Food-Focused Stories 美食文

1. 1 萌 A Little Genius Chef Turns the Kindergarten into a Canteen in Seconds? 萌宝当大厨，幼儿园秒变炊事班？ Mo Yilan莫一镧Urban543k WordsCompleted They say children are the flowers of the motherland. To better understand the environment these little buds grow up in, Mango TV specially prepared the show A Visit to Kindergarten. The program selected several kindergartens at the provincial, city, and district levels for filming. Provincial-level elite kindergarten: strictly follows the education bureau’s guidelines and takes meticulous care of the children. City-level kindergarten: raising high achievers starts now. They’re studying by lampli 1.8kReads8.6Score152Shelves
2. 2 我 My Food Refreshes at Random, Leaving Customers Drooling 我的美食随机刷新，顾客馋哭了 Half-Sweet Iced Coffee, No Extra Ice冰咖半糖不加冰Urban1.7M WordsCompleted This book is also known as: Selling Extra-Spicy Grilled Wings Outside a Colorectal Hospital [Food + no female lead + everyday life + comedy + perfect with a meal] Lin Xuan didn't want to go to work, so he unexpectedly bound himself to a food System. Every week, it assigned a random location and a random dish. But the very first week's task left him dumbfounded. What? Sell extra-spicy grilled wings outside a colorectal hospital? What kind of devilish task was that? And that was only the beginnin 81.6kReads9.3Score8.4kShelves

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   Don't miss out! 💕 +++++. Lin Xuan, who didn't want to go to work, was bound to a food system. Random location, random food every week. However, when he saw the first week's food task, Lin Xuan was dumbfounded. What?! Selling super spicy chicken wings outside a proctology hospital? What kind of devilish task is this? … Week 2: Selling garlic-flavored cabbage at the popular matchmaking corner…💜 😪

3. 3 别 Stop Yelling! Keep It Up and I'll Eat Your Food Cart Too! 别骂了，再骂连摊车都给你吃了！ Dragon Blood, Dark Yellow龙血玄黄Urban232k WordsOngoing [Gourmet]+ [Daily Life]+ [Comedy]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Comfort Food]+ [Feel-Good] Qin Zihan transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a Gourmet System full of hostility. As long as he completes food-selling missions, he earns rewards, and the worse his service, the better the rewards. He sets up a malatang stall next to a hotpot restaurant at the bottom of the sea. “Hey! You there, don’t cut in line. Can’t you have a little damn decency?!” “Buying that much? Couldn’t you leave s 634Reads8.4Score105Shelves
4. 4 美 Gourmet: I Sell Lunchboxes at a Kindergarten, and Everyone Craves Them 美食：幼儿园卖盒饭，全都馋哭了 A Little Baby Cabbage一颗娃娃菜Urban2.0M WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world, Su Haoze took in the little tyke left behind by his big brother and sister-in-law. To support the family, he opened a small lunch spot outside a kindergarten. Who would’ve thought he’d end up bound to a Gourmet System! Braised lion’s head meatballs, chicken tofu soup, Dongpo pork, sweet-and-sour ribs, cola chicken wings... Dish after delicious dish won over not only the children, but also a whole crowd of parents. “Boss, do you sell meal plans?” “I want 5.4kReads7.3Score411Shelves

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   Delicious food!!! 🍛🍜🍝🍡🍳🍱🍣🌮🥧🥮🥘🥩🍩🍕🍔🍇🍤 You can only eat it if you guess correctly! My mouth is watering 🤤🤤🤤 "At the Qin Ferry Bridge, the twelfth young man, Heaven bestowed upon him skillful hands to prepare steamed delicacies. Finely cut jade paper, thin and soft, a touch of fragrant red that moved the First Emperor." "The fragrance of locust blossoms soothes the heart, like jade-like jelly accompanied by cicada songs. Just as the wheat turns yellow at the Dragon Boat Festival, sweet fermented rice is enjoyed. The summer sun shines brightly on the east bank of the river, Gu Pond ripples with snow-like salt mounds. Autumn winds blow from the tower, reciting poems. The Wu family feasts fish and cooks by the lake."

5. 5 骗 A Fake Cooking God Goes on a Show and Accidentally Becomes the Real Deal 骗子厨神上节目，一不小心成真了 Give Me an Egg Burger来个鸡蛋汉堡Urban1.0M WordsCompleted I transmigrated. Good news: I’m famous and hailed as the God of Cooking. Bad news: The whole thing is fake. I only got here through hype, rigged competitions, and bribed judges. Being famous despite having no skill would be bad enough, but Jiang Zhou discovers that his former self used his reputation to fleece people, too. Charging sky-high fees for apprenticeships, building restaurant chains, and doing whatever it took to make money. With the whole internet cursing him and his reputation in tat 21.4kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves

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   The male protagonist has a small stall that he sets up in different eras, with a quota of sales he has to complete. The first task is to sell wontons in one of those eras, providing warmth to people during the winter for free.

