Ep. 9: Mao arrives in Shanghai where the cooking underworld has seized control of the Chef's Grand Alliance.
Aired on December 7, 2019

Mao and his companions arrive in Shanghai, known as the City of Devils. They are greeted by Sanjie, a former senior apprentice of Mao. The local culinary underworld has already infiltrated the Shanghai Chef's Grand Alliance, taking its leaders hostage, including Sanjie's father. With the alliance compromised and its leadership captured, the conflict escalates. Mao and his friends must now engage in a fierce struggle against the cooking underworld to secure Shanghai's legendary cooking utensil and rescue the captured officials.
Episodes
- Ep. 5 · Yang Spring Restaurant prepares for a prodigious guest while Shell faces a mysterious attacker
- Ep. 6 · Mao and Lei En compete in a knife skills contest for the legendary utensil heir title.
- Ep. 7 · Mao Claims the Ever-Soul Knife and Reveals Another Successor
- Ep. 8 · Mao and companions journey to Shanghai to find a legendary utensil while Mao shares his chef path.
- Ep. 9 · Mao arrives in Shanghai where the cooking underworld has seized control of the Chef's Grand Alliance.
- Ep. 10 · Xie Lu and Luo Kong compete in the sweet bun challenge at the Huangpu River Warship Pavilion banquet.
- Ep. 11 · Xie Lu and Luo Kong compete in a sweet bun challenge at the Huangpu River Warship Pavilion banquet.
- Ep. 12 · Lei En's Culinary Ambition and Mao's Revealed History
- Ep. 13 · The Transcendental Tofu Battle!