Food-Themed Stories, Ideally with a Restaurant, Set in the Modern Day. Please! 美食文，最好有开店的呀，现代文，求求了

1. 1 厨 God of Cooking’s Quick Transmigration: I Become a Master Chef in Every World 厨神快穿，我在各个世界当大厨 Renewing Myself Every Day日日自新Fantastical Romance728k WordsOngoing Reincarnated as a scumbag? No problem. There’s nothing a good meal can’t fix 1. A scammer dad who’s a chef 2. How a fallen marquis’s household made its fortune 3. Spy? Not even a dog would do that! 4. Going home 5. A heartless, ungrateful wretch 127.7kReads9.3Score13.1kShelves

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   This is really good. There aren't too many bizarre plot points, and there aren't any annoying family members. Unlike other food novels that exaggerate the diners, this is a good thing. I've dropped many novels because of some strange diners' behavior.

2. 2 让 You Want Me to Open a Breakfast Shop? I Only Open in the Afternoon 让我开早餐店？我下午才营业 I'm the Behind-the-Scenes Shit Cook我是幕后煮屎人Urban1.1M WordsOngoing [System] [Gourmet Food] [Healing] [Lighthearted Comedy] No heartburn while reading! Enjoy without worry! Fan Li used to manage livestream operations. Under pressure, he developed insomnia, showed up late, and was fired. Then he unexpectedly obtained a God-Tier Breakfast System. But his old daily routine had nothing in common with the schedule of selling breakfast. Customer 1: What! In this godforsaken place, he dares to charge eighty-eight yuan for a steamer of soup dumplings? Customer 2: When i 228.2kReads8.5Score16.7kShelves

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   Good food novels I've read

3. 3 绑 Bound to a Gourmet System, I Become the God of Food by Opening a Restaurant 绑定美食系统，我靠开店成食神 Dean Xiang香院长Urban829k WordsOngoing The rating just came out! Feel free to start reading~ (Food + no romance + System + lighthearted comedy + everyday healing) Boss Xie will never get a partner!! Your System and my System don’t seem to be the same~ Other people’s food Systems: max level with one click, instant culinary godhood, become the God of Food without lifting a finger! Xie Yan’s food System: start from scratch and unlock things one step at a time. Xie Yan spread his hands. It’s fine, it’s fine. Having one is better than hav 24kReads8.1Score2.2kShelves

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   These are both books I've been reading recently. The first one features a protagonist with a fixed shop; in the second book, the male lead sets up a stall twice, and both are quite enjoyable. The protagonist in the first book is a bit more laid-back, but he gets along well with his customers. It's a pretty good, relaxing food-themed novel, and later on, the male lead hires helpers, so he's not working alone. The second book is also very good; the male lead has a great personality, many friends, and the food he makes makes me hungry! [Frustrated]

4. 4 我 I Used One Bowl of Noodles to Put a City on the Map 我靠一碗面，带动一座城 Fiery Cabbage火爆的白菜Urban1.2M WordsOngoing [Food + Scenic Area Management, No Stressful Shopkeeping, Well-Plotted, No Stupid Characters] From the start, he quit his job and headed home to take over his father's noodle shop. He turned the little shop into a countywide tourism sensation, putting the county's cultural tourism industry on the map. The Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Transportation Bureau, the Market Regulation Bureau, and even the county magistrate all begged to get on his good side. He even took over a bankrupt A-grade s 69.8kReads8.3Score7.5kShelves

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   This is a food-themed novel about opening a restaurant, without any messy culinary competitions or elaborate, repetitive stall-based plots. It's a pure food management novel with a very well-structured storyline. It's arguably Tomato's top-tier work. [Added to bookshelf]

5. 5 A The AI Big Shot Has Its Eye on the Private Chef's Wife AI大佬盯上了私厨老板娘 Being Shallow Isn't Wrong肤浅不是错Urban75k WordsOngoing One disastrous meal cost Yang Zhe 30 million in funding and made him see one thing clearly: the restaurant industry doesn't lack data. It lacks the people behind the data. To save his home and company, he stakes everything he owns and joins forces with Lin Manman, a private chef and restaurant owner being coerced by an anonymous person. Together, they bring AI out of spreadsheets and into the kitchen. With a day's sales, a new dish, and a birthday banquet, they put a working business model to th 23Reads—Score—Shelves

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   How can you open a store to make more money? See how artificial intelligence is changing industries.