6. 6 让 I Told You to Run a Street Stall, Not Become a God of Cooking! 让你去摆摊，你去当厨神？ The Cat Playing Dumb装傻的猫Urban299k WordsOngoing [Gourmet Food + Lighthearted Comedy + System + No Heroine + Everyday Life] Zhou Yang, the chosen wage slave, fired his boss the moment he got the Gourmet System! Then he set out to make a living as a street vendor. What? You want me to sell stinky tofu at the flower market? For the reward, I’ve got to go all in! But just as things were going well, a group of police officers suddenly surrounded him. “Comrade, someone reported that you’re deploying biological weapons. Please come with us.” Zhou Ya 5Reads5.8Score—Shelves
7. 7 成 After Becoming a Master of State Banquets, I Started Running a Street Stall 成为国宴大师后开始摆摊 Fried Hawthorn油炸山楂Urban460k WordsOngoing The warmth of everyday life is what comforts the human heart most. [Food + street stalls + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + street-stall guide + slow-paced everyday life + detailed recipes + no harem + the author genuinely wants to teach readers to cook] Chen Feng has studied cooking for years and mastered the four major regional cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang. He became the youngest person in the Dragon Kingdom to earn the title of National Banquet Master. Af 4.2kReads8.9Score277Shelves

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   Braised Pork Slices, Stir-fried Eggplant, Green Peppers, and Potatoes from the Earth, Dried Green Peppers... And many other delicious dishes are featured in the book. We look forward to your discovery!

8. 8 盛 A Prosperous Era's Chef: Too Bad My Husband Lives to Eat 盛世厨娘：奈何夫君是吃货 Bearing the Boat载舟Ancient Romance453k WordsCompleted An accident sent Lin Jiu, a twenty-four-year-old Chinese chef, transmigrating into the body of a dim-witted fourteen-year-old girl in Jiangzhou City, Great Qi. It was a strange dynasty, but it was just as full of food lovers. So Lin Jiu drew on her excellent modern cooking skills to spark a food craze in Great Qi and lead an entirely new culinary trend. What Lin Jiu didn't expect was that as her fame grew, she would also catch the eye of a certain scheming foodie… 396Reads8.3Score106Shelves

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   🍰The first book features a female protagonist who transmigrates to ancient times and starts from a small eatery, making savory pancakes, fruit mille-feuille, and caramel pudding—a heartwarming and gradual romance.🍰The second book is a space-themed novel where the female protagonist runs an interstellar canteen, going from a place she initially avoids to tasting delicious food and eventually queuing up so long she almost couldn't buy anything.

9. 9 我 I Run a Cafeteria in the Interstellar World to Feed My Whole Family 我靠在星际承包食堂养活全家 Qin Yuli秦鱼里Modern Romance343k WordsCompleted Setting: Interstellar. Social issue: The rat race. Theme: Food. Ingredient level: Moderate. This novel is complete, so feel free to enjoy! The Qin family’s parents were scammed into taking out a loan to run the unpopular cafeteria at Star University. The original owner was a lovesick fool, obsessed with chasing the Lu family’s young master, to whom she was betrothed as a child. She drank, smoked, and got a perm that made her hair stand on end. After her parents suddenly died, the person who woke 3.2kReads8.9Score295Shelves
10. 10 做 My Cooking Is So Good, the Entire Cultivation World Treats Me Like a Treasure 做饭太好吃，被整个修仙界团宠了 Little Dog, Don't Always Get Caught in the Rain小狗别总淋雨Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted [Two male leads + cultivation + farming + food + street vending + devoted to each other] In his previous life, Yun Ci was a poor student. His parents signed him up for the New Chinese Culinary School early on, and he studied there for three years. Once he graduated, he was ready to show off his skills, but a car accident put a stop to that. When he woke up again, Yun Ci found himself in a world of cultivation. He had no golden finger, no System, and was just an insignificant cannon-fodder charac 9.7kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves

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    I'm currently reading the first book. I read the second and third before, and I really enjoyed the latter two. The second book features a family with a young boy, and I found them all very loving. The third book is about a woman who takes over a cafeteria and amazes everyone with her delicious food. I like them all.

11. 11 厨 The Chef God’s Study Guide 厨神学习手册 Sponge Ball海绵球Two Male Leads1.3M WordsCompleted [Updated daily. Please subscribe, recommend, and comment! (ノ>▽<)ノ] The world is so big, you have to go see it! And then he arrived in a new world... To keep developing his skills as a chef, he had to start from scratch! New ingredients, new cookware, and a whole new family! The one thing that never changed was his devotion to delicious food. And so, Li Xiaomi became Li Xiaomi. Li Xiaomi: "I'm still a baby, really!" If you want to become a god, start when they're little! 1v1, slow burn, updated d 1.7kReads9.1Score153Shelves
12. 12 红 A Feast of Delicacies: Dream of the Red Chamber Cuisine Meets the Tang Dynasty 红楼美食适配大唐，饕餮盛宴 The Sugar in Toffee酥糖的糖Fantastical Romance740k WordsOngoing [Handcrafted Cultivation, Farming, and Food] [Supernatural Tales] [Sweet Everyday Life] [Vivid Characters] [Building a City] [Claiming Land as Immortal Territory] [Running a Cultivation Sanctuary] [No System] Wu Qingwen, a transmigrator with a Red Chamber space, always thought she was following the script of an ancient food-business story. Until one day, she saw a dragon in a well. * Steamed pork head meat with rice flour makes spring water gush from a dried-up sweet-water well. Honeyed Eight-Tr 2.1kReads8.8Score260Shelves

