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- 1 I Went Back to the Village for a Feast and Became the Head Chef 回村吃席，竟成了掌勺大厨 When his cousin gets married, Chen Chen has just transmigrated and hasn’t even had time to adjust before his third uncle drags him back to the countryside for the wedding feast... The chef in charge of the banquet suddenly suffers a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital. In a desperate bid to save the day, his uncle’s family can only pin their hopes on Chen Chen, who spent three years studying cooking at New Oriental. Chen Chen: “Help! I really can’t cook!” System: “Yes, you can.” And so... 1.3kReads9.1Score102Shelves
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Reborn in 1987: Hosting Banquets in the Countryside 重生八七：我在农村做大席
I’m the best banquet chef in Rehe Township. Hire me for your feast and I’ll make you look good! A chef and food blogger in the age of big data, he returns to the 1980s to cook village banquets. In a word... nailed it! Don’t look down on village banquet chefs. There’s money to be made, meat to eat, and no end of lively happenings to watch. Li Chun is living a full and happy life. Don’t believe me? Then come on in and see for yourself...
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- 3 After Becoming a Master of State Banquets, I Started Running a Street Stall 成为国宴大师后开始摆摊 The warmth of everyday life is what comforts the human heart most. [Food + street stalls + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + street-stall guide + slow-paced everyday life + detailed recipes + no harem + the author genuinely wants to teach readers to cook] Chen Feng has studied cooking for years and mastered the four major regional cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang. He became the youngest person in the Dragon Kingdom to earn the title of National Banquet Master. Af 4.1kReads8.9Score270Shelves
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Reborn in a Northeastern Mountain Village: Fishing and Hunting Across Two Rivers and Two Nations 重生东北小山村渔猎两江两国
Please give this five stars. Please give this five stars. I don't have much education or skill, and I can't write fancy prose. I use ordinary people's language to tell an ordinary story. If you like it, I thank you for your support with a clasped-fist salute. If you don't, please be kind and don't flame me. An artist can't make a living without noble-minded patrons. I offer my thanks to all of you, my dear supporters.
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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
[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
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Country Chef at the Wok, Villagers Want a Feast Every Day! 农村掌大勺，村民天天想吃席！
Gu Ze transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to the top chef System. Other people who transmigrate get a food System that appears and disappears without a trace, and customers chase it down the street. But his System has just one task: cater banquets and earn ten thousand yuan a month. After Gu Ze caters a harvest feast for an entire village, his name spreads through the little town. The villagers spend every day plotting how to get a seat at a banquet. “You say you don’t know me? F
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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
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
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Boss, You're Running a Stall, So Why Do You Have a Roaming Skill? 老板摆个摊，怎么还带游走技能？
[Food + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Heartwarming] Jiang Yiwen transmigrates to a parallel world. He had planned to lie flat, but who could have guessed he’d be bound to the Ultimate Delicious Food System? On his first day, his goal is to earn three hundred yuan to complete a mission and receive a mysterious reward. And so, a boss who leaves every customer utterly frustrated makes his debut. When the aroma of his food wafts for miles and keeps everyone coming back for more.
