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- 1 Pingjiang Prefecture Food Journal 平江府美食日志 Upon waking, Ye Jing found herself transmigrated to Pingjiang Prefecture in the Great Song. Willow-lined banks and painted bridges, green curtains stirring in the breeze. She had hoped to take it easy, admire the scenery, and sample the local delicacies, but she didn’t have a penny to her name. So she had no choice but to open a shop, cook delicious food, and strive to be a model citizen. And maybe win herself a handsome husband along the way. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Spatial Farm Girl Wins Over the God of War With Her Cooking 空间农女：我用美食俘获战神王爷 Shen Qiyue is devastated to discover she has transmigrated. She wants to point at the heavens, put her hands on her hips, and curse them out! She had only just gotten her life in the modern world on track and bought herself a house. To celebrate, she bought a plane ticket and went traveling, only for an accident to send her to ancient times, where she lands in the impoverished Shen family’s bare-bones farmhouse. Though poor, the family is loving and harmonious, and its members are sincere and ki 114Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 3 The Zhou Family's Brightest Jewel 周家皎皎 [Alternate world + food + sign-in System + shop + making a fortune] A modern food streamer worked late-night broadcasts until she died suddenly. Because she had donated all the money she earned from streaming to charity, she was given the chance to be reborn with a golden finger and transmigrate into the ancient world. She was born as Zhou Yize, nicknamed Jiaojiao. She is reborn into the Zhou family in Shikou Village, Shitang Town. Her father teaches at a private school, and her mother is an emb 132Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 4 Content with a Little Wealth: A Jiangnan Chef’s Journey to Fortune Through Food 小富即安，江南厨娘美食发家记 [Gourmet + two female leads + ensemble cast + no transmigration, rebirth, or golden finger + set in Jiangnan during the Yuan dynasty + cozy slice of life] Jiangnan under the Great Yuan seemed little different from the days of the Zhao Song dynasty. There were taxes, but they weren't too harsh. Life was tight, but manageable. In Gui Chao Alley, in Wushan Market of Qiantang County, lived the Wu family. They weren't wealthy, but they took their meals seriously and lived with dignity. There were lit 1.3kReads8.1Score213Shelves
- 5 Reborn as a Little Chef: My Fridge Can Restock Forever 穿成小厨娘：我的冰箱能无限刷新 [Farming + leisurely pace + family life + running a business + food] Lin Yue transmigrated to ancient times, where food and clothing were scarce and the situation was unstable. A hellish start! Her husband died in battle, and a thug broke into her home. After dealing with the thug, she fled with her two scrawny younger siblings to her husband's family village. All she got was a drafty thatched hut. No money, no land. Fortunately, she had a golden finger: her modern refrigerator had come with her 965Reads6.6Score122Shelves
- 6 Your Highness, the Princess Consort Says Come Home for Dinner 王爷，王妃喊你回家吃饭 Gu Nianxi, a modern food blogger with a goofy sense of humor, is inexplicably transmigrated to the ancient state of Dongling after being electrocuted. She becomes the bride of Prince Zhenbei in a replacement marriage, and thus begins her journey into ancient cuisine. Excerpt 1: In the study "Your Highness, this is terrible! The Princess says she's making braised carp tonight, and she's already gone down to the pond to catch the koi the Emperor bestowed upon you." "It's fine. Don't stop her. 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Chubby Princess's Little Chef: Miserly Crown Prince, Don't Run! 肥妃小厨娘，抠门太子你别逃！ [1v1, lighthearted writing, no nasty characters, multiple transmigrators, a chaotic gathering of transmigrators] Three-Michelin-starred chef Lin Manyue opened her eyes and found the world turned upside down! Yesterday she had been preparing foie gras at Paris's Tour d'Argent. Today she'd been dropped into a greasy, bloody ancient-era butcher shop. Her new life as a fierce, 200-jin butcher's wife came with no time to adjust! Neighbors slapped the chopping block and shouted, "Fatso, chop that mea 32Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 8 An Amnesiac, Rugged Man Took Me Home, and I Got Rich Selling Fried Chicken 被失忆糙汉捡回家，我卖炸鸡暴富 [Transmigration + both leads have amnesia + no pocket dimension + no System + no golden finger] When Mu Siqi woke up, she found herself lying in the mountains! Fragments of memories flashed through her mind, telling her she'd transmigrated. But when she woke again, those memories had vanished… With no money and nowhere to go, she shamelessly latched onto the person who had saved her. Her rescuer's family was desperately poor, with two little children crying to be fed. She gave her behavior the f 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 A Hug to Sleep 一抱安眠 Food + mind reading + two strong leads + one-on-one, mutually faithful romance + light and sweet pampering + a touch of political intrigue Su Tiantian, a top modern pastry chef, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a mistreated concubine-born daughter. To protect herself, she is forced to sign a “sleeping companion” contract with Xiao Jue, the cold-faced Prince of Jing and a legendary general who suffers from a strange affliction: he can only sleep after touching certain people. With her 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Bound to a Sign-In System, the Little Chef Devours a Huge Bowl 绑定签到系统，小厨娘狂炫一大碗 [Historical Romance + Transmigration + Food + Business + Rags to Riches + One-on-One Romance] “She died from eating too much!” “She was choked to death, not stuffed to death!” “What do you mean, choked to death? Didn’t she eat too much?” “Don’t be ridiculous. She choked to death, she didn’t eat too much!” Floating in the air, she cried out to the heavens, “Neither! She choked on her food and died!” She transmigrated! To a godforsaken village? What! She’s married! The good news: her husband is ha 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Little Kitchen of Fireworks 烟火小厨 [Character Growth × Slow Burn × Ensemble Cast] Food blogger Xiao Wei wakes up one day and finds herself transmigrated to ancient times. She thinks it’s just a cruel joke of fate, but little does she know that her life’s journey has only just begun. Fu Qingtang was born into privilege. She has much, and is destined to bear even more. Lin Qiaolan is proud and headstrong, but no matter how tough her shell, it cannot shield her from the push and pull of fate. Their fates are different, and they come 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Noblewoman's Fit and Delicious Life in Ancient Times 古代贵女的健美食光 Mu Nanjia was a moderately well-known fitness blogger. One day, after eating a huge amount of crawfish before a livestream, she pushed herself through an exhausting workout stream and transmigrated to the Great Ying Dynasty, where she became the fourth young lady of the Duke of Dingguo’s household. She adapted quickly, then noticed that people’s standards of beauty seemed a little twisted. Young women wanted to be as thin as sticks, while men wore makeup and flowers in their hair, looking neithe 412Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 13 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 155Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Riverside Little Chef 临水小厨娘 [Farming and Food + Lighthearted + Daily Life + Romance + A Fictional Jiangnan Water Town] Su Mo, a modern culinary prodigy, transmigrates into the daughter of a small eatery owner in Linshui County. When she opens her eyes, the restaurant is on the verge of closing, and her parents are weighed down with worry. Watching her father ruin the ingredients with his cooking, Su Mo silently picks up the family's heirloom iron ladle. Just wait and see: she'll make this eatery bigger and better! 6.6kReads8.2Score654Shelves
- 15 Gourmet: This Culinary God Makes Food So Good It's Unfair 美食：这个厨神做饭过分好吃 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [System] [Comfort Food] [Cozy] [Slice of Life] [Ensemble Cast] Ye Mingyu was a master chef in the celestial realm, but after dozing off during a meeting, he was sent down to the mortal world. The good news was that he still had his cooking skills. The bad news was that he had to complete the “Craving It?” System's tasks to return to the celestial realm. But for the food lovers of the mortal world, every day felt like New Year's. Braised pork, hand-pulled noodles in chi 98Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 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 337Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 17 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 326Reads8.0Score121Shelves
