Episode 10
You are eating something cold after your exercise?
Take it slow.
When men are speaking women don't butt in
How can you say that?
Yang Guang. Don't pick up the wrong things.
What are you learning from the iceman?
I see that the two of you are male chauvinists.
That's why the saying goes,
when men are talking,
you shouldn't talk.
That's right.
Yang Guang.
I have helped you a lot today.
Shouldn't you repay me?
Okay. Tell me what you want and I will agree.
Then, today, regarding about me coming to participate in the sports meet,
don't tell Grandpa and Uncle Li Yang.
This is a secret between us men.
Can you do it?
Why?
He always say that he hates people who lie
but today, because of Yang Guang,
he lied that he was Yang Guang's father.
I think that
he doesn't want Grandpa and Li Yang
to know that he lied.
But
we won three medals and also a bag.
Wouldn't it be good to let Grandpa know?
They will be very happy.
Yang Guang.
Listen to Uncle Hao Feng.
Uncle Hao Feng has must have a reason
for telling you to do this.
Okay.
Hao Feng.
Thank you for today,
for doing everything for Yang Guang.
Don't misunderstand.
it’s just that I have been coped up in the restaurant for too long.
Today, I’m taking the opportunity to do some stretches to loosen up.
and in passing, thinking back of my campus days, that's all.
By the way, Uncle Hao Feng,
didn't you tell me that, today, my dad would come back?
Why didn't he come?
Aunt.
Why did you snatch my ice cream?
I saw that you couldn’t finish it.
I’m helping you with it.
I don't need you to help me with this.
I can finish it myself.
Give it back to me. I will finish it myself.
Give it back to me.
I don't need your help. I can finish it.
Give it back to me.
Aunt.
Closed for today.
Yang Guang.
What are you doing?
Why are you washing clothes?
Uncle Hao Feng. You helped me with a big favor today.
It is right that I should do some small errand for you.
it’s because the teacher ever said that
we must learn to do housework from young.
Uncle Hao Feng. Do you think the clothes I’m washing are clean?
Yes.
Furthermore, it doesn't hurt.
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Dad. What's wrong?
I’m fine.
I find that when I get older,
Somewhat, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
Dad, you stay up like this every day
and helps to prepare breakfast for Yang Guang.
How would you find time to rest?
Dad. Why don’t we do this?
Let me do this in the future.
Okay.
I will leave it to you and can be assured.
Your condition is not very good lately.
Admit yourself to the hospital quick. Don't delay.
Can I delay it for a while longer?
You are still delaying?
Don't take your health as a joke.
I know.
Wait till I have made arrangements for my matters
and I will come here and get admitted.
Make it quick then.
I can't do anything if it's too late.
Okay.
Don’t worry.
I want to live longer to see my grandchild.
I will leave first then.
Hao Feng and Li Yang's cooking are really different.
Who says that it's different? They are both equally delicious.
For example, this carp,
Gold medal sauce roast carp.
So, this is what this dish is called.
I also knew that it's called carp.
Frankly, this kind of fish
the flesh is tasty and it melts in the mouth.
The meat quality is extremely exquisite.
It has a distinct sweet fragrance and savory taste.
Using the roast-in-sauce method is just perfect.
Especially with spring onion and garlic spread underneath the fish.
it’s extremely tasty.
it’s really fragrant.
The problem is that it's too fragrant.
To the extent that it's a bit overpowering.
Overpowering?
Also, the heavy fragrance
masks the original savory taste of the fish.
I’ve already tried my best.
I thought that this time, I would be able to be close to brother's standards.
Uncle Li Yang. Don't be sad.
Frankly, when I eat it,
the taste is about the same.
Li Yang.
Frankly, your dish today
differs from Hao Feng's only in ingredients.
I don't understand.
Hao Feng put in a bit of the ingredients of dark soy sauce, sate (spicy peanut
sauce), yellow rice wine,
It would have been better for him to be precise with it.
Hao Feng, other than this,
also added some mango.
it’s also a sauce for roasting,
But after adding mango the fish
is even more refreshing, even more exquisite.
Hao Feng.
Go now and prepare some snacks.
These are the 3 signature dishes of our restaurant.
Try them.
See if you can tell what fillings
and what ingredients he's used to make them.
Say whatever you know.
Golden crispy crab meat pastry has crab meat,
goose liver pate, green pepper, red pepper,
shiitake mushroom, onion, winter bamboo shoot.
The texture is crispy. Apart from winter bamboo shoot, it seems like there's also
water chestnut. right?
