Winning Hearts with My Braised Food Shop

[Gourmet + Comfort Food + Easygoing Daily Life + Building Up a Small Business]

My new novel, The Little Diner Outside the High School, is complete. Visit my author page to read it.

Ding! You are now bound to the Braised Delicacies Shop Management System.

Earn good reviews from diners to accumulate experience and move the progress bar. When it reaches 100%, you can unlock a mysterious prize!

Wen Yi thought it over, rolled up her sleeves, and got to work.

She opened the doors and won over her first customers with her braised delicacies.

- Your braised food is so delicious!

- Boss, can you unlock other braised dishes? T_T

So Wen Yi began unlocking all kinds of braised delicacies. As they say, you can braise anything.

From simple braised duck wings, duck necks, and lotus root slices to duck intestines, rabbit heads, pig ears, and pig trotters.

Customers: Boss, even the sauce you use to braise shoe soles would taste amazing!

The food at Wen's Braised Delicacies is so fragrant, and even the rice is delicious.

College students who eat at Wen's: Failing a class is no big deal. At least it doesn't mean I can't eat at Wen's!

Everyone has fallen for the food at Wen's Braised Delicacies!

A famous food blogger who reviews restaurants and calls out bad ones: Is it really that good?

After trying it:

The famous food blogger: Holy crap!

Netizen: The streamer said almost nothing, but said everything!

Netizen: That one "Holy crap!" says it all about how much the streamer loves this braised food shop! Short and sweet! Unforgettable! Concise and to the point!

The rave reviews keep coming. Ding, ding, ding! Congratulations, Host, you've unlocked a mysterious prize: a lost braised-food recipe!

Then one day, Wen Yi opened the shop to welcome diners from every corner of the country...

Everyone had heard that there was an especially delicious braised-food shop here, one that was a must-try at least once in your life! So some people came to travel just to eat its braised food...

Wen's Braised Delicacies even became a must-visit food destination.

It became such a sensation that it was interviewed on TV!

From then on, food lovers all over the country knew that the things sold at this little braised-food shop were especially delicious!

A heartwarming story about a small braised-food shop becoming a local favorite, with everyday food and business.

Only good food can heal the heart | Pick me up, I can still eat | This System sure talks a lot

--- Seeking follows for the next novel ---

[Ensemble cast of high school diners + comforting Gourmet + easygoing, healing tone]

Yu Miaoyin transmigrated into a book.

The original owner was a poor girl whose parents died early. She'd struggled on her own since childhood. But her aunt had left her a closed-down diner opposite a high school. She also had a younger sister, and the two depended on each other.

Her sister was still young and needed to stay in school.

To earn money for her sister's education, Yu Miaoyin decided to reopen the diner.

She started with a little street stall, then fixed up the diner and opened for business.

The place wasn't big, but the students loved it, and so did the teachers.

It's so hot in summer, so come have a bowl of Yu's mung bean sweet soup and an ice pop. They're sweet and icy cold, and taste great.

It's so cold in winter, so have a piping-hot roasted sweet potato or some tangyuan. Eat them while they're hot, and they'll warm you from head to toe.

Yu's Diner has everything: noodles with minced pork, sweet-and-sour ribs, kiln-roasted chicken, clay-pot rice, cold noodles, liangpi, all kinds of buns and pastries, soup dumplings, steamed buns, shaomai, water chestnut cake, snowflake pastries, mochi, double-skin milk pudding...

And all kinds of seasonal specials. The weather's changing lately, and all the kids have caught colds and are feeling under the weather, so how about a bowl of pear stewed with rock sugar? In spring, the bamboo shoots grow so fresh and tender, so Yu can make the kids a serving of salted pork and fresh bamboo shoots soup. One bite is so delicious it'll make your eyebrows fall off!

Not only is the food at Yu's Diner delicious, the prices are reasonable, too.

So Yu's Diner became the favorite restaurant of countless high school students, their cherished white moonlight, a ray of light in the darkness of high school life!

Aromatic meals can heal kids who did poorly on their practice exams.

After a meal at Yu's, kids exhausted from studying feel their energy return.

It's a heartwarming everyday story about a group of tired students looking forward to the end of class so they can head to Yu's for delicious food.

--- A Little Scene ---

After the college entrance exams, a group of high school kids hugged each other and sobbed, saying they didn't want to graduate.

The school leaders and teachers were deeply moved. At last, these kids had realized how great their school was.

The students cried for a long time, then one shouted, "I don't want to graduate! I'll miss Yu's Diner outside the school gates!"

The school leaders and teachers: ...

Theme: Love life.