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Spring Festival Travel Rush: I Sell Lunchboxes on the Train, and the Passengers Can’t Stop Drooling 春运：火车卖盒饭，乘客都馋哭了
[A Relaxed, Slow Pace] [Top-Tier Food] [A Delight to Read] [Impossible to Put Down] A three-star chef transmigrates by accident. The moment he opens his eyes, he finds himself in a dire situation from the start: his predecessor’s terrible cooking has left him in a mess, with one demanding diner after another to deal with. But when it comes to a little situation like this, Du Hao just wants to say coolly: “That’s it? That’s all you’ve got?” He promptly sneaks back into the kitchen. Then, one deli
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- 10 Food! I Opened a Shop While Raising a Child, and Home Prices in the Neighborhood Soared 美食！带娃开店周围小区房价暴涨 Food! He opens a shop while raising a child, and property prices in the surrounding neighborhoods soar. Food! He opens a shop while raising a child, and property prices in the surrounding neighborhoods soar. Food! He opens a shop while raising a child, and property prices in the surrounding neighborhoods soar. Food! He opens a shop while raising a child, and property prices in the surrounding neighborhoods soar. Food! He opens a shop while raising a child, and property prices in the surrounding —Reads—Score—Shelves
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I’m a Funeral Chef, and My Banquet Cooking Leaves Zhou Jie Stunned! 我丧葬大厨，烧大席吓懵周姐！
Qin Yu transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Gourmet System. He thought he would become a master chef, dining at the restaurants of the rich and powerful... But who could have guessed the System would make him cook up a feast in the countryside instead! And the dishes he makes even come with special attributes? White-Cut Chicken: “Dancing at the Rooster’s Crow” attribute: its irresistible aroma makes anyone who smells it break into a dance. Four Happiness Meatballs: “Happiness
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- 12 Gourmet: Taking Over the Bear’s Prison Canteen 美食：从承包毛熊监狱食堂开始 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
- 13 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 [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 105Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Gourmet: I Cater Village Banquets, and the Villagers Crowd Around My House 美食：村里烧宴席，村民堵我家门 [Lots of Food + Revenge + Slow-Paced + Romance + No Female Lead + No-Brainer Fun + Comfort Food] Zhou Peng transmigrates to a parallel world and unexpectedly binds himself to a Food System. Complete a customer's random banquet request and receive a random reward. A Double Ninth Festival banquet for the elderly, a baby's one-month celebration, a wedding banquet for a couple who got married on a whim. Braised pork, a whole chicken, a whole fish! Finish with a plate of stir-fried greens! The most t 67Reads—Score—Shelves
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After the Frail CEO Moves to the Countryside, a Little Farm Girl Spoils Him Rotten 病弱霸总下乡后，被小农女娇宠了
Li Sui'an is a poor farm girl with no parents. All she wants is to find a husband willing to marry into her family and settle down to a cozy life with a man, children, and a warm bed. But every man she meets is a scumbag. Then one day, she sees the new neighbor. He has a slim waist and long legs, and he's delicate and handsome, a rare beauty among men. Li Sui'an falls for him at first sight. Smitten by his looks, she decides to marry him and bring him home. He can be the pretty one, while she ea
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The God of Cooking: Building a Fortune with Banquet Feasts 神厨：从烧大席开始发家致富
Ding! The Super Chef System has activated. The host can bind to it simply by agreeing to cater a banquet, and will also receive a starter pack and rewards for completing missions. “Starter pack delivered: a complete set of banquet-cooking equipment, including a butcher's knife, a cleaver, a chopping knife, a two-meter-long ladle...”
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- 17 Random Street Stalls: I Use Food to Lure Snakes Out of Their Holes 随机摆摊：我用美食引蛇出洞 [Food + undercover work + comedy + catching criminals + System + no heroine + no romance] Also known as Food: The Undercover Cop Sets Up a Street Stall, and Fugitives Beg Him to Get Back to Work Xiao Lan transmigrated into the body of a police officer in a parallel world and was assigned to pose as a street-food vendor while keeping an eye on a suspect. As it happened, he’d been a cooking genius in his previous life. This was right up his alley. The next day, a tricycle loaded with top-tier food 9.9kReads9.4Score869Shelves