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    This is truly amazing! They bring a Dream of Red Mansions banquet to the grand hall, and even cooking can be a tale of cultivation and the supernatural—it's really refreshing! [Salute][Salute][Salute] It has the everyday life of ordinary people, the fantastical and mysterious, the sizzling details of delicious food, cultivation, the supernatural, sweet romance, and rural daily life—all very well written. The female lead is clear-headed and independent, the pacing is comfortable, and it gets more and more addictive the more you read. [Heart][Heart][Heart][Heart]

13. 13 偷 After They Heard My Thoughts, the Country’s Biggest Foodies Were Shocked 偷听我心声后，惊动全国吃货大佬 Yu Shengsheng余苼升Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Mind Reading + Beloved by the Whole Family + Food + Heartwarming + Feel-Good + Intangible Cultural Heritage Cuisine + Distinctively Regional Dishes] Shen Huazheng transmigrates into the beloved darling of the Shen family. She has no System, no medical skills, and can’t turn out elegant prose, so she might as well lie flat and be a pampered little couch potato who spends every day eating and drinking. Shen Huazheng watches her father, Minister Shen, prepare to go out to a banquet. [What a shame. 15.4kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves

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    🍃🍃The female protagonist transmigrates to ancient times and makes breakfast for her father and brother every day to take to work/school. The fragrant fried rice and steaming soy milk and fried dough sticks make her colleagues/classmates drool... In other books, hearing someone's inner thoughts is just gossip, but when the female protagonist's family hears her inner thoughts, all they can think about is spicy crayfish, beef hot pot, lamb skewers, and cake...

14. 14 让 I Told You to Set Up a Street Stall, Not Outside the City Management Bureau 让你摆地摊，没让你城管局门口摆 Watching the Moonlight看风月Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Gourmet]+ [System]+ [Wife- and Daughter-Doting Devotee]+ [Cozy Daily Life]+ [No Transmigration, No Rebirth] After turning thirty, Jiang Tian loses his job. His boss flees overseas with his sister-in-law and 80 million yuan. Comforted by his wife, Lin Wanqing, Jiang Tian decides to start a food stall. To his surprise, he binds himself to the [Supreme Street-Stall System]. A humble bowl of fried rice from a roadside stall leaves countless customers overwhelmed: "Boss Jiang's fried rice is the 18.3kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves

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    This is something I recently read. I clicked on it out of boredom, but I couldn't stop reading. It's really good, and the author's writing is excellent. [Admiration][Admiration] The food descriptions aren't overly exaggerated; it might make you hungry at night, hehehe [Laughing] Of course, it's not just about food; it also includes some everyday life stories. The protagonist is unemployed but has a warm and loving family. His parents, wife, and children are all wonderful, and I really like this atmosphere. There are no discouraging words or expressions of disappointment; instead, everyone does their best to help. It's a bit idealistic, but life is tough, so beauty is something to look forward to. Food and life together make up life. That's what I like about it. If you like food-themed stories, you should try reading this. I also hope everyone will comment! („• ֊ •„) [Eating melon][Eating melon][Eating melon]

15. 15 摊 My Stall Was Smashed, So I Climbed to the Top with a Gourmet System 摊子被砸，我靠美食系统踏巅峰 Instructor Wolf狼教官Urban1.8M WordsCompleted [System, food, lighthearted comedy, everyday city life, outlandish ideas, comeback, one heroine, slow-paced slice of life] After losing his job at thirty-six, Wang Ping’an can’t find work and returns to the small county town that’s both unfamiliar and familiar to him. There, he starts a new life running a food stall. With his cooking skills and a boost from the System, he earns titles like “Wok King” and “Beast Tamer”... Wang Ping’an: “How slow-paced is it? The System doesn’t show up until chapt 2.1kReads8.3Score160Shelves

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    [📚Second Brother's Choice] Cars are on the move! Second Brother is delivering steamed buns! [Smirk] [Heart] The protagonist obtains a random stall system, starting by selling steamed buns, luring people's tastes with random stall locations, making customers wander around, a love-hate relationship! [Facepalm] The clever Boss Bai obtains a food money reward system, starting by selling boxed lunches at a construction site, igniting the food world, and achieving his small goals! [Thumbs up]

16. 16 乔 Qiao Ge’er’s Farming Life 乔哥儿种田 Lantern-Bearer燃灯儿Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted A gentle, everyday warmth that soothes the heart. [Full-cast audio drama now available. It's great, so go listen!] [Devoted couple + husband doting + cooking and farming + building wealth + healing daily life + slow-burn romance] One day, Qiao Yu transmigrates into the body of Qiao Yu, a male consort, and his stepmother knocks him unconscious with a stick and marries him off to a fierce hunter who supposedly brings death to his wives! He spent thirty years in his previous life without even havin 10.2kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves

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    Yes, they are! You can tell by looking at the table of contents! But they all feature two male leads! I don't recommend watching them at night. You'll get hungry!

