Novels like A Record of Picking Up Chopsticks
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Record of Picking Up Chopsticks, best match first.
- 151 Divine Chef: The Delicious Young Wife Comes to Bring Good Fortune 神厨农女：美味娘子来冲喜 After transmigrating, a modern young cook becomes a little maid sent to bring good luck to a sickly young master. With her space and her excellent cooking skills, Lin Wan'er is determined to help her sickly husband and his troublesome little brother build a fortune and reach the peak of success! But who could have guessed that, in the dead of night, her sickly husband would be so vigorous and press her at every turn... 40Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 152 The Whole Village Flees a Riot? No Worries, My Sister Has a Secret Space 暴乱全村逃荒？不怕姐姐有空间 An all-purpose pocket space + Strong heroine + Years of disaster + Extreme cold + Flight from famine + Business + Delicious food + Adorable pets Su You Ning, a top special agent from the 25th century, returns to life in the body of Su Er Ya, a farmer’s daughter. Her father is dead, her mother is frail, and her younger brother is so thin he’s little more than skin and bones. Her grandparents favor the eldest branch of the family, and they live in a house unfit even for livestock and eat food even 1.2kReads7.5Score155Shelves
- 153 The Ancient Life of Madam Xu 许娘子的古代生活 Alternate world + raising children + ordinary town life + everyday living + slow-paced + no golden finger Also known as Xu Niangzi's Life in Ancient Times (An alternate world, an alternate world. Please don't compare it to real history.) Xu Anyan, a single woman who never wanted to marry, wakes up after getting drunk and discovers she has transmigrated into the body of a fussy married woman. She becomes a mother without the pain of childbirth, with a husband and son already in place. She closes 2.1kReads8.4Score201Shelves
- 154 The Chang'an Pastry Chef 长安甜品师 Shen Molan transmigrates to ancient times, where the dessert chef is dirt poor and buried in debt. Without missing a beat, she fires up the stove and bakes mooncakes, cakes, and cookies… Before she knows it, she’s become a wealthy woman in Chang’an. Five-nut mooncakes, egg-yolk pastries, rich and fragrant cookies, almond tofu, fresh-flower tarts, fondant cakes… Neighbor on the left: +50 fans. Neighbor on the right: +100 fans. Her fan count rises steadily, and the day she can go home is just aro 573Reads8.6Score114Shelves
- 155 The Chef and the Star 厨子和明星 In his previous life, he was a rising star in the restaurant industry, famous from a young age and immensely proud. He built his own brand, rose to the top, then plummeted just as quickly. In this life, after his parents pass away, he inherits the little shop his family left behind, all to protect the peace and her. 88.1kReads8.4Score11.3kShelves
- 156 Gourmet: You're a Top Gaokao Scorer, and You Open a Food Shop? 美食：你一个高考状元，开美食店 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chu Yang went through high school just like everyone else. Then, with the college entrance exams just around the corner, his mom secretly bought a franchise of Nezha Immortal Drinks! Luckily, Chu Yang awakened the God of Cooking System! He received a premium braised-meat recipe from the start! Its fragrant aroma carried for miles, drawing in countless customers who couldn't wait to get their hands on it. Then came premium braised pork, fish with pickled 447Reads6.0Score103Shelves
- 157 Gourmet: Selling Pan-Fried Dumplings at University, Driving the Admissions Office Crazy 美食：大学卖煎饺，招生办都疯了 Yin Chao, a fourth-year law student, had planned to become a lawyer after graduation. Instead, he got bound to a “Top-Tier Gourmet System”... Day One: His secret-recipe pan-fried buns come out of the pan, and female students line up all the way to the next city. Day Two: Crab roe soup dumplings go on sale, and the campus heartthrob and top student start fighting over a bite. Day Three: The System prompts, [Host, please unlock the “Manchu-Han Imperial Feast.”] Yin Chao stares at his balance of 0. 2kReads—Score177Shelves
