A New Menu Every Day (Food)

My farming novel, A Cow in the Cultivation World, is now available. Please add it to your collection! - A pure food story, with a hint of ensemble cast. Ling Yue: Excellent cooking, questionable character, tsundere to the core, and a champion couch potato. By chance, she transmigrated to a parallel world and was inexplicably bound to a Delicious Food System. The System gave her a run-down restaurant, and she turned it into an ever more prosperous gourmet restaurant. When she first opened the restaurant, she was all alone with no one to rely on. To attract customers, Ling Yue had no choice but to swallow her pride and set up a food stall outside. Tiny wontons coated in shrimp roe crunched between your teeth with every bite. The milky-white pork bone soup noodles shimmered with a thin layer of oil. The marrow had been simmered right out of the bones and into the broth. One sip, and life felt complete. Then there were the sweet-and-sour pork ribs and tender tomato-and-egg stir-fry... They were all ordinary home-cooked dishes, yet countless people went crazy for them. An employee at a certain company: “Zhenhaochi really does live up to its name, huh? It really is delicious! My boss stopped forcing us to work overtime together just so he could have Zhenhaochi’s daily specials and traditional dishes every afternoon! Thanks, Boss Yue!” A certain stay-at-home husband: “My wife used to spend all day playing mahjong, and I couldn’t earn enough to cover her losses! Ever since we found Zhenhaochi, she’s stopped playing. Now she practically wants to spend the night there every day, just so she can get the first dish of the day!” A caregiver at a certain hospital: “That’s nothing. Several hospitals have their eyes on Zhenhaochi, because doctors noticed that patients they treated for anorexia stopped coming in for follow-up appointments after eating there. It’s unbelievable!” Zhenhaochi Restaurant’s hours: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. A new menu every day, with a random selection of dishes. Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty flavors, all decided by the owner’s mood that day. Diners all think Zhenhaochi is outrageous, but they just can’t stay away. The more they love it, the more furiously they complain. And so the only restaurant on the entire internet whose customers cried and begged it to stay open for another two hours was born. There was no precedent, and no competitor could surpass it. Ling Yue: “The self-cultivation of a couch potato means always finding a little time to rest, even when you’re busy.” Zhenhaochi’s many diners: “You’re open for just four hours a day, and you call that finding ‘a little’ time to rest?” The entire Zhenhaochi staff: “The boss never works overtime. Zhenhaochi is the best!” Later, for some reason, Ling Yue heard a strange noise from the restaurant while she was asleep. She went outside to look and saw everyone dressed in ancient clothing. Could it be... that my restaurant can move!? This is fun. So much fun! Theme: Good food brings good fortune.