Food-Focused Stories 美食文

51 月 Lady Yue's Snack Shop (Gourmet) 月娘小吃铺（美食） Sugarcane Pulp甘蔗渣渣Romance656k WordsCompleted [Bright, warm, business-savvy beauty x stern-looking, warm-hearted, taciturn handsome chef] A striking height difference | Both each other's first love | Healing romance and running a business | Sweet romance | Minnan flavors -- 1. To escape a marriage arranged by her greedy uncle, Su Yueniang fled to Fengchi Town, a hundred li from home. That day, rain poured in sheets. Soaked through and clutching all her belongings, Su Yueniang looked timidly at the tall, imposing, handsome and fierce-looking 1kFavorites1.7kClicks/ch1.1kGifts

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52 杨 Yangzhi Sweet Dew 杨枝甘露 Li Yiping李一平Romance435k WordsCompleted Gan Quan: Sis, do you like Brother Yang because he's handsome, or because his family is rich? Yang Zi: I like all beautiful things. For example: pretty girls, manicures, and delicate hands! Song Qinghui: Love at first sight, they say. I think you two just wanted each other for your looks! Gan Lu (with complete confidence): What's wrong with finding someone who's both handsome and rich? This story features lots of desserts commonly found in Southern-style tea restaurants, as well as food from 935Favorites2.9kClicks/ch1.9kGifts

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53 津 The Little Noodle Shop of Jinmen 津门小面馆 Kan Lan阚岚Romance214k WordsCompleted Coming soon: After Taking a Job as the Dragon King, I Went Viral in the Entertainment Industry. Blurb below. Completed works: I Really Don't Want to Be the Sect Leader, Poverty Alleviation Starts at the Myriad Worlds Station Strong Female Lead, Coming Soon: The White-Bone Bride. A genuinely powerful, straightforward weapon-smith vs. a fake playboy, jealous stray-dog of a rich second-generation heir Yu Tao, who had transmigrated into the body of a young bride brought in to bring good luck, spent 828Favorites4.1kClicks/ch264Gifts

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54 北 A Song Dynasty Fishmonger’s Journal (Gourmet) 北宋杀鱼手札（美食） Watching Clouds by the Water望云临水Romance399k WordsCompleted Bamboo shoot and bracken wontons, green-stemmed wine; lotus seedpod and bamboo fungus tofu soup. Crispy bones cooked with vinegar and mixed with minced meat; candied ginger and honeyed beans served with tea. Steam, braise, stew, slice, sauce, roast, marinate, simmer, stir-fry, pan-fry, deep-fry, pickle, ferment, and flash-fry. In spring and summer, get tipsy on fresh river delicacies; in late autumn, the shrimp and crabs are plump with roe. As the notorious female butcher of Yuxi Town, Ping An i 691Favorites1.7kClicks/ch795Gifts

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55 开 Snack Time in Kaifeng Prefecture 开封府小食光 Lotus Seed Boat莲子舟RomanceOngoing [Where did my saved list go? I really want winter ❄️ to open] Shen Suilan transmigrates into the Northern Song Dynasty as the daughter of a poor family. Her mother runs a wonton stall. She has to raise Shen Suilan and her little sister, while also fending off local hooligans. Their home is dilapidated and their income meager. Taking advantage of their situation, Shen Suilan's cousin's family tries to force her to become a kept woman and bear a child to repay their debt. Tokyo is full of merchan 657Favorites—Clicks/ch328Gifts

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56 小 The Little Chef's Everyday Life in the Marketplace 小厨娘的市井生活 Garlic Ice Cream Fragrance蒜冰激凌香Romance257k WordsCompleted The farming novel A Cow in the Cultivation World is seeking follows. Synopsis at the bottom ⬇️ * A heartwarming food story about everyday family life Xu Anran, a rising star in the modern restaurant industry, opens her eyes to find herself transmigrated. Her father died young, her mother is gravely ill, she is injured, and her family is so poor they can barely afford to eat. She transmigrates into a life that's fallen apart, but her heart remains calm. She has seen grand families fall into rui 530Favorites670Clicks/ch116Gifts

