Looking for Food-Themed Stories with Great Writing and No Stupid Characters! 求美食文，美食文，文笔好的，不白痴的！

1. 151 I An Introvert Runs a Stall Everywhere, and the Customers Lose It I人摆摊到处跑，顾客崩溃了 Meowblade喵刃Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted (Completed) [Food + healing + System + no romance] The ups and downs between food-loving customers and a heroine who loves to run away from her delicious food. (Not romance, just foodies’ pure love of good food.) The finest cuisine calls for the best ingredients and outstanding technique, brought together with customers’ ravenous stares, mouths watering, and an overwhelming craving to create a truly exquisite feast. Zhou Lin is an independent woman with exceptionally strong boundaries. Thanks to 4kReads8.2Score340Shelves
2. 152 美 Gourmet: A Street Stall Owner Tours the Nation 美食：地摊老板，全国巡摆 Banana Stir-Fried with Strawberries香蕉炒草莓Urban233k WordsCompleted Zhang Feng is a model young man who transmigrates to Blue Star in a parallel world and binds himself to a Gourmet System. From then on, a man as legendary as a myth begins appearing all across the country. Cumin lamb skewers, late-night egg fried rice, fragrant braised beef, crispy fried chicken frames... From big cities to small towns, a legend begins to spread: On some street, you may come across a man in a chef’s uniform. If you meet him, you’ll get to taste the most delicious food in the wor 70Reads5.6Score—Shelves
3. 153 位 Plane Trading: One Steamed Bun for a Gold Necklace 位面交易：一个馒头换一条金项链 Love Being Lazy爱懒懒Modern Romance271k WordsCompleted [Food + System + interdimensional trade + no romance + career-focused heroine + later turns everything over to the country] After Lin Jingchu loses both her boyfriend and her job, she learns that her uncle has mortgaged the little courtyard her grandmother left her. If she doesn’t repay the debt soon, it will be repossessed. She returns to the courtyard to recover and unexpectedly binds herself to a food-and-wealth System. Its beginner function is amazing: first up is the ability to enlarge anyt 35Reads6.8Score—Shelves
4. 154 我 My Rice Bowl Connects Past and Present, and I Spoil the Little General in Exile 我家饭盆通古今，娇养流放小将军 Zhi Fan稚繁Ancient Romance212k WordsOngoing [Travel Between Past and Present] [Face-Slapping Between the Fake and Real Heiress] [Stockpiling] [Infrastructure Building] [Exile] [Slow Paced] Kindhearted, beautiful fake heiress x pitiful young general in exile Just after Ye Mumu graduates, she's thrown out of her home. When the real heiress shows up, she goes from a pampered young lady to a penniless ugly duckling in an instant. Having lost her inheritance, she scrapes by in a shabby rented room. But her ancestral rice bowl has started actin —Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 155 农 The Farmhouse Cook: Her Built-In Shop Amazes the Entire Dynasty 农家厨娘：自带商店惊艳全朝 Tea September茶九月Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Complete] [Also known as: The Farmhouse Chef: Her Shop Amazes the Entire Dynasty] (Historical romance + sweet romance + food + fleeing famine + adorable child + satisfying read + building a fortune) (A warm family with no troublesome relatives, so enjoy without worry) Jiang Qingqing transmigrates from the 21st century to an impoverished ancient era, where life is incredibly hard. Luckily, she has an adorable little one, a loving family who dote on her, and an all-purpose magical shop! With her 1.1kReads8.9Score105Shelves

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   This is a heartwarming food-themed novel. Jiang Qingqing transmigrates from the 21st century to a poor ancient world, where life is tough. Fortunately, she has a very sensible little baby, a loving and doting family, and a magical shop. With her superb culinary skills, she raises her baby, earns money to open her shop, and runs a food street, making a fortune selling spicy crayfish.

6. 156 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 7.7kReads9.1Score769Shelves

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   The last book, despite its seemingly unappealing title, is truly excellent; the writing is exceptional. I'm currently following the first three.

