Any Stories About Food or Becoming a God of Cooking, Guys? 有没有食物，厨神之类的小说大哥们

1. 1 美 Gourmet: Renting a Private Jet Just to Eat a Boxed Lunch? 美食：为了吃盒饭，开私人飞机？ Drowning Kitten溺水小猫Urban442k WordsCompleted Just as Yu Hui loses his job, he learns that a scenic spot in his hometown is looking for vendors. Without hesitation, he decides to go home and set up a stall selling delicious food. On the way home, he unexpectedly activates the Gourmet System. From then on, his cooking skills improve by leaps and bounds, and he can whip up all kinds of delicious dishes with ease. Braised chicken: tender and silky, richly flavored, with an irresistible aroma. Tomato and egg stir-fry: sweet and tangy, soft an 81Reads6.9Score—14d adds

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   Both are about food; the second one is about opening a shop on Washington Street in the US—a real slap in the face.

2. 2 人 In America, Eastern Cuisine Takes Over New York 人在鹰酱，东方美食占领纽约 Moonlit Longing月相思Urban1.0M WordsCompleted “No one in this country understands jianbing guozi better than I do!” The New York Times’ Mr. Dong column On bustling Fifth Avenue, the line stretches as far as the eye can see. Cut in line, and you could find yourself in a street shootout within minutes. Stinky tofu takes over Wall Street, crawfish conquer Silicon Valley, and the scent of luosifen fills the air all over Manhattan. The giant screens in Times Square play a nonstop reel of mysterious Eastern magical cuisine. Americans don’t e 6.1kReads9.3Score72514d adds
3. 3 西 Journey to the West: Great King, This Is Bad! He's Here to Catch Ingredients Again 西游：大王不好，他又来抓食材了 A Sliver of Sky一线天Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Journey to the West + Primordial Chaos + behind-the-scenes mastermind + secret schemer + System + invincible] Chu Feng transmigrates into the world of Journey to the West and activates the God-Tier Gourmet System. Whenever someone eats his cooking, he can gain one of their supernatural abilities. So he opens a restaurant right next door to Patriarch Bodhi… Before long, a monkey seeking immortality and a master is drawn in by the aroma of beef noodles. After finishing a bowl, he awakens the Gold —Reads—Score—14d adds

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   The first two books focus on culinary skills, specifically the male lead's exceptional cooking abilities. There's no romantic pairing, and the author's descriptions are very engaging, making the reader's mouth water. Both are quite enjoyable. The last book is "Gaga Fun," despite its low rating, it's incredibly funny, inexplicably hilarious.

4. 4 开 From the Start, I Lost My Job: Selling Lunchboxes on the Way Home 开局就失业：返乡途中卖盒饭 Wind Quenches Flowers风熄花Urban3.6M WordsCompleted [A System golden finger, food, fast meals and lunch boxes, a leisurely slice-of-life pace, no romance in the main story. At readers’ request, the bonus chapters have a male lead. Male-oriented, male-oriented, male-oriented, said three times.] After working hard for three years, he’d just been made a full-time employee when the restaurant he worked at shut down. Bai Ye drove home in the secondhand car his boss had given him in lieu of pay, a heap of junk piled in the back. He never expected a S 33.2kReads9.1Score2.7k14d adds
5. 5 想 You Want to Steal My Spiritual Root? I'll Make You Regret Being Born! 想拔我灵根？我让他后悔出生！ Yanzi Dada彦子大大Ancient Romance384k WordsCompleted [The story is complete. Silly comedy + expert scumbag-bashing. Not recommended for reading while eating.] Blown into a cultivation novel and turned into a cannon-fodder supporting heroine? A miserable death wasn't happening right away, and she'd had enough of working herself to the bone in her previous life. This time, she would do whatever it took to slack off in comfort! But after being forced to switch sects, she discovered that her new master was none other than the notorious pervert sect le 2.4kReads9.0Score28214d adds
6. 6 八 After Rejecting the Match in the 1980s, I Opened a Canteen at a State-Owned Factory 八零拒婚后，我在国营厂开饭馆 Fairy Pond Koi仙池锦鲤Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [Reborn] + [The 1980s] + [Gourmet] + [Building a business] Shen Qingyue returned to the 1980s. In her previous life, her family drained her dry, and all three sisters were cheated by their grandparents. Reborn, she refuses to be a sucker again. She takes on the unreasonable troublemakers, and whoever picks a fight with her gets crushed underfoot. After splitting from the family, she starts a business with her sisters, opening a restaurant at a state-owned factory. The troublemakers fail to get t 2.9kReads9.0Score23814d adds

