her hand to try detach it. With each tug, she gets closer to the edge of the stage. No more ground for her to stand on, she tips off the stage and falling down to the ground below. Han Jie<\/em> is there to break her fall. Both end up sprawled out on the ground, hands rubbing their heads in pain.<\/p>\n Li Zhi Chao<\/em> is not liking the sight of the one he likes on top of Han Jie<\/em>. He’s quickly trying to get to Fang Xiao Rou<\/em>, but the stage is too high from the ground. His legs dangle and feeling the walls edge for some moments before finally he’s on the ground. He immediately hurries over to Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> and hovers on top of her to check on her. Han Jie<\/em> groans in great pain as Li Zhi Chao<\/em> adds further weight onto him.<\/p>\n Su Ying Jun<\/em> is on location with the principal watching on. He’s unimpressed with Han Jie’s<\/em> irresponsible ways. The principal allows Su Ying Jun<\/em> to continue his ramblings a little longer before he becomes tired of the negative comments coming about Han Jie<\/em>. “You were here to talk to me about the international inter-school cooking competition,” the principal says to Su Ying Jun<\/em>, cutting him off from his ramblings.<\/p>\n In this conversation, we are told that the competition between Si Ping High School<\/em> and Shi Wen High School<\/em> is happening next week. There is a need to select a teacher to lead the team and a student to assist in the competition. Su Ying Jun<\/em> asks the principal on his view of who he sees leading their team. Han Jie<\/em> and Wen Zhen Yu<\/em>, the principal says. Su Ying Jun’s<\/em> opinion of Han Jie<\/em> earlier is indicative of who he thinks is a better candidate to lead the team into the competition: Wen Zhen Yu<\/em>. His well-mannered countenance will make him shine in the competition and impress; whereas, Han Jie is much too frivolous, he reasons. The principal decides to have a faculty meeting to determine the teacher to lead their school’s team into the competition.<\/p>\n The debate comes to be not only about who should lead the team, but what course menu should be cooked—international cuisine or local cuisine. It is a debate seeing Han Jie<\/em> wishing to lead a team cooking local cuisine that highlights Taiwan’s unique and specialty ingredients. Meanwhile, Wen Zhen Yu<\/em> wishes to lead a team cooking international cuisine, viewing local ingredients as not refined enough to see them able to win the competition.<\/p>\n The difference of opinions between Han Jie<\/em> and Wen Zhen Yu<\/em> has the principal call on Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> to give her opinion on this matter. She suggests a cooking competition between the two chefs to decide who will lead the team in the competition against Shi Wen High School<\/em>.<\/p>\n This brings in the cooking competition between Han Jie<\/em> and Wen Zhen Yu<\/em> and incorporates the mushroom farmer’s challenge to Han Jie<\/em> that featured in last week’s episode of creating the most unremarkable and native delicacy. Si Ping High School<\/em> staff are their judges. Wen Zhen Yu’s<\/em> dish is ‘White Radish with Five Gems’—a dish featuring white radish with Matsuzaka pork, mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and yam; and Han Jie’s<\/em> dish is a simple White Radish Cake with Seaweed Roll. Those staff members that are familiar to us go to the side we expect them to go: Su Ying Jun<\/em> and Li Zhi Chao<\/em> is for Wen Zhen Yu<\/em>; and Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> friend, Jiang Pei Ying<\/em>, is the only familiar face for Han Jie<\/em>. The other teachers split between Han Jie<\/em> and Wen Zhen Yu<\/em> until they have an equal amount of people on each side. This leaves Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> as the tie breaker.<\/p>\n It comes to look like a choice of who Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> wishes to support more. Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> likes Wen Zhen Yu<\/em> but her reaction to Han Jie’s<\/em> dish was bigger and reminded her of the one her dad made when she was little. She chose objectivity over emotions and her choice is Han Jie<\/em>. The winner and teacher leading the school’s team into the competition is Han Jie<\/em>. (Yay! Congratulations, Han Jie! *<;oD *<;oP.) Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> is in low spirits after going against her beloved Senior<\/em>, but Han Jie<\/em> cheers her up and explains that she had not given the vote to him, but to his dish that she truly found delicious. This somewhat does the trick and Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> cheers up a little.<\/p>\n This scene seems to show Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> still sees Wen Zhen Yu<\/em> as the only person she admires, but in the next scene we see that this may not be the case when Jiang Pei Ying<\/em> does a couple of tests on her to have Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> figure out who she actually has in her heart after Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> cannot forget how she went against her beloved Senior<\/em>. Jiang Pei Ying<\/em> does the simple test of asking Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> who it was that came to mind her first. She then asks her to choose options on a love life reading app. The reading app indicate Han Jie<\/em>. More indicatively, though, Han Jie<\/em> is the one that comes to Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> mind first not Wen Zhen Yu<\/em>.<\/p>\n The missed opportunity of Han Jie<\/em> and his old cooking teacher reuniting comes back around after firstly seeing a very cool scene of Han Jie<\/em> and Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> helping Ma Chong Sheng<\/em> out at his grandmother’s noodle shop after Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> ordered Han Jie<\/em> to go with her to bring Ma Chong Sheng<\/em> back to school. This scene sees Han Jie<\/em> taking over Ma Chong Sheng’s<\/em> grandmother’s noodle shop and satisfying dissatisfied patrons who Ma Chong Sheng<\/em> had offended with serving unpatable noodles. The master chef that Han Jie<\/em> is, with the help of Fang Xiao Rou<\/em>, he cooks up superb bowls of noodles that had the dissatisfied patrons’ bowls licked clean, satisfied and paying for their food.<\/p>\n![\"Love](\"blogimgs\/lovecuisine\/ep03\/01.jpg\")
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