Breakfast TV in the best possible taste

Wang Shengzhi, general director of the show, originally planned to shoot 100 episodes for the Breakfast in China series and has achieved that goal in 2020, after three seasons. At that time, he felt the topic had been exhausted.

However, this year, Wang rediscovered his passion for recording normal people's lives and restarted the series.

During the past two years, while making other documentaries that record the stories of musicians, writers and chefs, he still had an eye on the local breakfast stores in whichever city he happened to be working in.

Wang says he felt like he was "walking on eggshells", as he didn't know whether the fans still liked his storytelling or not, even though the previous three seasons recorded an average score of 8.5 out of 10 on Douban.

"This season is still about the seemingly unsung folk foods and the lives of ordinary people," Wang says.