There Are Hardly Any Good Foodie Stories These Days. I Dare You to Prove Me Wrong 现在能打的美食文几乎没有，不服来辩

1. 251 美 Gourmet: I Never Opened My Stall, Yet Customers Lined Up Late at Night 美食：没出摊，顾客深夜排队 Enchanting Lady ac妩媚娘acUrban310k WordsCompleted After losing his job, Gu Nian unexpectedly gets a food System and takes over his parents’ stall. “Boxed lunches for sale! Just 14 yuan for a steaming-hot meal!” “Delicious and affordable! Come and give them a try!” His very first day at the stall, and business is already booming? The workers can hardly stand the wait! They clock out early just so they can get a bite sooner. Ever since they tried Gu Nian’s boxed lunches, every other place’s food has tasted like cardboard! “Huh? You’re sold ou 513Reads—Score101Shelves
2. 252 寒 The Poor Scholar: Getting Rich from a Street Stall and Shocking the Powerful 寒门秀才：摆摊暴富惊动权贵 So Sleepy, Yet Unable to Sleep好困睡不着Two Male Leads238k WordsCompleted Between Jiangning and Jinling, Chu Lan was originally just a nobody with a younger brother to care for. To make ends meet, he studied food and ran a little shop. By chance, he caught the attention of Fuman Tower and sparked a wave of culinary innovation. He then teamed up with Meng Xuan, a young master from one of Jinling's great families, to make his mark in the bustling metropolis, creating a "two-city legend" with sausages and home-style dishes. On one side was Meng Xuan, a shrewd merchant wh 23Reads—Score—Shelves

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   I personally think all the good ones with two male leads and one female lead are listed here. 134 I haven't watched them yet, but they should be pretty good.

3. 253 经 Running a Restaurant That Makes Everyone Drool 经营一家饭店，馋哭所有人 Woodland Moss木叶青苔Urban258k WordsCompleted Step right up, don’t miss out! A fresh-from-the-oven food story is here~ Zhou Yuan’s vision went black. He transmigrated back from the apocalypse and gained a Food System, setting out on an inspiring journey of running food stalls across different worlds. In the modern world, Zhou Yuan is a ruthless boss who makes countless customers drool with envy. In the Underworld, countless red-clad vengeful ghosts secretly fall for him. In the vast cultivation world, the top powers issue recruitment orders 955Reads8.9Score119Shelves

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   I have to say, your taste is absolutely terrible! The ones I chose are truly excellent! [Laughing emojis]

4. 254 汴 A Young Woman from a Humble Family in Bianjing Makes Her Fortune 汴京小户女致富日常 Today, I'm a Pretty Flower Again今天也是花花呀Ancient Romance770k WordsCompleted Ling Niang thought she was a happy child. In her dreams, there was a fairy auntie who could make milk tea and all kinds of drinks! The fairy auntie also liked watching TV! Ling Niang watched lots of shows along with her in her dreams! And learned all sorts of things! Most importantly, she learned how to make money! She lived in Bianjing. Her father was a live-in son-in-law and a city patrol officer, while her mother was a gentle, unassuming woman. They lived in a shabby old home within Bianjing' 1.8kReads8.8Score227Shelves

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   Food article ≡ω≡

5. 255 靠 Nourishing the Land with Food: My Fruits and Vegetables Have Come to Life 靠美食养地：我的瓜果通灵了 Jingli惊理Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [Urban fantasy + food + slice of life + no romance + random street stalls + perfect mealtime reading] Fresh out of college and already unemployed, Gao Lin unexpectedly binds to a Food System and decisively heads home. Each week, he randomly sets up a stall to sell food, and in return his fruits and vegetables receive a huge upgrade. Tiny tomatoes can be prepared in a hundred different ways. A whole field of rotten tomatoes gets a new lease on life, and even college students who can't live withou 1kReads7.4Score102Shelves

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   Highly recommended!!! The first book mentions state banquets; both are worth a try.

6. 256 空 With Cotton in Hand, I Have Nothing to Worry About 空间在手，一棉无忧 Green Goose青鹅Ancient Romance458k WordsCompleted (Food, street stalls, and opening shops: step by step, she builds a fortune and enjoys endless delicacies.) Modern-day Jiang Xiaoxiao transmigrates into the body of Jiang Yimian, a peasant girl in ancient times. She stares speechlessly at the sky and curses the rotten heavens. What kind of awful family have they dumped her in?! Three dilapidated thatched huts, drafty and leaky, perfect for stargazing, moon-gazing, and sunbathing, with all the essentials included. Thin black porridge, perfect for 68Reads6.4Score—Shelves

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   Delicious food, no bad ingredients, the whole family works together to get rich. Watch how the heroine uses food to set up a stall at the dock, open a shop and restaurant in town, and farm and raise livestock in the village.

