"So you were already considering this pan-seared duck breast before you even started cooking the first dish?" Rocky Chen exclaimed.
"Yes," Sun Mei admitted. "The time is tight in this competition, especially after each round when the available time decreases further."
"But for some time-consuming dishes, it's not that the cooking itself takes a lot of time, but rather a certain preprocessing step is time-consuming. If you can cook several dishes at once, you'd be able to save as much time as possible."
"That's quite common in the kitchen, nothing too surprising."
"Ah, that's true, but the theme this time is coconut, which is already quite challenging to cook. How could you have possibly thought through all the dishes from the beginning?"
Gaggan Anand marveled, "Your creativity is simply outrageous."
"I didn't really have it all figured out at the start, just had a vague idea, so I put it aside for a while since preprocessing the ingredients won't take too long."