Food Novels, Food Novels, I’m Out of Books to Read 美食文,美食文,书荒了
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Wow, I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Got Rich Selling Food 哇,意外穿越到古代靠美食暴富啦
Su Muke is a novelist. One night, she discovers that the bracelet she bought contains a pocket dimension. Her quick-witted little brain immediately jumps to the idea of transmigration, and as it turns out, she guessed right. Su Muke really does transmigrate to ancient times, with a sick man and a little dumpling in tow. With a pocket dimension at her disposal, she has nothing to fear. She does business and cooks delicious food in the ancient world, focused solely on making money. But why does th
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A Hug to Sleep 一抱安眠
Food + mind reading + two strong leads + one-on-one, mutually faithful romance + light and sweet pampering + a touch of political intrigue Su Tiantian, a top modern pastry chef, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a mistreated concubine-born daughter. To protect herself, she is forced to sign a “sleeping companion” contract with Xiao Jue, the cold-faced Prince of Jing and a legendary general who suffers from a strange affliction: he can only sleep after touching certain people. With her
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My Kitchen Connects to Teyvat 我的厨房连通提瓦特
[Finally got a rating~ Just watch it slowly climb~] [Genshin Impact fanfic_two-world transmigration_food_daily life_shopkeeping_light yuri_cozy and angst-free_character illustrations] Huajuan is a petite chef who has just graduated. Burdened with a 300,000 yuan debt borrowed from her father, she opens a place called the Doorway Diner in the suburbs. Her biggest secret is the starry-sky watch left behind by the missing former owner. It lets her step straight from the real world into Mondstadt's
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The Unlucky Fake Legitimate Daughter Gets Ruined by a Terrible System 倒霉蛋假嫡女被烂系统坑惨了
(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
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Transmigrate? Want to Inherit Everything? Get Past Me First 穿越,想吃绝户?先过老娘这一关
A female university student who couldn’t lift or carry a thing Transmigrated one day and became a mother without the labor pains. She hunted in the mountains, farmed the land, opened workshops, set up a school, and took on local bullies. Life couldn’t get much better. Beer, fried chicken, barbecue, milk tea, jelly, and doughnuts. She had the children of ancient times drooling with envy.
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My Husband Is Strange, and She Laughed 夫郎不正常,她笑了
[Reverse Harem, Golden Finger, Food, Household Intrigue, Sweet Romance, Lighthearted] As a woman who transmigrated, Shen Qingruo made herself a tidy little fortune in just one year, then happily and comfortably decided to lie flat. That was until the authorities forced her to marry a husband, or rather, six of them. Shen Qingruo’s happiness vanished. And so began her quest to find husbands. A cold and dignified leader of a martial arts sect; a delicate, frail young master from a wealthy family.
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The Good-for-Nothing Junior Sister Conquers the Cultivation World with Food 废柴小师妹靠美食征服修仙界
(Beloved by All + Gourmet Food + Farming + Fantasy + Relaxed) Lin Shiman, a famous food blogger, accidentally transmigrates into a cultivation world and becomes the good-for-nothing junior sister of Yun Tian Academy. Why is the cultivation world so desolate? Evil creatures run rampant, malevolent plants spread everywhere, and the land is barren. Everyone takes fasting pills. Ugh, why do they taste so awful? Which genius came up with these? They eat spirit fruit raw. Wait, is it illegal to cook i
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Crayon Shin-chan: The God of Cooking Is Here! 蜡笔小新:厨神来了!
In a distant, empty place, a group of Systems gather around a beautiful young girl... Asuka, looking dazed: What does it mean to have a human body? We're all System consciousnesses, so why do you want to make one for me? The Systems sigh in unison: Though we're all consciousnesses, it's only a matter of time before we become Systems. But there's a flaw in your consciousness. We're making you a human body so you can transmigrate to a lower-level world and make up for your emotional deficiencies.