- 158 The Foodie Cultivation World 吃货修真界 Born on the Vermilion Bird Continent into an ordinary family, he had only a decent talent, but became an apprentice in the culinary world and made his way on the continent, carefree and too young to know sorrow. Cultivators have to abstain from food? What a pity that would be for all the delicious dishes in the world. What could be better than being born into a cultivation world of food lovers, eating delicious food while leveling up? 7Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 159 The Godly Chef’s Madcap Princess: Your Highness, Behave Yourself 神厨狂妃：王爷，你要乖 She was a top chef of the 21st century, but transmigrated into the least favored legitimate daughter of the Xiang Kingdom, a useless nobody who nearly died on the spot when she first arrived... Luckily, she had the Culinary God System. With delicious food at her fingertips, she would build a fortune, start a business, take down scumbags, fight for the position of heir, and cook to her heart's content. Hot pot, barbecue, crawfish, Dongpo pork, sizzling squid, little cakes! Let's feast like there' 27Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 160 Sweet Pampering in the 1980s: The Foodie Wife Is No Pushover 八零暖宠，美食娇妻不好惹 She opens her eyes and finds herself back in 1983, transformed into a pitiful bride whom her parents “sold” to a local thug for two hundred yuan. Her bride price went straight toward covering the debts of her good-for-nothing younger brother. With her husband’s family living in abject poverty and her own family watching like vultures, she wields spicy mala xiang guo in one hand and braised intestines in the other, winning over the whole street with her cooking and turning her carefree husband in 456Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 After Becoming His Wife, I Switched Careers to the Wok 穿成他老婆后我改行颠勺 I woke up as the wife of the person I'd had a crush on in school, a cool, aloof beauty who could play the guzheng but couldn't do anything else. My husband was cold, my daughter kept her distance, and the whole family treated me like a pretty ornament. Hah, so what if he was my crush? Nothing beats wielding a wok. As I won over hundreds of thousands of viewers in my livestream with one delicious dish after another, the husband who used to stay out all night sobbed in the chat: “Come home, honey! 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 I Won't Panic Through the Famine Years: My Space Is Packed with Meat 穿越荒年心不慌，我有空间肉满仓 Everyday life’s simple comforts are what soothe the heart most~ [Food + Farming + Building a fortune + Family squabbles + Raising a child + Sweet romance + Pocket dimension] [Important: The father is out of the picture, but the child stays! The heroine transmigrates into the past and already has a baby. Pure farming story, no rebellion, no saving princes or generals.] Yun Shu transmigrated into the body of a country woman in ancient times. Just as she got pregnant, her husband cheated on her an 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 Healing Food for Other Worlds: Su He’s Traveling Kitchen 食愈位面：苏禾的移动小厨 [Quick transmigration + No Romance + Gourmet Buff Heals the Whole World + Savior] Su He accidentally binds herself to a World-Healing Gourmet System, taking her life in a whole new direction. Pushing a little food cart, she travels through worlds on the verge of collapse, using her cooking skills to slowly fix one mess after another. Whether it’s a lawless wasteland, a star realm filled with chaotic energy, or an ancient world where spiritual energy is nearly depleted… No matter how broken the 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 The Wildflower Courtyard 食野小院 Two male leads + opening a shop + farming + the rhythms of daily meals and the changing seasons + cozy. Lin Yuan owns the Wildwood Courtyard. Chen Shusheng visited the place by chance and couldn't stop thinking about it. In the end, he quit his job and returned. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 I’m Not Afraid of a Top-Tier Star Exposing Me, I’m Afraid of Going Hungry 不怕顶流开盒，就怕我一饭难求 [Dual male leads, both reborn + Food System + revenge in the entertainment industry + livestreaming] A broad-shouldered chef and actor as the pursuer vs. a scheming, lovesick male opera performer (not human) In his previous life, Bai Shu agreed to help a top-tier star clear up a rumor, only to be doxxed and hounded online by the star’s fans until he died. Reborn in this life, he bonds with a Food System and storms back into the entertainment industry. To his surprise, Hua Xiao, his business part 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 Murder in