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- 1 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 326Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 2 I Am Eternal 吾既永恒 What is eternity? What is immortality? Is it the immortal? The demon? Heaven? Or the Dao? No! Immortals can be slain, demons destroyed, Heaven defied, and the Dao severed. It is me! I am immortal! I am eternal! My surname is Luo, and I am your Heaven. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Gourmet: Top-Tier Cooking Skills Generated at Random 美食：随机生成顶级厨艺 “Brother Mo, if I give you one night, will you cook me a meal?” A beautiful woman with long legs, a slender waist, and generous curves looked at Lin Mo and pleaded. In his twenty years of life, Lin Mo had never encountered a request like this. “Since you seem sincere, it'll cost you 200 yuan for a bowl of noodles,” Lin Mo said. The beauty's eyes widened. It was as if she'd seen the light... 70Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 4 Gourmet Tycoon: Starting with Rural Banquet Cooking 美食富豪：从农村烧大席开始 [Rural banquet cooking + farming + restaurant reviews and warnings + gourmet food + outrageous food-tech tricks] [No cultivation in this book!] [The System plays a minor role!] [Food, farming, business, and realism take center stage!] Liu Chuan, the youngest top-level state banquet chef, transmigrates into the body of a spoiled rich kid in a parallel world! He thought he could live a life of luxury and finally experience what it was like to be a good-for-nothing! But then the “Self-Reliance Syst 83Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 5 The Tasty Snack Stall That Reformed the Food Industry 美味小吃摊，我整顿了餐饮市场 Lu Yuan is reborn and discovers that he is taking part in the show "Dragon Nation’s Professional Challenge". Though he has never set foot in a kitchen, the job he draws is food stall owner! Luckily, he awakens the God-Tier Food Stall System, which grants him max-level cooking skills. Day One. Lu Yuan makes starch sausages from scratch outside a university, leaving the students drooling! Day Two. Lu Yuan sets up a stall selling savory sauce pancakes, and a girl with binge-eating disorder instantl 96Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 6 I Went Home to Feast and Became the Head Chef 回村吃席，我成了大厨 [Congratulations, Host, you have unlocked a complete funeral service] [Rest assured, Host] [At Grandpa Li’s funeral, you’ll be the most dazzling one in the whole village] [Expert cooking skills] [Expert at wailing at funerals] So, when Grandpa Li was laid to rest, I cried so hard in front of his grave that no one could pull me away … 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 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
- 8 Gourmet: Cooking on a Plane, Leaving Passengers Craving More 美食：飞机掌勺，让乘客欲罢不能 [Gourmet] [System] [Perfect with a meal] [Everyday life] [Lighthearted] [Character-driven] [Heartwarming] [Hilarious] In the future, airlines introduced a “chef on board” service, letting passengers order whatever they wanted and have a chef cook it fresh. But with planes often shaking and space at a premium, the food usually tasted rather ordinary. That changed when the God-Tier Gourmet System arrived, allowing Nie Chenfeng to master divine cooking techniques! Braised beef brisket with radish w 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 I'm the Head Chef at the Hospital, and the Patients Are Drooling! 我在医院掌大勺，病人都馋哭了！ After transmigrating, Su Chen wakes up in a hospital bed and nearly gags at how awful the food in the hospital cafeteria tastes. Just then, he awakens a God Chef System. Every time he earns praise from a patient, he unlocks all kinds of divine dishes. The beginner's gift pack also includes the Nose of God. Just a sniff is enough for him to sense how fresh the ingredients are. Under Su Chen's management, the quality of the hospital cafeteria's food improves dramatically! “Huh? Who says I'm being 59Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 10 The Laid-Back Foodie: Who Puts Wagyu on Grilled Cold Noodles? 咸鱼美食：谁家烤冷面放和牛啊？ [Lighthearted Everyday Life] [Gourmet] [Comedy] [Healing] [Lazybones System] [No Female Lead] Deep in Locust Tree Alley, there's a little shop with a peculiar owner. The owner is young and handsome, but he loves sleeping and opens whenever he feels like it. His rules are just as strange. “If you want noodles, find your own seat. Throw out your own trash when you're done. The payment code's in the corner. Don't bother me while I'm cooking.” And yet this very shop has become the most magical plac 1.1kReads—Score10714d adds
