MAGIC HANDS
To work as a chef in the elegant restaurants of Shanghai, you have to be an excellent cook and you have to have magic hands. Diners in many top-class Shanghainese eateries can watch their dinner taking shape before their eyes. The chef puts on a performance with his magic hands before the food arrives at the table. The chef's hands pull and twist a shapeless lump of dough, and slowly a conjuring trick takes place. The dough disappears and lengths of noodles take its place. It's all done by magic hands. Tonight's chef is much more than a cook. He is a magician.
1. An 'eatery' is ......
a) a kitchen in a hotel
b) another word for a restaurant
2. The chef is described as having magic hands because ......
a) he does something clever and unusual