Hearing this, Teacher Li laughed lightly, "Cuisine is made for people to taste. If it’s not eaten, it loses its purpose. In the end, it will spoil and grow moldy, turning very ugly."
"...Moldy?" Little Taotie pinched the soft little rabbit, starting to hesitate.
She really liked the little rabbit a lot and didn’t want to eat it.
But if it went moldy, not eating it would be wasteful.
The little girl was caught in a dilemma.
Everyone had finished tasting and was just waiting for Little Taotie to finish the dish before they could all score it collectively.
The woman with the purple eyeshadow twitched the corner of her mouth and muttered, "Kids are so fussy."
Ji Guang, who was beside her, heard that and frowned, but said nothing.
The director didn’t rush but let the crew continue to shoot, capturing this moment which could be material for a promotional clip.
Teacher Li watched the little girl’s troubled expression and couldn’t help but pat her head, with its soft hair feeling really nice to touch!
"When food gets moldy, it will turn green and black and look very ugly, and besides, eating it can lead to poisoning. It definitely can’t be eaten and has to be thrown away."
"It’s so cute; it can’t be thrown away!"
"Right now it is cute, but when it gets moldy, it won’t be cute anymore."
"Then I..." Little Taotie looked at the "little rabbit," conflicted, "I’ll just eat it then."
In the end, between keeping the cute little rabbit and not wasting food, she chose not to waste food.
If the "little rabbit" went moldy, Little Taotie felt she wouldn’t want to throw it away, which might lead to her eating it and getting sick from poisoning, so it was still better to eat it now.
Little Taotie opened her little mouth and gently bit off the rabbit’s head.
Without its head, it lost its cuteness.
Little Taotie started to eat with relish, forgetting her initial reluctance.
The more she ate, the sweeter it tasted.
Little Taotie’s eyes curved into crescents, dimples deepened, and her baby voice chirped, "It’s so yummy."
The "little rabbit"’s cream stuck to the corners of her mouth, making her look soft and lovable.
Teacher Li wiped the cream from her mouth with a napkin, and this scene was captured by the camera in a close-up shot.
In everyone’s eyes, the quirky and somewhat goofy old man had this tender side, which was quite rare.
After Little Taotie finished eating, everyone began scoring.
The card Little Taotie held up was still a full 10 points.
Again, it was the highest score to be removed.
With the highest and lowest scores removed, the average came out to 8.9.
It was only 0.1 point higher than the first contestant, but it was still a notch better.
Even though each judge could only taste a small bit of every dish, after sampling the dishes of fifty contestants, all the gourmet judges felt stuffed, all except for Little Taotie.
Teacher Li drank a cup of digestive tea and looked at Little Taotie, her eyes shining with anticipation for the next dish, and asked, "Don’t you feel full?"
Little Taotie looked at Teacher Li’s protruding belly and then at her own flat tummy.
Teacher Li followed her gaze.
To his amazement, he found the girl’s stomach was actually flat and exclaimed, "You really are a Big Stomach King!"
The woman with the purple eyeshadow muttered, "Even pigs don’t eat as much as she does, right?"
This time, Ji Guang couldn’t hold back and gave the woman a sidelong glance, his tone cold, "Shut your mouth; you’re stinking up the place."
The woman’s face flushed red, but she dared not retort.
She certainly didn’t dare to offend the hotshot celebrity; his fans would tear her apart.
She could only glare fiercely at Little Taotie.
Little Taotie felt the malicious gaze, tilted her head, and looked over in confusion.