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- 51 Showbiz: Farming and Castrating Pigs, and You Call This a Nobody? 娱乐：种地劁猪，这真是小糊咖 (This book was originally titled “Farming and Castrating Pigs, This Really Is a Nobody”!!!) Xiao Yu is a minor celebrity who’s about to leave the entertainment industry. After a farming variety show became a huge hit, Xiao Yu took the place of Cai Kunkun, a colleague from the same agency, on a reality show called “Let’s Farm, Superstars!” The agency only meant for Xiao Yu to fill in on the show before quitting the industry. They never expected this obscure young heartthrob to shock the whole cou 1.2kReads6.8Score10014d adds
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Gourmet: The Dishes I Cook Come with Buffs 美食：我炒的菜有BUFF
[Gourmet] [No CP] [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] [Healing] [Perfect with a Meal] His broad palm gently patted the snow-white skin. Fine, soft hairs brushed over his fingertips and palm, their ticklish, tingling touch so intoxicating he could hardly tear himself away. He stroked, kneaded, and patted. Ripples spread across the skin, making the tender flesh beneath quiver along with it. His long fingers gathered together, reluctant to let go, and gave it one last pinch. Then he gripped the knife an
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- 53 I’m a Grade-Schooler, and I’ve Become a Culinary God! 谢邀，我，小学生，已成厨神！ [Gourmet]+ [Slice of Life]+ [No Romance]+ [Heartwarming]+ [Healing]+ [Comedy] “The only thing an elementary school student should be doing is studying hard... But I think Master Fang going to school is neglecting his proper work.” “I’ve finally made it to the front of the line... Master Fang, can we put your homework aside for a bit? Could you fry me some rice first?” “You think I’m waiting outside the elementary school to pick up my own kid? I’m actually here to pick up Master Fang after schoo 24.7kReads8.8Score2.4k14d adds
- 54 This Chef Can Do Magic 这个主厨会魔术 While Chen Xi was selling fried rice on the street, a gas canister suddenly exploded, and he unexpectedly gained control over fire. After a series of twists and turns, he became the head chef at a restaurant in San Francisco that was on the verge of closing. Under the guise of magic, he grilled pizza, meat, chicken, steak... The food was delicious, and the amazing fire performances were a sight to behold. The little seaside restaurant gradually became a hit. Chen Xi started receiving bigger and 6.4kReads9.1Score45814d adds
- 55 You Opened a Restaurant, So Why Are You Serving Customers at Three in the Morning? 让你开美食店，你凌晨三点营业？ [Gourmet]+ [Urban Fantasy]+ [Comedy]+ [Healing]+ [No Female Lead] Recently unemployed Lu Feng was planning to sell the little restaurant his parents left him, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. One quest each week, a random dish, and random opening hours. He turns ordinary dishes into peerless delicacies, and ravenous customers line up and scramble to get them. Customer One: Boss Lu, these soup dumplings are the best I've ever had in my life! Customer Two: I even threw out my 467Reads7.2Score10514d adds
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Gourmet: One Bowl of Pork-Killing Stew Makes the Whole Village Weep 美食：一碗杀猪菜，吃哭全村老少
[Gourmet]+ [Rural Banquet Cooking]+ [Everyday Life]+ [System]+ [Humor] Shen Fei had just graduated from college when someone hired him to cook for a funeral banquet. He was still hesitating when he heard the System awaken. Accepting the job would bind him to the Gourmet System. What was there to hesitate about? He knew the ins and outs of wedding and funeral banquets better than anyone! He’d secretly learned plenty by following his grandpa around. From then on, whenever anyone held a wedding or
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Online Chef: Cooking a Hundred Feasts in the Countryside 在线厨师：我在乡村烹百宴
The protagonist unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a country boy. “What? Your third uncle is getting married, and you want me to cook the whole wedding feast? I’ve never done anything like that!” Faced with this sudden responsibility, Lin Bing feels the pressure mounting. Luckily, he awakens the Cloud Cooking Livestream System and immediately receives the Complete Banquet Cookbook… Just as the villagers speculate that Lin Bing’s cooking will be nothing special, his carefu
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No More Hiding My Cooking Skills: The Chef Begins with Country Banquets 美食不装了厨神从农家乐席面开始
Luo Fan has just graduated from college when a sudden Gourmet System transforms his rustic banquet dishes into something extraordinary. What used to be simple country cooking becomes a culinary destination that diners clamor to visit. Steamed stinky tofu with minced meat: pungent yet fragrant, it leaves diners hooked after just one bite. Napa cabbage stewed with egg dumplings: its lingering flavor is like a taste of home. Rabbit in savory sauce and spicy diced pork are fragrant, tender, and deli