- 18 Gourmet: I Inherit a Little Shop and Take the Whole Country by Storm! 美食：继承小店的我火爆全国！ [No female lead romance + laid-back daily life + opening and upgrading a restaurant + lovingly detailed food descriptions and steady growth!] Su Baihang took over a restaurant from his parents. It was located inside a tourist attraction and was on the verge of closing. Luckily, the Strongest Culinary God System activated! Who says the food at tourist attractions can’t be delicious? Homestyle cabbage stir-fried with vinegar: sweet and sour, and even helps you lose weight! Red-braised pork: tender 1.1kReads8.7Score102Shelves
- 19 Gourmet: Serving State Banquets at My Street Stall 美食：我在地摊做国宴 [Food + perfect with a meal + stories + a touch of System + constantly new dishes + heartwarming + no female lead] Lin Yan woke up in his bed from two years ago and bonded with the Imperial Banquet Cuisine System. Starting with a bowl of clear-broth lion's head soup, he could unlock new dishes and amazing skills by completing revenue targets. With the System's help, he worked his way from the night market to the imperial banquet. He cooked for his family, for himself, and for everyone who loves —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Banquet, So I Made the Manchu-Han Imperial Feast 让你回村烧大席，你烧出满汉全席 Ou Huang returned to his hometown, intending to enjoy a leisurely life. But he was forced to bind himself to a strange System. He was assigned to be the village cook, responsible for preparing dishes for village banquets. Whether it was a senior's birthday, a baby's full-month celebration, or a wedding feast... every joyous occasion in the countryside was in Ou Huang's hands! From red-braised pork knuckle to four-joy meatballs to pork belly with preserved mustard greens, every dish Ou Huang ma 429Reads—Score—Shelves
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I’m a Banquet Chef. Why Are You Calling Me a Culinary God? 我，大席厨子，你们管我叫厨神？
Zhou Yuan's restaurant went under. Disheartened, he returned to Taoyuan Village. At a wedding banquet in the village, chef Wang Erxi was scalded by hot oil, and the host was so anxious he stamped his feet. Someone suggested, “Zhou Yuan used to run a restaurant. Let him fill in for Erxi!” The village bully immediately mocked them: “You’re counting on a man who ran his restaurant into the ground?” Just then, Zhou Yuan acquired a God of Cooking System. “Let me give it a try!” “This is even better t
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- 22 A Country Chef Gets Questioned? I Fire Back with a State Banquet! 农村厨子被质疑？我反手端国宴！ Zhang Yuan, a chef in Ping'an Village, is possessed by someone who transmigrated while he was haggling over prices. He takes over the village's celebration and funeral banquets, but he's so broke he can barely make ends meet. After awakening the Banquet Chef God System, he fires up three woks at once, frying spices until the aroma draws a million views! His knife work turns Wensi tofu into a chrysanthemum, astounding provincial officials. Even his sworn rival follows the aroma over with a 300-yu 131Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 23 I Transmigrated into a Good-for-Nothing Cook, and the Whole Village Begged Me to Cater Their Feast 穿越成废柴厨子，全村求我开席 After waking from a car accident, food blogger Cheng Lekang transmigrates into a good-for-nothing who ran his parents' restaurant into the ground! He didn't inherit his parents' cooking skills, and he's down to his last million yuan in savings. With his money about to run out, the Cheng Yuande family needs a chef for a funeral banquet, and the whole village is waiting to see him make a fool of himself: “Him? He can't even cook instant noodles!” Who could have guessed that a System would suddenly 7Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 24 You Want Me to Get Married Just So You Can Eat at the Wedding Banquet? 为了吃席，你竟然催我结婚？ Worn out both mentally and physically by the cutthroat rat race in his industry, Chen Yuan returns to his hometown. He had planned to lie flat and live as a slacker, but the System forcibly binds itself to him. The System scans for available careers: village banquet chef, rural content creator, expert farmer, and rural Taobao partner. Before Chen Yuan can react, the System automatically selects village banquet chef, sending him off to cook up feasts in the countryside. Master Chen accidentally f 7kReads8.1Score527Shelves