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   This is a period drama where the female protagonist, separated from her dysfunctional family, starts a business with her older and younger sisters. They begin by selling boxed lunches outside a state-owned factory, gradually leading the villagers to prosperity. She eventually finds love. The novel is realistic and inspires readers to consider starting their own business in that era. Highly recommended! It's really good!

7. 7 拒 The Three-Star Hole-in-the-Wall That Refused a Michelin Rating 拒绝米其林评级的三星小店 I'm a Bubble我是泡泡Urban2.1M WordsCompleted After the internet influencer Liu Dao visited the shop, the breakfast restaurant the Chen family had painstakingly run for over a decade teetered on the brink of closing. After binding with a System, Chen Yang quit his white-collar job in the city and took over the little shop. Newbie gift pack: an ingredient identification and rating feature. The fresh pork belly from a free-range mountain pig that swims regularly has three distinct layers of fat and lean meat. After roaming the hills, its fles 3.6kReads8.8Score36814d adds
8. 8 开 I Opened a Restaurant, Then Got Called Up to Cook at the State Banquet 开餐饮店，被叫去担任国宴主厨 Round-Faced Fat Chicken圆脸肥鸡Urban819k WordsCompleted Synopsis: Food + System + doting dad + everyday life Shen Yi divorces Jiang Ruoyun, the CEO of a publicly listed company, and leaves with nothing but the custody of their daughter. To his surprise, he awakens the most powerful food System! Earn money, and you get to draw prizes! From then on, a Shen's Restaurant opens at No. 14 Fuhua Road. He wins god-tier bun-making skills in a prize draw! Soft and springy, bursting with savory flavor with every bite! A passing schoolgirl is so tempted that tea 2.5kReads8.7Score22314d adds
9. 9 神 God-Tier Foodie Survives on a Deserted Island 神级吃货荒岛求生 Lord Qiudao, the Second Most Handsome in the Universe宇宙第二帅的秋刀大人Urban2.9M WordsOngoing [System][Desert Island][Gourmet][Livestream] “Mr. Tang, what made you take part in a survival challenge with such a high mortality rate?” “Survival? No, no. I’m here to find the freshest, most succulent ingredients.” 1.5kReads8.8Score19414d adds
10. 10 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 2.8kReads9.2Score30914d adds

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    The first book, while having a slightly lower rating, is still readable. The second book is highly recommended; it's very enjoyable to read while eating. As a girl, I love reading both. The third and fourth books, while not featuring culinary masters, are both about food and are also very good. Those interested can check out the synopsis. The following three books have ratings of 9 or higher, while only the first book has a rating of 7 or higher.

11. 11 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 4.3kReads8.5Score32714d adds
12. 12 海 Island Survival: I Save All of Huaxia with My Cooking 海岛求生：我靠做美食拯救全华夏 Silly Chubby傻瓜肉肉Modern Romance526k WordsCompleted At a time when resources were scarcer than ever around the world, a game called “Ocean Survival 1.0” descended upon every country. The game has four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The longer its players survive, the more of their country’s depleted resources will be restored. By contrast, those who die too soon will bring disaster upon their country, making an already bad situation worse. Shen Xingluo enters the game with a food System, and a cooking pot from the start. As long as 5.3kReads9.2Score61014d adds
13. 13 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 239Reads5.9Score—14d adds

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    I used to really love food-themed novels; I read both male and female versions. These are some of the ones I've read, and I thought they were really good. The fourth one is a post-apocalyptic story, but all the food described in it looks delicious.

