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- 101 Unwavering Love: A Food Blogger in the 1970s 深情不渝：美食博主在七零 Gu Yu is a nighttime food blogger. All she did was try out a popcorn machine, and it sent her to the 1970s, a place where everything is in short supply! Luckily, her giant supermarket came along too, complete with a spring of spirit water. Gu Yu can’t tell if this is heaven’s way of making it up to her. From then on, the Gu family’s table, where they used to be so poor they could only eat coarse rice porridge, is laden with delicious dishes: braised wild rabbit, fish with pickled cabbage, garlic 2kReads7.2Score16414d adds
- 102 The Adorable Little Chef 小厨娘娇的很 Xiaowan wakes up in total darkness, with no idea where or when she is. Only belatedly does it hit her that she must have transmigrated. She's married to the “bully” in the neighboring village, a man with no parents who has two little brothers tagging along behind him. They say he's the kind of man who can kill a tiger with his bare hands. Some even claim he killed three wives. But Xiaowan isn't one to believe rumors; you can't know what life is like until you live it. She's always believed in ma 329Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 103 A Portable Space: Everyday Delicacies in the 1980s 空间之八零美食日常 [Period drama + space + food + male lead + dual rebirth + light fantasy + light sci-fi] Chen Manman is reborn, and now she knows that she was the spiteful, vain, doomed supporting character in a period drama about a stepmother, set up as a foil to the heroine. Now reborn, with a space and a golden finger, as well as excellent cooking skills, Chen Manman refuses to become anyone’s foil. Later... While the heroine tries to win over her husband, Chen Manman sets up a stall selling steamed buns and 1.1kReads8.6Score10014d adds
- 104 Cooking in the 1970s 七零年代做美食 Meng Xi never imagined she would transmigrate into a book and become a lazy, gluttonous young wife with the same name as herself, useless at everything she tried. Then she received word that her husband had died in the line of duty. First, she would split from her awful mother-in-law! Then she would raise three children, build a new house, help spread the word, and earn the respect and approval of everyone in the village through her own hard work. But not long afterward, her supposedly dead husb 700Reads8.8Score10314d adds
- 105 On Her Wedding Night, the Prime Minister’s Wife Pulls Delicious Food from Her Bosom 新婚夜，丞相夫人从怀里掏出美食 Shen Tiantian is a food blogger who transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the prime minister's wife. She thinks she can stop working hard and coast through life...but why is reality nothing like she imagined? This prime minister is so unreliable... “Madam, what are we eating today?” “Madam, I want ice cream.” “Madam, can we have hot pot today?” ...Wait a minute. Outside, the prime minister is as cold as ice and avoids women like the plague, so why is he like this at home? Is it really okay 318Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 106 Why Not Add Another Bowl of Rice? 不如添碗饭 [Farming + Food + Healing + Growth + Cozy + Lighthearted Comedy] [Cheerful, lively little cook × Arrogant, childish young lord Pei Qun of the marquis’s household: a bickering couple] A young woman who sells wontons in Jingzhou City finds an arrogant, childish man at her doorstep. She takes him home and stuffs him full of food, but the next day he sneaks away. The young woman saves up to open a restaurant and takes a job as a cook in the marquis’s household. Then one day, she discovers that the a 131Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 107 I Make Chili Pork, and the Big Shots of the Stars Are Drooling? 我做个辣椒炒肉，星际大佬都馋哭了？ [System + food + livestreaming + transmigration] Lin Yao never imagined she would end up in the interstellar era, owing tens of millions... She started livestreaming her cooking just to put food on the table. Who could have guessed that culinary arts had been lost in this world, and ingredients had mutated? Even a single cabbage could be deadly... But that was no problem! She served up all eight major Chinese cuisines, and her food therapy reached every corner of the universe... Before she knew 144Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 108 The Food Blogger Who Built Her Fortune at a Street Stall 美食博主她靠摆摊发家致富 [Transmigration + Street Vending + Food + Beloved by the Whole Family + Making a Fortune + Heartwarming + Sweet Romance + Family Life + Face-Slapping + No Awful Relatives] When Gu Mingyan wakes up, she discovers that she’s the only girl in the Gu family for eight generations. The family has next to nothing and is dirt poor. Fortunately, they’re a warm and loving family. Her grandparents and parents dote on her, and her four older brothers and two younger brothers are all completely devoted to th 46Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 109 Reborn as an Elementary Schooler, I Take the Internet by Storm with