Novels like The Mortal Flavors I Share with the Kitchen God
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Mortal Flavors I Share with the Kitchen God, best match first.
- 1 Reborn in 1980: A Five-Star Chef Gets Rich with His Wife and Daughters 重生80：五星名厨带妻女暴富 In 2026, Liu Yuanshan, executive chef at a five-star hotel earning over a million a year, suddenly dies while lying in bed watching an animated drama. When he opens his eyes, he discovers he's been reborn as a fisherman with the same name in 1986. The once-bachelor golden boy has suddenly gained a wife and three daughters overnight. From the start, his parents blame his wife for giving birth to three girls in a row, accusing her of ending the Liu family's line, and pressure him to divorce her. L 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Fragrance and Flavor of Lotus 荷香食味 The day she was divorced, Ye Hexiang took only two acres of barren land and the cookbook her grandmother had left her. Her rundown house leaked in the wind. She had no money to her name and carried a secret she couldn't tell anyone. She thought her life was over. Then she sold her first jar of pickled radish for a single coin. A bowl of hot soup, a little shop, and a taciturn but gentle man. She learned that life's greatest flavors come from turning bitter days into sweet ones. 8kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves
- 3 Five-Year-Old Master Chef: My Street Stall Makes the City's Bigwigs Drool 五岁小厨神：靠摆摊馋哭全城大佬 [Food, adorable kid, System, slice of life] Mom is in a coma after a car accident, and Dad can’t afford the medical bills. Just as the whole family is on the verge of despair, five-year-old Youyou accidentally activates the Adorable Kid Chef God System! [Happiness-Inducing Egg Fried Rice], [Little Wontons That Restore Your Courage], [Koi Soup That Helps You Make a Fortune]… From then on, one adorable five-year-old and a roadside food stall become the hottest attraction in the whole city! Want a 1.5kReads—Score183Shelves
- 4 You're the God of Food, Yet You Want Me to Cook a Banquet? 身为食神，你居然让我做大席？ Countryside + Gourmet + Heartwarming. The simple comforts of everyday life are what soothe the human heart. Chu Ci is reborn in a rural village in a parallel world and unexpectedly obtains the God of Food System. But the very first task the System gives him is to cook a feast for a crowd? But I don’t know how! Yet, looking at the kind, honest smiles of his family back home, Chu Ci has no choice but to take the job. Light the stove and get the dishes moving! Turns out, cooking a feast like this i 339Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 5 Head Chef in an Eagleland Prison: Inmates Beg for Longer Sentences 鹰酱监狱当主厨，犯人集体求加刑 [Gourmet] + [Comedy] + [No Female Lead] + [Perfect for Mealtime] + [Recipes] + [Don't Read Late at Night] After an accident, Li Xiang becomes the head chef at an Eagle Sauce prison and acquires the God of Cookery System. Inmates: “I don't want to stay in this dump another day! I'm breaking out!” “Exactly! They serve us food even dogs wouldn't eat! This bread's hard enough to use as a brick!” Then Li Xiang arrives... “My God, this is so delicious! I don't want to leave! I want to spend the rest o 20Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 6 I Became a God-Tier Tycoon by Running a Street Stall, and My Customers Chase Me All Over Town 摆摊成神豪，食客追我满城跑 [Food + Tycoon + Comedy + System + No Romance + No Heroine + Daily Life + Comfort Food + Wish Fulfillment] Li Hai is a wage earner who longs to get rich. By chance, he binds to the Food Tycoon System. From then on, he sets out to run street-food stalls. The locations and dishes are random. Every time he completes a stall-running task provided by the System, he receives a generous reward. [Congratulations, Host! Task complete. Reward: ten million yuan.] [Congratulations, Host! Task complete. Rewa 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 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 456Reads6.0Score103Shelves
- 8 Gourmet: I Cater Village Banquets, and the Villagers Crowd Around My House 美食：村里烧宴席，村民堵我家门 [Lots of Food + Revenge + Slow-Paced + Romance + No Female Lead + No-Brainer Fun + Comfort Food] Zhou Peng transmigrates to a parallel world and unexpectedly binds himself to a Food System. Complete a customer's random banquet request and receive a random reward. A Double Ninth Festival banquet for the elderly, a baby's one-month celebration, a wedding banquet for a couple who got married on a whim. Braised pork, a whole chicken, a whole fish! Finish with a plate of stir-fried greens! The most t 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 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 3.8kReads8.1Score363Shelves
