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The magnificent Chinese food culture in a global view

Once Upon a Bite

EP1：Between mountains and sea

EP2：Rooting

EP3：Red Dust

EP4：Food is changing

EP5：River and night rain

EP6：Spice path

EP7：Lamps and candles of a myriad families

EP8：Flavor journey

The story is set during a time when the world is divided into three kingdoms. The Wei Kingdom is powerful but embroiled in a fierce struggle for the throne; the Wu Kingdom is focused on development and strategic planning; and the Zhao Kingdom is in turmoil, with Empress Lu controlling the court, putting the country in jeopardy. 
Princess Jiang Taohua of Zhao, ambitious and determined, seeks to escape Empress Lu’s control by arranging a political marriage with Wei. However, upon arriving in Wei, she is attacked by wolves and later wakes up to find herself accused of an affair with Chancellor Shen Zaiye. To stay in Wei, she offers to become Shen Zaiye’s concubine, making her a thorn in his side. Despite this, Jiang Taohua, who is poisoned, must fulfill Empress Lu’s task to bring down the Crown Prince.
Shen Zaiye, while known as a tough and unyielding official, secretly desires to support a wise ruler and strengthen Wei. However, he falls into a trap while investigating palace smuggling, leading to his unintended entanglement with Jiang Taohua. Although Shen sets a deadly trap to remove her, Jiang's willingness to risk her life earns his respect. 
Forced to live in Shen’s household, Jiang faces challenges from Shen’s wives and concubines, as well as his combative sister. But having grown up in Zhao’s treacherous palace, Jiang easily handles the internal household conflicts. Desperate to complete her mission and get the antidote for her poison, Jiang sneaks out of the estate to seek help, even as Shen keeps a close watch on her. 

As they clash and outwit each other, mutual feelings start to develop. Jiang soon discovers that the Crown Prince is also Shen’s political enemy, and offers to help him take the prince down, along with the various wives and concubines planted by political forces around Shen. The two form an alliance, and as they work together, they manage to expose the prince’s crimes to the emperor, causing the fall of the Eastern Palace. However, the struggle for the throne only intensifies from there.

Liu Xueyi & Meng Ziyi's Sweet-Spicy Duel

The Princess's Gambit

Song Xiaoyu accidentally finds herself trapped in a scripted world as a tragic heroine—used, discarded, and tortured. Every attempt to change her fate ends in bizarre, repeated deaths. Eventually, she realizes that no matter how far she runs, fate always pulls her back to Nan Heng, the male lead. The series explores multiple worlds—from palace intrigues and power struggles to emotional prisons of daily life—depicting the struggle of ordinary individuals against a destiny that seems pre-written.

Li Yitong and Liu Yuning Unlock the World of Scripts

A Dream Within A Dream

An Olympic diver, Parang, who quit due to trauma, joins the swim team, sparking a fierce love and growth story.

Blue Complex

After the Tokyo trip, things changed. "P" became a better man, just as he promised Pan, and moved to Shimane as a travel blogger. A year later, Pan returned to Japan—with a wild manager and a handsome "on-screen partner." Can P turn this winter into a season of love?

Ai no Kisetsu in Shimane

"Keen" He was soon harassed by debt collectors and discovered that his father. Then he met "Thun", a renowned boxer known as "The Cannon Who Conquers Tigers". They have a relationship that blossomed into a beautiful love. Together, they overcame obstacles and resolved Keen’s debt issues, unaware that they were becoming entangled with a powerful and dark figure in the Muay Thai world.

Knock Out

A retreat on the battlefield orchestrated by Xiaoqiao's grandfather fourteen years ago resulted in the deaths of Wei family elders, igniting a bitter clan feud. Now, Wei Shao, the sole Wei survivor, marches on Yanzhou, ostensibly for revenge but truly to restore the vital Yongning Canal. Seeing through his plan, Xiaoqiao agrees to a strategic marriage to ease the crisis.
Initially at odds, the couple slowly bonds through shared trials. As old grudges fade, love grows. Together, they overcome adversity and fight for peace, ultimately becoming lifelong companions.

Song Zu'er and Liu Yuning's Family Feud and Romance

The Prisoner of Beauty

Tang Xin is a workaholic, who’s never seen marriage as a life necessity, but deep down, she longs for a true hero. Her blind date, Wu Si, is a brilliant military officer. To outsiders, they seem like a perfect match. After a series of amusing and heartwarming twists, they finally fall in love. Meanwhile, Lan Yangyang, fresh out of medical school, falls head over heels for the dashing officer Zong Qing. The differences in profession, clashes in values, and the sacrifices that come with loving a soldier all make the two young women hesitate. But after truly getting to know the community of military wives, they begin to understand and admire the strength and depth of such love, a love that’s more steadfast, more resilient. With unwavering hearts, the two couples walk hand in hand into the future, and the love stories within the barracks continue on.