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57 大 The Little Chef of the Dali Temple 大理寺小厨娘 Daybreak Fish大鱼肚白Romance320k WordsOngoing [Gourmet / Both Leads Are Virgins / One-on-One Romance / Happy Ending] In the twenty-second year of Guanghua, the Inspector of Yunzhou was found guilty of treason and his entire clan was executed. In the chaos that followed, nobody noticed that the Inspector's seven-year-old daughter had disappeared. Ten years later, Ming Shuangxu arrived at the gates of the Court of Judicial Review with a bag of river shrimp in hand, determined to clear her family's name. The Court of Judicial Review's for 223Favorites736Clicks/ch25Gifts

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58 江 Jiang Mei Yin (Food) 江梅引（美食） Hamster Big Brother仓鼠大哥Romance501k WordsOngoing Jiang Xue is a food blogger with a million followers. Life has always gone her way, until a disastrously melodramatic romance gives her a heart attack and sends her soul to the underworld. When she opens her eyes again, she has transmigrated into the ancient past as the legitimate daughter of the Jiang family, a giant in the restaurant business. But she has no car or house, a dead mother, and a terrible father. The female ghost who helped her transmigrate is quite powerful. Her mission is to wi 163Favorites536Clicks/ch67Gifts

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59 小 The Snack Shop 小食铺 Old Green Mountain青山旧Romance419k WordsOngoing Yanjing, in the third month, when the apricots bloom. Two sisters from Jiangnan quietly rent the Liu family shop, rumored to be haunted by strange spirits. On the day the Shen family eatery opens, everyone sighs and predicts the sisters won't last a month. Who could have guessed that after half a month, a month, six months, a year, two years, three years... the Shen family eatery would become the Shen family restaurant? 1. Two heroines 2. Both are each other's first, sweet romance with no angst 76Favorites137Clicks/ch171Gifts

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60 古 Everyday Life Running a Shop in Ancient Times 古代开店吃喝日常 Mian Wei眠微RomanceOngoing [The broad fictional setting and some elements carry over from my previous novel, The Daily Business of an Ancient-Era Eatery. You can enjoy this story without having read it.] [Optimistic, energetic sweetheart VS serious, proper academy tutor] A new Yuan Family Eatery opens outside Songzhu Academy in Changle Ward, the capital. Smoke curls from the kitchen and delicious aromas fill the air. The owner works magic with her hands, making a thousand dishes dance on the spatula. Honey-roasted mung 30Favorites—Clicks/ch3Gifts

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62 宋 A Little Song Dynasty Eatery 宋朝小食店 Xiu Yue Shiwu朽月十五Romance424k WordsCompleted [Blurb One] The Zhu Family Eatery is tucked away in a small alley in Bianjing. The eatery opens only at night. It is small, and its chef is a young woman with slender wrists who can nevertheless wield a heavy cleaver and toss an iron wok. Though young, she can cook by any method: stir-frying, roasting, searing, deep-frying, boiling, stewing, braising, steaming, curing, candying, skewering, pickling, and more. The Zhu Family Eatery brings together dishes from every corner of the land. Crucian 18.2kFavorites29.3kClicks/ch6.9kGifts

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The fictional Song Dynasty is written with great delicacy.

63 我 I Opened a Chinese Restaurant in New York [Period] 我在纽约开中餐馆[年代] Piao Jiusen朴久森Romance908k WordsCompleted [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 12.6kFavorites22.6kClicks/ch5.1kGifts

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64 守 A Tomb Keeper's Mountain Food Diary 守陵娘子山食纪 Red Bean Soup绿豆红汤Romance963k WordsCompleted After a stumble, Tao Chun finally regained consciousness amid the jolting. She was bound across an ox's back in a red wedding gown, while the man leading the wedding ox headed deep into the mountains. Tao Chun had been trapped in this body for over half a month. The body's original owner belonged to a family of imperial tomb keepers. She had left the mountains to attend school at ten, then lived with her aunt, a cook for a wealthy household, from the age of fifteen. At nineteen, she fell in lov 57.9kFavorites79.5kClicks/ch100.6kGifts

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The descriptions of mountain life and cozy family moments are simple and refreshing. Because it's mountain food, there's a lot of wild game, which doesn't really appeal to me.