6. 6 混 Running a Restaurant in Ancient Times: All Tricks and No Shortcuts 混在古代搞餐饮，全是科技与狠活 Bookish Cat本本猫Historical1.3M WordsCompleted What do you do when you accidentally get a kitchen that can travel between ancient and modern times, but you can’t cook? No problem! We crooked cultivators run our restaurant with nothing but technology and additives! Open the fridge, take out some scissors, snip open the package, pour it into a bowl, and put it in the microwave. Defrost for thirty seconds, heat for three minutes. Ding! Your kung pao chicken is ready, honored guest. What? You want a bowl of chicken soup? Coming right up! I’ll ad 24.2kReads7.8Score3kShelves
7. 7 一 One Dish a Day: Building a Culinary Empire 一天只卖一道菜，我打造美食帝国 Watching the Moonlight看风月Urban1.6M WordsOngoing (The rating has just come out, but it will rise later) [Gourmet] + [System] + [One heroine] + [Dad raising a child] + [Everyday life] Chen Qiu's business venture fails, leaving him a million yuan in debt, and he's forced to take over the little restaurant his parents left behind. Just when he has nowhere else to turn, he awakens the [God-Tier Gourmet Sign-In System]! His first sign-in rewards him with “God-Tier Pork Stir-Fried with Chili Peppers”! When he puts up a sign advertising it at “88 yua 41.1kReads7.8Score2.5kShelves
8. 8 成 Growth-Type Chef God: My Proficiency Rises Every Day 成长系厨神：我的熟练度每日上涨 Leg-Day Slacker练腿摸鱼仔Urban1.5M WordsOngoing [Food] [System] [Everyday Life] [Leveling Up] [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted] (The animated series is now out, and the print edition has been signed. Feel free to dive in!) Song Yan was tricked into coming home by his father to inherit the breakfast shop, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. [Host]: Song Yan Seasoning (Beginner): 165/1000 (Not enough to kill anyone) …Collapsed… Knife Skills (Beginner): 0/1000 (You should worry more about cutting your hand than cutting vegetables 152.7kReads8.7Score15.4kShelves

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   These are system-based quick transmigration food novels.

9. 9 让 You Asked Me to Cook Vegetarian Meals, So Why Is My Incense Offering Exploding? 让你做斋饭，我香火怎么被干爆了 Can't Be Bothered to Name It不想起名了Urban678k WordsOngoing [The rating has just been posted and is sure to rise] (System) (Food) (Everyday Life) (Lighthearted Comedy) Lu Chen used to be an overworked corporate drone, but after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he was fired. Just as he was waiting to die, he unexpectedly obtained a Divine Incense System and bonded with Tianlin Temple. As long as the temple receives incense offerings, Lu Chen's lifespan increases. But Tianlin Temple is about to go under! Lu Chen can only use the divine cooking skills 6.2kReads6.7Score503Shelves
10. 10 美 Gourmet: Healing Anorexia One Bento Box at a Time 美食：摆摊卖盒饭，治愈厌食症 Sun Yi Xin孙艺欣Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Comforting food, no getting mad, funny reading over a meal, no female lead, hilarious ensemble cast] A genius chef transmigrates into the body of a sixty-year-old man and activates a System. As long as he heals wounded souls with his cooking, he can earn extraordinary rewards. But the System’s very first task is to heal someone with anorexia! Vibrant tomato and egg stir-fry, beef stewed with rich gravy, and layered minced-beef flatbreads dripping with juice. These aren’t beautiful illustration 8.8kReads8.9Score754Shelves
11. 11 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
12. 12 谢 I’m a Grade-Schooler, and I’ve Become a Culinary God! 谢邀，我，小学生，已成厨神！ Selling Egg Burgers!卖鸡蛋汉堡咯Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Gourmet]+ [Slice of Life]+ [No Romance]+ [Heartwarming]+ [Healing]+ [Comedy] “The only thing an elementary school student should be doing is studying hard... But I think Master Fang going to school is neglecting his proper work.” “I’ve finally made it to the front of the line... Master Fang, can we put your homework aside for a bit? Could you fry me some rice first?” “You think I’m waiting outside the elementary school to pick up my own kid? I’m actually here to pick up Master Fang after schoo 24.5kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
13. 13 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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    I've been following these books, they're all really good 😳

14. 14 我 I'm Just a Chef, Director, Stop Adding Drama! 我只是个厨子啊，导演别加戏了吧 Give Me an Egg Burger来个鸡蛋汉堡Urban161k WordsCompleted [Food + film sets + everyday life + comfort food + warmth + healing + comedy + fun] Lin Zhou joins a casting call for extras and unexpectedly gets bound to a Gourmet System. From then on, he only ever plays cooks. He can be a five-star chef in a domineering CEO drama, or the head cook at a country banquet in a rural drama. He can whip up roadside restaurant dishes so fragrant they fill the air for miles, or make stall food so delicious you'll savor every bite. Whatever the role calls for, he'll 1.9kReads7.5Score146Shelves

