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- 51 Love Apartment: I Started Out Fixing Bugs and Ended Up a Laid-Back Slacker 爱情公寓：从补bug开始做咸鱼 Bugs: something everyone both loves and hates. Being a slacker: a way of life everyone both loves and hates. (?) I set out to live the slacker life by fixing bugs, but things don't seem to be going too well. (Brother Feng, help!) There's no female lead romance, but a bug might pop up as the story goes on. It's most likely a male (bleep), so if that bothers you, this may not be for you. There'll probably be an extra that takes a little stroll through the timeline of The Feuding Elite. And a chaot 207Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Random Cuisine, Diners Beg Me Not to Close Up! 随机美食，食客求我别收摊！ [Everyday Gourmet] [No Female Lead, No Romance] [Warm and Healing] [Lighthearted and Wacky] Unemployed young man Fang Mu unexpectedly binds himself to the ultimate Gourmet System! Random stalls! Random dishes! Fried rice today, pig trotters tomorrow. It all depends on the System's mood! Fang Mu's food is unbelievably delicious. One bite is enough to blow your mind, and everyone who tries it gets hooked. But he never keeps a regular schedule, and when he closes up, he leaves whenever he feels lik 191Reads5.8Score10014d adds
- 53 Immortal Chef, Come Eat! What Are You Afraid Of? 仙厨，请吃饭，你们害怕什么？ [Lighthearted] + [Funny] + [Meme-filled] + [Side Effects] + [Cultivation] + [Immortal Chef] Spirit Dish: Heart Demon Wife Cake Effect: Removes obstacles caused by heart demons Side effect: Kidney deficiency??? Li Pu transmigrates into a Cultivation world and acquires an abstract-style Immortal Chef System, becoming an Immortal Chef, one of the many arts of Cultivation. The only problem is that the side effects of his spirit dishes are a little outrageous Braised chicken legs that boost cultivati 6Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 54 After I Transmigrated, I Spoiled My Three Villainous Sons 穿越后我娇养了三个反派儿子 During summer vacation, I went to a temple with my college roommates to pray for love. I drank a cup of tea there and discovered I’d transmigrated?? Jiang Ning vowed never to drink anything carelessly again. Well, look at that: not only had she transmigrated, she also had three hungry sons to feed. Jiang Ning decided that skipping the man and getting three sons was a pretty good deal. So she took her three sons along, cooking delicious food, farming, and raising fish, gradually making her way to 7Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 55 The Peerless Chef: Darling, Please Come into My Bowl 绝世妙厨，相公请到碗里来 Some man: “Miss, do you believe in love at first sight?” “Sorry, I’m already a married woman.” Ever since the brilliant and mighty Rong Xuan fell for the Ninth Miss of the Jiang family, his intelligence has been in serious decline. In her previous life, Jiang Miao was married off to Leng Bufan, the iron-faced general no one else wanted. She never knew the taste of love, and died young with a thousand arrows through her heart. Another lovesick man became a regular visitor to her grave. Reborn a 37Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 56 Gourmet: Why Are You Always There When I Raid Brothels? 美食：怎么每次扫黄都有你 [Food] + [Comedy] + [Everyday Life] + [System] Hello, Mr. Huang Yao. Can you explain why you’re there every time the police raid a place for prostitution? Don’t make up rumors about me! I was just chatting with a young lady. Besides, I’ve studied cooking for so many years. What’s wrong with enjoying myself a little? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 The Family's Little Darling Is a Tiny Chef 团宠福宝是个小厨娘 After an accident, Ye Xiaoxin transmigrates. Looking at the thatched hut on the verge of collapse, Ye Xiaoxin vows to give her family a better life. Drawing on memories from her previous life, Ye Xiaoxin opens a restaurant and acquires property. In just four years, she has businesses in several provinces. She makes a fortune and marries into a general's household. Before her wedding, her family dotes on her; afterward, her husband's family does too. What? Her ancestors were high-ranking court of 70Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 58 Street Stall: Selling Starch Sausages, My Snack Stand Takes the Internet by Storm! 摆摊：卖淀粉肠，我的小吃摊火爆全网！ [Gourmet] [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] Qiao Anyi gains an all-purpose snack System. Starch sausages, steamed buns, pulled noodles... Every dish leaves customers drooling and craving more. He sets up a street stall with his daughter and climbs to the pinnacle of success! 339Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 59 My Late-Night Diner System 我有一个深夜食堂系统 [Food System Story] [Comedy] [Passion] [Not connected to the TV series!] Xu Tian, a finance graduate from an ordinary rural family, unexpectedly gets a Food System after graduating. “You can open during the day. Why call it the Late-Night Canteen System...” “You’re telling me that ripped guy is a chef? Did flipping a wok give him that physique?” “Holy crap! Did you see that? His egg fried rice is glowing!” “I’m not blind! It’s technology!! There’s definitely some crazy stuff in it!!!” Years 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 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
- 61 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
- 62 Gourmet: Starting with Randomly Setting Up a Stall to Sell Liangpi 美食：从随机摆摊卖凉皮开始 No heroine, food, street vending, healing, daily life, and a relaxing tone. The protagonist sets up a stall at random spots on the street, selling all kinds of snacks, changing locations every week. The food on offer varies, including cold noodles, grilled gluten skewers, tofu pudding, spicy beef noodles, handmade spicy strips, congee, steamed buns, and more. 156Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 63 Addicted to Chinese Food, Driving Foreigners Crazy 戒不掉的华夏菜，逼疯外国人 [Gourmet + System + Global + Daily Life + Fusion Cuisine] While traveling in Bangkok, Lu Yuan unexpectedly activated the [Global Gourmet Check-In System]. From then on, he set out to “remake” the world’s cuisines using the essence of Chinese cooking. Lu Yuan traveled all over the globe, and every stop was a crushing blow to local taste buds: His first stop was Bangkok. A “divine” tom yum soup blending Chinese bone broth with the smoky heat of wok cooking brought countless diners to tears on the 1.2kReads8.1Score13314d adds
- 64 The Kids' Cafeteria: Six Different Dishes Every Day! 萌娃食堂：一天六个菜不重样！ [Delicious food + adorable kids + livestreaming + one female lead + lighthearted fun + a low-profile System] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Jiang Chen, a man born in the 2000s, inherits a kindergarten. With the birth rate falling, it’s getting harder and harder to enroll new students. Just as the kindergarten is about to go under, Jiang Chen gets matched with a God of Cooking System. It turns out that this world’s culinary skills are so poor that egg fried rice is considered a divine 337Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 65 After Failing the Civil Service Exam, I Reached the Pinnacle of Life 考编失败后，我走向人生巅峰 [Food, everyday life, love at first sight] For three years, she took the civil service exam and failed every time. No job, no money, and no partner. Shen Lichu is about to be lost forever beneath the waves. Then she meets Sheng Qinian. After a whirlwind marriage, Shen Lichu quickly passes the civil service exam she had been working toward for years. However, an accident puts the little restaurant where she grew up at risk of being rented out to someone else. After much thought, Shen Lichu d 173Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 66 I Just Made Some Food, So Why Are You All Going Crazy? 我就做个美食，怎么你们都疯了？ Peng Huahua, who can transmigrate just by walking, is speechless when she gets bound to a Food System as well. In this parallel world, where food is scarce, she has to complete the System's missions if she wants to go home. Faced with the System's endless variety of missions, Peng Huahua can only say she's gotten herself aboard a pirate ship! The diners of the little worlds: “What is this? It's unbelievably delicious!” (Also known as: What Do I Do When My Food Is Too Delicious?) (For now, t 265Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Back to Field: The Female Stars Can’t Get Enough, and Huang Lei Is in Tears 蘑菇屋：女明星吃上瘾，黄垒哭啥 [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] [Making Money] [Interactions with Female Celebrities] Season 18 of Mushroom House begins filming on a resort island in the south. The guests give it their all to get ingredients, just for a bite of hot food. But when perfectly good ingredients land in Huang Lei's hands, they somehow turn into a dish even food critics can't review. Fortunately, Su Chen is there. Still, nobody expects that after tasting Su Chen's cooking, they won't be able to stomach even dishes mad 473Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Canceled After Becoming a Villainess, I Set Up a Food Stall and Make the Whole Internet Drool 穿成恶女被封杀，摆摊馋疯全网 [Food System + Lighthearted Comedy + Cozy + Heartwarming + Transmigration into a Food Story + Functional Ingredients + Comfort Food + Beautifully Plated Dishes + Romance] The male lead is more of a background character, just one part of our heroine’s play~~ (*^3^) /~☆ Transmigrated into a disgraced, scandal-ridden nobody, with her role stolen, her contract locking her in, and the entire internet telling her to get lost? Jiang Li tears up her contract and makes a run for it on the spot: “Let the 285Reads5.6Score10014d adds
