Several things to talk about in 40 episodes length, but it is a nice drama.
STORY – a serious hardworking chef (Jiang Qian Fan ) is searching for a person who can replace his lack of taste that is vanishing.
Boy meets girl (Lin Ke Song), a young girl who is warm, cheerful and gives colour to the black and white life and starts do endure a hard training. Lot of plots, a competition, backstabbing, etc. We can watch wonderful cuisine, great ingredients, and the richness of Chinese gastronomy.
The story is almost too fictional I think where we have an ex-girlfriend that almost killed her lover, Michelin chefs cooking in a small family restaurant, a chef needing help and hiding it from the person that can help him, etc.
However, it is an amuse trip to gastronomy, but a little too long.
Find interesting:
+ The gastronomy part, the cooking, the ingredients and the stories, etc. The presentation of the food and the way that was film was amazing;
+ The relation between Qian Fan and Lin Ke Song was nice, the comic parts, the ruthless in the training (that feeling of old martial arts movies between master and apprentice!) and even the romance growing.
+ The romantic parts between Mrs. Quentin and Huang Shi;
+ The story had many layers that did not make sense sometimes but gave complex and cliff hangers…

Did not liked:
- Song Yi Ran story;
- Elise stupid decision to make Qian Fan sticks with her, the blackmailing of Li Yan, the role of the doctor towards his patient, etc;
- There is no sense in the romantic relation between Victor (the Adonis narcissistic singer) and K (the bike mechanic)…
- Victor singing moments (is he a famous singer? Was that a kind of k-pop moment?);
- Lin Xiao actions and the way she redeemed herself;
- The extra-terrestrial capacity of tasteless blind man Chef;
- The fact that a woman with a genius taste capacity, in one month, can outperform top Chefs with hours and hours of training.
ACTING – good for most of the characters. Did not understand Elise synchronism between speech and sound.
MUSIC – I find it very good!
REWATCH – too long for me and without a particular astonishing moment to watch again.

OVERALL – resilience, bravery and never giving up as the core of Qian Fan. Many people gave up things in this drama, but he maintain the focus. First for his ambition and after because of love.