Midnight Diner: Diners Pack the Entire Wharf

[System + food + everyday life + family + lighthearted comedy]

After his project is abruptly disbanded, Zhai Xin packs his bags and returns to Lingang, planning to lie flat, live off his parents, and let the days drift by.

But the Tide Cafeteria, run by his family for years, is just seven days away from closing for good!

At this critical moment, the Late-Night Cafeteria System successfully binds to him!

There are no divine recipes or promotional support like he expected. The System simply gives him a practice kitchen.

His first pot of fish soup is so fishy it’s hard to swallow.

The second has way too much ginger.

At long last, he manages to make a passable fish soup, only for the three bundles of noodles he cooks to come out with three different textures!

Zhai Xin stares at the System, speechless. “So what useful thing have you actually invented?”

The System snaps back, “I invented your brain!”

Starting with crispy, fragrant fried yellow croaker,

Golden fish-noodle soup, savory seafood congee, steamed grouper, three ways with king crab, and a grand seafood feast at the pier soon follow!

Diners flock in, and the pier’s late-night cafeteria becomes an overnight sensation.

“I never thought being famous could be such a headache. Honestly, what am I going to do with you? Sit down and listen: up next is the toughest dad in the nation’s late-night seafood scene, the seafood king of Lingang Pier, the man Michelin three-star chefs envy...”