the Palace 宫闱庶杀 A palace selection changed the course of her life. She watched with her own eyes as her mother was murdered and her elder brother left disabled. She met him at the most helpless, wretched moment of her life, when she was caught between life and death. She thought he was the hope fate had sent her, thought he was everything. She fought her way out of the mire for him, risking her life and refusing to let go, only to discover that he could never love her more than the magnificent realm in his hear 99Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 167 Wow, I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Got Rich Selling Food 哇，意外穿越到古代靠美食暴富啦 Su Muke is a novelist. One night, she discovers that the bracelet she bought contains a pocket dimension. Her quick-witted little brain immediately jumps to the idea of transmigration, and as it turns out, she guessed right. Su Muke really does transmigrate to ancient times, with a sick man and a little dumpling in tow. With a pocket dimension at her disposal, she has nothing to fear. She does business and cooks delicious food in the ancient world, focused solely on making money. But why does th 6Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 168 I Transmigrated to a Farmhouse and Found a Life of Leisure Through Farming 穿越农家，靠种田过上悠闲小日子 A warm, comforting farming story, with a heroine focused on building a business and making a fortune. After transmigrating, she finds that her family is so poor they have nothing but a few thatched huts, and they're deeply in debt. Their food is about to run out. But that's all right: when a family pulls together, they can move mountains! What's there to fear about being poor? Make a living from the mountains if you live by mountains, and from the water if you live by water. She farms, sets up s 13Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 169 A Hug to Sleep 一抱安眠 Food + mind reading + two strong leads + one-on-one, mutually faithful romance + light and sweet pampering + a touch of political intrigue Su Tiantian, a top modern pastry chef, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a mistreated concubine-born daughter. To protect herself, she is forced to sign a “sleeping companion” contract with Xiao Jue, the cold-faced Prince of Jing and a legendary general who suffers from a strange affliction: he can only sleep after touching certain people. With her 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 The Rising Foodie 进击的美食达人 [Secret Crush Turns Real + Sweet Romance + Workplace + Everyday Life + Inspirational] Her classmates mocked her as “petty and hopeless,” saying she was only fit to scrape by at a small company. But through her own efforts, she created the hugely popular food channel “Feast on Fire.” One day, she accidentally let her true identity slip, leaving everyone stunned! Fans: “I always thought you were a huge fatty. I never imagined you’d be such a beauty! You love eating so much, yet you’re still that s 265Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 171 Transmigrated to an Alternate World, the Prince's Daughter Is a Brilliant Cook 穿越架空，王府千金她厨艺绝佳 [Food + System + Business Management + A Little Court Intrigue + One True Pair, Both Pure] An illustrator and foodie unexpectedly binds to a food System and transmigrates into an alternate dynasty. She never expected that, despite having no close family ties, she would become a cherished young lady of the prince’s household. She thought that if she simply followed the System’s instructions, practiced her cooking, and sold food, she could live out her days in peace. But life does not go as she ho 252Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 I Turned My Simp Against His Goddess and Got Rich with My Spirit Spring Space 策反舔狗，手握灵泉空间嘎嘎暴富 [Pocket dimension + making a fortune + natural disasters + brainless wish fulfillment] An all-around female special agent from the 21st century transmigrates into the body of a doomed supporting character? Everyone around her is evil, and they all want her dead. Three stepchildren give their mother a hard time? She teaches them a little martial arts, and soon they’re crying for their parents and begging for mercy, never daring to do it again! Awful relatives scheme against her? She turns the poc 16Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 173 Master, the Little Chef Has Won Over