An Intern? One Spoonful of Soup Takes on the Cuisines of Five Nations

Shen Jin, a kitchen intern, is mocked for being “unqualified to touch the stove.” But with a single ladle of his family’s ancestral broth, he shatters the false prestige of the culinary associations of five nations. Former head chef Su Zhao watches from the shadows, an elderly Dong woman known as Granny Soup quietly opens her eyes, and the association’s secretary-general, Lin Yanqiu, locks the truth away in a safe. When taste becomes a weapon, one pot of soup is enough to burn down the entire culinary hegemony.