Wen Congrong, executive chef at a modern five-star hotel, has a kitchen accident and wakes up in the Great Yin Dynasty as the hapless daughter of the proprietor of A Little Shop.
From the start, she's in hell mode: her father fancies himself a "God of Cooking" but makes dark cuisine every day, the shop is on the verge of closing, and the neighbors go out of their way to avoid it.
Luckily, the [God of Cooking System] awakens!
To save the bankrupt mess, Wen Congrong has no choice but to set up a mobile street stall selling "iron-plate tofu" and "wolf-tooth potatoes" on an ancient street full of scholars and refined guests.
At first, the city's nobles and officials are resistant.
The Prefect: "Street food is vulgar and unfit for the refined!"
The young miracle doctor from Medicine King Valley: "I live a life of detachment and have no interest in such common fare."
Later...
The Grand Secretary scrapes every last bit of scorched rice from the bottom of a clay pot, utterly lacking in dignity, then slaps his thigh. "This woman's cooking is like governing a great nation by cooking a small fish!"
The aloof, socially anxious young miracle doctor gives up all pretense of being a physician just to get another bite of satay beef, then ties on an apron and happily washes vegetables and dishes in the kitchen.
From starch sausages, milk tea, and spicy hot pot that draw in customers with a whole new dimension of flavor, to squirrel-shaped mandarin fish and Wensi tofu that leave everyone in awe.
With modern spices in one hand and the ancient arts of precise heat and knife work in the other, Wen Congrong only meant to earn a little silver for her retirement. Instead, she somehow takes this humble neighborhood shop all the way to the Great Yin Dynasty's state banquet...