7. 157 美 Gourmet: Taking Over the Bear’s Prison Canteen 美食：从承包毛熊监狱食堂开始 Quill Pen羽毛笔Urban1.3M WordsOngoing After a disastrous blind date, Tang Lei flees overnight, only to bind himself to a Chef God System that randomly assigns him a place to run: the cafeteria of a prison in a nation of tough fighters! Pork stewed with potatoes, red-braised pork, stuffed eight-treasure duck, sweet-and-sour ribs… Homestyle dishes! State-banquet cuisine! Every delicacy imaginable! Bring a taste of the culinary kingdom to Siberia, a barren wasteland of food! The vicious, unruly inmates: “Boss, do you need anyone to was 2.8kReads9.2Score309Shelves
8. 158 我 My Ancestor Is a Pot 我的祖宗是口锅 Sesame Rice Cake芝麻年糕Modern Romance861k WordsCompleted Xu Jingqing accidentally awakened the spirit of an ancestor who had been sleeping inside the family heirloom, an iron wok. Under the old ancestor's “loving” tutelage, Xu Jingqing honed extraordinary cooking skills and opened a humble little eatery. At first, people were skeptical of a restaurant run by a college girl who had never lifted a finger around the house. Then came the verdict: “It's so good!” “Mom, I want to eat big sister's cooking every day.” “What smells so good in the middle of the 414Reads8.7Score106Shelves
9. 159 我 I Set Up a Food Stall in the Apocalypse to Earn Crystals 我在末世摆摊卖美食赚晶核 I Don't Like Fish Roe不爱吃鱼子Sci-Fi & Apocalypse265k WordsOngoing Male lead + no romance Lin Ran, who takes on missions in randomly selected worlds, suddenly finds himself in an apocalypse crawling with zombies and monsters. He nearly freezes to death right from the start. Just as he thinks things couldn’t possibly get any worse, he suddenly binds himself to the Spiritual Qi Cuisine System. Selling sweet sesame pastries in random spots, beef buns at the base gates, and opening a restaurant right in the middle of a zombie horde: he does whatever wild thing co 75Reads7.0Score—Shelves
10. 160 我 I Win Over Fluffy Cuties Across the Stars With My Cooking 我靠美食在星际撸毛茸茸们 Mud Sauce泥酱Two Male Leads206k WordsCompleted After a plane crash, Jiang Tang opens his eyes to find himself in the interstellar age, as the “real young master” whom the Jiang family has just retrieved from a trash planet. Seeing the Jiang family's hypocrisy and selfishness, and the fake young master who had usurped his place, Jiang Tang promptly buys a standing-room ticket in the middle of the night and makes his escape. So long, suckers! Starting with a barren planet? Our Flower-Planting Nation isn't afraid! He'll win over the taste buds 671Reads8.4Score102Shelves
11. 161 美 Starting with Food, I Transmigrated into an Old-School Novel to Become the Richest 美食起家，穿进古早文里做首富 Chi Tangyue迟棠月Ancient Romance208k WordsOngoing [Food + System + Shop Upgrades + Scenery + A Slow, Steady Journey] After reading a novel, Xu Yuanxin was sent into the story by a System. The System gave her an upgradeable shop. Completing missions unlocks an endless supply of ingredients, and if she sells delicious food to a million people, she’ll even receive a bonus of ten million in her real-world account! Xu Yuanxin: I’m in!!! She sells breakfast in Peach Blossom City, pastries in Jiangnan, barbecue on the grasslands, snacks to martial her 1Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 162 我 My Takeout Shop Somehow Became a Hit Across the Internet 我的外卖店竟然火爆全网 Candy Pile and Ice Cream糖堆儿和冰淇淋Modern Romance415k WordsCompleted [Food + Golden Finger + Career + System] [System Introduction] After transmigrating back, Lin Xiazhi smacks her sleazy boss and quits to open a restaurant, then unexpectedly binds herself to a food System. When a rookie System meets a true food expert, life after the binding is nothing but chaos. The System exclaims, “I really am a lucky charm! No need to worry about tasks, I’ll be the boss in no time.” Lin Xiazhi is crestfallen. “I’m the unlucky one. I’m staring at heaps of gold and silver, but 1.7kReads9.0Score154Shelves

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    A modern food-themed novel with a system, involving opening a shop, and a very engaging storyline.

13. 163 宗 The Sect's Culinary God: I Conquer the Immortal Cultivation World with Food 宗门厨神，我靠美食征服修仙界 A Sweet Chili Pepper一颗甜辣椒Eastern Fantasy231k WordsCompleted [Food + No Female Lead + Farming + Ensemble Cast] Ye Bai transmigrates to a fantasy cultivation world, with nothing but a body incapable of cultivation and an inn from the start. Fortunately, he awakens a Culinary Cultivation System. Complete its quests, and he can earn recipes, spiritual roots, cultivation techniques, immortal artifacts, a pocket dimension... And so, every meal Ye Bai cooks becomes an unparalleled delicacy. The entire cultivation world goes crazy trying to get a taste of his co 248Reads6.1Score—Shelves
14. 164 灵 Spiritual Qi Revival: Starting My Cultivation Journey with Farming 灵气复苏：修仙从种地开始 Celery Pork Dumplings芹菜猪肉饺Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Spiritual qi revival+Interstellar+Cultivation+Ensemble cast elements+Secret identity+Fake and real heiresses+Farming] Jiang He opens her eyes to find that she's gone from being an overworked employee earning 3,500 yuan a month to a useless cultivator with five spiritual roots in a cyberpunk cultivation world. As the real heiress, she's humiliated at every turn. Resentful wage slave Jiang He makes her position clear: anyone who wants to indulge them can go ahead, but she won't. After beating up 1.9kReads8.8Score236Shelves
15. 165 只 As Long as the System Pays, I'll Work 996 to the End 只要系统出得起，996也干到底 The Last Gleam of a Dream梦尾流光Modern Romance524k WordsCompleted [Food-focused (not purely a food story) + a touch of interstellar flavor + no romance + extremely laid-back and ambition-free] Lu Wei graduated from a mediocre university and found a nine-to-nine, six-days-a-week job. After working overtime for far too long, she eventually died suddenly from exhaustion. When she opened her eyes again, she had arrived in a strange world and become bound to a peculiar thing called the Food System. “Starting today, Host must go to the area beside Hope Elementary Sc 1.2kReads8.7Score102Shelves