17. 17 人 In the Beast World, Burn Paper If You Need Anything 人在兽世，有事烧纸 Lantern-Bearer燃灯儿Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted [Cozy Vibes] [Food] [Farming] [Raising Kids] [Light Infrastructure Building] [Power Couple] Gray Wolf gong x White Deer shou (You’ve never heard the legend of the Gray Wolf and White Deer?! ಥ_ಥ) Outdoor streamer Bai Fan transmigrates into a beastfolk world after a livestreaming accident, becoming a rare sub-beast. He thought he had transmigrated, but in truth, his soul had returned to its rightful place. The moment Bai Fan opens his eyes, he is captured by another tribe and sold into slavery a 18.5kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
18. 18 重 Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽 Southern Lychee南方荔枝Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young! 3.8kReads9.0Score504Shelves

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    The first and second books are heterosexual romance novels with food and historical elements; the third is a BL (Boys' Love) fantasy novel about food and street vending; and the fourth is a BL interstellar food novel. I read a wide variety of books, but all of these food novels are incredibly good.

19. 19 我 I Sell Lunch Boxes, So Isn't It Only Natural for the School Cafeteria to Go Under? 我卖盒饭，学校食堂倒闭很正常吧 Super Crawfish超级小龙虾Urban576k WordsCompleted [Food + comedy + one heroine + transmigration + System] Lu Rong rents a small stall on a college campus to sell boxed meals, but business is so poor that he's on the verge of closing down. Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakens a Super Gourmet System and instantly becomes a top chef. A simple plate of egg fried rice is enough to draw countless students and teachers to his stall. Then Lu Rong starts offering even more top-quality dishes, and the whole campus goes wild. Everyone joins the rank 1.3kReads8.6Score100Shelves
20. 20 七 The 1970s: A Sweet Island Life for a Cannon-Fodder Supporting Female Character 七零之炮灰女配的海岛甜宠日常 Glories Unspoken不言盛景Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + marriage first, love later + cozy life raising children + entrepreneurship] Lin Xia gets into a car accident on her way to a matchmaking date and unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel full of angst, becoming the foolish cannon-fodder woman who brings about her own doom. The original Lin Xia sabotages the male and female leads at every turn, so the male lead takes revenge by sending her to the countryside, where she eventually meets a tragic end. After reading a 15.9kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
21. 21 厨 I'm a Chef, Yet Somehow I'm Li Er's Son-in-Law 厨师的我，竟是李二的女婿 Happy Little Crawler幸福的爬爬虫Historical2.0M WordsCompleted Yin Xuan transmigrates to the seventh year of the Zhenguan era in the Tang dynasty, where he becomes the owner of a tavern and awakens the Myriad Realms Cuisine System. From then on, his life changes completely. A plate of tomato and egg stir-fry leaves Cheng Yaojin and his two sons singing its praises, while a bowl of wine gets Li Shimin dead drunk. Every dish he makes sets trends throughout the Tang dynasty. Cheng Yaojin: Little brother, how about we become sworn brothers? We don’t have to be 14.8kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
22. 22 首 The Chief Minister's Darling Wife: I Run a Country Feast in the Ancient Countryside 首辅娇娘：我在古代农村烧大席 Wo Wo R涡涡RAncient Romance512k WordsCompleted [Banquet Cooking + Farming + Business + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance] Tang Yuanyuan, from a family of master chefs, wakes up in the body of a farm girl in Great Zhou, only to have her engagement broken off from the start! Her father is sickly, her family is poor, and when they run out of grain, they eat bran. The whole family scrimps and saves, going hungry one day and eating their fill the next, just to pay their taxes. How are they supposed to get through these hard times? They’ll get through 52Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The female protagonist travels back to ancient times and cooks a grand feast in a rural village. Anyone who's ever been to a feast knows what I mean—her cooking is incredibly delicious! 🤔

