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A 1960s Supporting Actress Joins Her Husband’s Army on a Coastal Island 六零年代女配海岛随军日常
Island life with the military + Sweet romance + No toxic characters + Everyday life Ye Xi accidentally transmigrated to the 1960s. Before she could even process what had happened, the man who had saved her life proposed to her. Lu Zhou brought home a sweet, delicate wife, and the young woman was an incredible cook. Crab roe noodles, fish roe wontons, soybean cakes… Lu Zhou could only think how lucky he was to have found a treasure.
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The Xu Family Girl’s Pinduoduo Eatery 徐家小娘的拼夕夕食铺
Xu Qingqing transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a penniless orphan girl in a village near Qingshan Town. She looks at the empty rice jar, and before she can squeeze out a tear, she's struck by the "Pinduoduo Ready-Made Meal System"! Can picking wild vegetables earn points? Ready-made meal packs? High-tech seasonings? From then on, a remarkable little food stall appears in Qingshan Town. Fragrant braised pork rice, pan-fried dumplings with thin wrappers and generous fillings... Delicious a
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Farming in the Mountains, I Snagged a Good Man 在山上种田，拐到一个好男人
When Lu Shuyi turned thirty, she had saved up one million yuan. She quit her job without a second thought, returned to the mountains of her hometown, and began her “retirement life.” Her days of eating, drinking, and farming catch the attention of a little yellow dog, and, by extension, its owner. From then on, her days are filled with eating, drinking, farming, and a little flirting.
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The God of Cooking’s Recipe: Transmigrate to Another World and Become a God Through Food 食神菜谱：穿越异世靠干饭封神
Modern-day foodie Su Bai transmigrates into a fantasy continent, with no heaven-defying bloodline and no ancestral treasures. His only talent is an appetite like no other. When hungry, he eats spirit fruit; when craving a treat, he roasts vicious beasts. One casual home-cooked meal is enough to rouse the sect's founding ancestor. Others rely on pills to cultivate. He levels up on three meals a day. He ventures into secret realms just to hunt for delicacies, and fights powerful enemies just to ch
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My Restaurant Connects Past and Present, and I Can't Get Enough Antique Jewelry 我的饭店通古今，古董首饰收不完
Li Meng, a castoff from a wealthy family, returned to her hometown and inherited her grandmother's little restaurant! On opening day, Li Meng could tell something was off about the place! Why were the customers coming in dressed in ancient costumes? Cosplay? And when it was time to pay, they handed her gleaming silver ingots! Worth 1,500! Three little dishes for 1,500! This business was a gold mine! The next day, a child beggar ate a bowl of noodles and paid her with an antique bracelet! Worth h
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Transmigrated as a Farm Girl Selling Fern Cakes 穿成农女卖蕨饼
After transmigrating into a farming family, she finds a courtyard lined with two rows of thatched cottages that leak whenever it rains. Her father was taken away by conscription three years ago, leaving her mother alone to raise two children. The family has only their last mu of land and the money their mother occasionally earns from embroidery, with almost no savings. They're so poor they can barely eat their fill each day. Luckily, Yun Hua knows how to earn money and support the family. She se
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- 507 One Dish a Day: Building a Culinary Empire 一天只卖一道菜，我打造美食帝国 (The rating has just come out, but it will rise later) [Gourmet] + [System] + [One heroine] + [Dad raising a child] + [Everyday life] Chen Qiu's business venture fails, leaving him a million yuan in debt, and he's forced to take over the little restaurant his parents left behind. Just when he has nowhere else to turn, he awakens the [God-Tier Gourmet Sign-In System]! His first sign-in rewards him with “God-Tier Pork Stir-Fried with Chili Peppers”! When he puts up a sign advertising it at “88 yua 42.5kReads7.8Score2.6kShelves
