
The Great Female Chef of the Frontier
边关女大厨
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- Completed
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- 1.0M Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Slice-of-Life Farming
- Updated
- 1y ago
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- Fanqie
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Explore more →Seeking Ancient-World Transmigration Food Novels: Farming, Street Stalls, and Building a Business
Any Low-Key Novels Focused on Everyday Life?
No System, and not too much face-slapping.
Any Stories That Feel True to Life? Please, With Authors Who Use Their Brains!
I don’t want either lead to be stupid. I hope the story has a warm, everyday feel. They don’t have to be rich, but there absolutely shouldn’t be any huge misunderstandings between them. Both should be pure in love, please and thank you. I’ve been reading for years, and so many authors write things that make no sense. Sigh ╯﹏╰
I'm in a Terrible Reading Slump and Can't Get Interested in Anything. Please Save Me!
Novels with Smart Leads That Are Worth Rereading Three Times
Any stories where both the male and female leads are smart, and the plot isn't completely generic?
Are There Any Foodie Novels on Tomato?
Male- or female-oriented novels are both fine. No harems with three thousand beauties. Either no female lead, or just one. For female-oriented novels, anything goes, since I’m a total hypocrite about this. No brainless characters who get dumbed down!
Give Me Some Food Fiction About Street Stalls or Opening a Shop. No Starting Out With a Kid
No more child-rearing plots. I'm so sick of them. If it's a food story, just make it about food.
The Simple, Everyday Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Times
Looking for books similar to The Jiangnan Family: Daily Life and Prosperity in an Imagined Ancient China. I don't want princes, heirs, or generals constantly going on about the fate of the nation. I want ordinary people, like a family running a tea stall in a county town and slowly building their business, with everyday life at the center. Something quiet and...
Masterpieces Rated 9.9, No Popular Ones Like Theatrical Gods, Something More Niche
I'd like to read something like Fantasy: Even the Female Emperor and Master Reborn!?
Any Food Stories Rated 9.5 or Higher?
Looking for books like *My Food Stall Moves to a Random Location, and Diners Chase Me for a Meal (Random Food Stall)*. Does anyone have food-themed stories rated 9.5 or higher to recommend? Ideally, the protagonist runs a food stall, or transmigrates to ancient times and makes a living selling food...
Looking for Food Stories With Braised Intestines and Red-Braised Pork. Ancient or Period Settings Are Fine 😘
Looking for a Food Novel About Simply Cooking, Opening a Shop, and Everyday Family Life, With No Scheming
Everyday Food Stories, Nothing Too Over-the-Top
I Need Ancient-Era Food and Farming Novels!
Looking for stories where the heroine transmigrates to ancient times, cooks, and builds a prosperous life. CP or no CP is fine. Not too many awful characters, and the male lead shouldn’t have too high a status. No palace intrigue, please. Great writing and airtight logic are a must.
Looking for Foodie Stories (Street Stalls and Shopkeeping)
Underrated but Incredibly Good Books
Have you read any obscure but amazing books? Click into this topic and share them with everyone!!! Print books are welcome too.
Any Recommendations for Books That Are Still Great on a Third Read? Historical Romance Preferred
I mostly read historical romances. I'm looking for something with good writing and plot that's complete.
There Are Hardly Any Good Foodie Stories These Days. I Dare You to Prove Me Wrong
Looking for High-Quality Farming Novels, From a Veteran Reader With Picky Taste
Recommendations, please!
Looking for Stories Where the Heroine Can Cook and Makes Delicious Food!
As the title says, I'm a foodie and want stories where the heroine cooks, opens a shop, and falls in love along the way~
Looking for Martial Arts Stories About a Powerful Protagonist Who Retires, Opens a Restaurant, and Gets Caught Up in All Kinds of Trouble
The protagonist is powerful but low-key, has seen through the world and retired from it, and runs a small restaurant. Then all sorts of trouble crops up and forces them to step in. A wuxia setting would be best.
