Food Stories, But No Absurd Pricing: No Selling a Scallion Pancake for a Fortune! 美食文，不要乱定价的，一个煎饼卖天价不要！

1. 1 系 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ Shengsheng Shushu生生疏Urban879k WordsOngoing [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.3kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves

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   Mr. Lin's prices are so normal that even tomatoes seem abnormal.

2. 2 留 A Student Abroad Cooks Up a Storm, and the British Media Calls It Cultural Invasion 留子做点美食，英媒说我文化入侵 Mu Xiaoduo沐小朵Two Male Leads1.4M WordsCompleted [Female-oriented! This is a female-oriented novel!] [System + two male leads, one-on-one romance + everyday life studying abroad + food + livestreaming] [Xu Ye is the love interest] [Career-focused] [Ensemble cast] [Slow burn] “Some international students become chefs, while others go after chefs (not really).” Yang Chuan eats in the cafeteria for a whole month until his soul nearly leaves his body. Just when he can’t take it anymore, a [God of Cooking System] falls from the sky! Using a recipe 8.8kReads8.6Score921Shelves

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   Warning! This is a dual-male lead story with ensemble elements. If you cannot accept dual-male lead plots, please be aware in advance. This is a very good read. The male leads don't arbitrarily set prices; it tells the story of a male protagonist who, while studying in the UK, is bound to a culinary system, leading to a series of events related to his daily life studying abroad and cooking.

3. 3 退 After Breaking Off the Engagement, the Foolish Princess Marries the Ninth Lord with Her Four Maids 退婚后，傻妃携四大丫鬟嫁九千岁 Clingy Little Tomato粘人小番茄Ancient Romance1.8M WordsOngoing [Palace Intrigue + Household Intrigue + Historical Romance + Princess Consort + Legitimate Daughter + Medical Skills + Two Powerful Leads + Cunning + Playing the Fool + Reborn + Fiercely Protective + Political Scheming] 99% of the comments are positive! Read with confidence! Su Qian, once the leader of a special forces unit in the apocalypse, died unexpectedly while carrying out a mission. With her portable medical space, she transmigrated to ancient times and into the residence of a great gener 22.8kReads8.1Score3.8kShelves

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   The male and female leads team up: a pure battle of wits where misunderstandings are avoided, only tacit understandings of mutual exploitation prevail. The female lead's cheat ability is captivating: her medical space grants her modern-day superpowers, allowing her to heal and save lives while simultaneously committing murder and robbery. [Heart]

4. 4 男 A Chef at Your Door, Healing Countless Diners 男厨上门，治愈万千食客 Bean Bun Rations豆包干粮Modern Romance111k WordsOngoing After losing his job and running out of options, Lin Zhaonan unexpectedly binds to the “Record of a Hundred Flavors” culinary System. From then on, he sets out on a healing journey, soothing hearts with food and comforting ordinary lives with the warmth of home cooking. As he heals others, Lin Zhaonan heals himself too, and finds love as well as a restaurant famous far and wide. 44Reads—Score—Shelves

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   No arbitrary pricing, even free, a heartwarming system, comforting food, very therapeutic, episodic storylines, each episode addressing a social pain point.

5. 5 穿EN After Becoming the Villainess, I Clear My Name Every Day 穿成恶女后每天都在洗白 Gathering Vetch, Gathering Vetch采薇采薇Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Everyone’s Darling + Adorable Kids + Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy]: Transmigrating into a lovesick woman, Tang Zhuyun wakes up in the middle of a scene where she’s climbing into a man’s bed. She turns around and runs. Forget this bed, she’s not getting in! Who needs a man when her father is the top scholar, her brother is the top scholar, and even her son will be the top scholar? They’ll protect her, so she can do whatever she wants! As a master physician, she’ll focus on her career, save lives, and k 33.9kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves

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   These are some great food-themed novels, championing the spirit of foodies! The female protagonists in these stories are incredibly skilled cooks, preparing meals for their fathers, who then bring them to court. The first day he brought a magnificent spicy blood curd; the second day, spicy crayfish; the third day, boiled fish; and the fourth day, with blisters on his lips, he finally brought some congee, side dishes, and steamed buns—but why were the buns shaped like frogs and pigs? It's hilarious! Perhaps the female protagonist's father was showing off!