- 10 Transmigration: After Quitting, the System Helps Me Open a Restaurant 穿越：辞职后系统带我开饭馆儿 [System] [Gourmet] [No heroine] [No romance] [Cozy] [Everyday life] Zhang Yang is an orphan. After finally learning to cook from a master, he is transported to another world by an explosion. When he arrives, he discovers that he is still an orphan. What? Am I cursed with bad luck? Do I not deserve parents? Just then, his phone chimes: @Zhang Yang, please come to the finance office tomorrow to complete your resignation procedures. Before he can reply, a dialog box pops up on his phone: You have b 658Reads8.0Score102Shelves
- 11 One Stall from the Start, Great Food All Thanks to the System 开局一个摊，美食全靠系统 Chen Fang had spent over half a year stir-frying rice noodles, yet he was so broke he couldn't even pay rent. Then the System arrived. A garden in a pocket dimension, a spirit spring, ingredient exchanges, recipe unlocks, cooking skill upgrades, and surprise prize draws. He thought he could finally turn his life around, but the System said: He had to get “genuine praise” from three special diners within a week, or it was goodbye. The first was the belle of S University. She devoured two portions 12Reads—Score118Shelves
- 12 The Alleyway Cooking God: Starting with S-Rank Turnip Cake 小巷厨神，从S级萝卜糕开始 (Urban setting + food + no female lead + everyday life + slow burn. Not a street-stall story: they open a restaurant.) In a bustling city, an old neighborhood left untouched by redevelopment for one reason or another sits on an aging street. In this urban village, surrounded by the central business district, a young culinary genius makes his home. After his parents die in a car accident, Fang You resolutely drops out of school and returns home to take over the breakfast shop they ran for over tw 21.2kReads7.2Score2.2kShelves
- 13 The Little Mermaid Chef: Spring Drunkenness, Begonias Bloom, and Dawn Goes Unnoticed 人鱼小厨娘【春酲海棠不觉晓】 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
- 14 A Chef at Your Door, Healing Countless Diners 男厨上门，治愈万千食客 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
- 15 Tales of Peach Branch 桃枝记事 [Everyday Life in Ancient Times] [Career-Focused] [Slow-Burning] [Coming of Age] [Ensemble Cast] Taozhi unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a young maid in a wealthy Song dynasty household. Every day, all she can think about is how to buy her freedom and make a life for herself in Bianjing... 87Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 16 Gourmet: You Hired Me as a Security Guard, So Why Am I Making the Residents Drool? 美食：让你当保安，你馋哭业主？ [Gourmet + System + no romance + cooking competitions + lighthearted daily life] In his previous life, Liu Ran was a programmer who worked around the clock. He died suddenly on his twenty-fifth birthday and was reborn just as he was graduating and looking for a job. This time, he decides to skip thirty years of struggle: he’ll become a security guard right after graduation and laze around! But the Gourmet System intervenes and changes the life he had planned for himself. From the triple-combo ri 189Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 A Happy Family 合家欢 After being reborn, I excel at both studying and making money, and retire at thirty Synopsis: [Farming + Food + Business + Slow-Burn Slice of Life + No System] A farming story with no System The focus is on a gentle, steady pace No ridiculous relatives How did the Lin family's youngest daughter, once a bit slow on the uptake, suddenly become a business tycoon? Lin Wanwan: Who do you think you're looking down on? I can hold my own in the parlor and in the kitchen. I can cook, run a business, grow 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Gourmet: Starting with Selling Braised Dishes in the Countryside! 美食：从下乡卖卤味开始！ [System Golden Finger + Gourmet + Everyday Business + Farming] Ji Yanming quits his job and returns to his village to care for his elderly grandfather and start a business, never expecting to bind to a Gourmet System. The god-tier braised-food recipe he gets in the beginner’s gift pack sends him soaring right from the start. So Ji Yanming begins selling braised food in the countryside, traveling from village to village and becoming a favorite with adults and children alike. Before long, his fame 832Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 19 Setting Up a Stall Outside the Elementary School, Mom and Dad, Save Some for Me 小学门口摆摊，爸爸妈妈给我留点 This book is also known as "After I Grabbed My Bucket and Ran, I Awakened the Gourmet God System". [Comedy] [Comfort Food] [System] [Gourmet] [Goofball] As a civil engineering graduate, Zhang Yang followed his seniors’ advice on starting a business and became a proud freelancer: selling snacks outside an elementary school as a street vendor. Egg fried rice, pan-fried buns, and all kinds of other delicious food took the school gate by storm. The elementary school students and their