# E10 - Clash of the Super Dim Sum
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***SIGN*** True Cooking Master Boy
**[01:41] Shirou**
Amazing!
**[01:43] Mao**
Yeah.
**[01:44] Luokong**
You're using both hands to simultaneously
knead two balls of dough?
**[01:47] Luokong**
So you weren't all talk when you
proclaimed yourself the best in the land.
**[01:52] Xielu**
I don't see your hands moving, gramps.
**[01:54] Xielu**
Though I doubt you can knead dough properly
with the feeble hands of an old man.
**[02:01] Luokong**
I am Luo Kong the Dim Sum King.
**[02:05] Luokong**
If you're the best in the land,
then I'm the best in the world.
**[02:11] Luokong**
Let me teach you something.
**[02:13] Luokong**
Dough is not kneaded with strength.
**[02:16] Luokong**
It is the circular motion of
my fingers, arms, and cane.
**[02:20] Luokong**
In other words, the essence of
dim sum cooking is rotation.
**[02:24] Luokong**
The extent of a dim sum chef's mastery of
rotations is an expression of his skill.
**[02:30] Luokong**
Bai Luo Rotational Kneading!
***SIGN*** Bai Luo Rotational Kneading!!
**[02:35] Xielu**
He's using torque to knead
the smoothest possible dough.
**[02:39] Shirou**
Mao, what does that mean?
**[02:41] Mao**
The majority of a sweet
bun's flavor is determined
**[02:45] Mao**
by how soft and fluffy the skin is.
**[02:49] Mao**
When you knead yeast made
from fermented potatoes
**[02:52] Mao**
into flour and let it rest, the dough rises.
**[02:58] Mao**
Th-That's...
**[03:00] Luokong**
This is what gives life to
my sweet buns: lao mein.
**[03:04] Shirou**
Lao mein?
**[03:06] Luokong**
This is the dough passed down from
the founder of the Bai Luo family
**[03:10] Luokong**
since the Three Kingdoms
Era, Shuhan Lao Mein.
**[03:13] Luokong**
It contains the ultimate yeast,
having survived for 1600 years.
**[03:24] Meili**
It's so delicate from being thoroughly
kneaded and abundantly fluffy.
**[03:28] Mao**
It'll definitely produce incredible sweet
buns like nothing anyone's ever tasted.
**[03:32] Mao**
Xie Lu!
**[03:34] Xielu**
Don't worry. I've already finished my skins.
**[03:38] Mao**
What?
**[03:39] Mao**
It's flat.
**[03:41] Shirou**
You can't win that sad flat skin, bro!
**[03:48] Mao**
The filling is usually made
primarily from ground pork,
**[03:52] Mao**
but what will Xie Lu do?
**[03:55] Shirou**
What?
**[03:56] Shirou**
Beef? That's not pork, Mao.
**[03:59] Shirou**
Is he going to be okay?
**[04:01] Mao**
No, it's smart.
**[04:02] Mao**
If you want to maximize the juiciness
of the filling, you should use beef.
**[04:06] Shirou**
Which means Xie Lu's finally
getting ready to use his staff.
**[04:11] Shirou**
A knife?
**[04:15] Mao**
Steaks?
**[04:19] Luokong**
You're wrapping chunks of
meat in deflated flat skins?
**[04:23] Luokong**
Just so you know, serving something
that can't be described
**[04:26] Luokong**
as sweet buns is out of the question.
**[04:32] Xielu**
Sounds like you don't know what I'm doing.
**[04:35] Xielu**
You've fallen so far, Dim Sum King.
**[04:39] Luokong**
It seems most dim sum masters
still have to have the last word.
**[04:46] Luokong**
These should be ready soon.
**[04:50] Xiang**
Eight clay pots...
**[04:52] Xiang**
Could it be?
**[04:57] Meili**
Bamboo?
**[04:59] Luokong**
Allow me to show you the Bai
Luo family's ultimate dim sum.
**[05:05] Both**
It's done!
**[05:17] Meili**
This light...
**[05:25] Mao**
A treasure ship packed with heaping
mountains of multicolored sweet buns.
**[05:29] Mao**
And golden sweet buns glittering
on the back of the golden dragon.
**[05:33] Mao**
It's practically blinding.
**[05:37] Xiang**
Let the judging begin.
**[05:38] Xiang**
First, Dim Sum King Luo Kong.
**[05:43] He**
I see. You used the bamboo you cut earlier
to build this treasure ship steamer.
**[05:48] He**
By the way, what do they say?