My Cooking 重生小学生，我靠做饭火爆全网 Rebirth + elementary school student + heartwarming + family life + a touch of ensemble cast + romance [The score is rather low since it just started, but it'll rise later.] In a single moment, Fang Xuan is reborn as an elementary school student. With elderly grandparents, unreliable parents, and a little sister still crying for milk, she has no choice but to shoulder the burden of supporting the family at such a young age and become an internet influencer. But how did she accidentally end up wit 81Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 110 After Transmigrating, She Became the Mountain Man’s Little Chef 穿越后，她成了山里汉的小厨娘 Su Yingying, the owner of a chain restaurant in the 21st century, falls into a river. When she wakes up, she finds she's transmigrated into the body of an ordinary country girl. On her wedding night, the groom doesn't even lift her veil. He leaves her a handful of copper coins and walks away, leaving her alone in their new home. With a house that's bare, not enough to eat or wear, and a scrawny, sickly-looking younger brother-in-law, Su Yingying recalls the saying, “Make a living off the mountai 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 In Debt with Two Kids, I Became a Sensation in Showbiz Through Cooking 欠债带俩娃，我靠做饭爆火娱乐圈 [Transmigration + Adorable Kids + Making Money as a Street Vendor + Food + Livestreaming + Later Enters Showbiz + Pure Romance] Qin Manxi transmigrated into the body of another woman named Qin Manxi. She had only a few hundred yuan to her name and was saddled with a debt of a hundred thousand! To support herself and her two children, Qin Manxi started out selling food on the street. She used her earnings to raise the kids until they were plump and healthy, and took the opportunity to teach the s 88Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 112 After I Transmigrated, Gourmet Food Made Me a Top Rich Lady 穿越后我靠美食成了顶级富婆 Yun Shu had just passed her postgraduate entrance exams when she slipped and became a country girl. No food? No problem! The hills behind the village are a treasure trove waiting for me to dig in! No money? No problem! I grew up watching shows about getting rich, so this will be a piece of cake. So copper coins really can attract flies! A pack of greedy wolves had their eyes fixed on her stash of gold and silver. She pulled out her dog-beating stick. If one came, she’d beat one; if two came, she 49Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 113 Prison Cuisine: Criminals Around the World Want Longer Sentences! 监狱美食：全球罪犯都想加刑！ [Food + Everyday Life + No Female Lead + Comfort Food + Making Criminals Turn Over a New Leaf] Lu Ran acquired a Food System and became the chef at Devil’s Island Prison. The prison housed criminals from all over the world. As soon as he arrived, the whole atmosphere on Devil’s Island changed. The prisoners used to brag about their crimes. Now, they took pride in getting to eat Lu Ran’s cooking, and to stay in prison, they started confessing to every crime they’d committed, sending the island’s 356Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 114 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
- 115 Gourmet: Setting Up a Stall with My Cat, I Have the Soldiers Chasing After Me 美食：带猫摆摊，引兵哥哥狂追 Lin Yan, unemployed the moment she graduates, unexpectedly gets a Gourmet System. Teaming up with an intelligent AI plush cat, she reaches the pinnacle of life by selling street snacks. Today, she sets up a stall outside an elementary school, drawing a swarm of students that packs the entrance. The security guard hastily puts up barricades, while the principal cries for help. Tomorrow, she sets up beside a light-rail station, attracting crowds of office workers on their way home. The traffic cop 107Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 From Breakfast Stall Owner to the Richest Woman in the Empire: Customers Fight to Throw Money at Me 从早食摊娘子到当朝首富，古人送钱抢破头 [Food + Business + A Little Scientific Farming (the male lead promotes farming)] In her previous life, Xu Sangrou was a food blogger. She transmigrated to a small county town in an unknown dynasty. Her father was a poorly paid county constable, her mother managed the household, and she had a younger brother and sister. The only thing of value they owned was their little courtyard. But the family was so hard up they could barely afford her younger brother's school fees. Looking at the last few gr 336Reads6.2Score10014d adds
