Novels like The God of Cooking: Building a Fortune with Banquet Feasts
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- 101 I'm Just a Cook! I Can't Heal the Sick and Save the Nation! 我就是个厨子啊，不会治病救国！ Zhang Weiguo, a chef at a five-star hotel, gets fired. Before he can catch his breath, he finds himself in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When you have a skill to fall back on, there’s nothing to be afraid of. The little beggar he saved turns out to be the young son who went missing from the Grand Tutor’s family two years ago? So I’m the one who saved both siblings? What, you’re saying the emperor came by yesterday to eat pork trotter rice? Zhang Weiguo promptly faints. Ever since he tried my cook 45Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 102 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 2.9kReads8.1Score15514d adds
- 103 I Open a Canteen in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 我在锦衣卫开食堂 “I’m a famous food blogger! There’s no way I can’t handle you lot!” Food blogger Song Zhaozhao accidentally transmigrated into the body of a vicious female supporting character. She ended up in a poor little mountain village, but her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her older brother protected her. With a wave of her expert hand, Song Zhaozhao gave up on her childhood sweetheart and opened a canteen for the Embroidered Uniform Guard. “From today on, I’m in charge of your meals!” 1.6kReads—Score17814d adds
- 104 A World of Beasts: Everyone's Starving? Let's Cook a Monster First 异世：全民饥荒？先煮个怪吃吃 [System + Otherworldly continent + Gourmet + Infrastructure building + No female lead] [Two chapters will be posted before midnight every night, sometimes a little earlier. Usually it’s a last-minute dash.] On his first day in another world with the Chef God System, Lin Shuyi decides the System is useless. This continent is dirt poor, short on vegetables and meat. You’d be grateful just to have a piece of black bread, so what good is a Chef God System? Then a monster’s corpse falls right before 277Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 105 Gourmet: Making a Living by Selling Food on the Street 美食：从摆摊赚生活费开始 [Gourmet food] + [Everyday urban life] + [One heroine] + [Comedy] “Have you heard? There’s a stall at the night market that sells really good cold noodles.” “I heard there’s also a stall selling buns, and they’re unbelievably good.” “What are you talking about? I heard the night market’s braised beef is amazing.” Li Qing, who had transmigrated here, realized he was about to start college, but paying for living expenses was going to be a big problem. Then he unexpectedly activated the Chef God Sy 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 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
- 107 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—14d adds
- 108 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 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 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
- 110 Gourmet: Stop Stewing It, Even the Village Dogs Are Drooling! 美食：别炖了，村里狗都馋哭了！ Kuang Rui refuses to get caught up in the rat race and chooses to lie flat back in his hometown. He inherits his father’s braised meat shop and, after rejecting the rat race, gains a Food System. Together, they breathe new life into the shop. The humble home-cooked dishes that once went unnoticed are transformed into viral hits that customers flock to check in and try. Take steamed stinky tofu with minced meat, for example. It smells awful but tastes delicious, and one bite is enough to leave y 2.4kReads6.4Score15614d adds
- 111 Gourmet: Laid-Off Office Worker Bags a Million Orders! 美食：被裁社畜，狂揽百万订单！ [Gourmet] + [Entrepreneurship] + [System] + [Comeback] + [Getting Rich] + [Everyday Life] + [Feel-Good Story] Yang Lin was an unlucky programmer who got laid off. He thought his life was about to go downhill for good, but instead he kicked his Gourmet career into overdrive! His parents’ boxed-lunch business was on the verge of going under. The moment Yang Lin took over, the Super Chef System came to his rescue, and his cooking skills instantly became god-tier. His boxed lunches and braised meat 261Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 112 The Night Market King: Sausages from the Meng Family Stall Are Flying Off the Grill 夜市一霸：孟家小摊的烤肠卖爆啦 One-line summary: After transmigrating with a refrigerator, she starts building a fortune by selling grilled sausages from a street stall. [Farming + minor golden finger + family life + heartwarming + rags to riches + no awful characters] On an utterly ordinary night, Meng Qi had just gotten home from work. She opened the refrigerator, planning to make herself tomato-and-egg noodles, and the next moment, she transmigrated without warning, refrigerator and all. Meng Qi: “Wait, do people transmigr 1.4kReads—Score14914d adds