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    I've been following these books, and they're all really good. [Shy]

15. 15 摆 My Street-Stall Food Is So Bizarre, Customers Think I've Gone Mad! 摆摊太抽象，食客们以为我疯了！ Lush Yu Zhu玉竹猗猗Urban89k WordsOngoing Other street vendors hawked their wares, competing over cooking techniques and recipes. When Chen Yanyu set up his stall, he first had a heart-to-heart with the ingredients, then cheered on the batter, and even had to calm the griddle down so it wouldn't lose its temper. After activating the All Things Empathy Abstract God of Cooking System, the more absurd and outlandish his cooking methods, the more heaven-defying the food tasted! His prices were outrageous, and his behavior was downright biza 25Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist sets up a stall using abstract thinking.

16. 16 小 The Alleyway Cooking God: Starting with S-Rank Turnip Cake 小巷厨神，从S级萝卜糕开始 Loves Red Pomelo Tea爱喝红柚茶Urban903k WordsOngoing (Urban setting + food + no female lead + everyday life + slow burn. Not a street-stall story: they open a restaurant.) In a bustling city, an old neighborhood left untouched by redevelopment for one reason or another sits on an aging street. In this urban village, surrounded by the central business district, a young culinary genius makes his home. After his parents die in a car accident, Fang You resolutely drops out of school and returns home to take over the breakfast shop they ran for over tw 21.2kReads7.2Score2.2kShelves

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    The first book is about opening a shop, the second is about a food truck; so far, they seem promising, both are serialized.

17. 17 食EN Diners Say I’m a Show-Off, but They Still Devour My Food 食客说我装逼犯，但是还嗷嗷干饭 Give Me an Egg Burger来个鸡蛋汉堡Urban769k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + Urban Life + System + Food + No Romance + Showing Off] “I can't help it. I don't want to, either, but as the God of Cooking, I've got to show off!” After transmigrating to a parallel world, Shen Chuan binds himself to the God of Cooking System, gaining the ability to create every delicacy imaginable. Just thinking about using his culinary skills to reach the pinnacle of success and earn everyone's admiration, with diners clamoring for a taste, is enough to make him blush! But h 24.2kReads8.8Score2.2kShelves
18. 18 重 Reborn in 1987: Hosting Banquets in the Countryside 重生八七：我在农村做大席 Foodie Who Never Gains Weight吃货不长肉Urban3.0M WordsOngoing I’m the best banquet chef in Rehe Township. Hire me for your feast and I’ll make you look good! A chef and food blogger in the age of big data, he returns to the 1980s to cook village banquets. In a word... nailed it! Don’t look down on village banquet chefs. There’s money to be made, meat to eat, and no end of lively happenings to watch. Li Chun is living a full and happy life. Don’t believe me? Then come on in and see for yourself... 58.8kReads8.7Score3.2kShelves

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    Well, this novel is really good. It's full of life and updates three times a day. The food preparation steps are also very particular. It's not just about following the recipe. Instead, it incorporates the characteristics of the times, local tastes, available ingredients, and the recipes the author knows. There is a system, but most of the time it's just an points mall, and it doesn't appear very often later on.

19. 19 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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    Xuan~ After reading many food articles, I think these three are the most interesting. They are all different types: one is a live-streamed restaurant visit, one is a random stall, and one is a shop opening.

20. 20 美 Gourmet: My Little Shop Is Famous Around the World 美食：我的小店，名震全球 Sleeping Cat熟睡的猫Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [Opening a Restaurant] [No Female Lead] [System] [Perfect with a Meal] [Heartwarming] [Everyday Life] [A Different Menu Every Day] [Affordable Prices] [Ensemble Cast] Lou Yuanzhou has eaten so many ready-made meal packs that he actually gains a Chef God Gourmet System! As long as he opens a restaurant and completes all kinds of bizarre missions, he can earn rewards! Steaming hot wontons, springy zhajiang noodles, and the legendary lamb stew... all made by Lou Yuanzhou himself! Once his 9.6kReads9.0Score796Shelves
21. 21 大 A Meal at a Song Dynasty Ferry, and You Serve Up the Soul of Hunan Cuisine? 大宋渡头吃个饭，你端出湘菜魂？ Deep in the Clouds云深Historical487k WordsOngoing [Food and Business, Ancient-Era Commerce, Daily Life, Raising Kids, Farming, System] Song Qiao transmigrates to the fourth year of Dazhong Xiangfu in the Northern Song dynasty, and from the start takes over Wangxiang Tower, a restaurant on the verge of closing. In early Song-era Tanzhou, where supplies are far from abundant, he brings the culinary skills of Hunan cuisine from a later age to delight travelers with a taste sensation spanning a thousand years! Pork stir-fried with chili peppers, fi 80.2kReads8.5Score10.9kShelves

