Reborn in 1985: Starting by Taking Down the State-Owned Restaurant

[Period Setting + Reborn + Food + Everyday Life]

This is an everyday-life story that I hope will bring everyone some happiness.

A few things to know in advance: the pace is slow, the villains are dumb, the food is irresistible, and the protagonist isn't all-powerful...

[Here's a painfully weak introduction. Seriously, it's awful. I spent three nights trying to write it. Maybe just skip straight to the story...]

One-line summary: He returns to age eighteen and opens a little Northeastern Chinese restaurant.

Silly version:

This is a delicious little Northeastern Chinese restaurant:

Guo bao rou, fried pork strips, snow-coated red bean paste... Every dish will have your mouth watering.

It's also a little Northeastern Chinese restaurant full of stories:

The manager and head chef at a rival restaurant are very much in love. They're fellow travelers who like wearing colorful hats.

The chef is a kitchen menace who once “killed diners with deliciousness.”

The diner shares a name with a donkey and, at just three years old, could uninstall QQ all by himself. He's a turtle-riding boy...

Serious version:

At sixty, Chen Jianzhong gets a golden finger that lets him fulfill his dream from when he was eighteen. The old man decides to bravely enroll at New East Cuisine School, only to be blown back to age eighteen by the guy cooking at the same stove.

All he did was set up a stall and sell a few buns, and his parents gave him a storefront. He had no choice but to grit his teeth and keep a restaurant running with just eight dishes.

The menu is short, so the diners make up for it. From then on, the protagonist spends his days mining his customers' memories (not really)...

Theme: Eat well, and you can live well.

[If you even made it through that painfully weak introduction, how could you not check out the hilarious story?]