- 508 I Open a Restaurant in the Demon Realm 我在妖界开饭馆 Jin Chef Award winner Xia Rong transmigrates to the world of cultivation. The ingredients there are exquisite, and beauties are everywhere. Xia Rong has never cared for much in life, except good food and beautiful women. With her restaurant open and beauties to admire, life is simply delightful. 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 509 Transmigrated as the Original Heroine Who Was Sold, I Win Fame in the Capital with My Cooking 穿成被卖原女主后，我靠美食名动京城 After Shen Yinyin fainted during a cooking competition, she opened her eyes to find herself as a cannon-fodder villainess in a household-intrigue novel. Worse, she was the kind who gets sold off after losing the family power struggle! Price: five taels of silver. And the person buying her was an old woman with a butcher’s knife tucked into her waistband? Shen Yinyin: ??? Her new home was bare as could be. Shen Yinyin sighed, picked up a jar of thirteen-spice seasoning in one hand and a huge iron 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Sweet Military Wife Is on Top, and Her Officer Husband Can't Take It 娇娇军嫂在上，军官老公顶不住
The short drama adaptation, Sweet Years, is now streaming~ The second short drama adaptation, Let Me Dwell in Your Heart, is now streaming~ [Military marriage + food + supermarket space + devoted couple + everyday life + love after marriage] Ye Muqi had just become a seven-star chef when a car accident transported her to the 1980s. From the start, she was married, and her husband was a soldier with a slim waist and long legs. For Ye Muqi, who had been single for 29 years, that was a huge plus! T
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- 511 I Conquered the Interstellar World with Gourmet Food 我靠美食征服星际 A little chef is reborn in the future, in the interstellar age. What? Earth has been destroyed and its civilization lost? Chefs have actually become the most prestigious and rarest profession? It really does run in the family, this love of food. You want to challenge me to a cooking competition? Dear, do you know the Eight Great Cuisines? My mental strength may be trash and my physique good-for-nothing, but I know I’m a good chef. 63Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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I Became a Wicked Farm Girl, Won a Man, Raised Kids, and Brought Prosperity to the Whole Family 穿成农门恶女，撩汉养崽旺全家
[Paralyzed husband + farming + food + raising children + pocket dimension] Shen Zhi transmigrated unexpectedly and became a vicious woman who abused her son and wanted to kill her paralyzed husband. Looking at her little boy, skinny and grimy, her older son, a born troublemaker, and her sickly, beautiful husband lying in bed, Shen Zhi sighed. With so many mouths to feed, she had no choice but to roll up her sleeves and get to work! Luckily, she had cooking skills and a pocket dimension, so she w
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- 513 I Turn the Tide in the Cultivation World with My Cooking 我靠美食在修仙界逆风翻盘 [Food + cultivation + slow-burn growth + lighthearted, witty style] [The heroine is clever and a bit of a goofball. The hero is obsessive and crazy, with a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and a haughty streak.] Living in the apocalypse, Yu Guiwan had imagined all kinds of ways she might die, but never that she, a celebrated chef, would be poisoned to death by a pot of mushroom soup! Humiliated, she realized she had transmigrated. Even more humiliatingly, the moment she came back to life, her husband 2.7kReads8.9Score345Shelves
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I Win Over the Entire Interstellar World with Food 我靠美食撼动全星际
Our whole family transmigrated together. Ding Ling was at a loss. Her father, who knew nothing about cooking, became the heir apparent to the largest interstellar food and beverage group. Her stay-at-home mom became the most popular adventure streamer in the stars. And Ding Ling? Ding Ling had just been accepted into the archaeology department at the top military university in the stars. The three members of the Ding family were speechless. The people of the Empire spread the news far and wide.