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    The first book is about running a restaurant in ancient times—Hunan cuisine—I'm still following it. The second book is about making vegetarian food in a modern temple—vegetarian food is delicious too—I've reached nearly two hundred chapters, so I've slowed down the pace.

22. 22 神 God-Tier Food Truck: Foodies Around the World Beg Me to Set Up Shop 神级餐车：全球吃货求我出摊 Mr. South Wall Crashes Into the South Wall南墙先生撞南墙Modern Romance564k WordsCompleted System, Food, Street Stalls, Slow Pace, No Romance, Widowed The book’s new-release rating may be low at first, but 95% of reviews are five stars. Enjoy with confidence! Ye Wanting unexpectedly gets a magical mobile food cart System. Flatbread + pork floss + seaweed = seaweed-and-pork-floss turkey noodles Crab + flour = crab roe soup dumplings Lamb offal + garlic + pepper = peppery lamb offal soup Quality ingredients + premium recipes + perfect cooking = food adored by thousands Three-wheeled car 671Reads8.8Score101Shelves

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    Both are incredibly good, and neither has a romantic pairing. The first book is finished, and the second is currently being serialized.

23. 23 我 I Sell Gourmet Food in Another World to Serve My Country 我靠在异世卖美食，报效祖国 Rinsing Stones and Resting on Books漱石枕书Ancient Romance931k WordsOngoing God of Cooking System + Transmigration Between Worlds + Leveling Up + Gourmet Food + Daily Life (Warning) The early chapters are a slow burn. Later, she'll get support from the country. The heroine is just a plot device, and the story has quite a few original elements. After graduating, Lin Xiaoqian can't find a job, so she plans to go home and open a shop. She follows the trend and binds herself to a God of Cooking System. Every completed mission earns her a reward. After completing the beginne 1.5kReads8.6Score181Shelves
24. 24 移 Mobile Food Stall: My Customers Are Wild About the Food 移动美食摊：我的食客太疯狂 Cheese Rice Cake芝心年糕Modern Romance443k WordsCompleted [Reader's guide: No CP, not a romance. The Tomato app's tags are wrong, so romance fans should take note before reading.] [Gourmet][Comfort food][Lighthearted][Cozy][Healing][Everyday life][No CP] Sun Xiaoting accidentally binds herself to the Gourmet System and gains unparalleled cooking skills. She also triggers random street-stall missions. She sells jianbing at the night market for 15 yuan a serving, leaving grease shining on her customers' lips; She sells 100-yuan boxed meals outside a luxu 298Reads8.5Score—Shelves

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    The first book is a classic food novel with a random street stall setting and a system. The second book is a purely comedic food novel about transmigration and pseudo-cultivation, without a system.

25. 25 美 Gourmet: The Number One Foodie in the Cultivation World 美食：修仙界第一干饭王 Cheese Rice Cake芝心年糕Ancient Romance575k WordsCompleted [Food + silly everyday antics + no romance + no System] Food blogger Jiang Miao opens her eyes to find she has become an unprecedented “Food Spirit Root” good-for-nothing in the cultivation world. Before she can even figure out what’s going on, Yun Wuchen, the good-for-nothing peak master who specializes in taking in “junk,” forces her to become an inner disciple. The moment she joins, she’s stunned: her master spends all his time slacking off, and her three senior brothers are an even bigger bu 129Reads—Score102Shelves
26. 26 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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    This is really beautiful. There are no other high prices, no random stalls, and the diners aren't as crazy as if they're adding extra ingredients. It's just warm and comforting. Of course, like many food-themed articles, it's not very engaging. If you stop reading now, remember to click "like" to encourage me to update (because I want to read it!). The author updates too slowly.