23. 23 穿 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World: Farming with One Hand, Cooking with the Other 穿越修仙界左手种田右手美食 Come on, Rabbit!兔子加油Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted Synopsis [Everyday life] [BL] [Cozy] [Farming] [Gourmet] [No golden finger] A tsundere, food-loving younger seme x a gentle, refined uke who loves making money Lu Sizhe transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation. Unfortunately, cultivation still isn’t in the cards for him. After thinking it over, he decides to return to his old trade and become a chef. As his business flourishes, Lu Sizhe’s customers come from across the Nine Provinces. “Boss Lu, could you make me a plate of fried rice?” “ 7.6kReads9.1Score918Shelves
24. 24 全 Interstellar Cuisine: The All-Round Spirit Chef Who Went Viral on the Star Network 【星际美食】全能灵厨在星网火了 Lou Twenty楼二十Two Male Leads442k WordsCompleted [Complete] [Interstellar + Food + ABO + Zerg + Mecha] Couple: Cheerful spirit chef omega Lin An × S-rank military alpha, scheming seme Shi Xiao Lin An, a spirit chef from the twenty-first century, wakes up to find himself in an interstellar age where food has fallen into decline. He has also gone from being a chef with a job and a home to a penniless omega celebrity with no prospects. Hoping to get famous, his predecessor begged his agent to book him on a wilderness survival variety show fil 2.5kReads8.8Score353Shelves
25. 25 辞 After Quitting My Job, I Inherited Grandma's Little Restaurant 辞职后，我继承了奶奶的小饭馆 Graceful as a Swimming Fish婉若游鱼Modern Romance437k WordsCompleted [Healing + food + a touch of farming + slow-paced + everyday life] Wen Nian's new life began with a resignation letter. A well-paid job in the big city, endless overtime, cold convenience-store rice balls... She suddenly realized it had been a long time since she'd tasted anything like happiness. Steaming hot soup dumplings in the morning mist, soft and chewy cloud cakes with Pu'er tea in the afternoon, little river shrimp roasted crisp and red by Grandpa... It all felt like a distant, different 3.1kReads8.8Score429Shelves

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    ✨A huge variety of delicious food: braised pork trotters, spicy stir-fried squid, stir-fried shrimp, steamed mandarin fish, braised bamboo shoots, spicy shredded chicken... The female lead quits her job in the big city and returns to her hometown to open a small restaurant...

26. 26 我 I Turn the Tide in the Cultivation World with My Cooking 我靠美食在修仙界逆风翻盘 Half a Durian半只榴莲Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Food + cultivation + slow-burn growth + lighthearted, witty style] [The heroine is clever and a bit of a goofball. The hero is obsessive and crazy, with a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and a haughty streak.] Living in the apocalypse, Yu Guiwan had imagined all kinds of ways she might die, but never that she, a celebrated chef, would be poisoned to death by a pot of mushroom soup! Humiliated, she realized she had transmigrated. Even more humiliatingly, the moment she came back to life, her husband 2.7kReads8.9Score350Shelves
27. 27 王 The Princess Consort’s Snack Shop 王妃的零食铺子 The Kitten Doesn't Eat Oranges小猫不吃橙子Ancient Romance419k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Food + Princess Consort + Marriage First, Love Later + No Pocket Dimension + Heartwarming] Su Lele owns a snack shop. One day, she transmigrates to ancient times into the family of an official. With a harmonious family and a comfortable life, she decides to return to her old trade and start making snacks, beginning with retail sales. Her goal is to open snack shops all across the Great Yun Kingdom. Hawthorn rolls, potato chips, fish balls, grilled shrimp, little dried fish, pin 4.2kReads8.9Score322Shelves

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    Here comes a collection of food articles that will make you hungrier the more you read! The first book features many snacks, the second book introduces a lot of Cantonese dim sum, and the third book introduces various delicacies. Guaranteed to make you hungry as you read!

28. 28 哇 Wow! The General’s Wife’s Tea Treats Were Snatched Up Again 哇趣！将军夫人做的茶点又抢光了 The Kitten Doesn't Eat Oranges小猫不吃橙子Ancient Romance249k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + food + cozy vibes + adorable kids + love that grows over time] Yang Chuxue and her younger brother, Yang Chudong, depend on each other. They both die in a car accident! When she wakes up, she discovers she has transmigrated to ancient times, into the family of a farming household that has just gone bankrupt in business. She has a strange illness and already has two children from the start. Fortunately, her family dotes on her. She used to work as a dim sum chef in a Cantonese t 1.1kReads8.7Score113Shelves
29. 29 随 Random Stallkeeping: The Fake Legitimate Daughter Gets Tormented by a Rotten System 随机摆摊，假嫡女被烂系统坑惨了 The Kitten Doesn't Eat Oranges小猫不吃橙子Ancient Romance526k WordsCompleted (A very different random-stall story, with a funny and witty style and no angst at all.) Yu Zhizhi got horribly tricked by a terrible System. She closed her eyes and transmigrated into the body of a spoiled, domineering young noblewoman in ancient times. To top it off, she was a fake legitimate daughter. Things went badly from the start, but she was lucky enough to get a System. Then she realized it was a terrible System. Each time, the System only gave her a random location for setting up a sta 11.9kReads8.8Score801Shelves
30. 30 开 A Villainess from the Start? I'll Turn the Tables With Gourmet Food 开局恶毒女配？我靠美食逆风翻盘 Please Call Me Classmate Xiao He请叫我小何同学Ancient Romance979k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + rebirth + food + sweet romance + wish fulfillment + nation building] Shen Tianjiao wakes up one morning and gets slapped. What? She's the youngest daughter of a general's household, doted on since childhood. Why is she being hit? What? Her fiancé, Crown Prince Qi Chenyu, has just broken off their engagement in front of everyone? Fine, fine! So that's how you want to play it! From that day on, the mood in the capital changes. Shen Tianjiao gives up her lovesick-puppy act: Breaki 11.1kReads7.3Score861Shelves

