Essay written by Shuhao Guo, read by Sam Schrag.

Amid the pandemic, Shuhao and Kathy met each other through the Go Local program at NYU Shanghai. Their shared interest in food drove them closer, and eventually they fell in love. After 6 months of a run-in period, they are now living together in NYC, although there had been so much in between -- school, family, travel bans, etc. In this episode, we interviewed Shuhao and Kathy separately, and to our surprise their answers resembled one another : slow-cooking a 4.5 pound pork shoulder, favorite date spots, and transitioning from Shanghai to NYC. Is this a love story or is it the greatest cook show live?