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- 51 Are You Crazy? You Still Claim You Can't Tame Beasts? 疯了吧，还说你不会御兽？ As a global crisis looms, people awaken monster-taming talents, and at eighteen they can form a pact with a personal spirit beast. Lin Feng awakens the Mythical Beast-Taming System, and every spirit beast he bonds with has the highest-tier talent! He bonds with a black crow, which evolves into the mythical Golden Crow! The Sun's True Fire burns everything! It can foresee danger and control the future! “Why is this guy's spirit beast a crow? Holy crap, it can predict my moves!” When the beast tid 15Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 52 I Was Just Kicked Out of the Sect, and My Cultivation Is Back! 刚被逐出宗门，修为就恢复了！ [Invincible + Double Pupils + Sword Dao Saint Physique + Swordsmanship + A Little Wish Fulfillment + Lighthearted] Chen Xiaobai, also known as Chen Qingxuan. Born with a Sword Dao Saint Physique, he later awakened the supreme Double Pupils! The youngest peak master in Tianxuan Sword Sect! Twenty years ago! When calamity struck the sect, Chen Xiaobai charged into the forbidden grounds alone, sword in hand. [Land of Divine Fall] Seven days and seven nights later. Dragging his battered body, drench 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 From the Start, I Quit My Job on the Spot, and My Food Stall Took the Whole City by Storm 开局裸辞，我的美食小摊火遍全城 [Female lead with no romance] [Stalls all over town] [Lighthearted slice of life] Foodie at heart, absurd to the soul! Chen Jinyue, whose college major was a dead end, finally managed to find a job. But her boss took credit for her work and squeezed her dry with endless overtime every day. She’d had enough. After quitting without another job lined up, she unexpectedly bound herself to Food System 007. She thought it was a sure thing, but every mission turned out to be more outrageous than the la 933Reads—Score10314d adds
- 54 Foodie Scams: I Get Rich Worldwide with a System-Powered Franchise 美食大忽悠：靠系统连锁全球暴富 [Food + System + Making Money + Comedy + Occasional Unhinged Antics] Qin Ming made a simple bowl of rice with lard, and the whole neighborhood was drooling. The residents showed up at his door with gifts, demanding food, then started punching one another when they couldn’t agree on how to divide it... He finally managed to open a restaurant, only to provoke the jealousy of every other restaurant owner on the street. They banded together and resorted to every dirty trick they could think of to dr 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 I Set Up a Food Stall and Became a Divine Chef, with Fans Chasing Me Across Half the City 摆摊做神厨，粉丝追我半座城 I awakened the Street Food Blind Box System, and my food stall became an instant hit! Hot and sour soup with fish-fragrant shredded pork has office workers hooked; Mapo tofu hits the table, and elementary schoolers gobble it up until they’re stuffed; The moment my handmade ice jelly appears, night-market diners line up like crazy. A shy young man quietly sets up a stall, but fans chase him all over the city, from residential compounds to the CBD, from street corners to night markets, wherever he 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Gourmet Food Truck: The Whole City Is Going Wild for the Food 美食快餐车：全城食客要发疯 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Perfect Mealtime Reading] [Heartwarming] Gourmet food is the best cure for a life full of hardship! After transmigrating to a parallel world three years ago, Yu Sheng finally activates the Seven-Dimension Gourmet Mortal Cultivation System during a breakup. From then on, he drives a food truck, determined to recreate Blue Star's cuisine in this gourmet wasteland. The seven dimensions are sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, stinky, and dark. These are also the main areas 7Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 57 A Little County-Town Shop That Leaves Customers Craving More 县城小店，馋坏食客 Wang Chen returned home and laid out plans for himself, determined to get his family's old shop up and running again. Short-term goal: No need to get rich, just break even. Long-term goal: Make money, make money, make money every day. 6.1kReads—Score36614d adds
- 58 After Xiangchao Went Viral, I Made It Big with Yongzhou Cuisine 湘超爆火后，我靠永州美食出圈 (An unconventional food story + urban fantasy + women's growth. A slow-burn, steady-paced story with simple writing. If you only want pure food descriptions, this may not be for you.) At thirty, an age when even dogs find you annoying, Zhao Min lost her job! She was already frustrated about being unemployed, and the thought that she might also face even more intense pressure to get married only made things worse! When she was feeling utterly dejected, her best friend called: "Minmin, come bac 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Midnight Diner Across from the Funeral Home 殡仪馆对面的深夜食堂 At midnight, the funeral home's last neon light goes dark. Across the street, the warm yellow lanterns of the “Goodnight Canteen” have just lit up. It doesn't serve revelers out for a good time. It offers shelter only to souls with nowhere else to go. Between life and death, there's just one street. Between despair and hope, there's just one meal. Every night, someone wanders between despair and hope. And here, there's always a light shining just for them. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 Gourmet: My Diners Form an Intelligence Group to Track Me Down 美食：为了找我，食客建立情报群 This is a magical roadside food stall. Egg fried rice, dry-fried beef chow fun, stinky tofu, savory tofu pudding... Every seemingly ordinary street snack becomes an unforgettable delicacy in the stall owner's hands. After one bite, people want a second, a third, and an Nth. But the stall owner has one “bad habit”: every time he sets up shop for a day, he moves to a new location the next day. The customers say, “It doesn't matter if we don't make any money today. Missing out on Boss Jiang's cook 30Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 61 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
