Lin'an City Dream Record
Chen Mo, a modern gourmet, travels back in time to the Longxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty and became the son of a bankrupt cloth merchant in Lin'an. In a desperate situation, he started from a street food stall, relying on fried fresh milk, sweet-scented osmanthus cake and other novel delicacies to establish himself in the imperial street. He struggled in the fireworks of the market and faced the troubles made by local gangsters, conspiracy by his peers and blockade of food ingredients.
From a mobile vendor to a chain restaurant "Wei Jue Lou", from industrial development in the south of the Yangtze River to being at the helm of maritime trade, he used food as a mediator to meet literati, anti-gold generals, and maritime merchants. In the court game of peace and war, he used industrial power to relieve people's livelihood and support the Northern Expedition.
The novel unfolds the bustling Lin'an night market, water transportation, and festive customs. It depicts the warmth and warmth of the crowd and the pride of the troubled times. Amid the ups and downs of the pots and pans and the sea of commerce, it writes a dream of the Southern Song Dynasty that settled on food and saved the country through industry.
