Hearth Fire Inquires the Rivers and Mountains (21 episodes)
In Yanshui Town, Ning Xiaoman possesses a unique gift for listening to the breath of the wok. When the town's Hundred Flavor Banquet is tainted with…
In Yanshui Town, Ning Xiaoman possesses a unique gift for listening to the breath of the wok. When the town's Hundred Flavor Banquet is tainted with aroma-forgetting incense, he boldly flips the cauldron in public, sparking fierce local criticism. Wen Xueyi, an flavor-investigating envoy from the Heavenly Banquet Pavilion, tracks down the clues, and together the pair journey through five lands including Salt Bridge and Pear Blossom Dock to retrieve the lost Five Flavor Seals, unraveling the plot of Young Pavilion Master Cen Wujiu to impose 'All Flavors as One'. Cen conspires to seize folk recipes and homogenize the realm's spiritual cuisine, extinguishing mortal hearth warmth. Bearing ordinary home-cooked meals, Ning Xiaoman ascends the Heavenly Banquet Platform to confront him, shattering the Unified Flavor Array with a humble pot of homeward-bound comfort food. As the dust settles, a wooden ladle left by his late mother issues a dire warning: beneath the earth, the Flavorless Well conceals the dark secret of the Longevity Soup, drawing them into perilous unknown dangers as a fresh crisis emerges.