Novels like Reborn in the 1980s: The Little Chef
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- 51 I Wielded the Wok in the 1970s 我在七十年代颠大勺 Shen Xiuzhi, the top chef in Huaguo, accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s. She becomes a pampered young lady whose family is from the Five Black Categories, the daughter of a “stinking intellectual,” and someone who’s useless at everything and eats more than she can earn. Facing a terrible hand from the start, she uses her state-banquet-level cooking skills to establish herself at a state-run restaurant. She also puts the cultural knowledge left behind by the original owner to clever use, sna 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 The Pastry Queen’s Journey 糕点皇后养成记 The biggest challenge of transmigrating to ancient times: no oven, no stand mixer. How can a modern baker survive? Jiang You calmly says, “No problem.” The earthen stove is too crude, so she builds a brick kiln and makes her own oven. With no proper tools, she ties bamboo strips together to make a whisk. She uses lard to create layer upon layer of flaky pastry, and cleverly packages her goods in bamboo baskets lined with oiled paper. Her Valentine's Day sushi amazes the townsfolk, her autumn-onl 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 I Close My Eyes and Wake Up in the 1980s, Ready to Open a Cafeteria 双眼一闭到八零，食堂开店全都行 [Short and binge-worthy × foodie vibes × nostalgic era setting × plot-packed × the official couple makes occasional appearances] Zhang Jinliu worked tirelessly for half her life to become the Imperial Kitchen’s top chef, despite being a woman. Then, just as she was getting somewhere, she slipped and died. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an eighteen-year-old orphan with nowhere else to go, living under someone else’s roof and enduring insults from her cheating aunt alongside her un 18Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 54 The 1980s and My Pocket Space: The Charming Chef Wins Over a Handsome Veteran 八零空间：娇俏厨娘撩爆退伍糙汉 Space, cooking, food, face-slapping, revenge, and making a fortune She transmigrated just in time for the family division, and before she could say a word, the household had already been split up! With nothing but a dilapidated house, how could a family of widows and orphans survive? Luckily, she was a master chef. A new body, but the same mind. No matter how simple the ingredients, once they passed through her hands, they became top-notch dishes! With her space to give her a boost, making money 15Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 55 The Clever Country Kitchen Maid: Her Dandy Husband Comes Looking for Trouble 农门俏厨娘：纨绔夫君来碰瓷 Ye Qing transmigrates into an ordinary farming family’s daughter. The moment she opens her eyes, she faces the grim reality that her family can barely afford to eat. Her uncle’s family abuses and bullies them, while her grandmother shows no affection and her grandfather couldn’t care less. The only thing Ye Qing can rely on to turn their lives around is her excellent cooking. She takes on the family’s worst troublemakers, protects her loved ones, makes delicious food, and leads her mother and si 34Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 56 My Street Stall Moves to a Random Spot, and Customers Chase Me for a Meal 摆摊地点随机换，顾客追着我干饭 Divine Chef + Pocket Dimension + System + Alternate Era The protagonist stumbles upon the Divine Chef System. With the System at his side, he lives freely and happily, like an immortal. His days are spent eating, drinking, and cooking. Life is long and pleasant. 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times, Met a Scumbag, and Opened a School with My Cooking 穿越古代遇渣男，我靠美食开学院 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Food + Pocket Dimension + System] A lighthearted summer treat, perfect for enjoying with a meal, featuring detailed descriptions of all kinds of delicious food. Su Ning, a young woman from the interstellar era, transmigrates one day and becomes the daughter of a deceased scholar in ancient times. Her scholar father had raised a young husband for her, but who knew he would turn out to be a scumbag? He used her money to pass the imperial exams and become the top c 13Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 58 My Cat Turned Into a Person! 我家猫变成人啦！ Gu Yi, who had loved reading Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio since childhood, brought home a little cat. Who could have guessed that overnight, the cat would turn into a person? She decided to go into business with the little cat spirit and opened a pet lifestyle shop. Her tiny shop in the human world became her very own modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. All sorts of customers came and went, each one a member of a different demon clan hiding in the city. One old tale after anot 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Transmigrated into a Book as a Cannon-Fodder Villainess: I Leave the Palace, Open a Restaurant, and Become a Tycoon 穿书炮灰女配，出宫开酒楼成首富 [Fake palace intrigue + Wish fulfillment + Food + Cozy + Farming + Light ensemble cast + A touch of a golden finger] Other people rely on schemes to survive palace intrigue. I rely on the wok hei! When she opens her eyes, Qiu Qiu is stunned The unscrupulous System really did toss her into an old-fashioned, melodramatic novel! The original owner is a disposable pawn the emperor uses to please his true love. Her ending is miserable: stripped of her title, sent to the Cold Palace, and left to die o 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 Transmigrating to Farm: I Became the Talk of the Village 穿越种田：我竟成了农门显眼包 [Alternate world | farming | food | business | System | male lead with a minor role] In a nutshell: After transmigrating into ancient times as a village girl, she planned to enjoy a peaceful country life, but unexpectedly became the center of attention. In her previous life, Yun Lan closed her eyes after suffering from ALS and yearning desperately for a healthy body. When she opened them again, she had become a humble village girl in Yushu Village, Chun'an County, in the Great Wei dynasty. Breat 2Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 61 Reborn: Selling Luosifen in Ancient Times 重生之我在古代卖螺蛳粉 [Transmigration + Alternate Universe + Food + Shopkeeping + Farming] A food story! No palace intrigues or household scheming, and the heroine doesn't marry into the imperial family. The whole story is lighthearted, with few nasty characters. There's no romance at first, but it comes later. This is an alternate-era setting, so don't take things too seriously. When Chu Mengning wakes up and sees her family's bare walls, she sighs and decides to rely on herself to lead her family to prosperity and 4Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 62 Exiled for Three Thousand Miles by a Transmigrator, the Princess Returns on a Rampage 被穿流放三千里，公主归来杀疯了 Princess Jingning of the Great Xia Dynasty was born to a life of privilege and adored above all others in the imperial harem. Yet an otherworldly woman who had transmigrated into a book suddenly appeared, stole her identity, and took her place amid all her riches and honors. Accused of a crime that never happened, she was stripped of her title and exiled three thousand li to a bitterly cold, desolate frontier. In Shu, she endured scorching heat, harsh policies and forced labor, with wolves and j 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 The Little Chef of Judge Shen's Household 沈提刑家的小厨娘 Fresh crucian carp sliced thin, celery soup from the emerald stream. A breeze brushes the willows, and a beauty... can lift a mountain with a mighty roar! Everyone knows that Miss Meng of the inn is as beautiful as a flower and a wonderful cook, but no one knows she can lift a giant vat with one hand or bend down and pull up a willow tree. Passing by, Judge Shen: Excuse me! * I love you, my lord. Do you know? The audacious Meng Sujin pounced on Shen Shinian, the judicial commissioner of the Cour 686Reads7.2Score12414d adds
- 64 The Cook Takes Charge: I Use Food to Crush Villains and Become a Legend 厨娘当家：我靠美食虐渣封神 After transmigrating, Su Qiaoqiao, a twenty-first-century chef, wakes up in the body of a girl from a poor farming family in ancient times. From the start, she's in an “epic” mess: her parents want to sell her sister to pay for her brother's education. Faced with her self-important brother's disdain and her parents' obsessive devotion to their son, she lets out a cold laugh and goes berserk on the spot. “Sell my sister? Think bigger! Why not sell off you, the tender-skinned scholar, to become a 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 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—14d adds
