Gilded Chopsticks — Season 1, Episode 12: Episode 12
Drama, Comedy • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
YINZHEN worries about KANGXI and he asks the guards to chase after MO-SUET. After learning about MO-SUET's real identity, KANGXI brings YINZHEN and MO-SUET to the palace temple. SIU-YU suspects that Old FUNG is Five Taste Master. When she visits RUOBI, she reveals her past resentments against Five Taste Master to RUOBI. YINZHEN fails to settle the injustice between Manchu and Han people and he seeks advice from SZE-TO. SZE-TO believes that YINZHEN will only be able to solve the problem if he becomes the emperor. YINSI learns that MO-SUET has entered the palace. He scolds MO-SUET and asks the eunuch TAK-SING to speak to KANGXI. KANGXI finally punishes YINZHEN by removing him from an important position and he should not be involved in any government affairs for a lifetime. KANGXI is seriously ill and the doctor says that he will die soon.… ...
About Gilded Chopsticks
Ko Tin Bo had been an experienced eater since youth, he knows everything about food and the taste as soon as it goes into his mouth. Unfortunately due to a family crisis he and his loyal follower Lee Wai were forced to wander the streets and made a living off selling buns. Because of food, Tin Bo met a female street entertainer Gei Mo Suet, the Capital's most beautiful woman Lin Yeuk Bik and female chef Mai Siu Yue. It is also because of fate that he encountered the Fourth Royal Prince Yan Chan who discovered his talent and recommended him to the palace to work as a palace chef. In the palace, Tin Bo meets his old enemy Choi Hok Ting and set off a series of battles in the kitchen. Tin Bo also didn't know he was getting himself involved in the Eighth Royal Prince Yan Yik's evil plot.