Hao's only hope is that his grandson Mark enters a prestigious university, but Mark's dream is to follow his grandfather's footsteps and become a chef and take over the family restaurant. Due to Hao's difficult personality, the restaurant is on the verge of bankruptcy and he finally collapses. In order to save the restaurant, Mark enters a cooking contest without his grandfather's knowledge and consent in Shanghai. He competes against talented chefs from Japan, Korea and Australia, and freely shows off ravishing cooking skills that he has accumulated from his grandfather over the years. As Mark wins round after round and gains attention, Julia, the contest producer notices something peculiar about him, then slowly realizes that Mark and her husband David resemble each other.
1982 in Tokyo, Japan
27 November 1969, Singapore
1932, Beijing, China
6 August 1962, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
9 November 1963
25 March 1955, Saint-Pierre de Chandieu, France
17 September 1972, San Diego, California, USA
16 October 1947
1972, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