- 66 The Dessert Maker of Lin'an 临安城的甜点娘子 [Fantasy transmigration, food, slice-of-life business, love that grows over time, sweet romance, and an entrepreneurial rags-to-riches story] Daily life is styled after the Song dynasty, in an imaginary dynasty and fictional places, with a small ensemble cast. Jasmine sponge cake, rose steamed cakes, peony cream buns, mugwort mille-feuille, salted egg yolk pastries, pomegranate cloud rolls, hibiscus crystal cakes, jade mung bean drinks, peach blossom bird's nest soup, kumquat honey soup... The 206Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 67 After I Transmigrated, the Minor Side Character Won Everyone Over with Her Cooking 穿越后，小炮灰靠美食逆袭成团宠 [Sweet Romance and Healing + Independent, Hardworking Heroine + Gentle, Wise Hero + Food Business + Both Pure] Shen Qinqin transmigrates into the body of a wealthy merchant’s daughter who is infatuated with General Xiao. Because her predecessor offended the general, she is cast out of her home and thrown into a river the moment she arrives. Watch her use her own abilities to save her life and work diligently to build herself a place in the world, starting with a tiny wonton stall and branching o 8Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 68 Transmigrating to a Bygone Era: Building a Fortune and Raising the Kids 穿越年代：发家致富养崽崽 Tang Xixi transmigrated into a book just for criticizing the vicious woman in it. When she saw two adorable little ones, she knew she had a pocket dimension and thought, “Just watch me make a wonderful life for us!” With two cute little ones in her arms, life couldn’t be sweeter. But what’s with that man I barely know? Why are you constantly flirting with me? I’m not listening, I’m not listening! If I do, you’ll trick me into falling for you. 228Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 69 Reborn in the 1990s: Winning Everyone's Hearts with My Culinary Space 重生九零：靠着美食空间当团宠 [Food + Portable Space + Strong Female Lead Reborn] Tang Ning was reborn, returning to 1990, when she was still a girl. Seeing the people who had ruined their lives in her previous life lining up to come cause trouble again, she sneered, punching the worst offenders and trampling the schemers. With a space at her disposal, the world was hers. She would cook delicious food and make a fortune. If she couldn’t be born rich, she’d become a wealthy, beautiful first-generation mogul! As for the man wh 273Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 70 Amazing! The Lovely Military Wife Goes on a Food-Fueled Rampage 惊！俏军嫂，靠美食杀疯了 Oh my gosh! Can you believe you could get crushed to death just while shopping at a supermarket? It happened to Du Jiao! After dying, she transmigrates to the 1980s. To her surprise, Heaven gives her loving parents and a pocket dimension, too. Well, she'll just have to accept reality and make the best of her new life! Oh? It turns out the original owner was married, but it was an accident, so there's no love between them! What? He's a handsome soldier with long legs and a slim waist, and he's no 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 In Debt with Two Kids, I Became a Sensation in Showbiz Through Cooking 欠债带俩娃，我靠做饭爆火娱乐圈 [Transmigration + Adorable Kids + Making Money as a Street Vendor + Food + Livestreaming + Later Enters Showbiz + Pure Romance] Qin Manxi transmigrated into the body of another woman named Qin Manxi. She had only a few hundred yuan to her name and was saddled with a debt of a hundred thousand! To support herself and her two children, Qin Manxi started out selling food on the street. She used her earnings to raise the kids until they were plump and healthy, and took the opportunity to teach the s 92Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 72 After I Transmigrated, Gourmet Food Made Me a Top Rich Lady 穿越后我靠美食成了顶级富婆 Yun Shu had just passed her postgraduate entrance exams when she slipped and became a country girl. No food? No problem! The hills behind the village are a treasure trove waiting for me to dig in! No money? No problem! I grew up watching shows about getting rich, so this will be a piece of cake. So copper coins really can attract flies! A pack of greedy wolves had their eyes fixed on her stash of gold and silver. She pulled out her dog-beating stick. If one came, she’d beat one; if two came, she 54Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 73 The Little Chang'an Eatery 长安小食肆 [Food Business Comeback + Clear-Headed Heroine + Everyday Food and Drink + No Romance, but Plenty of Suitors] In her previous life, Jiang Yuan was a chef in the Imperial Kitchen, bound to a mission. For ten years, she treated Crown Prince Zhao Heng's food aversion, prepared soups for him, and soothed his mind, giving him everything he asked for. The day he ascended the throne, he rewarded her with poisoned wine. She drank it with a smile. Mission complete. The System unbound, and at last she was 270Reads6.8Score10814d adds