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    ① The female protagonist travels to other worlds to obtain ingredients, then returns to the modern world to sell them. The first world is a food-themed world, with giant radishes, mushrooms, a desert with brown sugar, and rivers paved with chocolate sauce—all sorts of interesting things. ② The female protagonist is bound to a system and sets up a food stall, traveling to various places. She only sells one type of snack in each place for a week, causing those who have tried it to search everywhere for it, haha! Highly recommended!

16. 166 七 The 1970s: I Marry a Reserved Army Officer with My Pocket Dimension 七零：带着空间嫁高冷军官 Give Me a Sheet of Paper and Ink许我一纸笔墨Modern Romance506k WordsCompleted A modern rich, beautiful heiress versus a cold, abstinent military officer from the 1970s Yun Qing, a modern rich heiress, opens her family's ancestral space bracelet after copying the heroine of a novel she has been reading. Thinking the apocalypse is coming, she spends all her money stocking the bracelet with supplies. But the apocalypse never comes. Instead, after a plane crash, she transmigrates to an era when people struggle to get enough to eat or stay warm, and even buying things requires 2.3kReads7.5Score152Shelves

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    This is the book I'm talking about! There are no awful characters throughout. It's a military marriage set in the past, the female lead transmigrates into the book, and she has a spatial ability. The male lead is introduced by the female lead's brother, and it's love at first sight for both of them. The female lead is an amazing cook. It's a clean romance + military marriage + sweet pampering + triplets + spatial ability + transmigration – super good and super sweet!

17. 167 跟 Live with Me, and You'll Never Go Hungry 跟我住，管饱 Baby Wants Wealth宝宝求财Two Male Leads192k WordsCompleted A super-sweet, slice-of-life food story. [Two men + both have no past relationships + cozy, sweet romance + mutual devotion + fast-paced + no angst + not a story about the rich] Qu Xiang is a private chef who cooks in people's homes. Before meeting his love, all he wanted was a simple life. As it turns out, fate takes pity on him and gives him a wonderfully dependable, caring partner who pulls him along as they build a better life together, one steady step at a time. Cheng Yijian is an ordinary 7.3kReads9.1Score1kShelves

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    A realistic, down-to-earth story filled with delicious food and sweet romance, about ordinary people without any special abilities seriously falling in love. A diary of a young chef and a mover's upward journey of growth. Three meals a day, four seasons, a steady and enduring love. [Already added to my wishlist]

18. 168 睁 I Wake Up to Bare Walls: The Pretty Country Girl Gets Rich with Her Cooking 睁眼家徒四壁：俏农女靠美食暴富 Mu Heshu慕禾酥Ancient Romance184k WordsOngoing (Farming + feel-good power fantasy + food + sweet romance + two strong leads + making a fortune) Lu Qiao has transmigrated from the modern world, only to wake up in a house stripped bare. The north wind howls, drafts whistle through the walls, and the quilt is paper-thin! Lu Qiao rolls up her sleeves and gets straight to work. She makes all kinds of snacks and pastries, and is especially skilled at the eight great cuisines. Before long, the Lu family's thatched hut has become a brick-and-til 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The female protagonist travels from the 21st century to ancient times, where she is penniless. Fortunately, she has an all-powerful magical shop and a loving family. With her superb culinary skills, she earns money, opens a food street, runs a restaurant, an embroidery workshop, and even makes spicy crayfish, bringing all kinds of modern cuisine to the world.

19. 169 不 Why Not Add Another Bowl of Rice? 不如添碗饭 Lu Guagua鹿瓜瓜Ancient Romance238k WordsOngoing [Farming + Food + Healing + Growth + Cozy + Lighthearted Comedy] [Cheerful, lively little cook × Arrogant, childish young lord Pei Qun of the marquis’s household: a bickering couple] A young woman who sells wontons in Jingzhou City finds an arrogant, childish man at her doorstep. She takes him home and stuffs him full of food, but the next day he sneaks away. The young woman saves up to open a restaurant and takes a job as a cook in the marquis’s household. Then one day, she discovers that the a 132Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    The female lead is an excellent cook, the plot is simple but without any cheesy or melodramatic elements, it's very heartwarming and has a gentle, enduring feel.