6. 6 穿 Transmigrated to Another World: One Giant Cabbage Feeds Me for a Month 穿越异世：巨型白菜一颗吃一个月 Short-Legged Chen短腿陈Ancient Romance458k WordsCompleted The rating just came out, but it’ll go up later~ [The tags are wrong. This isn’t a historical romance; the setting is closer to a Western-style fantasy world.] [Entirely fictional world + no golden finger + not a wish-fulfillment story + lighthearted + romance, but little focus on it] Bad news: Xia Ju transmigrated. Good news: While everyone else is whisked away without warning, she received advance notice of when she’d transmigrate. Bad news: The warning only came one minute ahead of time. Bot 3.1kReads6.6Score414Shelves

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   Not many delicious foods

7. 7 人 The Little Mermaid Chef: Spring Drunkenness, Begonias Bloom, and Dawn Goes Unnoticed 人鱼小厨娘【春酲海棠不觉晓】 The Star Who Picks Up Scrap xin拾荒的星星xinModern Romance254k WordsOngoing Mermaid landlady x a young marshal who says one thing but means another | Food entrepreneurship | A love story that begins in a coffin and makes you cry When Shen Haitang woke up inside a coffin, she had forgotten everything. She remembered only two things: First, she wasn’t human. Second, she was hungry. The man beside her, who was said to have been dead for three days, woke to the sound of her gobbling up the offerings. When he opened his eyes, she was holding up a huge chicken leg, crumbs 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Perfect for late-night viewing, incredibly heartwarming. The female lead is adorable, a clear-headed career-oriented woman. The male lead experiences a rollercoaster of pursuing her in the early stages, but later silently protects and respects her career, following her journey from a small stall to a shop and finally a restaurant. The food descriptions are detailed, and the family and romantic relationships are both very touching.

8. 8 是 It's Sesame. He Added Sesame 是芝麻，他在加了芝麻 Beef with Rice Noodles肠粉加头牛Eastern Fantasy469k WordsOngoing [Cultivation World + Food + Ensemble Cast + No Toxicity + Lighthearted Comedy + No Female Lead + No Harem + No Angst] After transmigrating into a cultivation world as a menial disciple of the Wudao Sect, he awakens the Culinary Dao System. The entire sect goes crazy competing for a taste of his cooking. From menial disciples and outer- and inner-sect disciples to personal disciples, elders, and ancestors, everyone gets involved. Their tricks are endless. No one is more shameless than the next. T 460Reads—Score102Shelves

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   Food novels set in the world of cultivation

9. 9 星 Interstellar Chef: My Babies Are SSS-Rank 星际厨娘，我的崽崽SSS级 Yang Mulin Sen阳木林森Modern Romance307k WordsOngoing [The rating just came in and will gradually rise] [Interstellar + Food + Adorable Babies + Mecha + Special Abilities + Insectoids + Three Baby Boys] Due to restrictions, the female lead's pregnancy-related ability in the first chapter has been changed to psychic power. This does not affect the story itself, so please bear with us. A single mother and chef transmigrates to a desolate planet, and with nothing but a wok, she eats her way from a trash planet to the entire empire. Her cooking can res 30.1kReads8.3Score3.2kShelves

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   Do your little ones like this delicious food?

10. 10 偷 After They Heard My Thoughts, the Country’s Biggest Foodies Were Shocked 偷听我心声后，惊动全国吃货大佬 Yu Shengsheng余苼升Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Mind Reading + Beloved by the Whole Family + Food + Heartwarming + Feel-Good + Intangible Cultural Heritage Cuisine + Distinctively Regional Dishes] Shen Huazheng transmigrates into the beloved darling of the Shen family. She has no System, no medical skills, and can’t turn out elegant prose, so she might as well lie flat and be a pampered little couch potato who spends every day eating and drinking. Shen Huazheng watches her father, Minister Shen, prepare to go out to a banquet. [What a shame. 15.9kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves
11. 11 假 The Fake Heiress Falls on Hard Times? The Powerful Flock to Her Restaurant 假千金落魄？权贵挤满她酒楼 Also Known as Dui Dui别名怼怼Ancient Romance481k WordsCompleted [Food + 1v1, mutually devoted, System missions, building a career, ensemble cast] (A quick heads-up: There are many couples in this story, so please steer clear if that's not your thing. It mixes romance with BL, so please steer clear if you dislike that. This is a light, wholesome food-themed romance with multiple pairings, and its overall tone is warm and cozy. It is not a strong-female-lead story, so please steer clear if that's not your thing.) Synopsis: ↓ Yun Zhiyue, the president of a ca 1.9kReads8.8Score205Shelves
12. 12 我 I Used One Bowl of Noodles to Put a City on the Map 我靠一碗面，带动一座城 Fiery Cabbage火爆的白菜Urban1.2M WordsOngoing [Food + Scenic Area Management, No Stressful Shopkeeping, Well-Plotted, No Stupid Characters] From the start, he quit his job and headed home to take over his father's noodle shop. He turned the little shop into a countywide tourism sensation, putting the county's cultural tourism industry on the map. The Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Transportation Bureau, the Market Regulation Bureau, and even the county magistrate all begged to get on his good side. He even took over a bankrupt A-grade s 71.1kReads8.3Score7.8kShelves

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    You should definitely read this book. The plot is very well-developed, and the price is reasonable. All the settings are very logical. It's a food novel that you can read while using your brain and intelligence.

