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Return to 1984: Minnan Snack Bar
State banquet chef Lin Zaosheng woke up and returned to 1984. The run-down shop on West Street is three months in arrears with rent. My father is newly deceased and my sister has dropped out of school. The handwritten menu on the wall costs only 12 cents for a bowl of sand tea noodles, but it still cannot be sold. In his previous life, he was the last descendant of the century-old "Fuchunlou" brand, famous for his sand tea soup base in southern Fujian. Later, he opened the "Zao Shengji" chain, w
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Salt Frost
In the late Qing Dynasty, at Tianjin Wei Pier, the three brothers of the Chen family started as salt workers and opened a palm-sized shop by carrying out bags of salt. After the eldest brother was injured, he had to be helped by a down-and-out scholar, the second brother smuggled salt and almost closed the shop, and the third brother sold his property to stabilize his life - these were the days of the first generation, clumsy, hard, like grains of coarse salt. The second-generation prodigal son
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