**[05:50] Luokong**
Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise,
Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger.
**[05:55] Luokong**
With each of the Four Guardians of the four
cardinal directions in their place,
**[05:58] Luokong**
they quell the seas,
and ease the hearts of men.
**[06:00] Luokong**
They are the noble Requiem
Sweet Buns of prayer!
**[06:04] Xiang**
Spare me the theory.
**[06:06] Xiang**
It only matters if they're good or not.
**[06:16] Xiang**
Not only are the skins as soft as cotton,
**[06:19] Xiang**
but they're overflowing with rich juices.
**[06:22] Xiang**
The mouthfeel and softness
are of the highest quality.
**[06:28] Xiang**
This is sea cucumber!
**[06:31] Xiang**
It's damn impressively rehydrated!
**[06:35] He**
This one contains scallops!
**[06:36] He**
They dance from the skin
with the excellent broth,
**[06:38] He**
just begging to be eaten!
**[06:40] Hu**
I had no idea abalone could
be so crisp and soft!
**[06:43] Xiang**
The ultimate seafood has been sealed
inside the ultimately fluffy skins,
**[06:47] Xiang**
producing supreme bliss!
**[06:49] He**
Not only that, but they've
all been cooked low and slow
**[06:52] He**
to perfection in eight separate clay pots!
**[06:57] Hu**
They're treasures. Treasures of sweet buns.
**[07:01] Sanjie**
Just from eating high quality seafood?
**[07:04] Sanjie**
What's going on?
**[07:06] Luokong**
The secret is in the skin.
**[07:10] Luokong**
East is sourness.
**[07:11] Luokong**
North is saltiness.
**[07:13] Luokong**
West is spiciness.
**[07:15] Luokong**
South is bitterness.
**[07:16] Luokong**
By applying the appropriate flavor
according to each direction
**[07:19] Luokong**
of the cosmic dual forces and five elements,
the ultimate balance is maintained.
**[07:24] Luokong**
These are the Bai Luo family's ultimate
sweet buns, passed down for generations:
**[07:28] Luokong**
The Four Guardians Seafood
Eight Treasure Buns!
***SIGN*** Four Guardians Seafood Eight Treasure Buns
**[07:37] Xiang**
Few have mastered the Four Guardians
Seafood Eight Treasure Buns.
**[07:41] Xiang**
No one can surpass 1600 years of history.
**[07:45] Luokong**
*Boy, you never stood a chance at winning.*
**[07:54] Xiang**
Next, Xie Lu.
**[07:56] Hu**
Gold, huh? How flashy.
**[07:59] Hu**
The golden dragon is a
brilliantly crafted, too.
**[08:04] He**
Those flat skins have puffed up quite a bit.
**[08:08] Xiang**
What's wrong with this dragon?
**[08:10] Xiang**
It's holding on tight and won't let go.
**[08:13] Xiang**
There!
**[08:18] Xiang**
It laughed! The sweet bun laughed at me!
**[08:22] Judges**
What's going on?
**[08:25] Luokong**
Quiet, amateurs!
**[08:29] Luokong**
The essence of these sweet
buns lies elsewhere.
**[08:33] Luokong**
The cracks in the sweet buns.
**[08:36] Luokong**
The two pots.
**[08:38] Luokong**
The strange glow of the dragon.
**[08:40] Luokong**
You fool, Xie Lu!
**[08:42] Luokong**
You fried your sweet buns!
**[08:45] Xielu**
Exactly. These are fried sweet buns.
**[08:48] Luokong**
Amateur! The meat's juices
have flowed out of the cracks
**[08:51] Luokong**
created in the skin by the hot oil!
**[08:55] Luokong**
A sweet bun without a single drop of
juice left is a shell of a sweet bun!
**[08:59] Xielu**
Are you sure about that?
**[09:00] Xiang**
Hot!
**[09:02] Xiang**
Hot, hot, hot!
**[09:03] Hu**
Hot, hot, hot!
**[09:07] Xiang**
Inside my mouth...
**[09:08] He**
Piping hot, meaty juices are pouring out!
**[09:12] Judge**
They're stuffed with full-bodied
juices rich with beef flavor!
**[09:17] Hu**
But it's so refreshing,
and not too heavy at all!
**[09:21] Xiang**
Not only that, but the juices perfectly
match the fluffy, crispy, and fragrant fried skins!
**[09:27] He**
It's a new kind of snack!
The ultimate deliciousness!
