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- 1 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 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 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 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Street Stall in the Eighties: One Bowl of Yangchun Noodles Stuns the Whole City 八零摆摊：一碗阳春面震惊全城 In his previous life, he was a private chef specializing in intangible cultural heritage cuisine, but his business partner poisoned him just as the company was about to go public. When he opens his eyes again, he's back in 1982, on the day he fails the college entrance exam. His cousin has taken the factory job meant for him, and his family is buried in debt. His mother brings him a bowl of watery noodles. The moment Lu Zheng takes it, thirty years of culinary expertise awaken within him. One mu 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 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—Shelves
- 5 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 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 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 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—Score152Shelves
- 8 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. 90.8kReads8.3Score11.7kShelves
- 9 I Run a University Cafeteria, and My Goal Is to Make a Hundred Million 承包大学食堂，我的目标是一个亿 [Food] [No Romance] [System] [Quick Transmigration] [Slice of Life] [Comedy] After Tang Lin died, his soul was pulled into a food-themed game. If he cleared the game, he could be reborn. * Game 1: "A University Cafeteria on the Verge of Closing" The cafeteria at Huamei University was about to shut down, yet a senior in his final year took it over! The students gritted their teeth: “So what if they changed the person in charge? Capitalists are all the same!” “I'd rather starve than eat at Cafeter 26Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 10 Gourmet: Transmigrating to Run a Street Stall, I Leave Customers Drooling as They Count Their Money 美食：穿越摆摊，馋哭顾客狂数钱 [Gourmet] [Perfect with a Meal] [Comedy] [After Being Reborn] [Everyday Life] [Transmigration] [Lighthearted] [No Romance] After Wang Dazhi transmigrated, he had the bad luck to fall into a women's bathhouse, but unexpectedly gained a random food-stall System! The location, food, and food truck were all random. Complete a task and an immense fortune could fall right out of the sky! Selling youtiao outside a nursing home! Selling fried rice in the middle of a lake at midnight! Selling mixed noodl 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I’m Not Afraid of a Top-Tier Star Exposing Me, I’m Afraid of Going Hungry 不怕顶流开盒，就怕我一饭难求 [Dual male leads, both reborn + Food System + revenge in the entertainment industry + livestreaming] A broad-shouldered chef and actor as the pursuer vs. a scheming, lovesick male opera performer (not human) In his previous life, Bai Shu agreed to help a top-tier star clear up a rumor, only to be doxxed and hounded online by the star’s fans until he died. Reborn in this life, he bonds with a Food System and storms back into the entertainment industry. To his surprise, Hua Xiao, his business part 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I'm a Culinary God: The Way of Nature? More Like the Way of Cumin! 我厨神：道法自然？道法加孜然！ Passionate and hilarious, with a laid-back vibe, unbeatable cooking, a protagonist who grows into his power, and a gaggle of hungry senior brothers and sisters to raise. No female lead. Stir-frying heaven, earth, and the Heavenly Dao. Wei Jitong, heir apparent to the head chef of the state banquet, accidentally transmigrates to a fantasy cultivation world and becomes a junior disciple of Qingfeng Mountain, where he awakens the God of Cooking System. As long as his dishes amaze people, he can ear 221Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 13 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—Shelves
- 14 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—Shelves
