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
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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
[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
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I Set Up a Street Stall Selling Snacks and Make the Whole Internet Drool! 摆摊卖小吃,馋哭全网!
[Food + Miracle Doctor + Comedy + Showbiz] In his previous life, Jiang Chen was a chef at state banquets. Now he joins a nationwide reality show and becomes a street-food vendor. The winner will take home a two-billion-yuan prize! Jiang Chen’s god-tier cooking skills have captured the attention of the entire internet. Super-rich heirs, A-list celebrities, and the world’s richest man can’t stop thinking about Jiang Chen’s food stall. While everyone else is still amazed that Jiang Chen’s food can
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I Transmigrated to the Beast World to Cook Delicious Food 穿到兽世做美食
Xia Feng accidentally transmigrates to a world of beastfolk. This world is terribly backward. She can put up with the primitive clothes, housing, and transportation, but she absolutely cannot tolerate the food. The beastfolk here cook in a simple, brutal fashion: they roast whole chunks of meat until they’re still dripping blood; they throw everything into a pot to boil without even adding salt; and they call ginger, scallions, garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, and chili peppers “the devil’s food”!!!
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She Makes the Entire Interstellar World Drool with Her Livestreams 她靠直播馋哭全星际
[Livestreaming + food + everyone’s favorite + strong female lead] An Xingwan never dreamed she would transmigrate to the interstellar age! She started livestreaming food just to support her family. But somehow, she ended up becoming everyone’s darling across the entire galaxy? Everyone in the galaxy was waiting for her to feed them. An Xingwan had this to say: No one can resist delicious food. And if they can, then give them two meals.
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You're Supposed to Patrol the Sea, So Why Are You Riding a Shark to Run a Food Stall? 让你巡海,你骑鲨鱼去摆美食摊?
[Gourmet] [Street food stall] [Seafood] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Fishing and gathering by the sea] [Protecting the ocean] Wang Yang transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a marine patrol officer. He also unexpectedly binds himself to a seafood Gourmet System. He can earn generous rewards by setting up a stall to sell seafood dishes and completing System tasks. So Wang Yang catches fish during the day and sells seafood from a street stall at night. His delicious seafood immediately co
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Gourmet: Selling Meals at a Highway Rest Stop During Lunar New Year, I Bring Traffic to a Standstill 美食:春节服务区卖饭,高速堵疯
[Food + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] Gu Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Food System. At the start, he draws a location for his business, only to get a tiny highway service area! And the ridiculous task is to sell three hundred boxed meals in a single day? Just as Gu Rui is at his wits’ end, a male streamer shows up at the highway service area by chance. After one meal of dumplings, the streamer hugs him and keeps calling him “Mom”! Travel surges during the Spring
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I Stocked My Fridge and Transmigrated into a Book, Then Married the Fiercest Chief Minister 囤满冰箱穿书,我嫁了最猛首辅
[Marriage Before Love] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Both Leads Are Each Other's Only One, and the Heroine Is the Original Owner of Her Body, While the Hero Has Not Been Reborn] Wen Nuannuan recently discovered that her refrigerator was malfunctioning: any food she ate would automatically replenish itself! Thinking she was about to strike it rich, Wen Nuannuan did everything she could to stuff the refrigerator full. But the very next day, she transmigrated into a book in spectacularly disastrous fa
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Gourmet: From Vinegar-Braised Cabbage to Buddha Jumps Over the Wall! 美食:从醋熘白菜到佛跳墙!