27. 27 拜 Goodbye, I'm Going Home to Run a Stall 拜拜了您，我回家摆摊了 Miss Steak牛扒小姐Modern Romance503k WordsCompleted [Gourmet + Slice of Life + No Romance + Heartwarming] Shen Huan was an ordinary office worker. The company was rife with cutthroat competition, and her direct boss kept making things difficult for her. After working diligently overtime for half a year, she'd finally had enough of his torment and quit. Who cared about this lousy job? In a fit of anger, Shen Huan quit without another job lined up, packed her things, and went back to her hometown. When she decided to start a street food stall, she 3.3kReads8.6Score243Shelves

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    This is all about Yunnan cuisine! [Admiration][Admiration][Admiration]

28. 28 美 Gourmet: My Maxed-Out Cooking Skills Are Only for a Quiet Street Stall 美食：满级厨艺的我只想安静出摊 The Storyteller讲故事的人Urban775k WordsCompleted [The short drama of the same name is now available] (The protagonist never shows off. He's mild-mannered, humble, and hardworking. There is a female lead. Please don't read if that's not your thing, thanks.) A quiet, laid-back story about everyday food and cooking. The System is even lazier than the protagonist (it just lends a hand, it doesn't take charge). Xia Yu is a foodie who graduated from college not long ago. His dream is to be a lazy slacker. Then one day, a System drops out of nowhere 7kReads8.7Score479Shelves

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    Food + Street Vendor Shop!

29. 29 穿 Transmigrated to Ancient Times: A Food Blogger Builds a Fortune 穿越之美食博主在古代发家致富 Lin Family's Dou Xiao Dou林家豆小豆Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Food blogger Jiang Yue transmigrates into the Jiang family, a household of farmers. The Jiangs are dirt poor, with barely enough to eat or wear, and life is truly hard. Fortunately, the family is warm and easygoing, sincere and kind to others. Jiang Yue decides to rely on her own skills to help the whole family prosper, starting with a little shop, moving on to a small restaurant, and eventually opening a grand restaurant, until they achieve financial freedom. P.S. A pure food-focused story, set 46.1kReads8.7Score2.2kShelves

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    My absolute favorite!!!

30. 30 全 A World of the Eerie, Where Every Guest Is a Big Shot 全球诡异，我的客人全是大佬 Goodnight Choc Ice晚安巧乐兹Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted This is an age of supernatural resurgence, when ghosts roam the night. The Special Affairs Department is overwhelmed, and ghost tamers are run off their feet. Yet in a corner of the old district, a little restaurant called Gu's has become the most unbelievable haven between the living and the dead. Its rules are strange: 1. The food is outrageously expensive, but only the living have to pay. 2. When ghost customers come calling, they pay with their deepest obsessions. 3. No matter who you are, y 5kReads8.6Score550Shelves

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    The warmth of everyday life is what truly comforts the human heart ❤️. The male protagonist is a chef (formerly an art student) who not only cooks for people in the mortal world but also helps ghosts fulfill their wishes. He has a sense of family and country, a sense of national pride, and the desire of an ordinary citizen for a peaceful and stable life. The writing is superb, never dull or boring; each story point is deeply moving, and the more you read, the more you appreciate it. Male protagonist, no romantic partner, slice-of-life story about running a shop.

31. 31 继 After Inheriting a Fortune, My Street Food Takes the Internet by Storm 继承亿万家产后我的小吃全网爆火 Nu He奴鹤Modern Romance313k WordsOngoing [Urban, Heartwarming, Food, Everyday Life, Everyone's Favorite, No Romance] After being broke for 21 years, Le Ge finally hit the jackpot today. Well, in the literal sense: she got hit by a truck and turned into a terrible person. Le Ge: My clothes are barely dirty. Just kidding. The moment she woke up, she found a System in her head, shouting that she had to pay back its points. Le Ge said she had no obligation to repay them! But just then, she inherited a fortune worth billions from a distant 5Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 32 绑 My Breakfast Shop Took Off After I Bound a Food System 绑定美食系统后，我的早餐店火了 October in Tingzhou汀州十月Modern Romance421k WordsCompleted Su Ti was fed empty promises and manipulated by her company, so she decisively took the money and walked away. On her second day unemployed, she unexpectedly binds to the mysterious [Myriad Feasts Record] System From then on, every dish she makes gets a score: “Plain noodles: 8.9 points, just barely excellent.” “Crispy pastry: 9.8 points, astonishingly good!” Her best friend takes one bite of her noodles and slaps the table: “Quit! Open a restaurant! I’ll invest!” A neighbor tries the pastries s 2.6kReads7.2Score309Shelves
33. 33 穿 Canceled After Becoming a Villainess, I Set Up a Food Stall and Make the Whole Internet Drool 穿成恶女被封杀，摆摊馋疯全网 Glutinous Rice Dumpling糯米团叽Modern Romance462k WordsCompleted [Food System + Lighthearted Comedy + Cozy + Heartwarming + Transmigration into a Food Story + Functional Ingredients + Comfort Food + Beautifully Plated Dishes + Romance] The male lead is more of a background character, just one part of our heroine’s play~~ (*^3^) /~☆ Transmigrated into a disgraced, scandal-ridden nobody, with her role stolen, her contract locking her in, and the entire internet telling her to get lost? Jiang Li tears up her contract and makes a run for it on the spot: “Let the 286Reads5.6Score100Shelves

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    Both are beautiful, I love them!