- 117 She Makes the Entertainment Industry Drool with Her Food Livestreams 她靠美食直播馋哭娱乐圈 After dying while chasing her idol, Tang Zhao never dreamed that once she was reborn, a shameless System would make her become a BIG! STAR! Refuse, and the punishment comes right away~ With rumors dogging her, she has no choice but to start out as a small-time internet celebrity. Growing crops and setting up a stall are no problem, and her food livestreams leave viewers drooling by the gallon. “Pretty big sis, food, please! I’m hungry~” In the bubbling kitchen, someone stands nearby drooling, wh 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 I Became the Richest Woman in the 1980s 我在八零当女首富 [Strong Heroine + Feel-Good Story + Building Wealth + Both Leads Are Inexperienced + Raising Children] Liang Shuang, a modern-day female CEO, died suddenly from overwork and was unexpectedly reborn in the 1980s as the wife of a serviceman left behind at home. Sadly, the luxury cars, mansions, and hundreds of millions in savings she had worked so hard to earn in her previous life had all vanished. But Liang Shuang wasn't one to complain about her lot. She started by selling goods at a street stal 136Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 After Becoming His Wife, I Switched Careers to the Wok 穿成他老婆后我改行颠勺 I woke up as the wife of the person I'd had a crush on in school, a cool, aloof beauty who could play the guzheng but couldn't do anything else. My husband was cold, my daughter kept her distance, and the whole family treated me like a pretty ornament. Hah, so what if he was my crush? Nothing beats wielding a wok. As I won over hundreds of thousands of viewers in my livestream with one delicious dish after another, the husband who used to stay out all night sobbed in the chat: “Come home, honey! 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 I Won't Panic Through the Famine Years: My Space Is Packed with Meat 穿越荒年心不慌，我有空间肉满仓 Everyday life’s simple comforts are what soothe the heart most~ [Food + Farming + Building a fortune + Family squabbles + Raising a child + Sweet romance + Pocket dimension] [Important: The father is out of the picture, but the child stays! The heroine transmigrates into the past and already has a baby. Pure farming story, no rebellion, no saving princes or generals.] Yun Shu transmigrated into the body of a country woman in ancient times. Just as she got pregnant, her husband cheated on her an 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 Transmigrated into a Book in the 1970s, My Best Friend Brings Me Supplies Every Day! 穿书七零，闺蜜每天给我送物资！ [Military marriage + System space + doted on by the whole family + daily life + face-slapping + educated youth + strong female lead] Meng Chuxiao died saving her best friend. When she opened her eyes, she had traveled back to the 1970s and into a book. In the book, the original owner was a love-struck fool who was blind to the truth. She starved herself and her stepbrother every day to support a scumbag and a fake best friend, even sweetly handing over her stepbrother's job to the scumbag, all f 25Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 122 Reborn in the 1980s: The Little Chef 重生八零小厨娘 Song Ran was reborn! She returned to the 1980s, a time of shortages, to a home with bare walls. Her sister-in-law even wanted her to marry a widower and become his children's stepmother! Song Ran was speechless. In her previous life, she'd been a renowned master chef and a top student who graduated from Tsinghua University with a degree in fashion design. There was no way she would accept this fate! A girl with a face covered in pimples? No need to worry. She had a remedy, and once she was cured 206Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 123 So Addictive! I’m Getting Caught Up in the Cutthroat Competition of Ancient China’s Restaurant Business 香懵了！我在古代餐饮业搞内卷 [Farming + food + business + raising children] One day, Jiang Yan, a mature single food blogger, transmigrated and got her wish of becoming a mother without the pain of childbirth. She became a widowed mother of three. Not having a man around was fine, but what was with all this debt, huh? And she was supposed to sell her daughter, too? Jiang Yan hugged her sweet, soft, adorable daughter close. This was the dream child she’d always wanted. Selling her was out of the question! So how was she goin 457Reads8.5Score10014d adds
- 124 I Turned My Simp Against His Goddess and Got Rich with My Spirit Spring Space 策反舔狗，手握灵泉空间嘎嘎暴富 [Pocket dimension + making a fortune + natural disasters + brainless wish fulfillment] An all-around female special agent from the 21st century transmigrates into the body of a doomed supporting character? Everyone around her is evil, and they all want her dead. Three stepchildren give their mother a hard time? She teaches them a little martial arts, and soon they’re crying for their parents and begging for mercy, never daring to do it again! Awful relatives scheme against her? She turns the poc 16Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 125 Master, the Little Chef Has Won Over the Entire Capital with Her Food 爷，小厨娘靠美食俘虏全京城了 Twenty-six-year-old Zhao Hehuan transmigrated after a car accident, becoming eleven-year-old Wang Chunni. The funny thing was that the accident made her forget everything about her past, but she inherited all of Wang Chunni's memories. Her father didn't care for her, her mother didn't love her, and they wanted to raise her to sacrifice everything for her younger