The story tells the story of modern young man Li Jianguo who accidentally traveled to the courtyard house in 1965 and became an apprentice in the cafeteria of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. With the awakened "Chef God System", he started by chopping potatoes into shreds, gradually improved his cooking skills, innovated medicinal diets, improved food, and won the appreciation of the factory director.
While changing his own destiny, Li Jianguo also actively helped his neighbors in the courtyard: he treated Qin Huairu's seriously ill daughter, taught Sha Zhu to improve his cooking skills, and even made Xu Damao gradually let go of his prejudices. He led the residents of the compound to establish a medicinal diet cooperative to overcome the difficulties of standardized production, develop specialty products, and ultimately achieve common prosperity.
The work delicately restores the atmosphere of Beijing Hutong life in the 1960s, cleverly combines food production, traditional Chinese medicine health care and the changes of the times, showing a folklore picture full of fireworks and human touch. It not only has the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial journey, but also has the heart-warming neighborly friendship, and also conveys the positive energy value of "teaching a man to fish". This is an inspirational period story about food, entrepreneurship and human warmth.