7. 257 论 What Can a Chef Do in the Cultivation World? 论一个厨师能在修真界做些什么 Meaning寓意Two Male Leads576k WordsCompleted [Two male leads!!! Song Lanqing (bottom) x Zhao Mohan (top)] Song Lanqing rides the wave of transmigration, suddenly dying and arriving in the cultivation world as a swaddled baby. His master, who loves picking up abandoned children but has no time to raise them, finds him and takes him home. Thus begins his path to immortality. The comedic version: Song Lanqing transmigrates into the body of a baby. Above him are a master who loves picking up abandoned children but has no time to raise them, an 715Reads8.2Score131Shelves
8. 258 娱 Showbiz: I Went Viral Selling Street Food. Is This Really a Pretty Boy? 娱乐：摆地摊翻红，这是小鲜肉？ Flowing Trace流痕Urban590k WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world, Qin Shou becomes a washed-up young star hated across the internet. To get him back in the spotlight, his company arranges for him to join a down-to-earth reality show called Setting Up a Street Stall with the Stars. But the production crew treats Qin Shou as a minor celebrity there to fill a slot and doesn't even give him a script. So, with no script to follow, Qin Shou lets loose completely. "Ma'am, feel this cashmere sweater. It's top-quality material. 4.6kReads8.9Score256Shelves

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   The first book is about customers chasing after their boss for delicious food, even launching a city-wide manhunt, with even a husky joining in. The second book is about starting a culinary career from scratch, acquiring cooking skills through a system, and gradually improving.

9. 259 美 A Food Blogger Pets Fuzzy Creatures in the Interstellar Age 美食博主在星际撸毛茸茸 Little Cat String Bell小猫弦铃Two Male Leads364k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + interstellar + food + sweet, feel-good romance + ensemble cast] Gentle, resilient beauty on the bottom × seemingly cold but actually fluffy Imperial Marshal on the top Yu Jingxing (Xiao Bai) × Lu Shaoqin After somehow ending up in an interstellar world where good food was scarce, Yu Jingxing put his excellent cooking skills to use. But his scumbag father wanted to marry him off for political gain, and his intended was none other than the infamous Imperial Marshal. He boldly ref 2.1kReads8.8Score463Shelves
10. 260 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 40.6kReads7.8Score2.4kShelves
11. 261 主 Streamer, Stop Digging Potatoes! The Marshal Is About to Turn into a Monster 主播别挖土豆了！元帅快变怪物啦 One Bite at a Time, Godzilla一口一个哥斯拉Sports325k WordsCompleted [Interstellar apocalypse] + [farming livestream] + [island survival] + [game] After the interstellar apocalypse, the sky screen livestreams begin. The Survival in Desperate Situations game selects players indiscriminately. Anyone who fails a mission dies. Interstellar residents can place bets while watching the livestream. Winning bets earn them a corresponding share of purification points, while losing bets deduct points. Lin Wan enters the game as Player No. 487… [There's no way she can 1.7kReads8.3Score231Shelves

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    It could be considered a food-themed novel [thinking]. It's super good and super fun, combining farming, infrastructure development, interstellar travel, and live streaming. The core theme is about advocating for environmental protection and the conservation of natural resources. In the early stages, the female protagonist enters a deserted island to farm, survive, and live stream. The system issues tasks, and after reaching a certain point, she can randomly select people from interstellar space to help her complete the tasks. The first person she summons is the male protagonist, who is about to perish in a battle with an interstellar monster when she summons his helper. In the middle stages, she begins developing the island's infrastructure, summoning many people to help her, while also ensuring sufficient habitat for the island's small animals. Later, she ends her live stream and goes to interstellar space with the male protagonist to purify a planet. Note: The romantic subplot between the male and female protagonists is less prominent than their island development, but their interactions are still very interesting.