14. 14 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 2.2kReads9.0Score20114d adds
15. 15 天 Natural Disaster: I Stockpile Billions in Supplies to Survive the Apocalypse 天灾，我囤几十亿物资在末世求生 Soft Fish Song袅袅鱼音Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted Apocalypse + rebirth + spatial storage + stockpiling supplies Disasters struck without warning, transforming the world. First came scorching heat, then bitter cold, followed by earthquakes, dense fog, endless night, and acid rain, one after another. Su Nian struggled to survive alone in the apocalypse for ten years, only to die in the torrential acid rain. When she opened her eyes again, Su Nian discovered she had been reborn, with three months left before the apocalypse. After discovering a vas 29.7kReads9.1Score2.7k14d adds
16. 16 摆 I Set Up a Street Stall Selling Snacks and Make the Whole Internet Drool! 摆摊卖小吃，馋哭全网！ Matcha Spicy Strips抹茶辣条Urban384k WordsOngoing [Food + Miracle Doctor + Comedy + Showbiz] In his previous life, Jiang Chen was a chef at state banquets. Now he joins a nationwide reality show and becomes a street-food vendor. The winner will take home a two-billion-yuan prize! Jiang Chen’s god-tier cooking skills have captured the attention of the entire internet. Super-rich heirs, A-list celebrities, and the world’s richest man can’t stop thinking about Jiang Chen’s food stall. While everyone else is still amazed that Jiang Chen’s food can 19Reads8.4Score—14d adds

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    Then, after putting it in like this, it's very convenient. There are still 90 orders left, sisters, 40 orders are jumping around really fast, jumping around really fast! Claim your red envelope before placing your order, darlings, you absolutely must claim your red envelope before placing your order!