- 15 Gourmet: I Set Up Random Food Stalls, and Customers Beg Me Through Tears Not to Leave 美食：随机摆摊，顾客哭求我别走 [Everyday life] [Random street stalls] [Whimsical ideas] [No romance] [System] Qin Feng, a trained chef, transmigrates to Blue Star and activates the God of Cooking System. By completing the System's tasks each week, he earns different rewards. He grills barbecue in a fitness park packed with gym-goers; sells starch sausages by the dozen outside an elementary school full of parents; and hawks fresh pork wontons atop a mountain in gale-force winds and pouring rain. His customers are constantly le —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Late-Night Food Temptation: I Made a Billion People Cry from Hunger 深夜放毒：我饿哭了十亿人 “I’m in a bad mood, so I’ll make camel three ways.” “I’m in a good mood, so let’s barbecue some bluefin tuna. I’ve never tried it before.” “What’s this? Never seen this kind of creature. Let’s stew it.” After obtaining the Late-Night Food Temptation System, he spends every night trying all sorts of unusual delicacies. This unprecedented livestream experience has ten billion viewers going wild late into the night. Late-night food temptation: let’s listen together to the groans of the hungry and t 32Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 17 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—Shelves
- 18 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—Shelves
- 19 Gourmet: Starting by Fattening Up the Empress 美食：从喂胖女帝开始 Lin Qingfeng was a top culinary student who unexpectedly transmigrated to another world. To his surprise, this world had no cooking at all. Lin Qingfeng also awakened a God-Tier Chef System. From then on, Empress Qinglian came knocking every day, all for a bite to eat. The Holy Maiden Bai Qingqing became Lin Qingfeng's biggest fan. The empress of the Wuzhou Dynasty was even willing to start a war for Lin Qingfeng, just to bring him back and have him cook for her. The sect master of the Northern 239Reads6.4Score100Shelves
- 20 After Awakening the Chef God Martial Soul, I Made All of Humanity Drool 觉醒厨神武魂后，全人类馋哭了 [Food + spiritual qi revival + no heroine] This is a world where spiritual qi has revived, martial souls awaken, and all races vie for supremacy. A once-notorious maker of bizarre dishes on Earth transmigrates here and accidentally binds to a System that was late because it overslept. He thinks the System will help him become the God of Cooking in no time. But his bizarre dishes turn out to be even more terrifying. Even so, people who haven’t eaten for a thousand years are extremely interested i 140Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 21 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 260Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 22 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 58Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 23 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 28Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 24 The God of Cooking: Building a Fortune with Banquet Feasts 神厨：从烧大席开始发家致富 Ding! The Super Chef System has activated. The host can bind to it simply by agreeing to cater a banquet, and will also receive a starter pack and rewards for completing missions. “Starter pack delivered: a complete set of banquet-cooking equipment, including a butcher's knife, a cleaver, a chopping knife, a two-meter-long ladle...” 439Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 25 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—Shelves
- 26 Reborn as a Market Town Girl, I Open a Shop and Make a Fortune 穿成市井小娘子开店发家记 [Humble Life + Time Travel + Food + Opening a Shop + Power Fantasy + Lighthearted] Set in an imaginary dynasty, so don’t worry about historical accuracy. Food takes center stage, with the plot playing a supporting role. The story is cozy and mellow throughout, with no dramatic ups and downs. It’s about everyday life and making a better living. The plot and characters are fairly ordinary, so it’s a good read when you’re bored. In her previous life, Jiang Yao lived alone through five years of the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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—Shelves
