My Cleaver Broke Chopping Garlic. Is China's Chef Learning Knife Skills from a Tire?

Su Hao, the head chef for state banquets, broke a knife while pounding garlic as he prepared for a state banquet.

The incident was exposed online.

A headline reading, "A kitchen knife can't even be used to pound garlic?!" quickly shot to the top of the trending list!

Netizens launched a heated discussion about it.

"You can't pound garlic with a kitchen knife? Then what did I use to cut my **garlic-flavored watermelon with?"

"The more ** a material is, the more brittle it is. You don't even know that, and you call yourself a chef? You're a fake, aren't you!"

"I don't get it. Why pound garlic at all? Why not learn from those Michelin people? Garlic is always sliced. It looks nice and tastes good!"

Su Hao paid no attention to the voices online questioning whether he knew how to cook.

That is, until the general manager of the brand behind the knife that broke while pounding garlic posted a statement online.

"The way people in Great Xia have been taught to cut vegetables for decades is wrong. None of the Wheel Tire Michelin chefs cut vegetables the way people in Great Xia do.

Why are the meat slices cut by Wheel Tire chefs thinner, and the cucumber slices more translucent? Because they know how to use a knife better than we do."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.