the Entire Capital with Her Food 爷，小厨娘靠美食俘虏全京城了 Twenty-six-year-old Zhao Hehuan transmigrated after a car accident, becoming eleven-year-old Wang Chunni. The funny thing was that the accident made her forget everything about her past, but she inherited all of Wang Chunni's memories. Her father didn't care for her, her mother didn't love her, and they wanted to raise her to sacrifice everything for her younger brother. No thanks! Zhao Hehuan ran away. She headed north to Bianliang, where her utterly ordinary genius cooking skills won over coun 83Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 174 The Little Chef Returns to Ancient Times to Raise Kids 小厨娘穿回古代养崽子 [Cooking delicious food, raising an adorable child, and finding a husband] Shen Ruan grew up in an orphanage and has been single all her life. Then one day, she gets into a car accident and catches the transmigration trend, gaining an adorable little brother in the process. Looking at her scrawny little brother, Shen Ruan returns to her old trade as a chef. She works diligently, starting with a street stall, cooking delicious food to make a fortune and raise him! Later, she meets a “heaven-sen 157Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 175 Our State Banquet Master Sets Up a Stall to Sell Roujiamo to Foreigners 我国宴大师，摆摊卖肉夹馍给老外 [Food + light System + overseas business + comfort-food read + no romance + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + detailed recipes] Lu Chuan, a seventy-two-year-old master chef of state banquets, is reborn as an undocumented laborer overseas. He gets bound to a Chinese cuisine promotion System, and each mission is more outrageous than the last. Get people who have eaten sweet-and-sour chicken for decades to try real Kung Pao chicken instead. Get people who only have coffee and bread for b 97Reads—Score103Shelves
- 176 The Good-for-Nothing Junior Sister Conquers the Cultivation World with Food 废柴小师妹靠美食征服修仙界 (Beloved by All + Gourmet Food + Farming + Fantasy + Relaxed) Lin Shiman, a famous food blogger, accidentally transmigrates into a cultivation world and becomes the good-for-nothing junior sister of Yun Tian Academy. Why is the cultivation world so desolate? Evil creatures run rampant, malevolent plants spread everywhere, and the land is barren. Everyone takes fasting pills. Ugh, why do they taste so awful? Which genius came up with these? They eat spirit fruit raw. Wait, is it illegal to cook i 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Fragrance Filling the Hall (Two-Volume Set) 芬芳满堂（全二册） When two fierce opponents meet, the braver one wins. She saves her tenderness for the one she loves! On a camping trip, all she wanted was to roast some wild lily bulbs for dessert. She never dreamed Mr. Tang was allergic to lilies. One emergency hospitalization later, he was clinging to her and refusing to let go? When she opened a dessert shop, he sent people to buy up everything. When she went hiking, he followed her there to poach her for his company. He followed her everywhere, and not only 63Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 178 Shocking! The Prime Minister’s Legitimate Daughter Wins Over the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 惊！丞相嫡女靠美食征服整个京城 Modern chef Su Yuwan transmigrates and nearly gets taken out by ancient “cuisine” the moment she opens her eyes! Overly sweet pastries? Greasy meat? What kind of awful place doesn’t even have potato chips or spicy strips?! “This dump isn’t fit for pigs!” When she realizes that life among the nobility is truly dull... “Heh. Time to show you what a whole different level of competition looks like!” She fries golden potato chips from potatoes meant for pigs, and the emperor secretly tucks them int 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a Highway Rest Stop During Lunar New Year, I Bring Traffic to a Standstill 美食：春节服务区卖饭，高速堵疯 [Food + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] Gu Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Food System. At the start, he draws a location for his business, only to get a tiny highway service area! And the ridiculous task is to sell three hundred boxed meals in a single day? Just as Gu Rui is at his wits’ end, a male streamer shows up at the highway service area by chance. After one meal of dumplings, the streamer hugs him and keeps calling him “Mom”! Travel surges during the