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0:00The man is butchering the pig.
0:01He uses his knife to trace circles on the carcass.
0:04The motion is fluid and seamless.
0:05Not a single drop of blood is spilled.
0:07In less than a minute, the meat comes cleanly off the bone.
0:11Everyone applauds his skill.
0:12Soon the braised dish is brought to the table.
0:15But not long after, everyone who ate it starts to feel unwell.
0:18The man realizes something is wrong.
0:20He personally handled every ingredient in the dish except for the salt.
0:24He remembers that his apprentice brought the salt.
0:27The man is furious. He chases after him.
0:29The apprentice finally confesses,
0:31but by then the villagers no longer trust the man.
0:33He has no way to defend himself,
0:35so the village chief exiles him from the village.
0:38With no other options,
0:39he applies for a chef position at a high end restaurant.
0:42But his competitor is highly skilled.
0:44He slices fugu into paper thin pieces,
0:46the fish meat nearly transparent.
0:48The man picks a fish from the tank.
0:50He cuts the flesh into extremely thin slices.
0:53Amazingly, the fish,
0:54now just a skeleton, is still swimming.
0:56His opponent is deeply puzzled.
0:58He studies the man's knife work
0:59and discovers he is using a blade made of ice.
1:02After that, the opponent chases him,
1:04begging to become his apprentice.
1:06The man successfully lands the job.
1:08When the head chef learns of this,
1:10he feels threatened and issues a challenge.
1:13The rules are simple.
1:14The loser leaves the Restaurant the chosen ingredient is roast duck.
1:18The man calls his newly taken apprentice to assist.
1:21When the dishes are ready,
1:22the judges taste the head chef's dish and are full of praise.
1:25But when they try the man's dish,
1:27they think it has gone cold.
1:28To their surprise, they end up burning their tongues.
1:31Steam suddenly rises and the aroma is irresistible.
1:34The secret is using maltos,
1:36which keeps the dish consistently warm.
1:38The young woman is stunned by the flavor.
1:40She can hardly believe it.
1:42After tasting it, the head chef concedes defeat. Curious,
1:45he asks how the dish was made.
1:47The man reveals that he did not use a knife to cut the duck
1:50because the blade passing through would damage the meat fibers,
1:53so he had his apprentice break the duck's bones
1:55with the palm of his hand.
1:57Hearing this technique,
1:58the head chef immediately acknowledges the man's superior skill.
2:01In the end,
2:02the man successfully becomes the head chef of the top restaurant,
2:06earning fame throughout the city.
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