13. 13 随 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 AAAA Prosperous BloomsAAAA花开富贵Urban889k WordsOngoing [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 10kReads9.4Score879Shelves

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    The first book features an undercover cop setting up a food stall, charming customers with his delicious food. No romantic pairing, but he's a foodie who's universally loved, haha! [Eating melon emoji] The second book features a stay-at-home husband [attention emoji] who encounters various incidents while setting up his stall with his wife. He even works with the police to solve cases. The third book [smirking emoji] [smirking emoji] [smirking emoji] When a primary school student takes over the cooking, the chef is no longer needed. His culinary skills are unparalleled. Lighthearted and easygoing. Since he's a primary school student, there's no romantic pairing.

14. 14 收 Pack Up, Aze! The Special Task Force Can't Take It Anymore! 收摊吧阿泽！专案组扛不住啦！ Deep-Fried Golden Cicada油炸金蝉Urban443k WordsCompleted [Don't Be Fooled by the Low Rating, You'll Get Your Money Back If It's Not Good + Hilarious Street Food Stall + Unconventional Crime Solving + Disturbing Dishes + Interlocking Mysteries] Su Ze is bound to a food-stall System. He thinks he'll make a fortune selling food, but the System isn't quite right. It's great at cooking, yet obsessed with solving crimes and catching criminals. From the start, he sets up his stall in a residential compound late at night, alarming the local police station and 528Reads8.3Score100Shelves
15. 15 谢 I’m a Grade-Schooler, and I’ve Become a Culinary God! 谢邀，我，小学生，已成厨神！ Selling Egg Burgers!卖鸡蛋汉堡咯Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [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 24.5kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
16. 16 成 After Becoming a Master of State Banquets, I Started Running a Street Stall 成为国宴大师后开始摆摊 Fried Hawthorn油炸山楂Urban460k WordsOngoing 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 4.3kReads8.9Score284Shelves

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    It's super good! The protagonist's strength comes from within, not from a system or cheat code. The prices aren't arbitrary; everything is affordable for the average person. There are also heartwarming moments, and the writing is excellent. Every time I read it, I get hungry!

17. 17 殡 I Opened a Restaurant Beside a Funeral Home, and It's Packed 殡仪馆旁开饭店，人都挤爆了 Reflections at the Mystic Gate玄门对影Urban500k WordsCompleted [Outlandish food settings] [Funny and lighthearted] [Everyday comfort reading] [No female lead] [Early settings: a funeral home, a school, a Middle Eastern battlefield, a food stall at home...] Lin Chong inherits the noodle shop beside his second uncle's funeral home and activates a Gourmet System. The only problem is, this Gourmet System goes haywire from time to time. Setting: a funeral home. His food makes customers so hungry that they sleep on the ground outside the funeral home in the middl 13.7kReads8.6Score822Shelves

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    14578 Looks better, but I forgot how much it was priced.

18. 18 美 Gourmet: Don’t Talk to Me About Calories, If It Tastes Good, It’s Calorie-Free 美食：别跟我谈热量，好吃就零卡 The Water Runs Deep水深深呀Urban823k WordsCompleted [Gourmet] + [Random Food Stalls] + [Lighthearted] + [Cozy] + [Everyday Life] + [Taking It Easy] + [Unusual Food Stall Locations] + [Perfect with a Meal] + [No Female Lead] Fang Yuan, a programmer who has just quit his job, is ready to take it easy... Ding! The Ultimate Food Stall System is at your service. Each week, your stall location and menu will be selected at random. This week, please go to Peace Plaza at noon to sell roasted sweet potatoes. Fang Yuan looks up at the blazing sun, shining 1.5kReads6.2Score120Shelves
19. 19 我 My Food Refreshes at Random, Leaving Customers Drooling 我的美食随机刷新，顾客馋哭了 Half-Sweet Iced Coffee, No Extra Ice冰咖半糖不加冰Urban1.7M WordsCompleted 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 82.5kReads9.3Score8.5kShelves

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    ✨A food-themed beachcombing novel where the female protagonist transmigrates into the body of the exiled wife of a major villain. She improves her life and survives through delicious food: sour fish soup, clams in gravy, spicy and sour fish offal, shrimp and crab porridge—even the villain exclaims how delicious it is…

20. 20 万 Setting Up Stalls Across the Multiverse: Every Race Deserves a Good Meal 万界随机摆摊，无论种族好好吃饭 Meow Bubble喵呜泡Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [No Romance] [Everyday Life] [Comedy] [Cozy] [Healing] [Perfect with a Meal] Cheng Ran passed away peacefully at the end of a fulfilling life, with no regrets. Suddenly, a System popped up, wailing: “Master, could you work a little overtime? It’s urgent!!” Cheng Ran hesitated, so the System randomly picked a spot for a food stall. After the first customer showed up... What was there to think about? The customer is king, and eating comes first! A bowl of wontons in a narrow alley, h 897Reads8.1Score119Shelves
21. 21 这 This Boss Is So Sneaky, He Takes His Street Stall Everywhere 这老板真苟，摆个地摊还到处走 Selling Egg Burgers!卖鸡蛋汉堡咯Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [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 84.2kReads9.5Score8.3kShelves

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    1. The protagonist randomly appears in various locations to set up stalls, and the prices are very reasonable. 2. The locations are random, and you have to make all sorts of strange requests to get the food. 3. Plainclothes officers set up stalls to lure and capture criminals. 4. The protagonist tries to improve his apprentices' various unpalatable dishes.