17. 17 黑 The Dark God of Cooking 黑暗厨神 Seven-Tenths Sober柒分清醒Urban1.8M WordsCompleted [Dark Cuisine + Spiritual Qi Revival + One Female Lead + Hilarious + Passionate + Supernatural Abilities + Inhuman + Decisive and Ruthless] This book is also known as The Time I Made Slime into Cuisine, Hell on the Tip of Your Tongue, and Diners, Please Don’t Run Away. Otherworldly realms invade, strange beasts descend, and humanity faces a desperate struggle for survival! Lu Seven, Master of Dark Cuisine, Dance King of Shangjing, Golden Pot Hero, Child of the Planes, All-Round Talent Holder, on 1.8kReads8.2Score15414d adds
18. 18 食 The God of Food Is Here 食神来了 Fermented Rice Radish Skin酒酿萝卜皮Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Three years after hanging up his cleaver, Ye Gui, head chef of the state banquet kitchen, makes his comeback. This time, he’s returning by livestreaming visits to restaurants. The book is also known as: “Death Has Arrived,” “The God of Food Livestreams Restaurant Visits, and Chefs Around the World Panic,” “The Food Safety Act,” “A Chef Must Stay True to His Principles,” “The Streamer Says You’re Going to Jail, So You’re Really Going to Jail,” and “Fact-Checkers, This Is What Real Fact-Checking L 1kReads8.7Score10014d adds
19. 19 厨 The Chef God’s Study Guide 厨神学习手册 Sponge Ball海绵球Two Male Leads1.3M WordsCompleted [Updated daily. Please subscribe, recommend, and comment! (ノ>▽<)ノ] The world is so big, you have to go see it! And then he arrived in a new world... To keep developing his skills as a chef, he had to start from scratch! New ingredients, new cookware, and a whole new family! The one thing that never changed was his devotion to delicious food. And so, Li Xiaomi became Li Xiaomi. Li Xiaomi: "I'm still a baby, really!" If you want to become a god, start when they're little! 1v1, slow burn, updated d 1.7kReads9.1Score16314d adds
20. 20 让 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Feast, but I Made the Imperial Banquet Chef Drool 让你农村烧大席，你馋哭国宴主厨 Cangshan Boiled Fish苍山水煮鱼Urban454k WordsCompleted He transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a food System. Qing Yun, an unemployed man who has returned to his hometown, begins his rise to the top by cooking grand feasts in the countryside. First, an old woman wants one last taste of her own funeral banquet before she dies at ninety. Then a baby at a full-month celebration cries their eyes out because the food looks so good... With no other choice, Qing Yun takes up his giant wok again and again. “Red-braised pork knuckle, oil-splashed a 1.6kReads8.7Score10814d adds
21. 21 冰 The Ice and Fire Chef 冰火魔厨 Tang Jia San Shao唐家三少Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted The dawn that spans heaven and earth: the Sacred Radiance Saber The curse of eternal hell: the Demon-Eater Saber These are seven divine blades, and seven magic staffs wielding the powers of ice, fire, wind, earth, space, light, and darkness. Most importantly, they are the protagonist’s kitchen knives. 447Reads9.2Score11414d adds
22. 22 农 The Farm Girl's Delicious Kitchen 农家美味小厨娘 Tang Tang棠糖Ancient Romance412k WordsCompleted Su Mian was a well-known food blogger. After a car accident, she transmigrated to a rural village, where she got a dark, rough complexion, a scrawny figure, and a carpenter husband, all while a famine was underway. Su Mian was devastated. She’d thought she’d been lucky enough to be reborn, but instead she’d drawn the bleakest farming-life script imaginable. Luckily, she discovered that her little kitchen had come along too. With her golden finger in hand, Su Mian pursues both love and a career, 139Reads8.1Score—14d adds
23. 23 原 Genshin Impact: Cooking at Tenshukaku 原神：我在天守阁做饭 The General's Chef Fears Nothing将军厨无所畏惧Anime Fanfiction2.2M WordsOngoing [Slow-paced] [Sweet moments and heartbreak] [Everyday life] [Romance] [If you want to serve The Shogun, you’d better start by learning to cook! If you want to win The Shogun’s heart, you’ll need at least a million words!] [When Gu Yu saw Ying standing alone beneath the sunset, he vowed to serve her. The mark of his vow remained on his wrist: the Vision she had bestowed upon him. Gu Yu wondered if serving her, the eternal one, would leave him lonely too. But one encounter after another kept lonel 137Reads8.9Score—14d adds
24. 24 厨 The God of Cooking and the Demon Beasts: Oh No, We're the Ingredients! 厨神，妖兽：不好，我们成食材了 Jiu Yu九语Eastern Fantasy6.8M WordsOngoing A chef transmigrates to a fantasy world and awakens the strongest Chef God System. Whenever someone praises a dish he makes, his talent, physique, and insight improve. Well, this is an instant takeoff. What's more, his dishes have special effects: they can strengthen the body, nourish one's health, and clear away hidden injuries… The entire sect goes wild. From the Ancestor, Supreme Elders, and Sect Master to the servant disciples, everyone goes crazy for a taste. The Sect Master say 66.7kReads9.1Score4.6k14d adds
