share time: 2025-12-16 00:35:28
10-year-old Lin Xiaotang was once a “kitchen disaster” who could even burn instant noodles—until her mom was hospitalized with a sudden stomach illness and her dad couldn’t rush back from a business trip. To make warm meals for her mom in bed, Xiaotang dug out her grandma’s old recipe book and got up an hour early every day to practice: she cut her fingers, got splashed by oil, and was laughed at by classmates for “pretending to be an adult,” but she never gave up. Until that day, her three-hour radish pork rib soup made the nurse’s eyes tear up and her mom say through tears, “It’s warmer than grandma’s.” Even more surprisingly, the “weird grandpa” from the school canteen offered to take her as an apprentice, saying, “Your dishes have light in them.” When Xiaotang stood on the stage of the district children’s cooking competition with her red scarf on, everyone forgot she was just a primary school kid—because every dish of hers hides the most touching ingredient: love.
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