Those master style titles.
They say, hello, hello.
We are the king of spicy pork stir fry.
Welcome you, welcome you.
This is our famous dish.
Enjoy this fish head.
I mean, it's how they introduce themselves.
They're gone.
Discussion keeps the world turning.
This is Roundtable.
For years, a shouted slogan at one of China's most popular restaurant chains made a single chef a household name.
Then this summer, it disappeared overnight.
Not because the food failed, but because the title behind it no longer existed.
And he was just the beginning.
Across industries, thousands of so-called masters are suddenly losing their status as new national rules rewrite
who gets to claim expertise.
So.
What were these honors really worth?
Why is China wiping them out now?
And why is one chef at the center of it all?