With delicious and special Shanghai-style Western food, we tell the legend of the evolution of food, as well as the stories of the five girls who grew up with the restaurant.
In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a Luo Lan Fan restaurant on Sima Road (now Fuzhou Road) in Shanghai. It was not big in appearance but quite famous. Not only did it specialize in Shanghai-style Western food, but all the staff were girls. This was the only restaurant in Shanghai. A young lady who loves to make money and leaves home to open a shop, a chef who is addicted to detective novels, a chef's assistant who is skilled in martial arts, a passionate and impulsive waiter and a shy and restrained waiter. In Shanghai, where prosperity and chaos coexist, and trendy and backward intertwined, they interpret interlocking stories with ups and downs.
She just lost the important seasoning for frying the steak, and encountered a provocative gambling game from an unscrupulous reporter. The boss Lin Xun calmly accepted it. How did she deal with it...
Why did Ye Qin, a taciturn kitchen assistant, secretly decide to single-handedly protect the safety of a group of old men who were going to fight foreigners whose power was disparate...
The famous painter died suddenly. During his lifetime, he frequently visited Luo Lan Fan Restaurant and fell in love with the milky green bean puree. The calm waiter Shen Jun realizes that there is another truth behind...
Reader comments
This book is very interesting. The author Liang Qingsan tells the legendary story of Shanghai through food. The characters in the book are all very vivid, and I especially like the eldest lady Lin Xun. Her wisdom and calmness are admirable. The author's description of that era was also very good, making me feel as if I was in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty. Looking forward to the development of the story later!
From the conversation, it seems that the author is a very powerful person... But this book does not reflect it at all... The overall plot is not fascinating. The image of Boss Lin as a worldly expert is only explained with a few very superficial routines. She is a very smart person who expresses in words rather than convincing people from the heart through description.
This book is very interesting. The author Liang Qingsan tells the legendary story of Shanghai through food. The characters in the book are all very vivid, and I especially like the eldest lady Lin Xun. Her wisdom and calmness are admirable. The author's description of that era was also very good, making me feel as if I was in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty. Looking forward to the development of the story later!
From the conversation, it seems that the author is a very powerful person... But this book does not reflect it at all... The overall plot is not fascinating. The image of Boss Lin as a worldly expert is only explained with a few very superficial routines. She is a very smart person who expresses in words rather than convincing people from the heart through description.