The good news: Zhou Yan transmigrated to the Tang Dynasty and bound himself to the Sichuan Cuisine God of Cooking Critical Hit System.
The bad news: Tang Dynasty seasoning meant only Sichuan pepper and mild vinegar, and they didn’t even have an iron wok!
Luckily, the System supplied top-grade Hanyuan tribute peppers and Pixian bean paste every day, and the Sichuan dishes he made came with divine medicinal benefits.
And so, a quirky little restaurant appeared in a side alley in Chang'an.
In Zhou Yan’s eyes:
Today, he’d make a lost little girl a bowl of snow pear and fritillary jelly with brown sugar: crystal clear, caramel-sweet, and soothing to the lungs.
Tomorrow, he’d stir-fry a plate of Mapo tofu for a bad-tempered uncle. Once the hot oil hit, the numbing, spicy, savory aroma would shoot straight to the top of your head!
He might as well braise a pot of pork trotters with soybeans and cook a basin of poached pork in red chili oil, too. Life was sweet.
It was just that these diners ate like starving ghosts returned from the dead. It was pretty scary to watch.
In the eyes of the Tang Dynasty’s powerful and wealthy:
The sky was falling! Princess Jinyang climbed over the palace walls every day and even traded the emperor’s jade pendant for brown sugar rice cakes!
The emperor went to arrest the unscrupulous merchant with a blade in hand, only to be tempted by a basin of top-grade maoxuewang, savory and explosively spicy, and wolf down three bowls of rice!
Cheng Yaojin nearly tore the roof off someone’s house while fighting for the last skewer of rattan-pepper bobo chicken!
Empress Zhangsun’s incurable asthma was completely cured by a bowl of clear, simple yet exquisitely delicious cabbage in consommé!
Until one day, Li Shimin looked at the potatoes and chili peppers Zhou Yan had obtained through food critical hits, yielding a thousand jin per mu.
Li Shimin said, "I’ll give you half the Tang Empire. Just cook me a couple of dishes every day, will you?"
Tomato is right not to sign newbies. AI Wen is overbearing.
Asking a three or four year old kid for money🤦