Reborn in 1984: I Opened a Restaurant in a Small Town

[Food + System + period setting + slice of life + business management + leveling up]

Shen Yue, a food blogger with a million followers, was nicknamed “The More He Eats, the More He Has.”

He ate his way across the country with his sharp tongue, only to wake up after a drinking party…

In 1984, in Hexi Town, Shandong, as the town’s infamous wastrel.

[Player: Shen Yue]

[Profession: Cook]

Seasoning (Beginner): 689/1000 (Salt King, you’d better stop now)

[Known Dishes] Smashed Cucumber (Intermediate): The only thing he’s any good at, since it doesn’t require a stove.

Shen Yue: …

Fine. Knowing how to eat is a skill, too.

He tore up the menu of twenty-three dishes. Starting today, he’d sell just three kinds of noodles.

Pork Belly Noodles, Noodles with Gravy, and Noodles with Bean Paste.

Fifty cents a bowl, same price for young and old.

Standing before you now is…

Hexi Town’s number-one master of pork belly, a beginner apprentice of Shandong cuisine, the wastrel son of a butcher, the textile mill workers’ designated breakfast provider, Liu Laowu’s nightmare, and the man who built a business on three bowls of noodles…

(Not a story where the protagonist is invincible from the start. The System is just an assistant, useful only for unlocking recipes.)