After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the mind was emancipated and all kinds of wastes were prospered. Gao Xiaoting, the manager of Songhelou Restaurant in Suzhou City, wanted to restore Suzhou's traditional famous dishes that he had single-handedly destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. However, he lacked people to teach them, so he mobilized the masses to offer suggestions and recommend talented people.

Bao Kunnian, an eloquent young employee, asked Zhu Zhizhi to give a lecture. Speaking of Zhu Zhizhi, Manager Gao couldn't help but recall many past events. He was originally distantly related to Zhu Ziye. This Zhu Ziye is indeed a bit strange. He doesn't care about dressing, he doesn't like women, he only cares about eating.

I started eating in Suzhou restaurants three times a day before liberation, which means I have been eating for 40 years. In order to eat, he would get up before dawn to make noodle soup. In order to eat, he would marry the abandoned wife of a bureaucrat. In order to eat, he would quarrel and divorce his wife who got married late in life. Gao Xiaoting lived in Zhu Ziye's house during his childhood and bought snacks for Zhu Ziye. Gao Xiaoting always despises, hates and opposes such a useless person, who is also what people call a glutton who becomes a glutton for food. Unexpectedly, he still had such a reputation in people's hearts, which surprised Gao Xiaoting. After three days of separation, you should look at each other with admiration. Maybe Zhu Ziye has changed in the past ten years? You can't always look at people with old eyes.

So Gao Xiaoting abandoned his personal prejudices and decided to ask Zhu Ziye to give a lecture. Unexpectedly, Zhu Ziye's two lectures caused a sensation throughout the city, and he was invited everywhere to give reports and impart experience. Zhu Ziye also seems to have weighed his own weight and plans to join forces with Bao Kunnian and a group of diners to actively plan to establish a culinary association. Zhu Ziye's wife, Kong Bixia, was the concubine of a politician but was later abandoned. Decades of wandering have enabled her to develop superb cooking skills. In order to win the title of chairman of the Culinary Association, Zhu Ziye specially asked Kong Bixia to prepare a sumptuous meal and invited influential figures in the catering industry to attend. Of course, Gao Xiaoting and his wife were also invited.

Zhu Ziye, who has been eating for the purpose of his life, this time is not interested in drinking. This feast of delicious color and taste not only amazed Gao Xiaoting and his wife, but also stunned the diners who claimed to be knowledgeable about eating.

At the banquet, everyone unanimously praised Zhu Ziye as a gourmet and the ex-officio chairman of the association. Gao Xiaoting thinks it is incomprehensible that such a delicious food can be called home.

Gao Xiaoting finally saw through the intentions of this feast. He left the meeting midway and walked alone on the street, reflecting seriously. He thought that things in the world cannot always be done as well as spoken, and cooked as eaten. He still insisted on his view of gourmets and decided to ask Kong Bixia to be the cooking consultant of the restaurant instead of asking this wine bag and rice bag for guidance.