First Step

The light rays jump on the surface of the rain
Making wishes by hope’s shore
Leaving the ice and crossing boundaries
I will be by your side forever

Writing my unsaid beliefs on my palm
Taking the FIRST STEP towards my dream

That bit that little bit, the focus of my soul
Only leaving your sound ringing by my ears
This day every day, no matter if it's a normal day
I will still remember

Zhang Yixing
A Star Chef's Self-Improvement

"To make barbequed beef…. you must first have beef."“Slicing potato strips is extremely difficult but there is no easy task in this world.”"I hope everyone who eats the food that I make, will be happy.” I don't want to give up.” – Extracted from "Star Chef, Zhang Yixing's Self-Improvement"

читать дальшеConstantin Stanislavski (t/n: Russian actor and theater director) once said, An actor must possess blah blah blah blah self-improvement, therefore possessing the required skills and disclipine.”For example, a singer, a chef or even an engineer. However there is a chef like this, who was born in the hometown of stir-fried chicken with old ginger, who is satisfied with tomato and egg stir-fry, cucumber and egg stir-fry, mushroom,egg and sausage fried rice, a young blood who is in the popular boy group from Asia. He is an idol singer possessing hosting capabilities, while at the sametime with his thoughts of for charity I am willing", may my cooking skills reach a higher level”etc, all these beautiful wishes, trying out in a competitive cooking show while making everyone curious with his brightness. At this point, it has allowed me to use this variety show to explore science, to walk closer to the star, Zhang Yixing.

Cooking Skills- The Chef's Art

As a chef and a food connoisseur, Chef Zhang haspreviously written “representative argumentative essays” on "The NutritriousKorean Ox Head Soup with Rice" and "The Differences Between Korean Hotpotand Chinese Hotpot". The essays have compiled years of personal experienceand have resulted in the eye-opening ability of creating new and amazing namesfor dishes. For example, “Mapo-style peanut tofu bits with stir-fried meat”.This name which Mapo can’t even recognise as a tofu dish, added in all theingredients, fire, style and merits, which causes people to only smile withoutbeing able to give any rebuttal. This is indeed the mesmerising creativity anartistically inclined chef has.

Checked Shirts and Fingers- The Principles Beneath the Apron

Chef Zhang once said, “Steven ge is really handsome",causing the smartly dressed Chef Liu Yifan to rejoice secretly. Of course with devil-like top range teaching skills, Chef Liu Yifan is indeed smart, indeed handsome and every single one of his suits are indeed decorated with small flowers. However, being a fresh, cute and blur chef, for Chef Zhang to reach the god-like standards of Chef Liu Yifan, he has a very very very long way to go. But based on appearance, Chef Zhang has already broken the traditional image of perfect chefs, with tofu-like skin + checked shirts + slim waist + long (straight) legs, adding on with a pair of beautiful hands, a head of black hair, a pair of dimples, becoming the perfect chef, one who is the cause of many girls who hit their heads against the wall.

Jie Jie What Should I Do – Healing OCD

All those who are familiar with Chef Zhang will know, as a member of Asia's popular boy group, his unique airport fashion is one like no other, and that is, the earphones which can be tangled for 20 years beyond one's imagination and can even be tied into a Chinese knot. Many people have responded, after seeing Chef Zhang's earphone wire, not only will their Parkinson's Disease slowly disappear, even all those with many years of incurableOCD will slowly cured. Therefore we have reason to believe the words of Chef Zhang's fellow competitor, Chef Jialing- when Chef Zhang was making his move on Qu Ying jiejie, he grabbed the godly position of "forcefully healing 20 years of OCD" with the call of "jiejie what should I do" which he repeated 18 times. Chef Zhang who makes people want to protect him, is indeed powerful in healing.

Amazing- The fireworks that blindly shone on the new world

During the recording, Chef Zhang said this one sentence, “At that moment it felt like someone lit fireworks in my world, my whole world lit up in that moment.”One thing we know for sure- the adjectives Chef Zhang uses are also very different from everyone else. Another outstanding skill that Chef Zhang possesses in his upbringing and self-improvement as an idol is that, he is usually not funny, but when he is funny he is unlike any other. And this skill can be seen in Chef Zhang's interactions with either the charismatic or stony-faced judges for example-“Did you do anything to these black sesame seeds?" "It was printed on the packaging that it is ready of consumption upon opening". "This watermelon is for later consumption."“For me or for you to eat.”"For me to eat". All these cold conversations has resulted in Chef Zhang's downfall even though the judges did not do so intentionally. But the variety-filled image definitely receives our approval. Chef Zhang is really an amazing firework, lighting up the new world of the art of cross-talk.

Self-Confidence – A value that is the most important to the chef

Everyone can see Chef Zhang's confidence, take the plate of barbequed beef for example. Even though he didn't want to serve it up and harm people, the plating was still very professional and filled with many artistic germs, no, I mean cells. If a chef lacks confidence in his own dish,the person eating it will be unable to feel happy. Luckily for Chef Zhang, even though he used a bottle of oil to cook the fish, but he still gained the approval of his grandparents. And from the time where he was a trainee till when he debuted, the times where Chef Zhang managed to whip up his specialty fried rice and egg, has caused the teenagers who were sick of eating take-out, cry during those hungry nights. On his first solo schedule in his home country, he has even allowed one braised carp to successfully make the cover pages of fan-made food magazines. Just for the reason that all those who have eaten the food made by Chef Zhang and have felt happy, all the more Chef Zhang should not stop on his artistic journey. With the increase of his skills in the creation of potato strips, sour and spicy noodles as well as barbequed beef, Chef Zhang has even grasped the skill of making tofu, and has even specially completed the extremely difficult task of creating the spicy base of the hotpot despite how he is unable to take spicy food. (We) believe that the day where he is able to cook up a New Year Eve's dinner or even an extended family dinner is not faraway, and the wish of becoming the first singer to be the bridge between Chinese and Korean cuisine is not purely just a dream. Chef Zhang's true shining point lies in his willingness to learn, willingness to work hard and his will to never give up. Since he has the confidence, therefore we are confident that day will come.