- 74 I Set Up a Stall Before the New Year and Left Customers Drooling 过年前摆一波摊，馋坏食客 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your follows motivate me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Wang Xu, the “King of Street Stalls,” quit his job right before the New Year and encountered a Gourmet System. Unlike a tycoon System, this one had a simple, no-nonsense way of taking its cut: a 70/30 or 60/40 split. Under this arrangement, Wang Xu had to meet the System’s KPIs while also working hard to increase his own earnings. 579Reads—Score10214d adds
- 75 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—14d adds
- 76 Selling Street Food, I Forge a Path to Immortality Across the Nation 摆摊卖美食，我在全国修出仙途 [Space, food, street stalls, no male lead] I cultivate through food and just want to focus on my training. Why are all my customers following me around? There's a magical little food shop, run by a young owner who's good at everything. Every dish is irresistible, but the owner never stays in one place. “I swear, if I get to eat the young owner's grilled chicken legs, I'll be able to code like the wind.” “Mom doesn't have to worry about me going bald anymore.” “The young owner is so thoughtful. K 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Trial by Fireworks 烟火劫 After transmigrating to ancient times, he finds his pockets empty. Fortunately, he was a cook in his previous life. He uses green tangerines to make tofu, purifies coarse salt, and gathers all kinds of ingredients from the mountains that no one in this world has ever seen. One by one, he brings them home and turns them into dish after dish. From being ignored to having customers clamoring for every serving, his little eatery slowly draws people together and builds a life of its own. A foodie far 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 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 31Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 79 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—Score10314d adds
- 80 Happily Back to Country Life 乐归田园 Li Qingyue: “I want to grow our little family shop into a major business and turn our village into the next Huaxi Village.” Everyone else: “We don't know what village Huaxi is, but we'll roll up our sleeves and work with you.” Qi Yi: “Wife, what can I do?” Li Qingyue: “Just study hard and let me become the wife of an official. After all, money is good, but power matters too.” Qi Yi obediently nods. Tuantuan: “Then what should I do, Mother?” His eyes sparkle. Li Qingyue: “You? Your job is to eat 136Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 81 The Wealthy Little Cook 富贵小厨娘 Lu Azhuo, a superb cook, transmigrated into an imperial-examination novel, where she was destined to become the male lead's short-lived first wife. Her husband's family and her own would be ruined because of her. Another title for this story: Death Comes Calling. When she woke up, she could uproot a willow with one hand and wield a kitchen knife with the other. No one within ten miles dared provoke her. They said she could silence a crying baby just by showing up. She was making a fortune with h 300Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 82 The Fisherman's Daughter Makes Delicious Food 渔家有女做美食 Shen Qianqian, the most beautiful chef of the 21st century, transmigrated! She ended up in the body of an ugly, overweight fisher girl, and was dumped by her fiancé from the start. Luckily, she had her cooking skills. Garlic oysters, spicy little fish, grilled squid on a stone slab... She successfully won over Su Yu, her dream man from her previous life, and the young couple became foodies together! And they made a fortune along the way! 28Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 83 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 860Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 84 I Returned to Ancient Times and Reached the Top with My Cooking 穿回古代靠厨艺走上人生巅峰 [Food + Everyday Life + Business Management + Farming] He wakes up in ancient times. Watch a master chef show off his skills! What surprises will come from the collision of culinary cultures from different eras? After being hit by a car, chef Cheng Yu travels back a thousand years. From the start, all he has is a thatched hut. How can he use his skills to improve his life? Selling wraps, making braised meat, cooking noodles in an iron pot and clay-pot rice, mooncakes and spicy crab for the M 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 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—14d adds
