Naturally, Dali brought Luo Youyou along with us. When we were seated at the steakhouse, the waiter asked how we would like our steaks done. 

"80% cooked!" said Dali.

The waiter left with a sardonic smile on his face. Meanwhile, Dali endeavored to “educate” us with the supposed facts he had learned. According to him, the usual classification of how one would order a steak–thirty, fifty, seventy and ninety in terms of percentage well done–was wrong. And the right way to enjoy a steak would be either twenty, forty or eighty percent cooked.

"Oh, shut up!” I chided. “Who cares about that! Stop being so pretentious!"

While waiting for our steaks to be served, Dali began clowning around as usual. "Shall we try practicing something? I’ll have...