- 62 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 335Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 63 Selling Banquet Cuisine from a Street Stall from the Start, I Shock the World 开局摆地摊卖国宴菜，我震惊全球 Japanese sashimi? Have you heard that food can never be too refined, nor a dish too finely prepared? Korean kimchi? Do you even know where kimchi originated? Brazilian barbecue? Let me show you what a whole roasted Inner Mongolian lamb looks like! Jiang Bai awakens the God of Cooking System and vows to conquer the world with Chinese cuisine! 12Reads—Score414d adds
- 64 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
- 65 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—14d adds
- 66 Random Street Stall: Customers Search the Whole City for Me 随机摆摊：顾客对我全城搜索 [Gourmet] [No female lead] [Everyday life] [Heartwarming] [Healing] [Comedy] After transmigrating, Luo Bo unexpectedly awakens an Unlimited Gourmet System, which randomly grants him a god-tier culinary skill every week. “Ding! Wraps at one hundred percent! Sell wraps at a bus stop at midnight.” “Ding! The ultimate temptation of instant noodles! Go to an internet cafe at nine at night and treat the gamers' taste buds.” “Ding! The culinary wisdom of an eighty-year barbecue chef has been bestowed u —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Gourmet: You Dumped Me for Being Poor, Now You Beg to Get Back Together at My Food Stall 美食：嫌我穷分手，摆摊你求复合 [Food, random street stalls, one female lead, sweet everyday romance, ex-girlfriend regrets the breakup, crafty stall owner + hapless customers.] After Jiang Wanzhou breaks up with his girlfriend, he binds himself to a random street-stall System. Every week, the System randomly refreshes his recipes and selling locations. He sells barbecue at a gym, chicken at a private club, boxed meals at a highway service area, and braised snacks outside a university at two in the morning. Each new stall loca —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Gourmet: The Restaurant’s Relocation Sends Prison Crime Rates Soaring 美食：饭店换址监狱犯罪率飙升 After Jiang Xia gets the Chef God System, he goes to prison and becomes the head chef. There’s braised pork, sweet-and-sour ribs, poached chicken, Dongpo pork, and every other delicacy imaginable. Jiang Xia’s cooking turns the whole prison upside down. Prisoner: “My sentence is over, but I don’t think I’ve learned my lesson. Could you give me another ten years?” Guard: “Treat you to a meal at a five-star hotel? Jiang Xia’s food is a hundred times better!” New prisoner: “I pulled strings to get i 19Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 69 A Spoonful of Chili Essence, and the Gods Beg Me to Stop 一勺辣椒精，众神跪求我收手 This is a wasteland, where hunger is the only faith. That is paradise, where gourmet food is the only pursuit. When Lu Yuan, a food delivery shop owner carrying memories of Earth’s cuisine, steps into a world made of “deliciousness,” a vast food empire begins to rise! A rundown little stall from the start → a global chain of sprawling food courts! One pack of cheap spicy strips → summons a scout corps with incredible movement speed, the [Cheap Thrills]! One bowl of deadly luosifen → opens a [Bio 708Reads8.4Score20414d adds
- 70 Foodie Card Draws: I Reach the Top as a Chef by Setting Up Random Stalls 美食抽卡：我靠随机摆摊登顶厨神 [Food] [Random Pop-Up Stalls] [No CP] [Cards] [Daily Life] [Healing] [Funny and Lighthearted] [Ensemble Cast] Jiang Yan, who has a laid-back attitude and what seems like a cheat-code life, binds to a Food Card Draw and Random Stall System and declares: "I’m going to become the God of Cooking!" One draw a day, and the food transforms in all kinds of ways. S-rank cards shine with golden light again and again. (The System will upgrade, and the protagonist will unlock new abilities. Later on, he won 1.6kReads—Score18414d adds
- 71 A World of Flavor 风味人间 Food is the main storyline, travel the side plot. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, there’s no face-slapping, and the tone is laid-back and slice-of-life. (He starts out alone and picks up friends along the way.) Xu Jinhuan is a skilled chef, with questionable manners, and the number-one slacker in the country. After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world and unlocking the Food System, Xu Jinhuan goes from a newly graduated aspiring chef to a creator of flavorful cuisine. His schedu 12Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 72 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—14d adds