- 86 Gourmet: Starting from the Start with Fried Rice, I Astonished the Police 美食：摆摊开局蛋炒饭惊动110 [System + No Romance + Everyday Life + Perfect with a Meal + Growth] Jiang Yu transmigrates into the life of a poor girl whose parents are both dead. Her heartless uncle has seized the family’s property, and after kicking her out, even the rent is beyond her means. Just when she’s at her wit’s end, she binds the [Random Street Stall System]. She sells egg fried rice outside a school, and the students’ frenzied orders alarm their parents! The police show up to investigate an “extortion case,” onl 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Transmigrate Into a Book Set in the 1960s: I Pick Up Three Kids and Become Their Mom 穿书六零苦哈哈白捡仨娃喜当妈 [Short-tempered heroine who fights back and never lets herself suffer; raising kids; everyday Gourmet; male lead marries into her family] Zhu Rongxi woke up to find she had transmigrated into a feel-good period novel aimed at male readers, as the doomed mother of three future supervillains. From the start, she was a widow whose husband had just died. Her vicious mother-in-law and sister-in-law had seized her house and thrown her and her three little burdens out! Zhu Rongxi was furious. She rolle 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 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 1.5kReads8.9Score16014d adds
- 89 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 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 90 Reborn in the Tang Dynasty With a Gourmet System 重生唐朝美食系统 Top modern chef Lin Xuan opens his eyes and finds himself dumped from the kitchen of an international culinary competition into a dilapidated hut outside Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. With nothing but four bare walls around him, he is starving and freezing, with only a broken knife, half a bowl of cold rice, and a life hanging by a thread. Just as he thinks he is about to starve to death, the Chinese Cuisine System quietly binds itself to him. Cooking earns points, selling meals rai 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 91 I Told You to Be a Cook, So How Did You Become the Demon Cult Leader? 让你当伙夫，你怎么成魔教教主了 [Food + System + Demonic Cult + Management + Farming] The good news: Lu Chen transmigrated. The bad news: He’s in the infamous Blood Moon Sacred Sect. The even worse news: The previous 998 cooks all died. Faced with 427 demonic cultivators whose eyes have gone red with hunger, Lu Chen can only light the stove and simmer a pot of spicy pepper soup. From that day on, the Asura Hall’s whole atmosphere changes. Others cultivate immortality to live forever. The Sacred Sect’s disciples cultivate just 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Reborn as a Cast-Off Concubine, I Feed My Mother Meat at Every Meal 穿成下堂妾，我带着娘亲顿顿吃肉 [Farming + no System or pocket dimension + young cook + marriage first, love later + building a fortune + cooking delicious food + devoted couple] After a landslide, Shen Xiyue, a renowned chef, thought she was dead. When she opened her eyes, she was dressed in an ancient wedding gown and about to become an old man’s concubine? Thinking of her modern mansion and luxury car, she flew into a rage. She escaped home, beat up her greedy, black-hearted grandmother, and kicked her spineless, blindly fi 27Reads—Score114d adds
- 93 The Cousin Miss Is Climbing the Social Ladder Again Today 表小姐今天又在攀高枝 [The rating is low because the novel was just listed...] A young lady from the extended family has arrived at the Duke of the State's manor, and none of the three young masters there can stand her. One would rather become a monk, another claims to prefer men. The third would rather die in the arms of a courtesan from overindulging. Everyone in the manor says the young lady is shameless and always trying to climb the social ladder! But no one expected that the young lady despised by the Xie famil 858Reads7.0Score10514d adds