- 69 Gourmet: My Diners Form an Intelligence Group to Track Me Down 美食：为了找我，食客建立情报群 This is a magical roadside food stall. Egg fried rice, dry-fried beef chow fun, stinky tofu, savory tofu pudding... Every seemingly ordinary street snack becomes an unforgettable delicacy in the stall owner's hands. After one bite, people want a second, a third, and an Nth. But the stall owner has one “bad habit”: every time he sets up shop for a day, he moves to a new location the next day. The customers say, “It doesn't matter if we don't make any money today. Missing out on Boss Jiang's cook 30Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 70 Gourmet: My Little Food God Shop 美食：我的食神小店 [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Recipes] At the end of Bluestone Alley in the old district, just past the third pagoda tree, there’s a hidden little restaurant run by the God of Cookery. It serves egg fried rice that really glows! And rice porridge that sends you drifting back into your memories with just one sip! It’s also a top-tier restaurant where a bowl of rice porridge costs 166 yuan. Customers are left bowing in admiration, crying out for more, and ordering another ten bowls! The 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 My Cooking Can Cure Any Discontent 我的美食专治各种不服 Xu Riyue transmigrates into a parallel world, where he becomes a 996 office worker driven to bankruptcy by his boss's workplace abuse. At his lowest point, the Everyday Life System binds itself to him, refreshing one street-stall task each week. Other people's golden fingers can destroy the world, but his System only wants him to suffer social death. His stall is a legend that exists in the city for just one week: It appears on Monday, using an irresistible aroma and flavor to break down everyon 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 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
- 73 Mushroom House: My Bad Luck Charm from the Start, and Everyone Tells Me to Shut Up 蘑菇屋，开局乌鸦嘴，都让我闭嘴 Also known as: [Livestreaming: I'm a jinx. Are you scared yet?] [Livestreaming: The whole internet boycotts me, so I go abroad to have fun: Cherry Blossom Island, Little Rich Spray-and-Pray Soldier] Season six of Mushroom House begins, inviting two internet celebrities: tomboy Zhou Shuyi and sharp-tongued Annie... Zhang Shuai confidently strides into the Mushroom House livestream, and then everything takes a turn... Zhang Shuai: “Go on, try hitting me...” “Ah! What the hell, you really hit me? G 88Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 74 You Told Me to Sell Fried Rice, and I Brought the Highway to a Standstill 让你摆摊卖炒饭，你把高速干瘫痪 Bai Ming transmigrates to Blue Star and becomes an unemployed young man. With his family fortune about to run dry, he is lucky enough to activate the Gourmet System and gain god-tier cooking skills and legendary kitchenware. It happens to be the Spring Festival rush, when everyone is returning to the cities and the highway is gridlocked. Living nearby, Bai Ming simply brings out his wok and stove and starts selling fried rice by the roadside. The drivers and passengers, already starving, are ins 991Reads8.7Score10614d adds
- 75 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
- 76 I Set Up a Food Stall in the Apocalypse to Earn Crystals 我在末世摆摊卖美食赚晶核 Male lead + no romance Lin Ran, who takes on missions in randomly selected worlds, suddenly finds himself in an apocalypse crawling with zombies and monsters. He nearly freezes to death right from the start. Just as he thinks things couldn’t possibly get any worse, he suddenly binds himself to the Spiritual Qi Cuisine System. Selling sweet sesame pastries in random spots, beef buns at the base gates, and opening a restaurant right in the middle of a zombie horde: he does whatever wild thing co 77Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 77 Yi Wan Fried Rice 伊碗炒饭 From ancient times to the present day In ancient times, Yi Wan was heir to a royal chef’s legacy. In the modern era, Yi Wan’er had lost her parents in a car accident just as she finished her college entrance exams. In a single day, Yi Wan transmigrated and became Yi Wan’er. Watch as this heir to an ancient royal culinary tradition works wonders with ingredients in the modern world, cooking up a life rich in every flavor. 12Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 78 Gourmet: I Set Up a Stall at Random, and Diners Chase Me for Four Miles 美食：随机摆摊，食客追我八里地 [Everyday life, no overpowered golden finger, a slow burn, slice of life] Family squabbles and all the flavors of life: there’s always one that can touch your heart. Wang Qin was an orphan adopted by Grandpa Wang, and the Wang couple had never cared for him. The year he finished the college entrance exams, his grandfather fell ill. The couple didn’t want to pay for his treatment or look after Wang Qin, so they sold the house, took all the money, and ran, leaving the two of them behind with a mou 41Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 79 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
- 80 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 54Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 81 You're Supposed to Patrol the Sea, So Why Are You Riding a Shark to Run a Food Stall? 让你巡海，你骑鲨鱼去摆美食摊？ [Gourmet] [Street food stall] [Seafood] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Fishing and gathering by the sea] [Protecting the ocean] Wang Yang transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a marine patrol officer. He also unexpectedly binds himself to a seafood Gourmet System. He can earn generous rewards by setting up a stall to sell seafood dishes and completing System tasks. So Wang Yang catches fish during the day and sells seafood from a street stall at night. His delicious seafood immediately co 18Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 82 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 361Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 83 Gourmet: Selling Pan-Fried Dumplings at University, Driving the Admissions Office Crazy 美食：大学卖煎饺，招生办都疯了 Yin Chao, a fourth-year law student, had planned to become a lawyer after graduation. Instead, he got bound to a “Top-Tier Gourmet System”... Day One: His secret-recipe pan-fried buns come out of the pan, and female students line up all the way to the next city. Day Two: Crab roe soup dumplings go on sale, and the campus heartthrob and top student start fighting over a bite. Day Three: The System prompts, [Host, please unlock the “Manchu-Han Imperial Feast.”] Yin Chao stares at his balance of 0. 2kReads—Score17714d adds
- 84 The Whole World Is My Foodie Fanbase 全世界都是我的美食粉丝 After criticizing a novel, she somehow transmigrated into a book as the villainess! Bound to a Super Food Streamer System despite being a certified kitchen disaster, Si Guanrou has a rather inflated opinion of her cooking... A daddy's little girl, a secret straight-A student, and a master of comebacks, she always deals with anyone eager to slap her in the face on the spot. If she's going to hit you, she's going to hit you. Does she have to wait for a special occasion? With cooking skills that co 15Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 85 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 108Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 A Little Country Bride: Husband, You're in for a Treat 农门小娇妻，相公你有口福了 [Farming + food + transmigrate into a book + light, sweet romance] Jiang Zhiyu was hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk, then nearly drowned right after transmigrating into a book. She dares anyone to claim they are more unlucky than she is! Being transmigrated as a top-tier cannon-fodder character is no big deal. With enough hard work, even cannon fodder can turn their life around! First, she sets a modest goal: open a food street and make a hundred million! There's no problem food can't 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Back to Field: Auntie Really Gets My Hardcore Hero 蘑菇屋：阿姨还真懂我这硬强英雄 [Pure catharsis + contrast] As “Scum from the Stars” gets torn to shreds, “Mushroom House” racks up over eighty million viewers watching online. The laughing goddess pours a bucket of water over Zhou Xiaotao, drenching him from head to toe. The guests on set are stunned, then burst out laughing. Meanwhile, tens of millions of viewers shout, “Grab your knives and kill Zhou the dog!” Because of Zhou Xiaotao, “Mushroom House” has gone completely off the rails. 4kReads5.8Score12914d adds