- 25 I'm an Average Cook, Yet the Villagers Won't Stop Singing My Praises! 我厨艺平平，硬被乡亲吹爆了！ The folks in Wang Yang’s hometown are friendly, close-knit, and full of community spirit! But every last one of them has a bad habit: they love to brag, always saying things like, “So-and-so from our village is amazing!” That was all well and good, until they found out Wang Yang had opened a small restaurant in the county town near his hometown... “I’m not bragging, but someone from my village opened a restaurant in our county town. Just thinking about his cooking makes my mouth water...” “If yo 3.2kReads8.1Score160Shelves
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My Food Refreshes at Random, Leaving Customers Drooling 我的美食随机刷新，顾客馋哭了
This book is also known as: Selling Extra-Spicy Grilled Wings Outside a Colorectal Hospital [Food + no female lead + everyday life + comedy + perfect with a meal] Lin Xuan didn't want to go to work, so he unexpectedly bound himself to a food System. Every week, it assigned a random location and a random dish. But the very first week's task left him dumbfounded. What? Sell extra-spicy grilled wings outside a colorectal hospital? What kind of devilish task was that? And that was only the beginnin
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- 27 Gourmet Food: Serving Customers from My RV, I Had My Secret Identity Exposed 美食：房车摆摊，顾客扒我马甲 The animated series is now live: [System] + [Gourmet] + [Warm and Healing] + [Main Character Has No Romance] + [A Few Secret Identities] + [Riches and Rewards] Original title: Gourmet: Food Truck Stalls, Customers Uncover My Secret Identity (Making friends through food and seeing the world with kindness. The main character sets up stalls at random all over the country, and loves to travel once a task is complete.) Wan Yi, a model from a minor agency, nearly starves to death at home while trying 3.4kReads8.8Score448Shelves
- 28 An Introvert Runs a Stall Everywhere, and the Customers Lose It I人摆摊到处跑，顾客崩溃了 (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 3.9kReads8.2Score345Shelves
- 29 What? The Management Game Became Real! 什么？经营游戏成真了！ [Mainly business and progression + no romance + leisurely daily life + healing + pocket worlds] From the start, all she had was a tea egg, and it launched a whole street of gourmet food. What? Her tea eggs boost your health? What? Her hot pot makes you look younger? What? Her milk tea keeps you from losing sleep? … Feng Zhu had been an orphan since childhood. She had spent twenty years doing her best to get by, only to be diagnosed with cancer and given less than a year to live. Just as she was 705Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 30 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 [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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Gourmet: A Summer Job Cooking Feast Meals Has the Whole Village Drooling 美食：暑假兼职烧大席，馋哭全村
[Gourmet] [Daily Life] [Lighthearted] [Funny] Jiang Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an eighteen-year-old high school student. After awakening a Gourmet System, he takes on the job of cooking lavish village banquets to earn some spending money for college. First, there’s an old man celebrating his seventieth birthday, then a two- or three-month-old baby crying to be fed. Crispy roast duck, lamb stir-fried with scallions, chicken, duck, fish, and meat: he has it all. In Jiang Ch
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It’s Hard Being the Eldest Sister: I Farm the Mountain to Pay Off Our Debts 长姐难为，我靠大山种田还债
[Farming story + no System + no pocket dimension + no awful relatives + building a career + heartwarming] Song Zhi transmigrates into a destitute farming family with bare walls and enormous debts. The moment she opens her eyes, she’s faced with: A father killed in battle, a mother who died in childbirth, a sickly little brother, and a family on the brink of collapse under crushing pressure. With all those hardships piled on, her predecessor had grown sensitive and short-tempered. Misled by other
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Shocking! The Whole Village Is Swooning Over the Young Village Doctor 震惊！全村被小村医馋哭了
[Rural life + farming + local customs + two female leads + the romance comes late, so proceed with caution if that’s not your thing!!! Not mentioning this would feel like a scam] After her father passed away, her mother relied on the mountains to make a living for Lin Yu and her two younger sisters. People said the mountains had trapped her, but Lin Yu was determined to make a sweet life for herself. At nineteen, she shouldered her herb basket and became the village’s only keeper of the Chinese
