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- 101 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 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 This Food Streamer's Niche Is Way Too Weird 这美食主播的赛道过于邪门 [Gourmet] [Video Blogger] [Livestream Variety Show] [No Female Lead] [Ensemble Cast] [Unhinged Protagonist] [Goofy Daily Life] [No Romance] [No Romance] [No Romance] We’re saying it three times because it’s important. Beautiful women and delicious food are the most tempting things in the world. Bai Yu is a man who gives off a strong sense that he’s up to something. That only gets more complicated after he awakens the Borderline Gourmet Blogger System. Among gourmet bloggers, he has the best body 56Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 103 I Set Up a Street Stall Selling Snacks and Make the Whole Internet Drool! 摆摊卖小吃，馋哭全网！ [Food + Miracle Doctor + Comedy + Showbiz] In his previous life, Jiang Chen was a chef at state banquets. Now he joins a nationwide reality show and becomes a street-food vendor. The winner will take home a two-billion-yuan prize! Jiang Chen’s god-tier cooking skills have captured the attention of the entire internet. Super-rich heirs, A-list celebrities, and the world’s richest man can’t stop thinking about Jiang Chen’s food stall. While everyone else is still amazed that Jiang Chen’s food can 19Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 104 Gourmet: My Little Food God Shop 美食：我的食神小店 [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Recipes] At the end of Bluestone Alley in the old district, just past the third pagoda tree, there’s a hidden little restaurant run by the God of Cookery. It serves egg fried rice that really glows! And rice porridge that sends you drifting back into your memories with just one sip! It’s also a top-tier restaurant where a bowl of rice porridge costs 166 yuan. Customers are left bowing in admiration, crying out for more, and ordering another ten bowls! The 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 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
- 106 Random Street-Food Stalls: My Customers Eat Like Crazy 随机美食摆摊食客我吃疯狂 A food-focused story with no romance, set in everyday city life. Chen Xia unexpectedly gets a System, embarking on an unpredictable journey of setting up food stalls at random locations. In the park, he sells refreshing cold dishes; beneath office buildings, he serves up delicious fried rice; outside schools, he grills fragrant gluten skewers. Everyone who tastes his carefully prepared food can’t stop singing its praises. But Chen Xia changes his stall’s location every week and offers a differe 181Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Gourmet: Don’t Talk to Me About Calories, If It Tastes Good, It’s Calorie-Free 美食：别跟我谈热量，好吃就零卡 [Gourmet] + [Random Food Stalls] + [Lighthearted] + [Cozy] + [Everyday Life] + [Taking It Easy] + [Unusual Food Stall Locations] + [Perfect with a Meal] + [No Female Lead] Fang Yuan, a programmer who has just quit his job, is ready to take it easy... Ding! The Ultimate Food Stall System is at your service. Each week, your stall location and menu will be selected at random. This week, please go to Peace Plaza at noon to sell roasted sweet potatoes. Fang Yuan looks up at the blazing sun, shining 1.3kReads6.2Score11014d adds
- 108 Gourmet: I Take Over the Cafeteria, and Tsinghua and Peking University Fight Like Crazy to Hire Me 美食：承包食堂，清北抢我抢疯了 [Gourmet, comedy, no romance, lighthearted, everyday life, recipes, tutorials] P.S. I'll use my ten years of experience as a chef to show you all the wonders of food. This is pure fiction. Please don't take it as reality! After transmigrating to a parallel world, Yang Yi awakened a Gourmet System. His mission was to take over a college cafeteria. From then on, the students of Qingbei began battling over him. Even the senior administrators of both universities got involved! Huaqing student: “Stud 414Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 109 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 331Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 110 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. 88.1kReads8.4Score11.3k14d adds
- 111 Gourmet: From the Start, I Grind My Knife Skills to Mastery 美食：开局爆肝刀工熟练度 [Dark past. Don’t read.] Gourmet + everyday life + slow-paced + obsessive grinder + period setting + no heroine Reborn in 2002, he doesn’t go into business or make trouble for anyone. He just focuses on cooking. Lin Jiang was a jerk in his previous life. He dropped out of school at nineteen. He looked down on his dad’s shabby Sichuan restaurant. After failing in business, he switched careers and became a chef again. Later, he worked himself to the bone to earn the title of Michelin-starred chef, 5kReads8.3Score56414d adds
