Kitchen Fires in the Mortal World, I Hold the Ladle with Conscience (91 episodes)

Rural craftsman Wang Dashan upholds his moral integrity, preparing village banquet feasts using genuine, top-quality ingredients. However, he suffers a cruel betrayal from his childhood friend Zhao Dawang and his wife, who resort to vicious low-price competition and frequent framing to chase windfall profits. Faced with Zhao Dawang's shameless deeds of deceiving the villagers with inferior frozen meat and stale leftovers, Wang Dashan remains true to his culinary craft. Relying on solid culinary skills, he opens a humble stall by the town middle school and pulls off one breathtaking turnaround after another at demanding wedding banquets and hundred-table mega-feasts. Ultimately, Zhao Dawang reaps his own bitter fruit and sees his reputation utterly destroyed, while Wang Dashan wins the respect of major businessmen and the entire village with his craftsmanship and conscience, delivering a thrilling and uplifting story of an underdog staging a miraculous comeback through true mastery.

Kitchen Fires in the Mortal World, I Hold the Ladle with Conscience - Episode 1