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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nKnowing something about the sampling student is key to passing this part and it is a piece of cake for Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> when Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> is the person he selects to make his dish for. With a pork ginger dish, Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> easily guesses him to have made the dish she samples. A roast pork ginger ale meal, Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> explains Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> is only one of two people who knows she had a cold and he was the one who made ginger coke for her for her cold.<\/p>\n Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> unfortunately fails the assessment when the person she selects to sample her dish, Liu Xuan<\/em>, does find the correct reason, but makes an incorrect guess of the person who made the dish. Liu Xuan<\/em> says the dish is made with her injured leg in mind. This person who made the dish wishes for her leg to heal faster. She goes to the whiteboard and circles Amy Fan’s<\/em> name before turning to the person she circled. “Amy, it’s you, right?” Liu Xuan<\/em> asks her. Amy Fan<\/em> shakes her head. Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> raises her hand as she informs Liu Xuan<\/em> who actually did. “I did…” Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> says. Liu Xuan<\/em> is shocked. Wei Qi Zhen’s<\/em> eyes discreetly roll in the direction of Wang Mai Zhi<\/em>, seemingly apologetic towards him, sad and possibly embarrassed she is the first one to have not been correctly chosen.<\/p>\n Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> therefore isn’t one of the five students representing Si Ping High School<\/em> in the National Senior Cooking Competition. Wang Mai Zhi<\/em>, however, is. The four others students making up the team representing Si Ping High School<\/em> are: Ma Chong Sheng<\/em>, Liu Xuan<\/em>, Chen Meng Chen<\/em> and Tang Hao<\/em>. Kong Meng Zhen<\/em> was disqualified as soon as the sampling starts when he initialed his dish. Amy Fan<\/em> passed at the sampling stage; however, her dish seems to have not done well during judgment from the teachers.<\/p>\n Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> failing to make to the final five means she isn’t able to receive the end-of-year giveaway Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> had planned to give her. Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> had been gutted when Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> had failed to pass and seems to have really wanted to give away his end-of-year giveaway to Wei Qi Zhen<\/em>. Catching up to Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> and stopping her from leaving on her bicycle after she had dashed away from him in the hallway when he called out to her, Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> asks Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> if she wants to know what he had planned to give her. Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> doesn’t. It will make her sad knowing she isn’t able to receive it. Hearing this, Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> still goes on to tell Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> what it was: it was a life-size cardboard cutout of him that he had wanted to give her as a prize. The disappointment Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> expresses on having missed out on a life-size cardboard cutout of him and how much she wanted it has Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> give a hint to the actual prize he wanted to give: “What’s so great about a life-size cardboard cutout? Isn’t it better to have the real person?” Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> hears what he said, but is confused and questions it.<\/p>\n Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> diverts. He tells Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> he will take back his dictionary (Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> had dropped it onto the floor in the hallway when she dashed away from Wang Mai Zhi<\/em>) as punishment for making him chase after her. He warns her if she ever is like this in the future, he will ignore her. Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> responds with saying she isn’t like him who possesses magical powers that has the ability to keep herself away from being eliminated by having a dictionary with no words of failure. She also tells him that the things she wants just doesn’t come to her no matter how much effort she puts in. Wang Mai Zhi<\/em> disagrees and will prove that the things she wants will come to her: she simply needs to agree to give him what he wants at the time he manages to defeat Shi Wen High School<\/em> in the national cooking competition—to which Wei Qi Zhen<\/em> does.<\/p>\n Underneath the playfulness, Chris<\/em> has a problem he’s hiding from Han Jie<\/em> and everyone else. Chris<\/em> has lost his sense of taste. It is through Han Jie<\/em> knowing Chris<\/em> well that Han Jie<\/em> is able to help Chris<\/em> regain his sense of taste. ‘Knowing the other’ is also what helps bring Han Jie<\/em> and Si Ping High School<\/em> to victory in the cooking competition.