- 112 You're Supposed to Patrol the Sea, So Why Are You Riding a Shark to Run a Food Stall? 让你巡海，你骑鲨鱼去摆美食摊？ [Gourmet] [Street food stall] [Seafood] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Fishing and gathering by the sea] [Protecting the ocean] Wang Yang transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a marine patrol officer. He also unexpectedly binds himself to a seafood Gourmet System. He can earn generous rewards by setting up a stall to sell seafood dishes and completing System tasks. So Wang Yang catches fish during the day and sells seafood from a street stall at night. His delicious seafood immediately co 18Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 113 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
- 114 Gourmet: Setting Up a Stall with My Cat, I Have the Soldiers Chasing After Me 美食：带猫摆摊，引兵哥哥狂追 Lin Yan, unemployed the moment she graduates, unexpectedly gets a Gourmet System. Teaming up with an intelligent AI plush cat, she reaches the pinnacle of life by selling street snacks. Today, she sets up a stall outside an elementary school, drawing a swarm of students that packs the entrance. The security guard hastily puts up barricades, while the principal cries for help. Tomorrow, she sets up beside a light-rail station, attracting crowds of office workers on their way home. The traffic cop 108Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 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—14d adds
- 116 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—14d adds
- 117 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
- 118 I Became the Villain's Real Mother and Changed My Family's Fate 穿成反派亲妈，我来改变全家命运 [Farming + raising kids + food + business + devoted, sweet romance] After Xu Qiaoyuan died unexpectedly, she transmigrated into a world with a ramshackle hut open to the elements and two gaunt children. She thought she'd landed in a hopeless situation from the start, but then realized she'd transmigrated into a book and become the villain's wicked mother. The little villain was five years old. His father was missing, dead or alive unknown; his mother was lazy, greedy, and quick to beat and scold 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Top Students from China's Best Universities Go Crazy for Roast Goose Legs 为吃烤鹅腿，清北状元都抢疯了 [Wayward Son Turns Over a New Leaf + Food + System + Goose-Leg Auntie] “Wan Hao, you bastard!” Beside the hospital bed, Wan Hao slapped himself hard across the face. He wished he could beat himself to death. He was a lazy good-for-nothing who spent his days loafing around and living off his parents. Once, after losing money gambling, he had no way to repay his debt, so he stole his mother's bankbook, planning to withdraw some cash to tide himself over. Instead, he accidentally discovered his mot 11Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 120 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—14d adds
- 121 Reborn: Returning to the Village with My Kids to Farm 重生之带娃回村种田 [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + food + transmigration + pocket dimension + adorable kids] My name is Lin Yaoyao. My parents named me Yaoyao because I was a girl, and they hoped I would die young. Under the weight of my parents’ vile hopes, I grew up, got married, and had a daughter. Before marriage, everyone praised my husband as a good man. Afterward, he cheated, drank, and beat me. I fell asleep holding my child and woke up in an ancient village, in the body of a peasant woman from Xia 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 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 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 I Sell Lunch Boxes, So Isn't It Only Natural for the School Cafeteria to Go Under? 我卖盒饭，学校食堂倒闭很正常吧 [Food + comedy + one heroine + transmigration + System] Lu Rong rents a small stall on a college campus to sell boxed meals, but business is so poor that he's on the verge of closing down. Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakens a Super Gourmet System and instantly becomes a top chef. A simple plate of egg fried rice is enough to draw countless students and teachers to his stall. Then Lu Rong starts offering even more top-quality dishes, and the whole campus goes wild. Everyone joins the rank 1.2kReads8.6Score10014d adds
