A story about food and romance follows Hua Xiao Mai as she falls in love with a bodyguard.

Through her passion for the culinary arts, Hua Xiao Mai starts small and slowly makes her way up in the food business. She meets the cool-headed Meng Yu Huai who heads up a bodyguard agency and excels in martial arts. With his qualities, he is the definition of a true man. Meng Yu Huai and Hua Xiao Mai become quarrelsome lovers who are sweetly in love.

(Source: chinesedrama.info)

~~ Adapted from the novel "Shi Wei Ji" (食味记) by Xi He (熙禾).

　　文武双全的大龄不婚镖头孟郁槐，在走镖回村的林中偶然救下前来火刀村投奔姐姐的少女花小麦。彼时的花小麦正为了难得的橙盖鹅菇而以身犯险，差点跌落山崖，幸得孟郁槐飞身相救，两人四目相对之间，花小麦芳心暗许。遇到好男人，就要果断追求，花小麦摩拳擦掌跃跃欲试，可怎奈孟郁槐是个不解风情的傻直男，对花小麦的印象只停留在有着惊人厨艺的瘦弱丫头。然而在此后的相处中，花小麦每每围上围裙站在灶台前便散发着一种“厨艺天下第一”的霸气，加上她的古灵精怪、敢爱敢恨，孟郁槐很快便意识到自己逃不出花小麦的手掌心，她便是自己一直在等的那个人。爱情上的成功并不能停止花小麦厨艺上的追求，用任何食材做出美食给适合的人吃，这便是她的人生理想。花小麦打破常理，不理世俗目光，从路边摊到小饭馆，从糖渍果子到酱菜园，再到名震一方的花间楼，美食不断升级，花小麦也带给更多的人食物给予的幸福和快乐。在此过程中，花小麦也逐渐意识到，金银名利不敌人间烟火，朝来烹鱼虾，晚来炊饭香，与所爱之人相依相守，才是人生至味。

사람들의 행복과 즐거움을 위하여 요리하는 화샤오마이의 사랑과 요리에 대한 열정을 담은 드라마

Хуа Сяо Май всегда мечтала стать поваром. Мечта привела к тому, что она открыла свой маленький бизнес и встретилась с холодным, но благородным Мэн Юй Хуаем.

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