12. 262 走 With Nowhere Else to Turn, I Open a Restaurant in the Suburbs and Take the Internet by Storm 走投无路郊区开饭馆，火爆全网 I'm Not Peppa Pig's Mom我不是佩奇妈妈Urban353k WordsCompleted [Gourmet Food] [Everyday Life] [Cozy] [Healing] [Perfect with a Meal] Your ex-girlfriend hooked up with your boss? Get out of there fast. You can make a living doing just about anything these days. Why not open a little shop? Rent is too expensive, and you can't afford to open one? Then open somewhere out in the suburbs where rent is cheaper. No customers in the suburbs? Then start with food delivery. He binds the Gourmet Purification System, which filters out all the artificial additives and sh 364Reads5.6Score107Shelves
13. 263 黔 Guizhou Cuisine, Making Him Lose His Cool 黔味厨娘，勾他破防 Yunyun Fuxi云云伏皙Ancient Romance151k WordsOngoing "Craving Her: The Cold-Faced Imperial Guard Wants Cuddles" Transmigrate into a book with a Guizhou cuisine space. Good news: Bai Tingyu, the family's savior, has happened to contract the "food-aversion Gu," and Guizhou cuisine is its natural enemy. Bad news: The space is a "money pit." Every time someone infected with the Gu eats food from her space, half her family's money vanishes. The urgent task: repay the favor, run away, and get rich. But after tasting her spicy, crispy potato cakes, he tu 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Guizhou cuisine is truly unique. One meal from me and half my cash evaporated. I transmigrated into a book with a Guizhou cuisine space, thinking I'd become a powerful minister's lifeline, able to threaten him into saving the original owner's mother. Turns out… he's a money pit! He's ruining my path to riches!

14. 264 随 Random Stallkeeping: The Fake Legitimate Daughter Gets Tormented by a Rotten System 随机摆摊，假嫡女被烂系统坑惨了 The Kitten Doesn't Eat Oranges小猫不吃橙子Ancient Romance526k WordsCompleted (A very different random-stall story, with a funny and witty style and no angst at all.) Yu Zhizhi got horribly tricked by a terrible System. She closed her eyes and transmigrated into the body of a spoiled, domineering young noblewoman in ancient times. To top it off, she was a fake legitimate daughter. Things went badly from the start, but she was lucky enough to get a System. Then she realized it was a terrible System. Each time, the System only gave her a random location for setting up a sta 11.9kReads8.8Score822Shelves

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    My treasure trove of culinary delights~ I highly recommend these three books, they're absolutely divine!!! The first one: the female lead prepares a different meal for her family every day. She even runs a food street with hot pot, fried skewers, barbecue, duck blood soup, cake shops, milk tea shops, and more… Even the three most powerful figures in the palace sneak out to check out the food street. She even brings meals to court for her father and brother; the emperor is mesmerized by the aroma of roast duck and spicy crayfish. The second one is also a pure food novel disguised as a domestic drama. The female lead makes lots of snacks, and everyone fights over her cooking—who needs to fight then? The third one is a story about random, bizarre street vending locations: selling stinky tofu outside a prince's door, snacks outside a coffin shop, boxed lunches at a deserted dock, ice cream on the highest mountaintop of a temple… You really have to check it out, it's incredibly good!

15. 265 救 Help! The Ice-Cold Top Player Won't Stop Chasing This Nobody 救命！小透明玩家被冰山大神狂追 Chang Zi长紫Two Male Leads2.2M WordsCompleted [Everyone's favorite + face-slapping + feel-good + redemption + devoted couple] A beautiful but insecure bottom who doesn't know how beautiful he is × a cold-hearted top to the world, but a jealous husband at home On the planet Jiahong, square faces are considered beautiful, and dark skin is revered. But Xiao Chuyu has skin as white as jade and a face like a peach blossom, making him the ugliest person on all of Jiahong! Then one day, he transmigrates into Blue Star's most popular full-dive game 1.9kReads8.7Score281Shelves
16. 266 假 The Fake Heiress Strikes It Rich with Seafood 假千金靠海鲜暴富了 Big Ginger Heads East大姜东去Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Fishing + Food + Fake Heiress and Real Heiress + Face-Slapping + Sweet Romance] A fake-and-real heiress story had come to life, and Su Junhe was the fake heiress who had usurped another girl’s place. “The real heiress is back, and she still has the nerve to act like a young lady of the Su family!” “Maybe her parents were the ones who switched her and Su Ruan in the first place!” At a banquet, elegantly dressed ladies and young women sneered at her. “You’re just my sister’s stand-in. What give 2.5kReads8.9Score273Shelves

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    The first seven are all food novels that I've finished reading and kept rereading; they're really good. The last one is a personal favorite—I wrote it myself, so please give me your feedback and opinions, hehe.

