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[00:00.93]So, at age 30, Ma left engineering and returned to school¡ªcooking school. He wanted to study the fundamentals of cooking so that he could work as a chef in his own restaurant.
[00:17.28]Ma enrolled at the International Culinary Center in New York. He received training in French cooking.
[00:27.70]I got to culinary school with just a little bit of savings in the middle of New York City, not knowing how to hold a knife. 
[00:33.94]I didn't know anything about cooking. Never cooked through my entire life up until this point.¡±
[00:41.90]Ma soon learned that he enjoyed cooking. He discovered it was similar to engineering.
[00:50.45]¡°Professional cooking is consistency, efficiency, cleanliness and it's all about the process of things which you know my background in engineering was. Everything's a process, everything's a theory.¡±