Historical Romance Novels
Ancient-Era Romance With a Highly Intelligent Lead, Preferably Complete
Political intrigue stories where it's not just the protagonist who's smart; the supporting cast should be sharp too.
Looking for Food Novels Rated 9.0 or Above
Good prose and upright values.
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The ones I have seen on Tomato before are all in non-travel/rebirth settings. This is the first time I have seen something like this. The plot and the relationship between the characters are pretty good so far. It would be nice to have more food descriptions. I look forward to the follow-up. What is more uncomfortable is that too many little people died. Although I can understand it, I prefer the warm and peaceful one😢
I stayed up late last night to read it, and the last episode shocked me again. I never expected that Xin Guang and Jin Xian (Jin Xian and So Yin's emotions are also very melancholy) can be taken away in the end, and the big boss is no longer a prominent figure, he climbed up from the bottom. The author's description of human nature is very real and complex. This is the first time I have written a long book review carefully for a novel on Tomato. Borrowing comments from netizens on other platforms: In good works, there are no absolute good and evil people. Emotions are complex and changeable, with different ideas, different environments, different educations, and different behaviors. Regardless of which camp, there are many people who are both loyal and righteous, and there is no shortage of despicable villains. Each has its own unique charm, and the aftertaste is longer when reading. Originally, I wanted to read short and heartwarming food articles about my family, but they made me stupid several times. I couldn't bear to read the articles, so I picked up glass shards in the candy and ate them [covering my face]. Especially in the extra story, Jin Xian, who is so transparent and innocent, sacrificed himself for the righteousness of the family and country (the little emperor also became a qualified superior) (Everyone did not spoil the story, which made me get stabbed several times. I feel uncomfortable thinking about this during the day, so melancholy~)
This is the first time I have written a review with so many words since I read a novel: This book is really beautiful! Highly recommended Highly recommended! I accidentally clicked on this novel today, and I finished reading all the updated content in less than a day, which is not enough! ! The author's writing style is wonderful, I feel very comfortable reading the text, and the plot is wonderful and interlocking. The introduction of the food is also very good, I'm almost hungry! The author also very considerately explained it with the pictures below. Oh my goodness! So considerate! (There are a few inconsistencies. I have seen other readers explain it. I hope the author will take a closer look👀)
This is a very good food article, and it is also an out-and-out Machiavellian article. The author's writing is very good, but damn, no one in the comment area told me that many people will die. Every place the protagonist group travels, many, many people will die. Although the deaths of these people are caused by Gao Dang, I still hate the protagonists a little in my heart (I'm sorry that I brought in the perspective of a passerby, that is, the perspective of those who will die. I think it is to show the growth of the protagonist group, these passers-by ask for lunch boxes). But after all, these people are going to die in this place. The protagonists just let us see this. Moreover, the protagonists are very weak and try their best to protect a small number. To give you a count, I am now reading Chapter 444 and have experienced 3 massacres. It is recommended not to watch if you have a low tear point. Don't watch it at night. If your heart can't bear it [cry][cry][cry][cry]
This article combines historical intrigue and delicious food. The author has profound skills, excellent writing style and logic, and each character is full-bodied. Five stars must be given. However, there is always a feeling of being slapped on the head and reading the history of the Ming Dynasty again, which is unpleasant. We can understand the author's intentions, and we also know that there is no lower limit to the evil of human nature, and tragedy is the essence of human society, but it really made me feel depressed and the food was not that good. It's still a brainless Shuangwen that relieves anger, and is very friendly to people who are prone to depression.
