The Missing Master Chef

Skylar won the world culinary championship three times, and then decided the honours meant nothing to him and walked out on the money and the name to find out what cooking was actually for. He wandered. He was close to starving on the street when a young woman took him in and gave him a job at her family's restaurant, the Bamboo Garden, where he worked as a prep cook and nobody knew who he was. Her uncle then moved to take the restaurant away from the family, setting up an important guest to be badly served so the place would be discredited. Skylar offered to fight for it in a cooking contest, which meant putting his ability back in public view.