Modern food blogger Shen Taohua time-travels to the Dajing Dynasty, becoming the orphan A-Yu, and lives relying on each other with her younger brother Shen Guo. A harsh aunt snatches away their family's food reserves, plunging the brother and sister into a survival crisis. Relying on her top-notch culinary skills, Shen Taohua ventures into the mountains to forage for wild vegetables, making a difficult start from a street food stall. Along the way, she confronts the demanding extortions of the wicked aunt, resolves various crises such as plagiarism and malicious competition from peers, accumulates a good reputation through delicious flavors, rents a shop to open a restaurant, and step by step grows her food business. Amidst hardships, she gets acquainted with Gu Yanzhou; sharing trials and tribulations, they build a stable and secure life of their own within the hustle and bustle of the marketplace.