- 11 A Food Lover’s Street-Stall Diary 美食舌尖摆摊记 Street food stalls [Daily Life] [Perfect with a Meal]. Every day, a random stall opens and serves delicious food, driving every customer wild with cravings. Come experience the blend of food and everyday life, explore the joys and hardships of running a street stall, and savor its unique charm. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Gourmet: I Never Opened My Stall, Yet Customers Lined Up Late at Night 美食：没出摊，顾客深夜排队 After losing his job, Gu Nian unexpectedly gets a food System and takes over his parents’ stall. “Boxed lunches for sale! Just 14 yuan for a steaming-hot meal!” “Delicious and affordable! Come and give them a try!” His very first day at the stall, and business is already booming? The workers can hardly stand the wait! They clock out early just so they can get a bite sooner. Ever since they tried Gu Nian’s boxed lunches, every other place’s food has tasted like cardboard! “Huh? You’re sold ou 412Reads—Score10114d adds
- 13 Gourmet: Stop Asking, It’s Really Sold Out! 美食：都别追了，真的卖光了！ “Oh my gosh, stop chasing me!” “I've got nothing left, not even a single scallion!” At two in the morning, Yi Guan tears down the street on his three-wheeled bike, shouting over his shoulder with a helpless look on his face. A group of burly men are tailing him. The closest one is pedaling his bicycle so fast it looks like a blur, yet he still can't catch up with Yi Guan's beat-up tricycle. “Boss, don't run! One more order of fried skewers!” “Buddy, stop running! I haven't even gotten the skewer 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Master of Chinese Cuisine 中华美食家 In a parallel world, food reigns supreme. Chinese cuisine has lost its legacy, and barbarians have taken center stage. “Master He Zhou, which culinary tradition does this dish belong to?” “Is it luxurious French cuisine, refined Japanese cuisine, perhaps Korean food? Or maybe Southeast Asian?” “This is Chinese cuisine.” “What? That low-class Chinese food? That can’t possibly be true!” Don’t believe it? Braised intestines in a complex sauce, Kung Pao chicken, qilin-style sea bass, Dongpo pork. Ph 20Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 15 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—14d adds
- 16 From the Start, I Set Up a Food Stall, and My Customers Go Wild with Cravings 开局美食摆摊，顾客都馋疯啦 [Food Business] [Everyday Life] [Competitions] [System] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Yue unexpectedly gets bound to a food System. Not only does he inherit the original owner’s tricycle food stall, he also inherits a whole pile of problems. Then he takes a look at the original owner’s circumstances: born into debt, a family fallen on hard times, parents gone before he could repay their care... Great, so that’s how we’re playing it? Fortunately, the System thoughtfully gives him 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 After I Bound Myself to a Gourmet System, the City's Diners Hunted Me Down 绑定美食系统后，食客全城搜捕我 [No CP] [Gourmet] [Transmigration] [Making Money] [Business Management] [Heartwarming] Lin Fei is dragged to ancient times by a terrible Gourmet System. From starting out with her family ruined and her business going bankrupt, to selling crayfish for ten taels of silver a serving and driving the entire imperial capital wild. Even at an absurd price, the line is still packed every day. The System comes with facial recognition and can identify customers for its Host. Our restaurant’s official rule 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Good Heavens! I Set Up a Street Stall and Accidentally Became the Richest Man 天啊！摆个地摊一不小心成了首富 [Lighthearted + street vending + food + simulation + romance + daily life] Zhou Ming, who was bound to a street-vending simulation System, set up a stall. Through his business, Zhou Ming met Li Xiaoqing, a beautiful CEO. “Mmm~ Who knew grilled sausages could taste this good?!” The normally aloof CEO was so captivated by Zhou Ming’s grilled sausages that she was practically out of it after her first bite. … And Zhou Ming’s once uneventful life was soon swept up in one incident after another, tha 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 A Chef in Another World, a Hitman on the Side 人在异界当厨师，兼职却是杀手 [The Supernatural + Ghosts + System + Infinite Flow + Master Chef + Small but Sharp + A World of Everything] When Su Xiaobei woke up, he found he was no longer in his own room. He was standing in front of a