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    ✨A food-themed novel where the female protagonist is an amazing cook, becoming the nation's sweetheart through her culinary skills. She transmigrates to ancient times and cooks for her father to take to court, including spicy hot pot, shrimp and crab stew, and boiled pork slices, making the emperor drool with envy… She also makes snacks for her brother to take to his duty, but the emperor steals them all…

31. 31 穿 Transmigrated as a Kitchen Maid, I Win Over the Devil Prince with Viral Dishes 穿成厨丫，网红美食拿捏魔鬼殿下 Wasabi Seed Squid芥末籽鱿鱼Ancient Romance312k WordsOngoing A food blogger transmigrates and becomes an obscure kitchen maid in the Third Prince’s household! Her immediate superior is the notoriously fussy and difficult Third Prince, a devil who beats and berates the staff whenever a dish fails to please him. No problem! This modern food blogger’s skills are the real deal! Milk tea, cream-filled pastries, and creative snacks make their way to the table one after another, and before long she has the icy Third Prince completely wrapped around her finger. H 20Reads—Score182Shelves

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    I highly recommend this!!!

32. 32 穿 Reborn as a Poor Girl in Lingnan, I Lead My Family to Prosperity 穿成岭南贫户女，我带全家走富路 Feng Yuli风郁离Ancient Romance47k WordsOngoing When Zhou Ling opened her eyes, the coarse texture of a dry, hard corn bun still lingered in her mouth. The thatched hut was drafty. Her younger siblings were so hungry they were chewing on their fingers, her mother wept endlessly, and her father had fainted in bed after giving the family his share of the food. This was an obscure village somewhere in Lingnan. She was the eldest daughter of a poor family, so destitute that even the mice had moved out. But Zhou Ling’s mind held the world of more 19Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A strong recommendation from someone from Lingnan! This is a time-travel farming novel with no cheat codes. It features ingredients like five-finger peach, herbal tea, and later on, dried tangerine peel and cardamom, haha! I'd appreciate any suggestions, and mutual reviews and likes are welcome!

33. 33 小 The Little Chef's Guide to Feeding Her Family With Ancient Cuisine 小厨娘古代美食养家日常 Berry Soda Water莓果气泡水Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Qin Rong is a food blogger who accidentally transmigrates to a waterside town in the Great Liang Dynasty. The original owner’s mother is looked down on by her shrewish mother-in-law and sisters-in-law for having three daughters. Meanwhile, the original owner’s father has been fooling around with another woman and wants to divorce his wife. But the original owner’s mother has a backbone, and takes her three daughters with her as she asks to leave the marriage. When Qin Rong wakes up, she can hard 7.8kReads8.8Score736Shelves
34. 34 江 A Taste of Jiangnan 江南小食记 Braised Pork红烧肉Ancient Romance203k WordsOngoing Jiangnan water-town setting + laid-back daily life + gourmet business + no romance + adorable little sister After transmigrating into a family in a Jiangnan water town, Jiang Yun decides to lie flat and make the most of eating and having fun! She runs a little shop by the river and enjoys the slow, easygoing rhythm of life in Jiangnan. At home, she makes soft, chewy osmanthus rice cakes, pork belly braised with bamboo shoots, and fragrant beggar's chicken that draws people from every corner of 2kReads—Score174Shelves

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    A freshly released food-themed novel! The female lead's cooking is incredibly tempting, and there's also an adorable little sister. The story is set in a relaxed and comfortable Jiangnan water town atmosphere, with lighthearted everyday moments and no awful arguments. It's perfect for audiobook listening. Goodnight!

35. 35 逃 I Ran Away from My Wedding to Sell Wontons, and Made the Emperor Drool 逃婚卖馄饨，居然把陛下馋哭了 Three Treasures of Good Fortune吉祥三宝Ancient Romance377k WordsCompleted [Farming + Food + Chef + Transmigrate + Heartwarming, Beloved by All] Food blogger Yun Shu unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter! She can’t get her hands on a happy life, and one headache after another comes her way... They try to force her into marriage? She plays the obedient fool, then really runs away from the wedding, teaching the Duke of Zhenguo a hard lesson. Life is tough? She sets up a food stall, and her competitors can only cry, “There are 76Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The female protagonist becomes the richest woman through food.

