Traveling back to 1998, Lin Shougen, a former multi-billion catering R&D director, is burdened with debts and has a seriously ill daughter. He picks up the pork offal discarded by meat bullies and fights his way out for survival using his ancestral spiced braised food formula. Opposing local ruffians blocking goods supplies and smashing stalls with suppression, he unites night market vendors to band together and break the deadlock, fighting his way up from a night market stall to face the encirclement of capital chains. Gathered around him are retired veteran Uncle Zhou, finger- amputated widow Auntie Liu, and mute expert Mute Qiang. With father and daughter accompanying each other and partners of one mind, a single pot of braised food stirs up the town's winds and clouds, rising from a debt-ridden poor ghost amidst the bustling fireworks of the marketplace to carve out a catering legend belonging to ordinary people.