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You Want Me to Cater Banquets and Play Matchmaker? I’m a Professional Marriage Wrecker 让我烧大席当月老？我专业拆婚
Five-star hotel chef Ye Shuisheng suddenly came to his senses. Why cook for rich people with bulging bellies who don’t even know how to appreciate food? Why trade his passion for a paycheck? He decided to lie flat and return to the countryside of his hometown. That was where he could find the life he longed for, his own Back to Field. He resolutely returned to his rural hometown in the Jiangnan water towns and became a chef who cooked for village banquets. The banquets he cooked made girls want
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Gourmet: A Happy Life Begins with Banquet Cooking 美食：幸福生活，从烧大席开始
Lin Yu wakes up and transmigrates to a parallel world. Bound to a Food System, he starts a career cooking grand village feasts. From a complete novice in the kitchen, he grows into a master chef. Frying, stir-frying, braising, deep-frying: no problem. Sichuan, Shandong, Cantonese, Huaiyang: he can make them all. Western food and desserts: mastered too. What? He can even lead everyone in Lin Family Village to a better life! That’s right. I’m Lin Yu. A simple food story, with no infighting, cultiv
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- 61 Hengdian's Little Culinary God 横店小厨神 A new work is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Chief Minister's Darling Wife: I Run a Country Feast in the Ancient Countryside 首辅娇娘：我在古代农村烧大席
[Banquet Cooking + Farming + Business + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance] Tang Yuanyuan, from a family of master chefs, wakes up in the body of a farm girl in Great Zhou, only to have her engagement broken off from the start! Her father is sickly, her family is poor, and when they run out of grain, they eat bran. The whole family scrimps and saves, going hungry one day and eating their fill the next, just to pay their taxes. How are they supposed to get through these hard times? They’ll get through
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- 63 The Kids' Cafeteria: Six Different Dishes Every Day! 萌娃食堂：一天六个菜不重样！ [Delicious food + adorable kids + livestreaming + one female lead + lighthearted fun + a low-profile System] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Jiang Chen, a man born in the 2000s, inherits a kindergarten. With the birth rate falling, it’s getting harder and harder to enroll new students. Just as the kindergarten is about to go under, Jiang Chen gets matched with a God of Cooking System. It turns out that this world’s culinary skills are so poor that egg fried rice is considered a divine 337Reads5.8Score—14d adds
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I Went Home to Feast and Became the Head Chef 回村吃席，我成了大厨
[Congratulations, Host, you have unlocked a complete funeral service] [Rest assured, Host] [At Grandpa Li’s funeral, you’ll be the most dazzling one in the whole village] [Expert cooking skills] [Expert at wailing at funerals] So, when Grandpa Li was laid to rest, I cried so hard in front of his grave that no one could pull me away …
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- 65 Back to Field: I'm Just a Pig Farmer, So How Did I Become a Culinary God? 蘑菇屋：我养猪的，怎么成厨神了 After transmigrating, Zhang Yang becomes a pig farmer in a mountain village. To care for his young sister, he decides to make a success of pig farming, and unexpectedly awakens a Food System. Today, he makes chicken, shiitake mushroom, and potato stew. Tomorrow, it's tofu with yellow croaker, along with sweet kung pao chicken and cola chicken wings. He eats one serving, his sister eats one, and the rest goes to the piglets. He figures that if the pigs enjoy their food, they'll gain more weight a 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 I’m a Head Chef at Hengdian 我在横店当大厨 The heroine, Wei Shengyu, has a System space, which she uses to chase after celebrities in Hengdian. In Hengdian, Wei Shengyu gets to see many of the stars she likes. It would have been very difficult to make this happen otherwise, but with the System, it becomes easy. (The author is sensitive, and welcomes feedback, but please don't insult me. If you don't like it, feel free to leave. Thank you!) 702Reads6.5Score—14d adds
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How Did a Chef Like Me Catch My Sister’s Eye?! 我一个厨子竟然被姐姐看上！
[Food + lighthearted fun + recipes for a huge variety of dishes + ethnic instruments + leisurely daily life + detailed recipes + a treat for men and women] After a life full of misfortune, Wang Haoran unexpectedly gains a System. From that moment, the wheels of fate begin to turn. He turns his home into a private restaurant and wins the hearts of several beautiful confidantes. He prepares one delicious dish after another, and with a wave of their chopsticks, his guests devour beef, lamb, fish, a
