Gu Rong

A fiction about the founder Mingquan Yang, and the early ages of Quanjude Restaurant, the most famous Peking duck restaurant. Yang bought the Dejuquan restaurant and changed the name to Quanjude according to a fortune teller, hired cooks from the Forbidden City, and invented a special recipe of roasted duck.

A story of the upheavals and changes in Chinese society from the 1960s to 1980s, set in the hutong alleyways of Beijing.