The Fiery Eighties: Starting Out Selling Egg Fried Rice

【Period setting, food, farming, everyday life, cute pets, devoted dad】 Chen Yuan somehow found himself back in 1987. Returning to his hometown to farm? Working from dawn to dusk in the fields wasn't his ambition. Going down a mine to dig coal? The pitch-black tunnels gave him the creeps. As the owner of one of the country's best-known food chains, he decided to try running a street stall in this era of scarce oil and seasonings! He would let people of the time experience the blissful impact of golden egg fried rice and the soul-shaking flavor of Sichuan pickles. Mapo tofu, twice-cooked pork, boiled fish, dry-fried pork intestines, red-braised pork, rabbit with two kinds of chili, steamed pork ribs with rice flour... Each dish, a delight that transformed the palate, was as richly varied and lingering as life itself. Before long, his little stall had become the busiest spot for miles around. A heartwarming daily life, unfolding at an easy pace.