The story takes place in 19th century China during the Qing Dynasty, where the Emperor was weakened and the country was close to chaos. It is also during a fictitious era called "The Era of the Cooking Wars". It was an era in which top chefs with different cooking styles tried their best to improve their skills and to become the best chef in China. It is a country where insulting a high-grade chef or fooling around with cooking could land a person in a jail, and impersonating a top-chef is as good as usurpation of authority. Chefs compete with each other in order to gain respect and even power, but also with the risks of losing everything. After the death of Mao's mother, Pai, who was called the 'Fairy of Cuisine', Mao becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef of his mother's restaurant. However, before he takes his mother's place as Master Chef, he continues to travel China in order to learn more of the many ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef, just like his mother. During his journey, he meets great friends and fierce rivals who wish to challenge him in the field of cooking.
Japanese study overview
Shin Chuuka Ichiban! is a Japanese anime of 98,930 characters, with 6,670 unique words and 1,615 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,670 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 料理cooking×391
- 厨kitchen×262
- 俺I×226
- 裏opposite side×171
- 師teacher×156
- 具tool×141
- 兄older brother×138
- 勝負victory or defeat×136
- お前you×134
- 貴様you×111
- 味flavor×103
- 料理人cook×99
- 昴星Kōsei×72
- 特級high grade×65
- 劉Shima×65
- 上海Shanghai (China)×63
- 広州Guangzhou (China)×37
- 楼tower×37
- 刀工swordsmith×34
- 七星Kirara×31