A down-on-his-luck chef, a restaurant on an old street, and two worlds to travel between. Using the most ordinary ingredients, he creates food acclaimed around the world.
Years later, a CCTV reporter stood in front of a camera at the entrance to the old-street restaurant. “Today, we're honored to interview Chef Tang Yi, owner of the Old Street Restaurant, which has won numerous accolades year after year, including ‘Doulang's Most Popular Restaurant of the Year,’ ‘No. 1 on Hangcheng's Food List,’ ‘One of China's Top Ten Mi Tai Restaurants of the Year,’ ‘One of the World's Top 100 Mi Tai Restaurants of the Year,’ and the world's first ‘Five-Star Mi Tai Restaurant.’ Chef Tang is also ‘Doulang's Most Popular Person of the Year,’ a ‘Five-Star Mi Tai Chef,’ champion of the first China Culinary King Competition, one of China's ‘Ten Great Chefs,’ one of the founders of the China Food Guide, a leading chef for state banquets, a frequent host of banquets for foreign dignitaries, and a specially invited chef for the United Nations!”
Facing the camera and the reporter, Tang Yi sternly corrected them. “As for those Mi Tai restaurant awards, I personally don't accept them. A tire seller who can't even use chopsticks knows nothing about good food or Chinese cuisine!”
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