Chef Lan Lin transmigrates into an apocalyptic esper novel and sees nothing but darkness.
The bad news: He's become a cannon-fodder character with the same name, who died of illness and was then robbed in his own home.
The good news: He's gained a food-purification ability, so anything he cooks is free of radiation.
To survive, Lan Lin pushes a food cart to dangerous areas where scavengers and mercenaries take on jobs, and sells them food.
Mutant beast meat and contaminated plants that others can barely handle become delicacies in his hands. Their aroma carries for miles, and his cooking gives a real boost to the local mission GDP.
Before long, everyone in the apocalypse knows a new restaurant has opened on No-Man's-Land Street: Fantasy Mushroom Hot Pot, Crispy Fried Balls, Spicy Duck, Split Hot Pot... All kinds of unheard-of dishes, drawing in the bigwigs from every corner:
The scavenger base leader camps outside the takeout window before dawn every day, just to get a limited-quantity sour soup and mushroom hot pot.
Rival mercenary groups crowd around one table to share a split hot pot, willingly signing a ceasefire agreement.
A housekeeper from a wealthy district spends three days humbly waiting for a chance to get Boss Lan to cook at the family head's birthday banquet.
Lin Xi is the youngest son of a military governor in the capital. After being ambushed on a mission, he is taken in by people from the slums.
As the aromas of the restaurant's dishes reach him, he swallows hard, then seamlessly pretends to have amnesia and act innocent, successfully landing a job as a helper.
Later, the military governor of the capital decides to find out what his son is up to, since he refuses to come home.
But when he finds the restaurant, he sees a sweet-smiling young helper in the kitchen, wearing a pink apron trimmed with lace.
A certain "amnesiac" helper is expertly drying dishes, his eyes full of innocence. "Boss, could I get a soft-boiled egg with today's staff meal?" OVO
[Content Warnings]
1. Not a typical food story. Some ingredients are unusual, such as insects and poisonous mushrooms.
2. An apocalyptic food-business story with face-slapping and secret-identity reveals.
3. A composed, scheming restaurant-owner gong x an amnesiac, well-behaved-on-the-surface, dark-hearted military heir shou. One-on-one, both sexually inexperienced, happy ending.
Theme: Even in the depths of despair, there is hope
Are fried cockroaches really delicious? [Afraid] [Afraid] When fried into a golden color, do you need to add bread crumbs? The cockroaches seem to be the same color after being fried, but I don't know about the mutated cockroaches.