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- 515 You Told Me to Sell Fried Rice, and I Brought the Highway to a Standstill 让你摆摊卖炒饭，你把高速干瘫痪 Bai Ming transmigrates to Blue Star and becomes an unemployed young man. With his family fortune about to run dry, he is lucky enough to activate the Gourmet System and gain god-tier cooking skills and legendary kitchenware. It happens to be the Spring Festival rush, when everyone is returning to the cities and the highway is gridlocked. Living nearby, Bai Ming simply brings out his wok and stove and starts selling fried rice by the roadside. The drivers and passengers, already starving, are ins 991Reads8.7Score106Shelves
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Smoke Rises from the Kitchen in the Deep Clouds 云深炊烟起
After retiring, Old Wu digs out a yellowed ledger filled with twenty years of favors and gift money: who gave what, who still owes him, all meticulously tallied. He thought he would spend the rest of his life counting every penny, until he met a young man from Shaanxi crying by the roadside, an elderly woman named Zhao living alone, and Old Liu, who had broken his leg… He began to understand that some debts can be calculated, but some kindnesses can never be repaid. From then on, Old Wu keeps a
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After Transmigrating, I Pick Up Three Good-for-Nothing Sons 穿越后白捡三个不成器的儿子
Su Tan had it rough! She had somehow transmigrated into the role of stepmother to three children. Her unreliable husband spent all his time in the army and never came home more than once a year. Her mother-in-law spent her days mooching off others and waiting for someone else to take charge. The three half-grown boys were so thin and pale from hunger that they practically drooled two pounds at the sight of white rice. “What kind of transmigration leaves you this malnourished!” Su Tan was too exh
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The Top Chef in a Culinary Wasteland 我在美食荒漠当第一厨娘
Bai Qingwan, the owner of a private kitchen, was hit by a car while saving someone and transmigrated into the body of a farm girl with the same name in a fictional dynasty, whose surname was Yong. To her surprise, this place was a culinary wasteland that didn't even have soy sauce. Her family lived by the mountains and near the sea, yet what they ate was the sort of stuff even pigs wouldn't touch. Then she found herself bound to the Huaxia Cuisine System. To help her fulfill her mission of sprea
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Fired for Rejecting Premade Meals, I Become a Master Chef with the System 拒预制菜被开除，我靠系统成厨神
Chen Feng, head chef at a five-star hotel, is fired on the spot after standing up to his boss and refusing to use premade food! Who would’ve thought he’d be bound to a [Culinary Inheritance System], receive the Golden Egg Fried Rice recipe from the start, and take over a run-down 50-square-meter neighborhood shop? With his authentic, no-nonsense cooking, one bowl of fried rice brings the whole street to tears! No artificial tricks, just top-quality ingredients, from egg fried rice to Kung Pao ch
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After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Make a Comeback by Selling Lunch Boxes 穿书后我靠卖盒饭逆袭
[Gourmet] [A Love That Goes Both Ways] [Sweet Romance] Su Tian transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious older sister who meets a tragic end. She immediately decides to treasure her life and stay out of trouble. Why not sell boxed meals and enjoy her own little life? Except... Why does the original male lead’s uncle keep hanging around her? One day, Uncle Huo gives Su Tian a handbag, only to discover it listed on a secondhand marketplace app moments later. Uncle Huo: Care to explain? S
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Tell Me, Why Is Northeastern Chinese Food So Good? 你说，东北菜怎么就这么香？
[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
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I Used My Divorce Settlement to Open a Mushroom Hot Pot Restaurant 拿着和离费我开了家菌子火锅
[Transmigrate into a game + food + both leads are each other's first + sweet romance + System] Xiao Ling, a twenty-eight-year-old who's never been in a relationship, encounters No. 000, a female-oriented romance game System from the game Radiant Light. She gets to experience a real-life transmigration game. Starting out in the prince's manor, she earns enough silver to leave with a thousand taels and return to the countryside, where she builds a home of her own. The story is set in an alternate
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- 523 With Barely a Roof Over Her Head, She Pulls a Wild Boar from Her Pocket Dimension 家徒四壁，她从空间掏出一只野猪 The short drama “Three Years a Widow, Then My Husband Returned from the Dead”: Sun Shuyue wakes up as the wicked mother of four troublesome little villains. Her family is destitute, her husband has died in battle, and she owes a few taels of silver. A master chef, she puts her skills to work, determined to earn money, support the family, and raise the children right so the four little villains can get on the straight and narrow! As she raises them, the eldest gets into the best school, and his t 316Reads8.9Score103Shelves
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From the Start, I Changed My Fate by Selling Braised Meat 开局分家，我靠卖卤肉改命
[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
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The Snow-Hidden Road Home 雪隐归途
In the winter of Yongchang’s seventeenth year, an accusation of treason reduced the illustrious General Zhenyuan’s household to ashes in an instant. Zhao Xuening, the general’s only child, became the center of her family’s swirling intrigues on the eve of disaster. She watched with her own eyes as her grandmother, who usually spent her days praying and abstaining from meat, contorted her face and clutched her mother by the throat, demanding some “thing” Zhao Xuening knew nothing about. She also
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Dr. Song, Please Sign for Your Wife 宋医生，你的老婆签收一下
