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* GroinAttack: Ding Qi threatens to castrate a man with a meat cleaver. He's stopped before going through with it.

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* GroinAttack: Ding Qi threatens to castrate a man with a meat cleaver. He's stopped before going He doesn't go through with it.it, but the man [[FaintInShock faints]] anyway.

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* FryingPanOfDoom: Ding Qi knocks a man out with a frying pan.

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* FryingPanOfDoom: Ding Qi knocks beats a man out up with a frying pan.


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* GroinAttack: Ding Qi threatens to castrate a man with a meat cleaver. He's stopped before going through with it.


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* StabTheSalad: Ding Qi threatens a man and pretends he's about to cut off [[GroinAttack a certain part of his anatomy]]. He raises the knife, brings it down, and then reveals he only cut a vegetable.
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* FryingPanOfDoom: Ding Qi knocks a man out with a frying pan.
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* AshFace: Jia Yao and Yi Yi get covered in ash after Yi Yi accidentally starts a fire.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The [=YouTube=] subtitles fall victim to grammatical errors and strange phrasing, like "how dare you are" and "I must revenge".

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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The [=YouTube=] subtitles fall victim to grammatical errors and strange phrasing, like "how dare you are" and "I must revenge". The most blatant (and hilarious) mistake is translating "干爹" (godfather) as... ''sugar daddy''.
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* AnachronismStew: Played for laughs. Jia Yao recreates modern fashions, modern cooking, and rap in ancient China.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Played for laughs. Jia Yao recreates modern fashions and goes around wearing short skirts and low necklines, but even though she's in ancient China no one says anything about her clothes.
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* RightBehindMe: Jia Yao gives a very unflattering description of Chun Yu, unaware that he's standing behind her and can hear everything.

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jia Yao tells Chun Yu she isn't afraid of anything except snakes. For obvious reasons she [[{{Understatement}} isn't happy]] when she sees a snake near her while she's in the bath.

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
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Jia Yao tells Chun Yu she isn't afraid of anything except snakes. For obvious reasons she [[{{Understatement}} isn't happy]] when she sees a snake near her while she's in the bath.bath.
** Chong Ye is afraid of dogs. When he comes across a group of dogs while trying to escape, he immediately forgets about subtlety and runs away screaming.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jia Yao tells Chun Yu she isn't afraid of anything except snakes. For obvious reasons she [[{{Understatement}} isn't happy]] when she sees a snake near her while she's in the bath.
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Only Jia Yao's back is shown when she stands up after taking a bath.
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* ActorAllusion [=/=] CelebrityParadox: Jia Yao says Chun Yu looks like "that Thailand star Bie" -- meaning Bie Thassapak Hsu, who plays Chun Yu.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The [=YouTube=] subtitles fall victim to grammatical errors and strange phrasing.

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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The [=YouTube=] subtitles fall victim to grammatical errors and strange phrasing.phrasing, like "how dare you are" and "I must revenge".
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* SweetPollyOliver: Jia Yao dresses as a man because [[WrongGenreSavvy that always works as a disguise on television]]. Then she discovers no one is fooled by her disguise.
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* GratuitousEnglish: Jia Yao occasionally throws English phrases like "no way" into her speech.
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* AbusiveParents: Jin Xuan's father says he wants to [[OffingTheOffspring kill her himself]].


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* EekAMouse: Exploited. When she thinks she's going to be sacrificed Jia Yao yells that she sees a mouse, and while the guard's distracted she runs back into her cell.


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* HenpeckedHusband: Jin Xuan's father. His wife publicly slaps him and insults him.


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* MarriageOfConvenience: Jia Yao and Chun Yu's marriage starts out as this.

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* AttemptedSuicide: Lady Ye jumps off a cliff. One of her pursuers catches her as she falls.

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* AttemptedSuicide: Lady Ye Jin Xuan jumps off a cliff. One of her pursuers catches her as she falls.



* CatchAFallingStar: Lady Ye attempts suicide by jumping off a cliff, but one of her pursuers catches her in time.

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* CatchAFallingStar: Lady Ye Jin Xuan attempts suicide by jumping off a cliff, but one of her pursuers catches her in time.



* MentalTimeTravel: Jia Yao time-travels into the body of Lady Ye.

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* MentalTimeTravel: Jia Yao time-travels into the body of Lady Ye.Ye Jin Xuan.