- 73 After My Divorce, I Set Up a Stall and Earned a Sign-In Reward: Divine-Grade Potato Pancakes 离婚后，摆摊签到奖励神级土豆饼 Zhang Chen worked hard for two years and saved up a sum of money to pay for college. He never expected to unexpectedly become the father of a precious little girl, Yueyue. He spent all his savings, along with countless hours and boundless energy, caring for his wife and daughter. As a result, he lost his chance to go to college. Five years later, his wife's company was about to go public. She decided he was too poor and uneducated and wanted to leave him with nothing. “We can divorce, but I have 150Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 74 I Sell Meals at an Ancient Army Camp, and the Soldiers Go Wild for Them 我在古代军营卖饭，将士们吃疯了 Must-Read Comedy: The Battle of Xiaoying, Liu Yu's campaign against Southern Yan, and the Battle of Yubi. Li Yi'an transmigrates to an ancient battlefield and binds to a System that lets her sell meals. The swords and blades the soldiers once used to reap heads have now become clubs for shoving their comrades aside; the once-sturdy shields are knocked every which way. Men who weren't afraid to die on the battlefield are now pushing, cursing, and even brawling like madmen just to get one step clo 3.2kReads—Score29614d adds
- 75 The God of Cooking’s Legacy: Starting with a Street Stall 厨神传承，从摆摊开始 After graduating, Mei Lin becomes the most ordinary office drone in a big city. Her life is an endless loop between the office and her rented apartment. She barely scrapes by, trapped in a grind with no end in sight, and nearly gives up hope. Then one day, a magical food space falls from the sky. A master chef’s legacy, top-tier ingredients, long-lost recipes… Her life is completely transformed. There’s no future in working for someone else, so why not become her own boss? She quits without hesi 2.2kReads7.3Score17814d adds
- 76 Fired for Rejecting Premade Meals, I Become a Master Chef with the System 拒预制菜被开除，我靠系统成厨神 Chen Feng, head chef at a five-star hotel, is fired on the spot after standing up to his boss and refusing to use premade food! Who would’ve thought he’d be bound to a [Culinary Inheritance System], receive the Golden Egg Fried Rice recipe from the start, and take over a run-down 50-square-meter neighborhood shop? With his authentic, no-nonsense cooking, one bowl of fried rice brings the whole street to tears! No artificial tricks, just top-quality ingredients, from egg fried rice to Kung Pao ch 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Gourmet: Boss, You're Bold to Run a Street Stall 美食：老板你摆摊真任性啊 [Everyday Life] [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [Perfect with a Meal] Ming Xuan unexpectedly awakens a street-stall System, and from then on, starts a life of randomly slacking off, no, running a stall. He sells flatbread and fried dough sticks in front of the DD Building, noodles at a middle school gate, and zongzi outside a university. What? The reward is 996,000 yuan. Why is the number so oddly specific? Wait, something's not right. Why is it 996? Is there something cursed 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 My Street Stall Went Viral, and Now I Own Billions in Real Estate 摆摊爆火，坐拥亿万房产 [Street-food stall + everyday gossip and watching the drama unfold + no romance] “Tell me, are you here for the food today, or to watch the show?” someone called out. “Both, of course!” the customers replied, laughing. Hey, why is this little stall so popular? Boss, what are you selling today? Quick, quick, they’re here! A lazy bear couple, a greedy little dog, a mysterious figure in black... Why get up early in the morning? To fill your mouth with a warm bun. Why is that tough guy in tears? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 A Guide to Running a Multiverse Hotel 多元宇宙酒店经营指南 [Gags + Cthulhu System + Invincible + Transmigration + Face-Slapping] = [The Protagonist Becomes a Troublemaker] The protagonist shares a name with a tyrant from history. By chance, he picks up a lottery ticket from a Cthulhu world. He gets lucky and wins a consolation prize, but little by little, he becomes corrupted and turns into a troublemaker… And so, an inn that strikes fear into the hearts of everyone throughout the history of the galaxy!!… opens for business. Al Capone from a cert 3Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 80 Spiritual Qi Revival: My Powers Are a Billion Times Stronger 灵气复苏：我的能力强亿点 Lin Chen transmigrated into a world where spiritual qi revival was underway. During the most important exam of his life, a classmate poisoned him, causing his physical abilities to plummet. He was on the verge of failing. Then his God-Tier Stat Allocation System activated. A punch with 9,999 jin of force? What? Lin Chen sent the strength tester flying. A hundred meters in 5.8 seconds? What? Lin Chen just ran into the cameraman and sent him flying. S-rank mental power? What? That was the testing 3Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 81 The Xiaoman Chronicles: Surviving with the Disgraced Prince 小满纪事：我与被废皇子相依为命 Food + ensemble cast + lighthearted daily life + ordinary people’s lives Once a prince brought low, once a humble palace maid. The two were cast out of the palace and relied on each other to survive. They sought neither wealth nor glory, only steady meals and a peaceful life together through the ordinary days. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 With a Mixed Spirit Root, I Become a Food God by Cooking for My Sect 杂灵根的我，靠当宗门厨子成食神 I Have a Mixed Spiritual Root, but Became the God of Food by Cooking for My Sect 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 The Xing'an Ward Diner 兴安坊小饭馆 [No romance, a warm ensemble cast, a slow pace, and an unwavering female perspective with a focus on women] Yan Luo transmigrates to the Great Yong Dynasty and becomes the eldest daughter of Madam Song. In Liushui Alley, Madam Song raises her two daughters alone. The hardships they endure go without saying. Hardworking Yan Luo throws herself once more into the food business she loves. Dear guests, come cool off with a bowl of liangpi on a hot day! Tender chicken, silky noodles, and a mouthwateri 18.6kReads8.6Score2.5k14d adds
- 84 From the Start, I Had a Spatula, and the Big Shots Kept Chasing Me for a Meal 开局一把锅铲，大佬追着我干饭 [System + quick transmigration + food and business + reborn + pocket dimension + feel-good power fantasy] Bai Yuxi was an ordinary office worker in the imperial capital. Desperate to achieve financial freedom and buy a home in her hometown as soon as possible, she worked herself to the bone, only to die suddenly from overwork. Then, against all odds, she was reborn? This time, she decided to live life on her own terms! After giving her exploitative boss a piece of her mind and securing severance 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Quick Transmigration: Mission, Spread Gourmet Food Across the Universe! 快穿：目标，将美食传遍全宇宙！ [Food + ensemble cast + a stronger nation + no romance] Shen Muqing was bound to a food System and returned to her previous life. Her mission was simple: make delicious food in different worlds and bring happiness to her customers through the pleasure of eating. In her first life, she was reborn as a wealthy heiress who kept losing money every time she opened a shop, yet persevered in pursuing her dream. Shen's father and mother: “Sweetheart, why don't you just come home and inherit the family f 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 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 447Reads6.0Score10314d adds
- 87 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
- 88 Bound to a Food System, My Little Shop Is Packed Every Day 绑定美食系统，我的小店天天爆满 [No CP + daily life + food + opening a shop + street vending + entirely handmade, no AI] After binding to a System, Peng Jie hopes to get rich by cooking and reach the pinnacle of life. But it turns out every dish he’s rewarded with must be practiced, and his cooking mentor is a senior administrator at KK Park. Every time he receives a new dish, he’s bound to get electrocuted. After making the whole street a hit, his greedy landlord raises the rent and forces him to leave South Street. Back in h 22.9kReads8.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 89 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
- 90 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
- 91 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
- 92 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
- 93 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
- 94 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 20.6kReads7.2Score2.1k14d adds
- 95 Unemployed? The Gourmet System Takes Me Straight to the Top 失业？美食系统直接带我飞 [Gourmet System + Golden Finger + Ordinary Person Quietly Making a Fortune + No Romance] Li Beibei is an utterly ordinary university student, and her transition from graduation straight to unemployment goes perfectly smoothly. After yet another failed job application, Beibei gets on her knees and begs every god in sight to grant her a job. She knocks her head so hard that, with a clang, heaven drops a Gourmet System and a small, upgradable shop into her lap. Before she can even celebrate, she di 103Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 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
- 97 My Cooking Can Cure Any Discontent 我的美食专治各种不服 Xu Riyue transmigrates into a parallel world, where he becomes a 996 office worker driven to bankruptcy by his boss's workplace abuse. At his lowest point, the Everyday Life System binds itself to him, refreshing one street-stall task each week. Other people's golden fingers can destroy the world, but his System only wants him to suffer social death. His stall is a legend that exists in the city for just one week: It appears on Monday, using an irresistible aroma and flavor to break down everyon 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 I'm a Chef, So Isn't It Only Natural to Carry a Cleaver? 身为厨师，身上带把菜刀很合理吧 Jiang Han spent eleven years cooking in prison. There, he received a mysterious inheritance and learned 108 lost recipes. After his release, he searched high and low for work to make a living, only to be turned away at every turn. If the world wouldn’t give him a way to survive, he’d make one for himself. One long-lost, legendary dish after another returned to the world under his hands. When Jiang Han went deep into the mountains to capture a dragon and into the depths of the sea to hunt a whale 625Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 99 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 83Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 100 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