34. 34 我 One Bowl of Beef Noodles Made This Scenic Spot Go Viral 我用一碗牛肉面，让景区火爆全网 Little Zhang Who Won't Buy Empty Promises不听画饼的小张Modern Romance418k WordsCompleted Transmigration brought back ingredients for dark cuisine that nobody would eat: beef raised on spiritual herbs, fish soaked in spiritual spring water... They were all leftovers from the dishes she’d made in the cultivation world, food even dogs wouldn’t touch. After taking over her mother’s rundown noodle shop in a tourist park full of overworked laborers, she casually cooked a bowl of beef noodles. An eighty-year-old tourist ate it and found his back no longer ached and his legs no longer hurt. 1.4kReads—Score233Shelves

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    He transmigrated from the cultivation world with a spatial ability, returned to inherit his mother's beef noodle shop, and used cows resembling spiritual herbs to make it an instant internet sensation. He also opened a lamb hot pot restaurant, giving his mother a better life...

35. 35 说 I Was Promised a Gourmet System, So Why Am I Possessed by a Ghost? 说好的美食系统，怎么是鬼上身 Guess, Guess, Guess, I Can't Figure You Out, Sir猜猜猜不透君Modern Romance314k WordsOngoing Lighthearted comedy + food + running a business + rural revitalization + fake System (No suspense or horror, just everyday life and food.) When Xiang Yunduan was broke and about to sleep on the street, a voice appeared in her mind, claiming to be a “System.” System: Go bow three times in front of the “I Miss You So Much at xx” road sign, and I’ll make you rich! Xiang Yunduan: Are you nuts? The next second, Xiang Yunduan dropped to her knees. “Are three enough? If not, I’ll do thirty. System, ple 28.8kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves

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    This perfectly fits the bill: a modern food business selling glutinous rice cakes and pastries, a money-loving goofball as the female lead, and a system that's also a "three-no" system (no character, no brains, no mind, no brains). It's a very lighthearted read with a dry humor style, haha!

36. 36 绑 Bound to a Food System, My Little Shop Is Packed Every Day 绑定美食系统，我的小店天天爆满 Who Will I Love All My Life?一生醉爱谁Urban655k WordsOngoing [No CP + daily life + food + opening a shop + street vending + entirely handmade, no AI] After binding to a System, Peng Jie hopes to get rich by cooking and reach the pinnacle of life. But it turns out every dish he’s rewarded with must be practiced, and his cooking mentor is a senior administrator at KK Park. Every time he receives a new dish, he’s bound to get electrocuted. After making the whole street a hit, his greedy landlord raises the rent and forces him to leave South Street. Back in h 23.6kReads8.1Score1.9kShelves

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    The first one is good! [Thumbs up]

37. 37 七 The Little Chef of the Seventies: The Iron-Blooded Battalion Commander Dotes on Me 七零小厨娘：铁血营长偏宠我 Light Hues and Gentle Breeze清风浅色系Modern Romance510k WordsCompleted Food blogger Su Nianwei opened her eyes to find herself in the body of a poor woman in the 1970s who had been forced to jump into a river. At a crossroads, she saved Gu Huaizheng, a tough battalion commander suffering from low blood sugar. His simple words, “I'll marry you,” changed her life forever. With a food-filled pocket dimension in one hand and tender devotion in the other, she tore apart the scumbag and the fake innocent, filling the military compound with mouthwatering aromas. She went 3.1kReads7.3Score312Shelves

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    Funny, food-themed, and perfect with rice.

