Chengdu on Earth

Lin Zhiwei, a 31-year-old working woman who was "dispatched" from Beijing to Chengdu, took a incomplete recipe book left by her grandmother and broke into an old teahouse without a sign deep in Ginkgo Alley. The teahouse owner Lao Chen recognized the handwriting on the recipe at a glance - that was an old friend he had been looking for for thirty years. A plate of twice-cooked pork, a bowl of tea, and a past forgotten by the years slowly unfolded in the evening breeze of Jiuyan Bridge. Grandma Lin Shufang's choices and regrets when she was young, the secret that Lao Chen has kept for his whole life, and the true temperature of the lost "boiled cabbage" - all are slowly stewed in this city where "you can't rush". This is a novel about food and memory, wandering and belonging. Chengdu taught Lin Zhiwei not only how to cook, but also how to eat well and live slowly in this busy world.