parents lined 392Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 20 I Sell Grilled Cold Noodles, and the Gourmet Association Has Its Eye on Me 摆摊烤冷面，我被美食协会盯上了 (Food + Northeastern Chinese snacks + all kinds of other snacks + System + no romance + laid-back daily life + livestreaming, entrepreneurship, and opening a shop + steady rise to success) Yu Duoduo quit her job in the prime of her life, at just twenty-two. Working for someone else is hard. It’s enough to drive you into a funk. Yu Duoduo: Entrepreneurship! I have to start a business! When she looked at the terrible grilled cold noodles in front of her, tears of excitement welled up in her eyes! 57Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 21 Yi Wan Fried Rice 伊碗炒饭 From ancient times to the present day In ancient times, Yi Wan was heir to a royal chef’s legacy. In the modern era, Yi Wan’er had lost her parents in a car accident just as she finished her college entrance exams. In a single day, Yi Wan transmigrated and became Yi Wan’er. Watch as this heir to an ancient royal culinary tradition works wonders with ingredients in the modern world, cooking up a life rich in every flavor. 12Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 22 Gourmet: My Late-Night Diner Might Not Be Entirely Scientific 美食：我的深夜食堂可能不太科学 [Food + System + entertainment industry + lighthearted daily life] If someone asked where an unconventional late-night diner came from, Luo Jia would tell them it all started with him standing up for the people and beating up a mage whose ritual was disturbing the neighborhood. He knew because he had experienced it himself. Thanks to the immense merit he earned by sacrificing the mage from the start, Luo Jia got a System and embarked on the path to becoming a God of Cooking. He moved to a film s 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Interstellar Street Stall! Sis Song, Could You Stop Running Off? 星际摆摊！宋姐，咱能不能别乱跑 The rating just came out, so it'll go up! [Interstellar + food + System + one heroine + no male lead + no CP + lighthearted + everyday life + comedy + perfect mealtime reading] After Song Quan died from overwork, she found herself in an interstellar age proudly known as a “culinary wasteland.” [You have successfully linked to the God of Cooking Lottery System!] All she had to do was collect customers' mood points to unlock new recipes and street-stall locations. Mood points could also be used fo 10.8kReads7.1Score1.6kShelves
- 24 Transmigrated into a Tragic Novel as Cannon Fodder, I Turned the Tables with Food 穿成虐文炮灰，我靠美食逆风翻盘 [Food + System + business + healing each other + obsessive, scheming male lead] Yun Shu, a descendant of imperial chefs, opens her eyes to find she has become a doomed cannon-fodder character in an old-fashioned tragic romance. Not only did she spend her life giving the heroine resources and taking the blame for her, but even after her death, she became part of their PLAY. They really used her to the very end. Why should the whole world’s lives be sacrificed just so their love story can be passi 28Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 25 Gourmet: From Country-Style Banquets to a Better Life! 美食：从农村烧大席开始奔小康！ Illustrations throughout [System, food, reborn, farming, warm everyday life] Wang Cheng suddenly returns to the 1980s and binds to a Chef God Training System. In his previous life, he aimed too high and ended up dying suddenly at his factory job, tightening screws. This time, he returns to the countryside. With a few plates and bowls, eight cold dishes and eight hot ones, chicken, fish, pork knuckles, and meat dishes that disappear as soon as they hit the table, he’ll rule the world with nothing 582Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 26 My Stall Is Full the Moment I Open! Do You Know How Hard This Is? 刚出摊就客满，知道我有多苦吗？ [Comfort-Food Cuisine] [Delicate Writing] [Easygoing Daily Life] [Warm and Healing] After being reborn, Su Yu unexpectedly binds himself to the Ultimate Gourmet System. Egg fried rice: golden in color, with every grain distinct. One bite and you can't stop! Braised chicken: tender, juicy meat with layers of flavor. The sauce gushes out with the slightest bite! Chili oil noodles: chewy noodles that sizzle with heat, spicy and fragrant, with a lingering aftertaste! Every dish is top-notch, leaving 89Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 27 Boss, You're Running a Stall, So Why Do You Have a Roaming Skill? 老板摆个摊，怎么还带游走技能？ [Food + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Heartwarming] Jiang Yiwen transmigrates to a parallel world. He had planned to lie flat, but who could have guessed he’d be bound to the Ultimate Delicious Food System? On his first day, his goal is to earn three hundred yuan to complete a mission and receive a mysterious reward. And so, a boss who leaves every customer utterly frustrated makes his debut. When the aroma of his food wafts for miles and keeps everyone coming back for more. 303Reads6.4Score111Shelves