**[09:30] He**
This super dim sum is
supremely enjoyable to eat!
**[09:34] Luokong**
Impossible! How?
**[09:36] Luokong**
There should be no juices left!
**[09:40] Xielu**
Try breaking open the insides of a sweet bun.
**[09:47] He**
What? This is...
**[09:49] He**
Vermicelli!
**[09:52] Xielu**
That's right.
**[09:54] Xielu**
The filling of a fried bun
should be light and refreshing.
**[09:56] Xielu**
That's why I absorbed the meat
juices into the vermicelli.
**[10:00] Xielu**
I seared thick cuts of steak to
seal the flavor inside of them.
**[10:04] Xielu**
Then I cut them into chunks and
stuffed them inside, gramps.
**[10:11] Mao**
I see.
**[10:14] Luokong**
Then why did the sweet buns laugh?
**[10:18] Xielu**
Listen closely, Dim Sum King.
**[10:20] Xielu**
These cracks didn't come from
frying them. I made them.
**[10:24] Xielu**
I made small incisions from the start.
**[10:27] Xielu**
My dough was flat because I used baking soda,
**[10:30] Xielu**
a rising agent that rises
when exposed to heat.
**[10:33] Xielu**
I used the rapid expansion of the skins
**[10:36] Xielu**
during frying to create these cracks.
**[10:39] Xielu**
And these are the true identity of the laugh.
**[10:42] Luokong**
That's...
**[10:43] Xielu**
Light chunks of beef that had
their juices sucked out of them.
**[10:47] Xielu**
The oil that seeped in through the
cracks hardened these chunks, as well
**[10:53] Xielu**
as the inside of the skins and the surface
of the vermicelli, sealing the juices inside.
**[10:58] Xielu**
The meat chunks rattle around
in the space created inside,
**[11:02] Xielu**
producing the sound of laughter.
**[11:05] Xielu**
They are the Golden Open-Mouthed Laugh!
***SIGN*** Golden Open-Mouthed Laugh!!
**[11:12] Xielu**
In other words, laughing golden sweet buns.
**[11:14] Xielu**
This joy is what dim sum is really about.
**[11:18] Mao**
*The soothing top-of-the-line sweet buns,*
**[11:20] Mao**
* the Four Guardians Seafood Eight Treasure*
* Buns and the joyful, over-the-top sweet buns,*
**[11:25] Mao**
*the Golden Open-Mouthed Laugh.*
**[11:27] Mao**
*Who will win?*
**[11:32] Sanjie**
Tell us your judgment.
**[11:35] Mao**
Who will they choose?
**[11:36] Shirou**
Xie Lu, unanimously.
**[11:39] Meili**
It doesn't look that way, Shirou.
**[11:41] Shirou**
What?
**[11:48] Shirou**
They're struggling to decide!
**[11:51] Meili**
The votes are split.
**[11:54] Xiang**
I've decided! I've made my choice!
**[12:00] Judge**
So have I.
**[12:01] Hu**
Yes. The choice is clear.
**[12:04] Sanjie**
All right.
**[12:07] Sanjie**
Very well, tell us the results of your judgment.
**[12:14] Sanjie**
If you choose Xie Lu of the Steel
Staff, raise your red spoon.
**[12:26] Mao**
N-No way.
**[12:35] Sanjie**
Wait, seriously?
**[12:38] Meili**
No one's raising their red spoon.
**[12:40] Audience**
No matter how talented, a youngster
in his twenties can't beat him.
**[12:46] Xielu**
* I don't believe it. I can't*
* believe I lost this badly.*
**[12:52] Xiang**
Then if you choose Luo Kong the Dim
Sum King, raise your white spoon.
**[13:03] Sanjie**
What is this?
**[13:05] Xiang**
What?
**[13:08] Mao**
No one's raising their white spoon, either.
**[13:10] Shirou**
What's going on?
**[13:12] Sanjie**
Governor Xiang, what's the meaning of this?
**[13:20] Xiang**
Sanjie, I once told you the Han Feizi's
story of the spear and the shield.
**[13:26] Sanjie**
The spear and the shield?
**[13:27] Xiang**
Once upon a time, a strange weapons
dealer from the land of Chu
**[13:32] Xiang**
who was selling a spear
that could pierce anything
**[13:36] Xiang**
and a shield that nothing could pierce.
**[13:40] Xiang**
Xie Lu's supremely delicious
laughing fried buns,
**[13:43] Xiang**
the Golden Open-Mouthed Laugh,
**[13:45] Xiang**
are the spear that can pierce anything.
