“You can eat this thing?” the bandit chief asked, holding a fried grasshopper and looking deeply skeptical.
“Not only can you eat it!” Xia Lei puffed out his chest. “This is a famous Huguang delicacy: Flying Shrimp. It costs ten taels of silver per pound!”
“Bullshit! It’s just a grasshopper!”
“That’s because you never took an elective at Lanxiang Technical School’s culinary department.”
A vocational-school cook transmigrates into the late Ming as a starving refugee. Determined not to become “two-legged mutton,” he rises against the tide, turns the crumbling empire around, and saves it from collapse!
With a spatula in hand, the world is mine. When the wok sings, the Ming dynasty takes its final bow!
The writing skills are very good, I will add another star after reading in depth.
The author, as always, has a slow pace at the beginning, but it's so exciting at the end 🤦