Pleasantly Surprised (Love Myself or You / Xi Huan · Yi Ge Ren / 喜歡·一個人)

From the soup, appetizer to the main dish...

are close to full marks.

You're an intern in every restaurant you stayed in Europe anyways.

Come and be an intern at father's restaurant. Okay?

Just one month then.

Miss! Can I meet the head chef?

Mom, don't put up the stall anymore.

The restaurant specially holds a promotion test for me.

After I pass the test tomorrow, I'll become the sous chef.

Hello, I'm the new intern. My name is Ah Jie.

To be fair, I've decided to let him be the judge.

Me? - In order to give my mom happiness,

I've climbed up step-by-step in this restaurant.

This is my dream.

The final winning dish is this dish.

The cheating chief and that damn intern destroyed my dream just like that.

If I were to see him on the street,

I would hit him every time I see him.

In the past few years... Did a lot of things happen to you?

Mom, where did you go?

She's married and has a kid?

I sleep alone,

because,

I like to be by myself.

Love Myself Or You

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Sous Chef: Cheng Le Xuan

I'm counting on you guys then.

This shirt is too small.

What are you doing?

You've seen me once yesterday. I see yours today. Isn't it fair?

Are you crazy? What does this have to do with being fair?

Why are you being shy?

You're not that special.

I'm not being shy.

If you really mind then look again tomorrow.

What?

Okay, are you getting out or not?

If you're a man, change outside. Why are you covering yourself?

Do you think I want to see this and have my eyes blinded?

Everyone, you have met him before.

He is the new intern.

Hello, my name is Ah Jie. I've just come back from France.

Hello! I'm Wen XIao Li, the server here.

I've been working here for 2 years.

I'm Xiao Shu, the kitchen's assistant.

I'm also a server, I'm Xiao Qiang, "Xiao" from Chopin's and the "Qiang" from strong. (Chopin=Xiao Bang, Strong=Qiang Zhuang)

Hello, I'm the newly selected Sous Chef, Le Xuan.

Hello.

Linda.

I'm the restaurant manager, Bao Zhu.

Kitchen assistant, concurrently also Kai Qi's beloved assistant, Wang Da Zhi.

Because of the intern, I'm unable to speak up for myself, the forever Sous Chef, Du Kai Qi.

Hello

Were you trained in France too?

Yes, that's about right. -Where have you worked before?

Have we heard of it?

Le Meurice,

Spring, Maceo

Ze Kitchen Galerie. I have worked there.

Those are very famous restaurants in France.

Yes, but I've only worked as an intern.

What did he just said? An apprentice?

How many years were you in France again?

10 years

10 years?

10 years as an apprentice?

It's not like he can handle the pans and kitchen utensils once he traveled across the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic.

I think that he can.

I've also come here from France.

I believe that since you have worked in France, you wouldn't be too bad.

Even if he was just an intern, he had to have some skills.

Head Chef, I recommend Ah Jie to start work in the kitchen.

A restaurant has its rules, it's the same no matter where they're from.

Even if he came from oversees, it can't mean everything.

Head Chef, I recommend him to start work as a server.

Why are you talking so much? Let him cook a dish and we will be able to tell.

So handsome.

No way.

Very impressive.

This is the expression of someone who knows his ingredients very well.

Very professional.

He's this good and he's an intern?

What's wrong?

That's right!

He will be in a relationship with one of the women in this restaurant.

Really? Linda, what else can you sense?

Not you.

It's...

Who is it?

I don't know. The connection's broken.

Tsk!

It looks so delicious.

Maybe after he finishes this dish, he'll be on the same level as Le Xuan and Kai Qi.

He's indeed my man. That's so amazing.

I can finally try a man's cooking.

I'm so happy!

Why does it taste all like lemon?

The taste of first sauce

Is all covered by the lemon.

I'm cursing you eighteen times!

It's so good.

There's no more doubts about Ah Jie's job here, right?

Waiter! - Waiter!

Waiter!

Starting from today, Ah Jie will be in-charge of serving.

Yay! I can spend more time with Ah Jie.

And, the errand boy.

What?

Yes! I have someone that I can order around now.

Okay. Get ready for work.

Oui.

Mom, where did you go?

I say, Kai Qi, she should probably...

What about Kai Qi?

Calm down. Kai Qi is not "your family's Kai Qi". (meaning that they are close enough to be family)

Kai Qi is probably not married yet.

What does it have to do with you?

Let me tell you. Kai Qi would never marry you.

Okay, okay. Calm. Calm.

She hasn't married yet. With her personality and working for most of the time

Don't talk about marriage, she doesn't even have a boyfriend.

But, why do you ask?

Since she hasn't married, there's no way she would have children right?

Nonsense. Hey hey.

Then why did that little boy call Kai Qi mom?

What?

Yep, you picked a good one...

Sous Chef said to finish this.

What did you think of my food just now?

You should have stopped when you were squeezing the lemon.

A dish was made beautifully and it was just missing the last step.

And you messed it up. Isn't that a pity?

Perhaps, this is the way I am.

I always make mistakes at the most critical moments. That's why I was always an apprentice.

It's a bit terrible.

If you want to be an apprentice for the rest of your life, so be it.

What does it have to do with me?

What are you looking at? Get back to work. -Yes.

You too.

Why are you using such a harsh tone of matter to talk? Were you like this in the past?

What I was like before is also none of your business.

Even if you are like this now, you used to be happy before.

Do you remember when you little, you had happy days?

It's delicious!

Do you like it?

It's delicious. It's the best in the world.

Happiness is only just a fantasy in TV dramas and fairy tales. They are only tricking us.

I don't remember those kinds of useless things.

So what if I remember them? We can't go back in time.

Get yourself busy.

Sous Chef Cheng Le Xuan

I have finally proved that I'm not just a decorative vase.

I will be responsible for the first lunch of a customer.

Fighting!

Xiao Shu. -Sous Chef.

Let's work together today.

I will definitely give you my 120 percent and not disappoint you. Let's work hard.

Very good.

To celebrate such a deserving merit today, I have decided that

Today, every customer's order will come with a customized dessert.

You can tell them that I did it.

But... even if you do not give it to them, you truly deserve your title.

One out of ten thousand, the one and only.

Thank you. Then help me tell everyone.

Yes.

Bao Zhu, what are you doing?

Uh... the executive chef wants to drink coffee.

Huh? Doesn't he drink unsweetened black coffee? Why did you add so much sugar?

My hand slipped.

No matter how much you hate the Executive Chef, you shouldn't do this.

I don't hate him. I'm just teaching him a lesson now.

Teaching him a lesson?

I suspect that during the competition for the sous chef,

he sabotaged Du Kai Qi's food.

With Kai Qi's strength, how could she lose in the competition?

So what you mean is that if the Executive Chef didn't sabotage,

Cheng Le Xuan wouldn't have won.

He added extra in her food, I will add extra into his coffee.

Since he didn't give Kai Qi a fair competition,

I will give him a "fair" cup of coffee.

Wait!

Add my share in it.

Yeah!

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The proposal I gave you in the morning, did listen to it?

I heard it.

But I believe that I can do even better on my own.

Is there something wrong?

Chief, can I ask you a question?

Of course you can.

During the competition for the sous chef, because Du Kai Qi rejected you,

you sabotaged her, right?

How did you... -Oh...

Since it's a game, it should be fair.

Fair?

Honestly, if it was fair, do you think you would win?

Why not?

You really don't understand your real strength.