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1. 351 穿 After Becoming His Wife, I Switched Careers to the Wok 穿成他老婆后我改行颠勺 Spring Breeze in a Painted Scroll画卷春风Modern Romance158k WordsOngoing I woke up as the wife of the person I'd had a crush on in school, a cool, aloof beauty who could play the guzheng but couldn't do anything else. My husband was cold, my daughter kept her distance, and the whole family treated me like a pretty ornament. Hah, so what if he was my crush? Nothing beats wielding a wok. As I won over hundreds of thousands of viewers in my livestream with one delicious dish after another, the husband who used to stay out all night sobbed in the chat: “Come home, honey! 7Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Food Blogger's Guide to Training

2. 352 八 Street Stall in the Eighties: One Bowl of Yangchun Noodles Stuns the Whole City 八零摆摊：一碗阳春面震惊全城 One Page to See All the World一页阅尽红尘Urban256k WordsOngoing In his previous life, he was a private chef specializing in intangible cultural heritage cuisine, but his business partner poisoned him just as the company was about to go public. When he opens his eyes again, he's back in 1982, on the day he fails the college entrance exam. His cousin has taken the factory job meant for him, and his family is buried in debt. His mother brings him a bowl of watery noodles. The moment Lu Zheng takes it, thirty years of culinary expertise awaken within him. One mu 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Reborn in 1980, he failed the college entrance examination, his place in the factory was taken over by his cousin, and his family still owed a lot of debt. In his previous life, Lu Zheng, the chef god who is an intangible cultural heritage, woke up with thirty years of craftsmanship at his fingertips while holding the bland noodles handed to him by his mother. A bowl of multi-grain pancakes, the aroma spreads throughout the street; a bowl of Yangchun noodles, impresses the state-owned chef of the restaurant. From street stalls to restaurants, from restaurants to markets, no one knows how to cook in this era. He is here to teach the whole city what delicious food means. The fireworks are hot, and craftsmanship is life. Cooking is being a human being.

3. 353 黔 Guizhou Cuisine, Making Him Lose His Cool 黔味厨娘，勾他破防 Yunyun Fuxi云云伏皙Ancient Romance140k WordsOngoing Her Irresistible Home Cooking: The Cold-Faced Imperial Guard Wants a Taste She transmigrates into a book with a Guizhou-flavored pocket dimension. The good news: Bai Tingyu, the family's savior, happens to have contracted the "Food-Aversion Gu," and Guizhou cuisine is its nemesis. The bad news: the pocket dimension is a "money pit." Every time someone infected with the Gu eats her food from the pocket dimension, half her family's money vanishes. The urgent priorities: repay her debt of gratitude 31Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A serious Guizhou chef becomes the hostess! If you eat a meal from me, most of your silver will evaporate. I brought a Guizhou food space to Chuanshu, thinking that it would be a life-saving straw for the powerful minister and he could threaten him to save the mother of the original owner. As a result... He is a gold salesman! He influenced me to become rich!

4. 354 流 Exiled and Reborn as the Villainous Wife of a Brooding Tycoon 流放后，穿成阴郁大佬的恶毒原配 Three Miracle Cats奇迹三喵Ancient Romance134k WordsOngoing Song Yu transmigrated into the body of a scheming, greedy and wicked young bride, sent to bring good fortune to her sickly husband. She was the true daughter of a wealthy family, but had been mistreated after growing up away from home. Even after returning to her family, she was never loved. Her relatives deceived her and married her off to a “cripple.” Faced with a dilapidated house, a family full of old and young, and a moody husband who would grow into a gloomy villain, Song Yu was at a loss. 45Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Farming, food

5. 355 我 My Cooking Can Cure Any Discontent 我的美食专治各种不服 A Horse That Can't Live Without Spice无辣不欢的马Urban402k WordsCompleted Xu Riyue transmigrates into a parallel world, where he becomes a 996 office worker driven to bankruptcy by his boss's workplace abuse. At his lowest point, the Everyday Life System binds itself to him, refreshing one street-stall task each week. Other people's golden fingers can destroy the world, but his System only wants him to suffer social death. His stall is a legend that exists in the city for just one week: It appears on Monday, using an irresistible aroma and flavor to break down everyon 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Traveling through the social animal binding stall system, the first battle was in the science and technology park: the hot and sour lemon shredded chicken made colleagues slander the boss; the second battle was in the confinement center: the fruit wood tomahawk steak made the rich and the pregnant women crazy. Each delicacy accurately hits the pain point of the scene, and the mystery of running away after it is sold out makes you more and more addicted!