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- 68 Random Street-Food Stalls: My Customers Eat Like Crazy 随机美食摆摊食客我吃疯狂 A food-focused story with no romance, set in everyday city life. Chen Xia unexpectedly gets a System, embarking on an unpredictable journey of setting up food stalls at random locations. In the park, he sells refreshing cold dishes; beneath office buildings, he serves up delicious fried rice; outside schools, he grills fragrant gluten skewers. Everyone who tastes his carefully prepared food can’t stop singing its praises. But Chen Xia changes his stall’s location every week and offers a differe 181Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Chinese Cuisine 中华民族美食 Chinese cuisine has a long and rich history spanning more than five thousand years, with countless delicious dishes. Let’s take a look... An introduction to the specialties of each province, including the ingredients and cooking steps. —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Reborn in 1980: I Somehow Have Four Ex-Wives Now 重生80：我竟然多了四个前妻
[Borderland customs of Cainan Province, rural life, dialects, regional culture, ethnic minority culture, small county towns, the era, hunting, fishing, frontier regions, northern Myanmar, Wuliang Mountain, Ailao Mountain] Xia Delang was reborn, returning to 1982. But something seemed wrong. Had time and space gotten mixed up when he was reborn? In his previous life, he had been a successful man with a happy family and two children. But after returning to the past, he had become what people in la
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- 71 Officialdom: My Female Boss and the Ultimate Deputy 官场：女上司和最强副手 [Grassroots government + rural life + ethnic customs + special forces + spirited young woman of the era + martial arts secrets + minor political parties] To put an end to his long-distance relationship, Nan Ximen Xiao quit his job in the magic city and returned to his girlfriend’s hometown to take the civil service exam. But because of her unusual circumstances, he was assigned to Manglu Township, the toughest place in the entire county. He had assumed it would be hard to make a difference there 135Reads7.3Score11314d adds
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Rehe: From 522 Mu of Barren Land to a Futuristic City 热河从522亩荒地到未来新城
[Slow burn] [Business battles and building from the ground up] [No System] [Reborn] [Revenge] [Urban Brahmin] [Infrastructure] [Career] [Urban revitalization] [Making up for past regrets] After the centennial celebrations of 2049. Jiang Xu gazed at his aged reflection in the mirror. Alone amid his family’s disintegration and the lifelong regrets of his closest friend, he closed his eyes in despair. When he opened them again, he had returned to the height of summer in 2026, just as he was graduat
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After Losing My Job, I Got a Barbecue System and Now Earn Millions a Year 失业后获得烧烤系统，我年入百万
[Late-Night Gourmet] [Mouthwatering] [Easygoing Daily Life] On the eve of his barbecue shop’s closure, Su Yan binds himself to the [Barbecue King System]. Top-tier Ningxia Yanchi Tan sheep plus spices supplied by the System: the aroma of the skewers drives the whole street wild... Lamb skewers for 18 yuan each draw a line so long the traffic police have to close the road, and the owner of the neighboring barbecue shop comes over in tears to steal his secrets! A loan shark comes to collect and
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You Asked Me to Cook a Country Banquet, but I Won Over the Bridesmaid with My Food 让你做农村大席，你美食拐走伴娘
[Food + romance + authentic country-style banquet cooking] Everyone for miles around knows that the Lin family has a banquet cook so incredible he could tempt the immortals down from heaven! Master Chef tips + Master Chef mode: see through to the very essence of every ingredient! The female CEO from the city gnaws on a pork knuckle until her tie is dunked in the soup basin. A food blogger with a million followers kneels to take close-up shots of the braised pork. A monk who’s been vegetarian for
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Back to the 1980s: I Got Rich by Running a Street Stall 重回八零：我靠练摊暴富了
Jiang Zhaodi is transported back to the 1980s, to a time when boys are valued over girls. Her family is poor and broken, her father doesn’t care for her and her mother doesn’t love her, her grandmother calls her worthless, and her cousin frames her. Her relatives are a collection of the worst sorts. Given a second life, Jiang Zhaodi intends not only to survive, but to live brilliantly. She outsmarts her awful relatives, works hard to finish her studies, creates a signature line of delicious fo
