Great Tang: I Rose to the Top Through My Cooking

Transmigration + Tang Dynasty + Rise from the Bottom + Face-Slapping + Political Intrigue + Feel-Good Fiction

Zhang Yan, a man from the 21st century, wakes up to find he has transmigrated into the body of the sickly young master of a nearly bankrupt restaurant in Chang’an’s Western Market. His honest father is bullied by their vicious neighbors, and their home is so bare they can barely afford a thing.

But the memories of a top chef from his previous life have awakened!

A single sesame flatbread wins over a thuggish shopkeeper, and one bowl of mutton soup leaves the diners in the restaurant awestruck!

Old-fashioned master chefs? I’ll make a palace kitchen eunuch weep on the spot with a block of tofu!

Wealthy merchants from the Western Regions? I can turn rotten meat and rancid cheese into heavenly delicacies that they’ll clamor to buy!

Under the moonlight, the young lady of the Cui family gives him a lantern: “There’ll be plenty of time to make up for that pigeon soup...”

An imperial envoy personally presents him with a token: “This young man is destined for great things. He belongs in the imperial kitchen!”

A powerful minister lays a deadly trap, and assassins lie in wait to kill him in the dead of night, but he charges into the Zuixian Tower alone, knife in hand!

“Li Linfu, you think you’re fit to play political games with me?”

From a humble chef in the Western Market to a force stirring the imperial court, from turning spoiled ingredients into culinary wonders to predicting a locust plague and saving the people, this divine chef sets the Tang Dynasty ablaze!

Culinary showdowns, political scheming, beautiful confidantes, glimpses of the future...