: Synopsis of the story of "Linqing Cook. A Promise of Imperial Food Through a Hundred Years"
In Linqing, Lin Yuchan, a cook, holds Snowball, a lion cat with different eyes, and runs a private restaurant in an old house next to Chaoguan. She has three unique skills - herbal food preparation, Linqing traditional dishes, and "Jin Ping Mei" ancient method restoration dishes, but she insists on "only making them for people who know how to eat." Beijing planner Mo Yan came to Linqing to prepare for the Canal Drama Food Festival. He was shocked by her tray tofu and decided to stay to explore the real taste of Linqing.
Lin Yuchan has had strange dreams since she was a child - in the dream she was a cook during the Qianlong period three hundred years ago, making noodles for a mysterious man by the canal. The ancestor's diary brought by Shen Yanyan confirmed that the person in the dream was indeed real: in the 30th year of Qianlong's reign, the Holy Emperor visited the south and stationed in Linqing. A cook named Wang cured the emperor's cold with fragrant noodles and was given a name. With the appearance of a book "Secret Recipes of Ximen's Chef", two jade pendants engraved with Qianlong's imperial brush, and the dusty archives of the Forbidden City, a grudge spanning three hundred years gradually surfaced -
In the thirty-fifth year of Qianlong's reign, a poisoning case occurred in the imperial dining room. Wang Yuniang, the most favored woman, was accused of murdering the emperor. She was thrown into the cold palace and hanged herself to death. Lin Yuchan shocked everyone by reconstructing "butter abalone" using ancient methods in the imperial chef selection competition, but was designated as the "Queen of Sinners" by the descendants of the Tong family. At the critical moment, Master Zheng took out the suicide note of Wang Yuniang's brother Wang Xiaoyu, and the truth came to light: Thirteen-year-old Wang Xiaoyu was bribed by Concubine Tong, poisoned her sister's food, and framed the blame afterwards, and Wang Yuniang died unjustly.
An even more shocking secret is hidden in Wang Yuniang's unfinished letter - the poetry reciter she met in front of Aotouji in Linqing was not Qianlong, but Prince Hongzhou. An extra jade pendant and a deeply felt love made this unjust case three hundred years ago even more tragic.
Lin Yuchan finally won the first place in the imperial chef selection, but chose to return to Linqing. She opened the "Wang Chef Linqing Family Banquet" at her old house in Zhugan Lane, and restored the lost ancient recipes one by one, such as mixed noodles, roasted chicken, and Qingbo meatballs. The chants on the canal are still the same, the drums and dragon lanterns are still the same as yesterday, and the eyes of the lion cat with different eyes reflect the fireworks of the world that have not stopped for three hundred years.
This is a Canal Daughter legend that connects time and space with the sense of taste - two generations of cooks, a bowl of fragrant noodles, and twelve dishes contain the rise and fall of an entire dynasty and the promise that a woman kept with her life.
Purpose: Inspirational