Xu Zhiqiu, owner of a star-rated restaurant, has been kept under the thumb of executive chef Gao Wanshan for a long time. Every day before the kitchen can start cooking, Xu must personally warm Gao's chair. If the temperature is even half a degree off, none of the chefs are allowed to light the stoves! With a business banquet for twenty tables on the verge of disaster, Lu Chen, a country chef from rural Henan, makes an unexpected entrance. He angrily confronts the arrogant executive chef and takes over the kitchen with his family's traditional banquet-cooking skills. From turning a few yuan's worth of radishes into an astonishing peony-shaped swallow's nest dish to preparing twenty tables of sumptuous dishes with just fifteen geese, Lu Chen uses masterful knife skills, precise heat control, and authentic Henan cuisine to overcome one crisis after another and outshine renowned chefs. Faced with shortages of ingredients, sabotage from competitors, and culinary challenges, he never abandons his commitment to using honest, quality ingredients.