I Opened a Chinese Restaurant in New York [Period]

[New novel: The Tough Boss's Sweet Wife [Gourmet]. Please add it to your reading list!]

[Gourmet + Business + Daily Life + Period Setting + Personal Growth]

On the night she won the gold medal at the national banquet cooking competition, Shen Yao was in a car accident.

The good news: she didn't die. Instead, she transmigrated.

The bad news: she transmigrated to 1996, an undocumented immigrant across the ocean.

In the 1990s, New York was rapidly attracting capital from all over the world.

Though she lived in the world's financial center, Shen Yao had no intention of jumping into the financial frenzy.

Unable to stomach bland Western food, she decided to return to her old trade. With a wok in hand and a ladle at the ready, she'd use delicious food to carve out a world of her own!

Red-braised pork, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, sweet-and-sour eggplant dragon, mapo tofu...

It was time to let them taste the finest food the East had to offer.

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A "magical" new Chinese restaurant has opened in Manhattan. They say its owner can turn garbage into gourmet dishes.

Nobody wants chicken feet x tender, flavorful spicy braised chicken feet ✓

Pungent weeds x crispy, fragrant chive pockets ✓

Rotten bean curd soaking in black water x stinky tofu that smells foul but tastes delicious ✓

In the summer of 1998, a famous tycoon surnamed X and a financial titan surnamed C got into a brawl at a Chinese restaurant in Manhattan.

At first, the news and financial gossip outlets assumed it was a plain old business dispute.

It wasn't until three days later that an insider revealed what they'd actually been fighting over: the restaurant's last charcoal-grilled pig trotter...

Reader's Guide:

1. The romance develops in stages. There's one pairing in the main story and other pairings in the extras. The heroine and all the male leads are virgins.

2. The heroine grows stronger and better with every step.

3. A business-building, food-focused story.

New novel: The Tough Boss's Sweet Wife [Gourmet]

[Size Difference + Age Gap + Tough Guy and Sweet Girl + Gourmet + Daily Life + Business]

On the night she became a culinary master, Su He met with an accident on her way home.

When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into a book as an orphan who had been kidnapped and taken to Northeast China in the 1990s. She'd nearly been violated by two bachelors.

Fortunately, a kind older woman found her and not only took her in, but gave her a proper meal.

She heard that the woman had no children and ran a small noodle shop on her own. Wanting to repay her kindness, Su He decided to stay and help her shoulder the burden of the shop, and look after her in her old age.

Then one day, the woman's nephew came to visit.

When the broad-shouldered, six-foot-four figure appeared in the doorway and fixed Su He with a cold, stern gaze, she felt her brain go blank and her scalp prickle.

What was going on? Wasn't this Lu Dongze, the book's big villain?!

Lu Dongze was handsome and imposing, the youngest deputy chief of the black-market police station.

Everyone said he was over thirty and still unmarried because he had psychological problems or some physical defect, and wasn't interested in women.

But nobody knew that the seemingly serious Lu Dongze had his own particular type: petite and gentle, with a slender waist and a full bust.

He only acted so cold and aloof because he never encountered that sort of woman in his daily life.

That changed when he came home on leave and found a plate of glossy red-braised pork shaped like ingots at his aunt's house. Seated beside it was Su He, graceful and delicate, sweet and demure.

He was hungry. His heart and his stomach were both ravenous...

Theme: Good food deserves to be cherished.