"Gourmet" was produced by Shanghai Film Studio in 1985, directed and written by Xu Changlin, and starring Xia Xia, Wang Shihuai, Chen Hongmei, Zhang Wenrong and so on.
The film is based on Lu Wenfu's novel of the same name, which is about the liberation of the mind and the revival of all wastes after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee. Gao Xiaoting, manager of Suzhou City Songhelou Restaurant, intended to restore the traditional famous dishes in Suzhou that he had single-handedly destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution", but suffering from the lack of people to teach art, he mobilized the masses to offer ideas and recommend capable people. Bao Kunnian, a young worker who could speak the Tao, proposed to ask Zhu Zizhi to give a lecture. Speaking of Zhu Ziye, Manager Gao couldn't help but recall many past events. He was originally related to Zhu Ziye. This Zhu Ziye is indeed a little strange, he does not talk about dressing, does not love women, only pays attention to eating. Before liberation, I ate restaurants in Suzhou, three meals a day, which is a total of 40 years of "eating age". In order to eat, he can get up at dawn to rush to the soup noodles, in order to eat the abandoned wives who can marry bureaucrats, in order to eat, he can also quarrel with his wife who is married in his old age and divorce. Gao Xiaoting lived in Zhu Ziye's house in his childhood and bought snacks for Zhu Ziye. Such a skillless wine sack rice bag, which is what people call "delicious into fine" of the gluttonous billet, Gao Xiaoting has always despised him, hated him, and opposed him. I couldn't imagine that he still had this reputation in people's hearts, which surprised Gao Xiaoting greatly. Shi Bei's three days should be impressed, maybe Zhu Ziye has changed in the past ten years or so? You can't always look at people with old eyes. Therefore, Gao Xiaoting abandoned his personal prejudices and decided to ask Zhu Ziye to give a lecture. Who knows, Zhu Ziye's two lectures caused a sensation in the whole city, and he was invited everywhere to make reports and impart experience. Zhu Ziye also seems to have pulled out his own two pounds, planning to actively plan to set up a culinary association with Bao Kunnian and a group of diners. Zhu Ziye's wife, Kong Bixia, was previously a politician's aunt and was later abandoned. Decades of wandering have enabled her to develop a superb culinary skill. Zhu Ziye, in order to win the head street of the chairman of the Culinary Association, specially let Kong Bixia prepare a sumptuous meal and invited influential figures in the catering industry to attend, and Gao Xiaoting and his wife were of course invited. Zhu Ziye, who has spent his life eating, this time he is drunk and does not want to drink. This feast of good color and taste not only amazed Gao Xiaoting and his wife, but even those diners who claimed to have studied eating were also stunned. At the banquet, everyone unanimously praised Zhu Ziye as a "gourmet" and promoted him as the president of the association. "Delicious" can actually be called "home", Gao Xiaoting thinks it is really incomprehensible. The intention of this feast was finally seen through by Gao Xiaoting. He stepped back halfway and wandered the streets alone, seriously reflecting. He thought that things in the world can't always be done worse than they can be said, and they can burn better than they can eat. He still insisted on his own views on "gourmets", did not ask this wine bag rice bag as a guide, and decided to ask Kong Bixia to cook the cooking consultant of the cooking house.