1987: from Roadside Stall to Food Empire

In 1987, Lin Weijue woke up from a roadside stall. In his previous life, he was a Michelin three-star chef, the CEO of a restaurant group, and a lonely man who died suddenly in the kitchen at the age of fifty-five. In this life, he is the son of a laid-off worker, with only thirty cents left in his pocket. There is a second-hand iron pot propped up at the entrance of the alley, with a briquette stove burning underneath. Start with a bowl of fried noodles. Fried rice noodles, egg fried rice, stir-fried pork, hot and sour soup... He used the cooking skills of thirty years in his previous life to conquer the entire alley one by one in this era of scarce supplies. From roadside stalls to small restaurants, from single stores to chains, from handmade kitchens to central factories. He has witnessed the panic buying trend in 1988, withstood the dimensionality reduction attack of foreign catering companies, delivered takeaways on an electric bike during the cold winter of SARS, and once dropped a signature pen before an acquisition contract. "The taste is not mine, it belongs to everyone in the alley who has eaten my noodles." This is a story about food, about the times, and about how a little man turned human fireworks into an empire.