[Food] [Healing] [Ensemble Cast] [No Female Lead] [Slice of Life]
To maximize profits, the contractor running the canteen at the provincial cancer hospital uses inferior ingredients to prepare meals for cancer patients.
Head chef Lin Yan argues his case, only to get fired!
The canteen manager says, "You're still being picky after all this? You should be grateful to have anything to eat!"
Lin Yan sets up a beat-up tricycle stall behind the hospital, and awakens the [Comfort Food Legacy System]!
"Free meals made with love! Families of critically ill patients can eat their fill!"
A girl with leukemia, who has been throwing up bile from lack of appetite, eats a bowl of appetite-whetting steamed egg custard, then cries out for her mother and asks for more!
A father who works three jobs a day until he vomits blood learns Lin Yan's secret clay-pot congee recipe, then makes six thousand on his first day selling it!
A single mother who sold her home to save her son masters the art of making award-winning chicken stew with no added water, earns fifty thousand a month, and pays off the chemotherapy bills!
A year later, the heartless canteen goes completely bankrupt, and its manager gets on his knees and begs Lin Yan to take him in.
Behind Lin Yan stands a bustling food street, supported by more than a thousand families of terminally ill patients!
"I can't give them more time, but I can give them the dignity and confidence to keep on living!"