20. 170 首 Chief Minister, Your Wife Has Opened a Snack Stall Outside the Academy 首辅，你老婆在书院门口开小吃摊 I Just Want to Get Off Work我只想下班Ancient Romance408k WordsCompleted (Also known as: I Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Make Money from Students) Xu Nuo, a mukbang blogger, transmigrated into a book and became the wife of the male lead, Shangguan Ziqian. A poor scholar who rose to greatness, Shangguan Ziqian passed the imperial exams with top honors at all three levels. He became a scholar at the Hanlin Academy, destined to become a Hanlin academician. Since she was here, she might as well make the best of it. First, she’d latch onto this future big shot and lea 2.9kReads8.5Score267Shelves

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    🍄Perfectly matches🌈 ①The female protagonist travels back to ancient times and starts to improve her family's meals⭐️She cooks for her father and brother every day and brings the food to court🌱As a result, even the emperor is attracted by the aroma.

21. 171 嫁 Marry a Powerful Official and Become a Widow? The Transmigrate-Into-a-Book Side Character Won’t Stand for It! 嫁权臣守活寡？穿书女配不干了！ Lucky Blossoms福朵朵Ancient Romance788k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + everyone’s favorite + devoted couple + putting scumbags in their place + no mistresses or misunderstandings + everyone speaks their mind] Jiang Yuzhu transmigrated into a book, becoming the ill-fated first wife of Xie Zhao, the male lead of A Great Chancellor. From the start, she was handed a disaster: the original Jiang Yuzhu was on her way to have an affair, set up by her own eldest brother. According to the original story, after sleeping with a scumbag, Jiang Yuzhu 7.8kReads8.9Score928Shelves
22. 172 开 From the Start, I Changed My Fate by Selling Braised Meat 开局分家，我靠卖卤肉改命 He Qi何绮Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Farming + Widow's sister-in-law + Feel-good story + Strong heroine + Building wealth + Putting scumbags in their place, no romance. The male lead is her brother-in-law, but their relationship is familial. The male characters have very little page time, and the heroine's story takes center stage.] Li Yu transmigrated from being a modern handicrafts and food blogger into the life of a poor woman in ancient times whose husband died on their very first day of marriage. To survive, Li Yu split the f 3.3kReads8.5Score290Shelves

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    This food documentary is great. There's no male lead; the female lead builds her business by supporting her deceased husband's younger brother and sister, and she's incredibly intelligent.

23. 173 边 The Great Female Chef of the Frontier 边关女大厨 A Handful of Greenery一把绿植Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The Tartars from beyond Shantong Pass came three times. The first time, Yuan Wuwei’s family’s lavish restaurant became a wonton shop. The second time, the wonton shop became a wonton stall. The third time, Yuan Wuwei lost her father, Chef Yuan. When it rains, it pours. Her stepmother, Bai Qiqi, tried to elope one night, only to be swindled, and ended up bringing home a chubby little bundle of joy. The little one had quite a background: he was the young master of the Cheng family, whose estate ha 2.7kReads9.0Score374Shelves

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    It's so good it makes you hungry; it's classically elegant and the writing is superb.

24. 174 神 God-Tier Food Truck: Foodies Around the World Beg Me to Set Up Shop 神级餐车：全球吃货求我出摊 Mr. South Wall Crashes Into the South Wall南墙先生撞南墙Modern Romance564k WordsCompleted System, Food, Street Stalls, Slow Pace, No Romance, Widowed The book’s new-release rating may be low at first, but 95% of reviews are five stars. Enjoy with confidence! Ye Wanting unexpectedly gets a magical mobile food cart System. Flatbread + pork floss + seaweed = seaweed-and-pork-floss turkey noodles Crab + flour = crab roe soup dumplings Lamb offal + garlic + pepper = peppery lamb offal soup Quality ingredients + premium recipes + perfect cooking = food adored by thousands Three-wheeled car 671Reads8.8Score101Shelves

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    The first book tells the story of a woman who, after being laid off, her husband's death in a car accident, and discovering she's pregnant, initially plans to set up a food stall. However, she acquires a top-tier food truck system and gradually builds her business. Kind yet with sharp edges, it's a super good read. The second book features a woman who, in a single day, experiences layoffs, being cheated on, and being evicted by her landlord. Just when she's on the verge of despair, she's bound to a food system. Completing tasks from the system yields rich rewards; she doesn't earn money through food itself, as the system's rewards are incredibly generous, attracting customers. Getting to eat the food is entirely a matter of fate. The third book features a woman who transmigrated. In her previous life, she was a lazy, rent-collecting woman. After transmigrating, she's forced to bind to a food system, randomly setting up a food stall. It's a super hilarious food novel.