- 18 The Jiang Family Restaurant: A Day-to-Day Story 江家食肆经营日常 Jiang Zi opened her eyes and found herself a village girl in ancient times. Her family had nothing; her mother was bedridden and frail, her older brother worked himself to the bone to earn money, and her youngest brother was only five, thin and weak. At least they had no awful relatives, and the whole family was doing their best to get by. What was there to fear about being poor? A person with a skill could make a good life anywhere. They earned money, built a house, bought farmland and shops, a 1.1kReads6.5Score143Shelves
- 19 Stacking Every Buff at My Food Stall Across the Ten Thousand Worlds 万界美食摊buff叠满 What’s it like to become unemployed and immediately get a System? In just one month, Yue Yue goes from jobless to a millionaire worth tens of millions. Her family goes from poverty to living in a villa with all their needs taken care of, becoming a newly risen elite family in everyone’s eyes. The one thing she never expected was to draw a chance to set up a stall in other worlds. And later on, the food even comes with buffs!!! Selling stinky tofu that boosts cultivation in a world of immortal cu 11Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 20 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 313Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 21 Making a Fortune Selling Fast Food in Ancient Times 在古代卖快餐赚翻了 ♥Food♡Farming♡Nurturing♡No golden finger♡No idiots♡Childhood sweethearts♥ Lin Tuan never imagined he would end up in the body of a three-year-old brat. From then on, he lived the life of a lazy salted fish. No, no, no. It was more like the life of a hardworking salted fish. 330Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I’m Not a God of Cooking 我不是煮神 Also known as My Daily Prison-Bound Food Stall, He Really Knows How to Eat, and Don't Call Me a Cook [Food + System + No Female Lead + Daily Life + Perfect Reading Companion + Comedy] How much money can you really make from running a food stall? Jiang Yun refused to believe it, until he accidentally bonded with a food-stall System. Either he follows its tasks and runs a stall to earn generous rewards, or the System forcibly deletes his account. What? You want me to sell barbecue outside a cremat 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 My Whole Family Cooks in a Giant Pot and Goes Viral in the Western Han 我全家炒大锅饭，爆红西汉 [The whole family transmigrates + ordinary people + food and business + everyday family life + an alternate Western Han dynasty] The rating was just posted, so it’s a little low right now~ No contrived drama, and there’s a romantic pairing (the male lead barely appears, so feel free to ignore him; the heroine and her family are focused on building their business). A slice-of-life tale about ordinary people in a frontier town. The three members of the Lin family, village-feast chefs, transmigrate 2kReads8.4Score268Shelves
- 24 First, a Bowl of Lychee Cream 先来一碗荔枝膏 [Transmigrate + build wealth + imperial exams + everyday life + career-focused] [A slow, steady story. There are bad people now and then, but no cartoonishly awful villains.] Lin Qishu, founder of a modern Chinese tea-drink brand, transmigrated to the Great Liang dynasty after being targeted by online harassment. The moment she opened her eyes, she found herself orphaned and responsible for raising her younger brother. To make matters worse, unscrupulous competitors were watching her, ready to f 2.6kReads8.2Score405Shelves
- 25 A Widow’s Busy Night-Market Food Stall in Bianjing, and She Won’t Remarry 深夜食摊搞钱忙，汴京寡妇不嫁人 Reader’s guide: [ensemble cast + food business + heartwarming everyday life of ordinary people + no romance + fictional Northern Song setting] Wang Chunhua and Zhang Taonian were “mortal enemies” at the same company, bickering every day. After an accident, the two find themselves in Bianjing, the Northern Song capital, a thousand years in the past. And they become sisters-in-law in a family of street vendors at Zhouqiao Night Market!? The original family was devastated by swine fever. All the me 6.8kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 26 The Lucky Farm Girl Makes Her Mark in Ancient Times with Her Cooking 锦鲤农女，靠美食厨艺在古代逆袭 [Transmigration + Gourmet + farming + slow-paced + pocket dimension + building wealth + sweet romance and family doting + business-focused + mutual devotion + a touch of ensemble cast] Ling Wutong, a second-generation chef from a private restaurant, unexpectedly transmigrates to an impoverished farming family in ancient times. The harsh conditions are no problem: with the Heavenly Dao’s favorite leading the way, her honest and kind grandfather’s family makes a fortune through good food. From a h 798Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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—Shelves