65 位 A Gourmet Restaurant Between Worlds, Linking Past and Present 位面餐馆通古今[美食] Fan Jiangjiang范江江Romance357k WordsCompleted This novel will go VIP tomorrow. The restaurant in the Yuan family’s old house had closed, but it was chosen by the System to become Restaurant No. 886 across the planes. From then on, the ancestral restaurant, whose motto was “Welcome guests from all directions and make friends throughout the world,” would make connections with people who no longer lived beneath the same sky. The little crown prince of the Great Xian Dynasty was served pomelo mousse. An elderly woman from the late 1950s ate f 6.3kFavorites12.5kClicks/ch4.2kGifts

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The food descriptions are pretty good, but the business aspects aren't very appealing to me.

66 青 The Little Aomori Bistro 青森小馆 Chen Xu辰栩No CP262k WordsCompleted No CP advance preview: I, the Culinary Medium, Cook Spirits to Their Rest; Dawn Homestead [Wasteland] Novel blurb: Bu Atian quit her job and returned to Qingsen, where she inherited her grandmother's little restaurant. From then on, Atian had no worries about food or clothing. In spring, she watched the greenery return; in summer, she listened to cicadas and the patter of rain; in autumn, she gathered exotic flowers and fruit; and in winter, she stored away auspicious snow and red plum blosso 3.6kFavorites5.7kClicks/ch3.7kGifts

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It feels like watching a heartwarming Japanese drama about food, with random customer NPCs appearing.

67 渔 The Fisherman's Seasonal Delicacies 渔家四时鲜 Xiu Yue Shiwu朽月十五Romance571k WordsCompleted Blurb: When the blue waters of Wanghai turned red with rampant algae blooms, fish and shrimp floated belly-up, and Haipu Town gradually fell into decline. The fishing folk could barely make ends meet. Jiang Yingzhi, head chef at a seafood restaurant, lost her job. Heartbroken and at a loss, she prayed to the Sea Goddess to restore Wanghai to the way it used to be. The next day, she transmigrated to Haipu Town a century earlier, in the late Ming Dynasty, and saw Wanghai as it once was. The wat 41.4kFavorites48.7kClicks/ch41.8kGifts

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It looks nice, but I don't really like seafood, so it's not very appealing to me.

68 尝 Tasting Spring Wine (Food) 尝春酒（美食） Ji Hang季杭Romance232k WordsCompleted [Complete novel. The polished full version costs a little over four yuan and is available only on Jinjiang. Thank you for your support.] When Lin Xiu opened her eyes, she discovered she had become the beautiful, scheming female side character in a novel. Remembering the tragic ending in the original story, all she wanted was to stay away from the crazy protagonists, open a little shop, and work hard to get rich. Sweet-and-sour fish, pickled long beans, lotus root with rouge, osmanthus cakes. F 11.6kFavorites28.5kClicks/ch2.8kGifts

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The writing style is delicate and pleasant, and the food descriptions are very appealing.

69 十 The Moon Order of Fourteen Bridges 十四桥月令 Yan Lili晏里里No CP311k WordsCompleted Comfort reading for mealtimes. Everyday life shared by a country girl and a down-on-her-luck heiress, a quirky sisterly bond, and the spirited youth of sunny windows and rainy nights. There'll be lots of food, so much food. Starting with the spring equinox, this story follows the seasons and travels in every direction. The pace is slow~ It really is comfort reading for mealtimes +ww ↙ New novel preorder: RV Food Diary I'm Tao Yu. I escaped. Amid the clamor of New Year's Eve fireworks, I fled t 2.1kFavorites2.1kClicks/ch902Gifts

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Many fresh and elegant seasonal mountain dishes, the daily eating and drinking routine of the two little girls.