Siheyuan: the Super Chef Who Returned from the Soviet Union

1945, Late autumn. The wind at the top of Beiping City carries the lingering smoke of gunpowder. Carrying the worn leather suitcase, Li Ang crossed the high threshold of the courtyard and returned to this place full of market and dust with his hard-core cooking skills and logistics management experience acquired from the severe cold in the Far East. In this era of scarcity, he had no system and did not rely on calculations. What he has is Michelin-level professional ethics, ultimate control over heat and ingredients, and a sense of pride honed in a foreign country. While the birds in the courtyard were still fighting over a mouthful of broken rice, he was already in the back kitchen of a Moscow restaurant, conquering the picky foreign guests with a dish that blended the essence of the East and the West, and starting his own legend. In this era, cooking is not only a craft, but also power, a currency of social interaction, and the key to changing one's destiny. He watched the trivial things in the courtyard with cold eyes, but in the tide of the times, he single-handedly propped up the brand of a famous chef in a great country, and single-handedly reshaped the destiny of this group of people. Many years later, when he stood at the pinnacle of the millennium and looked back on the past, the familiar and reassuring smell of fireworks still floated in that courtyard...