17. 267 荒 Surviving on a Desolate Planet: Everyone Wants to Be My Pig 荒星求生：大家都想当我的猪 The Migrator洄游者Two Male Leads611k WordsCompleted Content warning: Two male leads, so please skip if that bothers you. Interstellar + food + farming + livestreaming. The early part focuses on food livestreams, while the later part features farming and food. This is a food-focused story, so food appears frequently. Yan Xu never imagined he would transmigrate again. This time, he transmigrated from the cultivation world to the interstellar age. He was accompanied by a little piglet that had originally been treated as an ingredient, as well as a s 1.8kReads8.3Score192Shelves
18. 268 啃 The Deadbeat Couple 啃老小夫妻 Auntie Mantou馒头姨Modern Romance310k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Beloved by All + Transmigration into a Book] Gu Tian, an overworked surgeon, pushes herself to the limit until she drops dead from exhaustion after taking a brief break and transmigrates into a book. Only one thought remains in her mind: she swears she’ll never overwork herself again and wants nothing more than to lie flat in peace. She happily marries He Qijun, the younger brother of the original heroine, who wants nothing more than to live off his parents. Together, they plan 111Reads6.3Score—Shelves
19. 269 京 The Little Restaurant in the Capital 京城小饭馆 Mie Mie Sang咩咩桑Ancient Romance469k WordsCompleted Tender green bamboo shoots, fresh crucian carp sashimi, and Xindu mugwort Glossy green oil, fragrant scallions, refreshing wine, and slender, jade-white hands A little eatery has opened on East Street in the capital, where every inch of land is worth its weight in gold. And the owner is a girl of only fifteen or sixteen? Everyone who hears about it shakes their head and calls it foolishness. Isn't she just throwing her money away? The proprietress, Gu Nianxi, insists she doesn't care about makin 1kReads8.1Score147Shelves

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    It looks so delicious and the content is hilarious; it makes you hungry just watching it.

20. 270 开 Sold from the Start: From Street-Corner Pancake Seller to Regional Tycoon 开局被卖，从卖饼小贩到富甲一方 King Wen Was Right文王说得对Ancient Romance618k WordsCompleted [Food + business + imperial exams + farming + infrastructure + character growth + mutual first love] Food blogger Lu Yan died suddenly of heart disease and transmigrated into a novel about a heroine’s rise to success. The heroine in the book was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, but her stepmother schemed to have her kidnapped and sold to a poor, remote village. An older man bought her and raised her as his own daughter. Before long, the heroine came across the fallen crown prince, 16.1kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
21. 271 海 Survival at Sea: I Build an Island and Feed the Poor With My Cooking 海上求生：我开岛做美食扶贫 Save Grandpa救爷爷Two Male Leads442k WordsCompleted [Two male leads, 1v1, both devoted to each other, apocalypse, lighthearted, raft survival, island building] Lin Hu transmigrates into a novel. The world of the story has recently been struck by radioactive acid rain, turning people into zombies and mutating plants and animals. The main cast is wiped out, and in the end, the world itself collapses. The acid rain floods the land, turning Blue Star into a planet of oceans, and everyone is bound by a survival System to a game of surviving at sea. Li 1kReads7.1Score120Shelves
22. 272 重 Back in the Eighties: My Family's Demolition Compensation Bought Half a Street 重回八零：我家拆迁分了半条街 Cat Who Loves Houttuynia折耳根的猫Modern Romance954k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + Period Setting + Farming + Strong Male and Female Leads + A Feel-Good Rags-to-Riches Story] After spending ten years selling boxed lunches at construction sites, Jiang Tian was reborn in the year she dropped out of school. That year, her younger brother hadn't yet been tricked into a backstreet brick kiln and worked to death, and her mother hadn't yet fallen gravely ill. Picking up the boxed-lunch skills she'd honed over the years, the first thing the “Lunchbox Queen” did after being 8.1kReads9.1Score783Shelves
23. 273 摆 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 Snowy Melody, Light Dance雪韵轻舞Urban234k WordsCompleted [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 26Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Book 1: She was a struggling, unknown model who nearly starved to death at home while trying to lose weight. Unexpectedly, she was bound to a food system, which allowed her to randomly set up stalls and attract fans with local delicacies. Book 2: She was originally a food blogger who was hit by a car and transmigrated. She became Jiang Yue from the impoverished Jiang family! She made her fortune selling wild vegetable and egg pancakes at a stall.