shop. The sky was blood-red, as if someone had spilled paint across it. The sight was eerie and terrifying. “Well~ are you here to eat, or to apply for a job as a chef?” A clear, bright female voice rang out. A figure emerged from the shop, making Su Xiaobei shudder with terror until his legs 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 Gourmet: Serving State Banquets at My Street Stall 美食：我在地摊做国宴 [Food + perfect with a meal + stories + a touch of System + constantly new dishes + heartwarming + no female lead] Lin Yan woke up in his bed from two years ago and bonded with the Imperial Banquet Cuisine System. Starting with a bowl of clear-broth lion's head soup, he could unlock new dishes and amazing skills by completing revenue targets. With the System's help, he worked his way from the night market to the imperial banquet. He cooked for his family, for himself, and for everyone who loves —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 I Set Up Random Food Stalls, and Customers Put Out Missing-Person Notices to Find Me 随机摆摊，顾客发寻人启事找我 Livestreaming My Street Stall: The Female Leads Are All Top Donors Li Qingshan transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a street-stall livestream System. The System randomly issues all sorts of bizarre stall-related tasks, rewarding him with all kinds of amazing skills. Task One: Time: 1 a.m. Location: crematorium. Objective: livestream fortune-telling from a street stall. Li Qingshan makes a few calculations with his fingers. “Your dad's not dead yet. There's still hope!” Task Two —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 My Food Truck Is a Hit, and the City Inspectors Show Up Every Day! 餐车生意火爆，城管天天来报道！ [Gourmet]+ [Food Truck]+ [System]+ [Daily Life] Song Jie was saddled with a mountain of debt after his ex-girlfriend, who always put her younger brother first, set him up. In a fit of anger, he seized her younger brother's food truck. He had planned to sell boxed lunches part-time and shake off the label of being in debt as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, he accidentally activated the Gourmet System... Completing missions not only earns him ultimate recipes that captivate every palate, but also 43Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 24 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 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Gourmet: The Food Stall Location Leaves Customers Stunned 美食：摆摊地点让食客震惊不已 [Food + System + no female lead + comedy + comfort-food reading + easygoing + lie flat] Under crushing social pressure, the poker-faced Wu Ming transmigrates to a parallel world and acquires a Food System. As long as he sets up his stall at the location specified by the System, he can achieve financial freedom and live a life of leisure! The locations are all bizarre, and the customers are all different. He fries rice on a stone platform perched on a cliff, climbs to the summit of Mount Everest 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Gourmet: A Street Stall Outside the Police Station That Makes Wanted Criminals Drool 美食：警局门口摆摊，馋哭通缉犯 [Food + Daily Life + Comedy + Lighthearted + No Romance + The Perfect Read While Eating] “Shocking! A man set up a pancake stall outside a police station and made a wanted fugitive passing by drool so badly that he turned himself in?” “Exclusive breaking news! A fugitive who had been on the run for a month has been captured. The reason? A street vendor’s cooking reminded him of the taste of his mother’s food?” “Inside scoop! A fugitive renounced his death sentence and left a final message before 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 I’m a Culinary God, and My Seven Beautiful Masters Depend on Me 我厨神，七个美女师父靠我养活 At the Myriad Flowers Palace, I start with a huge black cooking pot. The witches are all vicious, and they're waiting for their meal. Xu Tianxiu, a master chef, becomes everyone's favorite thanks to his trusty cooking pot. He recruits disciples from the sect as delivery boys and starts delivering food throughout the world of cultivation. Countless cultivators deliver food on flying swords. With his own strength, Xu Tianxiu makes the sect flourish. 35Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 28 Xuanhuan: I’m a God-Tier Chef, So It’s Only Fair My Dishes Cost More 玄幻：我厨神，菜贵一点很合理吧 [Gourmet + Comedy + Invincible + Everyday Life + No Humiliation + Business-Building + Early Emotional Walls of Cement = ?] In a fantasy world where profound energy can turn into horses and body-refining martial arts make warriors as strong as oxen, the culinary arts are underdeveloped. People have never even heard of egg fried rice, three-delicacy noodles, or hot-and-sour noodles. Wang Ze transmigrates from Earth and obtains the God of Cooking System. When the eight great culinary traditions app 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 I’m a Culinary God, and I Raised the Greatest Cultivation Academy 我厨神，养成了第一修仙学院 Lu Zhen transmigrates and inherits a college cafeteria. Business is sluggish until a beautiful senior student on the brink of death changes everything. What? There's food this delicious in the world! Die? Die, my foot! Hey, hey, let me finish eating before I die! The beautiful senior student who had been wolfing down her food suddenly discovers that after eating Lu Zhen's cooking, she can't seem to die after all. This cafeteria serves dishes that speed up cultivation, as well as delicacies that 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Mortal Flavors I Share with the Kitchen God 我和灶神君的人间风味 In a corner of the Culinary Capital, there’s a little shop with no sign. It serves food so delicious you’ll want to swallow your tongue, and boasts a handsome, cool-headed owner, a cute chef, and a line of customers stretching to the end of the street. “What did you say? You want to steal my little chef? Keep dreaming...” The cool-headed owner turns around, glaring furiously. “Hey, cook! Where are you running off to? You’ll never escape me in this lifetime...” 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 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 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 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 1.3kReads—Score17314d adds
- 33 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
- 34 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
- 35 Bound to the Kitchen God System, I Made the Whole City Wake Up Craving Food 绑定灶王系统，我把全城都馋醒了 After graduating from college, Jian Yanshen sent out resumes that went nowhere, then returned to Yunxi City looking utterly dejected. His grandfather’s breakfast stall was about to be taken away, and his younger sister, a high school senior, was still counting on him to support her. Just when he was at the end of his rope, an old iron wok spoke inside his head: [Kitchen God System, ownership confirmed]. But the System only provided recipes. It wouldn’t give him the skills for free. Want to make 27Reads—Score15214d adds
- 36 What? Which Factory Cafeteria Charges Five Thousand for Meals? 见鬼！谁家工厂食堂伙食费五千？ [Slow-paced + everyday life + lighthearted + relaxing + food story set in an electronics factory] Ruan Xiuqing transmigrates to a parallel world and takes over the canteen of an electronics factory that's on the verge of going under due to poor management and lax oversight. After activating the cheat System, she receives [Master-Level Cooking], [Master-Level Knife Skills], and [Skill: Three Heads and Six Arms] from the start. Turning the canteen around is just a matter of time! Braised pork bell 284Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 37 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 11Reads—Score11814d adds
- 38 The Prison Food Is So Good, No Inmate Wants to Get Out 牢饭太香，犯人都不想出狱了 Pang Rifeng is a restaurant owner with mediocre cooking skills. After an accident gave him the “Strongest Food System,” his culinary skills improved dramatically. His elementary school classmate Miao Fengfeng recommended him for a chef job at a prison. Using the dishes unlocked by his System, he won rave reviews from the inmates. Even the guards volunteered for overtime just to sample his cooking. Pang Rifeng’s cooking not only improved the prison meals, but also motivated the inmates to work ha 1.5kReads5.6Score16014d adds
- 39 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
- 40 The Internet’s Most Polished Girl Is Setting Up Stalls Everywhere? 网络精致女孩她居然到处摆地摊？ [Gourmet] [Street Stalls] [Farming] [No Romance] [Light Technology] Yang Xiu binds to a trending food System, which assigns her one online video-shooting task every so often. She drives the utility vehicle provided by the System, wears its exquisite outfits, and disguises herself so thoroughly that even her mother wouldn’t recognize her, all to complete the food challenges the System assigns. She takes a mini old-timer car to a highway rest stop to cook century egg and pork congee, drives an RV 74Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 41 Dating Show: The Has-Been Star Goes Viral by Breaking Character Every Day 恋综，小糊咖她靠每天崩人设爆火 [Dating Show + Sweet Romance + Comedy + One-on-One Romance + Face-Slapping + Putting Scumbags in Their Place + System] Jian Mian took a drug she had developed herself. The side effects were so severe that she died on the spot. When she woke up, she had transmigrated into the body of the original owner, who shared her name. From the start, she was schemed against by her scumbag boyfriend and his mistress, vilified across the internet, and unable to land any acting roles. She thought that was the 20Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 42 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