Spring 186Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 180 Reborn as the White Moonlight Older Sister, I Lead the Villain in Farming to Wealth 穿成白月光姐姐带反派种田致富 Liu Yiyi transmigrates into a book, and from the start, her engagement is called off. Now she also has to look after two major villains from the story. The scheming, underhanded chief eunuch, the male lead’s sworn enemy, is her younger brother. The ruthless and cruel Imperial Noble Consort, the female lead’s sworn enemy, is her younger sister. And then there’s her cheerful sister-in-law, who has no brains but plenty of strength. Liu Yiyi looks at her sister-in-law, strong enough to pull up mount —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 Canceled After Becoming a Villainess, I Set Up a Food Stall and Make the Whole Internet Drool 穿成恶女被封杀，摆摊馋疯全网 [Food System + Lighthearted Comedy + Cozy + Heartwarming + Transmigration into a Food Story + Functional Ingredients + Comfort Food + Beautifully Plated Dishes + Romance] The male lead is more of a background character, just one part of our heroine’s play~~ (*^3^) /~☆ Transmigrated into a disgraced, scandal-ridden nobody, with her role stolen, her contract locking her in, and the entire internet telling her to get lost? Jiang Li tears up her contract and makes a run for it on the spot: “Let the 285Reads5.6Score100Shelves
- 182 I Opened an Eatery in Ancient Times and Picked Up a Child Bride Along the Way 我在古代开食铺，顺带捡个童养夫 (The rating just came out, but it’ll go up.) [Alternate world + Food + Business + Daily life + One couple only + Happy ending + Love grows over time] Ren Qingwu was born into the body of a newborn baby in one fell swoop, becoming the only daughter of a hunter’s family in the southwestern part of the Great Yong dynasty. Her parents died young, leaving her with a penniless household and a little food stall that barely kept them alive. She resolved to break through with good food: Kneading dough an 3kReads8.1Score341Shelves
- 183 Wanted for Cooking with a Wok in the Immortal Realm 在仙界支锅炒菜被通缉了 Li Xiaochu is a modern-day food streamer. She’s drooling over a Beef Wellington. She closes her eyes, then opens them, and she’s gone! She opens them again, and, would you look at that! She’s taken the place of a lowly fire-tending fairy in the Immortal Realm? From the start, she’s at the peak. Other people transmigrate into immortal cultivation harems as heroines and enjoy sweet romances! She transmigrates into a wanted criminal in the Immortal Realm? The reason: she polluted the realm with sti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 I Became the Villainous Big Shot’s Wife, Who Dies Young 穿成反派大佬的早死原配妻 [Transmigrate into a book + one-on-one, both leads are virgins + food + face-slapping + no golden finger + no spatial dimension] Song Tian wakes up from a nap to find she’s become the cannon-fodder wife of the story’s villainous big shot! The book says Xie Yunzhe is vindictive, ruthless, and cruel. The moment Song Tian transmigrates into the story, he grabs her by the throat and nearly kills her. Luckily, she knows when to bend and how to get along with people, so she quickly begs him nicely to 188Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 185 Gourmet: You Asked Me to Teach, but I Ran Off With the Parents 美食：让你当老师，你把家长拐跑 (Don't leave! The rating just came out and will go up. A heartwarming story.) Chen Chu is unemployed and living off his sister's family when he unexpectedly awakens a Gourmet System. Just as it happens, his niece's kindergarten is short a food teacher, so Chen Chu proudly takes the job. Day One: An eighty-year-old grandpa comes to pick up a child, then cries and makes a scene, demanding to enroll. Day Two: A naughty kid who hates school says that going to school is the happiest thing in the worl 860Reads6.6Score100Shelves