24. 274 穿 Transmigrated to Another World: New Snacks at the Shop! 穿越异界：零食铺子上新啦 AsunitaTwo Male Leads247k WordsCompleted Lin Youning transmigrates and opens a snack shop in a bustling world beyond her own, and it becomes an online sensation. She gets to live the happy life of having money in one hand and a huge fluffy creature to pet with the other. [Bonus Scene] One day, when the whole internet is complaining that the shop owner stocks too few new items and everything sells out before they can get any, a retired major general posts on Starblog: “A Ning, where's my share?” The shop owner replies: “Canceled. You're 294Reads6.9Score101Shelves
25. 275 八 The Darling of the 1980s 八十年代掌中娇 Shu Ning舒甯Modern Romance2.3M WordsCompleted In her previous life, she owned five apartments in the capital and drove a big G whenever she went out. But after opening her eyes, she found herself a country girl in the 1980s. Her father, seeking to get ahead, latched onto a “rich heiress” and wanted to divorce her mother. Fine, let them get divorced! Her younger brother, who worshipped the rich and looked down on the poor, could go live with the mistress. She would start over with her two younger sisters! They collected bat guano, sold quail 5.3kReads8.8Score642Shelves
26. 276 妙 The Clever Little Chef 妙手小厨娘 Tu Tu Tu Tumi涂涂涂荼蘼Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted A chef at a modern five-star hotel accidentally transmigrates to ancient times. Disguised as a man, she is rescued by a little beggar. When they meet again, the little beggar has become an icy prince, yet he is gentle only with her. Before long, rumors spread through the city that the prince has no interest in women. She thinks she now has powerful backing and can throw her weight around and do whatever she likes. Instead, she becomes a tyrant in the eyes of the officials, a bully who relies on 95Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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    If you're not convinced, come and try it out. Let's fight.

27. 277 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 963Reads8.9Score101Shelves

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    What? How do you know these books are all super good?

28. 278 凉 Liangmo Beiyuan 凉末北原 Golden Silkworm Bean金蚕豆豆Two Male Leads532k WordsCompleted Liang Mo is good-looking and well-behaved. After being reborn, he gets a farming space. He spends his days growing crops, selling vegetables, cooking, and chatting. When there's nothing else to do, he reads a book. Life is easy and carefree. One day, a bowl of fish soup brings him together with Gu Beiyuan. Gu Beiyuan is forceful and domineering. He eats the food Liang Mo serves him, then sets his sights on the one who served it. Shamelessly, he squeezes his way into Liang Mo's life and slowly wi 488Reads8.4Score130Shelves
29. 279 厨 God of Cooking: A Bowl of Fried Rice Throws the Heavens into Chaos! 厨神：一碗炒饭，引来诸天大乱！ God Luo Tianzheng神丶罗天征Eastern Fantasy503k WordsCompleted (Food + No Female Lead + Laid-Back Daily Life + Lighthearted Comedy) Jiang Yuxian transmigrates to the Xuantian Continent, where his extraordinary cooking skills win over all the races. His dishes don’t just taste incredible, they also have amazing effects that even spiritual pills and medicines can’t match. Even a meal he throws together on a whim has countless people clamoring for a taste! A sect elder weeps as he says, “Xiao Jiang, your egg fried rice is out of this world! After eating it, I 3.1kReads7.7Score346Shelves
30. 280 开 Raising Kids from the Start, I Conquered the Interstellar World with My Cooking 开局养崽，我凭美食在星际赢麻了 Jiang Jiujiujiu姜九酒酒Two Male Leads310k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads, 1v1 + Interstellar + Food + Opening Up the Land and Farming + Raising a Kid] Chi Shu, heir to the head of an ancient martial arts family, transmigrates one day into an orphan in a rundown district of the interstellar era, with a bonus bargain son thrown in. What a good boy, what a sweet boy. His tummy’s empty and he’s crying out for food. Looking at the bare walls and the scrawny little dumpling, Chi Shu can’t help wanting to point at the heavens and ask if they’re messing with 1.3kReads9.1Score157Shelves
31. 281 最 The Ultimate Healer: I Win Over the Entire Interstellar Community with Food 最强疗愈师：我靠美食拿捏全星际 Bunny Can't Get Enough to Eat兔兔吃不饱呀Modern Romance214k WordsCompleted (Future interstellar setting + food livestreaming + mutated beastmen + 1vN + everyone is pure, sweet romance) A refreshing, sweet romance. The early stages focus on development and move at a slower pace. A heroine who grows over time, gentle yet resilient. Su Wanwan, a hugely popular food blogger in her previous life, transmigrates as a young lady stranded on a frontier planet. Penniless, starving, and accompanied by a five-year-old child. Su Wanwan gazes at the sky in tears: How am I supposed t 66Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 282 桃 Tales of Peach Branch 桃枝记事 Bored Cat Planet无聊猫星Ancient Romance469k WordsCompleted [Everyday Life in Ancient Times] [Career-Focused] [Slow-Burning] [Coming of Age] [Ensemble Cast] Taozhi unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a young maid in a wealthy Song dynasty household. Every day, all she can think about is how to buy her freedom and make a life for herself in Bianjing... 89Reads7.1Score—Shelves
33. 283 我 I’m Just Cooking, Why Are the Demonic Beasts So Nervous? 我就做个菜，妖兽你紧张什么？ Chilled Dinosaur冰镇恐龙Eastern Fantasy336k WordsCompleted Xie Fan, a food lover, accidentally transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and awakens the God of Cooking System! He thought a world of cultivation would be full of fun, but there’s no internet or air conditioning, and worst of all, the food is terrible! With the principle that he can give up cultivating immortality, but he can’t give up eating, Xie Fan decides to fend for himself! The entire sect goes wild! The disciples: “What is this? How can it be so delicious!” “Eating a bowl of f 790Reads6.6Score112Shelves
34. 284 我 Livestreaming Food from the Stars 我在星际直播美食 Fluffy Mustard芥末蓬蓬松Two Male Leads292k WordsCompleted Food blogger Yu Bai transmigrated to the interstellar era. Everything was great there, except that its food culture was far too backward. Faced with reality, Yu Bai picked up a kitchen knife and went back to his old line of work. #A streamer is actually cooking with fruit!# #A dark dish has appeared out of nowhere?!# #A little streamer does this just to get famous?# In the blink of an eye, Yu Bai became one of the top food streamers in the interstellar world. He said, "Honestly, at the beginning 153Reads6.0Score—Shelves
35. 285 四 A Pastry Chef Slacking Off in the Siheyuan 四合院里摸鱼的糕点师傅 Tomato Wonderfully Crispy Corn Sticks番茄妙妙妙脆角Male-Channel Fanfiction1.9M WordsOngoing A food blogger transmigrates to 1948. Does mentoring apprentices bring triple returns? “No Qin family, no Lou family, no hostility.” While everyone else who transmigrates into a siheyuan is busy fighting scoundrels and seizing opportunities, Shen Yan just wants to live like a lazy salted fish: as a pastry chef at a grocery store, he has little work and few worries. After work, he takes the homemade pastries from his pocket dimension, sits by the courtyard gate, cracks sunflower seeds, and watche 74.2kReads7.7Score4.3kShelves

