The life of Ali Ku, an unemployed chef, takes a complete turn after a customer smashes a bowl of sweet-and-sour pork ribs.
On a stormy night, he is driven to the brink while protecting his childhood friend Dandan from the Abyss Group. At the critical moment between life and death, the dormant Shennong bloodline within him awakens with a roar. His sense of taste can detect the metallic flavor of bullets, his pupils glow gold when he gets angry, and he can even use flames to burn star-map patterns into a cast-iron wok!
It turns out that before his mother disappeared, she hid the legacy of an ancient god of cooking in his bloodline. And Uncle Li, CEO of the Abyss Group and a seemingly refined gourmet, is actually a puppet of the alien civilization known as the “Flavor-Devouring Race.” He plans to launch a “Human Eradication Plan” on Earth: contaminate people's sense of taste with a clone virus, destroy their genes with cleansing hot pot, and leave only “perfect humans” to serve as interstellar slaves!
Ali Ku is not fighting alone. Junjun, a fake rich heir, rushes to the rescue carrying a bronze cauldron. The Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup bubbling inside can blast through an army of machines. The mysterious girl Xiaoying always foresees danger when he is near death, and the star-map patterns on her neck conceal the secret of the Sanxingdui Bronze Sacred Tree. Even Long Shao, the spoiled son of a wealthy tycoon, secretly uses his family's satellites to help him investigate the Abyss Group's transaction records...
From a shabby little restaurant to a Mars base, from genetic locks to taste-bud bombs, Ali Ku wields a spatula as a weapon and uses food as armor. He will tear away Uncle Li's hypocritical mask, save the cloned Dandan, and stop an alien civilization from harvesting Earth!
When the instant noodle bucket bearing a star map reveals the complete map, and the Flame God's cooking utensils ignite a sun-like blaze, the unemployed chef once mocked for “burning even the caramel” will become the “Earth Chef God,” the contestant most feared by aliens at the Cosmic God of Cooking Tournament!