- 43 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
- 44 A Country Chef Gets Questioned? I Fire Back with a State Banquet! 农村厨子被质疑？我反手端国宴！ Zhang Yuan, a chef in Ping'an Village, is possessed by someone who transmigrated while he was haggling over prices. He takes over the village's celebration and funeral banquets, but he's so broke he can barely make ends meet. After awakening the Banquet Chef God System, he fires up three woks at once, frying spices until the aroma draws a million views! His knife work turns Wensi tofu into a chrysanthemum, astounding provincial officials. Even his sworn rival follows the aroma over with a 300-yu 134Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 45 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Banquet, So I Made the Manchu-Han Imperial Feast 让你回村烧大席，你烧出满汉全席 Ou Huang returned to his hometown, intending to enjoy a leisurely life. But he was forced to bind himself to a strange System. He was assigned to be the village cook, responsible for preparing dishes for village banquets. Whether it was a senior's birthday, a baby's full-month celebration, or a wedding feast... every joyous occasion in the countryside was in Ou Huang's hands! From red-braised pork knuckle to four-joy meatballs to pork belly with preserved mustard greens, every dish Ou Huang ma 454Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Gourmet: Random Street Stalls, and My Customers' Jobs Keep Changing 美食，随机摆摊，顾客职业疯狂换 Tucked away in a forgotten corner of the film studio lot is a one-of-a-kind restaurant: Taotie Restaurant. Its owner, Lan Zhi, seems like an ordinary young man, but he has a natural-born “protagonist aura.” With a bowl of fried rice priced at 200 yuan, he manages to make waves in the star-studded world of showbiz! On opening day, customers call him crazy, and even the owner next door waits eagerly to see him make a fool of himself. But who could have guessed that this seemingly ordinary bowl of 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Gourmet Master Who Started by Visiting Restaurants 从探店开始的美食大师 [Gourmet]+ [Livestream]+ [One Heroine] Yu Wei was reborn in 2016 and planned to cash in on the livestream boom, but poor management sent his business crashing anyway. With nowhere else to turn, Yu Wei gets bound to a Gourmet System and returns to the public eye by livestreaming restaurant visits, though his style is a little unusual. “Who are you to say my food is bad?” “The ingredients are decent, but the chef’s skills aren’t up to par.” “You talk a big game, but you’re clearly an amateur. I b 74Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 48 I Returned to the City with My Top-Student Wife and Became a Chef God at Jing University 跟学霸妻子回城，我在京大当厨神 [Period] [One heroine] [Dad life] [Gourmet] [Top student] [No System] In his previous life, in the summer of 1979, his top-student wife was accepted to Peking University, but she couldn't bear to leave her family behind, so she hid her admission letter and never enrolled. Then, during a terrible disaster, she and their daughter both died while trying to save her parents. When his in-laws came to pay their respects, they t 8.5kReads6.5Score53014d adds
- 49 Gourmet: I Cook at Country Feasts, and the Village Chief Begs Me to Make More 美食：农村吃席，村长求我多做点 [No Female Lead + Daily Life + Comedy + Lighthearted Humor] After graduating from university, Li Shiguang returned to his hometown to attend his cousin’s wedding. Everything had been arranged perfectly, except that the village’s head chef had gone on a trip just when the wedding feast was coming up. They were left without a chef! Luckily, Li Shiguang awakened a Gourmet System and took charge of the cooking! His tomato and egg stir-fry was bursting with flavor, simply exquisite. His red-braised e 95Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 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 98Reads—Score—14d adds