- 186 The Cute Chef with a Gourmet System 美食系统之萌神厨娘 Ye Yun is a food streamer with a beautiful face, a sweet voice, and an elegant air. By a twist of fate, she transmigrates to ancient times. Before she can figure out what’s happening, the thoroughly confused Ye Yun is married off in her older sister’s place to the dying eldest son of the Rong family. She also finds herself saddled with a baffling food System. “The Minister of Revenue wants Dongpo pork? Have him book a month in advance.” “The little princess wants ice cream? No way. She stole fru 23Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 187 I Transmigrate into a Book and Open a Restaurant That Makes the Whole City Smell Amazing 穿书后我靠开食肆香遍全城 The heroine transmigrates into a book and opens a restaurant. The story focuses on the day-to-day business of running a food shop, with no awful relatives or angst. It's warm and comforting, so enjoy without worry~ The male lead appears later and doesn't have much page time. He's a puppy-like guy who follows our little Hua around everywhere (the male lead of the transmigration novel), and he's blessed with a protagonist's halo: getting close to him brings good luck. (Hugging the big shot's leg.j 3.7kReads8.1Score324Shelves
- 188 The Capital’s First Female Tycoon Built Her Fortune with Food 京城第一女首富她靠美食发家了 Complete. Farming + mobile shop + food + beloved by the whole family + strong female lead Song Anning, a 21st-century chef who cooked at state banquets, died suddenly while researching food late at night. She woke up in ancient times and saw that her family had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Well, she’d have to start from scratch. Watch how this village girl makes a home and builds a life with snail rice noodles, hamburgers, barbecue, hot pot, malatang, and more. She only hoped to becom 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 I Just Set Up a Food Stall, So Why Are All My Customers Getting Stronger? 我就摆个摊，怎么食客都变强了 [Food That Goes Great with Rice x Delicious] [Comedy x Everyday Life] [System x Street Stall] [Otherworld x City] [Superpowers x Awakening] [No Heroine] [Street-stall task issued. Random location: beside a public restroom. Random food: stinky tofu. Reward: Beginner Cooking Skills!] Lu Chuan is stunned. “System, you really are making things difficult for me, Pang Hu!” At seven in the evening, passersby point and whisper beside the public restroom. To attract customers, Lu Chuan gets an idea and d 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 The Restaurant Is Packed to the Rafters, So Why Are You Off Working? 餐厅抖爆满了，你跑去打工做什么 [Gourmet] [Funny and lighthearted] [Reborn in another world] [Livestream food delivery] [Pets] [System] [No female lead] [Daily life] In his previous life, Gao Wenfeng was tricked by his girlfriend into paying off her gambling debts. She disappeared, and he was eventually hounded to death by debt collectors. Reborn in another world, he decides to take things easy, live well, and enjoy good food and freedom. At last, he gets to enjoy a carefree life of lying flat in this new world, and only then 8Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 191 From the Start, All I Had Was a Bowl of Luosifen: My Goal Is to Make a Hundred Million 开局一碗螺蛳粉，目标挣它一个亿 [Restaurant Management + Food + System + No Romance + Light Livestreaming + Grow and Prosper + Helping Farmers + Going Global] A bolt from the blue! Mu Xiaoxiao was unjustly fired by her company the day before she was due to become a permanent employee. Well, if there’s no place for me here, there’s a place for me elsewhere! What’s done is done. First, I’ll have a bowl of luosifen. As she slurped the noodles, she couldn’t help shouting inwardly, “If only I had a luosifen shop of my own!” [Host’s 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Our Three Meals and Four Seasons 我和你的三餐四季 Chen Baomian was considered an oddball by outsiders. She gave up her job at a research institute in Hong Kong and returned to live in seclusion on a run-down island. But to Jiang Jinglin, Chen Baomian was a map of local delicacies: red peach cakes, beef balls, duck-egg dumplings, and braised goose. Whatever he could think of, she could make. He thought she had merely won his stomach, never realizing she had captured his heart long ago. Chen Baomian thought Jiang Jinglin was a genius designer wh 1.5kReads8.9Score160Shelves