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The Little Farmhouse in the Mountain Village 山村小农家
[One heroine + farming in a remote mountain village + a mischievous rascal who needs a good beating + magical space + hunting in the mountains + everyday life + lighthearted atmosphere + inheritance of intangible cultural heritage] Go to work? Business trips? Being worked like an ox? Not a chance. Even a dog wouldn’t do it! A sudden plane crash brought Xu Qingmu to the brink of death. By chance, he unlocked the secret of his ancestral square-patterned pendant: hidden inside was a pocket realm,
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I Went Home for New Year and Took Charge of the Cooking, Now My Relatives Won't Leave! 过年回家掌厨，亲戚赖着不走了！
[Food + Mouthwatering + Makes You Drool + No Romance + Cozy Daily Life + Comedy] As soon as final exams ended, Chen Zhuo unexpectedly bound himself to a Setting-Based Food System. By loading different everyday-life settings, he could gain the cooking skills associated with them. On his first day back home, he loaded the “Spring Festival” setting. Cured meat, cured fish, and sausages were just the appetizers. Under his hands, fish cakes, fish balls, meatballs, lotus-root sandwiches, spring rolls,
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I Only Host College Entrance Banquets, See You at the Exam, Eighty-Year-Olds 人生只做升学宴，八十老头考场见
Bad news: I transmigrated! Good news: I brought along the food System that was already bound to me. Just as Lu Lin was planning to rely on the System and make a name for himself even in another world, he suddenly discovered that the System had become incomplete. Before, Lu Lin's cooking had been fit for emperors, a feast of the rarest delicacies that won him countless admirers! Now, he could only bring out its full potential at graduation banquets! “Isn't this a disaster? I'm a renowned God of C
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Gourmet: The School Chef Parents Never Want to Leave 美食：在小学当大厨，家长不愿走
[Stop nitpicking, everyone here is just a tool] [No romance] [Heartwarming] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Chen binds himself to the [Culinary Excellence System]. Every time he makes a delicious dish, he unlocks a new recipe, so he decides to become the head chef at an elementary school. He cooks one limited-edition dish after another, and the kids aren’t happy about it. “This big brother’s food is so good, I’d marry my big sister off to you!” “...” “Wow, it really is delicious~”
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Gourmet: A Few Steamed Buns Before the Beauty Jumps 美食：美女跳楼前，先吃几个包子
After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lu Chen waits three years before finally getting bound to a Food System. Every few days, it randomly generates a task, a location, and a dish. Selling buns at a scene where someone is about to jump... Selling braised pork shank outside a wealthy woman's weight-loss club... “Hey, miss, have a bun before you jump!” “What? The buns were so good she decided to come down on her own?” “Why bother dieting? Eat your fill first!”
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- 81 Gourmet: Making a Living by Selling Food on the Street 美食：从摆摊赚生活费开始 [Gourmet food] + [Everyday urban life] + [One heroine] + [Comedy] “Have you heard? There’s a stall at the night market that sells really good cold noodles.” “I heard there’s also a stall selling buns, and they’re unbelievably good.” “What are you talking about? I heard the night market’s braised beef is amazing.” Li Qing, who had transmigrated here, realized he was about to start college, but paying for living expenses was going to be a big problem. Then he unexpectedly activated the Chef God Sy 21Reads—Score—14d adds
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Gourmet: My Maxed-Out Cooking Skills Are Only for a Quiet Street Stall 美食：满级厨艺的我只想安静出摊
[The short drama of the same name is now available] (The protagonist never shows off. He's mild-mannered, humble, and hardworking. There is a female lead. Please don't read if that's not your thing, thanks.) A quiet, laid-back story about everyday food and cooking. The System is even lazier than the protagonist (it just lends a hand, it doesn't take charge). Xia Yu is a foodie who graduated from college not long ago. His dream is to be a lazy slacker. Then one day, a System drops out of nowhere
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- 83 This Boss Is So Sneaky, He Takes His Street Stall Everywhere 这老板真苟，摆个地摊还到处走 [The print edition of Random Gourmet Stall is now available on major platforms] [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Comedy] [Comfort food] [Cozy] [Healing] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Zhou unexpectedly binds himself to a Random Gourmet System. Every week brings a random location, random food, and different customers. He sells buns at the park entrance, century egg and lean pork congee on a mountaintop, and candied hawthorns outside a school. Every dish is mouthwatering and 81.8kReads9.5Score8k14d adds