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    This book is another masterpiece of food fiction, following in the footsteps of lifestyle games and pastry chefs. The others are utterly bland and unappealing. I'm currently following the serialization.

36. 286 穿 I Became a Scandal-Ridden Star and Cleared My Name with Food 穿成黑料明星后，我靠美食洗白了 Zhenzhen Is So Courteous蓁蓁有礼Sci-Fi & Apocalypse316k WordsOngoing Two male leads (bottom: aloof; top: marshal) Song Yannian (occasionally a little scheming, with a sweet exterior and a dark side) He Jinzhao (steady and lively) The romance develops slowly (Main job: celebrity, side job: livestreaming, and making food and playing games on the side) ✘ (Main job: eating, side job: gaming, part-time celebrity, and livestreaming on the side) ✔ After transmigrating, Song Yannian found himself in the interstellar era as a celebrity with a huge number of haters. As a s 1.1kReads7.0Score208Shelves
37. 287 逃 I Ran Away from My Wedding to Sell Wontons, and Made the Emperor Drool 逃婚卖馄饨，居然把陛下馋哭了 Three Treasures of Good Fortune吉祥三宝Ancient Romance377k WordsCompleted [Farming + Food + Chef + Transmigrate + Heartwarming, Beloved by All] Food blogger Yun Shu unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter! She can’t get her hands on a happy life, and one headache after another comes her way... They try to force her into marriage? She plays the obedient fool, then really runs away from the wedding, teaching the Duke of Zhenguo a hard lesson. Life is tough? She sets up a food stall, and her competitors can only cry, “There are 80Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I think this one is pretty good!!! It's a pure food-themed novel about cooking, with a heartwarming and delicious storyline. Every chapter features dishes, starting with a simple rice dish made with pork lard, and gradually building a life together. There are no weird relatives! No backstabbing or scheming, just a pure food-themed novel about making delicious food. It's really good!!

38. 288 硬 Tough Mother-in-Law: Earning Foreign Currency With One Hand, Charming the Commander With the Other 硬核婆婆：左手赚外汇右手撩首长 Good Luck, Jiajia One好运珈珈一Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted (Life at Home and Beyond + Gourmet Restaurant + Island Version of a Parents' Love Story + Silver-Haired Fiction + No Pocket Dimension + No System + Family Life + Raising Kids) Chen Xianglan is a country mother-in-law who can turn every inch of barren soil into gold. The skills she's spent her whole life mastering are all “unorthodox”: breeding pigs, helping with childbirth, farming, making sauces, choosing auspicious dates, reading the weather, and cooking food so delicious it could make the imm 16.8kReads8.6Score826Shelves

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    This is a fantastic food novel! 🤔 The food descriptions in this book are absolutely mouthwatering! Pickles, seafood, noodles—the author writes about them so vividly. Combined with the island scenery and heartwarming family scenes, it's pure spiritual nourishment. If you're looking for something to read, quickly search for "My Mother-in-Law's Cooking Skills"—if you don't like it, come back and scold me!