**[13:48] Xiang**
In contrast, the collected 1600
years of wisdom and technique
**[13:51] Xiang**
that are Luo Kong's Four Guardians
Seafood Eight Treasure Buns
**[13:55] Xiang**
are the shield that nothing can pierce.
**[13:58] Xiang**
"So what happens when you strike
that shield with that spear?"
**[14:01] Xiang**
The story ends with the befuddled
weapons dealer being asked this.
**[14:07] Xiang**
Right now, we feel like that weapons dealer.
**[14:10] Xiang**
In the rest of the world, this
spear and shield don't make sense.
**[14:13] Xiang**
We call it a paradox.
**[14:15] Xiang**
But it's also true that an unstoppable spear
**[14:18] Xiang**
and invincible shield can't be compared.
**[14:21] Xiang**
Therefore, this contest is a draw!
**[14:32] Meili**
It's...
**[14:33] Mao**
...a tie?
**[14:53] Mao**
Guys...
**[15:04] Xielu**
What dreary sweet buns.
**[15:06] Xielu**
There's nothing fun about them.
**[15:09] Luokong**
Did you think you could beat me
with such foolish tricks, brat?
**[15:14] Xielu**
What was that, gramps?!
**[15:15] Xielu**
Anyway, you shouldn't be
writing on your sweet buns!
**[15:17] Xielu**
It's unappetizing!
**[15:19] Luokong**
Silence, boy!
**[15:20] Luokong**
The oil from your sweet buns
made my hands sticky!
**[15:23] Luokong**
How will you make it up to me?!
**[15:24] Xielu**
Why is your steamer shaped like a boat?
**[15:26] Xielu**
Make a normal shape!
**[15:28] Luokong**
It's the best shape for circulating
the aroma of the bamboo, you moron!
**[15:31] Luokong**
And your dragon is the most
useless thing imaginable!
**[15:34] Xielu**
What's an old man doing
with long hair, anyway?
**[15:37] Xielu**
You should trim your sideburns, damn it!
**[15:39] Luokong**
You never used your staff a single time!
**[15:42] Luokong**
If it's just for show, take yourself
and your staff to the Shaolin Temple!
**[16:02] Xielu**
It was generous of them to call it a tie.
**[16:06] Xielu**
No matter how you look at it, your sweet
buns are undeniably delicious, gramps.
**[16:12] Luokong**
More importantly, boy, frying
your sweet buns was a bold idea
**[16:16] Luokong**
not even found in the Bai
Luo family's dictionary.
**[16:20] Luokong**
Who taught you to do that?
**[16:23] Xielu**
The Shanxi Province where I
was born has few ingredients.
**[16:27] Xielu**
Since I was a kid, I've been
traveling across all of China
**[16:30] Xielu**
in search of ingredients
and dishes I've never seen.
**[16:35] Xielu**
These sweet buns are my
twist on a recipe I learned
**[16:38] Xielu**
from the locals when I
traveled far to the north.
**[16:42] Xielu**
In bitterly cold lands, you can't make
fluffy hot sweet buns by steaming them.
**[16:46] Xielu**
That's why they fry them.
**[16:49] Xielu**
This land is vast.
**[16:50] Xielu**
Practices we'd never think of are being
used all over the place all the time.
**[16:55] Xielu**
And encountering those
ingredients, dishes, and chefs
**[17:00] Xielu**
is almost more fun than I can bear.
**[17:09] Xielu**
King, what's this?
**[17:12] Luokong**
Boy, I've decided.
**[17:14] Luokong**
I'm going to travel across China to
learn all the flavors it has to offer.
**[17:18] Xielu**
What?
**[17:22] Luokong**
I've spent the past century learning
the Bai Luo family's techniques
**[17:26] Luokong**
and working in the palace kitchens.
**[17:28] Loukong**
I haven't seen sunlight since
I joined the underworld.
**[17:31] Luokong**
It seems I've been indoors for far too long.
**[17:39] Luokong**
Boy.
**[17:42] Luokong**
When I think of all the new talent like
you sprouting across this vast land,
**[17:47] Luokong**
I can't sit idly by.
**[17:50] Luokong**
Xie Lu, you won this battle.
**[18:01] Xielu**
You can't be serious, gramps!
**[18:03] Xielu**
You can't just decide that!
**[18:04] Luokong**
The word "tie" doesn't exist in
the Bai Luo family's dictionary.
**[18:07] Luokong**
There's no point in a
contest without a winner.