- 28 Transmigrated as a Kitchen Maid, I Win Over the Devil Prince with Viral Dishes 穿成厨丫，网红美食拿捏魔鬼殿下 A food blogger transmigrates and becomes an obscure kitchen maid in the Third Prince’s household! Her immediate superior is the notoriously fussy and difficult Third Prince, a devil who beats and berates the staff whenever a dish fails to please him. No problem! This modern food blogger’s skills are the real deal! Milk tea, cream-filled pastries, and creative snacks make their way to the table one after another, and before long she has the icy Third Prince completely wrapped around her finger. H 20Reads—Score182Shelves
- 29 Blessed with Good Fortune: A Farmer’s Wife Cooks Her Way to Wealth 福气满满，农家媳妇美食致富 [Alternate world + farming + food + building wealth + everyday family life + cozy vibes + no awful relatives + one-on-one romance][The heroine isn’t perfect, and the hero is more of a supporting character. If that bothers you, proceed with caution.] Qi Manman transmigrates to ancient times and is sold as a bride from the start, to bring good fortune to her sick husband. Luckily, her in-laws are nice, her younger siblings are adorable, and her husband gets better after she marries him. Not enough 591Reads7.4Score100Shelves
- 30 Good Food and Sweet Dreams with You 与君美食复甘眠 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Farming + Food + Woman Chef + Romance] The meat is so tender it seems carved from beauty, and the fragrant aroma never stops rising from the pot. As a humble office worker in the twenty-first century, Su Yu had few interests, and food was the only one she loved. Her one and only wish was to stop being exploited by every capitalist under the sun and become a capitalist herself. So the gods heard her prayer and granted it. She closed her eyes and woke up as a poor 313Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 31 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
- 32 The Borderlands' Little Cook: General, Care for a Hot Bowl of Soup? 边关小厨娘：将军来碗热汤？ [Happy ending + exile + food + business management + guarding the border with a young general + devoted to each other] Modern food blogger Lin Weiwei travels into the body of a woman in ancient times and becomes the daughter of a disgraced official, exiled to the frontier. The frontier is cold and harsh? No problem, her cooking will help. Fragrant, steaming lamb offal soup, scallion pancakes, braised snacks, and grilled lamb skewers... She’ll use modern food to cheer on the frontier soldiers! Wh 732Reads7.1Score100Shelves
- 33 Reborn in the 1970s: Extra-Spicy Hot Pot and a Henpecked Male Lead 重生七零：火锅变态辣男主耙耳朵 [Transmigrate into a book + Period setting + Gourmet + System + Adorable kids + Military marriage + Sweet romance + Get rich] Wu Fengjuan is reborn in the body of a cannon-fodder military wife in the 1970s. From the start, the male lead has “died in action,” her in-laws despise her, and she has three hungry little babies to feed. Life is hard? Luckily, the [Good Fortune Gourmet System] drops right into her lap! Get pregnant and have babies to level up! From pearl milk tea and golden pumpkin cake 205Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 My Kindergarten Went Bankrupt, So Instead of Giving Up, I Started a Street Stall 幼儿园破产，我不摆烂选择摆摊 [Comfort Food] [Master Chef System] [Adorable Kids and Their Dad] [Unlucky Diners] [No Romance] Eight years after transmigrating to a parallel world, Li Qilin already has a three-year-old kid, and the “Master Chef cheat” that had been overdue for years has finally arrived. The good news: the struggling daycare can stay afloat. The bad news: starting a daycare inevitably leads to “commando-style street vending.” … Whether they’re little rascals or young villains, they’re all adorable food lovers 1.5kReads8.4Score146Shelves