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Reborn in a Bygone Era: My Stunning Wife and Mischievous Daughter 重生年代：绝美老婆调皮女儿
In 1980, the scoundrel Lu Xiaoxiao gambled away everything, and his wife and daughter died after eating Guanyin clay to stave off hunger. A scoundrel is a scoundrel. Even with regrets, he had no useful skills. He drifted through life for thirty years. While begging on the street, Lu Xiaoxiao spotted a woman who looked a lot like his late wife. She had been kidnapped by human traffickers. He rushed over and fought to save her, leaving five dead and one injured. After Lu Xiaoxiao died, he was rebo
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- 85 Gourmet: My Late-Night Diner Might Not Be Entirely Scientific 美食：我的深夜食堂可能不太科学 [Food + System + entertainment industry + lighthearted daily life] If someone asked where an unconventional late-night diner came from, Luo Jia would tell them it all started with him standing up for the people and beating up a mage whose ritual was disturbing the neighborhood. He knew because he had experienced it himself. Thanks to the immense merit he earned by sacrificing the mage from the start, Luo Jia got a System and embarked on the path to becoming a God of Cooking. He moved to a film s 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 In the World of Gourmet Food, Eating Delicacies Makes Me Stronger 人在美食，吃美味就变强 [Gourmet]+ [Cooking]+ [Gourmet Cells]+ [Gourmet Cell Demons]+ [Special Abilities]+ [Power Fantasy] Transmigrating into the world of Toriko, Li Yuan activates the Gourmet Choice System. [Ding! Eat a Fat Eel. Task complete. Reward: telekinesis.] [Ding! Eat a Hankrila Bird. Task complete. Reward: spatula skills!] [Ding! Eat a Garara Gator. Task complete. Reward: a portable kitchen.] [...] By constantly eating delicious food and completing Gourmet Choice quests, Li Yuan grows stronger and stronger! 22.6kReads9.0Score2.6k14d adds
- 87 Building a Foodie Street, Where Every NPC Is from Ancient Times 打造美食文化街，NPC全员古人 [Food + historical NPCs + traditional crafts + development + food street + historical culture street + cultural outreach] After transmigrating, he takes over a noodle shop on the verge of closing. Chen Mo, broke and lacking any cooking skills, is at a loss. His cooking is mediocre, nowhere near the level of a proper chef. Just as he’s about to shut down the shop, Chen Mo becomes bound to the Historical Figure Summoning System! Many historical figures harbor such deep resentment that they cannot 25Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 88 Anime Crossover: The Dimensional Overlord Begins in the Gourmet World 综漫：从美食世界开始的次元主宰 [Anime Crossover] + [Dragon Ball] + [Gourmet] + [System] + [Transmigration] + [Anime] + [Slow Pace] + [God of Destruction] + [Supreme Kai] + [Saiyan God] [An anime crossover about food-loving Gourmet adventurers and battles, with Toriko and Dragon Ball as the main worlds.] [For now, the story is still wandering around these two worlds~~~] [This book is mainly about Gourmet food, Gourmet food, and more Gourmet food. Fighting is secondary. We’ll say it three times because it’s important.] Li Zimin 1.6kReads7.4Score10814d adds
- 89 Sign-In Across the Myriad Worlds, Starting with Food 从美食开始万界签到 Sitting at home, he got bombed from the sky. Qin Hao transmigrated into a world of gourmet food. He thought that with the System’s help, he could finally turn his life around and become the protagonist. Instead, from the start, he was chased by a herd of roast pigs… (If you’re only here for Toriko, we recommend starting from chapter 100.) 1.4kReads8.3Score10614d adds
- 90 Gourmet Food Truck: The Whole City Is Going Wild for the Food 美食快餐车：全城食客要发疯 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Perfect Mealtime Reading] [Heartwarming] Gourmet food is the best cure for a life full of hardship! After transmigrating to a parallel world three years ago, Yu Sheng finally activates the Seven-Dimension Gourmet Mortal Cultivation System during a breakup. From then on, he drives a food truck, determined to recreate Blue Star's cuisine in this gourmet wasteland. The seven dimensions are sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, stinky, and dark. These are also the main areas 7Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 91 I’m a Gourmet Hunter! I’ll Keep Da Mimi Fed! 我，美食猎人！喂饱大蜜蜜！ [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 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Gourmet: Selling Meals at School Sends Students and Teachers into a Frenzy 美食：学校卖饭，师生抢疯了 [Gourmet | Everyday Life | Lighthearted | Relaxing | Slow-Paced | Comforting] Jiang Fan got a Gourmet System and rented a small food stall in his school cafeteria. “There aren’t any students eating here. You should close up.” “The food’s terrible. You’ll be out of business in a few days.” “Here comes another idiot, selling food in this place.” Everyone mocked him. Jiang Fan ignored them and checked his mission. He had to sell a hundred shaomai in one day. Could he pull that off? “Wow, these shao 2.6kReads7.1Score19014d adds