38. 38 厨 The God of Cooking’s Legacy: Starting with a Street Stall 厨神传承，从摆摊开始 Song Zaiyuan宋在沅Modern Romance904k WordsOngoing After graduating, Mei Lin becomes the most ordinary office drone in a big city. Her life is an endless loop between the office and her rented apartment. She barely scrapes by, trapped in a grind with no end in sight, and nearly gives up hope. Then one day, a magical food space falls from the sky. A master chef’s legacy, top-tier ingredients, long-lost recipes… Her life is completely transformed. There’s no future in working for someone else, so why not become her own boss? She quits without hesi 2.3kReads7.3Score196Shelves
39. 39 修 A Great War in the Cultivation World, All for a Bite to Eat?! 修仙界大战，只为抢口饭？！ Red Carp, Donkey, Green Crucian Carp红鲤鱼驴绿鲫鱼Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [Gourmet cooking + immortal cultivation + scheming sect disciple + lighthearted comedy + goofy daily life + no female lead or harem] Zhu Fan transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a disciple of a sect. Just as he was about to receive his golden finger, something unexpected happened Zhu Fan: Anyone else know this feeling? I was about to become a tycoon in the immortal realm! Once my divine pill was ready, I’d ascend to immortality! But someone suddenly cut in and bound me to the wrong 15kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves

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    Feeling like you're going through a reading slump? Check this out: Fantasy Food. 🦐🦐🦐 The first book is about Zhu Fan, who transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a disciple of a sect. Just as he's about to receive his cheat-like ability, an unexpected event occurs. Zhu Fan: Family, does anyone know anything about this? I was about to become a powerful figure in the immortal realm, waiting for my divine pill to be perfected so I could ascend to immortality! But suddenly someone interfered and I was mistakenly tied to a Chef God System! What's the use of being a chef in a cultivation world? Everyone else is practicing abstinence from food! And the sect even gave me a pill-refining mission! What am I going to do?

40. 40 美 Gourmet: My Cooking Makes the Myriad Worlds Drool 美食，我的美食馋哭诸天万界 There's a Little Divine Beast at My House俺家有只小神兽Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted Fantasy, food, illustrations, comedy, scheming, farming. The starry-sky yanggeng, the undisputed beauty queen of desserts. The upgraded version of Stargazing Pie: Eyes Shut Forever. Boiled cabbage so beautiful it takes your breath away. Spicy crayfish that'll make anyone gain a few pounds before they leave. A chopped chili Kun head big enough to feed dozens. Red-braised lamb, fish-fragrant shredded pork, crystal shrimp dumplings, chicken broth soup dumplings, squirrel-shaped mandarin fish... Hel 953Reads8.9Score101Shelves
41. 41 厨 Master Chef: From the Start, My Junior Sister Stole My Chicken 厨神，开局被小师妹偷吃了鸡 Pineapple Pizza菠萝披萨Eastern Fantasy3.4M WordsOngoing Hardcore food fiction + laid-back daily life + steamrolling the myriad races with food The executive chef of a six-star restaurant transmigrates to the Yaochi Holy Land and becomes the greatest chef in the world of culinary cultivation. There, he discovers that the pigs are bigger than elephants and the chickens have six legs! From then on, Beast-Taming Peak gets a large-scale, professional livestock farm, while fields of vegetables flourish year-round on Spirit Herb Peak. “These evil dragons an 6.6kReads9.2Score486Shelves
42. 42 厨 The God of Cooking and the Demon Beasts: Oh No, We're the Ingredients! 厨神，妖兽：不好，我们成食材了 Jiu Yu九语Eastern Fantasy6.8M WordsOngoing A chef transmigrates to a fantasy world and awakens the strongest Chef God System. Whenever someone praises a dish he makes, his talent, physique, and insight improve. Well, this is an instant takeoff. What's more, his dishes have special effects: they can strengthen the body, nourish one's health, and clear away hidden injuries… The entire sect goes wild. From the Ancestor, Supreme Elders, and Sect Master to the servant disciples, everyone goes crazy for a taste. The Sect Master say 66.6kReads9.1Score4.7kShelves
43. 43 系 The System Granted Me Immortality, and I Suppress the Nine Heavens with the Sword Dao 系统赋我长生，我以剑道压九天 Sweetness in Coffee咖啡里的甜Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [Immortality + behind-the-scenes scheming + cultivation] Qin Changsheng transmigrates to a cultivation world and begins as a prison guard in the imperial dungeon, picking up cultivation from corpses. He sheds his mortal form and becomes an immortal. As dynasties rise and fall across the ages and ancient immortal sects pass through endless cycles of change, he remains ageless, indestructible, and immortal. A ruler who has reigned over dynasties for thousands of years, nearing the end of his life, 5.8kReads8.1Score391Shelves
44. 44 带 I Run a Breakfast Shop with a Kid, and the Campus Belle Wants to Be His Stepmom 带娃开早餐店，校花竟想当后妈 Mossy Chronicles苔痕记事簿Urban658k WordsOngoing [Parenting day-to-day + one heroine + campus belle + heroine pursues hero + System] Chen Yuan had just quit his job and was getting ready to look for a new one when he discovered that the 300,000 yuan he had painstakingly saved by scrimping and saving was gone! It turned out his wife, Lin Wei, who stayed home to care for their child, had taken it to start a herbal-milk-tea shop after her best friend, Wang Lili, egged her on! That wasn't all. Lin Wei had also taken out a 200,000-yuan loan, sweari 145Reads6.0Score102Shelves

