I Set Up a Street Stall in Ancient Times, and the Big Shots Are Obsessed!
我在古代摆地摊，大佬们馋疯了？
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- Completed
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- 1.1M Words
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- Ancient Romance
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- Slice-of-Life Farming
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- 10mo ago
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- This Isn't a Street Stall! It's the Top-Tier Star Canteen for the Rich and Powerful摆的不是摊！是权贵圈的顶流食堂Alternate title on Fanqie
- I’m a Street Vendor in Ancient Times, and the Big Shots Are Going Crazy for My Food?English name
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Looking for High-Quality Farming Novels, From a Veteran Reader With Picky Taste
Recommendations, please!
Looking for Stories with a Female Lead Who Can Cook All Kinds of Delicious Food. Thanks!
The female lead can cook all kinds of delicious food, a bit like Chinese Hero. She can explain each dish as she cooks. It doesn't have to be about competing with others or picking fights through cooking; running a restaurant or something is fine.
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.
Looking for Stories About Running All Kinds of Shops. I Love Business and Infrastructure-Building Stories
Please hurl every kind of high-quality book at me‼️ No romantic pairing or a single romantic pairing preferred 🙏🙏🙏🙏
There Are Hardly Any Good Foodie Stories These Days. I Dare You to Prove Me Wrong
Foodie Stories, but Not the Kind Where the Characters Work Themselves to Death
Looking For Addictive Farming Novels, Please!
Preferably without a pocket dimension.
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 😘
Seeking Ancient-World Transmigration Food Novels: Farming, Street Stalls, and Building a Business
Transmigrate, Food, Farming, Hot Pot, and Chili Peppers
Pure Food Stories! No Romance, No Family, No Meddling! Thanks!
Thanks for all the recommendations. Okay, that's enough, I don't need any more.
Looking for Foodie Stories (Street Stalls and Shopkeeping)
Everyday Food Stories, Nothing Too Over-the-Top
Food Novels That Make Great Mealtime Reading
Nothing too basic, please. I want something well written, ideally with detailed descriptions of the food, but without overly flowery prose!!!!
Looking for Food and Cooking Stories with Excellent Writing and No Idiotic Characters!!!
Food stories, cooking stories.
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!
No Romance, No Romance, No Romance, No Romance, No Romance
Quick transmigration, transmigration, reborn, farming, showbiz, food, raising kids, anything goes. The main thing is no CP, and it must be complete. Thanks!
Food Stories, But No Absurd Pricing: No Selling a Scallion Pancake for a Fortune!
Food-themed stories, good food-themed stories. Please, I'm in a reading slump.
Food Novels, But Not Ones Where the System Just Hands Out Recipes
I don't want stories where the System gives the protagonist individual recipes and they can only cook those dishes. I want a proper chef and food story.
Food Stories! Food Stories! Food Stories! No Tang Dynasty Supplier Stories
Food!
Female Lead Runs a Little Restaurant and Guesthouse! Great Cook!
Looking for a Food Novel About Simply Cooking, Opening a Shop, and Everyday Family Life, With No Scheming
Any Cozy Historical Food Stories About Opening a Shop?
Looking for books similar to I Became the Richest Person in the Empire Through Food. I want something heartwarming, with few awful characters like this one.
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It's great! The female lead doesn't have any special abilities, yet she does so well. I love watching this kind of thing!
Although it has a fast pace, it's very relaxing overall, and it's also suitable for those who prefer a slower pace. It gets increasingly frustrating later on. The protagonist has a huge network of connections, yet any random person can still try to harass him. The protagonist remains calm and collected, never truly eliminating the threat. Each time, he faces the villain alone, only to be rescued by some powerful figure who drives them away. But soon after, the villain is back to cause trouble.
So good! I love this fast pace! There are quite a few quirky characters, but the female lead is surrounded by powerful figures! She practically conquers everyone with her food! I hope this pacing can be maintained; the author is still serializing it, so keep up the good work!
It's quite good, and the descriptions are well done. There are a few minor flaws, but I don't think they're that important. After all, it's just a food novel; you can focus more on the food and not so much on the people around the characters. So I think it's still worth recommending. As for his awful younger brother, I don't think it's serious enough to make you want to drop the book, because it's just a food novel.
This is exactly the kind of food-themed novel I've been looking for. I can just throw my brain at it and start reading. There's all this talk about the powerful and wealthy, and you know, any powerful person with a brain wouldn't be so overly fond of the female lead, but it's just so satisfying to read! Plus, the author's descriptions of the food are incredibly detailed, making me hungry just reading it. And it even got adapted into a manga!
Five stars! It gets better with every read. The female protagonist transmigrates to the past and starts out poor, without any special abilities. She makes a living by selling common modern snacks at a street stall, but they become incredibly popular in ancient times. Everyone from ordinary people to royalty is captivated by her food.
If you only focus on the food-making scenes, it's quite enjoyable. However, I suggest that future installments strengthen the female lead's role, preventing her from being constantly bullied, as readers find it frustrating. The family members also seem to feign sympathy for their daughter, especially the female lead's father; I even doubt if she's his biological daughter. How frustrating!
The plot of this book is good. There's no system involved; the female protagonist relies on her own abilities to get things done step by step. I like this kind of story.
The first 80-90% of the story is relatively lighthearted, mostly about creating various dishes. Even the minor conflicts are just everyday squabbles where bystanders conveniently appear and help the female lead resolve them. So the first half is generally quite relaxed.
It's really good!! I was originally following another fantasy food novel, but after reading this one, I dropped it completely. The pacing is quite fast, everyone is intelligent, and it's very enjoyable to read. There's no romantic pairing; it focuses more on friendship and family relationships, and the ensemble cast is well-developed.