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- 34 The Village Chef Everyone Hopes Will Throw a Feast! 乡村掌大勺，村民天天盼吃席！ Lu Chuan dies while heroically saving someone, then is reborn and activates a bound Gourmet System that randomly assigns him to cater village banquets. The moment he gets started, the hosts and guests are stunned: hand-grabbed lamb chops, dry-braised bighead carp, tiger-skin pork knuckle, red-braised lion’s head meatballs, Farewell My Concubine… The dishes and banquets may be the same, but in Lu Chuan’s hands they become incomparably delicious. It’s not that the guests are slow with their chopst 148Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 A Fake Cooking God Goes on a Show and Accidentally Becomes the Real Deal 骗子厨神上节目，一不小心成真了 I transmigrated. Good news: I’m famous and hailed as the God of Cooking. Bad news: The whole thing is fake. I only got here through hype, rigged competitions, and bribed judges. Being famous despite having no skill would be bad enough, but Jiang Zhou discovers that his former self used his reputation to fleece people, too. Charging sky-high fees for apprenticeships, building restaurant chains, and doing whatever it took to make money. With the whole internet cursing him and his reputation in tat 21.4kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
- 36 Gourmet: One Meal Took Us From a Dorm Room to the Whole Nation! 美食：一顿饭，从寝室火到全国！ Broke college student Li Xiuyuan is starving and just wants a decent meal. Then he suddenly gets bound to the God of Cooking System. If you want a good meal, it’s better to make it yourself and be self-sufficient. One serving of fish-fragrant eggplant, and all three of his roommates drop to their knees, calling him “Dad” and begging him to make it again! He decides to open a restaurant, and the campus belle volunteers to clean up; A foreign exchange student tries ordinary tofu pudding and decide 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 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 559Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 38 You're the God of Food, Yet You Want Me to Cook a Banquet? 身为食神，你居然让我做大席？ Countryside + Gourmet + Heartwarming. The simple comforts of everyday life are what soothe the human heart. Chu Ci is reborn in a rural village in a parallel world and unexpectedly obtains the God of Food System. But the very first task the System gives him is to cook a feast for a crowd? But I don’t know how! Yet, looking at the kind, honest smiles of his family back home, Chu Ci has no choice but to take the job. Light the stove and get the dishes moving! Turns out, cooking a feast like this i 335Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 39 I'm Just a Chef, Director, Stop Adding Drama! 我只是个厨子啊，导演别加戏了吧 [Food + film sets + everyday life + comfort food + warmth + healing + comedy + fun] Lin Zhou joins a casting call for extras and unexpectedly gets bound to a Gourmet System. From then on, he only ever plays cooks. He can be a five-star chef in a domineering CEO drama, or the head cook at a country banquet in a rural drama. He can whip up roadside restaurant dishes so fragrant they fill the air for miles, or make stall food so delicious you'll savor every bite. Whatever the role calls for, he'll 1.9kReads7.5Score146Shelves
- 40 Gourmet Tycoon: Starting with Rural Banquet Cooking 美食富豪：从农村烧大席开始 [Rural banquet cooking + farming + restaurant reviews and warnings + gourmet food + outrageous food-tech tricks] [No cultivation in this book!] [The System plays a minor role!] [Food, farming, business, and realism take center stage!] Liu Chuan, the youngest top-level state banquet chef, transmigrates into the body of a spoiled rich kid in a parallel world! He thought he could live a life of luxury and finally experience what it was like to be a good-for-nothing! But then the “Self-Reliance Syst 87Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 41 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？ [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 191Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 I'm the Head Chef at the Hospital, and the Patients Are Drooling! 我在医院掌大勺，病人都馋哭了！ After transmigrating, Su Chen wakes up in a hospital bed and nearly gags at how awful the food in the hospital cafeteria tastes. Just then, he awakens a God Chef System. Every time he earns praise from a patient, he unlocks all kinds of divine dishes. The beginner's gift pack also includes the Nose of God. Just a sniff is enough for him to sense how fresh the ingredients are. Under Su Chen's management, the quality of the hospital cafeteria's food improves dramatically! “Huh? Who says I'm being 59Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 43 A Cook's Humble, Everyday Life 炊事兵的烟火人间 (A short drama adaptation is now available. Search for it to watch.) [Veteran army cook + soaring prices + heartwarming cuisine + everyday life running a shop] “Fifteen yuan for thirty dishes, all you can eat? There’s got to be a catch with this boxed meal!” As a food influencer mocks him on camera, Lu Mingyuan is in the kitchen, stir-frying his eighth wok of hot-and-sour cabbage. As the last honest stall owner in Sanjiangkou, he slaps his veteran’s discharge papers on the table and rises to his 695Reads7.7Score107Shelves