[No female lead romance + laid-back daily life + opening and upgrading a restaurant + lovingly detailed food descriptions and steady growth!] Su Baihang took over a restaurant from his parents. It was located inside a tourist attraction and was on the verge of closing. Luckily, the Strongest Culinary God System activated! Who says the food at tourist attractions can’t be delicious? Homestyle cabbage stir-fried with vinegar: sweet and sour, and even helps you lose weight! Red-braised pork: tender
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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
[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
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From the Start, Maxed-Out Cooking Skills: Earn Money, Grow Strong, and Become a Lord 开局满级厨艺,赚钱发育当领主
[Western Fantasy + Laid-Back + Everyday Life + Silly Comedy + Beast-Eared Girls + Nearly Invincible] The continent of Celsis is home to many races. Besides humans, there are elves, beastfolk, dragons, merfolk, vampires, demons… From the start, Cheng Yu gains max-level cooking skills and can exchange the positive emotions of his customers for all kinds of items. One day, the Skeleton Lord who rules a vast territory goes missing. Someone asks Cheng Yu, “Mr. Cheng Yu, do you know where the Skeleton
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I Serve Manchu-Han Banquets at Kindergarten, Making the Whole City Drool 我在幼儿园做满汉全席,全市馋哭
[System] + [Little Ones] + [Gourmet] + [Villainess] + [Livestream] Shen Wei binds herself to the Super Kindergarten System and returns to the villains' childhoods. The computer genius who will one day destroy the world is currently a stubborn, pitiful little boy being abused at home. The autistic painter who will one day gain worldwide acclaim and then take his own life has yet to be molested by his stepfather. The highly intelligent criminal who will become a sociopath is currently fighting a d
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I Set Up a Street Food Stall, So How Did It Take Over the Internet? 摆个美食小吃摊,咋就火爆全网了
[Gourmet] [Random Pop-Up Stalls] [Lighthearted] [Slice of Life] [Warm and Healing] [Comedy] [No CP] [Perfect with a Meal] Su Can transmigrated to a world suffused with spiritual energy and unexpectedly acquired a Divine Chef System. Each time, he sets up his stall somewhere new, making all kinds of spiritual delicacies. He sells bon bon chicken at the entrance to the Dark Forest secret realm, grills spirit-beast meat beneath the city walls, and serves spicy hot pot inside secret realms. Every di
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After Coming Down the Mountain, I Open a Restaurant to Raise My Daughter 下山后,开个饭馆养女儿
Chen Ning, young master of the Five Gates, discovers that he has a biological daughter who is three years old. For her sake, Chen Ning comes down from the mountain and opens a little restaurant, settling into a quiet, ordinary life. He spends his days cooking, making buns, and searching for his daughter's mother. Life is peaceful and carefree. As the restaurant grows more popular, more and more important figures come to eat there, and many even show up seeking medical treatment! One day, some th
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What? Which Factory Cafeteria Charges Five Thousand for Meals? 见鬼!谁家工厂食堂伙食费五千?
[Slow-paced + everyday life + lighthearted + relaxing + food story set in an electronics factory] Ruan Xiuqing transmigrates to a parallel world and takes over the canteen of an electronics factory that's on the verge of going under due to poor management and lax oversight. After activating the cheat System, she receives [Master-Level Cooking], [Master-Level Knife Skills], and [Skill: Three Heads and Six Arms] from the start. Turning the canteen around is just a matter of time! Braised pork bell
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The Jiang Family Restaurant 姜氏饭馆
Jiang Xiaoyue died suddenly in the modern world, then woke up in an ancient alternate world. Her parents were both dead, and she had a younger brother who was a little slow on the uptake. Fortunately, she had no awful, overbearing relatives. She worked hard and saved money, then opened a restaurant with her brother. She spent her days cooking delicious food and taking it easy, but the restaurant only grew more and more famous. Once she had enough money, all she needed was to find a man she liked
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I Opened a Restaurant in Another World in Genshin Impact, and Ningguang Is Drooling 我在原神开异界餐厅,凝光馋哭了
[Original titles: I Opened an Otherworldly Restaurant in Genshin Impact, and Ningguang Is Drooling; Genshin Impact: How My Cooking Made the Seven Archons Drool] (No character assassination, no angst. Food + combat + one heroine + healing old wounds. You can read this even if you haven't played Genshin Impact. Bring snacks if you're reading late at night~) On the continent of Teyvat, there is an otherworldly restaurant. Here, you can sample delicacies never before seen in Teyvat. Gradually, every