22. 22 美 Gourmet: My Little Shop Is Famous Around the World 美食：我的小店，名震全球 Sleeping Cat熟睡的猫Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [Opening a Restaurant] [No Female Lead] [System] [Perfect with a Meal] [Heartwarming] [Everyday Life] [A Different Menu Every Day] [Affordable Prices] [Ensemble Cast] Lou Yuanzhou has eaten so many ready-made meal packs that he actually gains a Chef God Gourmet System! As long as he opens a restaurant and completes all kinds of bizarre missions, he can earn rewards! Steaming hot wontons, springy zhajiang noodles, and the legendary lamb stew... all made by Lou Yuanzhou himself! Once his 9.8kReads9.0Score810Shelves

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    Look at this book! The male protagonist started by selling wontons in front of the police station, and later opened a small shop with really reasonable prices. It's a great read!

23. 23 老 Granny Returns to the ’80s: Dumping Her Scumbag Husband and Making a Fortune Selling Pickles 老太重回八零：踹翻渣男咸菜发家 Calm Winds and Still Waves风瓶浪静Modern Romance710k WordsCompleted (No romance + divorce + street vending + making money + no golden finger) She’s reborn, and her younger daughter is about to be thrown into a living hell! Qin Sui’an was a timid old woman who had lived a miserable life. When she opens her eyes, she’s back in the 1980s, right at the scene where her younger daughter is being tricked into a marriage! This old woman has had enough! After exposing the scoundrel who arranged the fraudulent marriage and kicking her useless husband to the curb, Qin Sui’ 6kReads9.1Score951Shelves

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    This book is set in the 1980s. A month's salary was a few dozen yuan; a bowl of spicy hot pot cost a few cents, spicy skewers a few cents each, a jar of pickled vegetables a few cents, and a basket of mooncakes and salted duck eggs only a little over a dollar. A pound of vegetables cost a few cents, and even farm-raised eggs were priced differently depending on size. I asked my family, and what they said was similar, quite realistic. The author is a small writer, and the data isn't good, but I hope everyone will take a look. Just read five chapters, and if you don't like it, please leave!

24. 24 美 Gourmet: I Sell Lunchboxes at a Kindergarten, and Everyone Craves Them 美食：幼儿园卖盒饭，全都馋哭了 A Little Baby Cabbage一颗娃娃菜Urban2.0M WordsCompleted 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

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    ① The male lead runs a small canteen with very reasonable prices! 🍱🍱🍱 ② The male lead takes over the canteen at the Russian prison!!! 🍛🍛🍛

25. 25 美 Gourmet: Taking Over the Bear’s Prison Canteen 美食：从承包毛熊监狱食堂开始 Quill Pen羽毛笔Urban1.3M WordsOngoing After a disastrous blind date, Tang Lei flees overnight, only to bind himself to a Chef God System that randomly assigns him a place to run: the cafeteria of a prison in a nation of tough fighters! Pork stewed with potatoes, red-braised pork, stuffed eight-treasure duck, sweet-and-sour ribs… Homestyle dishes! State-banquet cuisine! Every delicacy imaginable! Bring a taste of the culinary kingdom to Siberia, a barren wasteland of food! The vicious, unruly inmates: “Boss, do you need anyone to was 2.8kReads9.2Score273Shelves
26. 26 流 Exiled to Lingnan: I Made My Fortune Gathering Seafood 流放岭南：我靠赶海发家致富 Ning Xiaoyaoyao宁小妖妖妖Ancient Romance650k WordsCompleted Synopsis: [The rating is low because it just came out. It’ll rise later.] [Transmigrate into a book + Food + Foraging by the sea + Business + Everyday life + Family squabbles + Mostly lighthearted.] Xu Nan has one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. The good news: she got into a car accident… but survived and managed to cling to life. The bad news: she transmigrated into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder first wife of the wicked villain. The moment she opens her eyes, her bargain-bin 4.1kReads7.5Score352Shelves
27. 27 服 Good Grief, I’ve Been Making Baby Food for a Lifetime 服了这宝宝饭一做就是一辈子 Mid-Lane Mage King中单法王Two Male Leads413k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Food + Period Setting + Golden Finger + Sweet Romance + Size Difference + Age Gap] Tang Zhou was sent to the First Alajin Machinery Factory with a letter of introduction from his grandfather... He got in through connections, only to be targeted and sent straight to the factory daycare center. The director was a kind, beautiful woman. Her picky child would only eat food that looked pretty. If the colors were even slightly unattractive or the ingredients were hard to identify, th 3.1kReads8.2Score340Shelves

