Gourmet: I Host Rustic Banquets in the Countryside

Yun Yao unexpectedly binds herself to a food System. Other people’s food Systems either give them a little restaurant that becomes famous, with customers fighting tooth and nail for a meal, or make them peerless chefs who dazzle audiences on screen and on stage, leaving everyone else in awe as they rise to the top. But Yun Yao’s food System has her cooking banquet feasts in the countryside. With no other choice, Yun Xi begins her career as a banquet cook. Funerals, weddings, birthday feasts, full-month celebrations, birthday banquets… Braised pork, blanched shrimp, soy-braised pork hock, braised lion’s head meatballs, twice-cooked pork… One after another, home-style country dishes burst with boundless flavor in Yun Yao’s hands. At one of her banquets, if you’re even a little slow with your chopsticks, you might not get a bite. At other places, people look down on those who show up for a banquet. But at Yun Yao’s… “Is this where the banquet is? Is Yun the chef? If we pay the customary gift money, can we join the feast?” The host: “Why are there so many guests today whom I don’t even know?” A passerby: “No problem, we’ve all paid the customary gift money.” …