Taste of the Forbidden City

The deep palace is like a cauldron, and the human heart is like fire. Su Wei, the young cook in the imperial dining room, has established a firm foothold in the palace with his good cooking. He doesn't understand politics and doesn't get involved in party disputes, but he is always pushed to the forefront - the prince and princess have problems, the concubines and empresses set exam questions, the court ministers borrow vegetables to ask questions about politics, and even the emperor throws in a fatal "proposed dish" from time to time. For ants to climb a tree, the ants must be able to move. If the door is closed, the door must be open. The separation of flesh and blood must be done clearly and continuously. Every dish is a question. Behind every question, there is an unexplainable truth. Su Wei uses the knife as a pen, the pot as paper, and uses the most ordinary ingredients to create the most unusual answers. Some people feel relieved, some feel remorse, some feel a way out, and some feel the courage to start over. And he only believes in one thing: when the heat is up, everything will be clear. A chronicle of palace life that uses food to enter the world and taste to understand the mind. From ants climbing trees to finding needles in haystacks, fifty dishes, fifty kinds of life. Sweet, sour, spicy, salty, all are the heat of the human world.