Format: TV
Episodes: 12
Episode length: 24 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Oct 12, 2019
Until: Dec 28, 2019
Season: Fall 2019
Source: Manga
Average score: 60%
Mean score: 61%
Popularity: 4,301
Favorites: 40
Studios: Production I.G, NAS
Producers: Kodansha, DMM pictures
Genres: Comedy
Hashtag: #真・中華一番 #cookingmaster
Romaji: Shin Chuuka Ichiban!
English: True Cooking Master Boy
Native: 真・中華一番！

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True Cooking Master Boy

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The story takes place in 19th century China during the Qing Dynasty, where the Emperor was weakened and the country was close to chaos. It is also during a fictitious era called "The Era of the Cooking Wars". It was an era in which top chefs with different cooking styles tried their best to improve their skills and to become the best chef in China. It is a country where insulting a high-grade chef or fooling around with cooking could land a person in a jail, and impersonating a top-chef is as good as usurpation of authority. Chefs compete with each other in order to gain respect and even power, but also with the risks of losing everything.

After the death of Mao's mother, Pai, who was called the 'Fairy of Cuisine', Mao becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef of his mother's restaurant. However, before he takes his mother's place as Master Chef, he continues to travel China in order to learn more of the many ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef, just like his mother. During his journey, he meets great friends and fierce rivals who wish to challenge him in the field of cooking.