A Feast of Empire and Beauties

Name: A Feast of Empire and Beauties
Author: Thirty Miles West

江山美女一碗宴

by Thirty Miles West (向西三十里)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 321k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 2d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Livestreamed to the entire internet, with millions watching, Zhang Qingshan, the "God of Cooking," tastes a twelve-yuan prepackaged meal kit and passes it off as handmade cuisine.

His reputation is gone, his endorsements are gone, and he slinks back to his hometown of Hongshan.

Beneath the old stove at his family home, he finds a handwritten cookbook, a kitchen knife engraved with numbers, and a bronze fragment dating back three thousand years.

His grandfather left him one instruction: Take the items and go. Find someone in Beijing who knows how to appraise them.

From then on, a chef who makes his living with his palate is pulled into a treasure hunt spanning sixteen countries.

From Dunhuang to Kyoto, from Paris to Istanbul...

Each dish conceals the secret of a lost artifact.

Every time he "tastes" history, he loses a little of his sense of taste.

In the end, he discovers that what his grandfather hid was not a treasure, but an entire map of a forgotten civilization.

The stove is a battlefield, and his tongue is his weapon.

But he isn't out to claim the treasure.

He's out to recover the stories behind it.

A single pot can hold more than food. It can hold a realm, its people, and the road home.

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