Jin Han and Xuan Lu bring a passionate military romance to life

Rose and Gun

Ten thousand years after his betrayal, Immortal King Mu Yun awakens in the body of a "useless" young man. With hidden alchemy skills and the Slaughter Immortal Diagram, he cures Qin Mengyao, uncovering her Ice Phoenix spirit. As their bond grows, jealous rival Dongfang Yu seeks revenge. Mu Yun embarks on a training journey—unaware assassins await their chance to strike.

Train to become an invincible cultivation warrior!

Supreme God Emperor

Born into abject poverty, Chen Pan'er is coerced into a brothel by the local magistrate under the pretense of a river god ritual. She makes a daring escape, changes her name to Bao Yin, and sells herself into service to escape her fate. She later crosses paths with Wen Su, the eldest son of the Wen family, who once rescued her, only to discover that he has become the consort of the Princess Royal. Faced with adversity, Bao Yin and Wen Su join forces, carefully navigating the dangers, clearing their names, and ultimately achieving success at the highest level.

The Orphan's Journey to the Top

A Dream Like The True Love

Ten years ago, Lin Miaomiao was forced to break up with Cen Siyuan due to their families' class differences. Now, Cen Siyuan has become the CEO of Kafei Group and is about to marry the actress Su Peipei, while Lin Miaomiao is his mother's right-hand secretary. When a business crisis strikes, the two are thrown together once more. As old truths resurface, so do lingering feelings. They transcend all obstacles and finally mend their broken past.

Old Flames Reunite in the Ultimate Game of Push-and-Pull

Ten Years of Unrequited Love

Because geography environment civilization course and product rich degree are not identical, So people's handling of food varies from time to time. This season from the perspective of the world, Find countless connections among distinctive cuisines. To explore different methods of the same ingredients, the same methods of different ingredients, and the similar taste of different methods. Searching for new ingredients, providing fun and knowledge, and constantly creating unexpected joy.

Food is gathering

Once Upon a Bite S2

Once Upon a Bite S3 is back! With the exquisite audio-visual language, this show explores the delicacies from the sea in various dimensions and creates a guide for the flavor of seafood, satisfying the curiosity of food lovers on seafood and breaking the audience’s stereotype. It tells the most shocking and moving stories, portraying a group of people who live by the sea, showing the most authentic lives of Chinese families, and expressing the deepest attachment, awe, and love of Chinese people.

The freshness in common life

Once Upon a Bite S3

Each hot pot meal is a story. With steam around, it shows all kinds of lives and witnesses ups and downs of history. Chen Xiaoqing’s team has a new work “Pot of Fire”, which describes how localities create various flavors in different natural geographic environments and cultural customs. They will adopt documentary of vivid individuals in a younger aesthetic way to enlarge delicious moments. Through hot pot, we can see people’s distinctive regional characters and shared love for life.

Gourmet Chronicles

POT OF FIRE

"Once Upon A Bite S5" focuses on spices, the insignificant yet essential heroes that shape flavor. It explores the circulation, migration, conquest, and fusion of spices, highlighting the uniqueness of Chinese cuisine. Amidst globalization, it examines how spices influence cooking and become markers of regional cuisine. The series reveals how food impacts history and shapes regional character. Where will humanity's journey for fragrance lead, and how will the story of curiosity unfold?

A Subtle Fragrance in Flavor

Once Upon a Bite S5

Chen Xiaoqing, a documentary filmmaker, works on food documentaries and writing, searching for new flavors is his job. This program is the first time he goes in front of the camera to explore the stories behind the food with his own perspective. Chen travels to eight different regions in China, where he works with different guides to complete his own flavor journey. He believes that “food is not only delicious, but also a kind of adhesive that allows for more understanding and communication.”

Flavor Exploration Journey of Chen Xiaoqing

China Beyond Tastes

The world's first cultural documentary on milk, "Milk: A Running River of Civilization" explores the origins of milk and dairy products around the globe, capturing the similar dependence and love for milk across different cultures. It witnesses the history and survival wisdom of humanity behind a glass of milk.

The First Major Culinary Documentary Focused on Milk

Milk: A Running River of Civilization

Once Upon a Bite S4 is the fourth season of this documentary series, from the perspective of mankind to find the ongoing food stories of grains and humans, through these stories to glimpse the emergence of agriculture to 10,000 years ago, humans and grains have shaped the legend of each other.

Immersive Exploration for Grains

Once Upon a Bite S4 (English Ver.)

Once Upon a Bite S4

The protagonist Liao extraordinary in the eyes of the world, is a jinx who see who is unlucky. In order to change his fate, he went to Shushan to worship a teacher and practice, and finally got the recognition and help of others, and realized his self-value and ideal. Liao Extraordinary is not a humorous person, but he often faces the world with a hippie face, but sometimes he hides his inner anxiety with a smile and does not let others worry about him. To outsiders, he was a man who was comfortable with everything, but those around him often could see his deep-seated concerns. While seemingly rash, he was also sensible, understanding that the right path was not an easy one, and that there were numerous difficulties and obstacles along the way. The heroine linglong refused to believe in hearsay to see, it is her love to make liao more believe in their choice, not contrary.