[Award-winning title in the Tomato Sweet Romance series] [Both leads are devoted to each other + sweet romance + no misunderstandings] [Amateur food streamer × doctor who seems celibate] An Zhiwu is an amateur food streamer. One day, she goes to the hospital because her stomach is bothering her and discovers that the incredibly handsome young doctor is the specialist she paid 100 yuan to see. Wait, isn't he a gastroenterologist? Why can he also stitch wounds? Wait, isn't he a doctor? Why can he
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Good Food and Sweet Dreams with You 与君美食复甘眠
[Transmigration + Ancient Times + Farming + Food + Woman Chef + Romance] The meat is so tender it seems carved from beauty, and the fragrant aroma never stops rising from the pot. As a humble office worker in the twenty-first century, Su Yu had few interests, and food was the only one she loved. Her one and only wish was to stop being exploited by every capitalist under the sun and become a capitalist herself. So the gods heard her prayer and granted it. She closed her eyes and woke up as a poor
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Sweet Pampering in the 1980s: The Foodie Wife Is No Pushover 八零暖宠，美食娇妻不好惹
She opens her eyes and finds herself back in 1983, transformed into a pitiful bride whom her parents “sold” to a local thug for two hundred yuan. Her bride price went straight toward covering the debts of her good-for-nothing younger brother. With her husband’s family living in abject poverty and her own family watching like vultures, she wields spicy mala xiang guo in one hand and braised intestines in the other, winning over the whole street with her cooking and turning her carefree husband in
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The Spirit Spring Diner: A Fierce Daughter-in-Law Raises a General 灵泉小饭馆：剽悍长媳养出个将军
Jiang Niannian woke up to discover she had transmigrated into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder eldest daughter-in-law in a farming novel. Her family was about to have their restaurant and recipes stolen by the second branch of the family. Her husband was about to be plotted against and killed by them, and in the end, she would starve to death during a severe drought because she had no money to stock up on grain. Jiang Niannian grabbed a cleaver and got to work! The second branch wanted to stea
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Reborn in the Tang Dynasty With a Gourmet System 重生唐朝美食系统
Top modern chef Lin Xuan opens his eyes and finds himself dumped from the kitchen of an international culinary competition into a dilapidated hut outside Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. With nothing but four bare walls around him, he is starving and freezing, with only a broken knife, half a bowl of cold rice, and a life hanging by a thread. Just as he thinks he is about to starve to death, the Chinese Cuisine System quietly binds itself to him. Cooking earns points, selling meals rai
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The Marquis's Wife's Culinary Journal 侯夫人美食手札
A once-popular food blogger transmigrates to ancient times and conquers the land with all kinds of delicious dishes. From the countryside to the county seat, she goes from having nothing to owning a modest fortune. From being taken in to having every aspect of her life neatly arranged for her, she finds the whole thing a little embarrassing. Lin Yushi believes there’s no problem in this world that a good meal can’t solve. And if one meal isn’t enough, make it two.
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With My Superb Cooking, I Blaze a Trail Through Ancient Times with Delicious Food 厨艺超高的我在古代用美食开道
[Transmigration + alternate world + food + business + opening a shop + farming + golden finger] Food is the focus, with no awful family members and few unpleasant characters overall. * The heroine is neither foolish nor naive, and she's no lovesick fool. She's kind but not a pushover, and she keeps a clear head. The hero won't appear until the later chapters set in the capital. No palace or household intrigues, just plenty of delicious food! * An alternate-world setting! Some systems are based o
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With a Personal Shopping System, I'm Worshipped as a God by International Students 手握代购系统，被留学生奉为神明
[Reborn in 2004 + overseas student shopping System + no romance + food + lighthearted comedy] In her previous life, Qiu Ling was sold to a stranger by her parents, imprisoned for six years and forced to give birth twice. She escaped and spent fourteen years on the run, only to meet a tragic end. Unexpectedly reborn at eighteen, she goes wild and changes her fate! By chance, she gets an overseas student shopping System in her rented apartment. From then on, there’s no stopping her. One bowl of zh
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She Conquers the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 她靠美食征服全京城
After she accidentally transmigrates to ancient times, Chu Yunxiang wins over the stomachs of everyone in the capital with modern-day skewers, zhajiangmian, hot pot, and more. Even the current emperor is no exception. Someone recognizes the emperor in disguise, sneaking out late at night to eat skewers at Yunlai Restaurant. The emperor, pretending to be calm: “You’ve got the wrong person.” Someone else recognizes the Ghost Doctor of the martial world. “Look at these ragged clothes. How do I look
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I'm a Chef, Yet Somehow I'm Li Er's Son-in-Law 厨师的我，竟是李二的女婿
Yin Xuan transmigrates to the seventh year of the Zhenguan era in the Tang dynasty, where he becomes the owner of a tavern and awakens the Myriad Realms Cuisine System. From then on, his life changes completely. A plate of tomato and egg stir-fry leaves Cheng Yaojin and his two sons singing its praises, while a bowl of wine gets Li Shimin dead drunk. Every dish he makes sets trends throughout the Tang dynasty. Cheng Yaojin: Little brother, how about we become sworn brothers? We don’t have to be
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Toriko: I Can Create New Ingredients 美食的俘虏之我能创造新的食材
A diverse world born of food: chocolate volcanoes erupt with rivers of chocolate, oceans flow with endless wine, and entire mountain ranges are made of all kinds of barbecue. A boundless variety of delicacies continually emerges across this land. What kind of story will unfold when a lucky person with the ability to create new ingredients arrives in this world?