- 28 The Happy Cook 厨娘有喜 She was a famous gourmet and top chef in her homeland, only to transmigrate into the body of a country girl. And now people are turning up their noses at her cooking? What a disgrace! An utter disgrace! She had to win back her pride! With a spatula in hand, the world was hers. Watch this country girl rise to become a master chef, build a fortune, and make a name for herself! Isn't it said that gentlemen should stay far from the kitchen? So why are all the noble young men of Nanyang Kingdom crowd 4Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 29 I’m Just Cooking, Why Are the Demonic Beasts So Nervous? 我就做个菜，妖兽你紧张什么？ Xie Fan, a food lover, accidentally transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and awakens the God of Cooking System! He thought a world of cultivation would be full of fun, but there’s no internet or air conditioning, and worst of all, the food is terrible! With the principle that he can give up cultivating immortality, but he can’t give up eating, Xie Fan decides to fend for himself! The entire sect goes wild! The disciples: “What is this? How can it be so delicious!” “Eating a bowl of f 736Reads6.6Score112Shelves
- 30 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a Highway Rest Stop During Lunar New Year, I Bring Traffic to a Standstill 美食：春节服务区卖饭，高速堵疯 [Food + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] Gu Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Food System. At the start, he draws a location for his business, only to get a tiny highway service area! And the ridiculous task is to sell three hundred boxed meals in a single day? Just as Gu Rui is at his wits’ end, a male streamer shows up at the highway service area by chance. After one meal of dumplings, the streamer hugs him and keeps calling him “Mom”! Travel surges during the Spring 186Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 31 The Sect's Culinary God: I Conquer the Immortal Cultivation World with Food 宗门厨神，我靠美食征服修仙界 [Food + No Female Lead + Farming + Ensemble Cast] Ye Bai transmigrates to a fantasy cultivation world, with nothing but a body incapable of cultivation and an inn from the start. Fortunately, he awakens a Culinary Cultivation System. Complete its quests, and he can earn recipes, spiritual roots, cultivation techniques, immortal artifacts, a pocket dimension... And so, every meal Ye Bai cooks becomes an unparalleled delicacy. The entire cultivation world goes crazy trying to get a taste of his co 248Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 32 The Super Food God Tycoon 超级食神大亨 Yang Song happens upon the Chef God System. With nothing but a secondhand food cart selling grilled gluten skewers, he steadily climbs to the peak of success. The richest man's son works for him as a waiter, goddesses throw themselves at him to help run his shop, and top female students from campus come to peel potatoes for him... A beautiful TV reporter asks in an interview, "I hear lots of celebrities come to dine at Baifeng Pavilion. Do they have to wait in line too?" Yang Song replies calmly 224Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 33 The Foodie Has Arrived: Tremble, Monsters! 吃货驾到，妖兽们颤抖吧！ [Everyday foodie life]+ [Gourmet]+ [Pure physical strength]+ [System]+ [Pocket dimension] What happens when a professional chef who loves good food transmigrates to a world overrun by demons? They're all top-quality ingredients. I'm a chef. There's nothing wrong with being a little strong, right? I'm a chef. There's nothing wrong with carrying a kitchen knife around, right? “Azure Dragon, bring me your dragon liver nice and easy. Don't make me come get it myself!” “Phoenix, be a good bird and I' 2.6kReads7.5Score256Shelves
- 34 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 422Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 35 From the Start, I Set Up a Stall Selling Bento, and Liu Bei Begged Me to Be His Strategist 开局摆摊卖盒饭，刘备求我当军师 [Food + Three Kingdoms + Water Margin + wuxia + film and television] Li Huan transmigrates through the Myriad Worlds, setting up a stall to sell boxed meals. Cao Cao: Spicy crayfish are my favorite! Sun Shangxiang: In this life and the next, I'll marry no one but Li Huan! Pan Jinlian: Dalang, it's time to eat your boxed meal. Huang Yaoshi: Stay on Peach Blossom Island, and I'll betroth Rong'er to you. Kang Min: Are my sweet mooncakes not as good as your boxed meals? Yue Buqun: I'll trade my Evil 79Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 36 You Told Me to Sell Fried Rice, and I Brought the Highway to a Standstill 让你摆摊卖炒饭，你把高速干瘫痪 Bai Ming transmigrates to Blue Star and becomes an unemployed young man. With his family fortune about to run dry, he is lucky enough to activate the Gourmet System and gain god-tier cooking skills and legendary kitchenware. It happens to be the Spring Festival rush, when everyone is returning