25. 175 被 After My Jerk Boyfriend Dumped Me, I Got Rich Through Cooking 被渣男分手后，我靠美食暴富了 September Starry Sky九月星空Modern Romance405k WordsCompleted [Food + System + Everyday Life + Male Lead] Su Manning was laid off, dumped, and told her landlord was reclaiming the apartment all on the same day. Just like that, she became single and unemployed, with nowhere to live and the streets looming over her. She was at a loss for tears. Why did heaven have to be so cruel? But the very next moment, she was bound to a Food System. As long as she completed the tasks it issued, she would receive generous rewards. [System Task: Host, please cook yourself 1.5kReads9.0Score157Shelves
26. 176 美 Gourmet: The Dining Spot Changes at Random, and Diners Go Wild Looking for It 美食：随机地点，食客们找疯了 Three-Dot Waterweed叁点水草Modern Romance414k WordsCompleted [Gourmet]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Funny]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Heartwarming] In her previous life, Su Qing owned shops and was content to lie flat. Then she woke up in a parallel world and found herself bound to a [Random Street Food System]. “I just want to lie flat!” Su Qing wailed. In the CBD late at night, the aroma was irresistible! Zhang Wei, an overworked office worker, exclaimed, “Holy crap! This oden broth is so delicious my tongue is practically melting! Boss, give me three more!” Designer Li L 364Reads6.6Score—Shelves
27. 177 食 The Wildflower Courtyard 食野小院 Seventeen and Thirty-One十七和三一Two Male Leads172k WordsOngoing Two male leads + opening a shop + farming + the rhythms of daily meals and the changing seasons + cozy. Lin Yuan owns the Wildwood Courtyard. Chen Shusheng visited the place by chance and couldn't stop thinking about it. In the end, he quit his job and returned. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 178 穿 After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Raised the Sickly Villain 穿书后，我养大了病娇反派 Yin Su殷粟Ancient Romance314k WordsOngoing [Farming and famine-escape tropes + raising a child + healing and redemption + food + golden finger] After transmigrating into a book, Ye Zhiwei opened her eyes to find herself covered in injuries and lying in a dilapidated, damp earthen house. Before she could figure out what was going on, a voice sounded in her mind. “Ding! System binding complete. Main mission issued: Stop the villain Lu Ci from turning evil!” Her carefree life vanished like a fleeting cloud. Looking at the bare, shabby house 7Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    These are all books I've been following or have finished reading; they're definitely excellent.

29. 179 小 The Little Lucky Carp Comes to a Famine Year and Feeds Her Whole Family in Style 小锦鲤穿到灾年，带全家吃香喝辣 Lamb Who Loves Spicy Food爱吃辣的小羊羔Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Adorable Kids + Food + Getting Rich + Imperial Examinations + Infrastructure + Ensemble Cast] The Jiang family has given birth to a little calamity who is both foolish and mute! After she was born, her father failed every imperial examination, her eldest brother was criticized by his tutor every day, her second brother was called an idiot by the villagers every day, her third brother’s health grew worse and worse, and the family grew poorer year after year. Anyone in the village who went near h 2.5kReads8.4Score377Shelves
30. 180 我 I Opened a Restaurant in Ancient Times 我在古代开饭馆 Smiling Star微笑星Ancient Romance426k WordsCompleted Ye Xiaowei inexplicably transmigrates into the body of a farm girl in ancient times. Her family is struggling, so she uses her own hands to build a fortune, one step at a time. She starts out selling scallion pancakes at a street stall, then opens a little diner, and eventually builds a chain of grand restaurants. Her life gets better and better. What? The little beggar she took in has a truly impressive background? And the handsome young man she found, who had lost his memory, leaves without a 1.4kReads8.2Score117Shelves

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    They are all food-themed stories, featuring a wide variety of dishes, from street vendors to open shops, including twice-cooked pork, boiled fish, spicy hot pot, barbecue, and more. There are also couples in the stories.