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My Stall Was Smashed, So I Climbed to the Top with a Gourmet System 摊子被砸，我靠美食系统踏巅峰
[System, food, lighthearted comedy, everyday city life, outlandish ideas, comeback, one heroine, slow-paced slice of life] After losing his job at thirty-six, Wang Ping’an can’t find work and returns to the small county town that’s both unfamiliar and familiar to him. There, he starts a new life running a food stall. With his cooking skills and a boost from the System, he earns titles like “Wok King” and “Beast Tamer”... Wang Ping’an: “How slow-paced is it? The System doesn’t show up until chapt
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- 45 The Prison Food Is So Good, No Inmate Wants to Get Out 牢饭太香，犯人都不想出狱了 Pang Rifeng is a restaurant owner with mediocre cooking skills. After an accident gave him the “Strongest Food System,” his culinary skills improved dramatically. His elementary school classmate Miao Fengfeng recommended him for a chef job at a prison. Using the dishes unlocked by his System, he won rave reviews from the inmates. Even the guards volunteered for overtime just to sample his cooking. Pang Rifeng’s cooking not only improved the prison meals, but also motivated the inmates to work ha 1.5kReads5.6Score150Shelves
- 46 Gourmet: The Truth Is, I'm a Max-Level Chef 美食：摊牌了，其实我是满级厨师 [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 3.4kReads9.1Score338Shelves
- 47 The Road to Rural Revitalization Begins with Selling Goods in the Countryside 从下乡卖货开始的乡村振兴之路 Most college graduates head to the big cities to work hard for a better life. Zhou Yi was different. After graduating from Kyoto Agricultural University, he resolutely chose to return to his hometown. Zhou Yi had always believed that the purpose of education was to gain the power to change his hometown’s poverty-stricken fate, not to escape it. Seeing one hollowed-out village after another, along with the elderly living alone and the children left behind, Zhou Yi resolved to do something to impr 91Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 48 Gourmet: Stop Stewing It, Even the Village Dogs Are Drooling! 美食：别炖了，村里狗都馋哭了！ Kuang Rui refuses to get caught up in the rat race and chooses to lie flat back in his hometown. He inherits his father’s braised meat shop and, after rejecting the rat race, gains a Food System. Together, they breathe new life into the shop. The humble home-cooked dishes that once went unnoticed are transformed into viral hits that customers flock to check in and try. Take steamed stinky tofu with minced meat, for example. It smells awful but tastes delicious, and one bite is enough to leave y 2.4kReads6.4Score156Shelves
- 49 Gourmet: I Sell Lunchboxes at a Kindergarten, and Everyone Craves Them 美食：幼儿园卖盒饭，全都馋哭了 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Su Haoze took in the little tyke left behind by his big brother and sister-in-law. To support the family, he opened a small lunch spot outside a kindergarten. Who would’ve thought he’d end up bound to a Gourmet System! Braised lion’s head meatballs, chicken tofu soup, Dongpo pork, sweet-and-sour ribs, cola chicken wings... Dish after delicious dish won over not only the children, but also a whole crowd of parents. “Boss, do you sell meal plans?” “I want 5.4kReads7.3Score411Shelves
- 50 I Run the Banquet Kitchen, and Big Shots Line Up at the Village Entrance 掌勺流水席，大佬排队到村口 [Gourmet + Countryside + Banquet Cooking + System + Entrepreneurship] At 23, Xu Wang transmigrates into the body of an orphan from a poor village. The moment he opens his eyes, he finds that the chef has run off from his uncle’s daughter’s wedding banquet! In his darkest hour, he activates the Culinary Inheritance System, and the beginner’s gift instantly grants him top-tier cooking skills! He takes charge of the entire banquet on his own! His braised pork knuckle is so delicious that an eighty- 224Reads6.3Score—Shelves
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