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I Opened a Breakfast Shop with My Daughter and Made Millions of People Drool 带女儿开早餐店,馋哭千万国民
[Food + System + dad life + cozy everyday moments] After divorcing his wife, Ye Cheng becomes a single father. One day, he awakens the Culinary God System and opens a breakfast shop with his three-year-old daughter. With the simplest cooking methods, Ye Cheng creates incredibly delicious food. His daughter's classmates meow with longing, customers come in an endless stream, and more and more people flock to his shop, all left drooling with tears in their eyes…
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Tang Dynasty Supermarket: From the Start, Spicy Latiao Makes Li Shimin Cry 大唐超市:开局辣条辣哭李世民
In the seventh year of the Zhenguan era, there was a shop in Chang'an called the Great Tang Supermarket. It was packed with people, and its doors were always busy with countless nobles and officials coming and going. There was Li Shimin, who burst into tears after eating a spicy snack; Cheng Yaojin, who cracked his head open trying to get a packet of hot pot base; and Princess Changle, who couldn’t sleep all night over a face mask. Every new product brought out a fresh craze, and the shopkeeper
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I Was About to Sell My Farmstay, but the System Insisted I Was an Immortal Chef Sect 刚想卖了农家乐,系统非说仙厨宗
[Feel-good story + Gourmet + Cultivation + Multiple heroines] Just after the System tells him he has transmigrated to a world of cultivation and become the young sect master of the Immortal Chef Sect, Xiang Tian opens his eyes to find himself in the same dilapidated farmhouse inn, buried in debt and stripped bare! System, are you lagging? Did you set the wrong location? [Ding! This farmhouse inn is now bound as the Immortal Chef Sect’s headquarters. The sect master is your father, and the sect m
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Unemployed? The Gourmet System Takes Me Straight to the Top 失业?美食系统直接带我飞
[Gourmet System + Golden Finger + Ordinary Person Quietly Making a Fortune + No Romance] Li Beibei is an utterly ordinary university student, and her transition from graduation straight to unemployment goes perfectly smoothly. After yet another failed job application, Beibei gets on her knees and begs every god in sight to grant her a job. She knocks her head so hard that, with a clang, heaven drops a Gourmet System and a small, upgradable shop into her lap. Before she can even celebrate, she di
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It's Sesame. He Added Sesame 是芝麻,他在加了芝麻
[Cultivation World + Food + Ensemble Cast + No Toxicity + Lighthearted Comedy + No Female Lead + No Harem + No Angst] After transmigrating into a cultivation world as a menial disciple of the Wudao Sect, he awakens the Culinary Dao System. The entire sect goes crazy competing for a taste of his cooking. From menial disciples and outer- and inner-sect disciples to personal disciples, elders, and ancestors, everyone gets involved. Their tricks are endless. No one is more shameless than the next. T
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Donkey LV Donkey, the Magical LV Store 驴LV驴,神奇LV店
A funny apocalypse business novel, with no romance. Xia Wu got scammed by a System and bound to a magical little shop. In an apocalyptic world, she looked at the dilapidated hut before her, where a scene straight out of “The thatch from my roof was swept away in three layers” was unfolding, and declared: “You scammer! I’m reporting you!” System: You’re so mean... I’m new at this too... Later, Xia Wu said, “Good System, don’t you think I’m right?” System: I guess you have a point. Why do I keep f
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The Cherished Koi Wife: My Blind Box System Makes Me Invincible 团宠锦鲤妻:我带着盲盒系统无敌了
[One-on-one romance + lucky koi + cozy, family-centered pampering] The orphan Gu Ran transmigrated into the body of a young farmer's wife. Ever since she arrived, the Su family's once-bare cupboards seemed blessed by a lucky koi: they ate fine white flour, built a new house, and had meat at every meal. Gu Ran herself had a blind-box System, and threw herself into selling blind boxes and growing longevity flowers to stay alive, never looking back. “Today's limited-edition pink lipstick blind-box
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The Mountains Are Full of Treasure: A Bitter Girl’s Rise 满山都是宝,苦瓜少女的崛起
[Farming! Feel-Good Story! Golden Finger! Food! No Romance] [Content warning: No male lead, but there is one-sided affection. A gentle, cozy story!] College student Lin Xiu wakes up as a poor orphan girl in ancient times. There’s even a tiny baby by her bed, crying to be fed! A home stripped bare, doomed from the start! She thinks heaven must be against her, but then it gives her a golden finger! The mountains are wonderful! Picking mushrooms and making delicious food! Finding medicinal herbs
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Selling Egg Fried Rice at a Street Stall, Wielding My Spatula Until the Wok Smokes! 摆摊卖蛋炒饭,抡得锅铲都冒烟!
