Speaking the Unvarnished Truth in the World of Cooking Master Boy

Modern food creator Lin Aqi stays up all night and dies suddenly, only to find himself as a junior kitchen hand at Yangquan Restaurant in Chinese Paladin. Faced with glowing dishes, judges whose clothes explode, and a junior apprentice obsessed with outdoing everyone, all he wants is to lie flat and live like a salted fish. But this world seems to have something seriously wrong with it. He casually complains that knife work is too slow, and everyone exclaims that his grandmother must be a hidden master of knife techniques. He uses overnight rice to make egg fried rice, and his master begs to become his apprentice, hailing it as the ultimate teaching of “moisture control theory.” He grumbles about not having food delivery, and six months later, the whole city is buzzing with “carrier pigeon delivery.” Its founder says the idea was inspired by Lin Aqi’s “mobile kitchen theory”...

Even more absurdly, the Dark Cuisine Realm comes to regard him as a terrifying master of ancient culinary arts. Experts from all walks of life take turns testing him, only to have their worldviews shaken by his unintentional quips. As his dream of slacking off crumbles and rumors about him grow more and more outrageous, Aqi stares at the packet of monosodium glutamate he bought for three coins and falls into deep thought: Could this mouth of mine... really have magical powers?