**[18:09] Xielu**
Maybe so, but I don't remember winning!
**[18:13] Luokong**
Don't get the wrong idea.
**[18:15] Luokong**
You didn't seize victory.
I'm giving you the win, for now.
**[18:19] Luokong**
And my staff.
**[18:21] Luokong**
We'll fight again ten years from now.
**[18:24] Luokong**
And when we do, I'll crush you thoroughly so
**[18:28] Luokong**
I can take back my staff and the victory.
**[18:31] Xielu**
Fine, gramps.
**[18:33] Xielu**
Xie Lu of the Steel Staff
will hold onto this for you.
**[18:38] Luokong**
You heard me.
**[18:39] Luokong**
I appreciate what the underworld has
done for me, but I'm quitting now.
**[18:45] Xiang**
After acknowledging your own defeat,
**[18:47] Xiang**
you think you'll be allowed to
leave the underworld, Luo Kong?
**[18:58] Mao**
H-He vanished.
**[19:00] Luokong**
Don't forget, boy. Ten years.
**[19:03] Xielu**
Ten years? Gramps, how long
are you planning to live?
**[19:09] Xielu**
*King... He's a crafty old man.*
**[19:12] Narration**
The first round of the Huangpu River Warship
Pavilion banquet contest is won by Xie Lu!
**[19:23] Henchman**
Dim Sum King Luo Kong was defeated
by Xie Lu of the Steel Staff,
**[19:27] Henchman**
then fled the scene.
**[19:31] Henchman**
Wh-Wh-What shall we do, Shao An?
**[19:36] Shaoan**
This is fine.
**[19:38] Shaoan**
We will undoubtedly have one victory
and one loss after the second round.
**[19:43] Mao**
You did it, Xie Lu!
**[19:44] Shirou**
That was amazing, bro!
**[19:46] Shirou**
One more victory, and we win!
**[19:48] Xielu**
Their backs are to the wall
now. They have to win.
**[19:52] Xielu**
The second round is the main
dish round. Brace yourselves.
**[19:56] Meili**
They'll send that woman leader next.
**[20:00] Meili**
I get the sense she's incredibly dangerous.
**[20:03] Xiang**
Lei En of the Seven Star
Knives, step forward!
**[20:06] Shaoan**
After all, she cannot lose.
**[20:10] Shaoan**
And in the third round, I, Shao An,
**[20:13] Shaoan**
will thoroughly crush Mao,
**[20:16] Shaoan**
and get revenge for what happened
at the Chrysanthemum Tower.
**[20:23] Mao**
Lei En.
**[20:25] Mao**
Are you okay? Won't it be hard fighting
another member of the underworld?
**[20:29] Leien**
Mao, I once told you
**[20:32] Leien**
that I made an unforgivable mistake.
**[20:35] Leien**
I escaped the underworld after it made me
lose my way, knowing it would kill me.
**[20:44] Leien**
I have no hesitation!
**[20:55] Xiang**
Open the bilge tank!
**[21:02] Xiang**
The skills of a spineless
runaway decline every day.
**[21:07] Xiang**
I shall generously make the subject of
our contest your specialty, seafood.
**[21:11] Leien**
That pridefulness of yours once
made me commit that mistake.
**[21:16] Leien**
I swore an oath that I would
never commit the same error.
**[21:26] Mao**
The water burst!
**[21:29] Leien**
The appetizer comes before the main course.
**[21:31] Leien**
Taste this, judges.
**[21:35] Leien**
Seven Stars Army Destroyer Raw Cuttlefish!
**[21:38] Xiang**
The cuttlefish! The cuttlefish
has already been sliced!
**[21:42] Mao**
Incredible! The Seven Star Knives
are sharp enough to cut water!
**[21:47] Leien**
I, Lei En, seek nothing else from this world
**[21:51] Leien**
than to settle my debts
with my Seven Star Knives.
**[21:56] Xiang**
This is why you're naive.
**[21:59] Xiang**
You still haven't let go of that incident.
**[22:03] Leien**
What?
**[22:05] Xiang**
Such weakness will prevent you
from properly seeing this!
**[22:10] Xiang**
I am the cooking underworld's
Ten Feet of Blue Xiang!
**[22:15] Leien**
I-Impossible.
**[22:18] Leien**
It can't be...
**[22:20] Leien**
Those knives are the Seven Star Knives!
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** "Clash of the Two Seven Star Knives"
**[24:07] Narration**
*"Clash of the Two Seven Star Knives."*