36. 36 带 Bringing a Tiny Kitchen to Cook for an Entire Ancient Army Camp 带小厨房在古代军营做大锅饭 Xiao Mihu小迷胡Ancient Romance201k WordsCompleted Yun Shu, a modern food blogger, had finally worked hard for years to buy an apartment in the big city. But on the very first day after moving into her new home, she inexplicably transmigrated to a dynasty called Great Yan. The food here was plain. People only knew how to boil or steam their ingredients, making it a veritable culinary desert. Having grown up immersed in Chinese food culture, Yun Shu had no choice but to cook for herself and make sure she had enough to eat. To survive, she found a 4.9kReads8.2Score343Shelves
37. 37 穿 I Travel Through Time and Change History with Food 穿梭时空，我用美食改变历史 The Seventh Personality第七人格Urban282k WordsOngoing [Street Stalls] [Gourmet] [System] [No Romance] [Period] [War] After a few rounds of drinks, Su Ming, a wealthy young man from 21st-century Kyoto, wakes up to find himself a prisoner sentenced to labor reform. He starts with a three-wheeled cart, and opens his eyes to a thatched hut. Fail a mission: execution. Insult a prison guard: electric shock. The pampered rich kid has no choice but to bow his noble head, climb onto his tricycle, and start selling food. In snowbound Haicheng, he hawks wonto 3Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 38 留 A Student Abroad Cooks Up a Storm, and the British Media Calls It Cultural Invasion 留子做点美食，英媒说我文化入侵 Mu Xiaoduo沐小朵Two Male Leads1.4M WordsCompleted [Female-oriented! This is a female-oriented novel!] [System + two male leads, one-on-one romance + everyday life studying abroad + food + livestreaming] [Xu Ye is the love interest] [Career-focused] [Ensemble cast] [Slow burn] “Some international students become chefs, while others go after chefs (not really).” Yang Chuan eats in the cafeteria for a whole month until his soul nearly leaves his body. Just when he can’t take it anymore, a [God of Cooking System] falls from the sky! Using a recipe 8.8kReads8.6Score926Shelves

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    1️⃣The male lead is a Korean international student who awakens a culinary god system after getting sick of the cafeteria food! It's an ensemble piece where he and ten friends meet by chance in the initial communal kitchen and later become the small business they run together. These friends from different countries have given the male lead so much support! From setting up a stall twice a week to eventually opening restaurants all over Korea... There's a romantic pairing, a double romance, and the other male lead is a domineering CEO.

39. 39 这 This Boss Is So Sneaky, He Takes His Street Stall Everywhere 这老板真苟，摆个地摊还到处走 Selling Egg Burgers!卖鸡蛋汉堡咯Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [The print edition of Random Gourmet Stall is now available on major platforms] [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Comedy] [Comfort food] [Cozy] [Healing] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Zhou unexpectedly binds himself to a Random Gourmet System. Every week brings a random location, random food, and different customers. He sells buns at the park entrance, century egg and lean pork congee on a mountaintop, and candied hawthorns outside a school. Every dish is mouthwatering and 83kReads9.5Score8.1kShelves

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    Oh my god! [Laughing][laughing][laughing]

40. 40 在 Getting Rich by Setting Up a Stall in a Psychiatric Hospital! 在精神病院摆摊，暴富！ Tang Di汤抵Modern Romance153k WordsCompleted One heroine + food + no romance Li Xier is an orphan. To pay her rent and electricity bills, she sets up a food stall on the street outside a psychiatric hospital. Her dazzling variety of delicious dishes draws every diner nearby, and passersby stop to join the queue. Tourists and influencers from across the country and abroad flock to her stall. As her business grows bigger and better, Li Xier uses her culinary skills to launch a chain of restaurants and become a successful business owner, r 123Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommended! [Thumbs up][Thumbs up][Thumbs up]

41. 41 开 Exiled from the Start? With My Cooking Skills, the World Is Mine 开局流放？厨艺在手，天下我有 Explosively Fried Meatballs狂炸小肉丸Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Exile + Food + Farming + Business + Rugged Hero] Exiled from the start, with her biological father missing? Song Yuzhi has just won the National Cooking Championship when she transmigrates into the body of a frail, foolish young girl in ancient times. She rolls up her sleeves and uses her extraordinary cooking skills to build a good life, even in exile! She also has a handsome hunter for a husband. He's a man of few words, but dependable wherever he goes, and he treats her like his most preciou 3.5kReads8.6Score526Shelves

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    Come here, you'll find all sorts of food articles with detailed cooking processes that make your mouth water.

