Where the heart and best cooks are

Gone are the days when the only solution if you wanted anything like a replacement for your mother's irreplaceable cooking was a top-class restaurant. These days, thanks to technology, the finest home-cooked meal can be placed on your table, and if you are a half-decent cook you can place the same on someone else's table.

In China, this is being made possible by mobile apps including Mama Weidao (which means mom flavors), Cengfan (cadge a meal) and Home Cooked, whose Chinese name is Huijia Chifan (go and eat at home).

Many of the apps allow people to sell their home-cooked dishes to others, and usually the app proprietors handle the delivery and logistics.