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    The first book features two male leads, and "Baby Rice" refers to pretty rice. The setting is around the 1980s. The male lead, due to childhood trauma, is afraid to eat anything, only consuming rice where the ingredients are visible. The female lead is a chef who comes to the north to develop his career. He's hired because of his excellent cooking, and the two gradually fall in love. It's a very good read, with many scenes involving food preparation. The second book is a romance novel, the one where every chapter is about food. It's very sweet. The male lead is imprisoned for taking the blame for someone else because he's short of money, and the female lead supports the family by selling boxed lunches. Later, the male lead is released from prison, and the family lives happily together. It's extremely sweet and very good! [Admiration][Admiration][Admiration]

28. 28 穿 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 The Little Cat Fell Asleep小猫睡了Modern Romance159k WordsCompleted [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 29.8kReads9.6Score3.4kShelves
29. 29 厨 God of Cooking’s Quick Transmigration: I Become a Master Chef in Every World 厨神快穿，我在各个世界当大厨 Renewing Myself Every Day日日自新Fantastical Romance728k WordsOngoing Reincarnated as a scumbag? No problem. There’s nothing a good meal can’t fix 1. A scammer dad who’s a chef 2. How a fallen marquis’s household made its fortune 3. Spy? Not even a dog would do that! 4. Going home 5. A heartless, ungrateful wretch 125.6kReads9.3Score12.9kShelves

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    Quite good, a little chubby but not stuffy.

30. 30 食EN Diners Say I’m a Show-Off, but They Still Devour My Food 食客说我装逼犯，但是还嗷嗷干饭 Give Me an Egg Burger来个鸡蛋汉堡Urban763k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + Urban Life + System + Food + No Romance + Showing Off] “I can't help it. I don't want to, either, but as the God of Cooking, I've got to show off!” After transmigrating to a parallel world, Shen Chuan binds himself to the God of Cooking System, gaining the ability to create every delicacy imaginable. Just thinking about using his culinary skills to reach the pinnacle of success and earn everyone's admiration, with diners clamoring for a taste, is enough to make him blush! But h 24.2kReads8.8Score2.2kShelves
31. 31 我 I Set Up a Street Stall in Ancient Times, and the Big Shots Are Obsessed! 我在古代摆地摊，大佬们馋疯了？ Yao Shujin尧书锦Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate + food + everyday street-stall life + farming + cozy + no romance + alternate world] Gu Yanxi had lived in ancient times for three years when an accident left her with amnesia. A bout of high fever brought all her memories back. From the start, her father was a cripple, her mother was constantly sick, and her younger brother was a compulsive gambler. Luckily, she was a great cook and knew a few martial arts moves. No matter how tough the situation, she could handle it! Sizzling gri 5.3kReads8.0Score411Shelves

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    I recently started reading a food-themed novel and I'm completely hooked! [Facepalm] The female lead can cook all sorts of delicious food! ① Pure street vendor story, no romantic pairing. Grilled potatoes, pickled chicken feet, crayfish, braised pork knuckle, Sichuan-style boiled chicken, dry-pot pork intestines… attracting a horde of hungry ghosts. Even nobles in the palace can shake hands and make peace just to eat at the street vendor's stall. Court officials rush to the stall before even taking off their official robes, only to be caught red-handed by the Prime Minister, who then becomes one of the foodies himself. ② Modern pure street vendor story, frequently changing locations, and all in bizarre places.

32. 32 I An Introvert Runs a Stall Everywhere, and the Customers Lose It I人摆摊到处跑，顾客崩溃了 Meowblade喵刃Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted (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 4.2kReads8.2Score362Shelves
33. 33 傻 Once the Silly Girl Smartens Up, the Wen Family’s Ancestors Must Be Smiling from Their Graves 傻女不傻后，老闻家的祖坟冒青烟 Ink-Dyed Green Wound Tears墨染圊殇泪Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate + food + farming + sweet romance + doted on by the whole family + devoted husband + badass heroine + no golden finger] In her previous life, Wen Zhenyi was a top chef in public and a bounty hunter in secret. After a car accident, she transmigrated into the body of a dim-witted young woman in an alternate dynasty. She thought she had transmigrated to another world, but it turned out her soul had simply returned to its rightful body. Her family had spent everything they had and pil 6.8kReads9.0Score640Shelves
34. 34 您 You Have a New Thirst-Quenching Drink Order 您有新的渴了么订单 Braised Wings of the Great Peng大鹏炖翅Ancient Romance507k WordsCompleted [Character development + business simulation + infrastructure building + healing + no romance + a touch of court intrigue] They say the emperor was corrupt and incompetent, and Heaven sent down divine punishment. Not a drop of rain had fallen on this land for nearly twenty years, and countless people had died of thirst. Then, all of a sudden, a milk tea shop opened in the desert. In spring, there were all kinds of ice-cold fruit juices, along with seasonal drinks like cherry blossom and lychee b 13.4kReads9.4Score1.8kShelves

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    These three are good; they have good writing styles, are all female authors, have delicate thoughts, and show a strong sense of national and familial responsibility. I highly recommend the last one; it's humorous and funny.