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- 537 I Turned into a Delicate Girl and Got Made to Cry by My Childhood Friend, the Campus Belle 变成娇弱妹纸，被青梅校花弄哭了 [Cuddles + Childhood Friend Campus Belle + Easygoing Romance + Campus Life + One-on-One + Comedy + Overwhelmingly Sweet] One day, a “mysterious grand prize” suddenly fell into Jiang Xian's lap. The next morning, standing in front of the toilet, his mouth twitched uncontrollably... Jiang Xian emerged from the bathroom, face bright red. One of his roommates immediately came over, sniffed him, and chuckled: “Bro... you smell so good...” The three big babies stared at Jiang Xian's skinny arms and le 10kReads9.3Score913Shelves
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Gourmet: From Country-Style Banquets to a Better Life! 美食：从农村烧大席开始奔小康！
Illustrations throughout [System, food, reborn, farming, warm everyday life] Wang Cheng suddenly returns to the 1980s and binds to a Chef God Training System. In his previous life, he aimed too high and ended up dying suddenly at his factory job, tightening screws. This time, he returns to the countryside. With a few plates and bowls, eight cold dishes and eight hot ones, chicken, fish, pork knuckles, and meat dishes that disappear as soon as they hit the table, he’ll rule the world with nothing
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My Kindergarten Went Bankrupt, So Instead of Giving Up, I Started a Street Stall 幼儿园破产，我不摆烂选择摆摊
[Comfort Food] [Master Chef System] [Adorable Kids and Their Dad] [Unlucky Diners] [No Romance] Eight years after transmigrating to a parallel world, Li Qilin already has a three-year-old kid, and the “Master Chef cheat” that had been overdue for years has finally arrived. The good news: the struggling daycare can stay afloat. The bad news: starting a daycare inevitably leads to “commando-style street vending.” … Whether they’re little rascals or young villains, they’re all adorable food lovers
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I Became a Hero in Primitive Society 我在原始社会为人杰
A no-cheat start, with hardcore primitive survival! A modern traditional Chinese medicine practitioner makes a place for himself in primitive society and steadily builds his way up. The protagonist accidentally transmigrates to primitive society. He is skilled in medicine, saving lives and healing the wounded, and knowledgeable enough to improve his tribe! He finds food, builds homes, and secures the means to survive. He gathers herbs and treats injuries to strengthen the tribe, then builds citi
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Reborn: I'm the God of Cooking in the Liuli Kingdom! 重生：我在琉璃国当厨神！
[Food + No System + Urban Fantasy + Comfort Food + Everyday Life] Chu Jie was an ordinary chef at a humble eatery until an accident left him reborn in the Glazed Kingdom. Here, chefs are held in high esteem. To become one of the best, you must keep collecting badges and then compete for supremacy at an advanced academy. Join Chu Jie as he makes his way through the Glazed Kingdom, learning from a master, fighting against villains, and winning over diners with one delicious dish after another. He'
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- 542 Gourmet: Winning Over Boss Yang on a Film Set 美食：从剧组征服杨老板开始 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 2kReads9.2Score130Shelves
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They Say Chinese Cuisine Is Second-Rate? I Challenge Them to a State Banquet Cook-Off 中餐不入流？我拿国宴食戟
[Food Wars! fanfiction + serious food writing + easygoing daily life + no System + little secretary + Polar Star Dorm spirit + basically, just come read and get hungry late at night (the score is low only because it hasn't been around long)!] He Huan, a Northeastern chef skilled in Cantonese cuisine, transmigrates into Food Wars! and vows to make Chinese cuisine the best in the world! Let me show you what real Chinese cuisine is! A pot of [rice-free congee hot pot], tender, smooth, fresh, and cr
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The Feast Records: The Simple Joys of a Flavorful Life 食案录：人间有味是清欢
[Transmigration + everyday cooking + running a neighborhood business + female chef] After becoming the cook at a small shop in ancient times, Lin Zhiwei doesn’t rely on reclaiming wasteland to survive. Instead, she runs a humble neighborhood shop with her skill at preparing all kinds of delicious dishes. Starting with a bowl of bone broth that costs four coins, she serves rice with lard, braised pork bones, and glutinous rice cakes, warming an entire street with one homestyle dish after another.
