Luo Yongduo heard his apprentice's question and looked at this group of apprentices feeling a rush of frustration.
If someone were to say that you held back in teaching, then perhaps it was the master's fault for not teaching well if his apprentices couldn't match up to others, but he asked himself honestly, and he had not held back anything while teaching his apprentices. Everything he learned from his master and what he had understood and summarized over the years was taught without reservation to these apprentices.
But the result?
He was outdone by a youngster in his twenties, and his Hakka-style preserved vegetable pork belly had become just a side dish to someone's three-cup chicken!