35. 35 骗 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 Give Me an Egg Burger来个鸡蛋汉堡Urban1.0M WordsCompleted 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 20.1kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
36. 36 带 Bringing a Tiny Kitchen to Cook for an Entire Ancient Army Camp 带小厨房在古代军营做大锅饭 Xiao Mihu小迷胡Ancient Romance201k WordsCompleted Yun Shu, a modern food blogger, had finally worked hard for years to buy an apartment in the big city. But on the very first day after moving into her new home, she inexplicably transmigrated to a dynasty called Great Yan. The food here was plain. People only knew how to boil or steam their ingredients, making it a veritable culinary desert. Having grown up immersed in Chinese food culture, Yun Shu had no choice but to cook for herself and make sure she had enough to eat. To survive, she found a 5.1kReads8.2Score347Shelves

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    These are must-read food-themed novels, especially the first one, which is my current favorite. I absolutely adore the female lead. I don't want to spoil the reading experience, but you'll definitely be captivated by her charm as you read on. The food descriptions in the second book are fantastic; reading it in bed last night made me incredibly hungry. The romance between the male and female leads is very delicate and natural. The third book is a time-travel story set in the past, a bit funny and silly, but quite interesting. If you like this type of story, give it a try. The fourth book is a heartwarming modern novel, incredibly healing, full of life, with a gentle, flowing romance that reveals happiness in its ordinariness.

37. 37 我 I'm Just a Chef, Director, Stop Adding Drama! 我只是个厨子啊，导演别加戏了吧 Give Me an Egg Burger来个鸡蛋汉堡Urban161k WordsCompleted [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 2kReads7.5Score145Shelves

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    Laughing like a goose in a food-themed story, even though the characters are all quite serious! 💥 An extra named Lin Zhou is bound to a food system, rendering the crew's boxed lunches obsolete, and the director goes crazy adding scenes just to eat prop food! 🎭 In a Western restaurant scene, the female lead's eyes are glued to the steak; the steak is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, a light pink color, but no blood, just pure juice. The director explodes: "I told you to look at the male lead, not the meat!" 😀 In a cafeteria catfight, the domineering CEO throws a spoon from his suit pocket: "Thud—" The villainous female supporting character laughs half-heartedly: "Hahaha, whose good-natured CEO has a spoon for eating dry rice in his suit pocket?!" 🍳 The director and screenwriter go crazy adding scenes just to eat props. • The director rewrote the script overnight: "Add a Manchu Han Imperial Feast to the third scene!" • The screenwriter cried as he added lines: "This dish... Contains the bittersweetness of life." • The producer: "This crew will be eaten out of business sooner or later." Laughing like geese in food-themed articles, even though the characters are all quite serious 💥 Extra Lin Zhou is bound to a food system, and the crew's boxed lunches are now unemployed. The director adds scenes to eat prop food! 🎭 In a Western restaurant scene, the female lead's eyes are glued to the steak. The steak is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, a light pink color, but no blood, just pure juice. The director is furious: "I told you to look at the male lead, not the meat!" In a cafeteria catfight, the domineering CEO throws a spoon from his suit pocket: "Thud—" The vicious female supporting character laughs half-heartedly: "Hahaha, whose good-natured CEO has a spoon for eating dry rice in his suit pocket?!" 🍳 All for eating props. • The director rewrote the script overnight: "Add a Manchu Han Imperial Feast to the third scene!" • The screenwriter added lines while crying: "This dish... Contains the bittersweetness of life." • The producer: "This production crew will be bankrupted by all the food!"

38. 38 让 I Told You to Set Up a Street Stall, Not Outside the City Management Bureau 让你摆地摊，没让你城管局门口摆 Watching the Moonlight看风月Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Gourmet]+ [System]+ [Wife- and Daughter-Doting Devotee]+ [Cozy Daily Life]+ [No Transmigration, No Rebirth] After turning thirty, Jiang Tian loses his job. His boss flees overseas with his sister-in-law and 80 million yuan. Comforted by his wife, Lin Wanqing, Jiang Tian decides to start a food stall. To his surprise, he binds himself to the [Supreme Street-Stall System]. A humble bowl of fried rice from a roadside stall leaves countless customers overwhelmed: "Boss Jiang's fried rice is the 18.3kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves

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    At thirty, Jiang Tian should have a stable career, but his boss absconded with his money, leaving him unemployed. Fortunately, his wife gently comforted him, and he decided to set up a street stall to make a living. Unexpectedly, he was bound to the [Strongest Street Vendor System], and his life took a dramatic turn! Simple fried rice became an irresistible delicacy, attracting a frenzy of customers. Facing malicious attacks from competitors, he bravely proved himself in front of the city management bureau. Watch how Jiang Tian uses his culinary skills to turn the tide!