brother. No thanks! Zhao Hehuan ran away. She headed north to Bianliang, where her utterly ordinary genius cooking skills won over coun 78Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 126 The Little Chef of the Seventies: The Iron-Blooded Battalion Commander Dotes on Me 七零小厨娘：铁血营长偏宠我 Food blogger Su Nianwei opened her eyes to find herself in the body of a poor woman in the 1970s who had been forced to jump into a river. At a crossroads, she saved Gu Huaizheng, a tough battalion commander suffering from low blood sugar. His simple words, “I'll marry you,” changed her life forever. With a food-filled pocket dimension in one hand and tender devotion in the other, she tore apart the scumbag and the fake innocent, filling the military compound with mouthwatering aromas. She went 3kReads7.3Score32814d adds
- 127 Transmigrated as Cannon Fodder, I Take Up the Big Ladle in the Military Camp 穿成炮灰后，我在军营拎大勺 Su Luo, the owner of a private kitchen, dies in a plane crash. When she opens her eyes again, she's become the fake heiress in a novel about a real and fake heiress, and the real heiress has her sold off. Thinking of the fake heiress's fate in the book, sold off and then executed by beating after she tries to climb into someone's bed to get revenge, Su Luo silently hugs herself tight. To avoid being killed off, Su Luo ties on an apron and transforms into a little cook, grabbing a big ladle and g 144Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 The Good-for-Nothing Junior Sister Conquers the Cultivation World with Food 废柴小师妹靠美食征服修仙界 (Beloved by All + Gourmet Food + Farming + Fantasy + Relaxed) Lin Shiman, a famous food blogger, accidentally transmigrates into a cultivation world and becomes the good-for-nothing junior sister of Yun Tian Academy. Why is the cultivation world so desolate? Evil creatures run rampant, malevolent plants spread everywhere, and the land is barren. Everyone takes fasting pills. Ugh, why do they taste so awful? Which genius came up with these? They eat spirit fruit raw. Wait, is it illegal to cook i 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Shocking! The Prime Minister’s Legitimate Daughter Wins Over the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 惊！丞相嫡女靠美食征服整个京城 Modern chef Su Yuwan transmigrates and nearly gets taken out by ancient “cuisine” the moment she opens her eyes! Overly sweet pastries? Greasy meat? What kind of awful place doesn’t even have potato chips or spicy strips?! “This dump isn’t fit for pigs!” When she realizes that life among the nobility is truly dull... “Heh. Time to show you what a whole different level of competition looks like!” She fries golden potato chips from potatoes meant for pigs, and the emperor secretly tucks them int 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 130 The Top Chef in a Culinary Wasteland 我在美食荒漠当第一厨娘 Bai Qingwan, the owner of a private kitchen, was hit by a car while saving someone and transmigrated into the body of a farm girl with the same name in a fictional dynasty, whose surname was Yong. To her surprise, this place was a culinary wasteland that didn't even have soy sauce. Her family lived by the mountains and near the sea, yet what they ate was the sort of stuff even pigs wouldn't touch. Then she found herself bound to the Huaxia Cuisine System. To help her fulfill her mission of sprea 772Reads8.8Score10914d adds
- 131 The Little Chef of Judge Shen's Household 沈提刑家的小厨娘 Fresh crucian carp sliced thin, celery soup from the emerald stream. A breeze brushes the willows, and a beauty... can lift a mountain with a mighty roar! Everyone knows that Miss Meng of the inn is as beautiful as a flower and a wonderful cook, but no one knows she can lift a giant vat with one hand or bend down and pull up a willow tree. Passing by, Judge Shen: Excuse me! * I love you, my lord. Do you know? The audacious Meng Sujin pounced on Shen Shinian, the judicial commissioner of the Cour 672Reads7.2Score11414d adds
- 132 The Wealthy Little Cook 富贵小厨娘 Lu Azhuo, a superb cook, transmigrated into an imperial-examination novel, where she was destined to become the male lead's short-lived first wife. Her husband's family and her own would be ruined because of her. Another title for this story: Death Comes Calling. When she woke up, she could uproot a willow with one hand and wield a kitchen knife with the other. No one within ten miles dared provoke her. They said she could silence a crying baby just by showing up. She was making a fortune with h 299Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 133 I Brought a Supermarket to the 1980s and Got Rich Selling Spicy Hot Pot 带超市穿八零，靠卖麻辣烫致富 [The 1980s + sweet romance + obsessive powerful man + building wealth + devoted husband + gossip System + supermarket] A clingy, obsessive big bad wolf × a dazzling little rose Jiang Wu had been sickly in her previous life. After she died, she transmigrated to a small village in the 1980s. After binding herself to a gossip-check-in System, she became a lively little