You Asked Me to Cook a Country Banquet, but I Won Over the Bridesmaid with My Food

[Food + romance + authentic country-style banquet cooking] Everyone for miles around knows that the Lin family has a banquet cook so incredible he could tempt the immortals down from heaven! Master Chef tips + Master Chef mode: see through to the very essence of every ingredient! The female CEO from the city gnaws on a pork knuckle until her tie is dunked in the soup basin. A food blogger with a million followers kneels to take close-up shots of the braised pork. A monk who’s been vegetarian for eight years secretly stuffs pork belly with preserved vegetables into his robe. All of this is Lin Shi’s fault for cooking the banquet! Sweet-and-sour Yellow River carp is fried to an amber-gold sheen, while pork knuckle braised in oil becomes so tender it falls off the bone, its fragrance seeping right through. The braised pork intestines simmer to bring out eighteen layers of rich, fatty flavor, while crispy pork belly is fried into three hundred and sixty layers of glassy crackling. Chili oil and sizzling chilies send an aroma that could lift the roof tiles flying. A pot of donkey meat stuffed in flatbread smells so good that even the old donkey by the millstone chews its own reins through its tears! “That’s impossible!” The three-Michelin-star chef trembles as he holds the braised pork intestines: “I’ve practiced my knife skills for thirty years. How can I lose to a country stove?” Even an eighty-year-old granny from the village runs three miles with her cane just to get to the banquet! “Xiao Lin! Let this old woman finish this nine-delicacy stew, and I’ll give you my granddaughter’s WeChat. She’s a gorgeous, fair-skinned, long-legged, 36D, talented, multi-millionaire heiress who’ll never die!” When Michelin inspectors sneak into the banquet and tear up from the chilies, and when a multinational food corporation’s helicopter lands in the grain-drying yard, the man who conquered the world with an iron wok is turning country-style banquets into culinary nuclear bombs that will sweep across the globe!