* RunawayBride: Lady Ye runs away on her wedding day.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Jin Xuan's father finds his daughter -- actually Jia Yao in Jin Xuan's body -- with Chun Yu and Chong Ye and assumes they kidnapped her.
* RunawayBride: Lady Ye Jin Xuan runs away on her wedding day.
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* CombatHandFan: Chong Ye uses a fan as a weapon.


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* SlashedThroat: Chong Ye cuts a man's throat with his fan.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Jia Yao is very eager to see Chun Yu [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]].
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: A group of soldiers find Chun Yu beside a corpse. They assume he's the murderer, but actually he had just discovered the body.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: MistakenForMurderer: A group of soldiers find Chun Yu beside a corpse. They assume he's the murderer, but actually he had just discovered the body.
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* LongHairedPrettyBoy: All of the men have long hair and most of them are very pretty.
* MacGuffin: The pearl. Every time it's found someone tries to steal it, and the people who find or steal it usually end up dead.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Jia Yao is surprised to see the past isn't the way it was portrayed on television, and the people around her are just as surprised by her behaviour.
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* CandidCameraPrank: Referenced when Jia Yao first arrives in the past. She assumes the people around her are actors and asks where the camera is.
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: All over the place, on both men and women.
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* AttemptedSuicide: Lady Ye jumps off a cliff. One of her pursuers catches her as she falls.


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* CatchAFallingStar: Lady Ye attempts suicide by jumping off a cliff, but one of her pursuers catches her in time.


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* RunawayBride: Lady Ye runs away on her wedding day.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: A group of soldiers find Chun Yu beside a corpse. They assume he's the murderer, but actually he had just discovered the body.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The [=YouTube=] subtitles fall victim to grammatical errors and strange phrasing.
* EyeScream: The murder victim in episode one is found with her eyes gouged out.
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''Cinderella Chef'' (萌妻食神, ''Méng Qī Shí Shén'', meaning roughly "Cute Wife Who's a God of Cooking") is a 2018 Chinese historical romance series starring Chong Dan Ni and Bie Thassapak Hsu (credited under his Chinese name, Xu Zhi Xian). It's loosely based on the novel of the same name by Yin Zi 281.

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''Cinderella Chef'' (萌妻食神, ''Méng Qī Shí Shén'', meaning roughly "Cute Wife Who's a God of Cooking") Cooking", also translated as "Adorable Food Goddess") is a 2018 Chinese historical romance series starring Chong Dan Ni and Bie Thassapak Hsu (credited under his Chinese name, Xu Zhi Xian). It's loosely based on the novel of the same name by Yin Zi 281.
281. The novel has also been adapted into a manhua and donghua, both titled ''Adorable Food Goddess''.
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''Cinderella Chef'' (萌妻食神, Méng Qī Shí Shén, meaning roughly "Cute Wife Who's a God of Cooking") is a 2018 Chinese historical romance series starring Chong Dan Ni and Bie Thassapak Hsu (credited under his Chinese name, Xu Zhi Xian). It's loosely based on the novel of the same name by Yin Zi 281.

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''Cinderella Chef'' (萌妻食神, Méng ''Méng Qī Shí Shén, Shén'', meaning roughly "Cute Wife Who's a God of Cooking") is a 2018 Chinese historical romance series starring Chong Dan Ni and Bie Thassapak Hsu (credited under his Chinese name, Xu Zhi Xian). It's loosely based on the novel of the same name by Yin Zi 281.
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''Cinderella Chef'' (萌妻食神, Méng Qī Shí Shén, meaning roughly "Cute Wife Who's a God of Cooking") is a 2018 Chinese historical romance series starring Chong Dan Ni and Bie Thassapak Hsu (credited under his Chinese name, Xu Zhi Xian). It's loosely based on the novel of the same name by Yin Zi 281.

Ye Jia Yao, a chef in the present day, travels back in time, is kidnapped by bandits, and has a fake marriage to Xia Chun Yu, one of the bandits. Unknown to Jia Yao, Chun Yu is actually an undercover agent investigating a plot to overthrow the king.

The series can be watched [[https://www.viki.com/tv/36048c-cinderella-chef on Viki]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQSsrSqnm6E YouTube]] with English subtitles.

!!Contains examples of:
* MentalTimeTravel: Jia Yao time-travels into the body of Lady Ye.
* TimeMachine [=/=] TimeTravel: In the present day one of the customers at Jia Yao's diner has invented a time machine. Jia Yao uses it to go back in time.
* ThroughHisStomach: Jia Yao's cooking skills are part of the reason Chun Yu falls in love with her.
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