Name: I Opened a Food Shop in Bianjing
Author: Sweet Little Peach

Synopsis

Su Tang opens an eatery on Majia Street in Bianjing. Every day, she's either experimenting with new dishes or going out to visit friends.

In autumn, there's tea brewed over a brazier, osmanthus sweet-bean paste dumplings, and roasted milk tea with osmanthus honey dumplings.

In winter, there's plum-blossom soup noodles, plum-blossom honey, boiled meat and vegetables, and candied hawthorn skewers.

In spring, there's osmanthus cake, spring platters, wontons with bamboo shoots and bracken, green rice cakes, and a spring bamboo-shoot feast.

In summer, there's buttered abalone snails, an iced fermented-rice drink with water chestnuts, a lotus feast, and water-shield and sea-bass soup…

Many details are made up. The setting is loosely based on the Song Dynasty, so don't nitpick.

The heroine is laid-back, with few emotional ups and downs. There's no scheming or intrigue, just everyday life in Bianjing. It's very mellow.

If it's not your thing, please move along. No one cares.

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