One of such examples is the following: The villain in this story is a fellow actor who caused his accident that ultimately led to his 5-year coma at the start of the novel. And of course, that villain is s*upid and his plots all fail... All this was resolved in a couple of chapters (although granted, the lead up story has been mentioned in a few sentences throughout the novel)

Another example is the Zerg arc, where an alien insect race starts a war... and of course, our miraculous MC (who's from the technologically less developed ancient Earth times) actually saves the day with his superior knowledge on pesticides... He is able to find the solution to fight against these insects, whereas the scientists of the new world could not. The author explains it by claiming that they have never encountered insects before...

I feel like the author attributed too big of a role to the MC and his food knowledge, and thereby makes the rest of the Empire look s*upid. I feel like a few thousand years of future development should have significantly increased all kind of technologies and knowledge, instead of regressing it..

I find his meteoric rise a little fast (his viewership is in the 100, 000s by the third broadcast) and the MC is extremely OP for someone who supposedly decided not to be a cook in his past life, but I can suspend my disbelief since his parents were chefs and he cooked for himself all his life. I find it harder to believe that someone whose body was in a coma for five years and who is as weak and skinny as he's supposed to be would have the physical strength needed for cooking some of those foods since he leaves the hospital so soon after waking and he's waving around that knife and flipping the wok so energetically within a day. Woks are heavy. I'm surprised he could even walk without assistance, though this is the future so *shrug*, I'm trying not to let my own medical training get in the way of enjoying the story.

1. The brother is already old enough to think for himself but he acts like a 4 year old. When I was 5 or 6 I already knew what a kiss was. This is especially ridiculous in the interstellar era. Ruan Yu watched Ruan Tang's movies so he should have common sense. He can be lacking in some knowledge but not to the point where he's naive.
2. No one really questions Ruan Tang's knowledge. Maybe it's brought up every now and then but it's nothing really noted. He's just naturally talented. He has amnesia but he naturally knows everything. Eventually he would have to have come up with some sort of explanation. He Yun Yi was supposedly 'smart' but after just mentioning his little theory at the beginning he just brushes everything off. He doesn't talk about it anymore since I guess it was just a passing thought.
3. His lame excuses worked for everything including for the Zerg war. Like please no chef can just come up with using chlorine to kill Zerg just because they can cook. Especially if it's an ingredient that they just found.
4. what's with the whole 'this is as it should be' it like it's saying his soul was meant to be there. Is this like an unfulfilled plot? Like they basically fell in love at first sight. The ML fell for him by just looking at his skinny hands in the broadcast. It's unrealistic unless you say they have like some backstory and it was fated.
5. They call RT innovative and he talks about his own achievements of his past life but it's all regular easy food. I see no western and Chinese mix. Everything is Chinese. The dishes are also repeated throughout the novel. Nothing was new. Nothing was extraordinary.
6. Also he didn't mourn his past life he acted like it was nothing to be separated from your loved ones, your home, your friends, and the world you know.
7. It was racist. As I mentioned, everything was Chinese. The only things that weren't, were the names of the villains and the rutes. It clearly depicted westerners as brutes, idiots, cunning, backstabbing people. It made it seem like they hit people at their weakest on one side but also as people lacking IQ and EQ on the other. It showed that like the rutes westerners have little to no common sense and can be s*upidly chummy and idiotic. Honestly as an American it isn't really offensive since there's a lot of idiots out here but nevertheless it is stereotypical and racist particularly so since there's idiots everywhere and we all know it. The world is full of all kids of s*upidity and it's not only in one country.

I have to say I find some of the crackheads here a little cute and funny.

This film emperor got into an accident 5 years ago and since then has been in a vegetative state. Turns out earth back when our MC transmigrated was basically destroyed and humans had to leave and venture out into space. But since space is already occupied by all kinds of other lifeforms there was a continuous period of wars, and human kind survived on nutrient fluid for a long time. The time when our MC wakes up is just in time when the human empire experiences peace and are trying to reintroduce natural ingredients into the world, since they now have time and as it turns out, only drinking tasteless fluids is detrimental to mental health. But the problem is, while they can genetically regrow those ingredients, they don't know how to handle them, and in general how to cook. When our MC is released from the hospital he realizes that he's got no money and since the only thing he knows is cooking, he starts a live broadcast. And gets famous instantly, because he cooks well (and you can smell and taste food over a live broadcast) and he knows how to handle potatoes and fish, which even a cooking organization and a research institution can't figure out how to prepare and use properly....

As you can already tell the MC got a huuuge golden finger (in this story his knowledge), is sth the author likes apparently. This isn't inherently bad, but the author does barely anything to build up tension, like srsly everything goes perfectly for the MC, nothing goes wrong at all. And no one really confronts him about the source of his knowledge, or just say they don't care, which tbh doesn't make much sense to me. And does anyone srsly believe that even though they can genetically regrow all kinds of ingredients and have entire institutions and cooks as well as researchers testing these out, they can't figure out that you can eat cucumber raw? And no one at all even dislikes any food MC makes, as soon as they taste his food any slight conflict is resolved... I get that he is an amazing chef, esp for those times, but still.. people have preferences... And even if there is a dangerous or possibly dangerous/bad situation for the MC, you don't even get anxious because you just know that nothing will go wrong, because everything in this story goes his way, 100%. The MC to me is barely characterized through his love for cooking and being generally a good human being. Can't say much about the romance since nothing really happened yet (at ~c80), but I hope the author will give our MC at least some reason to get together with ML in this story. But the MC being barely characterized, and there being no real reason for the MC and ML to get together is sth that I found in another story of the author as well, so this might be a problem I have with the author. Although they do it better in this novel.

The author is obviously, painfully Chinese. I really cant get my head around scrambled eggs with chili! Yah... Nope. Bell peppers are more like it. Then we only have steak for western cuisine presented. When's pasta coming around? And I mean the Italian version. And cake Neeeeeds yeast to rise.?? No yeast. No yeast 'restored'. No yeast even mentioned in the food prep. yet they already have the rice cooker cake (made popular by the japanese) ? the text does describe it as fluffy hence my rant.

MC's skill is very quickly recognized. He is an instant star. I think somewhere around chapter 20 or so he already gets national recognition.