31. 181 绝 The Peerless Chef: Darling, Please Come into My Bowl 绝世妙厨，相公请到碗里来 Spirit Fire灵火Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Some man: “Miss, do you believe in love at first sight?” “Sorry, I’m already a married woman.” Ever since the brilliant and mighty Rong Xuan fell for the Ninth Miss of the Jiang family, his intelligence has been in serious decline. In her previous life, Jiang Miao was married off to Leng Bufan, the iron-faced general no one else wanted. She never knew the taste of love, and died young with a thousand arrows through her heart. Another lovesick man became a regular visitor to her grave. Reborn a 37Reads8.6Score—Shelves
32. 182 农 The Little Lucky Star of the Farming Family: We Turned Our Fortune Around with Food 农门小福星：全家靠做美食逆袭了 Snowflakes Flying雪花飞飞Ancient Romance534k WordsCompleted Su Xiaojin, a modern-day foodie, transmigrates into the body of a poor peasant girl in ancient times and becomes the Su family’s beloved lucky charm. What? The family sold their land, her eldest brother’s engagement was called off, and her second brother even sold himself? The Su family has become the laughingstock of the village. No problem! I’ll make delicious food to earn silver, buy land and fields, build a house, and open a shop. The Su family will rise again and have the last laugh. And al 2.2kReads8.3Score219Shelves
33. 183 边 Farming and Going Crazy, I Make My Husband Drink Poison 边种田边发疯，我喂夫君喝毒药 Yin Zaishui尹在水Ancient Romance532k WordsCompleted Su Wei transmigrated into the Shen family’s new daughter-in-law in Nanqiao Village. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw an old woman holding a bowl of murky poison for her penniless husband to drink. The man on the bed glared at Su Wei in fury. “You poisonous woman! I won’t let you get away with this, even as a ghost...” Su Wei: “...” No, no, it wasn’t me. It was the old woman... The old woman turned to her. “What are you standing there for? If he doesn’t die, how are you supposed to marry Y 15.8kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves

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    The key is to make your food smell delicious!

34. 184 爆 Hilarious Mind Reading: The Prince Eats Gossip Until He Throws Up 爆笑读心术，王爷吃瓜吃到吐 Young Master Lan公子兰Ancient Romance452k WordsCompleted Short drama adaptation: The Hilarious Mind-Reading Art: The Prince Laughs at Gossip Until He Chokes Manhua adaptation: The Princess's Inner Thoughts Are Full of Gossip, and the Prince Is Hooked; The Princess's Inner Thoughts Can't Be Hidden [Historical fantasy + mind-reading + gossip System + silly comedy + System space + sweet romance + feel-good revenge + transmigration to an alternate world + palace and household intrigue + devoted and powerful couple + marriage before love + healing a posses 24kReads9.1Score2kShelves

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    Hilarious Transmigration: Farming, Food, and Career Building ① Hilarious Mind Reading + Gossip System: Laugh from Beginning to End ② Goddess Doctor Transmigrates into a Coffin to Be Buried with Her, Discovers She Can Still Save the Prince: Sweet, Pampering, and Funny ③ Goddess Doctor Reborn in a Coffin: Picks Up Handsome Men, Takes Revenge, Abuses Scum, and Builds a Career: A Satisfying Journey

35. 185 我 I Set Up a Snack Stall in Ancient Times and Went Viral 我在古代摆摊卖小吃，火出圈了 A Glimmer of Light一叶微光Ancient Romance830k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Fictional Setting + System + Cuisine + Daily Life + Wholesome Romance + Love Grows Over Time + One-on-One Romance + Beloved by All] Mu Wan transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a “dark-skinned, fat girl.” That’s not even the worst of it: she has a sickly husband who could die at any moment. No problem. She’s the head chef of the Imperial Kitchen and knows a little about medicine. If it has anything to do with food, she can handle it. Mu Wan rolls up her sleeves, ready to g 483Reads6.1Score105Shelves
36. 186 陪 On the Night of My Burial, I Brought the God of War Prince Back from the Dead 陪葬夜，我让战神王爷起死回生 Young Master Lan公子兰Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted Short drama adaptation: "A Doctor’s Graceful Colors" Animated adaptation: "A Doctor’s Graceful Colors: The Prince’s Beloved" [Hilarious + Transmigration + Sweet romance + Obsessive love + Devoted pairing + Imperial physician heroine + Palace and household intrigue + Inspirational] I was a military doctor with a PhD when I transmigrated, only to find myself about to be buried alive as a sacrifice for the dead God of War, the Prince? I grabbed the burial offerings and ran, planning to live in luxu 21.1kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves
37. 187 做 Be a Concubine? You're Not Worthy! I'll Find a Better Match, and You'll Beg Me to Stay 做妾？你也配？另谋高嫁你下跪 Young Master Lan公子兰Ancient Romance565k WordsCompleted This book is now available as a full-cast audio drama, and it’s hilarious! Give it a listen! [Hilarious Transmigration + Medical Space + Sweet, Satisfying Romance + Power Struggles + Palace and Household Intrigue + Mutual Devotion and Strength] A genius in medicine and poison transmigrates to ancient times with a medical space. She wakes up in a coffin, only to have a bewitching man try to steal it? Her ex-husband favors his concubine, abuses his wife, and shamelessly claims her dowry? Her fathe 5.6kReads8.9Score554Shelves
38. 188 军 The Sweet, Alluring Military Wife and Her Devoted Rough-Hewn Soldier 军嫂娇，军嫂媚，糙汉军爷宠上天 Sweet Tofu Pudding甜甜豆腐花Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Rugged military officer + sweet, gentle beauty] (Fictional military marriage + marriage before love + daily life with the troops + stepmother and adorable kids + food) When Jiang Rou opens her eyes, she's become the fake heiress in a period novel. Not only is she a pitiful cannon-fodder supporting character, but the real heiress has knocked her unconscious and made her marry an older man in her place. Rumor has it that the man is disfigured and lame, with two burdens to care for, one big and on 16.7kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves

