Mountain and Sea Feast
by Liu Sanxiao
About This Novel
Lively, fragrant, beautiful and delicious. This was the last feast of the Northern Song Dynasty. This is a golden age for chefs to compete for glory. Emperor Weizong of the Song Dynasty was greedy for food and held a competition among hundreds of chefs every five years. The chef who won the first place would receive a golden knife given by the emperor, and at the same time, he could realize a wish. Hangzhou chef Su Mu vows to win the championship for the love of his childhood sweetheart. By some strange combination of circumstances, he was selected into the dining room of Prince Ping's Mansion, where he experienced all kinds of outstanding skills in the three branches of catering. This book depicts an unheard-of ancient world of chefs, comprehensively demonstrating the complex and extensive essence of Chinese food culture in terms of ingredients, knife skills, utensils, dishes, color, aroma, etc. The glutton is like a tiger, and the chef is a slave. Behind the seemingly peaceful cooking competition, there is the greed of people, and the undercurrents of various forces in the Northern Song Dynasty are surging and about to explode. And when Su Mu defeated the four great chefs in the capital and faced the final choice, his heart began to waver...
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Official(2)Scraped 12d ago
A very in-depth book
The gluttonous feast of the emperor and his family, the people were displaced, starved to death everywhere, and human lives were like grass. What a contrasting effect.
I have never seen such a gluttonous feast. Unfortunately, it is just peace written on thin paper.
Rating
Community(0)
Official(2)Scraped 12d ago
A very in-depth book
The gluttonous feast of the emperor and his family, the people were displaced, starved to death everywhere, and human lives were like grass. What a contrasting effect.
I have never seen such a gluttonous feast. Unfortunately, it is just peace written on thin paper.