- 193 I Became the Darling of Ancient Times with Medicinal Cuisine 我靠药膳美食成为古代团宠 [Transmigrate + alternate world + System + food + daily life + wholesome romance + love that grows over time + one-on-one romance + everyone’s favorite] Mu Wan transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a “dark-skinned, chubby, plain-looking woman.” That’s bad enough, but she also has a sickly husband who could die at any moment. No problem! She’s the head chef of the Imperial Kitchen and knows a little about medicine. If it has anything to do with food, she can handle it. Mu Wan rolls up her sl 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 The Little Kitchen of Fireworks 烟火小厨 [Character Growth × Slow Burn × Ensemble Cast] Food blogger Xiao Wei wakes up one day and finds herself transmigrated to ancient times. She thinks it’s just a cruel joke of fate, but little does she know that her life’s journey has only just begun. Fu Qingtang was born into privilege. She has much, and is destined to bear even more. Lin Qiaolan is proud and headstrong, but no matter how tough her shell, it cannot shield her from the push and pull of fate. Their fates are different, and they come 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 The Whole Village Is Starving in the Disaster Apocalypse, and I Can’t Hide My Warehouse 天灾全村饿肚皮我的仓库藏不住 [Transmigrated to another world: how do you survive without a space, System, or golden finger?] [Divine Doctor] + [Master Chef] + [Special Forces] + [PhD]: an unbeatable combination! Three close friends, each with their own special skills, transmigrate to ancient times and start a business from a poor mountain village: making food, opening workshops, running restaurants... They grow rich not for wealth alone, but to realize their own worth, establish welfare homes and free schools, create jobs f 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 My Whole Family Cooks in a Giant Pot and Goes Viral in the Western Han 我全家炒大锅饭，爆红西汉 [The whole family transmigrates + ordinary people + food and business + everyday family life + an alternate Western Han dynasty] The rating was just posted, so it’s a little low right now~ No contrived drama, and there’s a romantic pairing (the male lead barely appears, so feel free to ignore him; the heroine and her family are focused on building their business). A slice-of-life tale about ordinary people in a frontier town. The three members of the Lin family, village-feast chefs, transmigrate 2kReads8.4Score268Shelves
- 197 After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Make a Comeback by Selling Lunch Boxes 穿书后我靠卖盒饭逆袭 [Gourmet] [A Love That Goes Both Ways] [Sweet Romance] Su Tian transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious older sister who meets a tragic end. She immediately decides to treasure her life and stay out of trouble. Why not sell boxed meals and enjoy her own little life? Except... Why does the original male lead’s uncle keep hanging around her? One day, Uncle Huo gives Su Tian a handbag, only to discover it listed on a secondhand marketplace app moments later. Uncle Huo: Care to explain? S 337Reads7.5Score103Shelves
- 198 Why Not Add Another Bowl of Rice? 不如添碗饭 [Farming + Food + Healing + Growth + Cozy + Lighthearted Comedy] [Cheerful, lively little cook × Arrogant, childish young lord Pei Qun of the marquis’s household: a bickering couple] A young woman who sells wontons in Jingzhou City finds an arrogant, childish man at her doorstep. She takes him home and stuffs him full of food, but the next day he sneaks away. The young woman saves up to open a restaurant and takes a job as a cook in the marquis’s household. Then one day, she discovers that the a 131Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 199 Transmigrating to a Picturesque Countryside Home of Fine Cuisine 穿越田园美食人家 When chef Xia Dong wakes up, she finds herself transformed into Xia Dong'er, a pitiful little bean sprout of a girl. Her gambling-addicted father wants to sell her, her greedy mother wants a divorce, and she has an adorable little brother. She lands straight in survival mode on the highest difficulty. Xia Dong'er says, “Wait, let me eat some meat first and catch my breath!” Sweet osmanthus fills the walnut-stuffed pastries, while pearl-like glutinous rice is rinsed in well water. A lifetime of f 1kReads8.6Score144Shelves
- 200 The Little Chef Takes on the World 小厨娘闯天下 Female lead: Shen Cao (her name has a special meaning). Male lead: Ji Lingfeng [Transmigration + food + business + making a fortune + slow-burn development + sweet romance] After becoming a master chef, Shen Cao falls off a cliff while gathering mushrooms and transmigrates into the body of a village girl who shares her name. Her parents love each other, her brothers are on good terms, and even her younger sister looks up to her. The only problem is that her family is so poor they can barely affo 1.4kReads7.7Score158Shelves