39. 39 他 He Vanishes from His Night Market Stall, Driving All His Customers Crazy 他夜市摆摊玩失踪，食客们全疯了 A Name on the Rankings榜上有名Urban535k WordsCompleted [Food + heartwarming + laid-back + business + street stall + no female lead] “Stop eating, stop eating! Take a look at yourselves. Do you even look like actors anymore? You're as round as balls!” Hearing the director's warning, a certain top-tier star tearfully polished off a bowl of braised pork. “Director, I promise, I promise I'll start working hard to lose weight tomorrow!” The director flew into a rage, snatched the braised pork, and took a bite. He was about to say, “Is this it?!” Then he 1.7kReads7.0Score107Shelves
40. 40 在 I Made a Chinese Restaurant a Huge Hit in the Apocalypse of Another World 在异世界末世经营中华餐厅爆火 Ice Cola Drink Substitute冰可乐代喝Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse] [Business Management] [System] [Gourmet Food] [Farming] [No CP, Ensemble Cast] After Ling Jing died, she became bound to a business management System and was randomly dropped into an apocalyptic world where plants and animals had mutated. The System asked her to name her restaurant. After thinking for a moment, she typed: Chinese Restaurant. In this mutated apocalypse, every plant and animal had become an enemy. When starving humans on the brink of death caught the scent of roaste 96.8kReads9.4Score14.1kShelves
41. 41 只 All I Can Do Is Grow Vegetables and Cook, Yet I Became Cultivation World's Top-Tier Star 只会种菜做饭，却成了修真界顶流 Mr. Impenetrable不透君Modern Romance637k WordsCompleted [Hilarious and Heartwarming + Food + Farming + A Touch of Modern Cultivation] She inherited a cultivation legacy, and her innate talents were cooking and growing vegetables. She became the leader of a sect, but living in poverty was the norm. From the start, all she had was a ramshackle building, a patch of wasteland, and half a mountain forest. A leader with no great ambitions and four idle disciples. Sect leader Jiang Tingyun said, “In modern society, spiritual energy has dried up. Cul 23.9kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
42. 42 听 Listening to a Donkey's Thoughts: Daily Life Running a Restaurant in Bianjing 听驴心声：汴京美食经营日常 Golden Flowers in Full Bloom金花朵朵Ancient Romance579k WordsCompleted (The low rating is only because the book was just listed.) · Transmigration + Everyday food and life among ordinary townsfolk + Mind reading (the little donkey is called Xiao Ba, with “Ba” meaning gossip) + A gentle, leisurely pace + A large ensemble cast later on · A modern chef transmigrates to the Song Dynasty. In this paradise of food, she doesn’t just eat: she develops new dishes and brings ancient and modern cuisines together in a grand feast. The Shen Tinghe family moves from the outskirt 4.3kReads8.5Score507Shelves

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    A newly released ancient Chinese food novel features a female protagonist who transmigrates to ancient times, inhabiting the body of the young lady from the Shen family who jumped into the river. The Shen family originally ran a restaurant but gradually declined. However, the arrival of the female protagonist, who can cook all kinds of delicious food, is a stroke of luck.

43. 43 农 The Little Lucky Star of the Farming Family: We Turned Our Fortune Around with Food 农门小福星：全家靠做美食逆袭了 Snowflakes Flying雪花飞飞Ancient Romance534k WordsCompleted Su Xiaojin, a modern-day foodie, transmigrates into the body of a poor peasant girl in ancient times and becomes the Su family’s beloved lucky charm. What? The family sold their land, her eldest brother’s engagement was called off, and her second brother even sold himself? The Su family has become the laughingstock of the village. No problem! I’ll make delicious food to earn silver, buy land and fields, build a house, and open a shop. The Su family will rise again and have the last laugh. And al 2.3kReads8.3Score225Shelves

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    Food-themed novels, please don't have wildly inflated prices, especially for pancakes! 🔥 The female protagonist transmigrates to a poor, impoverished farming family, struggling to get enough to eat and wear. Using her culinary skills, she rises from a street vendor to a restaurant owner, ultimately achieving financial freedom and a remarkable turnaround in her life! In her previous life, she was a chef. After transmigrating to a poor mountain village, she was loved by her parents and protected by her brothers. To improve her life, she continued her profession, which caught the eye of a gourmand prince, and the two eventually got together!