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    🌟The female protagonist transmigrates to the 1970s, becoming a fake heiress and marrying the male protagonist in place of the real heiress. She initially expects him to be old and ugly, but to her surprise, he's not only handsome and young but also a regimental commander. The female protagonist acquires a system, and seeing its high emotional intelligence, she lives a good life and has a good relationship with the military wife. Her cooking is exceptionally delicious, and the author describes each of her cooking sessions in great detail [admiration]. She also raises her two children well.

39. 189 年 Period: A Sweet Kid-Raising Diary 年代：养甜崽记事本 Soy Sauce Goose酱油鹅Modern Romance3.0M WordsOngoing [Period setting + alternate history + farming + raising kids + devoted husband + cozy daily life + making a fortune] Shen Anning raises children, geese, and fish. She wears so many hats she never gets a moment's rest, and sometimes she goes around the village with a bamboo switch, “chasing” people. Chasing what? The kids! The geese! Daily life: Shen Anning, holding a bamboo switch: “I heard someone was causing trouble.” Hao: “We didn't do anything!” Yao: “It definitely wasn't me!” Zhou Mingze: “ 1.1kReads8.6Score108Shelves

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    These are all food-themed novels. In the first one, the female protagonist marries her neighbor's brother and lives a life of eating delicious food every day, with adorable twin sons. (The food is prepared by her husband's grandfather, uncle, and other men.) Later, she grows fruit and runs a food shop. In the seventh book, the female protagonist is reborn in a place lacking in food and has to take care of her nephew who will become a villain in the future, while also worrying about the future ending. So, she uses food and sincerity to win over the child every day, accidentally winning over the child's uncle as well. In the tenth book, she is reborn with a spatial ability as the mother of four children. Each child has their own unique charm. During the reform and opening up, she takes the male protagonist to the city and opens a unique food shop, curing his anorexia.