- 28 You Told Me to Sell Fried Rice, and I Brought the Highway to a Standstill 让你摆摊卖炒饭，你把高速干瘫痪 Bai Ming transmigrates to Blue Star and becomes an unemployed young man. With his family fortune about to run dry, he is lucky enough to activate the Gourmet System and gain god-tier cooking skills and legendary kitchenware. It happens to be the Spring Festival rush, when everyone is returning to the cities and the highway is gridlocked. Living nearby, Bai Ming simply brings out his wok and stove and starts selling fried rice by the roadside. The drivers and passengers, already starving, are ins 991Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 29 I Bound the God of Cooking System and Became Unbeatable in the Sect 我绑定厨神系统，在宗门无敌了 [Everyday life + silly, brainless wish fulfillment] After transmigrating into a fantasy world, Ye Chenxing takes charge of all the old, weak, sick, and young members of Cangqiong Peak from his senior brother. A good-for-nothing second senior brother takes over as peak master. Cangqiong Peak is doomed! After binding to the God of Cooking Food System, Ye Chenxing cultivates through cooking. His dishes can increase spiritual energy, help people reach enlightenment, raise their cultivation, and ha 497Reads8.7Score110Shelves
- 30 I’m Just Cooking, Why Are the Demonic Beasts So Nervous? 我就做个菜，妖兽你紧张什么？ Xie Fan, a food lover, accidentally transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and awakens the God of Cooking System! He thought a world of cultivation would be full of fun, but there’s no internet or air conditioning, and worst of all, the food is terrible! With the principle that he can give up cultivating immortality, but he can’t give up eating, Xie Fan decides to fend for himself! The entire sect goes wild! The disciples: “What is this? How can it be so delicious!” “Eating a bowl of f 736Reads6.6Score112Shelves
- 31 Guizhou Cuisine, Making Him Lose His Cool 黔味厨娘，勾他破防 "Craving Her: The Cold-Faced Imperial Guard Wants Cuddles" Transmigrate into a book with a Guizhou cuisine space. Good news: Bai Tingyu, the family's savior, has happened to contract the "food-aversion Gu," and Guizhou cuisine is its natural enemy. Bad news: The space is a "money pit." Every time someone infected with the Gu eats food from her space, half her family's money vanishes. The urgent task: repay the favor, run away, and get rich. But after tasting her spicy, crispy potato cakes, he tu 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Transmigrate to the 1980s, and I Offer One-Stop Banquet Services 穿越80，我搞酒席一条龙服务 [Alternate setting + Transmigration + System + Food + Business management + Family life + Countryside] Original title: Transmigrated to the 1980s, I Run a One-Stop Banquet Service Lin Chujiu transmigrates to 1988 in a parallel world, where her grandfather mistakes her for a relative returning from Hong Kong. She decides to play along, setting up a stall in town and selling roast duck under the title of a five-star chef from Hong Kong. Her crispy roast duck breaks a tradition that has stood f 17.6kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
- 33 When It Comes to Noodles, I'm the Best in the Country 论做面，我全国最强 [Food] Yu Shaoxian inherited his family's noodle shop. Looking at the shabby, 90-square-meter old shop in front of him, he listened to the System announce his task, eager to give it a try. “Host, your task is to make countless dishes using noodles as the main ingredient.” “Complete the task, and you'll receive a cash reward of 300 million.” “The reward will be delivered in the form of lottery winnings.” “Ding! Your beginner's gift pack has arrived.” “Congratulations, Host! You've received unlimi 1.2kReads8.0Score209Shelves
- 34 If You Meet a New Oriental Chef, You'd Better Get on Your Knees! 遇到新东方的厨子，你就跪了吧！ [Spiritual Qi Revival + Traveling Frog + Everyone Misreads the Situation + Food] [A slow-burn, slice-of-life story focused on fun.] A thousand years after the spiritual qi revival, almost everyone can cultivate. One of the rare ordinary people who can’t, Su Mingge can only make a living by running a small restaurant in the slums. To save up for a kitchen renovation, he enters a livestream talent competition. Show off a talent? I’ll fry an egg for everyone! Someone wants to challenge me? Beho 228Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 35 Gourmet: Stop Stewing It, Even the Village Dogs Are Drooling! 美食：别炖了，村里狗都馋哭了！ Kuang Rui refuses to get caught up in the rat race and chooses to lie flat back in his hometown. He inherits his father’s braised meat shop and, after rejecting the rat race, gains a Food System. Together, they breathe new life into the shop. The humble home-cooked dishes that once went unnoticed are transformed into viral hits that customers flock to check in and try. Take steamed stinky tofu with minced meat, for example. It smells awful but tastes delicious, and one bite is enough to leave y 2.4kReads6.4Score156Shelves