- 113 Urban: The God-Tier Gourmet System 都市：神级美食系统 What? You think eating at my little shop is too expensive? Sorry, our prices are clearly posted, and we have plenty of customers! You’re asking about my goal for the future? Nothing too ambitious. I’ll just make a few hundred billion first, then take Chinese cuisine restaurants worldwide! 184Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 114 Food Wars!: I Can Travel to Toriko’s World 食戟：我能前往美食的俘虏 After transmigrating into the world of Food Wars!, what can you do if you don’t have a monstrous talent for cooking? Rod says, “Don’t panic. It’s time to astonish these genius chefs with ingredients from higher dimensions.” No heroine, no invincibility, just cooking 284Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 115 My Everyday Food Adventures in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界的美食日常 [Cultivation + Gourmet + Lighthearted Comedy + Harmonious Sect + One Female Lead] {This book focuses on cultivation, with food as a supporting element. There will be other plotlines besides cooking, so if that's not for you, please don't read.} Lin Xiaofan transmigrates. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in the cultivation world. Huh? A menial disciple, the standard from-the-start setup. So where's the System? Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've awakened the Culinary Immortal System! 12Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 116 I Set Up a Food Stall and Made Everyone in the Village Drool 我摆摊卖美食，馋哭全村大人小孩 [Gourmet Food + Braised Delicacies + Bento Boxes + Silly Comedy] Cheng Ming quits his city job and returns to the countryside, where he unexpectedly binds himself to the strongest Gourmet System. From the start, he gets a secret recipe for braised delicacies. The roast chicken is golden, with crispy skin, tender meat, delicious flavor, and an irresistible aroma! Pork head meat: rich but not greasy, te 508Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 117 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
- 118 From Kang Bed to Kitchen Stove: My Clever Wife Makes Her Way as a Farmer 炕上灶下：娘子妙手跃农门 A chef accidentally gets reborn as a farm girl? Her house is drafty on all sides, and they’re so poor they can barely afford to eat! Food is a problem, her reputation is in tatters, and she has to support her mother and younger siblings! Food is life, and she’ll use her incredible cooking skills to win everyone’s palate over and lead her whole family out of poverty! Little does she know that just as her purse starts to fill, someone sets their sights on her... 115Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 119 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—14d adds
- 120 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
- 121 The Gourmet Era: A Level-99 Gourmet Hunter from the Start 美食时代：开局九十九级美食猎人 [Food + System + action] Ye Gu transmigrates to a vast, boundless world of food, just as the “Age of Food” begins. There are fragrant coffee-pork chops, crisp outside and tender inside; fruit wine trees with a rainbow of flavors; islands that heal injuries and illnesses; and sniper trees whose leaves turn into roast meat when they wither. There are even “mysterious ingredients” that can make you a god if you eat them. Capture a Kun fish as huge as a mountain, feast on an ethereal “dream menu” 617Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 122 Gourmet System: The Top Chinese Chef Overseas 美食系统：海外第一中华小厨娘 [Food + Everyday Life + Comfort Food + No Romance] Lin Xinyue, an international student from Country A, a culinary wasteland, dreams above all else of getting a good Chinese meal every day. “Ding! The Host’s craving for delicious food has reached 100%, meeting the requirements for binding. Congratulations, Host, you’ve received the Food System.” !!! Cola chicken wings, spicy diced chicken, sweet-and-sour ribs, soup dumplings, a full Manchu-Han banquet... Here I come! Her fellow international stu 425Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 123 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
