Celestial Banquet by Roselle Lim
320p. Gr. 7+
Do you like cooking shows? Chopped, Great British Bake Off and MasterChef? What if the stakes of the contest were a little higher?
Noodle chef Cai wants to open her own restaurant and help the impoverished area where she lives. The only way to do that seems to be entering the Celestial Banquet, a cooking competition to create a meal for the gods. The winners receive fame and the Peaches of Immortality- the losers face certain death.
With the support of the local minor god Kama, Cai puts together a team to compete in the banquet. Can three chefs from a backwater compete with the finest cooks in the land? Battling through trials to obtain rare ingredients and legendary fixings, Cai will show the world what cooking from the soul really means.
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