Sister Xiao Xia, you are really awesome.
The signature dish of little bamboo basket dumplings contains pork,
stock cube, salt, MSG (monosodium glutamate), white sugar, peanut oil
and also the taste of black truffle.
But it seems like the texture is that of edible fungus.
Sister Xiao Xia. it’s the last one.
Crispy little squirrels.
inside, there are pieces of chicken, shiitake mushroom and kernels of pine nut.
If you but it with wonton soup
it would taste even better
She's 100 percent accurate for all.
Sister Xiao Xia.
You actually have an impeccable tasting ability.
Hao Feng.
What do you think of Xiao Xia's performance today?
I admit that
she's what Li Yang said,
one who has an inherent sense of taste.
That's right.
People with this kind of tactile senses
Her palette
can differentiate the smallest flavors in foods.
She's probably the only one in a million.
That's a gifted person,
absolutely a genius.
Definitely the best candidate for becoming a chef.
Xiao Xia has an excellent character.
She has great potential.
in future, she can become a great chef.
Dad. Are you thinking of
letting Xiao Xia to start
developing to greater heights, the culinary skills of the prosperous Chen family's
restaurant?
But with her personality,
I don’t think she would agree.
I believe that you can persuade her.
You'd be the most convincing one.
My dad says...
he wants to pass our family craft to you.
Uncle Chen said
he wants the old shop's craft
to pass on to me?!
Why does Uncle Chen want to do that?
I’m already very happy to be in this family.
I never even thought to...
Actually, my character is a bit impulsive.
I handle things sloppily.
Once I see numbers (calculations), I’ll feel dizzy.
To speak truthfully...
I don't have any culinary experiences.
To pass on the craft(cooking) to me.
If I make a mistake,
I’m afraid I’ll disappoint him.
I knew from the beginning that you would say that.
He couldn't be
suspecting that I’m lying again, right?
l...I’m telling the truth.
I’m not lying!
What are you laughing at?
Nothing...
it’s only that when you aren't lying,
you look especially sincere.
What's wrong with me?
I’m becoming easily moved by
this Antarctic iceman’s words.
I believe that my dad has
his reasons for this decision.
I also believe that you
won't disappoint him.
So...
My dad and l...really hope that you will agree with us.
I agree.
However...
You couldn't be thinking of having some conditions, right?
This guy
just said some touching words and
now he's trying to make me angry.
That's right. I have some conditions.
The conditions are...
Please be my master(teacher).
Push
Knead
is most common in making many of the products
and is the most basic.
It relies on your arm
along with your wrist.
Bring together your palm and push forward.
Knead.
Exert your strength at the right moment.
No need to use that much strength.
Feel for a moment.
Close your eyes.
Use your sense of touch.
Use your heart.
Slowly feel
the dough in your hands.
What do you feel?
Can you feel
that the dough in your hands also has a life of its own.
It has skin and breath
and emotions.
If you don't have enough conviction,
you won't feel it.
Then the noodles that you make,
will be lifeless.
I can't feel what you describe.
That's because you aren’t trying hard enough.
But, I’ve already tried really hard to imagine it.
Not imagine.
Dough has life.
It can transmit on your intention.
Transmit my intention?
If you wish for customers
to be happy in the store,
Let them find that happiness after they eat your noodles.
Then first,
most important is to transfer the joy
and happiness inside this ball of dough.
This is the conviction.
So, to bring others the feelings of happiness
you first need to transfer happy wishes
to the dough ball.
It all starts with the dough.
No wonder many people like this store's food.
No matter where we go,
if Auntie is there, then it is Yang Guang's home.
Starting today, Yang Guang and Xiao Xia is our family.
Right, family.
When happy, we smile together.
When sad, we help each other.
What is Xiao Xia's biggest wish?
It is to give Yang Guang a safe and stable home.
Let me down!
Yang Guang, let's go home.
I’m doing this
to let you know
this isn’t a dream.
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[Song: Call Me]
~ Playing it a bit smart, ~
~ making you happy ~
~ Can't take my eyes off~
~ Your blooming beauty ~
~ Safeguarding you unswervingly ~
~ I’m not afraid of pain and of missing my own destiny ~
~ I’m willing to be a little stone within your universe ~
~ Silently by your side empathizing with you ~
~ Like the earth devotedly orbiting the sun, never sleeping and never ceasing ~
~ In your times of need, stretch out a hand ~
~ - Call me, call me ~
Thank you.
You can't become fat in a moment. (idiom)
Take a break and then practice some more.