39. 289 异 Gourmet in Another World: I Started by Conquering the Elves' Appetites 异世界美食：从征服精灵胃开始 Deeply Painted Brows画眉深Modern Romance545k WordsCompleted [Healing + Gourmet + Business Management + Everyday Life] When I inherited my grandmother's shabby old shop, my best friend and I had planned to lie flat. Who knew that a newly installed wooden door would become a gateway to another world! The front door opens onto a fantasy continent of swords and magic; the back door leads to a bustling modern city. Elves lose all composure at the aroma of spicy hot pot, while dwarves go wild for barbecue skewers and beer. Could a picky old dragon really be mo 403Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 290 穿 After Transmigrating to the Interstellar Era, I Smell Better Than Vegetables 穿越星际后我比菜香 Bursting Flower Rice Noodles爆花米粉Two Male Leads199k WordsOngoing A cool, expressionless hamster with a rich inner world × a seemingly composed, politically connected big cat Just a bedtime read... Don’t take it too seriously... Ning Zhongzi started learning martial arts at three, competed at ten, and was already somewhat famous by twenty. After finally graduating, he got hit by a brick and transmigrated. He even got bound to a gourmet System. Who knows how to cook? I sure don’t. Gu Huizhou faked a serious injury to evade his mortal enemy. Bored at home, he sc 1Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 291 穿 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World: Farming with One Hand, Cooking with the Other 穿越修仙界左手种田右手美食 Come on, Rabbit!兔子加油Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted Synopsis [Everyday life] [BL] [Cozy] [Farming] [Gourmet] [No golden finger] A tsundere, food-loving younger seme x a gentle, refined uke who loves making money Lu Sizhe transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation. Unfortunately, cultivation still isn’t in the cards for him. After thinking it over, he decides to return to his old trade and become a chef. As his business flourishes, Lu Sizhe’s customers come from across the Nine Provinces. “Boss Lu, could you make me a plate of fried rice?” “ 7.6kReads9.1Score929Shelves
42. 292 穿 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World and Started Selling Barbecue 穿越之我在修真界卖烧烤 Little Qiu from Hoh Xil可可西里小秋Two Male Leads212k WordsOngoing Two male leads + transmigration + System + cozy everyday life On his way home from work, Shangguan Yan was struck by an out-of-control truck and sent flying, then crashed heavily to the ground. “This is going to leave me a bloody mess...” he thought. As he dwelled on it, his eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and then he passed out completely. Helian Huaijin was highly skilled in combat and had a perpetually icy expression. When his sect formed teams for a training trip to the Huangze Mountains, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 293 穿 Transmigrated as a Student Stranded Without Support, I Set Up a Stall to Cultivate and Ascend 穿成断供留子，我靠摆摊修行飞升 Star Tana星星塔娜Fantastical Romance393k WordsCompleted Jiang Xun, the food spirit root's greatest cultivator and founding master of the culinary cultivation path, ascended one day. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in the body of a poor girl who had nearly starved to death. She was studying in the United States when her biological father and stepmother suddenly cut off her support. Just as she was about to be taken out by the death line, Jiang Xun arrived. Grilled cold noodles, savory pancakes, meat-and-egg burgers, little barbecue s 1.6kReads6.8Score209Shelves
44. 294 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Urban765k 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

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    Don't let the old-fashioned title fool you, the writing is actually quite good.

45. 295 先 First, a Bowl of Lychee Cream 先来一碗荔枝膏 Drunk, Plucking Spring醉折春Ancient Romance682k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate + build wealth + imperial exams + everyday life + career-focused] [A slow, steady story. There are bad people now and then, but no cartoonishly awful villains.] Lin Qishu, founder of a modern Chinese tea-drink brand, transmigrated to the Great Liang dynasty after being targeted by online harassment. The moment she opened her eyes, she found herself orphaned and responsible for raising her younger brother. To make matters worse, unscrupulous competitors were watching her, ready to f 2.7kReads8.2Score414Shelves

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    Both of these are newly released food-themed business novels this year, so their ratings aren't particularly high. But I really love them 🥰. Both female leads are neither cold-blooded nor saintly, adhering to the principle of "harmony brings wealth." Moreover, the atmosphere within the fandom for both books is very good, with little controversy. [Top Post] 1. Lighthearted slice-of-life stories, each character is well-developed, making you feel warm inside. The food and various descriptions give me a feeling of the Jiangnan region during the Southern Song Dynasty. 2. The second book mainly focuses on the female lead selling food with detoxifying and various other functions in a post-apocalyptic world, reminiscent of a pseudonym novel [laughing].