- 36 I Ran Away from My Wedding to Sell Wontons, and Made the Emperor Drool 逃婚卖馄饨，居然把陛下馋哭了 [Farming + Food + Chef + Transmigrate + Heartwarming, Beloved by All] Food blogger Yun Shu unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter! She can’t get her hands on a happy life, and one headache after another comes her way... They try to force her into marriage? She plays the obedient fool, then really runs away from the wedding, teaching the Duke of Zhenguo a hard lesson. Life is tough? She sets up a food stall, and her competitors can only cry, “There are 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Gourmet: I'm the Company Chef, and Everyone Wants Overtime 美食：我公司掌勺，全员要求加班 [The male lead’s career path: employee → self-employed → employee → self-employed → employee → ... an endless cycle...] Su Bin, an outstanding soon-to-be graduate, was about to start an internship at a major company when a jealous classmate secretly changed his assigned position, turning a white-collar job into a late-night restaurant cook position. As it happened, Su Bin unexpectedly acquired a Gourmet System. Inside the company shuttle-bus drivers’ break room: “It’s past nine at night. Why is 257Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 38 Good Food and Sweet Dreams with You 与君美食复甘眠 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Farming + Food + Woman Chef + Romance] The meat is so tender it seems carved from beauty, and the fragrant aroma never stops rising from the pot. As a humble office worker in the twenty-first century, Su Yu had few interests, and food was the only one she loved. Her one and only wish was to stop being exploited by every capitalist under the sun and become a capitalist herself. So the gods heard her prayer and granted it. She closed her eyes and woke up as a poor 313Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 39 My Best Friend and I Set Up a Street Stall, So How Did We Bring Glory to Our Country? 我，和闺蜜摆摊，怎么为国争光了 [Gourmet] + [Street Stalls] + [Best Friends] + [System] + [Making a Fortune] A feel-good version of 2 Broke Girls! If you love 2 Broke Girls, you have to check this out! When two unemployed best friends are so broke they have to split a packet of instant noodles, Chang Yixin’s [God of Cooking System] awakens! And so the strongest street-food best-friend duo on earth is born! Chang Yixin is in charge of the flavor. One bowl of fried noodles is enough to make customers weep and exclaim, “It tastes 503Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 40 I'm an Average Cook, Yet the Villagers Won't Stop Singing My Praises! 我厨艺平平，硬被乡亲吹爆了！ The folks in Wang Yang’s hometown are friendly, close-knit, and full of community spirit! But every last one of them has a bad habit: they love to brag, always saying things like, “So-and-so from our village is amazing!” That was all well and good, until they found out Wang Yang had opened a small restaurant in the county town near his hometown... “I’m not bragging, but someone from my village opened a restaurant in our county town. Just thinking about his cooking makes my mouth water...” “If yo 3.2kReads8.1Score160Shelves
- 41 Giant River Crabs Are Taking Over? I’ll Eat Them Until They’re Protected 大闸蟹泛滥？我给吃成保护动物 [Gourmet] [Comedy] [No romance] [Heartwarming] [Everyday life] [Perfect mealtime reading] That year, an invasive species crisis struck the United States. All kinds of plants and animals multiplied out of control: mitten crabs and crayfish took over school campuses; locusts and cicadas caused massive natural disasters on farms; cunning wild rabbits and boars ravaged the crops before running off; and wild mushrooms grew rampant across the hillsides... The Americans tried every solution they coul 702Reads7.3Score119Shelves
- 42 I’m Really Not the God of Food, I Just Cook for Country Banquets 我真不是食神，只是农村烧大席的 Zhao Chong transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes a college graduate who has just finished school. He unexpectedly awakens the Gourmet System and becomes a cook. The village is hosting a wedding feast and needs someone to cook the banquet. Since Zhao Chong’s father was once famous for his cooking, Zhao Chong is pushed into the role. Because he’s so young, nobody has much faith in him. But as soon as the dishes are served, everyone is stunned. Soy-braised pork knuckles, roast duck, s 276Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 43 A Food Blogger Transmigrates Into a Book Set in the Republic of China and Just Wants to Make Money 美食博主穿书民国只想搞钱 Food + Baking + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket Dimension + No Romance Food blogger Jiang Hongyao transmigrates into a book, becoming Jiang Hongyao, a minor character who serves as a casualty in the romance between the leads in the novel A Lady of the Republic. She's not the second female lead or the third. She doesn't even qualify as the fourth. She's just a passerby with barely any lines, the kind who doesn't even get an ending. Since she's here, there's no going back. At least the spacious 1.8kReads8.6Score178Shelves