- 35 The Pocket-Dimension Farmer Girl: I Become the Beloved Darling of Ancient Times 空间农女，我在古代混成团宠 «Completed» (Ancient setting + farming + building wealth + family darling) Jiang Channing was an ordinary office worker in the 21st century, and she couldn't understand how something as trendy as transmigration could happen to her. Faced with a bare-walled house and family members who never got enough to eat, Jiang Channing could only sigh: “Since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it!” By chance, she activated an invincible System. Now that's a proper cheat! She picked up a fairly hands 737Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 36 I Started Out in the Mountains Amid Chaos, So What Have I to Fear with My Peach Blossom Haven? 乱世开局进深山，我有桃源怕啥？ [Pure Farming + Family Life + No System + Fleeing Famine in a Time of Chaos + Infrastructure Building + Transmigrate into a Book + Business + Stockpiling Food] Tian Xiaomai was a newly minted office drone from the 21st century who devoted her life to her desk. When she opened her eyes again, a twist of fate had turned her into a child bride bought by the He family to bring good fortune. Once she adjusted to her new surroundings, everything began to seem familiar. Wasn't this the plot of a novel 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Making a Fortune with Good Food, Backed by the Mountain 背靠大山，靠美食发家致富 [Farming and Food + Making Money + No Romance + No Villainous Relatives + Everyday Life + Healing + Building a Fortune] In the modern world, Chu Wanning worked as an assistant to a food blogger. One night, she died suddenly from overwork and transmigrated into the body of a farm girl in a fictional dynasty who shared her name. In this resource-poor village in the middle of nowhere, many people can barely get enough to eat, let alone stay warm. With only the family’s tiny plot of land to rely on, 336Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 38 Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Sell Bento: The Wicked Sister-in-Law’s Road to Riches 穿到古代卖盒饭：恶毒寡嫂致富路 [Transmigrate into a book + food + business + building wealth + slow-burn development] Food blogger Meng Zhao woke up one day to find herself transmigrated into a novel aimed at male readers, as the vicious sister-in-law. Faced with the future “Dragon-Proud-Heaven” male lead, destined to wield power over the world, Meng Zhao had to choose between eliminating him while she had the chance and currying favor with him early. Instead, she chose to become the one worth currying favor with. Starting 3.5kReads8.6Score349Shelves
- 39 Quick Transmigration: Selling Gourmet Food in Ancient Times to Build My Fortune 快穿：我在古代卖美食发家致富 Synopsis: [Foodie fiction + transmigration + ancient farming + alternate setting + comeback] Song Qingge is a popular food blogger who unexpectedly transmigrates to ancient times and into the poor Song family. Her fiancé breaks off their engagement, and she struggles to get by in a leaky thatched hut. Though the Song family is poor, her parents dote on her, her eldest brother looks out for her, and her younger siblings are sweet and well-behaved. After transmigrating here, she discovers she has 159Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 40 A Transmigrant’s Rise from Humble Beginnings 穿越小门小户发家史 A money-loving, sunny chef heroine VS a reliable, resilient, handsome constable Just after winning the Culinary Association’s “Golden Chef Award,” a chef transmigrates to the Great Ji Dynasty... Li Qiao’an says her greatest talent is cooking, and the thing she loves most is food! Poor? No problem! With a spatula in hand, the world is mine! And maybe I’ll snag a handsome husband to play house with! Crab roe noodles, boiled fish, sweet-and-sour ribs, caramel milk tea, whole roasted lamb... She’ll 215Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Wanted for Cooking with a Wok in the Immortal Realm 在仙界支锅炒菜被通缉了 Li Xiaochu is a modern-day food streamer. She’s drooling over a Beef Wellington. She closes her eyes, then opens them, and she’s gone! She opens them again, and, would you look at that! She’s taken the place of a lowly fire-tending fairy in the Immortal Realm? From the start, she’s at the peak. Other people transmigrate into immortal cultivation harems as heroines and enjoy sweet romances! She transmigrates into a wanted criminal in the Immortal Realm? The reason: she polluted the realm with sti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Youngest Daughter Falls from the Sky: An Ancestral Jade Pendant Helps Me Carry My Ancestor to Victory 天降幺女之祖传玉佩让我带飞老祖 Food enthusiast Jiang Xiaoman is in a car accident on her way to an event in the 21st century. Her family’s ancestral jade pendant takes her back to the time of her Jiang ancestors. There, she uses modern cuisine to help her whole family thrive and save the impoverished noble Murong Yu. A humorous, laugh-out-loud story. