The Imperial Chef's Little Restaurant [Gourmet]

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Blurb: Bai Xiangning, a royal chef specializing in spiritual cuisine, was searching for rare ingredients when she fell off a cliff. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a completely new world.

In her previous life, she was a highly esteemed imperial chef. After crossing over, she had become a pauper buried in debt.

Determined to change her circumstances, Bai Xiangning put her peerless cooking skills to use and opened a small restaurant.

"Have you heard? A new little restaurant just opened around the corner!"

"What? That place is so out of the way, nobody will go there. Opening a restaurant there is just throwing your money away!"

Everyone was waiting to see Bai Xiangning make a fool of herself.

Bai Xiangning paid no attention to what people said. She was busy tossing her wok and concentrating on the sauce for her new dish.

Later, everyone who had eaten at the Bai Family Restaurant was won over.

"Waaaah, it's so delicious! I had no idea clay pot rice could taste this good! What kind of garbage have I been eating all these years?"

"Boss Bai, another serving of sour plum drink! Put it in this!" As he spoke, he held up a twenty-liter water jug.

"What? The sweet and sour ribs are sold out, and there won't be any more until tomorrow? Waaaah, then I'm staying here until tomorrow. I have to be the first to try them!"

New dishes appeared at the little restaurant one after another: mapo tofu, dry pot pork intestines, ribs with preserved plums, lamb rib pilaf, beef brisket with tomato and potato... There was nothing the customers could think of that they couldn't eat there.

The diners were so addicted to Boss Bai's cooking that they couldn't stop eating. Then, as they bent over their meals, they were astonished to notice that the line outside the Bai Family Restaurant kept getting longer! Quite a few familiar faces were among the growing crowd, including some famous people.

Shockingly, even the heir to Chaoxu Group, the largest company in Jinghua City, showed up at the restaurant!

The Bai Family Restaurant grew larger and larger, with branches all over the city. In the end, it became the renowned Xiangning Dining House.

#WhatDoI do when more and more people discover my hidden gem of a restaurant and I can't even get a meal there myself anymore#

Reading guide: The heroine is focused on exploring delicious food and building her career. The male lead is just a background character.

[Coming next, please add to your favorites] "I Became the Favorite in the Cultivation World Through Food"

Blurb: Xia Yingtao transmigrated into a book and became an inconspicuous junior sister who did odd jobs at an immortal sect, where she cooked plain rice porridge in the back kitchen for disciples who had not yet achieved inedia.

They ate plain rice porridge day in and day out, for a hundred years.

Xia Yingtao: No wonder these disciples achieve inedia so quickly.

A serious foodie, she couldn't stand eating plain porridge for more than two days. So she found ways to improve her meals, secretly adding ingredients to her own portion of porridge and grilling skewers behind the rocks when the other disciples weren't looking. She even slipped away from the Immortal Realm Gathering just to enjoy meat cooked in spring water.

She had wanted to keep a low profile, but the aroma of her food was impossible to ignore. Before long, she went from being a nobody to the sect's universally adored junior sister.

The eldest senior brother was kind and generous. Seeing how low her cultivation was, he said with a heavy heart, "Junior Sister, you spend all day fussing over food and neglecting your cultivation. What will you do when you travel beyond the sect..."

Xia Yingtao stuffed a huge chicken drumstick into his mouth. The eldest senior brother: "Mmmph! Mmmph!"

After laboriously swallowing the drumstick, he changed his tune. "Never mind. I'll protect you."

The second senior sister was exceptionally talented and arrogant, looking down on everyone whose cultivation was inferior to hers. Yet after slaying an ancient ferocious beast by herself, she handed Xia Yingtao the most precious treasure from its body, its heart-protecting armor. "Here. Even a good-for-nothing can stay safe with this armor protecting them."

Xia Yingtao held the armor in her hands, eyes brimming with tears, and was just about to speak when the second senior sister immediately said in disdain, "Don't flatter yourself! I'm only doing this because you owe me a hundred fried skewers!"

The composed eldest senior sister never spoke to her, but she had saved Xia Yingtao's life by bringing her back from the Demon Realm, where corpses had covered the ground. Whenever Xia Yingtao made something delicious, she sent some to the eldest senior sister.

Then one day, a colleague casually mentioned that the eldest senior sister had gone down to the mortal world to travel and had been gone for a long time.

Xia Yingtao's eyes widened in shock.

If the eldest senior sister had never been at the sect, then who was the "eldest senior sister" who had accepted all the delicious food Xia Yingtao sent her?!

Later, when the Immortal Realm Gathering was held, Xia Yingtao saw the Immortal Venerable seated in the highest position...

She had exactly the same face as her "eldest senior sister."

Completed works: "I Survive by Leeching Off the Villain's Favorability" and "The Drama Queen Accidentally Got the Heroine's Role"

Theme: Creating a better life