<\/p>\n Han Jie<\/em> becomes aware of Chris’<\/em> problem after a call from Raymond<\/em> informing Han Jie<\/em> of Chris’<\/em> preparations made to exit from the cuisine world. This brings Han Jie<\/em> to recall two occasions with Chris<\/em>: the unpalatable spicy dish he ate that Chris<\/em> made and the paper he found on the floor at Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> father’s restaurant containing the recipe to the dessert Chris<\/em> made at their cooking battle. Putting two and two together, Han Jie<\/em> believes Chris<\/em> has lost his sense of taste. Han Jie<\/em> seeks proof to determine whether his guess is true or not. Han Jie<\/em> tests Chris<\/em> with pouring one of the condiment ingredients into a bowl of noodle soup Chris<\/em> eats at an eatery he meets Chris<\/em> up at and asks him to tell him what he added. Chris<\/em> is vague with his answer: it’s salty. Han Jie<\/em> soon gets confirmation when when he asks Chris<\/em> how long he was going to hide it from him. A moment processing the question and looking at Han Jie<\/em> with unwavering gaze on him, Chris<\/em> tells Han Jie<\/em> not to look at him with such a pitiful face.<\/p>\n With Chris<\/em> confirming the problem, Han Jie<\/em> becomes preoccupied with it to the point of him not noticing Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> holding a bag of carrots or her smiling person as he walks away with the shopping trolley during a grocery shopping excursion of theirs. Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> manages to snap Han Jie<\/em> out of his thoughts with a kiss to his cheek and declaring to do a sudden check on whether he’s breaking the rule of hiding something from her. Han Jie<\/em> telling Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> Chris’<\/em> problem is the thing filling up all of his thoughts leads Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> to mention Mr. Joel. “Since you can’t come up with a solution, why don’t you ask Mr. Joel for help? Just like how he taught you at the time, “I feel you can try going back to the original intention—go back and think on what the significance of competiting with Chris<\/em> was back then.”<\/p>\n The story about Mr. Joel is told by Chris<\/em> to Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> during a talk between the two when Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> had gone looking for Chris<\/em> at her father’s restaurant to stop Chris<\/em> from giving up cooking. Mr. Joel is Han Jie<\/em> and Chris’<\/em> teacher when they were students. Mr. Joel is said to have been the youngest three michelin star chef during Han Jie<\/em> and Chris’<\/em> student days and was someone both guys looked up to. The situation described to have happened back then was that Mr. Joel had given them a fork and set a challenge for each of them to turn every Chinese dish into ones that can only be eaten with a fork—that is: to turn Chinese cuisine into those that westerners would want to eat so it can be judged. Chris<\/em> was the victorious one back then and the fork Mr. Joel had presented before them became Chris’<\/em>—one that has been turned into a ring and currently in worn by Chris<\/em>.<\/p>\n Fang Xiao Rou’s<\/em> words has Han Jie<\/em> smile to himself. He pulls her to him and envelops Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> in a hug. “What are you doing? This is a supermarket,” Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> says to Han Jie<\/em>. Han Jie<\/em> doesn’t care because Fang Xiao Rou<\/em> had just helped him figure out how he’d face Chris<\/em>.<\/p>\n The day of the National High School Cooking Competition arrives. Ninety minutes is designated for each team to create their dish for judgement. The topic is chicken. While Shi Wen High School<\/em> goes through the ninety minutes smoothly, it isn’t so for Si Ping High School<\/em>. Making Si Ping’s<\/em> version of a creative chicken stew, blunders and accidents come one after the other. It starts with Tang Hao<\/em> dropping a bowl to the ground before even starting cooking. When the cooking begins, Ma Chong Sheng<\/em> nips his fingers whilst preparing chicken. Immediately following Ma Chong Sheng<\/em>, it’s Tang Hao<\/em> again: he knocks a bowl containing ingredients to the floor. And finally, Liu Xuan<\/em> makes the biggest blunder when she spills the chicken stock for their stew onto the floor when her injured leg gives way. Chen Meng Chen<\/em>, the only student who has been in control all this time, is devastated by the last mistake by Liu Xuan<\/em>. Han Jie<\/em> isn’t worried. He is calm and cool. Han Jie<\/em> makes changes to the dish. Anchovy, rosemary and mash potatoes for dumpling knots are asked to be prepared to make up for the mistake.<\/p>\n The dish is completed and is put up for judgement. The way in which the dishes are judged involves judgement from the judges as well as a member of the other team decided by drawing a name. It is this additional judge from each of the teams that sees Han Jie<\/em> having the ability to help Chris<\/em> with his problem. Han Jie<\/em> knowing Chris<\/em> very well and Han Jie<\/em> drawing out Chris<\/em> to taste his team’s dish, Han Jie<\/em> helps Chris<\/em> regain his sense of taste: the Sichuan pepper Han Jie<\/em> added into his team’s dish ignites Chris’<\/em> senses and returns him his sense of taste.<\/p>\n The results of the competition: Si Ping High School<\/em> wins. This win comes after Chris<\/em> contests the judges’ judgement of Shi Wen High School<\/em> as the winner when he tells the judges they failed to pick up the depth of flavours in Han Jie’s<\/em> dish—the depth of flavours that he knows Han Jie’s<\/em> dishes always have because Chris<\/em> understands his cooking.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n