Cooking Master Boy — Season 1, Episode 30: Sharpness of Evil. Seven Star Knife

Episode synopsis

Mei Li goes to Mao’s room, but he’s not there and she and Shilou start searching for him. It turns out Mao is in the kitchen, holding his mother’s knife. They discuss the underground and it’s plans to take over the overworld. Then, Shilou and Mei Li wonder where Mao got all the information, wondering if he’s part of the underground himself. Mao finally reveals a book that Pai left. He found it when Mao and Mei Li and Shilou were separated and found their way into the haunted house. It was lying in the ruins of her old house. The notebook has recipes and also the matches she had against the underground society. Mao said that he wants to follow his mom’s footsteps in beating the society and their plans using his mom’s knife that has her soul. The next morning, people are already gathered around the Daisen Temple for the match. It will decide who will own the tool. Master Luo announced that the food to prepare is red snapper because knife skills will decide the taste of the fish. Leon came full-armed with the seven star knife, but Mao steps forward with nothing in hand. The battle has no time limit and each chef has to come up with 4 dishes. The match begins! As usual, Mao watches in fascination and all were amazed with Leon’s knife and his skills. Then, Mao finally starts by scaling the fish. At first they thought that he is scaling the fish with his bare hands but it turns out that he has a wire knife between his fingers. Mao is then teased by the crowd because after scaling, he’s doing nothing, then Shell arrived and finally, Mao has his secret weapon, his mom’s knife. At first, people ridiculed Mao, until they saw that the knife can be bent and Mao started on the snapper. Mao requested Shell to put holes in his mom’s knife. Leon was surprised to know that Mao knew something that an overworld cook knows an underground trick, the hundred-hole knife. Chouyu then exclaims that with the Hundred Hole Knife, they are now even. Leon thinks that he should win the match because he overcame the society. Mao won’t let anyone from the underground who hurts people win

About Cooking Master Boy

After the death of his mother, a young boy travels to China and become a master chef, in his attempt to become head chef of his late mother's restaurant

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Young Cooking Master/Genius Cooking Boy, Mao!
• E2Fantastic Mapo Tofu/A Mystery Mapo Tofu
• E3Super Chef
• E4Merciless Rules/The Cruel Rule of Yosen Shuka!
• E5Destroy Old Tradition
• E6The Dumpling Brothers
• E7Despicable Trap!Cornered Mao!
• E8The Final Battle
• E9Challenge the Dream! Super Chef Examination
• E10Ultimate Skill! Incomparable Noodles
• E11The Last Battle! Taste Battle Stadium
• E12A Great Rival Appears. Talented Young Chef Fei