46. 296 只 I Only Wanted to Take It Easy and Sell Breakfast, but My Little Shop Is Packed Every Day 只想摆烂卖早餐，小店却天天爆满 Appointed Grand Marshal官拜大司马Urban395k WordsOngoing Overworked office worker Qin Shi binds to the Heartwarming Breakfast System after being hit by both layoffs and pulmonary fibrosis. It operates 24 hours a week and guarantees a monthly income of 8,888 yuan. Everyone else uses their System to get rich, but he just wants to milk it for all it’s worth... His breakfast shop is hidden on a mountaintop and opens at noon. Plain egg fried rice costs 128 yuan, and wild mushroom pepper soup costs 88 yuan... An absurd location, absurd opening hours, and ab 2.4kReads—Score226Shelves

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    These few are alright.

47. 297 直 Livestream: A Mountain Forager Starting with a Fish Hooked in the Mouth 直播：从死鱼正口开始的跑山人 Di Jiutian帝九天Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Zhang Bei had been able to hear the mountain god’s voice since childhood. Having grown up at the foot of Changbai Mountain and made his living foraging in the mountains, he affectionately called the local mountain god Old Bai. But gods live on faith, and as technology advanced, more and more mountain gods became mere legends. To help Old Bai regain his power, Zhang Bei started livestreaming his mountain foraging trips. Ginseng buried deep underground for a thousand years, and lingzhi mushroom 15.1kReads9.5Score1.5kShelves

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    I disagree with what you're saying. As for food-themed novels these days, you can check out my books, which are generally quite good and have a long run, and they've been serialized for a long time.

48. 298 社 The Shy Little Breakfast Shop That Doesn’t Open Until Afternoon 社恐小可怜的早餐店，下午才营业 Second Young Master Cucumber黄瓜二少爷Modern Romance786k WordsCompleted [Food Therapy] [Lighthearted Comedy] [No Romance] [Perfect With a Meal] [Socially Anxious Protagonist] There is a secluded breakfast shop that doesn't open until 2 p.m. The timid, socially anxious Zuo Ci is bound to the Queen Cat Food System. She has no ambition and is only aiming for the guaranteed 8,000. To reduce the number of customers she has to serve, Zuo Ci racks her brains to find loopholes in the System. The shop sign says "Early Die Shop" because she hopes it'll scare customers away. A 9.5kReads8.4Score2kShelves
49. 299 美 Gourmet: I Sell Lunchboxes at a Kindergarten, and Everyone Craves Them 美食：幼儿园卖盒饭，全都馋哭了 A Little Baby Cabbage一颗娃娃菜Urban2.0M WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world, Su Haoze took in the little tyke left behind by his big brother and sister-in-law. To support the family, he opened a small lunch spot outside a kindergarten. Who would’ve thought he’d end up bound to a Gourmet System! Braised lion’s head meatballs, chicken tofu soup, Dongpo pork, sweet-and-sour ribs, cola chicken wings... Dish after delicious dish won over not only the children, but also a whole crowd of parents. “Boss, do you sell meal plans?” “I want 5.4kReads7.3Score411Shelves

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    "Starting with Lion's Head Meatballs" drives the whole family drooling! A transmigrated man opens a small after-school program, and the system's delicious food is irresistible. A cute kid complains but gets beaten up instead: "The ones stealing my food are my own parents!" A hilarious food-grabbing battle that makes the whole internet drool!

50. 300 我 My Dad Went to Another World to Find a Son-in-Law 我爸跑到异世界，找女婿 Loves Colorful Peanut Candy爱吃多彩花生豆Modern Romance521k WordsOngoing [Otherworld + Transmigration + Golden Finger + Comedy + Devoted Couple + The Secret to Longevity] A feel-good power fantasy, a feel-good power fantasy, a feel-good power fantasy! Other people transmigrate alone. My dad brought two of us along! Other people are the heroines of their own stories. My parents made the storage rings recognize them as their owners first. Other people’s husbands are carefree twenty-somethings. My dad went straight out and found me someone over a thousand years old! Oth 2.9kReads8.1Score380Shelves

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    Using ingredients from another world to make delicious food and open a beverage shop, it's so fragrant!

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