- 93 Give Food Wars! Some Ingredients from a Myriad Worlds 给食戟来点万界食材 He transmigrates to the world of Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma. Then he discovers that he can transmigrate again. To become the finest chef in the world, and to get his hands on countless ingredients that make your mouth water, Xu Kangping begins traveling to one world after another. Toriko, Hunter x Hunter, Cooking Master Boy, Delicious in Dungeon, One Piece, Cooking Master Xiao Fugui, Pokemon, Inuyasha... As Xu Kangping continues to travel between worlds, he obtains a vast assortment of ingredi 6kReads7.9Score32714d adds
- 94 The Gourmet of Love Apartment 爱情公寓里的美食家 The story of Liu Dong, the greatest chef in the world, after Lu Xiaobu brings him to Love Apartment. (Most of the plot has been rearranged, so it definitely won't follow the TV series step by step. The protagonist's career and the apartment's story get equal focus, and Yu Wanyu, Mei Jia, and the others all have their own fully developed, distinctive storylines.) The legendary journey of a humble little restaurant as it becomes a viral sensation, a famous attraction, a city landmark, and a Chines 1.8kReads8.3Score10014d adds
- 95 Gourmet: You Put Me in Charge of Catering, but I Made a Food God Movie 美食：让你剧组当大厨，你拍食神 After being reborn, Jiang Chen becomes bound to the God-Tier Gourmet System. One bowl of golden egg fried rice makes Yang Mi break her diet. One plate of beef chow fun has Stephen Chow rewriting the script for "The God of Cookery" overnight. One box of explosive beef balls makes an anorexia patient declare that they're cured. Then there are roast goose, top-quality cart noodles, colorful assorted fish, golden-threaded meat, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, and soul-soothing rice... Everyone can't sto 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a KTV? I'm Actually Very Serious 美食：ktv卖饭？我真的很正经 [Food + everyday life + entertainment + comedy!] Jiang Feng transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes a cook in a KTV kitchen and awakens the God of Cooking System! While other KTVs are busy coming up with discount packages, his place starts selling meals instead. “Hello, boss. This is our KTV's new specialty service: a platter of braised meats.” “What? Your KTV doesn't offer anything naughty, and you sell food?” “Holy crap, this braised meat is freaking incredible! Quick, bring me ten 31Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 97 The Bigwigs Go Wild Fighting over a Bite to Eat 为了一口吃的，大佬们抢疯了 [Gourmet] + [laid-back daily life] + [no System] + [comedy] Li Heng is a chef who accidentally transmigrates to a cultivation world where culinary skills have fallen into decline. He discovers that his dishes are not only delicious, but can also improve cultivation and strengthen the body. One day, while Li Heng is cooking, a passing sect’s saintess spirits him away to work as their chef. As Li Heng serves up dish after delicious dish, the entire sect goes wild. The disciples go crazy competing 2.1kReads8.8Score16114d adds
- 98 Gourmet: Starting with Banquet Cooking 美食：从烧大席开始 Urban + Countryside + Gourmet + System + Cozy + The Beauty of Ordinary Life Zhang Yang is an ordinary man who unexpectedly gains the backing of a Gourmet System and instantly makes a stunning comeback! Rising from the dust, he goes from being unknown to famous around the world, forging the legend of an extraordinary master chef in the midst of an ordinary life! 14Reads—Score—14d adds
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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.
203Reads—Score—14d adds
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I'm Just a Cook! I Can't Heal the Sick and Save the Nation! 我就是个厨子啊，不会治病救国！
Zhang Weiguo, a chef at a five-star hotel, gets fired. Before he can catch his breath, he finds himself in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When you have a skill to fall back on, there’s nothing to be afraid of. The little beggar he saved turns out to be the young son who went missing from the Grand Tutor’s family two years ago? So I’m the one who saved both siblings? What, you’re saying the emperor came by yesterday to eat pork trotter rice? Zhang Weiguo promptly faints. Ever since he tried my cook
45Reads6.4Score—14d adds
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