busybody, leaping around the gossip field. [Ding! Gossip check-in successful. Congratulations, Host! You have 10 seconds to grab wh 272Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 134 The Riverside Cook: The Everyday Delights of Sanlang 江畔厨娘：三郎真香日常 In the misty rain, the Riverside Fresh Bistro opens for business! Savory pickled greens and minced pork fried cakes, a pot brimming with the freshest fish, shrimp, crab, and turtle, rose bean paste in fermented rice wine, and vegetarian tofu soup with sesame oil! Her days are filled with delicious food, but she accidentally catches the attention of the damned Fu Sanlang. Not only does her peaceful life come to an end, but she also uncovers the truth behind her parents’ murder years ago. Fu Zi: “ 437Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 135 After Binding to a System, My Food Stall Goes Viral 绑定系统后，我的美食小摊爆火了 [Randomized Food + Street Stalls + System Golden Finger + No CP + Healing Slice of Life] Graduation immediately brings unemployment, and his family has major expenses to cover. Just as Chen Zhaoning is falling into despair, he unexpectedly obtains the [Super Food Tycoon] System. Huge cash rewards? Bonus attribute points? All kinds of magical random drops, and even more surprises waiting at the end... See how Chen Zhaoning, born to be a wage slave, uses his culinary talent and System golden finge 141Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 136 Gourmet: A Street Stall Owner Tours the Nation 美食：地摊老板，全国巡摆 Zhang Feng is a model young man who transmigrates to Blue Star in a parallel world and binds himself to a Gourmet System. From then on, a man as legendary as a myth begins appearing all across the country. Cumin lamb skewers, late-night egg fried rice, fragrant braised beef, crispy fried chicken frames... From big cities to small towns, a legend begins to spread: On some street, you may come across a man in a chef’s uniform. If you meet him, you’ll get to taste the most delicious food in the wor 72Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 137 Gourmet: You Asked Me to Teach, but I Ran Off With the Parents 美食：让你当老师，你把家长拐跑 (Don't leave! The rating just came out and will go up. A heartwarming story.) Chen Chu is unemployed and living off his sister's family when he unexpectedly awakens a Gourmet System. Just as it happens, his niece's kindergarten is short a food teacher, so Chen Chu proudly takes the job. Day One: An eighty-year-old grandpa comes to pick up a child, then cries and makes a scene, demanding to enroll. Day Two: A naughty kid who hates school says that going to school is the happiest thing in the worl 839Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 138 A Foodie Transmigrates and Wins Over Ancient-Era Powerhouses With Her Cooking 穿越吃货靠厨艺征服古代大佬 Xia Mianmian died young, in the most humiliating, frustrating way imaginable: she fell headfirst into a cesspit and drowned. Who could have a more miserable end? When she wakes again, she's transmigrated into the body of a lowly little girl in ancient times. The one bright spot is that her parents dote on her and her younger siblings are close to her. But her family is so poor they eat coarse food and watery soup every day. How can a foodie stand having no meat in her bowl? She wants hot, juicy 15Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 139 The Private Kitchen of a Little Farm Girl 私厨小农女 [No romance; the heroine loves only money and just wants to earn enough to laze around. There is a secondary couple.] Ji Shu was a sought-after private chef and small-business owner in the modern world, but after being born into this era, she had to eat boiled vegetables for thirteen years?? Ji Shu can't take it anymore!! She'll use delicious food to reach a comfortable life: set up a street stall, then buy a shop, buy a house, and make money. What is love? It's just an optional seasoning in lif 158Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 140 The Capital’s First Female Tycoon Built Her Fortune with Food 京城第一女首富她靠美食发家了 Complete. Farming + mobile shop + food + beloved by the whole family + strong female lead Song Anning, a 21st-century chef who cooked at state banquets, died suddenly while researching food late at night. She woke up in ancient times and saw that her family had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Well, she’d have to start from scratch. Watch how this village girl makes a home and builds a life with snail rice noodles, hamburgers, barbecue, hot pot, malatang, and more. She only hoped to becom 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Marrying a Tycoon in the Eighties: The Fussy Heroine Is Sweet and Gorgeous 八零嫁首富，作精女主娇又美 [Soul transmigration + Everyday life + Entrepreneurship + Devoted husband + Love after marriage] When the family split up, the male and female leads were getting divorced, but neither fought for anything. After the split, the heroine came to her senses and fought back! Early on, the hero leases a mountain to grow valuable timber, invests to make money, buys land, and funds a business! The heroine thought she was marrying a future tycoon, so how did she end up raising a future businesswoman into 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 After a Dream, I Lie Flat and Live Off My Parents in the 1990s 做梦后，我在九零躺平啃老 Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed that our homeroom teacher scolded me for being glib and said I wasn’t acting like a girl!” Qiao Guoqing and Qiu Heping: “What? How can a teacher say that about our Huanhuan? We have to talk to them!” Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed that our homeroom teacher accused me of stealing someone’s dictionary!” Qiao Guoqing and Qiu Heping: “What? How can a teacher falsely accuse our Huanhuan? We have to get you transferred to another class!” Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed 329Reads8.1Score3814d adds
- 143 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
- 144 Reborn in the 1980s: Selling Tea Eggs on the Street 重生八零：我在街头卖茶叶蛋 The 1980s Hard work can make you rich. Be a little bolder, and you can become the richest person around. In a time of sweeping change, Lin Xiaohan flees the countryside with her mother. Her first fortune comes from tea eggs. 64Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 The State Banquet Chef of the 1980s 国宴大厨在八零 [Imperial banquet chef + unbeatable cuisine + satisfying wish fulfillment] Tang Xi died, then returned to age fifteen with the wordless book of secrets her master had given her: The World’s Finest Cuisine. That year, the Tang family’s biological daughter was finally found, and Tang Xi was left behind by her adoptive parents. Out of guilt toward the true daughter, Tang Xi gave in to her at every turn, but all she got in return was her adoptive parents’ dislike and her childhood sweetheart fiancé’ 944Reads8.2Score12514d adds
- 146 Transmigrated to a Food Desert, I Make the Interstellar Crowd Drool with My Cooking 穿进美食荒漠，我用厨艺馋哭星际 After successfully ascending to immortality, the little cat spirit Miao Miao grew tired of the bland food in the Celestial Realm and picked a star-bound world among the ten realms ruled by the Celestial Emperor. It looked like it would have plenty of delicious food. But after she transmigrated there, she discovered that "delicious food" meant nutritional supplements, and "a variety of delicious food" meant supplements in different flavors. Even every meal eaten by the people of the interstellar 575Reads8.4Score10314d adds
- 147 The Princess Consort's Cooking Is So Good, All of the Capital Begs Her to Open a Restaurant 王妃做菜太香了，全京城跪求开店 As the only legitimate daughter of a century-old family of chefs, Jiang Yi received the baton from her father three days ago and formally became the new head of the Jiang family. She is determined to seek out rare ingredients from across the land and rediscover the flavors of long-lost dishes. She travels to the Great Yan kingdom with a time-traveling bracelet. While searching far and wide for ingredients, she unexpectedly meets a handsome man. She made the mistake of saving his life, and now he 740Reads6.9Score10214d adds
- 148 Gourmet: The Chef’s Food Stall Goes Viral on a Variety Show 美食：厨娘在综艺摆摊爆火 Gu Liuyan, a former imperial chef, opens her eyes to find she has transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder actress on the variety show Celebrity Kitchen. She can’t cook, has a bad temper, and has been saddled with a mountain of bad press. With an astronomical breach-of-contract fee threatening to end her career, Gu Liuyan slaps the table. “Who says I can’t cook?” And then the entire show discovers what it means to cook like a culinary god... An actress on the show wails, “I’ve already gain 109Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 149 A Foodie's Diary in Bianjing 汴京城美食日志 The rating has just opened, so it’s a bit low. Dear readers, please don’t pay it any mind. [Gourmet System + Transmigration + Historical Romance + Golden Finger + Pocket Dimension + Semi-Alternate History] A slow-burn story focused on working hard and making a life. A heroine who grows over time. After transmigrating, Jiang Yue Bai had planned to quietly run her little food shop and live out her days. But fate had other plans (not really). A System appeared out of nowhere and pulled out all the 23Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 150 Reborn in the 1990s: Making a Fortune by Selling Snacks 重生九零：致富从卖小吃开始 [Sweet comeback romance + building a fortune + family life + supporting each other] In her previous life, when Zhou Sui was eighteen, her wealthy biological parents brought her back to the city. She thought the wheels of fate were finally turning in her favor. But her timidity, low self-esteem, and constant people-pleasing left her life in shambles. Her biological parents were distant and cold, favoring their adopted daughter. A scumbag toyed with her feelings, and she died young from a sudden i 266Reads5.8Score—14d adds