- 124 Random Food Stall: My Customers Keep Making Group Chats to Track Me Down 随机美食摆摊，顾客纷纷建群堵我 Tang Chen, from a parallel world, unexpectedly gets a food-stall System. Each month, the System randomly chooses a location and a type of food. Successfully setting up shop earns Food Points, which can be used for lucky draws. To his surprise, the stall wins over wave after wave of customers. They even set up hundreds of group chats to track down Boss Tang. The moment he opens his stall, they want to be first in line. 800Reads6.4Score10114d adds
- 125 I Set Up a Stall Wherever I Please: Sis, We’ve Been Looking Everywhere for You 随机摆摊，胖姐我们找你找得好苦 [Gourmet] [Daily Life] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [No Romance] [Street Stalls] [System] [Transmigration] [Cozy] [Animals] [Parallel World] P.S. This book has a laid-back, everyday plot, with few dramatic twists and turns. It focuses more on cozy, down-to-earth moments. This is not a power fantasy! This is not a power fantasy! Li Meng accidentally transmigrates into a parallel world, where she can't get by without an identity. Just when she least expects it, the essential golden finger for anyone 198Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 126 From Michelin to Street Stall: It Took Me Only Three Days 从米其林到摆摊，我只用了三天 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 You Asked Me to Cook Vegetarian Meals, So Why Is My Incense Offering Exploding? 让你做斋饭，我香火怎么被干爆了 [The rating has just been posted and is sure to rise] (System) (Food) (Everyday Life) (Lighthearted Comedy) Lu Chen used to be an overworked corporate drone, but after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he was fired. Just as he was waiting to die, he unexpectedly obtained a Divine Incense System and bonded with Tianlin Temple. As long as the temple receives incense offerings, Lu Chen's lifespan increases. But Tianlin Temple is about to go under! Lu Chen can only use the divine cooking skills 5kReads6.7Score44314d adds
- 128 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 191Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 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—14d adds
- 130 I Used One Bowl of Noodles to Put a City on the Map 我靠一碗面，带动一座城 [Food + Scenic Area Management, No Stressful Shopkeeping, Well-Plotted, No Stupid Characters] From the start, he quit his job and headed home to take over his father's noodle shop. He turned the little shop into a countywide tourism sensation, putting the county's cultural tourism industry on the map. The Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Transportation Bureau, the Market Regulation Bureau, and even the county magistrate all begged to get on his good side. He even took over a bankrupt A-grade s 69.8kReads8.3Score7.5k14d adds
- 131 This God of Cooking Really Wants to Teach Everyone 这个厨神真想教会大家 [Cooking + Dad Life + Technical Skills + No System] Feng Zheng only wanted to run his family’s little restaurant well, win back his first love, and give his daughter a warm, complete home. He never expected that livestreaming his cooking to attract customers would make him an internet sensation. His dish of eel in sizzling oil taught housewives across the country how to prepare eel at home. His delicate tofu soup became the standard for knife skills among the nation’s top chefs. His braised pork 184Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 132 Gourmet: The School Chef Parents Never Want to Leave 美食：在小学当大厨，家长不愿走 [Stop nitpicking, everyone here is just a tool] [No romance] [Heartwarming] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Chen binds himself to the [Culinary Excellence System]. Every time he makes a delicious dish, he unlocks a new recipe, so he decides to become the head chef at an elementary school. He cooks one limited-edition dish after another, and the kids aren’t happy about it. “This big brother’s food is so good, I’d marry my big sister off to you!” “...” “Wow, it really is delicious~” 725Reads6.1Score10214d adds
- 133 Shocking! The Wealthy Family's Fat Wife Is a Max-Level Spirit Chef 惊！豪门肥妻竟是满级灵厨 (The rating was just posted and will rise later.) [Transmigration + healing through food + sweet childcare romance + cozy daily life + one-on-one romance + love that grows over time] The moment she opened her eyes, Shen Zhigeng, a renowned culinary cultivator from the cultivation world, had become a wealthy man’s fat wife, mocked by the entire internet. Her parents favored her sibling, her younger sister was a poisonous flower, her CEO husband looked at her with disgust, and everyone online was 6.4kReads8.0Score65714d adds
