The judge had been taking note of Bu Fang's actions. He had that feeling… He had a feeling that the dish Bu Fang was cooking was not going to be simple.
Because of that, when the flames shot into the sky, the chief judge jumped in shock.
The surge of flames was followed by a resounding roar which came from within the wok. This made the chief judge think that the wok was going to explode. He had recently developed a conditional reflex toward this sort of things, for he had been traumatized by exploding furnaces in the past.
After thinking about it, the chief judge felt that something was wrong. His previous thought could not be right. Even if something was going to explode, how could it be Bu Fang's wok? This chef had caused the furnaces of others to explode, so how could he blow up his own wok?
And just as he had suspected, a few moments later, the flare grew smaller and gradually diminished.
