Recently, a culinary experiment orchestrated by artificial intelligence (AI) unexpectedly went viral, sparking widespread online discussion. The incident began when the well-known blogger "Los Angeles Yingzheng W" boldly attempted to use the DeepSeek model to generate "AI dishes never before seen by humans," sharing the cooking process on the short-video platform Douyin. This quickly propelled the video to the top of Douyin's trending list, attracting a large number of viewers and comments.
Although blogger "Los Angeles Yingzheng W" tried their best to follow the somewhat "abstract" steps provided by the AI model, the final result didn't quite meet expectations. Many netizens commented after watching the video, saying "Let's get a professional chef involved," hoping to see a more experienced chef "take over" and perfectly recreate the AI's creative dish.
Responding to the netizens' call, renowned food blogger "Nanxiang Doesn't Like Eating" quickly accepted the challenge, choosing to replicate and reinterpret a dish called "Dragon's Roar Across the Four Seas – Sword-Energy Mandarin Fish" from the AI recipe. "Nanxiang Doesn't Like Eating" filmed the replication process into a short video, simultaneously posting it on Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, and other mainstream domestic social media platforms. This also went viral, quickly becoming a popular video across the internet, with a single video receiving over 710,000 likes, demonstrating its immense popularity.
During the replication process, food blogger "Nanxiang Doesn't Like Eating" professionally pointed out four significant inconsistencies in the AI recipe. Leveraging their profound culinary skills and experience, they skillfully resolved the contradictory steps in the AI recipe, making the final cooking method and process more reasonable and refined.
Particularly noteworthy is the AI recipe's "outlandish" suggestion to "spin lotus root threads into strands" to stitch up the fish's belly. This seemingly absurd step was cleverly and perfectly recreated by food blogger "Nanxiang Doesn't Like Eating," showcasing their superb culinary skills and respect for the AI's creative ideas.
Furthermore, based on the AI recipe, "Nanxiang Doesn't Like Eating" made many innovative changes and optimizations to the final presentation of the dish. For example, the AI recipe suggested directly writing Su Dongpo's poem "Looking at the Sea Tower" on the fish, a presentation style the blogger considered slightly "awkward." Therefore, they cleverly moved the inscription to the lotus root powder "lake" created for the dish. Moreover, to better align with the dish's name, "Dragon's Roar," the blogger ingeniously placed dry ice in the fish's mouth and poured hot broth over it during serving. Using the sublimation properties of dry ice when exposed to heat, they instantly created a "dragon's roar" sound and a misty visual effect, greatly enhancing the atmosphere and ambiance of the dish.
After watching food blogger "Nanxiang Doesn't Like Eating"'s amazing recreation of the AI dish, netizens marveled at their superb culinary skills and perfect presentation of the AI's creative concept. They also offered amusing and insightful comparisons of the two bloggers' work, likening "Los Angeles Yingzheng W"'s AI cooking process to a "lone cultivator," while praising "Nanxiang Doesn't Like Eating"'s replicated work as a "sect's prodigy," vividly showcasing the strength and value of professional chefs in AI creative cooking. Some knowledgeable netizens even suggested that "Nanxiang Doesn't Like Eating"'s replicated "Dragon's Roar Across the Four Seas – Sword-Energy Mandarin Fish" would be worth 8888 yuan, even if sold to people in Shanghai, highlighting the high recognition and appreciation of this AI creative dish.
Currently, the potential of AI technology in content creation is gradually becoming apparent. AI models can provide content creators with many creative new ideas and inspiration, but the final presentation still relies on the creators' professional skills and abilities to "land" and realize the concept. The deep integration of AI technology and human ingenuity may bring even more surprising possibilities to the field of content creation.