2026.3.15 Lots of extras and enjoyable [Like] This book takes us through an official drama from the perspective of a cook. The descendants of three political figures: Yuan Wuwei (granddaughter of Zhang Juzheng), Bai Qiqi (descendant of General Bai, married to Zhang Juzheng's daughter), and Yuan Bao (Cheng Qing, a descendant of General Cheng. I am curious why Yuan Bao's son Yuan Xing did not change his surname back to Cheng). The characters are very lifelike, especially when facing delicious food. When describing delicious food, "eyes suddenly widened", and then the bowl was filled with light, whether it was the wise but powerless emperor, the laughing and scolding Mr. Zheng, or even the young prince... Writing people to death is a Spring and Autumn style of writing, passing by, Mr. Tang Li Juyuan, Zheng Nanshan, Xin Guang, Jin Xian, and even Zhang Minde, the first patriarch of the Xin family army (is that the name?), All clicked and died before he had time to react. In the end, the author was greedy for a mouthful of rice dumplings, but was afraid of the impermanence of life. Is this the case in the book [Thinking] There are so many delicious things in the book, from Shandong cuisine feast to Sichuan style kimchi, I often feel hungry just looking at it. I learned that thunder bamboo shoots are the bamboo shoots that grow after the thunder sting, and I learned about the complicated making process of Guangling fried rice. It was really enjoyable😍
The writing is very good, but sometimes abuse is just for the sake of abuse. A bunch of smart people don't know how to take precautions before they happen. In the case of Ping'er, they clearly knew that the other party was only afraid of Xie Yun, but they never thought that they would come back after Xie Yun left. The other party didn't know that Ping'er was gone. Didn't they come and rob her as soon as he left? Moreover, the dean of the academy had already warned him, why didn't he make preparations earlier, and ended up catching up with a bunch of kids?
The title of this book is a bit mediocre, but to be honest, among a bunch of Tomato 🍅 articles, it is quite pleasing to the eye to me. The writing style of this article is not one of gorgeous words, but it is simple and precise, and it does not lack the sense of picture. The author's writing skills are remarkable. The characters in this article, the protagonist and several supporting characters who are always around him, are very vivid. Although not every minor supporting character is lifelike, there is nothing wrong with their personality, actions, speech, and logic. The biggest highlight of this article is the story structure. At the beginning, I thought it was about family common sense, or about love and hatred that needed to be revealed slowly, but I didn't expect that the author used the approach of seeing the big from the small, and wrote about the macro scene of the hatred between the country and the family. There is the conspiracy of the situation in the big scene, there is the helplessness of human nature in the situation (this point feels a little less emphasized), there is the desperate and passionate war, there is the reversal of life and death in the battle of courage, and of course there is also a bowl of appropriate fireworks for ordinary people. In terms of scenes, from north to south, from south to north, in the court hall, in Shangjia, in the academy, at the seaside, in ordinary streets and alleys, etc., The mysterious shadows that are peeling off the cocoons attract the readers to keep reading. Food is the sugar in this article, and all the warmth and romance are contained in it. There are many from the beginning to the end, but they still cannot suppress the rest of the taste of life. Not all officials are always high-ranking officials and well-paid, and not everyone has a full moon, but fate respects the choices of every character. After reading the whole book, I always feel a little regretful, but who has no regrets in life? Although this article is not perfect, it is indeed a good one! Highly recommended!
The book is beautiful, but the content is depressing. I was deceived by the title of the book and thought it was an ordinary food article, but in the end, people kept dying, whether it was slaughtering villages or massacres. No matter how delicious the food was, I lost my appetite [crying] [crying] However, the overall logic is self-consistent and the writing is good. Except for the knife man, there are no problems [almost crying]
As a high-scoring food article, the food needs no introduction. The full text is very warm. While describing the food, there is also a grand background hidden behind it. The author grasps the two lines of light and dark very well, allowing the article to have ups and downs without having to design a formulaic and exciting plot. The pacing of the whole text is also well controlled, and the timing of revealing the secret is very appropriate. In fact, I don't really expect emotional scenes in food articles. Although the emotional content of this article is not high, the emotional line in this article is also very delicious. A dull, wooden, independent woman × a 20-year-old intellectual man with a dark underbelly. This is my favorite type even when reading romance novels. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the lack of emotional content in this food article. I really hope that the author can write a romance article. To sum up, I like the content everywhere. This article is great, no need to say more.