Its okay, I can continue.
I just don't believe
I can't surpass this ball of dough.
I know you are a Super Woman.
But heroines still need to rest.
Okay. I’ll practice a little more, then rest.
~ The wounds I have remaining for your sake ~
~ The scars etched into the palms of my hands ~
~ Let the lines of love be carved even deeper~
~ Then I won't care whether you care for me or not ~
~ I’m willing to be a little stone within your universe ~
~ Silently by your side empathizing with you ~
~ Like the earth devotedly orbiting the sun, never sleeping and never ceasing ~
~ In your times of need, stretch out a hand ~
~ Call me, call me ~
~ The me who live every minute, every second for you ~
Resting today
Can you distinguish what these three powders are?
This is flour.
These are coarse grains.
This is rice flour.
Correct. Then tell me
what's the difference among these three?
Flour comes from ground wheat.
Rice flour comes from ground rice grains.
Coarse grains should be apart from these two types, right?
For example corn, glutinous rice, soybeans etc.
Correct.
Look at you after becoming Chen family's head chef
This does not at all indicate that you're already qualified.
There are lots of things still for you to learn.
Today, dad is being especially naggy.
They can modulate the powdery stuff differently to have certain poriness,
ductility and also plasticity.
They can adapt the making of all kinds of crust dough.
Then that's to say,
all the dishes can be made from these three flour, right?
They look ordinary, but are not ordinary.
They have high levels of starch, protein and other healthy benefits.
They can bring the most basic feeling of being full to people.
Basic feeling of being full.
Tell me,
what did l teach you in the very first lesson?
Be sincere
Why do you need to be sincere?
Because the food we make are for others to eat.
Taste is important.
But safety is even more important.
Look at you.
You've forgotten even the basic stuff.
Sorry, dad.
Li Yang.
Don't blame Dad.
If I don't give you pressure again,
I’m afraid that I may not have the time anymore
to make up for everything.
Just like when you're starving and freezing. Suddenly, you get to eat a nice
and hot bowl of beef noodles.
I get it.
It’s to use the most common ingredients
to give the people what they need most.
Really very easy and simple.
You are smart.
Look at how delicious our snacks in the restaurant are.
Do you know what's the reason behind it?
Isn’t it just because your techniques and culinary skills are very good?
You've only mentioned some things which are outward.
But to let the taste within come out
depends on something.
This thing is both simple and cheap.
Yet, it can play the role of adding the vital finishing touch.
Grandpa Cheng.
What are you referring to?
it’s our stock.
An elder of the Chen family's ancestors was a
an ideal herbalist who roamed everywhere.
The stock's herbs and medicinal ingredients
We slowly reduced it.
We also added many unique-tasting foodstuffs.
Later, it underwent several generations of meticulous modulation,
Thus becoming the stock we know today.
Frankly,
what this century-old soup makes, is this sort of happy taste.
It bears the weight of the precipitation through the passage of time.
So no matter if it's the snacks or just an ordinary bowl of wonton, so long as this
stock is used for the base,
it will bring a kind of happy sensation from feeling full.
You haven't slept yet?
I couldn't sleep.
Making snacks is not something you can succeed at overnight.
I wanted to take a look at the stock.
This is the stock?
It smells really good.
If we were to open the windows, the aroma will drift through to several streets.
This truly is just 'quality goods need no advertising.
Cooked for a century, how is this soup to be viewed? it’s still
I had even thought that the soup would be especially thick.
Any other soup is also cooked accumulatively over a long period.
But, every week, we'd all pick out the condiment from the old stock and
draw out the foodstuff to filter out the impurities. The soup obtained and
preserved like this is called the soup base.
Next, we would load the soup base in the ceramic jar. When we need to cook again,
We’d pour it into a pot.
Only at this time would we add in the main as well as other ingredients.
But the quantity we use would be reduced by half.
We'd again add an appropriate amount of water to specially cook the soup.
Only like this can we continue this century-old, still refreshing tastiness.
Hao Feng, could you let me personally make a bowl of the wonton soup?
We are doomed.
Dad. Bad news.
Dad! Dad! Dad!
Dad fainted and the stock's gone. We are doomed.
Stay calm.
If dad wakes up afterwards,
don't ever tell him about the stock.
The ruined stock is a big issue.
How can we not tell him about that?
If we tell him, it will only make him worse.
Don't tell him first.
Old Qi,
I’m begging you.
Don't let them know about my current condition.
With your condition now,
you still don't want to stay in the hospital?
You are going to continue on like this?
You are at risk all the time.