40. 190 星 Interstellar Food Livestream: Everyone Loves My Cooking 星际美食直播：观众都爱我做的菜 Crucian Carp Eats Pickled Vegetables鲫鱼吃咸菜Modern Romance361k WordsCompleted [Interstellar + Food + Livestreaming + Raising Kids] Food streamer Ruan Lingling transmigrates to the interstellar era. The bad news: her aunt’s family has kicked her out, and she’s penniless. The worse news: she has two younger brothers and a younger sister to raise. Her parents died fighting the insectoid race, leaving her with two younger brothers and a sister who’s just over a year old. With nowhere else to turn, Ruan Lingling has no choice but to return to her old job and start livestreamin 73Reads5.7Score—Shelves
41. 191 八 Cooking Up a Storm in the 1980s, My Kids Are Drooling 八零年代做美食，家里小孩馋哭了 Colorful Longan缤纷桂圆Modern Romance234k WordsCompleted [Everyday family life, told at an unhurried pace] Yao Jiang's consciousness inhabits the body of a chef in another world. After learning a wealth of skills, she returns to the 1980s, with a culinary pocket dimension thrown in as a bonus. She opens a steamed bun shop and raises a well-behaved child. All in all, life gives her plenty to look forward to. 424Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 192 我 I Set Up a Snack Stall in the Eighties and Became a Sensation 我在八零摆摊卖小吃，火出圈了 Famous Throughout the World名扬天下Modern Romance3.2M WordsCompleted Reborn at fifteen, Tang Xi makes sure she returns to her biological parents. She also sets up a stall to sell snacks, and before long, it takes off beyond all expectations. 962Reads5.3Score104Shelves
43. 193 穿 Transmigrated to the Eighties: The Imperial Chef's Lucky Darling Strikes It Rich 穿越八零：御厨福宝赚翻啦 Lu Zhou鹭舟Modern Romance726k WordsCompleted Zhen Li, a young palace maid working in the imperial kitchens, opens her eyes to find she has transmigrated to 1983 and is being called a jinx who brings nothing but bad luck. Seeing how fiercely her adoptive parents stand up for her, Zhen clenches her fists and resolves to pull her whole family out of poverty and give them the kind of luxurious life fit for palace ladies! So Zhen Li has her parents set up a little food stall on the street in the middle of the night. Spicy braised snacks, pan-fr 59Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 194 八 The Spicy Girl of the 1980s: I Made My Fortune with Food 八零小辣媳：我靠美食发家致富 Siyuan嗣源Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period Drama + Rebirth + Food + Feel-Good + Fiery Wife + Love After Marriage] A spirited food blogger who transmigrates into the past VS a calculating, loyal-dog hero who was once a technical whiz and later becomes a powerful tycoon Su Ning transmigrated to the 1980s and became a young wife with a terrible reputation. Her husband treated her with indifference, the neighbors gossiped about her, and her birth family kept finding ways to bleed her dry. Make a fortune, take down scumbags, deal with 518Reads7.1Score—Shelves
45. 195 穿 Reborn as the Villain Cub's Paternal Aunt, I Go Viral Streaming My Cooking 穿成反派崽崽小姑后，我直播美食爆红了 The Wayfarer Who Knows and Acts知行客Modern Romance891k WordsCompleted Apocalypse powerhouse Meng Nanxu accidentally became bound to the Villain Rehabilitation System. After being reborn in the interstellar era, she somehow became the villain boss's aunt! Looking at the pitiful little villain, Number One, she decides to build a fortune and raise him through food livestreams. Thanks to the irresistible charm of Earth cuisine, Meng Nanxu becomes the top streamer on the Star Network. Meanwhile, she meets the parent of Villain Number Two. Weisheng Mo: My nephew and you 3.3kReads8.8Score366Shelves
46. 196 我 Raising Beastmen in a Wasteland World 我在废土世界饲养兽人 Qin Yuli秦鱼里Sci-Fi & Apocalypse401k WordsCompleted [Wasteland + Food + Some Infrastructure Building + Beastfolk] The wasteland setting is entirely of the author's own making, a world rebuilt from ruins after the apocalypse caused by forces beyond human control, such as machinery, plagues, and cataclysms. The background world is fictional. Some elements draw equally on Eastern and Western cultures. Technology has collapsed, morality has crumbled, order has fallen apart, productivity has regressed, and supplies and resources are desperately scarce 769Reads9.0Score106Shelves
47. 197 进 After Moving to the City to Farm, Every Powerful Tycoon Wants Me as Their Master 进城种地后豪门权贵都想拜我为师 Cat Who Loves Houttuynia折耳根的猫Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Farming + Food + Everyone’s Favorite] Jiang Mengyun is a young woman who absolutely loves farming. From the countryside to the city, from luxurious mansions to mysterious research bases, there’s no patch of land she can’t turn into a field! Mansion owner: My multimillion-dollar mansion! It’s covered in loofah vines! School administrator: My rooftop garden! It’s full of giant radishes! Senior from her sect: My medicinal herb garden! I have to search through cabbages to find the herbs! Lu Jingyua 15.2kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
48. 198 七 1970s Space: An Educated Youth Goes to the Countryside with Four Kids 七零空间：下乡知青四个崽 Qi Mang戚芒Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Stockpiling + Portable Space + Period Setting + Spirit Spring + Food + Raising Kids + Reunion] = [Complete!!] Thinking the apocalypse was coming, Chu Xiao Yan stocked up on supplies in her portable space, only to transmigrate to the impoverished 1970s and become the wicked mother of three children, with another little baby on the way? Chu Xiao Yan couldn't bring herself to be cruel to the children. She ate well and occasionally shared a few bites with them, and when the mood struck, she even ma 4.5kReads8.8Score331Shelves
49. 199 穿 Transmigrated to the 1970s and Became a Mother: Raising Kids and Farming, I Can Do Both 穿到七零喜当娘：带娃种田两手抓 Dragon Fruit Growing Toward the Sun火龙果向阳而生Modern Romance263k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Space + Unexpectedly Becoming a Mom + Adorable Kids + Love After Marriage] Modern-day Zhu Nuanzhu, who never wanted to marry or have children, somehow transmigrated into a married woman with children in the 1970s. And so she began a life of raising kids and working in the fields, without neglecting either! 116Reads6.7Score—Shelves
50. 200 女 Matriarchy: Setting Up a Snack Stall on My Second Day Here 女尊：穿来第二日就摆摊卖小吃 Li Licheng李李橙Ancient Romance166k WordsCompleted “Female-led world + farming + strong heroine + spirit spring + super strength + family life + heartwarming + food” Song Yu arrives in a female-led world with her supernatural abilities and a spirit spring. The original owner was actually a scholar who abandoned his wife for another woman? Current situation... She’s already planning to cast aside her devoted husband and force the Gu family’s young master into marriage. When she opens her eyes, she finds a young man who has been protecting her and 11Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    I discovered a female-dominated (female-dominated, male-subordinate) novel today. The theme is more novel than the usual female-dominated stories! The female lead has a good personality and positive values. She can cook delicious food to support her family. (Currently, the chapters don't have any major ups and downs, and the pace might be a bit fast—just ordinary daily life.) It's okay to check it out to kill time, or you can wait until it's more complete before reading it.

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