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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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The Qing Court Lady Is a Master Chef, and the Fourteenth Prince Can't Resist Her 清穿格格厨艺高,十四爷不经撩
[An alternate Qing dynasty, a gourmet's guide to winning hearts, sweet romance, an adorable child doted on by one and all] Lin Qianyu is knocked back to the Great Qing by a cup of iced milk tea, where she becomes the consort of the aloof Fourteenth Prince, Yinti. But unlike ordinary women in the prince's household, she has no interest in fighting over a man. Instead, she keeps reminding herself: talk is fine, but don't fall in love. Nothing beats making money. By chance, she gains access to
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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
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
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I’m Not Afraid of a Top-Tier Star Exposing Me, I’m Afraid of Going Hungry 不怕顶流开盒,就怕我一饭难求
[Dual male leads, both reborn + Food System + revenge in the entertainment industry + livestreaming] A broad-shouldered chef and actor as the pursuer vs. a scheming, lovesick male opera performer (not human) In his previous life, Bai Shu agreed to help a top-tier star clear up a rumor, only to be doxxed and hounded online by the star’s fans until he died. Reborn in this life, he bonds with a Food System and storms back into the entertainment industry. To his surprise, Hua Xiao, his business part
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A Happy Family 合家欢
After being reborn, I excel at both studying and making money, and retire at thirty Synopsis: [Farming + Food + Business + Slow-Burn Slice of Life + No System] A farming story with no System The focus is on a gentle, steady pace No ridiculous relatives How did the Lin family's youngest daughter, once a bit slow on the uptake, suddenly become a business tycoon? Lin Wanwan: Who do you think you're looking down on? I can hold my own in the parlor and in the kitchen. I can cook, run a business, grow
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The Ghost Chef: Cooking for Gluttonous Ghosts in Ancient Times 鬼怪厨娘:我在古代给鬼饕做菜
[Pure food story + no golden finger + no palace intrigue + easy reading + no transmigration + fictional setting + flawed characters] Once a beggar and a cook, she used her yin-yang eyes to build a fortune. She can see ghosts and spirits, but she's even better at making delicious food! What she comforts is not only the stomach, but also the heart. Whether gathering pine nuts and drinking from mountain streams or feasting on sumptuous delicacies, it's all part of the warmth of everyday life.
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The Chef Runs the House 厨娘当家
Transmigrate, with no awful relatives and a close-knit village. Go clamming, tend the fields, buy land, open a hotpot restaurant, earn silver, and maybe even win over a cold, aloof husband along the way. “Ow, eating this much chili sure is rough on the backside!” Chili peppers are great, but don’t overdo it. They didn’t have proctologists in ancient times.
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Transmigrated as a Fat Girl, I Built Wealth from the Ground Up 穿越成肥妞,从钻木取火开始致富
Farming + food + pets + no System or pocket dimension It's mainly about growing vegetables and grain, whipping up delicious food, and running a small business. Goudan is an Alaskan Malamute. I couldn't find a picture of one for the cover, so I used a husky instead.
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Immortal Chef, Come Eat! What Are You Afraid Of? 仙厨,请吃饭,你们害怕什么?
[Lighthearted] + [Funny] + [Meme-filled] + [Side Effects] + [Cultivation] + [Immortal Chef] Spirit Dish: Heart Demon Wife Cake Effect: Removes obstacles caused by heart demons Side effect: Kidney deficiency??? Li Pu transmigrates into a Cultivation world and acquires an abstract-style Immortal Chef System, becoming an Immortal Chef, one of the many arts of Cultivation. The only problem is that the side effects of his spirit dishes are a little outrageous Braised chicken legs that boost cultivati
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I'm Just a Cook! I Can't Heal the Sick and Save the Nation! 我就是个厨子啊,不会治病救国!
Zhang Weiguo, a chef at a five-star hotel, gets fired. Before he can catch his breath, he finds himself in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When you have a skill to fall back on, there’s nothing to be afraid of. The little beggar he saved turns out to be the young son who went missing from the Grand Tutor’s family two years ago? So I’m the one who saved both siblings? What, you’re saying the emperor came by yesterday to eat pork trotter rice? Zhang Weiguo promptly faints. Ever since he tried my cook
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The Little Kitchen of Fireworks 烟火小厨
[Character Growth × Slow Burn × Ensemble Cast] Food blogger Xiao Wei wakes up one day and finds herself transmigrated to ancient times. She thinks it’s just a cruel joke of fate, but little does she know that her life’s journey has only just begun. Fu Qingtang was born into privilege. She has much, and is destined to bear even more. Lin Qiaolan is proud and headstrong, but no matter how tough her shell, it cannot shield her from the push and pull of fate. Their fates are different, and they come
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My Street Stall Went Viral, and Now I Own Billions in Real Estate 摆摊爆火,坐拥亿万房产
[Street-food stall + everyday gossip and watching the drama unfold + no romance] “Tell me, are you here for the food today, or to watch the show?” someone called out. “Both, of course!” the customers replied, laughing. Hey, why is this little stall so popular? Boss, what are you selling today? Quick, quick, they’re here! A lazy bear couple, a greedy little dog, a mysterious figure in black... Why get up early in the morning? To fill your mouth with a warm bun. Why is that tough guy in tears?