- 124 God-Tier Gourmet 神级美食家 The countryside is beautiful, and the food is delicious. Fry up some dishes, grow some crops, raise some fish, play with the dog, and make some babies. That’s the leisurely country life of Qin Feng, the God of Cooking. One day, Qin Feng sat lazily in the courtyard of his farmhouse restaurant and lifted his eyelids to glance at the three foreigners standing respectfully before him. “Boss Qin, this is the president of our country, who’s come especially to sample your cooking.” “Sorry, we’re sold o 1.7kReads8.3Score14414d adds
- 125 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... 1.3kReads9.1Score10214d adds
- 126 The Farm Girl’s Little Kitchen 农门美食小厨娘 Scallions tossed with tofu, garlic-fried pork liver, red-braised pork tenderloin, and sweet-and-sour ribs. The moment He Jingjing transmigrated, the kitchen sprang to life with a constant clatter, and delicious aromas drifted across the whole village. The family is so poor they can barely afford to eat? There are only a few grains of rice left to cook? No problem. There’s nothing that can’t be eaten. With her incredible cooking skills, she opens a restaurant and makes money, setting herself on t 183Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 127 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 245Reads6.4Score10014d adds
- 128 The Campus Cafeteria: My Brother-in-Law Exposes My Identity as a Culinary God 校外食堂：厨神身份被小舅子曝光 [Gourmet Romance + Everyday Life + A System Gets Turned on Its Head] Chef God Lin Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the owner of a small restaurant. In this little shop, ordinary ingredients always become extraordinary dishes! The braised pork is tender and sweet, and the soy-braised pork bones smell delicious from blocks away. The spicy chicken is crisp and fragrant, while the stuffed tofu is tender and juicy... And the campus belle is working her way through college by serving 44Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 129 Setting Up a Stall Outside the Elementary School, Mom and Dad, Save Some for Me 小学门口摆摊，爸爸妈妈给我留点 This book is also known as "After I Grabbed My Bucket and Ran, I Awakened the Gourmet God System". [Comedy] [Comfort Food] [System] [Gourmet] [Goofball] As a civil engineering graduate, Zhang Yang followed his seniors’ advice on starting a business and became a proud freelancer: selling snacks outside an elementary school as a street vendor. Egg fried rice, pan-fried buns, and all kinds of other delicious food took the school gate by storm. The elementary school students and their parents lined 430Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 130 God of Cooking: Elves? Succubi? They’re Just Restaurant Waitresses 厨神：精灵？魅魔？是餐厅服务员 [Dragon Knight + Elf Knight + Undead Knight] [Multiple heroines] [Elf Queen] [Dragon Girl] [Succubus Queen] [Human girl] Zhao Yao, a chef at state banquets, was killed by a drunk driver and transmigrated to another world, where he became the owner of a tiny restaurant. Although the System wanted Zhao Yao to spread Xia's culinary culture in this other world, all he wanted was to become a god and live a carefree life. Before long, though, he found people in this world he couldn't bear to leave beh 741Reads7.1Score10814d adds
- 131 You Want Me to Get Married Just So You Can Eat at the Wedding Banquet? 为了吃席，你竟然催我结婚？ Worn out both mentally and physically by the cutthroat rat race in his industry, Chen Yuan returns to his hometown. He had planned to lie flat and live as a slacker, but the System forcibly binds itself to him. The System scans for available careers: village banquet chef, rural content creator, expert farmer, and rural Taobao partner. Before Chen Yuan can react, the System automatically selects village banquet chef, sending him off to cook up feasts in the countryside. Master Chen accidentally f 7kReads8.1Score52714d adds