Food + Games + Challenges + Comfort Food + Heartwarming + Showbiz + No Romance After her contract expires, Shi Yi chooses to leave showbiz. By chance, she is selected by a food game, which requires her to take a little three-wheeled cart out to sell food every day. Level One: Sell ten-yuan boxed meals and throw in a bottle of water! The customers can’t believe what a bargain it is! “Boss Shi, I’ll have an order of braised ribs!” “Oh my gosh, you’ve even got king crab?!” “Boss Shi must be running
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Gourmet: I Open a Restaurant with My Daughter, and the Internet Comes for Me 美食:带女儿开店,我被网曝了
Lin Feng unexpectedly activated and bound himself to the Max-Level Gourmet System, then opened a shop with his daughter to earn a living. From dumplings in a variety of flavors, fragrant and piping hot, to chewy, delicious ramen piled high with beef, then on to fresh, mouthwatering sea cucumber and abalone, and the bold, spicy dishes of the Eight Great Cuisines. Lin Feng’s cooking was so masterful and refined that he raised the flavors of every cuisine to an almost impossible-to-surpass level. Y
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Dotting-Dad: From the Start, I Own a Restaurant 宠妻奶爸:开局一家美食餐厅
P.S. This is a sweet story about a devoted dad, food, and everyday life. No brainless showing off and face-slapping, and no mindless tycoon antics. After getting drunk over his failed startup, Su Feng unexpectedly met a treasure of a woman who looked like a goddess! When they met again, she brought him two adorable twin baby girls, and he gained a magical Super Dad Cooking System. Su Feng: “Make a fortune? Open a chain of restaurants? No need. I just want to provide for Youchu and my two preciou
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Eat, Eat, Eat! Come and Eat! 吃吃吃,都来吃
[Unconventional Food Story + Improving the Nation’s Health + Ensemble Cast + No Romance + System Pocket Dimension. Chasing Dreams, and the Heroine Means Business!] Wu Shuang, who grew up in an orphanage, had just graduated from college when a speeding car sent her flying. The good news: she was in great shape and wasn’t hurt. Even better news: she got a food System and a pocket dimension! Wu Shuang sighed: at last, the thread of her fate had grown thicker!!! From then on, Wu Shuang’s hot pot res
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Another World's Foodie: Starting with a Roadside Food Truck 异世界美食家:从边陲餐车开始
[Food + Another World + Transmigration] A street-food vendor from Earth transmigrates to the borderlands of another world, where countless races live side by side. Penniless and stranded in a small town, he turns discarded "ingredients" into delicious dishes and starts out with a little food cart. Using food to resolve conflicts, foster trade, and forge a legend, he eventually becomes a "Food Lord" no one dares look down on. This blurb doesn't do the story justice, so please head to the novel it
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How Did I, Heir to a Legendary Chef, End Up as a Suffering International Student? 我堂堂神厨后人竟沦为命苦留子?
[Don’t make me cook!! → Cooking is so satisfying] [Gourmet fiction + System + farming pocket dimension + hilarious and heartwarming] Ning Tangtang comes from a family of master chefs, but she has no desire to inherit the family business. Her lifelong dream is to escape the kitchen. What good is a perfect knife technique when milk tea smells so good? No matter how brilliant your cooking is, nothing beats lying flat! Her family thinks she’s “neglecting her proper duties,” so they pack her off abro
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Yi Wan Fried Rice 伊碗炒饭
From ancient times to the present day In ancient times, Yi Wan was heir to a royal chef’s legacy. In the modern era, Yi Wan’er had lost her parents in a car accident just as she finished her college entrance exams. In a single day, Yi Wan transmigrated and became Yi Wan’er. Watch as this heir to an ancient royal culinary tradition works wonders with ingredients in the modern world, cooking up a life rich in every flavor.
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All I Can Do Is Grow Vegetables and Cook, Yet I Became Cultivation World's Top-Tier Star 只会种菜做饭,却成了修真界顶流
[Comedy and comfort + food + farming + a touch of modern cultivation] She inherited a cultivation legacy, with cooking and gardening as her special talents. She became the head of a sect, but being dirt poor was the norm. From the start, all she had was a dilapidated building, a patch of wasteland, and half a mountain forest. One unambitious sect leader and four idle disciples. Sect leader Jiang Tingyun said, “In modern society, spiritual energy has dried up. Cultivating immortality has
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I'm a Culinary Genius, So Why Does Everyone Call Me a Heretic Cultivator? 明明厨艺天才,怎么都叫我邪修?