- 94 Making a Fortune Selling Fast Food in Ancient Times 在古代卖快餐赚翻了 ♥Food♡Farming♡Nurturing♡No golden finger♡No idiots♡Childhood sweethearts♥ Lin Tuan never imagined he would end up in the body of a three-year-old brat. From then on, he lived the life of a lazy salted fish. No, no, no. It was more like the life of a hardworking salted fish. 319Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Gourmet: The Dining Spot Changes at Random, and Diners Go Wild Looking for It 美食：随机地点，食客们找疯了 [Gourmet]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Funny]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Heartwarming] In her previous life, Su Qing owned shops and was content to lie flat. Then she woke up in a parallel world and found herself bound to a [Random Street Food System]. “I just want to lie flat!” Su Qing wailed. In the CBD late at night, the aroma was irresistible! Zhang Wei, an overworked office worker, exclaimed, “Holy crap! This oden broth is so delicious my tongue is practically melting! Boss, give me three more!” Designer Li L 353Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 96 This Is Crazy! The Little Chef of the 1970s Eats Well, Lives in Luxury, and Comes Out on Top 疯了！七零小厨娘吃香喝辣躺赢了 (Strong leads on both sides, one-on-one romance, no love-brained characters, career comes first in the early chapters) Shen Xiaotang, a celebrity chef worth tens of millions, transmigrates to the resource-scarce 1970s. No tradeable pocket dimension, no miracle pills or medicines, and no lucky star fate. Other heroines are the darlings of their families. Her? Sorry, she’s an orphan with no one to rely on. To make matters worse, her wicked aunt is forcing her to marry. Shen Xiaotang never accepts 198Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 97 The Cannon-Fodder Villainess Uses Her Cooking Skills to Shine in a Period Novel 炮灰女配用厨艺在年代文鲨疯了 Su Wanyi discovers she’s transmigrated into a female-led novel set in a bygone era. She’s useless at everything, but number one at being cannon fodder. Every time her cousin rises to power, Su Wanyi becomes the perfect stepping stone. Every time her cousin meets a promising backup suitor, Su Wanyi is the perfect comparison. Once every last drop of her value has been squeezed out, she dies a miserable death. Everyone says that’s simply her fate! Su Wanyi scoffs! You want to make a state-banquet c 151Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 The Farm Girl’s Little Kitchen 农门美食小厨娘 Scallions tossed with tofu, garlic-fried pork liver, red-braised pork tenderloin, and sweet-and-sour ribs. The moment He Jingjing transmigrated, the kitchen sprang to life with a constant clatter, and delicious aromas drifted across the whole village. The family is so poor they can barely afford to eat? There are only a few grains of rice left to cook? No problem. There’s nothing that can’t be eaten. With her incredible cooking skills, she opens a restaurant and makes money, setting herself on t 183Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 99 A Random Gourmet Stall, Leaving Diners Craving Every Day 随机美食摊，食客天天被馋哭 (Food, healing, and everyday life) Lin Zhixia is 32 years old. She works nine to five, with no weekends off, yet in the end she has no money, no savings, and not even a boyfriend! Why? Because she loves eating and experimenting with food! All day long, she fantasizes about getting rich overnight! She never expected to get no windfall, but to be reborn instead, back in her college graduation year. A top-tier Gourmet System comes with her. “The little boss's fried rice is so good. Could you eat i 157Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 100 Reborn in the 1980s: Cooking Delicious Food With a Spirit Spring in My Space 重生八零：空间灵泉做美食 Business tycoon Ye Qiu is reborn into the body of a second-year rural college student born in 1984 with the same name. She also has a pocket dimension with a spirit spring. To improve life for herself and her family, Ye Qiu tutors students to save up her first capital, then starts selling delicious food at a street barbecue stall and gradually builds her fortune. She thought he was just the guardian of one of her students, but he became a sweet source of support as she grew. 29Reads7.6Score—14d adds