- 134 Street Stall: Selling Starch Sausages, My Snack Stand Takes the Internet by Storm! 摆摊：卖淀粉肠，我的小吃摊火爆全网！ [Gourmet] [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] Qiao Anyi gains an all-purpose snack System. Starch sausages, steamed buns, pulled noodles... Every dish leaves customers drooling and craving more. He sets up a street stall with his daughter and climbs to the pinnacle of success! 339Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 135 My Breakfast Shop Took Off After I Bound a Food System 绑定美食系统后，我的早餐店火了 Su Ti was fed empty promises and manipulated by her company, so she decisively took the money and walked away. On her second day unemployed, she unexpectedly binds to the mysterious [Myriad Feasts Record] System From then on, every dish she makes gets a score: “Plain noodles: 8.9 points, just barely excellent.” “Crispy pastry: 9.8 points, astonishingly good!” Her best friend takes one bite of her noodles and slaps the table: “Quit! Open a restaurant! I’ll invest!” A neighbor tries the pastries s 2.6kReads7.2Score31214d adds
- 136 My Space Connects Two Worlds: Selling Steamed Buns and Tempting the Entire Internet 空间通两界，摆摊卖包子馋爆全网 [Transmigration between two worlds + Street stalls + Getting rich + Cozy business management + Food + Farming + Mountains and a house] A warm, everyday story She gains a space in the morning and gets kicked out of the Sun family in the afternoon. Jiang Buruan looks at the dilapidated thatched cottage, the dried-up well, and the nearly dead tree in her space, and can't help feeling cheated! Then she pushes open the rusty door beside the cottage and discovers that it leads to an ancient otherwo 626Reads6.3Score10314d adds
- 137 EN Diners Say I’m a Show-Off, but They Still Devour My Food 食客说我装逼犯，但是还嗷嗷干饭 [Transmigration + Urban Life + System + Food + No Romance + Showing Off] “I can't help it. I don't want to, either, but as the God of Cooking, I've got to show off!” After transmigrating to a parallel world, Shen Chuan binds himself to the God of Cooking System, gaining the ability to create every delicacy imaginable. Just thinking about using his culinary skills to reach the pinnacle of success and earn everyone's admiration, with diners clamoring for a taste, is enough to make him blush! But h 25.4kReads8.8Score2.3k14d adds
- 138 I'm Just a Cook, So How Did I Become the Rebel Leader? 我一个做饭的，咋成反贼头子了？ [Not a brainless power fantasy + Food + Farming + System + Lighthearted Comedy + No Angst + Invincible Protagonist] Modern culinary god Qi Sheng opens his eyes and finds himself transmigrated into a “vegetable person” during a famine in the cultivation world. One moment later, and he would have ended up on someone’s dinner table! At his moment of greatest peril, he binds himself to the [God of Cooking System]. Earn praise points for his cooking, and he can exchange them for experience cards feat —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 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
- 140 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.3kReads8.7Score1.2k14d adds
- 141 Bound to a Gourmet System, I Become the God of Food by Opening a Restaurant 绑定美食系统，我靠开店成食神 The rating just came out! Feel free to start reading~ (Food + no romance + System + lighthearted comedy + everyday healing) Boss Xie will never get a partner!! Your System and my System don’t seem to be the same~ Other people’s food Systems: max level with one click, instant culinary godhood, become the God of Food without lifting a finger! Xie Yan’s food System: start from scratch and unlock things one step at a time. Xie Yan spread his hands. It’s fine, it’s fine. Having one is better than hav 24kReads8.1Score2.2k14d adds
