Delicacies Destiny is a Chinese romance drama set of 16 episodes in Imperial China. Ling Xiaoxiao (He Ruixian) is a female chef hired to be chief chef for Crown Prince Zhu Shoukui (Wang Xingyue) who is a very picky eater. She's a blunt person whose creative cooking and quick wit soon entrance the Prince. As his attraction grows she's quite dense to his feelings.

In general the series does mini-subplots that take one or two episodes. Each features some sort of culinary challenge for Xiaoxiao who has to use her skills and cleverness. For example one challenge is to cook a simple meal for Shoukui's brothers even though they have quite different tastes and if they don't like it the Prince will lose face. She accomplishes this with a neat little trick. Later in the episode she also manages to get the Prince to reconcile with his brothers.

Eventually the Prince makes it clear that he wants Xiaoxiao to be his Crown Princess. But eventually we come to the big decision: to be Crown Princess she has to give up cooking as it is too lowly for royalty. Although they manage to solve this conundrum the last couple of episodes are still a bit disappointing in how everything is done.

For the most part I loved this series, I think maybe from the first episode and it just kept building up. Xiaoxiao's cleverness with food and words is endearing and there are no big drama reverses (I watched it on Disney+ and this series is quite up to Disney story standards). As I said though the ending is not amazing but the first 14 episodes are great.