to the cities and the highway is gridlocked. Living nearby, Bai Ming simply brings out his wok and stove and starts selling fried rice by the roadside. The drivers and passengers, already starving, are ins 991Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 37 I Bound the God of Cooking System and Became Unbeatable in the Sect 我绑定厨神系统，在宗门无敌了 [Everyday life + silly, brainless wish fulfillment] After transmigrating into a fantasy world, Ye Chenxing takes charge of all the old, weak, sick, and young members of Cangqiong Peak from his senior brother. A good-for-nothing second senior brother takes over as peak master. Cangqiong Peak is doomed! After binding to the God of Cooking Food System, Ye Chenxing cultivates through cooking. His dishes can increase spiritual energy, help people reach enlightenment, raise their cultivation, and ha 497Reads8.7Score110Shelves
- 38 Guizhou Cuisine, Making Him Lose His Cool 黔味厨娘，勾他破防 "Craving Her: The Cold-Faced Imperial Guard Wants Cuddles" Transmigrate into a book with a Guizhou cuisine space. Good news: Bai Tingyu, the family's savior, has happened to contract the "food-aversion Gu," and Guizhou cuisine is its natural enemy. Bad news: The space is a "money pit." Every time someone infected with the Gu eats food from her space, half her family's money vanishes. The urgent task: repay the favor, run away, and get rich. But after tasting her spicy, crispy potato cakes, he tu 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 I Went Back to the Village for a Feast and Became the Head Chef 回村吃席，竟成了掌勺大厨 When his cousin gets married, Chen Chen has just transmigrated and hasn’t even had time to adjust before his third uncle drags him back to the countryside for the wedding feast... The chef in charge of the banquet suddenly suffers a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital. In a desperate bid to save the day, his uncle’s family can only pin their hopes on Chen Chen, who spent three years studying cooking at New Oriental. Chen Chen: “Help! I really can’t cook!” System: “Yes, you can.” And so... 1.3kReads9.1Score102Shelves
- 40 When It Comes to Noodles, I'm the Best in the Country 论做面，我全国最强 [Food] Yu Shaoxian inherited his family's noodle shop. Looking at the shabby, 90-square-meter old shop in front of him, he listened to the System announce his task, eager to give it a try. “Host, your task is to make countless dishes using noodles as the main ingredient.” “Complete the task, and you'll receive a cash reward of 300 million.” “The reward will be delivered in the form of lottery winnings.” “Ding! Your beginner's gift pack has arrived.” “Congratulations, Host! You've received unlimi 1.2kReads8.0Score209Shelves
- 41 Food Wars!: I Put Drugs in the Dishes 食戟之灵，我在菜里加了药 Yue Xiaolou worked hard his whole life and finally earned his certificate as a master chef, but fate played a cruel joke on him. People in this world are crazy about food. People in this world worship chefs with exceptional skills. “Yukihira, did you put drugs in the food again?” “Xiaolou, you’re the one who started it.” 41Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 42 To Defend Against the Myriad Races, I Film A Bite of the Otherworld 抵御万族，我拍舌尖上的异界 The myriad races invade, and everyone awakens. Yet Xiao Yu, a transmigrator, awakens only a life-skill proficiency in cooking? And his System is actually an otherworldly cuisine System?! Looking at the food encyclopedia waiting to be unlocked, sitting at 0/10000, Xiao Yu falls into deep thought. Soon, a legend begins circulating across the battlefield of the myriad races. “There's a human named Xiao Yu who's killed plenty of our guys and tortures us in all sorts of ways!” “Braised, steamed, 24Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 43 I'm an Average Cook, Yet the Villagers Won't Stop Singing My Praises! 我厨艺平平，硬被乡亲吹爆了！ The folks in Wang Yang’s hometown are friendly, close-knit, and full of community spirit! But every last one of them has a bad habit: they love to brag, always saying things like, “So-and-so from our village is amazing!” That was all well and good, until they found out Wang Yang had opened a small restaurant in the county town near his hometown... “I’m not bragging, but someone from my village opened a restaurant in our county town. Just thinking about his cooking makes my mouth water...” “If yo 3.2kReads8.1Score160Shelves