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I Close My Eyes and Wake Up in the 1980s, Ready to Open a Cafeteria 双眼一闭到八零,食堂开店全都行
[Short and binge-worthy × foodie vibes × nostalgic era setting × plot-packed × the official couple makes occasional appearances] Zhang Jinliu worked tirelessly for half her life to become the Imperial Kitchen’s top chef, despite being a woman. Then, just as she was getting somewhere, she slipped and died. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an eighteen-year-old orphan with nowhere else to go, living under someone else’s roof and enduring insults from her cheating aunt alongside her un
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The Mountain Village Gourmet 山村美食家
Clever, adorable, mischievous pets; peaceful pastoral scenery that soothes both body and mind; and breathtaking mountain landscapes. With peerless culinary skills and wondrous treasures, Chen Guanlan returns to the mountains of southwest China, where an extraordinary life unfolds in spectacular fashion.
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A Garden as Beautiful as Brocade 农园似锦
Transmigrated into the body of a little girl in a fishing village, she finds herself with an honest, blindly filial father, a frail and sickly mother, and young siblings. When her father is gravely injured and near death, the family is cruelly thrown out by her grandparents and eldest uncle. They're left starving and freezing, with nothing but the bare walls around them... No problem! She has a five-colored divine stone that can make plants grow, and the pickling skills she mastered in her prev
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Too Many Customers, and My Spatula Sparks as I Stir-Fry Instant Noodles! 顾客太多,我炒泡面锅铲冒火星!
[System + food + one female lead + street stall + lighthearted + healing + no transmigration or rebirth] After a wonderful chance encounter, Cheng Yan obtains a top-tier food System. “Is fried instant noodles really that good? How does a street vendor end up with people buying it for others and scalpers reselling it?” “What kind of xiaolongbao is this? College students from the neighboring city ride hundreds of miles at night just to get a bite!” “Dry-fried beef ho fun? You know it's the same ki
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I'm Just Selling a Meal. Why Are You Coming to Steal It in an Armored Car? 我卖个饭,你开装甲车来抢?
[Outlandish food settings] [Funny and lighthearted] [Everyday comfort reading] [No female lead] [Early settings: a funeral home, a school, a Middle Eastern battlefield, a food stall at home...] Lin Chong inherits the noodle shop beside his second uncle's funeral home and activates a Gourmet System. The only problem is, this Gourmet System goes haywire from time to time. Setting: a funeral home. His food makes customers so hungry that they sleep on the ground outside the funeral home in the middl
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Late-Night Hot Pot Shop: Serving Only the Ghost Messengers 深夜火锅店:只为鬼差服务
Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It
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Qiao Ge’er’s Farming Life 乔哥儿种田
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
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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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Gourmet: Mr. Ye, Where Do You Think You'll Run This Time? 美食:叶先生,看你这次往哪跑
[Everyday Life] [No Romance] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [A Good Read Over Meals] In his previous life, Ye Fan had an accident and was dragged to the underworld by Ox-Head and Horse-Face. With a wave of his hand, King Yama changed Ye Fan's fate. He is given a brand-new identity as a master chef. Watch him complete his missions while enjoying life. Random dishes, random street-stall locations, one thing always stays the same: everything tastes amazing! Selling buns beside a restroom, lobster outs
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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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The Otherworld Is a Mess. What Can We Do? They're Probably Hungry. Feed Them 异界太乱怎么办?多半饿的,喂饭
[To me, all things are ingredients] Zhang Si transmigrated into a game world and inherited a mine. But production was low, the mine was on the verge of bankruptcy, and dozens of humanoid employees went on strike. With no other options, Zhang Si came up with a plan. Fire all the employees and just give up! Unexpectedly, he got bound to a Food System. At the farewell banquet, all the employees immediately decided that if the boss provided them with food and lodging and took them in, they'd b
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The Gourmet Blind Box Is Wild: The Host Draws, Then the Customers Do 美食盲盒有点疯,宿主抽完顾客抽
[Gourmet + No CP + Perfect With a Meal + Cozy + Street Stalls + Comedy + Career-Focused] After being reborn in a parallel world, Qin Yi arrives in Rainbow City. She binds to a Gourmet blind-box street-stall System. At first, the location, time, and tasks are all randomly drawn. Later, even the food comes in blind boxes. From bowls of late-night rice noodles for 50 yuan to floral cake rolls for 200 yuan. From all kinds of little meatballs to a blind-box lunchbox truck with a thousand different di