6. 356 县 A Little County-Town Shop That Leaves Customers Craving More 县城小店，馋坏食客 Hua Xiaoze花小泽Urban397k WordsOngoing Wang Chen returned home and laid out plans for himself, determined to get his family's old shop up and running again. Short-term goal: No need to get rich, just break even. Long-term goal: Make money, make money, make money every day. 4.1kReads—Score279Shelves

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   A small shop in the county town with real prices and its own delicacies

7. 357 小 Smoke from the Courtyard Kitchen Lights Up Every Meal 小院烟火照三餐 Yu Rong虞容Modern Romance307k WordsCompleted As the city's clamor fades into the distance, Wan Zhou and Lu Chen settle into an old courtyard. With the warmth of daily life as their brush and food as their ink, they write a quiet poem of everyday living. Their little courtyard holds the joys of every season: vegetable seedlings sprout in spring, delicious dishes fill the air beneath the grape trellis in summer, autumn brings sun-dried goods and jars of pickled vegetables, and winter means tea by the stove as they watch the snow. Wan Zhou aw 23Reads—Score—Shelves

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   [Thinking][Thinking][Thinking]

8. 358 惊 Amazing! I Made a Fortune in Ancient Times with Modern Cuisine 惊！我靠现代美食在古代发家致富 Nangong Qiongyue南宫穹月Ancient Romance198k WordsCompleted (Transmigration + alternate world + farm space + devoted couple + food + farming and business + making a fortune + cozy, peaceful daily life) Lin Qiyue was punished with transmigration for wasting half a steamed bun. She arrived in an ancient village, in the poorest household around. Her eldest brother was disabled, her younger siblings were little, and the family had neither enough to eat nor clothes to keep warm. Lin Qiyue was close to tears, but luckily there was always a way out. She bound h 314Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The female chef was very good at traveling through time and space. She set up a stall selling pancakes and later opened a shop.

9. 359 美 Exploring the World of Food 美食世界探索 Chen Ziyang, the Great God Himself陈紫洋大神本人Eastern Fantasy437k WordsOngoing 📖 A hard-core hunting adventure in a world of gourmet food ✔️ No golden finger, no female lead. The protagonist relies entirely on real skill to brave dangerous places, hunt exotic ingredients, and cook hearty dishes. ✔️ A muscular protagonist and realistic, hard-core hunting details turn the wilderness into a feast for the senses. ✔️ No deliberately torturing the protagonist. The pace is brisk and satisfying, with no frustrating setbacks. Later on, his combat power goes through the roof, and he 83Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This protagonist relies solely on his direct strength to cook, and is an ordinary person without any golden fingers.

10. 360 我 I Became the Richest Person in the Kingdom Through Food 我靠美食成为了全朝首富 Xiaobai Sells Xiaoxin小白卖小新Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Historical romance + transmigration + beloved by the whole family + food + sweet romance + farming + building a fortune + 1v1] (A warm family with no troublesome relatives, so read with confidence) After transmigrating, Shen Yuanshu became the only girl in the Shen family in six generations. Her grandparents doted on her, then her parents, and she had six older brothers who were all fiercely protective of their little sister. Unfortunately, the girl was frail. Ever since she became conscious at 6.1kReads8.5Score479Shelves

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    These three books all write about cooking in detail. I feel that the author really knows how to cook, and the prices are not exaggerated. They are very real and the water flows smoothly.

11. 361 绑 Bound to the Kitchen God System, I Made the Whole City Wake Up Craving Food 绑定灶王系统，我把全城都馋醒了 Doesn't Like Cilantropor不爱吃香菜porUrban203k WordsOngoing After graduating from college, Jian Yanshen sent out resumes that went nowhere, then returned to Yunxi City looking utterly dejected. His grandfather’s breakfast stall was about to be taken away, and his younger sister, a high school senior, was still counting on him to support her. Just when he was at the end of his rope, an old iron wok spoke inside his head: [Kitchen God System, ownership confirmed]. But the System only provided recipes. It wouldn’t give him the skills for free. Want to make 1.7kReads—Score176Shelves

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    Recommend a food article to read