- 132 Gourmet: Mr. Ye, Where Do You Think You'll Run This Time? 美食：叶先生，看你这次往哪跑 [Everyday Life] [No Romance] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [A Good Read Over Meals] In his previous life, Ye Fan had an accident and was dragged to the underworld by Ox-Head and Horse-Face. With a wave of his hand, King Yama changed Ye Fan's fate. He is given a brand-new identity as a master chef. Watch him complete his missions while enjoying life. Random dishes, random street-stall locations, one thing always stays the same: everything tastes amazing! Selling buns beside a restroom, lobster outs 906Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 133 Foodie Restaurant Reviews: My Identity as the Head Chef of a State Banquet Is Exposed 美食探店：我国宴主厨身份被曝光 In this age where food reigns supreme, Xiao Bai awakens the Gourmet System and wins the Harbor District God of Cooking Competition. He earns the title of Imperial Banquet Chef, but keeps his identity hidden and sets out to review restaurants. [Ding! You have completed the task of reviewing ten private dining establishments! Reward: 10 SSS-grade cooking methods.] [Ding! You have completed the task of reviewing eight major cuisines! Reward: a set of God of Cooking knives!] [Ding! You have complete 662Reads6.5Score10014d adds
- 134 Food Wars: A Recipe for Life 食戟之人生食谱 “You have the talent to become a chef, but you're too old. You'll never get the chance to become a head chef.” Rejected by several restaurants, Tang Dao'an is filled with resentment. A stroke of divine luck gives his sleeping heart a gentle nudge, and he transmigrates into the world of Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma. He pushes forward on the path to becoming the world's number-one Western cuisine head chef, searching for the recipe to his own life! 338Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 135 Eating and Cat-Wrangling in the Tang Dynasty 我在大唐吃饭撸猫 [Historical romance + transmigration + food + sweet romance + devoted 1v1] You Xiu transmigrates into the body of the second daughter of the wealthy You family in the Tang dynasty. She has money and free time, is young and beautiful, and has both parents in a happy family. As long as she doesn’t do anything stupid, she’s guaranteed an easy life. On top of that, she gets bound to a System during her transmigration. It’s incredibly powerful: any recipe, seed, or cooking utensil from anywhere in th 98Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 136 Gourmet: Opening a Restaurant with My Little One, Customers Line Up All Night and Crowd the Door 美食：带着萌娃开店，顾客连夜排队堵门 Su Chen, a stay-at-home dad, awakened a Super Gourmet System and opened a breakfast shop near a university campus! From then on, the once-peaceful campus was swept up in a food frenzy! The students had to get competitive for a taste of the food, waking up earlier and earlier! When they realized Su Chen’s shop couldn’t feed every student, students from three universities secretly launched a plan to win him over! Divide and conquer, honey traps, playing the victim, fabricating stories, befriending 333Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 137 Building a Foodie Street, Where Every NPC Is from Ancient Times 打造美食文化街，NPC全员古人 [Food + historical NPCs + traditional crafts + development + food street + historical culture street + cultural outreach] After transmigrating, he takes over a noodle shop on the verge of closing. Chen Mo, broke and lacking any cooking skills, is at a loss. His cooking is mediocre, nowhere near the level of a proper chef. Just as he’s about to shut down the shop, Chen Mo becomes bound to the Historical Figure Summoning System! Many historical figures harbor such deep resentment that they cannot 25Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 138 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
- 139 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 640Reads7.3Score11914d adds
- 140 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 252Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 141 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 673Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 142 Toriko: From the Start, I Become a Special-Grade Chef 美食的俘虏：开局成为特级厨师 In an age of spiritual qi revival, it’s not just humans that are evolving. Everything is. Natural fountains of juice, running matsutake mushrooms, piglets that can talk... This is a world ruled by chefs, and only one person can follow the path of the culinary arts and ascend to the throne of the God of Cooking! 3.8kReads5.3Score20714d adds
- 143 Running a Restaurant That Makes Everyone Drool 经营一家饭店，馋哭所有人 Step right up, don’t miss out! A fresh-from-the-oven food story is here~ Zhou Yuan’s vision went black. He transmigrated back from the apocalypse and gained a Food System, setting out on an inspiring journey of running food stalls across different worlds. In the modern world, Zhou Yuan is a ruthless boss who makes countless customers drool with envy. In the Underworld, countless red-clad vengeful ghosts secretly fall for him. In the vast cultivation world, the top powers issue recruitment orders 899Reads8.9Score11914d adds