[Gourmet] [Comedy] [Slice of Life] Lin Xiaoyan is a rookie food blogger who, in an age when food bloggers are locked in a fierce struggle for clicks, has opened up a new path by learning as she cooks. But Lin Xiaoyan's videos never go the way you'd expect. She gets every step wrong, yet somehow the finished dishes turn out brilliantly! “Wait, if you don't know how to caramelize the sugar for red-braised pork, you can just use cola instead? And it still comes out so glossy and red. Are you sure
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This Restaurant Gets Nothing but Bad Reviews, Yet the Owner Makes a Fortune Every Day 这饭馆全是差评,老板却日进斗金
Qin Shuyang is bound to a food-promotion System. As long as he promotes food, he can earn rewards. To boost his fame, Qin Shuyang made a video documenting two snakeheads as they met, got to know each other, and fell in love. The camera work and filters made viewers feel moved and envy their romance. Some even found themselves reminiscing about their own past relationships. But in the very next moment, the camera cut to one of the snakeheads being turned into fish stew with pickled cabbage by Qin
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Top Students from China's Best Universities Go Crazy for Roast Goose Legs 为吃烤鹅腿,清北状元都抢疯了
[Wayward Son Turns Over a New Leaf + Food + System + Goose-Leg Auntie] “Wan Hao, you bastard!” Beside the hospital bed, Wan Hao slapped himself hard across the face. He wished he could beat himself to death. He was a lazy good-for-nothing who spent his days loafing around and living off his parents. Once, after losing money gambling, he had no way to repay his debt, so he stole his mother's bankbook, planning to withdraw some cash to tide himself over. Instead, he accidentally discovered his mot
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Running an Inn in an Infinite Game 在无限游戏里开旅店
[Please note]: This is a cozy retirement story, centered on food and travel. Jiang Jiang is summoned to an inn and becomes its owner. All her guests are NPCs from an infinite game. An immersive innkeeping story. The inn serves gourmet food, and its owner unlocks new areas of the inn and maps of little worlds. The female lead has amnesia early on but regains her memories later. She and the male lead once lived and died together, so they know and trust each other. Their first meeting is revealed l
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I Run a Gourmet Estate in the Apocalypse 我在末世经营美食庄园
[System + food + no female lead + community building + development and making money + lie flat] What’s the most precious thing in the apocalypse? Delicious food, of course, along with a safe and comfortable life. In the apocalypse, Lin Chuan obtains the “Gourmet Manor” System. Killing zombies can yield seeds for vegetables and fruit, or chicks, ducklings, piglets, and fish and shrimp fry. As long as you kill zombies with gusto, upgrading the manor unlocks an inn, a tavern, and a supermarket, as
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Panic! The Twins Are About to Ruin My Snack Stall 慌了!小吃摊要被龙凤胎吃破产了
(Urban life + food + single dad + everyday humor + System + entrepreneurship) One wild night four years ago left recent graduate Ye Ran with two children to raise on his own. At the same time, the Snack Food God System activated. His daughter has an eating disorder? Ye Ran whips up a sizzling jianbing roll, and his daughter says in her sweet little voice that it's the best food she's ever eaten! His son has the appetite of a glutton, a real competitive eater? Ye Ran smiles and waves a hand: tofu
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I Went Back to the Village for a Feast and Became the Head Chef 回村吃席,竟成了掌勺大厨
When his cousin gets married, Chen Chen has just transmigrated and hasn’t even had time to adjust before his third uncle drags him back to the countryside for the wedding feast... The chef in charge of the banquet suddenly suffers a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital. In a desperate bid to save the day, his uncle’s family can only pin their hopes on Chen Chen, who spent three years studying cooking at New Oriental. Chen Chen: “Help! I really can’t cook!” System: “Yes, you can.” And so...
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One Wild Night, and the Goddess Had My Twins 一夜风流,女神为我生下双胞胎
(Cultivation daily life + dad life + super sweet + adorable baby + all-rounder + one female lead) (Also known as: My Tribulation-Transcending Cultivation Was Discovered by My Wife and Daughter) A young master from a certain clan: “Master, someone broke my arms and legs. You have to avenge me!” The master flies into a rage: “Who did this?” A disciple: “He has two little kids sitting on his shoulders.” The master is shocked: “Holy crap, we’d better run! And I’ve never had a bunch of evil disciples
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The Easygoing Girl's Pop-Up Restaurant 佛系小丫的不定时餐厅
At twenty-two, Jian Dan grew tired of office life, quit her job, left the big city, and returned to a beautiful village. There, she began a pastoral life: herding geese, playing with pets, going up into the mountains and down to the sea, working from sunrise to sunset.