- 142 Gourmet: Fragrant Dishes That Have the Sect's Disciples Fighting Over Them 美食：爆香菜肴，宗门弟子疯抢 [Scoundrel + Food + Sect + Hilarious + Cutthroat Competition] Shi Hao transmigrates into a fantasy world and awakens the Chef God System. As one dish after another is served, the entire sect is thrown into an uproar. Not only are the dishes delicious, they even have special effects: increasing cultivation, healing hidden injuries, enhancing beauty... The disciples fight tooth and nail for every bite. Each one swears to train harder so they can grab two more bowls of rice. Shi Hao gives a crooked 15Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 143 Gourmet: I Set Up a Stall at Random, and Diners Chase Me for Four Miles 美食：随机摆摊，食客追我八里地 [Everyday life, no overpowered golden finger, a slow burn, slice of life] Family squabbles and all the flavors of life: there’s always one that can touch your heart. Wang Qin was an orphan adopted by Grandpa Wang, and the Wang couple had never cared for him. The year he finished the college entrance exams, his grandfather fell ill. The couple didn’t want to pay for his treatment or look after Wang Qin, so they sold the house, took all the money, and ran, leaving the two of them behind with a mou 41Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 144 The Chief Minister's Darling Wife: I Run a Country Feast in the Ancient Countryside 首辅娇娘：我在古代农村烧大席 [Banquet Cooking + Farming + Business + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance] Tang Yuanyuan, from a family of master chefs, wakes up in the body of a farm girl in Great Zhou, only to have her engagement broken off from the start! Her father is sickly, her family is poor, and when they run out of grain, they eat bran. The whole family scrimps and saves, going hungry one day and eating their fill the next, just to pay their taxes. How are they supposed to get through these hard times? They’ll get through 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 My Stall Was Smashed, So I Climbed to the Top with a Gourmet System 摊子被砸，我靠美食系统踏巅峰 [System, food, lighthearted comedy, everyday city life, outlandish ideas, comeback, one heroine, slow-paced slice of life] After losing his job at thirty-six, Wang Ping’an can’t find work and returns to the small county town that’s both unfamiliar and familiar to him. There, he starts a new life running a food stall. With his cooking skills and a boost from the System, he earns titles like “Wok King” and “Beast Tamer”... Wang Ping’an: “How slow-paced is it? The System doesn’t show up until chapt 2.1kReads8.3Score16914d adds
- 146 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 991Reads8.7Score10614d adds
- 147 How Did I, Heir to a Legendary Chef, End Up as a Suffering International Student? 我堂堂神厨后人竟沦为命苦留子？ [Don’t make me cook!! → Cooking is so satisfying] [Gourmet fiction + System + farming pocket dimension + hilarious and heartwarming] Ning Tangtang comes from a family of master chefs, but she has no desire to inherit the family business. Her lifelong dream is to escape the kitchen. What good is a perfect knife technique when milk tea smells so good? No matter how brilliant your cooking is, nothing beats lying flat! Her family thinks she’s “neglecting her proper duties,” so they pack her off abro 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Gourmet System: A Street Food Stall from the Start 美食系统：开局一个路边摊 [You have activated the Gourmet System. Would you like to bind it? Yes; No] During graduation season, Jiang Tiantian, an ordinary university student, hadn’t received a single suitable job offer and had only her last 500 yuan left. As she wondered what to do, she activated the [Gourmet Business System]. -New User Starter Pack-: Congratulations, Host! You’ve received a shop and unlocked your starting dish, sweet-and-sour cold noodles. Sell 10 portions to unlock the next dish. -Special Rewards-: Ev 3.3kReads—Score37714d adds
- 149 Gourmet: The Chef’s Food Stall Goes Viral on a Variety Show 美食：厨娘在综艺摆摊爆火 Gu Liuyan, a former imperial chef, opens her eyes to find she has transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder actress on the variety show Celebrity Kitchen. She can’t cook, has a bad temper, and has been saddled with a mountain of bad press. With an astronomical breach-of-contract fee threatening to end her career, Gu Liuyan slaps the table. “Who says I can’t cook?” And then the entire show discovers what it means to cook like a culinary god... An actress on the show wails, “I’ve already gain 115Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 150 Can You Have Both Dragons and Good Food? 龙与美食可以兼得吗 [Western fantasy + food + another world + business management + light adventure] When Tu Yiyi transmigrated into a Western fantasy world, she thought she’d landed the role of the Chosen One: flying through the sky on a broomstick, casually conjuring fireballs to hurl at the Demon King, and reaching the pinnacle of life from then on. Instead, her broom wouldn’t fly, she couldn’t conjure fireballs, and she was just a helpless ordinary person. Even more absurdly, she was somehow bound to a food bus 93Reads—Score—14d adds