12. 362 穿 Transmigrated to the Deep Mountains: Farming, Foraging for Mushrooms, and Selling Herbal Jelly 穿越深山老林，种田捡菌卖冰粉 Cheng Siyuan橙思源Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Liu Li Xia transmigrated to a remote mountain valley, where the family had barely a roof over their heads and went hungry every day. To make matters worse, the heavens refused to give her any golden finger at all. Raised under the red flag, she had never imagined hunger could feel so awful. She wanted food. A big bowl of rice. And plenty of meat, too. How could someone who knew nothing about farm work or crops achieve this “great ambition” in another world? 7kReads8.9Score617Shelves
13. 363 美 The Gourmet System: From Street Vendor to Fortune 美食系统，从摆摊实现暴富 Have a Bite of Warm Carbs吃口热乎碳水Ancient Romance121k WordsOngoing Food blogger Yao Ye was filming a restaurant review video when a fire broke out. She couldn't accept that she had just become popular only to lose her life, and that's when the System came to her. [Earn 10,000 points, and you can return to the time before the fire. Do you want to complete the mission and go back?] "Yes!" She hadn't even spent the money she'd earned yet. Of course she had to go back. After accepting the mission, she... [No romance + System + Slow-paced + Food] 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The male protagonist is bound to the system and has superb cooking skills. According to the tasks, he goes to various places such as companies, clubs, schools, construction sites, etc. To cook delicious food. However, the task time does not exceed a month. When the male protagonist leaves, the boss is devastated [shocked] [shocked].

14. 364 卖 Selling Braised Pork at a Women’s Dance Academy 卖红烧肉，地点竟在女子舞蹈学院 January 12 Incident1月12日事件Urban209k WordsOngoing [Gourmet] [Slice of Life] [Comedy] [No Female Lead] [Great with a Meal] Yu Huai was determined to lie flat, but unexpectedly gained a Gourmet System. From then on, his life took a different turn. Would selling red-braised pork at a women's dance academy really get me beaten to death? A roast duck shop is delivering roast ducks? Boss, I swear I didn't do it on purpose. One bizarre street-stall quest after another kept him hooked. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 365 美 Gourmet: Opening a Shop at Beijing Film Academy, with the Campus Belle as Chef 美食：北影开小店，校花做厨娘 Lu Yue Shi Wu陆月十五Urban249k WordsCompleted A dream in Nanke, a lifetime in a dream! Lin Xuan, a senior acting student at the Beijing Film Academy, saw a glimpse of his future self struggling in the entertainment industry for ten years without achieving anything. Disheartened, he went home to take over his family’s restaurant and became a chef. Rather than spend another decade busying himself only to fail at both acting and cooking, Lin Xuan decided this time to give up acting and focus on cooking. So he took over Shop No. 88 in the Beiji 393Reads—Score—Shelves