- 144 Gourmet: The Easy Life of a Little Restaurant at a Highway Service Area 美食：服务区小饭馆的躺赢人生 [Gourmet] [Shopkeeping] [No Male Lead] [System] [Cozy] [Everyday Life] [Affordable Prices] Jiang Banxia unexpectedly inherits a fast-food shop at a highway service area. She thinks the location seems pretty good, but it turns out the highway is remote and sees very little traffic. Just as Jiang Banxia is at a loss about how to keep the business going, she learns that there's a traffic jam on the highway not far away! So Jiang Banxia heads out onto the highway carrying boxed meals to sell. H —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Little Chef of China: The Path of the Culinary Dao 中华小当家：厨道食途 [Gourmet] [The perfect dish to eat with rice] [Ancient-style setting] [Chinese Culinary Master] [Feel-good novel] The imperial kitchen inspector kicked over his stall. “You run a roadside stall, and you dare call yourself a chef?” With the few ingredients he had left, Cheng Xiaocai made a bowl of scallion oil noodles. An old Taoist watching the crowd finished a bite and immediately declared, “I'll take care of the authorities for you!” It turned out Cheng Xiaocai was descended from a famous chef 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 I Returned to College and Used a Gourmet System to Make the Whole Campus Drool 重回大学靠美食系统馋哭全校学生 [System] [Food] [Rebirth] [Business] [Comedy] [Slice of Life] Reborn in her freshman year of college and bound to a Food System, Shi Sui uses her secret seasonings to make delicious, aromatic healthy meals in her dorm, driving her dieting roommates wild with hunger. The aroma wafts everywhere, and the whole campus comes rushing over. The calorie-conscious eaters are thrilled, students studying for exams feel fully recharged, and one bite soothes the heartbreak of a lovesick upperclasswoman. Even 906Reads—Score11114d adds
- 147 After Losing My Job, I Got a Barbecue System and Now Earn Millions a Year 失业后获得烧烤系统，我年入百万 [Late-Night Gourmet] [Mouthwatering] [Easygoing Daily Life] On the eve of his barbecue shop’s closure, Su Yan binds himself to the [Barbecue King System]. Top-tier Ningxia Yanchi Tan sheep plus spices supplied by the System: the aroma of the skewers drives the whole street wild... Lamb skewers for 18 yuan each draw a line so long the traffic police have to close the road, and the owner of the neighboring barbecue shop comes over in tears to steal his secrets! A loan shark comes to collect and 682Reads—Score10914d adds
- 148 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Feast, but I Made the Imperial Banquet Chef Drool 让你农村烧大席，你馋哭国宴主厨 He transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a food System. Qing Yun, an unemployed man who has returned to his hometown, begins his rise to the top by cooking grand feasts in the countryside. First, an old woman wants one last taste of her own funeral banquet before she dies at ninety. Then a baby at a full-month celebration cries their eyes out because the food looks so good... With no other choice, Qing Yun takes up his giant wok again and again. “Red-braised pork knuckle, oil-splashed a 1.6kReads8.7Score10814d adds
- 149 Selling Liangfen on the Street, I Make the Whole City Crave It 摆摊卖凉粉，全城百姓被馋哭了 [Food + farming + love at first sight + doting romance + slow-burn sweetness] Xu Yingchun transmigrates into a book and becomes its wicked villainess, doomed to a miserable ending. She’s going to escape the villainess’s fate and become the heroine of her own story! After buying her freedom from the Jiang household, she sets up a street stall, opens a restaurant, and buys land. Her life gets better and better. Milk tea, barbecue, crawfish, hot pot, and big-plate chicken: she’ll serve it all! The 314Reads8.0Score12114d adds
- 150 Gourmet: Renting a Private Jet Just to Eat a Boxed Lunch? 美食：为了吃盒饭，开私人飞机？ Just as Yu Hui loses his job, he learns that a scenic spot in his hometown is looking for vendors. Without hesitation, he decides to go home and set up a stall selling delicious food. On the way home, he unexpectedly activates the Gourmet System. From then on, his cooking skills improve by leaps and bounds, and he can whip up all kinds of delicious dishes with ease. Braised chicken: tender and silky, richly flavored, with an irresistible aroma. Tomato and egg stir-fry: sweet and tangy, soft an 77Reads6.9Score—14d adds
