Modern chef Su Mo transmigrates into ancient times, becoming the daughter of falling-into-water maiden Su Dashan and Zhou Yunniang at the Su Family Eatery in Linshui County. Nian He's family eatery is on the verge of bankruptcy, with her father's cooking being crude and rough—a braised fish made overly greasy and fishy, and stir-fried greens cooked soft and wilted. They rely solely on five or six elderly regular customers to barely scrape by. Su Mo perceives that her father is not lacking in care, but simply unaware of better methods. Under the pretext of receiving a dream-revelation from the Kitchen God to personally boil porridge and make noodles, Su Mo faces initial opposition from her father against a woman wielding the ladle, but she uses a bowl of clear soup with silver-thread noodles to let her father taste the gap.