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    Perfect, very suitable

45. 45 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
46. 46 拒 The Three-Star Hole-in-the-Wall That Refused a Michelin Rating 拒绝米其林评级的三星小店 I'm a Bubble我是泡泡Urban2.1M WordsCompleted After the internet influencer Liu Dao visited the shop, the breakfast restaurant the Chen family had painstakingly run for over a decade teetered on the brink of closing. After binding with a System, Chen Yang quit his white-collar job in the city and took over the little shop. Newbie gift pack: an ingredient identification and rating feature. The fresh pork belly from a free-range mountain pig that swims regularly has three distinct layers of fat and lean meat. After roaming the hills, its fles 3.8kReads8.8Score379Shelves

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    This one is good 😊

47. 47 厨 The God of Cooking Takes Over, and I Turn My Sha County Restaurant into a Rip-Off! 厨神附体，我把沙县开成了黑店！ Jing Yao景媱Urban969k WordsOngoing [Food + System + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Great with a Meal + Cunning Protagonist] Original title: The God of Cooking Takes Over, and I Turn My Shaxian Snack Shop into a Scam! After his best friend stabbed him in the back, Li Zhibai somehow ended up taking over a Shaxian snack shop in the most expensive part of Jiangcheng, and piling up a mountain of debt in the process. Luckily, he bound himself to the God of Cooking System and awakened a bizarre talent: [Charge Based 144.4kReads8.6Score10.3kShelves

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    Top top top top top top top top

48. 48 寺 Selling Barbecue Outside a Temple, I Get Chased Across the Country by Foodies 寺庙门口卖烧烤，吃货追着我全国 Loves Red Yeast Tartary Buckwheat Tea爱吃红曲苦荞茶Urban264k WordsOngoing [A new city every week, forced to set up a random food stall!] [Food + everyday life + comedy + comfort food + no romance + healing] Chen Mo accidentally binds to a random food-stall System. Every week, he transmigrates to an unfamiliar city and has to sell its local snacks. The results... He sells extra-spicy grilled skewers outside a thousand-year-old temple, juicy scallion pancakes by West Lake, and ice-and-fire pineapple buns at the foot of a snowy mountain! In every city he has “wreaked ha 226Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New book, looks pretty good. "Selling Barbecue at the Temple Gate, Foodies Chase Me All Over the Country." Food + Slice of Life + Humor + Perfect for Meals + No Romance + Healing. Each week, a different city is randomly selected, and I improve upon the local specialties. The plot is funny, and the food descriptions are also good.

49. 49 美 The Tasty Snack Stall That Reformed the Food Industry 美味小吃摊，我整顿了餐饮市场 Eating Steamed Buns吃馍馍Urban253k WordsCompleted Lu Yuan is reborn and discovers that he is taking part in the show "Dragon Nation’s Professional Challenge". Though he has never set foot in a kitchen, the job he draws is food stall owner! Luckily, he awakens the God-Tier Food Stall System, which grants him max-level cooking skills. Day One. Lu Yuan makes starch sausages from scratch outside a university, leaving the students drooling! Day Two. Lu Yuan sets up a stall selling savory sauce pancakes, and a girl with binge-eating disorder instantl 102Reads5.9Score—Shelves

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    These are all good books; I recommend you take a look.

50. 50 带 I Left With Nothing but My Daughter, and Got a Dumpling Shop as a Reward 带女儿净身出户，奖励一家饺子铺 Wang Xue, Who Loves Dingshi Crisps爱吃顶市酥的王血Urban536k WordsCompleted [Urban life + doting dad + farming + tycoon + System + everyday life] [The author humbly begs all you kind readers not to let this novel pile up in your reading list, or it’ll be doomed! Your support means a lot to me. Thanks for reading along!] After five years of marriage, they reached the end of the road. To win custody of his daughter, Ye Chen chose to walk away with nothing. But just after receiving his divorce certificate, a strange, mechanical voice suddenly rang out in his mind. “Ding! H 560Reads8.5Score101Shelves

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