- 88 The Wildflower Courtyard 食野小院 Two male leads + opening a shop + farming + the rhythms of daily meals and the changing seasons + cozy. Lin Yuan owns the Wildwood Courtyard. Chen Shusheng visited the place by chance and couldn't stop thinking about it. In the end, he quit his job and returned. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Bound to a Food System, My Little Shop Is Packed Every Day 绑定美食系统，我的小店天天爆满 [No CP + daily life + food + opening a shop + street vending + entirely handmade, no AI] After binding to a System, Peng Jie hopes to get rich by cooking and reach the pinnacle of life. But it turns out every dish he’s rewarded with must be practiced, and his cooking mentor is a senior administrator at KK Park. Every time he receives a new dish, he’s bound to get electrocuted. After making the whole street a hit, his greedy landlord raises the rent and forces him to leave South Street. Back in h 22.9kReads8.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 90 Selling Street Food, I Forge a Path to Immortality Across the Nation 摆摊卖美食，我在全国修出仙途 [Space, food, street stalls, no male lead] I cultivate through food and just want to focus on my training. Why are all my customers following me around? There's a magical little food shop, run by a young owner who's good at everything. Every dish is irresistible, but the owner never stays in one place. “I swear, if I get to eat the young owner's grilled chicken legs, I'll be able to code like the wind.” “Mom doesn't have to worry about me going bald anymore.” “The young owner is so thoughtful. K 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 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
- 92 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
- 93 The Super Food God Tycoon 超级食神大亨 Yang Song happens upon the Chef God System. With nothing but a secondhand food cart selling grilled gluten skewers, he steadily climbs to the peak of success. The richest man's son works for him as a waiter, goddesses throw themselves at him to help run his shop, and top female students from campus come to peel potatoes for him... A beautiful TV reporter asks in an interview, "I hear lots of celebrities come to dine at Baifeng Pavilion. Do they have to wait in line too?" Yang Song replies calmly 224Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 94 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
- 95 You Asked Me to Cook Vegetarian Meals, So Why Is My Incense Offering Exploding? 让你做斋饭，我香火怎么被干爆了 [The rating has just been posted and is sure to rise] (System) (Food) (Everyday Life) (Lighthearted Comedy) Lu Chen used to be an overworked corporate drone, but after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he was fired. Just as he was waiting to die, he unexpectedly obtained a Divine Incense System and bonded with Tianlin Temple. As long as the temple receives incense offerings, Lu Chen's lifespan increases. But Tianlin Temple is about to go under! Lu Chen can only use the divine cooking skills 5kReads6.7Score44314d adds
- 96 Gourmet: You Hired Me as a Security Guard, So Why Am I Making the Residents Drool? 美食：让你当保安，你馋哭业主？ [Gourmet + System + no romance + cooking competitions + lighthearted daily life] In his previous life, Liu Ran was a programmer who worked around the clock. He died suddenly on his twenty-fifth birthday and was reborn just as he was graduating and looking for a job. This time, he decides to skip thirty years of struggle: he’ll become a security guard right after graduation and laze around! But the Gourmet System intervenes and changes the life he had planned for himself. From the triple-combo ri 191Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Our State Banquet Master Sets Up a Stall to Sell Roujiamo to Foreigners 我国宴大师，摆摊卖肉夹馍给老外 [Food + light System + overseas business + comfort-food read + no romance + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + detailed recipes] Lu Chuan, a seventy-two-year-old master chef of state banquets, is reborn as an undocumented laborer overseas. He gets bound to a Chinese cuisine promotion System, and each mission is more outrageous than the last. Get people who have eaten sweet-and-sour chicken for decades to try real Kung Pao chicken instead. Get people who only have coffee and bread for b 97Reads—Score10314d adds
- 98 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
- 99 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
- 100 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
