
Gourmet Delights of the Northern Song: I Made a Fortune Through Food
北宋珍馐录,我靠美食发家赚万金
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 850k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Slice-of-Life Farming
- Updated
- 1d ago
- English
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Other names
- Flavors of the Northern Song: My Days Running an Eatery in Daming Prefecture北宋百味我在大名府开食铺的日子Alternate title on Fanqie
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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.
Looking for Cozy Historical Stories About a Small Household Building a Better Life Through Farming
Looking for stories similar to A Small Household's Survival in Ancient Times. You can recommend books like the two below. This one is still being serialized.
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.
Farming Stories, but No Constant Wild Boars and Rabbits, No Inviting People to Dinner, and No Red-Braised Pork
Looking for books similar to In a Year of Famine, the Whole Village Chews Tree Bark, but I Have a System and a Warehouse Full of Meat.
Looking for Stories About Ordinary People, Street Life, and Rural Life in Ancient Times
No harems or inner-court stories with emperors, princes, princess consorts, or the like later on. I just want stories about ordinary little people.
Are There Any Foodie Novels on Tomato?
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Looking for Ancient Times Transmigration Stories About Being Born into the Past and Living a Serious Life. I’ve Always Thought People Back Then Were Smarter Than Us
Any Cozy Historical Food Stories About Opening a Shop?
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Looking for books like All Men Are Beneath My Skirts; Without Men, I Become a God. No characters getting stupid, no illogical plot, no melodrama, and please spare me the awkward jokes and comedy. I don't want the protagonist to have so many golden fingers.
Travel Back to Ancient Times, Make All Kinds of Delicious Food, with Clear Logic and No Saintly Main Character
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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.
Are There Really No Ancient-Era Food and Business Novels with No Romance?
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The writing is exceptionally good. The female lead progresses step by step, without any special advantages or unnecessary scheming. It's a genuine food novel interspersed with the daily lives of ordinary people. There aren't exaggerated descriptions of how delicious the female lead's cooking is or how much others are captivated by it.
Having read 155 chapters, I'm still somewhat surprised that this novel has so few readers. Let me start with some minor flaws: sometimes I feel He Niang is too cold-hearted. For example, at the beginning, when selling wontons, she charged the same price for raw and cooked wontons. Although she explained later, it still felt like He Niang was being too harsh.
It's incredibly good. A rare find in ancient Chinese food-themed slice-of-life stories, this one features a female lead without a romantic partner. The writing was already excellent, and the absence of a romantic partner is a huge bonus—author, I want to kiss you to death! I'll ignore some minor flaws. First, let's talk about the female lead's personality: she's a character who grows and matures.
It's a very heartwarming story. He Niang is an incredibly resilient and endearing child. I especially loved the lively and noisy scenes in the small town. It almost brought me to tears, and I could clearly feel the heroine's growth. That's good, she's starting to pick up men now. I'm at my wit's end with authors like you who start pursuing their own desires halfway through writing.
A very realistic account of a street food vendor in the Northern Song Dynasty, comparable to an ancient version of "Brother Yong's 360-degree spin." The female protagonist's hard work and dedication to making a living through food is wonderful, and the portrayal of the warmth and humanity of the neighborhood is also quite good.
It's excellent! The female lead is smart and strong. I caught up in one go, and I was stuck on it for a while. I'll give it four stars for now 😞 Some parts were a bit frustrating, but when you put yourself in her shoes, the author writes very realistically. It's amazing that a helpless orphan girl, even a minor, can survive. Most of the people she's met so far have been quite nice. Nobody's perfect. I hope her career goes smoothly; she deserves it 😭
It's a very skillfully written story, with well-developed characters, both supporting and supporting. It vividly portrays the struggles of ordinary people trying to survive in the Northern Song Dynasty. The female lead is also incredibly hardworking. However, the updates have been limited so far that I'm planning to add it to my bookshelf to allow it to mature before continuing. Keep up the good work, author! 💕
I've caught up with it! It's so good! The whole story unfolds smoothly, and the female lead is incredibly resilient, taking each step steadily and realistically. Her personality is also very normal and relatable, not exaggerated at all. The plot and daily life descriptions are also very fluid, and the female lead's personality is revealed through every little thing, not through empty slogans.
It's a good read; the food descriptions are great, and the portrayal of life with all sorts of people is very heartwarming.
This is exceptionally good! In my fifteen years of reading, there are very few unfinished novels that I've followed. The fact that I'm reading it day and night speaks volumes about its quality! I especially love this kind of slice-of-life food novel with its leveling-up and map-expanding elements.