A Snack Stall in Chang'an

Shen Yu died in the kitchen of her Sichuan restaurant. When she woke up, she had become an orphan girl in Chang'an's West Market, saddled with fifteen strings of debt. The original owner couldn't even get the stove hot.

With half a sack of flour, a battered wok, and her own two hands, she started out with a street stall in the West Market.

Her improved iron wok produced the Tang Dynasty's first stir-fry, and it took the West Market by storm.

From a roadside stall to the finest restaurant in the East Market, from three copper coins to ten strings of cash a day...