The Shushan Taoist Fights the Reincarnation of Demon Tuo

Shushan Devil

After returning from the Ancient Spooky City, Shirley Young found a red spot on herself and knew she was cursed by the Ghost Eye. So, Hu Bayi and his friends went to Longling Labyrinth and tried to find the Longgu Sealed Book to lift the curse. They were in danger many times, and had to fight against the mythical beast, King of Dragons with an iron head, a crowed of red-eye wolves who eat human bones, and a spider with a human face. Ultimately, they found the Longgu Sealed Book.

Raiders Battle Beasts in Underground Palace

Tomb Adventurer

"Gansu of Flavor Origin" is the third part of the documentary series, adheres to the style of "hard core" food, highlights the concept of "origin", excavates a kind of Gansu unique ingredients, food and taste that "nourish the deep boudoir does not know" through the short film, and on this basis, connects the desert, grassland and Danxia geomorphology, and experiences the most rich diet culture and the most yearning characteristic life with the most national characteristics.

The Lost Flesh Returns

Flavorful Origins: Gan Su

The documentary by gourmet Shen Hongfei, Chen Xiaoqing as the general counsel; Visit the streets, smell and taste, with simple images and family taste, looking for authentic Chinese breakfast. Each episode features a traditional breakfast, an interesting shop, a group of self-indulgent diners, and the owner's "breakfast philosophy."

A Taste of Happiness

Breakfast in China

The film carefully selected with the characteristics of Yunnan food, strange and fresh, with a strong regional style, with in-depth study of food and a deep understanding of the documentary, and strive to explore a younger flavor world. Feel the authentic Yunnan flavor with Chen Xiaoqing!

Authentic Yunnan Flavors

Flavorful Origins: Yun Nan

The 10-episode series focuses on Zi River in central Hunan, known for Anhua Dark Tea and the Tea Horse Road. Local cuisines highlight seasonal flavors. Starting from Shaoyang, the source of Zi River, our journey spans 650+ km through Lengshui River, Xinhua, Anhua, Taojiang, and Yiyang, ending at Dongting Lake and Yueyang. Our camera captures stunning mountains and villages. Local dialect "Have you eaten? Come and eat." invites global guests to enjoy Hunan's hospitality and diverse cuisine.

Exploring Diverse Cuisines along the Zi River

Flavors from The River

The third season will continue the style of the previous two seasons, reviving taste buds with breakfast, driving away haze with fireworks, and warming the stomach with hometown food. 30 ordinary breakfast shops, 30 ups and downs of the family story. Human fireworks, spectacular, ordinary life has bitter tears, but the arrival of comfort is equally overwhelming. Please believe that the sun will rise tomorrow.

The Sun Also Rises

Breakfast in China Ⅲ

The documentary "A Long Cherished Dream" is directed by two Oscar winners and British director Covens. Kovens, who has filmed more than 80 countries around the world, is looking to China this time, hoping to record and show what he sees as a great change in China from the perspective of ordinary people.

Tribute to Ordinary Lives

A Long Cherished Dream

Taste Humanity at Night S3 continues with its signature storytelling and visual style of the previous seasons, exploring eight cities: Quanzhou, Yinchuan, Qingdao, Liuzhou, Zigong, Xiangyang, Lhasa, and Kunming. It showcases local culinary talents, highlights delicious late-night eats, and captures the authentic spirit of urban life. Through diverse flavors and rich cityscapes, the show reveals the resilience of everyday people and their stories, reflecting the essence of our times.

Taste Humanity at Night S3

Chen Xiaoqing team series quality masterpiece. Following Chaoshan, Yunnan, Gansu, this season we focus on Guiyang, with food as the absolute core, with "novelty burning special" as the content label, outline a guide nature of Guiyang origin products food map: delicious intestines, Through the most extreme visual presentation, digging a deeper level of Guiyang food world, at the same time through food, also show a different kind of Guiyang fireworks world.

Gourmet Guide to Guiyang

Flavorful Origins: Gui Yang

Hu Bayi and his friends were attacked by some unknown creature in Qunming Mountains several years ago, and Hu Bayi was the only one that got escaped. Shirley Young, coming back from the US, invited Hu Bayi to join her and go to the Ancient Spooky City in order to find her father and the truth about the death of Hu Bayi's friends.

Queen Spooky Came back to Life: Beasts Coming Up

Candle in the Tomb

Chaoshan, the origin of flavor, is the first in the documentary series. Through each episode of the short film, it will explore a kind of unique ingredients, food and taste of Chaoshan, which is not known to the deep boudoir. In Chaoshan area, food has obvious regional markers. From Chaoshan food, we can clearly see the migration, root and reproduction of Chaoshan people, and see the unique personality characteristics and spirit of Chaoshan people.

Once Upon a Bite

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