- 44 Giant River Crabs Are Taking Over? I’ll Eat Them Until They’re Protected 大闸蟹泛滥？我给吃成保护动物 [Gourmet] [Comedy] [No romance] [Heartwarming] [Everyday life] [Perfect mealtime reading] That year, an invasive species crisis struck the United States. All kinds of plants and animals multiplied out of control: mitten crabs and crayfish took over school campuses; locusts and cicadas caused massive natural disasters on farms; cunning wild rabbits and boars ravaged the crops before running off; and wild mushrooms grew rampant across the hillsides... The Americans tried every solution they coul 702Reads7.3Score119Shelves
- 45 I’m Really Not the God of Food, I Just Cook for Country Banquets 我真不是食神，只是农村烧大席的 Zhao Chong transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes a college graduate who has just finished school. He unexpectedly awakens the Gourmet System and becomes a cook. The village is hosting a wedding feast and needs someone to cook the banquet. Since Zhao Chong’s father was once famous for his cooking, Zhao Chong is pushed into the role. Because he’s so young, nobody has much faith in him. But as soon as the dishes are served, everyone is stunned. Soy-braised pork knuckles, roast duck, s 276Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 46 Gourmet: I Take My Little Sister to Kindergarten and Make the Teachers Drool 美食：带妹妹去幼儿园，馋哭老师 [Gourmet]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Comedy]+ [Comfort Food]+ [Dad]+ [Adorable Kids]+ [Heartwarming]+ [Healing] Zhou Lin took his little sister to apply for a chef position at a kindergarten, only to face a challenge from a five-star chef. He won the cooking contest and became the head chef at Shuitian Kindergarten. From then on, teachers at kindergartens all over town tried everything they could to get a taste of Zhou Lin’s cooking. Parents did everything they could to transfer their children to Shuiti 714Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 47 They Say Chinese Cuisine Is Second-Rate? I Challenge Them to a State Banquet Cook-Off 中餐不入流？我拿国宴食戟 [Food Wars! fanfiction + serious food writing + easygoing daily life + no System + little secretary + Polar Star Dorm spirit + basically, just come read and get hungry late at night (the score is low only because it hasn't been around long)!] He Huan, a Northeastern chef skilled in Cantonese cuisine, transmigrates into Food Wars! and vows to make Chinese cuisine the best in the world! Let me show you what real Chinese cuisine is! A pot of [rice-free congee hot pot], tender, smooth, fresh, and cr 1.4kReads8.8Score127Shelves
- 48 Otherworldly Culinary Lord: Starting by Adopting a Silver Dragon Girl 异界厨神领主：从收养银龙娘开始 [Western Fantasy, Demon King, Gourmet, Lighthearted, Monster Girls, Invincible] (Note: The lord arc begins in Chapter 119.) On the Lamas Plane, the down-and-out Demon King Luxiu Charles arrives in human territory. Thanks to the special talent “Soul-Piercing Cuisine” granted by his Godhood System, he starts rebuilding his fortune by opening a small Chinese restaurant. Not long afterward, he unexpectedly adopts a little dragon girl, and his life as a demon quietly takes a new turn. He’s tired of a 580Reads7.2Score101Shelves
- 49 Gourmet: My Late-Night Diner Might Not Be Entirely Scientific 美食：我的深夜食堂可能不太科学 [Food + System + entertainment industry + lighthearted daily life] If someone asked where an unconventional late-night diner came from, Luo Jia would tell them it all started with him standing up for the people and beating up a mage whose ritual was disturbing the neighborhood. He knew because he had experienced it himself. Thanks to the immense merit he earned by sacrificing the mage from the start, Luo Jia got a System and embarked on the path to becoming a God of Cooking. He moved to a film s 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Reborn as a Food Lover 重生之美食爱好者 In his previous life, Ye Lan didn’t have many hobbies. He just liked cooking and reading novels. He’d been prepared from childhood to spend his whole life alone, but one day an accident happened on a plane. He thought his life was over, but when he opened his eyes, he discovered he had transmigrated to a world completely different from his own. This world was full of top-quality ingredients, and not only could he indulge his appetite, he also found himself a ridiculously powerful spirit pet. 1.4kReads8.9Score125Shelves