25. 25 异 The Otherworld's Gourmet King 异界的美食天王 Oily Gurgle油油咕叽Eastern Fantasy2.8M WordsCompleted [Food + System] An ordinary chef is brought to the Continent of Gods and Demons, where he runs a restaurant that’s anything but ordinary. The food here can’t be found anywhere else, yet people from every corner of the continent can make their way to this restaurant. This world has magic, battle qi, cultivators, and charlatans. I, Chen Mo, just want to be an ordinary chef, winning every customer’s heart with the Chinese cuisine they can’t get in this other world. [Some characters in this book may 106Reads8.7Score—14d adds
26. 26 修 Cultivation: Starting Out as a Cook at a Refining Shop 修仙：从在炼器铺当厨子开始 Just Forget It就这样忘记Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted New Title: The Timid Servant Is Actually a Master Synopsis: An outer-sect servant who’s always rushing around doing odd jobs to earn spirit stones is assigned a mission alongside a beautiful immortal maiden. He’s timid, afraid of dying, unambitious, and cares only about spirit stones, earning him the maiden’s complaints and disdain. But when the situation gets serious, he leaves her utterly stunned: who would have thought this kid was actually a master? [Rise from the Bottom + Humble and Unassum 20.2kReads8.8Score2k14d adds
27. 27 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 14.3kReads8.9Score1.4k14d adds
28. 28 美 Gourmet: The Truth Is, I'm a Max-Level Chef 美食：摊牌了，其实我是满级厨师 Sili Yangjiang四里阳江Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [Completed] [Illustrated throughout] Xu Lai was a max-level chef who transmigrated to a parallel world, only to end up as a one-star vegetable washer. The restaurant got shut down? No big deal! My cooking is out of this world. I can make it anywhere. Worst comes to worst, I’ll open another restaurant! Buried in debt? No big deal! Win a cooking competition and you get a ten-million-yuan prize! Lost my sense of taste? No big deal... Wait, what? You’ve got to be kidding me. How can a chef lose his 3.4kReads9.1Score33814d adds
29. 29 美 Gourmet: Winning Over Boss Yang on a Film Set 美食：从剧组征服杨老板开始 Qin Shiqi秦十七Urban786k WordsOngoing Jiang Lin is reborn with a Gourmet System and becomes a chef on a film set. After being so hungry her stomach hurts, Boss Yang takes one bite and exclaims, “This is amazing!” Boss Yang: “I've been eating boxed lunches for months. How come my skin's actually gotten better?” Liu Yifei: “I don't believe anything can taste this good! Hey, don't touch that! That boxed lunch is mine!” Director: “You're all filming a single take? I'll just grab a bite first.” Extras: “!!! You're afraid you won't get an 2kReads9.2Score13014d adds
30. 30 特 Agent Yi Leng 特工易冷 Xiao Qi Jiao骁骑校Urban1.6M WordsCompleted (Originally titled Agent Yi Leng) Huang Pi Hu, the cook at Yumei Restaurant, is a greasy, lecherous middle-aged man who likes to drink, smoke, and fiddle with his beads. He also often follows female students around. No one knows his true identity: retired agent Yi Leng, a godlike heartthrob to countless beautiful women. He has hidden himself among ordinary people only to quietly protect his daughter, who no longer recognizes him. 25.5kReads9.4Score3k14d adds
31. 31 发 I’m Rich! Global Cooking Skills Have Regressed by 3,000 Times 发财了！全球厨艺倒退3000倍 Before You酉前Urban861k WordsOngoing [Global cooking skills have declined]+ [Clever, not a wish-fulfillment story]+ [Full of surprises]+ [Face-slapping without showing off] “What? What am I seeing? Is he... cracking an egg with one hand?” “He’s using overnight rice to make egg fried rice. No one’s ever tried that before!” “Look, look! He’s actually adding salt to the eggs!!!” Cai Xiaoxia, who would end up behind bars for three years if he failed to make this bowl of fried rice properly, listened to the gasps around him and finally 19Reads5.8Score—14d adds
32. 32 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 951Reads8.9Score10114d adds
33. 33 散 A Rogue Cultivator? Call Me the Great Chef 散修？请叫我厨神大人 Memories Pierce the Heart拾忆刺心Eastern Fantasy251k WordsOngoing Wandering cultivator and culinary god. No System. A cultivation story. Chu Mo, a culinary god who transmigrates to the cultivation world. One dish restores a gravely wounded city lord to full power. One pot of soup turns ten thousand people on the brink of death hale and hearty. A tide of demonic beasts descends? He turns himself into a self-destructing soldier and scares the beast king away! Come and see how Chu Mo eats his way through the cultivation world and wins everyone over with his cooki —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    A legendary chef transmigrates to a world of cultivation. He embarks on the path to immortality with a mysterious cultivation technique. In this world, he befriends companions and rescues people from dire straits. Explore secret realms, seek inheritances, and usher in a new era of cultivation! A traditional fantasy story with a grand world view. No system.

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