Food and Distant Places: a Young Couple's Travels Across the Country

When "stability" becomes the footnote of life, there are always people who choose to restart their lives with love. Advertising director Luo Ziqi and food culture editor Li Kejia, a couple who have been in love for seven years, made a "willful" decision on their third wedding anniversary - to quit their high-paying jobs and embark on a one-year food tour across the country in an RV. With their cameras and notebooks, they turned their dream of "eating all over China" into a romantic narrative spanning 120,000 kilometers. From the Youdunzi in Shanghai alleys when dragons raise their heads in February, to the sweet coconut juice in Hainan coconut groves in the twelfth lunar month; from the hot fireworks of Sichuan and Chongqing hot pot to the quiet and sweet taste of Tibetan sweet tea, they captured 30,000 taste moments with their cameras and recorded them in their handbooks. The food codes of 32 provinces and cities were recorded - it is the wheat aroma of steamed buns baked under the grape trellis in Turpan, the richness of milk tofu in Hulunbuir grassland, and the half piece of pastry and a few warm homely words handed over by the stall owner in front of each market stall. The journey is not only an adventure on the tip of the tongue, but also a dialogue between people and the land: the warmth of the fingertips when learning to make butter tea from a Tibetan grandmother, and the frost on the eyelashes when pickling sauerkraut at a farmer's house in Xuexiang have become more touching flavor notes than delicious food. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.