Give me some time.
After that, I will come here on my own
to receive treatment.
Uncle Qi.
What's my dad's condition?
He is already conscious
but he needs to stay here for observation for a few days.
Stay here?
Tell me what's wrong with him?
Your father is getting old. He has hypertension.
He's okay now
but I hope that your dad can control his stress.
Don't stress him.
Grandpa.
Yang Guang. Don't cry.
Grandpa is fine.
Dry your eyes.
Give Grandpa a smile.
Smile.
Uncle Cheng. Are you really fine?
Enough already.
Everyone has such grim faces.
Didn’t the doctor already say that I was fine?
it’s just that my blood pressure has been a bit low.
That's why I fainted.
Don't be concerned.
it’s getting late.
Yang Guang needs to go to school tomorrow.
You need to look after the restaurant.
Go home early.
Look at you.
All of you are looking at me.
How do you expect me to rest?
This is a hospital. I’m fine.
Go home.
Okay then.
Dad. Take a good rest.
We will go home first.
Li Yang.
Stay here and keep me company.
Uncle Cheng. Take care of yourself then.
I will leave first.
Grandpa.
I will come back and visit you.
Li Yang.
I will pass all my culinary skills
to you.
If there is anything you don't understand,
you should ask me more questions.
What should we do?
The stock is ruined.
Such a big issue happened at the restaurant and I still need to hide it from dad.
What should we do?
What are you thinking of?
l... I understand.
Do you know that
culinary skills
need lots of training?
I believe that
one day,
you will
be the chef for the Chen Traditional Restaurant.
When that time comes,
I will hand over the restaurant to you.
Dad. You are handling over the restaurant to me.
What about Second Brother?
His interest is not in the restaurant.
He has always wanted to do something he likes.
Sorry, Hao Feng.
it was I who caused this.
I’m really sorry.
Don't feel responsible.
The accident has already occurred.
What's most important now
is to make the stock.
Didn’t you all say that I have a talent for tasting?
Could I possibly taste the original soup and find out the original ingredients
and then make a new batch of stock?
This may be possible.
But the ingredients for the stock,
there are at least a hundred of them.
Ever since I became the chef for the restaurant,
I could only know 67 kinds.
We really need to depend on your gustatory sense now.
It seems like there's cinnamon bark.
Don't try anymore.
No.
I must try to figure out the ingredients.
You have already helped a lot.
You have just tried
39 types of taste.
including what I could recall, it's 60 more.
We are now already very sure of at least a hundred of them.
We don't know the remaining types.
We have to open the restaurant in two hours time.
Why don't we boil a new stock?
We are only short of a few ingredients.
I believe that half of the customers wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Do you know what you are saying?
That spirit of the restaurant which dad and I have passed on to you.
Have you forgotten them all?
If because of this, we set out to con our customers,
where is the sincerity in our restaurant then?
Sorry. I didn't mean that.
I’m not trying to con our customers.
I don't want the customers to be disappoint that they wouldn't be able to eat
the dumplings.
If you are lying to help someone else.
I can forgive you for that.
But if it's to deceive
those people who come to the restaurant looking for happiness,
this, I can’t forgive.
Let's not offer the dumplings then.
What will happen to our snacks menu?
If there is no way we can re-create the stock,
we will close the restaurant.
Not only for today,
or tomorrow.
it’s forever.
Aunt, Uncle Hao Feng.
Both of you haven't slept the whole of last night.
I’m going to school.
Be careful on the road.
is today the rest day for the restaurant?
What time is It already? Why isn't It open yet?
Didn't something happen to the restaurant?
The Chen Traditional Restaurant, come rain or shine,
has never stopped operating.
That's right.
I have been eating here for more than 19 years.
If there isn't any special circumstances,
they would never stop operating.
Hao Feng. The customers are increasing.
Do you plan not to open the restaurant?
How should we solve this?
The chef is here.
Say something.
What's going on?
Dear customers, I’m sorry.
From today on, this restaurant will stop operating.
Why?
What's wrong?
Speak.
it’s because of an accident.
Please forgive us.
When the restaurant is ready to operate again,
we will notify everyone.
Our apologies for making everyone come here.
We are really sorry.
What exactly is going on?
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Second Brother. How is the stock going?
The stock now is still lacking some ingredients.
There is no way we can confirm them.
What should we do?
Second Brother. Think of something.
Before dad gets discharged,
we must have the stock ready.
We can hide this issue for too long.
Watch after dad’s health. This is more important.
Regarding the stock, I will think of a solution.