42. 42 小 The Little Chef Takes on the World 小厨娘闯天下 Just an Ordinary Scholar白丁者也Ancient Romance887k WordsCompleted Female lead: Shen Cao (her name has a special meaning). Male lead: Ji Lingfeng [Transmigration + food + business + making a fortune + slow-burn development + sweet romance] After becoming a master chef, Shen Cao falls off a cliff while gathering mushrooms and transmigrates into the body of a village girl who shares her name. Her parents love each other, her brothers are on good terms, and even her younger sister looks up to her. The only problem is that her family is so poor they can barely affo 1.4kReads7.7Score158Shelves
43. 43 开 From the Start, I Changed My Fate by Selling Braised Meat 开局分家，我靠卖卤肉改命 He Qi何绮Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Farming + Widow's sister-in-law + Feel-good story + Strong heroine + Building wealth + Putting scumbags in their place, no romance. The male lead is her brother-in-law, but their relationship is familial. The male characters have very little page time, and the heroine's story takes center stage.] Li Yu transmigrated from being a modern handicrafts and food blogger into the life of a poor woman in ancient times whose husband died on their very first day of marriage. To survive, Li Yu split the f 3.3kReads8.5Score290Shelves
44. 44 大 The Great Yu Female Tutor 大禹女师 Guanglin Tricycle广林三蹦子Ancient Romance289k WordsCompleted (Also known as: After Becoming the Matriarch, I Became the Whole Dynasty's Mentor) Qian Yixiang, a female professor of Chinese literature, worked through the night on her dissertation and died suddenly. When she opened her eyes, she had become the matriarch of an ancient marquis's household. The good news: she was alive. The bad news: she was on her third burial shroud. No golden finger, no System, and a whole family of wolves circling her. After working herself to death through cutthroat compet 13Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ancient and modern delicacies, legendary tales

45. 45 农 Delicious Country Cooking: The Little Chef Is Beautiful and Adorable 农门佳肴：小厨娘她美又娇 Tong Xijun童夕君Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Sweet Romance + Farming + Food + Mutual Devotion] Shen Jiayao, a young chef in her previous life, didn't let her skills go to waste after she transmigrated to a small mountain village. Life in the village was hard, but her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her older brother protected her. Most importantly, she had a childhood sweetheart who'd grown up alongside her. When he became an official one day and planned to marry a noblewoman, Shen Jiayao wielded her big ladle and knocked h 4.7kReads9.0Score557Shelves
46. 46 世 World Capital of Cuisine: Eel Wars 世界美食之都·鳝战 Guanglin Tricycle广林三蹦子30k WordsCompleted The World’s Food Capital: Eel Wars 43Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 47 穿 I Became the Bride Who Was Supposed to Bring Good Fortune to the Male Lead of an Imperial Exam Novel 穿成科举文男主的冲喜小娘子 Hehe Who Doesn't Want to Work Hard不想努力的禾禾Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Historical romance + transmigrate into a book + farming + food + space + building wealth + one-on-one happy ending] This story is set in a fictional world. Please don't compare it to actual history!!!! Luo Xingyue transmigrates into a book as the cannon-fodder wife of the newly introduced chief counselor, who dies almost as soon as he appears. Gazing at the few bare, empty rooms before her, she takes a deep breath. If you want a good life, you have to work for it yourself. Other heroines transm 1.9kReads8.8Score168Shelves
48. 48 傻 Once the Silly Girl Smartens Up, the Wen Family’s Ancestors Must Be Smiling from Their Graves 傻女不傻后，老闻家的祖坟冒青烟 Ink-Dyed Green Wound Tears墨染圊殇泪Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate + food + farming + sweet romance + doted on by the whole family + devoted husband + badass heroine + no golden finger] In her previous life, Wen Zhenyi was a top chef in public and a bounty hunter in secret. After a car accident, she transmigrated into the body of a dim-witted young woman in an alternate dynasty. She thought she had transmigrated to another world, but it turned out her soul had simply returned to its rightful body. Her family had spent everything they had and pil 6.8kReads9.0Score643Shelves
49. 49 四 Four-Year-Old Empress: Conquering the Business World with a Baby Bottle 四岁女帝，奶瓶收割资本圈 Dreams Shattered Upon Meeting遇梦若碎Modern Romance860k WordsCompleted When I was four, I was brought back to a wealthy family. My aunt-by-marriage laughed and called me a bastard. My uncle thought I was an embarrassment. I casually revealed the secret they had hidden in their safe, and everyone thought I was a genius. Only I knew the truth: this wasn't talent. I had been reborn. But when I found my biological mother, she stared at me and said, “You're not my daughter. My daughter died four years ago. Who are you?” An old computer my adoptive mother left me co 48Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The 11th food novel

50. 50 我 The Top Chef in a Culinary Wasteland 我在美食荒漠当第一厨娘 Little Sakura Never Drops Her Novel小樱不弃坑Ancient Romance443k WordsCompleted Bai Qingwan, the owner of a private kitchen, was hit by a car while saving someone and transmigrated into the body of a farm girl with the same name in a fictional dynasty, whose surname was Yong. To her surprise, this place was a culinary wasteland that didn't even have soy sauce. Her family lived by the mountains and near the sea, yet what they ate was the sort of stuff even pigs wouldn't touch. Then she found herself bound to the Huaxia Cuisine System. To help her fulfill her mission of sprea 817Reads8.8Score109Shelves

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