- 44 The Super Food God Tycoon 超级食神大亨 Yang Song happens upon the Chef God System. With nothing but a secondhand food cart selling grilled gluten skewers, he steadily climbs to the peak of success. The richest man's son works for him as a waiter, goddesses throw themselves at him to help run his shop, and top female students from campus come to peel potatoes for him... A beautiful TV reporter asks in an interview, "I hear lots of celebrities come to dine at Baifeng Pavilion. Do they have to wait in line too?" Yang Song replies calmly 224Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 45 You Want Me to Get Married Just So You Can Eat at the Wedding Banquet? 为了吃席，你竟然催我结婚？ Worn out both mentally and physically by the cutthroat rat race in his industry, Chen Yuan returns to his hometown. He had planned to lie flat and live as a slacker, but the System forcibly binds itself to him. The System scans for available careers: village banquet chef, rural content creator, expert farmer, and rural Taobao partner. Before Chen Yuan can react, the System automatically selects village banquet chef, sending him off to cook up feasts in the countryside. Master Chen accidentally f 7kReads8.1Score531Shelves
- 46 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a KTV? I'm Actually Very Serious 美食：ktv卖饭？我真的很正经 [Food + everyday life + entertainment + comedy!] Jiang Feng transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes a cook in a KTV kitchen and awakens the God of Cooking System! While other KTVs are busy coming up with discount packages, his place starts selling meals instead. “Hello, boss. This is our KTV's new specialty service: a platter of braised meats.” “What? Your KTV doesn't offer anything naughty, and you sell food?” “Holy crap, this braised meat is freaking incredible! Quick, bring me ten 31Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 47 A Feast for the Senses: The First-Class Chef 食色生香，一品美味小厨娘 She transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a fat, ugly farm wife, hated by everyone in the village, even the dogs. Her husband is incredibly handsome, but they have nothing to their name, no money or food, and they’re bullied by all sorts of awful relatives. Liang Shiqi does the math and can’t help feeling she got the short end of the stick. At least her parents-in-law are reasonable, and her little brother-in-law is sweet and adorable. So be it! She has her cooking skills to rely on, and wi 50Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 48 The Restaurant Survival Guide: Cooking and Gossiping, All in a Day’s Work 食肆生存法则，做饭吃瓜两不误 [Shopkeeping + food + mystery-solving + farming] Overnight, food lover An Qiao transmigrates into the imperial palace as a cook. After leaving the palace, all she wants is to build a career: create the first chain of restaurants and bring delicious food to every corner of the country. Who could have guessed?! The eatery she buys at the start is right next to the Court of Judicial Review. Qi Ning'an gets dragged into one case after another, and the restaurant becomes the place to go for all the l 615Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 49 Selling Liangfen on the Street, I Make the Whole City Crave It 摆摊卖凉粉，全城百姓被馋哭了 [Food + farming + love at first sight + doting romance + slow-burn sweetness] Xu Yingchun transmigrates into a book and becomes its wicked villainess, doomed to a miserable ending. She’s going to escape the villainess’s fate and become the heroine of her own story! After buying her freedom from the Jiang household, she sets up a street stall, opens a restaurant, and buys land. Her life gets better and better. Milk tea, barbecue, crawfish, hot pot, and big-plate chicken: she’ll serve it all! The 326Reads8.0Score121Shelves
- 50 Gourmet: Renting a Private Jet Just to Eat a Boxed Lunch? 美食：为了吃盒饭，开私人飞机？ Just as Yu Hui loses his job, he learns that a scenic spot in his hometown is looking for vendors. Without hesitation, he decides to go home and set up a stall selling delicious food. On the way home, he unexpectedly activates the Gourmet System. From then on, his cooking skills improve by leaps and bounds, and he can whip up all kinds of delicious dishes with ease. Braised chicken: tender and silky, richly flavored, with an irresistible aroma. Tomato and egg stir-fry: sweet and tangy, soft an 81Reads6.9Score—Shelves