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    There are quite a few

16. 366 我 I’m a Gourmet Hunter! I’ll Keep Da Mimi Fed! 我，美食猎人！喂饱大蜜蜜！ Xi Jiji囍吉吉Urban139k WordsCompleted [Food + Livestreaming + Outdoor Everyday Life] Top chef Liu Xuan was searching for the finest ingredients when an accident sent him to Ailao Mountain in a parallel world, where he happened to run into Yang Mi livestreaming. “This black carp weighs fifty pounds. It’ll be perfect for fish with pickled mustard greens!” “This wild boar chose to end its own life for some reason, so let’s not waste its kind offering. We’ll braise the head, red-braise the pork belly, make sweet-and-sour ribs, and serve 24Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 367 美 Gourmet: You Hired Me as a Security Guard, So Why Am I Making the Residents Drool? 美食：让你当保安，你馋哭业主？ Fu Xiaola富小拉Urban252k WordsCompleted [Gourmet + System + no romance + cooking competitions + lighthearted daily life] In his previous life, Liu Ran was a programmer who worked around the clock. He died suddenly on his twenty-fifth birthday and was reborn just as he was graduating and looking for a job. This time, he decides to skip thirty years of struggle: he’ll become a security guard right after graduation and laze around! But the Gourmet System intervenes and changes the life he had planned for himself. From the triple-combo ri 204Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 368 美 Gourmet: Top-Tier Cooking Skills Generated at Random 美食：随机生成顶级厨艺 Young Master Long Chin长颔公子Urban278k WordsCompleted “Brother Mo, if I give you one night, will you cook me a meal?” A beautiful woman with long legs, a slender waist, and generous curves looked at Lin Mo and pleaded. In his twenty years of life, Lin Mo had never encountered a request like this. “Since you seem sincere, it'll cost you 200 yuan for a bowl of noodles,” Lin Mo said. The beauty's eyes widened. It was as if she'd seen the light... 186Reads6.3Score—Shelves
19. 369 美 Gourmet: I Cook at Country Feasts, and the Village Chief Begs Me to Make More 美食：农村吃席，村长求我多做点 Nie Shisan聂十三Urban128k WordsCompleted [No Female Lead + Daily Life + Comedy + Lighthearted Humor] After graduating from university, Li Shiguang returned to his hometown to attend his cousin’s wedding. Everything had been arranged perfectly, except that the village’s head chef had gone on a trip just when the wedding feast was coming up. They were left without a chef! Luckily, Li Shiguang awakened a Gourmet System and took charge of the cooking! His tomato and egg stir-fry was bursting with flavor, simply exquisite. His red-braised e 365Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 370 刚 I Was About to Sell My Farmstay, but the System Insisted I Was an Immortal Chef Sect 刚想卖了农家乐，系统非说仙厨宗 Dragon Sucks Up Water神龙吸水Urban180k WordsOngoing [Feel-good story + Gourmet + Cultivation + Multiple heroines] Just after the System tells him he has transmigrated to a world of cultivation and become the young sect master of the Immortal Chef Sect, Xiang Tian opens his eyes to find himself in the same dilapidated farmhouse inn, buried in debt and stripped bare! System, are you lagging? Did you set the wrong location? [Ding! This farmhouse inn is now bound as the Immortal Chef Sect’s headquarters. The sect master is your father, and the sect m 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    At the beginning, the farmhouse became the Immortal Chef Sect, and the price was affordable.

21. 371 美 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a Highway Rest Stop During Lunar New Year, I Bring Traffic to a Standstill 美食：春节服务区卖饭，高速堵疯 Purple Earth, Wei Jin紫土韦金Urban261k WordsCompleted [Food + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] Gu Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Food System. At the start, he draws a location for his business, only to get a tiny highway service area! And the ridiculous task is to sell three hundred boxed meals in a single day? Just as Gu Rui is at his wits’ end, a male streamer shows up at the highway service area by chance. After one meal of dumplings, the streamer hugs him and keeps calling him “Mom”! Travel surges during the Spring 275Reads8.2Score—Shelves
22. 372 美 Gourmet: I'm the Company Chef, and Everyone Wants Overtime 美食：我公司掌勺，全员要求加班 Walnut Nutcracker胡桃大夹子Urban186k WordsCompleted [The male lead’s career path: employee → self-employed → employee → self-employed → employee → ... an endless cycle...] Su Bin, an outstanding soon-to-be graduate, was about to start an internship at a major company when a jealous classmate secretly changed his assigned position, turning a white-collar job into a late-night restaurant cook position. As it happened, Su Bin unexpectedly acquired a Gourmet System. Inside the company shuttle-bus drivers’ break room: “It’s past nine at night. Why is 705Reads5.9Score—Shelves
23. 373 美 Gourmet: Random Street Stalls, and My Customers' Jobs Keep Changing 美食，随机摆摊，顾客职业疯狂换 Sweet Soy Sauce甜酱水Urban799k WordsCompleted Tucked away in a forgotten corner of the film studio lot is a one-of-a-kind restaurant: Taotie Restaurant. Its owner, Lan Zhi, seems like an ordinary young man, but he has a natural-born “protagonist aura.” With a bowl of fried rice priced at 200 yuan, he manages to make waves in the star-studded world of showbiz! On opening day, customers call him crazy, and even the owner next door waits eagerly to see him make a fool of himself. But who could have guessed that this seemingly ordinary bowl of 79Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 374 美 Gourmet: Cooking on a Plane, Leaving Passengers Craving More 美食：飞机掌勺，让乘客欲罢不能 Nie Shisan聂十三Urban170k WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [System] [Perfect with a meal] [Everyday life] [Lighthearted] [Character-driven] [Heartwarming] [Hilarious] In the future, airlines introduced a “chef on board” service, letting passengers order whatever they wanted and have a chef cook it fresh. But with planes often shaking and space at a premium, the food usually tasted rather ordinary. That changed when the God-Tier Gourmet System arrived, allowing Nie Chenfeng to master divine cooking techniques! Braised beef brisket with radish w 51Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 375 开 Confessed to from the Start: A Food Blogger Meets a Little Foodie 开局被表白，美食博主遇上小吃货 Twinkling Stars星灿灿Urban121k WordsCompleted [Food, System, campus beauty, one heroine] After the campus beauty confessed to him, Wang Zijun activated a popularity-boosting food System. He gained a huge following through one mortifying incident after another, and began living with the aloof campus beauty. As Wang Zijun recreated one popular dish after another and became a food blogger, he discovered that this supposedly “aloof” beauty was actually a little foodie! 96Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 376 美 Gourmet: Setting Up a Stall in a Snowy World, The Whole Internet Begs Me to Stay 美食：冰雪世界摆摊，全网求别走 Star Lord Yuan Rong元荣星君Urban371k WordsCompleted Food + Everyday Life + Lighthearted (Selling lamb soup at the Ice and Snow World from the start, making the little Southern potato tourists drool) Qin Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and activates a scenic-area stall System. On his first day, he sells lamb soup at the Ice and Snow World. The little Southern potato tourists, who’ve been dancing in the cold wind, are freezing and at a loss when they suddenly spot Qin Rui’s lamb soup stall. A cute girl with rabbit ears says, “Boss, I’m from S 76Reads5.7Score—Shelves
27. 377 美 Gourmet: This Food Is Fit for Pigs, So Why Are You Fighting Over It? 美食：这饭猪吃的，你们抢什么？ Fermented Rice Radish Skin酒酿萝卜皮Urban163k WordsCompleted [No System + Gourmet Food + Dark Revenge + Building a Career + One Heroine] Hao Chi, the youngest head chef at the Imperial Capital’s Best Under Heaven restaurant, was framed, stripped of his professional chef’s license, and ordered never to cook for anyone again. His once-loving girlfriend came forward to claim she had seen him putting banned substances in the food. His devoted apprentice went even further, lying in front of everyone and claiming he had seen Hao Chi colluding with unscrupulous 9Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 378 厨 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 Happy Little Crawler幸福的爬爬虫Historical2.0M WordsCompleted 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 14.7kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves

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    🍀🍀In bustling New York, a mysterious oriental chef quietly arrives! With his unique skills, he quickly conquered the taste buds of the locals with his mouth-watering oriental delicacies. Whether it's pancakes, fruit or tiger skin and chicken feet, you can feel the unique charm of Chinese food. Come and follow the protagonist's footsteps and explore the food world of New York!

29. 379 我 My Cooking God System Is Acting Up 我的厨神系统不对劲 Little Wu Yu小乌彧Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted A cultivation-world massacre sparked by egg fried rice, and a bowl of black sesame paste that fools people into founding a “sacred Buddhist lineage.” Lin Xian, a chef who transmigrates to the cultivation world, is bound to the “Ancient Food Cultivation System.” He thinks he can reach the pinnacle of life by cooking, until he makes a bowl of egg fried rice. Everyone who eats it sees their cultivation surge. It has just one “tiny drawback”: their hair falls out. Overnight, everyone in Radiant Sec 812Reads5.7Score101Shelves

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    The novel has a light and lively pace, with both humor and warmth. The protagonist cooks food to help mortals improve their health and relieve their illnesses. The side effects caused by the oolong incident are constantly hilarious. At the same time, you can feel the warmth of the life of the little people. It is very heartwarming to watch it.

30. 380 穿 Transmigration: The Concubine’s Culinary Comeback 穿越：庶女美食翻身记 Jin Lugen金禄根儿Ancient Romance217k WordsCompleted Female protagonist transmigrates + marriage first, love later + male protagonist reborn + food and farming In her previous life, Ye Jinnian suffered terribly from illness. Before she died, she wished that in her next life she could truly enjoy living. When she woke up, she found herself in a parallel world, as the illegitimate granddaughter of a branch family of the Earl’s household in the Great Yong Dynasty. She had no golden finger and no System, and now she was about to be married off to Xie 170Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Short food articles, easy to read and get