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They Stole My Down Payment: I Awaken the Ultimate Comeback System 首付款被夺:觉醒最强逆袭系统
On the day they finally scraped together the down payment for their new home, Lu Chen’s girlfriend chose to become a doormat for her family instead. “My little brother can’t afford a place and can’t get married. What’s wrong with me helping him as his older sister?” Wang Jingyi said with a look of disdain. Lu Chen was furious. “Wang Jingyi! That’s the hard-earned money I saved through all my blood, sweat, and tears. It’s not yours! What gives you the right to give it to your brother?” After a hu
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I’m the Heartless Owner of a Restaurant, Yet My Diners Beg Me Not to Close 我餐厅黑心老板,食客跪求别倒闭
[Restaurant-management food story + business rivalry + late-night food temptations + comedy + everyday life] Chen Xi transmigrated here and awakened the Restaurant Scoundrel System, which gave him more points the more money he made. To his surprise, the System’s ingredient costs were only a tenth of the prices elsewhere!! And the ingredients were so much better than anything at the wholesale market! Chen Xi cried out, “This is basically forcing me to get rich!!” He had no choice but to serve dis
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A Stunning Streamer Sells Vegetables, and the Top-Ranking Movie Star Goes Wild with Donations 神颜主播卖菜,榜一影帝氪红眼了
(Farming + food + medicinal cuisine + livestreaming + an absurdly powerful heroine) Yao Xiaoxiao is a streamer who has recently become a sensation on the Moyu platform. She describes herself as an “ordinary farmer.” And yet, everything from her farm is so irresistible that people can only yearn for it. Lately, though, she has been livestreaming less and less. Rumor has it she might be planning to enter show business, and she’s even been linked to some award-winning actor. Netizens are all critic
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The Rising Foodie 进击的美食达人
[Secret Crush Turns Real + Sweet Romance + Workplace + Everyday Life + Inspirational] Her classmates mocked her as “petty and hopeless,” saying she was only fit to scrape by at a small company. But through her own efforts, she created the hugely popular food channel “Feast on Fire.” One day, she accidentally let her true identity slip, leaving everyone stunned! Fans: “I always thought you were a huge fatty. I never imagined you’d be such a beauty! You love eating so much, yet you’re still that s
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Fired, I Opened a Restaurant 被辞退,开了一家美食店
[System + Everyday Life + Taking Care of a Girl + Sweet Romance + Food] Xu Ziqi refuses to work overtime and gets fired. He plans to return to his hometown, but unexpectedly binds himself to a God of Food System and opens a restaurant there. From the start, he gets the [Divine Steamed Bun Skills], making passersby drool and even attracting the campus belle to work for him for free. He unlocks [Magical Congee], which cures patients who have suffered from anorexia for years. He unlocks [Divine Sna
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Gourmet: I Set Up a Random Stall, and Customers Chase Me for Ten Blocks 美食:随机摆摊,食客追我十条街
[Food] [Lighthearted] [Comedy] [Daily Life] [No Female Lead] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Su Chen discovers that not only has he become a rich second-generation heir, but he has also acquired a street-stall System. He immediately quits his job and decides to take it easy. Starting a business would be disrespectful to his wealthy parents. A proper rich heir only needs to eat, drink, have fun, and experience life. Every week brings a different delicacy. He can complete his tasks simpl
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Urban: I Run the Cafeteria Kitchen at a Junior College and Make the Principal Drool 都市:大专食堂掌勺,馋哭校长
[Gourmet food + System + cozy everyday life + humor + campus] If Lin Xiao had never been born, the world of food would have been shrouded in darkness for all eternity! As the saying goes, the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach. After Lin Xiao started working at the vocational college cafeteria, he won over the stomachs of tens of thousands of students and faculty, and with them, their hearts. “Waaah, Lin Xiao, how am I supposed to live without you? You have to take responsibility fo
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Gourmet: I Sell Lunchboxes Near Campus, and the Students Go Wild 美食:大学城卖盒饭,学生全疯了
Chen Yu's parents are in the hospital after a car accident. To pay the bills, he runs a restaurant by day and drives for Didi at night. But business at the restaurant keeps getting worse, and then his girlfriend breaks up with him, sending him into a deep slump. Just then, a Food System appears out of nowhere. It can improve his cooking, and completing tasks earns him new recipes. At the same time, the university district goes into lockdown, leaving countless students stuck with bland cafeteria
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Urban: The God-Tier Gourmet System 都市:神级美食系统
What? You think eating at my little shop is too expensive? Sorry, our prices are clearly posted, and we have plenty of customers! You’re asking about my goal for the future? Nothing too ambitious. I’ll just make a few hundred billion first, then take Chinese cuisine restaurants worldwide!
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