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Gourmet: The Cafeteria’s Food Has Teachers and Students Scrambling 美食:食堂卖饭,师生抢疯了
[Gourmet | Everyday Life | Lighthearted | Relaxing | Slow-Paced | Comforting] Jiang Fan got a Gourmet System and rented a small food stall in his school cafeteria. “There aren’t any students eating here. You should close up.” “The food’s terrible. You’ll be out of business in a few days.” “Here comes another idiot, selling food in this place.” Everyone mocked him. Jiang Fan ignored them and checked his mission. He had to sell a hundred shaomai in one day. Could he pull that off? “Wow, these shao
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Stacking Every Buff at My Food Stall Across the Ten Thousand Worlds 万界美食摊buff叠满
What’s it like to become unemployed and immediately get a System? In just one month, Yue Yue goes from jobless to a millionaire worth tens of millions. Her family goes from poverty to living in a villa with all their needs taken care of, becoming a newly risen elite family in everyone’s eyes. The one thing she never expected was to draw a chance to set up a stall in other worlds. And later on, the food even comes with buffs!!! Selling stinky tofu that boosts cultivation in a world of immortal cu
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This Food Streamer's Niche Is Way Too Weird 这美食主播的赛道过于邪门
[Gourmet] [Video Blogger] [Livestream Variety Show] [No Female Lead] [Ensemble Cast] [Unhinged Protagonist] [Goofy Daily Life] [No Romance] [No Romance] [No Romance] We’re saying it three times because it’s important. Beautiful women and delicious food are the most tempting things in the world. Bai Yu is a man who gives off a strong sense that he’s up to something. That only gets more complicated after he awakens the Borderline Gourmet Blogger System. Among gourmet bloggers, he has the best body
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After Transmigrating, I Conquered the World with Food 穿越后我靠美食征服世界
An alternate-universe story set in the Beast Era, which evolved from ancient Earth: food + System + farming + business management + secret identity + feel-good power fantasy A slow-paced slice-of-life story about playing the fool while hiding one's strength. If it's not your thing, please don't flame it; just move along. Foodie Fei Ying transmigrates into a book with a food System~ To avoid the fate of becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character, she strives to change her destiny!! She
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After I Transmigrate: From Fool to the Greatest Under Heaven 穿越后:从傻子开始到天下第一人
(Transmigration + special forces + live-in son-in-law + empress + poet god + gourmet food + no supernatural powers + no System + no harem) Xiao Yin was a doctoral student who graduated from a military academy. He never expected to transmigrate into the body of a fool so poor he couldn't even afford a meal. Using modern knowledge, he hunted rabbits, caught wild boars, made roujiamo, and opened a hot pot restaurant… Soon, he became the richest man in the world. He formed special forces, establishe
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The Whole World Is My Foodie Fanbase 全世界都是我的美食粉丝
After criticizing a novel, she somehow transmigrated into a book as the villainess! Bound to a Super Food Streamer System despite being a certified kitchen disaster, Si Guanrou has a rather inflated opinion of her cooking... A daddy's little girl, a secret straight-A student, and a master of comebacks, she always deals with anyone eager to slap her in the face on the spot. If she's going to hit you, she's going to hit you. Does she have to wait for a special occasion? With cooking skills that co
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I Made My Fortune in the Interstellar World Through Food 我靠美食在星际发家致富
Lu Miaomiao transmigrates from the apocalypse to the interstellar age, and from the start she’s saddled with a massive medical debt. Making money is her top priority! Resources are plentiful here, but good food is scarce. Lu Miaomiao is a foodie, so she decides to become self-sufficient and sets out to become a food streamer! After watching Lu Miaomiao’s streams, the people of the interstellar age are practically drooling. One after another, they exclaim, “We want to eat that too!”
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I Transmigrated to Ancient Times, Met a Scumbag, and Opened a School with My Cooking 穿越古代遇渣男,我靠美食开学院
[Transmigration + Ancient Times + Food + Pocket Dimension + System] A lighthearted summer treat, perfect for enjoying with a meal, featuring detailed descriptions of all kinds of delicious food. Su Ning, a young woman from the interstellar era, transmigrates one day and becomes the daughter of a deceased scholar in ancient times. Her scholar father had raised a young husband for her, but who knew he would turn out to be a scumbag? He used her money to pass the imperial exams and become the top c
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