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- 545 Dotting-Dad: From the Start, I Own a Restaurant 宠妻奶爸：开局一家美食餐厅 P.S. This is a sweet story about a devoted dad, food, and everyday life. No brainless showing off and face-slapping, and no mindless tycoon antics. After getting drunk over his failed startup, Su Feng unexpectedly met a treasure of a woman who looked like a goddess! When they met again, she brought him two adorable twin baby girls, and he gained a magical Super Dad Cooking System. Su Feng: “Make a fortune? Open a chain of restaurants? No need. I just want to provide for Youchu and my two preciou 1.7kReads9.2Score122Shelves
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Reborn in the 1980s: Building Wealth Starts with a Cold Water Stall 重生八零，致富从摆凉水摊开始
Rebirth + 1980s setting + space + spirit spring + adorable child + feel-good power fantasy + strong heroine + face-slapping the worst of the worst + building a business + love that grows over time + contemporary romance + making a fortune + family and neighborhood life + fantasy romance The madwoman from her past life is reborn! When Zhong Jingqiu, who froze to death on the street in her previous life, opened her eyes, she found herself back on the day her daughter died after a high fever went
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I Keep the Entire Dynasty Fed by Going to the Market 本宫靠赶集养活了全王朝
Qin Zhao has a secret: every five days, her soul travels to a fantastical “Immortal Market.” At first, she only brings back a few curious trinkets. The emperor is delighted to discover that his daughter brings back far more than rare curios from another world: high-yield crops, ingenious technical blueprints, remarkably effective medicines, and even a “magic pen” that needs no inkstone. These heaven-sent treasures, capable of transforming agriculture, manufacturing, medicine, and even government
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The Jilted Farm Girl Makes a Comeback, Taking Her Husband on the Road to Riches 退亲农女要翻身，携夫走上致富路
The chuunibyo woman Fang Xiaoning transmigrated! Her father is heartless, shameless, and ill-mannered. Her mother is a weepy little flower, and the family is dirt poor with three children. Fang Xiaoning has it worst of all: her fiancé is a scumbag, and her future in-laws are shameless. Just when she finally manages to break off the engagement, her awful father sends her into the room of the man who once saved his life... Fang Xiaoning grinned. She’d been wondering how to get out of the engagemen
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- 549 The Little Chef God of the Song Dynasty 宋朝小厨神 After waking up drunk, Yang Donghao, a graduate of New Oriental Culinary School, discovered that he had somehow transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty: the Song Kingdom. And so... Popcorn became all the rage in the capital, beloved by everyone from princes and nobles to ordinary folk. Mixue milk tea won over even the fussy palates of princesses and the empress. As for jianbing guozi and youtiao with soy milk, they became the emperor's daily breakfast. Food is the people's first necessity, and go 7.8kReads8.8Score863Shelves
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My Lord Husband Is Quite a Catch 郎君甚相宜
[Two-faced ray of sunshine x gloomy, world-weary Demon King] [Detective work + food + court intrigue + redemption] In Jiang Chunhe's world, everything could be classified as either edible or inedible. Then she met Shen Zhi, and suddenly her definition of food was turned upside down. Everyone thinks Shen Zhi is cruel and vicious, and avoids him like the plague. Only Chef Jiang says, “Don't throw out that battered Demon King you found. Take care of him, and he might turn into a tasty little cabbag
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