to compare favorably

chef

to be poor at / to be inferior to; to be worse than

be superior to; excel; surpass; rival

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

cooking

professional (プロフェッショナル) / production (プロダクション) / proletarian (プロレタリア, プロレタリアート) / prostitute (プロスチチュート) / proportion (プロポーション) / program (プログラム) / propaganda (プロパガンダ)

(slang) professional; like a pro