31. 381 今 Did the God of Light Set Up a Stall Today? 今天光明神出摊了吗 It's Liuli是琉璃啊Modern Romance341k WordsCompleted Chef Jiang Wei transmigrates to a Western fantasy world and becomes the Light Witch whom everyone wants to hunt down. To survive, Jiang Wei has no choice but to return to her old trade. She opens a food stall and then a shop, and business flourishes. On her way home from a day of vending, Jiang Wei comes across a badly injured man. As a modern woman, she knows from TV dramas that you should never pick up a strange man you find by the roadside. So Jiang Wei walks away without looking back. Unfort 161Reads5.6Score107Shelves
32. 382 穿 Transmigrated to Ancient Times: A Food Blogger Builds a Fortune 穿越之美食博主在古代发家致富 Lin Family's Dou Xiao Dou林家豆小豆Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Food blogger Jiang Yue transmigrates into the Jiang family, a household of farmers. The Jiangs are dirt poor, with barely enough to eat or wear, and life is truly hard. Fortunately, the family is warm and easygoing, sincere and kind to others. Jiang Yue decides to rely on her own skills to help the whole family prosper, starting with a little shop, moving on to a small restaurant, and eventually opening a grand restaurant, until they achieve financial freedom. P.S. A pure food-focused story, set 52.5kReads8.7Score3kShelves
33. 383 听 Listening to a Donkey's Thoughts: Daily Life Running a Restaurant in Bianjing 听驴心声：汴京美食经营日常 Golden Flowers in Full Bloom金花朵朵Ancient Romance579k WordsCompleted (The low rating is only because the book was just listed.) · Transmigration + Everyday food and life among ordinary townsfolk + Mind reading (the little donkey is called Xiao Ba, with “Ba” meaning gossip) + A gentle, leisurely pace + A large ensemble cast later on · A modern chef transmigrates to the Song Dynasty. In this paradise of food, she doesn’t just eat: she develops new dishes and brings ancient and modern cuisines together in a grand feast. The Shen Tinghe family moves from the outskirt 4.6kReads8.5Score539Shelves

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    Traveling through ancient food stories, the heroine has no system. Her only special function is to hear the voice of the donkey raised at home. This donkey is super gossipy.

34. 384 美 Gourmet: You're a Top Gaokao Scorer, and You Open a Food Shop? 美食：你一个高考状元，开美食店 Heavy Motorcycle Rider重机车铁骑Urban304k WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chu Yang went through high school just like everyone else. Then, with the college entrance exams just around the corner, his mom secretly bought a franchise of Nezha Immortal Drinks! Luckily, Chu Yang awakened the God of Cooking System! He received a premium braised-meat recipe from the start! Its fragrant aroma carried for miles, drawing in countless customers who couldn't wait to get their hands on it. Then came premium braised pork, fish with pickled 496Reads6.0Score103Shelves

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    I absolutely blew this book away.

35. 385 美 Gourmet: Selling Breakfast at a Night Market Stall 美食：我在夜市摆摊卖早餐 Free Orbit自由轨道Urban170k WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Everyday Life] [Comfort Food] [Business] What, you’re selling breakfast at a night market stall? And it’s actually this delicious? You’re selling breakfast? This is my dinner! Shen Yan was fired for entering the office with his left foot first. By chance, he unlocked the Gourmet System and started running a food stall, working his way toward becoming a master chef through the dishes he made. Add sea cucumber to fried rice, and abalone to instant noodles. The finer the 44Reads—Score—Shelves

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    🍃🍃🍃🌟✨It tells the story of Shen Yan who was fired from the company for the "absurd" reason of joining the company with his left foot. When he went to feed his stray cats, he accidentally opened the food system, and through the food he cooked, he gradually grew into a food master. The detailed description of the food is very attractive, and it makes you hungry at night. "Ding, congratulations to the host for unlocking the food life system."

36. 386 团 The Cherished Koi Wife: My Blind Box System Makes Me Invincible 团宠锦鲤妻：我带着盲盒系统无敌了 Chasing the Wind Across the Galaxy星河逐风Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [One-on-one romance + lucky koi + cozy, family-centered pampering] The orphan Gu Ran transmigrated into the body of a young farmer's wife. Ever since she arrived, the Su family's once-bare cupboards seemed blessed by a lucky koi: they ate fine white flour, built a new house, and had meat at every meal. Gu Ran herself had a blind-box System, and threw herself into selling blind boxes and growing longevity flowers to stay alive, never looking back. “Today's limited-edition pink lipstick blind-box 2.2kReads9.0Score214Shelves

