A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

It was almost ten o'clock when Hao Ren returned to the rental house after working overtime.

Putting the takeout on the table, he took off all his clothes, only wearing a pair of underwear, then sat on a chair and started looking for a meal.

It has become his habit to find a favorite TV series, a good variety show, or a new show to eat every time he has a meal.

This will give him the warmth of being accompanied at night in a strange city.

But after searching for a long time, he couldn't find a new show to watch, and the few programs and new dramas he was following were not updated either.

Do we need to rewatch the last season of "Chinese Restaurant" again?

Thinking of the last season of "Chinese Restaurant", he suddenly remembered a screenshot he saw in the group at noon.

That was a Weibo post by Li Yifa, which said that the food documentary "A Bite of China" he produced would premiere on CCTV tonight.

Hao Ren looked at the time and it seemed that it was about this time.

You have to take a look at this!

After rummaging through the cabinets, he found the TV remote control and replaced it with the air conditioner battery. He turned on the TV that he had never watched since moving in and found a CCTV set.

The last season of "Chinese Restaurant" was his favorite show and he had rewatched it more than a dozen times.

Every time he couldn't find a suitable show to go with his meal, he would dig out "Chinese Restaurant", pick an episode at random, and watch it as soon as he went in. He would never be disappointed.

He has been waiting for the filming of the new season of "Chinese Restaurant", but instead of "Chinese Restaurant", he waited for "A Bite of China".

He had heard about this documentary a long time ago, but never paid much attention to it.

He has always believed that there are specialties in the art industry, and since Li Yi is a chef, he should cook well instead of filming documentaries.

Moreover, how to make a documentary about food?

In his impression, documentaries are the kind that use a cold perspective to shoot nature, humanities, and animals, as if the creator is overlooking the entire world, aloof and unworldly.

Of course, this was just his impression. The only documentary he had ever watched was Animal World when he was a child.

Other than that, he rarely watches documentaries.

Therefore, he had no idea about this food documentary.

When the documentary started playing, he even thought it was an advertisement. It wasn't until Liu Yifei's gentle voice came from the TV that he realized that the documentary had already started.

"China has a large population and the richest and most diverse natural landscapes in the world. Plateau, mountains, forests, lakes, and coastlines.

This geographical and climatic span contributes to the formation and preservation of species.

No other country uses so many potential food raw materials..."

As Liu Yifei spoke unhurriedly, the mountains, rivers and lakes of the Chinese mainland appeared one by one.

But the broad perspective is only a fleeting glimpse, and it is quickly retracted to the details.

Heavy wheat ears, dense mushrooms on the trees, lotus flowers hidden among the green lotus leaves in the lake, red peppers...

Looking at the ingredients flashing across the screen, Hao Ren couldn't help but twitch his Adam's apple, and then reached out to bring the takeaway in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, as if cooperating with him, the screen switched to the fried shredded pork with wild rice that had just come out of the pot.

Then there are fried mackerel, boiled clams, fried lotus root...

One after another delicious dishes appeared on the screen. As Hao Ren watched, his throat trembled violently, and he began to untie the plastic take-out bag irritably.

Why are the bags tied up by this merchant so tight? Are you going to let others eat it?

When the stir-fried bamboo shoots appeared on the screen, he couldn't bear it any longer and tore the plastic bag open with a fierce force.

He opened the takeout box, took out the disposable chopsticks, poked them at the table, took them out, threw away the packaging bag, and took a big mouthful of rice.

Feel relieved!

Chewing heavily, he stared at the TV screen without blinking, watching seriously.

So is this a food documentary?

looks good!

The meal is simply unbeatable!

At the same time, there are countless viewers in front of TV sets across the country, all attracted by the content being broadcast.

Food is always one of the content types with the widest audience, and there will never be a shortage of viewers.

When portions of steaming food appear on TV, even a three-year-old child will be greedy enough to drool.

At the same time, in CCTV's data monitoring center, the current ratings are also displayed in real time on the big screen.

The screen showed that from the moment "The Tip of the Tongue" started airing, CCTV's ratings were like riding on a rocket, starting to rise at a steady pace, and soon exceeded 1%.

You know, for a channel like CCTV that covers the whole country, even a 1% ratings is already quite scary.

Even the TV series broadcast in prime time at 8 o'clock only have less than 2% ratings.

For a documentary, it has exceeded 1% since its launch, which is already a big hit!

But this was just the beginning. During the fifty-minute first episode, ratings continued to rise across the channel.

By the time the first episode ended, the ratings were approaching 2%!

Seeing this data, everyone in the CCTV backstage felt reassured.

This film is solid!

At this time, across the land of China, countless people’s cell phones began to ding.

In various WeChat groups, there were heated discussions about the show that just ended.

"Have you watched the documentary from the set? It looks great!"

"I'm so greedy that I got up in the middle of the night and cooked a pack of instant noodles!"

"There is actually lotus root soup from our province in Hubei. The director is very knowledgeable!"

"Don't you all watch the news? This was taken by Li Yi, the chef who became popular last year."

"Did he take the photo? No wonder it looks so good. He is a professional!"

At the same time, countless netizens chatted about this show on various platforms.

Less than twenty minutes after the broadcast, "A Bite of China" quickly became a hot search topic.

Below the hot search, many netizens are discussing excitedly.

"This is my first time watching a program that specifically introduces food! It's so interesting!"

“Finally someone took pictures of our Chinese delicacies!”

"The food documentary was shot like this, it's really amazing."

"It's not easy for Liu Yifei to appear in a documentary."

"Haha! I support my boyfriend's career."

"This film was shot by Li Yi, so of course Liu Yifei is willing to appear."

"Produced by Brother Yi, it's really professional!"

"Yifei's dubbing is really impressive. As soon as I hear her voice, I feel hungry."

"I don't know if my hometown will be included in the second episode. At the end of last year, I heard that Li Yi and Liu Yifei went to my hometown to shoot material."

Under the hot discussion among netizens, topics related to the show were at the top of the hot search list until the next day.

With this kind of popularity, when the second episode of the show started airing the next day, the ratings immediately exceeded 2% from the beginning.

By the time the second episode was aired, the ratings even reached around 3%, which surprised the CCTV staff.

It’s just a food documentary, how can it be so popular?

Even though they knew the quality of "Tongue" and knew that its ratings would not be low, they did not expect it to be so high.

With a ratings of nearly 3%, it has already crushed all prime-time TV series!

This data can really be said to be explosive!