44. 44 我 Opening a Little Restaurant in Shengjing 我在盛京开小馆 Four Bayberries四颗杨梅Ancient Romance381k WordsCompleted [Alternate world, slow burn, not a wish-fulfillment novel, food + court intrigue + transmigration. Read with caution if that’s not your thing.] Miss Li’s Changhuan Eatery, tucked away on Qingxing Alley, serves delicious food at affordable prices. The officials who get up early for roll call tug at their increasingly tight uniforms, but still can’t help ordering another bowl of fresh pork wontons. Pei Hongzhi happened to eat there once and discovered that Miss Li didn’t just make excellent breakf 28.2kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
45. 45 农 Delicious Country Cooking: The Little Chef Is Beautiful and Adorable 农门佳肴：小厨娘她美又娇 Tong Xijun童夕君Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Sweet Romance + Farming + Food + Mutual Devotion] Shen Jiayao, a young chef in her previous life, didn't let her skills go to waste after she transmigrated to a small mountain village. Life in the village was hard, but her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her older brother protected her. Most importantly, she had a childhood sweetheart who'd grown up alongside her. When he became an official one day and planned to marry a noblewoman, Shen Jiayao wielded her big ladle and knocked h 4.5kReads9.0Score534Shelves
46. 46 美 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 Storyteller讲故事的人Urban775k WordsCompleted [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 7.4kReads8.7Score508Shelves

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    This is good; the male lead doesn't become rich overnight! And the food prices are reasonable too!

47. 47 成 Growth-Type Chef God: My Proficiency Rises Every Day 成长系厨神：我的熟练度每日上涨 Leg-Day Slacker练腿摸鱼仔Urban1.4M WordsOngoing [Food] [System] [Everyday Life] [Leveling Up] [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted] (The animated series is now out, and the print edition has been signed. Feel free to dive in!) Song Yan was tricked into coming home by his father to inherit the breakfast shop, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. [Host]: Song Yan Seasoning (Beginner): 165/1000 (Not enough to kill anyone) …Collapsed… Knife Skills (Beginner): 0/1000 (You should worry more about cutting your hand than cutting vegetables 155.1kReads8.7Score15.9kShelves

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    Although he has a system, the protagonist's cooking skills are all developed through grinding, resulting in very impressive visuals. The last time I saw something similar was in "Life Simulation Game".

48. 48 七 The Plump Wife of the 1970s and the Reserved Educated Youth Tycoon 七零肥妻，禁欲知青是大佬 Man Qin满沁Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Su Xunwei is a renowned master chef, yet somehow she ends up in the body of a chubby village girl who was tricked by a scumbag in the 1970s. The moment she opens her eyes, she pins down a young educated man who has just been sent to the countryside and has her way with him. The scumbag breaks off their engagement, and the whole village insists she force the young educated man to marry her? No problem. That’s a piece of cake! With a spatula in her left hand and seasonings in her right, she’ll coo 7.8kReads9.1Score902Shelves

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    "Little girl, what are you selling? Is it hot?" Su Xunwei nodded hurriedly and said, "I'm selling pancakes, made to order, guaranteed to be piping hot. Look at my pancakes, vegetarian ones are three cents each, with an egg five cents, with a sausage eight cents, and if you add these boneless chicken strips, it's only one dollar."

49. 49 灶 The Kitchen God's Daily Life as a Mortal Worker 灶君下凡的打工日常 Clear Little Pi清澈的小皮Urban471k WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] After ascending from a small world, Jixiang served for three hundred years as the Divine Lord of Blessings, also known as the fourth-generation Kitchen God. As a newcomer, he found that the vast Heavenly Court had no place for him to stay. And this so-called post as Kitchen God involved far more than simply tending the fire and cooking. Did immortals really live on nothing but nectar and dew? Deeply puzzled, Jixiang gathered his things and returned to the trade he knew 1.9kReads9.1Score241Shelves

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    This story is about the Kitchen God's daily life as he descends to the mortal realm to undergo tribulations. It's just that in the Heavenly Court, he's cooking in the mortal world. There's no romantic pairing. The protagonist is reborn and returns to his hometown to run a restaurant, raising his sister's two children. So far, there's no female lead. It's worth checking out.

50. 50 美 Gourmet: A Restaurant Across from the High School 美食：高中对面开饭馆 Haruna春名Modern Romance649k WordsOngoing [Everyday life + delicious food] [Male protagonist] [No romance] The romance tag wasn’t my choice, sob Orz [July 28: I just saw that the rating is up! Thank you all for rating my story (bows). Thanks for your support.] Yao Yiji works overtime to support his sister’s two children, then collapses at his desk. Bound to System 677, he’s told that completing his mission will send him back to the day before he died suddenly. After the mission ends, he returns to the present day with System 677. He pla 643Reads8.0Score—Shelves

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