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    The taro balls are here🌷🌷 They are beautiful and have a lot of delicious food [a heart-warming gift][a heart-warming gift] ①The writing is very attractive, mind-reading➕Food. The heroine cooks for the family every day, including sausages and rice, and there are always lots of delicious food. But her father's colleagues couldn't help it anymore and gathered around... ②Open blind box delicacies every day [give a heart] [give a heart]

37. 387 烟 A Life with the System and Everyday Magic 烟火气的系统人生 Hao Yu Sky昊宇天空Urban394k WordsOngoing After being exploited by her boss for three years, Su Yang finally threw down her employee badge. “Overtime is a blessing? Want this blessing for yourself?” Right after losing his job, he was bound to a street-food System that unlocked a new dish every week. Penalty for failing a mission: explosive physical annihilation. Su Yang emptied his savings to buy a wok, a stove, rice, and oil, then nervously set out to sell his first plate of egg fried rice. The customers went wild. “Boss, ten more serv 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Setting up a systematic food stall, starting a business and opening a store

38. 388 味 The Way of Flavor 味之道 My Dream of Reincarnation 1吾梦轮回1221k WordsOngoing When the chopsticks lift not only delicacies but also fragments of a civilization stretching back thousands of years; when the scents wafting through the streets carry not only the aroma of food but also the breath and memories of a place, that is the culinary universe The Way of Flavor seeks to bring before you. As a writer devoted to "examining history through the taste buds and seeking roots amid the bustle of daily life," I have traveled through the streets and alleys of north and south, del 291Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Serious food book? Are you talking about those so-and-so articles disguised as food articles or are you talking about this kind of food articles in the true sense? If it's the former, just pretend I didn't say it.

39. 389 你 Your Five-Yuan All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant: What the Heck Is King Crab? 你五元自助饭店，帝王蟹什么鬼？ Curry Kid咖喱小子Urban2.7M WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [Everyday Life] [Meme References] [Comedy] [Cozy] After transmigrating, Lin Xiao inherited a tiny roadside all-you-can-eat restaurant where everything cost five yuan. From the start, he was in a tight spot, unable to pay next month's rent. Luckily, the [Ultimate Restaurant System] came with him! All he has to do is collect customers' emotional points to unlock all kinds of cuisines and expand the restaurant. And so, a disruptive force in the all-you-can-eat fast-food world was born. Fr 4.6kReads7.9Score650Shelves

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    I like to read this kind of books. These are all new books. You can read them at affordable prices.

40. 390 中 Strange Tales of Chinese Cuisine 中华美食异闻录 Deep in the Clouds, Knowing the Years of Jin云深知瑾年Urban748k WordsCompleted Do you know the secrets hidden in recipes? Every dish has its own little story. Come along with me as we explore the fascinating origins of delicious food! Foodies, beware: you might get hungry just reading about it! 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Want food articles [thinking]? Don't miss this wave [lick the screen]! This book is so addictive that I am addicted to reading it. It heals and relieves my craving for books. If you are short on books, hurry up~

41. 391 你 Tell Me, Why Is Northeastern Chinese Food So Good? 你说，东北菜怎么就这么香？ Inkstone Autumn Jade砚秋墨玉315k WordsCompleted [Feel-good story + no CP + no romance plot + no System + one heroine + food] Note: This is a straightforward story about running a food business. There are no schemes, palace intrigue, political power struggles, business rivalries, or catfights. Su Xiaoxiao, a girl from Northeast China, opens a little restaurant by the gates of a medical university in the south. The night before opening, a gas explosion next door catches her and the shop in the blast, blowing them both away. When Su Xiaoxiao ope 150Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is beautiful, highly recommended

42. 392 我 I Opened a Restaurant by the University [Gourmet] 我在大学旁开饭馆【美食】 Captain of the Chow-Down Squad干饭大队长Modern Romance212k WordsCompleted [Cozy farming and food story] [No romance] [A System is present, but it stays in the background] [Ensemble cast] [The apocalypse is only part of the heroine’s backstory and has nothing to do with this story] Xu Ruyi was an utterly ordinary person. When she transmigrated into an apocalyptic world, she thought she’d gotten cheat powers and become the main character, but it turned out she was just an extra. After transmigrating back to the modern world, she decided that, having lived two lifetimes 232Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Push yourself [cry]

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