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Saturday Otherworld Cafeteria 周六异世界食堂 Xin Beimò was forced to quit her dead-end job after five years. Disheartened, she inherits a humble private restaurant in a small county town from a distant relative. She expects life to carry on quietly, but the very next day after taking over, she opens the door to a whole new world and receives a pass that lets her connect to other worlds. Thus begins her extraordinary adventure running an interdimensional dining hall! 1. Inspired by the anime Restaurant to Another World, with some elements 1.1kReads8.4Score134Shelves
- 44 The Great Female Chef of the Frontier 边关女大厨 The Tartars from beyond Shantong Pass came three times. The first time, Yuan Wuwei’s family’s lavish restaurant became a wonton shop. The second time, the wonton shop became a wonton stall. The third time, Yuan Wuwei lost her father, Chef Yuan. When it rains, it pours. Her stepmother, Bai Qiqi, tried to elope one night, only to be swindled, and ended up bringing home a chubby little bundle of joy. The little one had quite a background: he was the young master of the Cheng family, whose estate ha 2.7kReads9.0Score374Shelves
- 45 I Opened a Restaurant in Ancient Times 我在古代开饭馆 Ye Xiaowei inexplicably transmigrates into the body of a farm girl in ancient times. Her family is struggling, so she uses her own hands to build a fortune, one step at a time. She starts out selling scallion pancakes at a street stall, then opens a little diner, and eventually builds a chain of grand restaurants. Her life gets better and better. What? The little beggar she took in has a truly impressive background? And the handsome young man she found, who had lost his memory, leaves without a 1.4kReads8.2Score117Shelves
- 46 The Little Restaurant in the Capital 京城小饭馆 Tender green bamboo shoots, fresh crucian carp sashimi, and Xindu mugwort Glossy green oil, fragrant scallions, refreshing wine, and slender, jade-white hands A little eatery has opened on East Street in the capital, where every inch of land is worth its weight in gold. And the owner is a girl of only fifteen or sixteen? Everyone who hears about it shakes their head and calls it foolishness. Isn't she just throwing her money away? The proprietress, Gu Nianxi, insists she doesn't care about makin 1kReads8.1Score147Shelves
- 47 A Modern Restaurant in Ancient Times, Making Everyone Drool 现代美食店，在古代馋哭所有人 [System + food + opening shops + no romance + a powerful golden finger] Office worker Lin Xiyue transmigrates one day and binds herself to an ancient food prosperity System. “What? You want me to spread delicious food throughout the ancient world?” And so Lin Xiyue begins opening all kinds of food shops. This is mainly a food story, a lighthearted tale about opening shops. Drink shop: iced orange juice, strawberry milkshakes, classic milk tea, passion fruit double-bubble tea… Fast-food shop: roa 132Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 48 The Mighty Goddess Conquers Ancient Times with Delicious Food 大力神女用美食闯古代 (Cozy farming, getting rich through food, family squabbles, System shop) They say that in Lengzhan Village there was a girl named Leng Yuan, born with tremendous strength, yet so foolish she didn't recognize her own relatives or know the difference between the five grains. “Hey, have you heard? That silly Leng girl has gotten better lately!” Everyone was astonished. “Wasn't she a fool for nearly ten years? How did she suddenly get better?” “Ah, I heard she saw blood and suddenly passed out. Whe 653Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 49 The Little Lucky Star of the Farming Family: We Turned Our Fortune Around with Food 农门小福星：全家靠做美食逆袭了 Su Xiaojin, a modern-day foodie, transmigrates into the body of a poor peasant girl in ancient times and becomes the Su family’s beloved lucky charm. What? The family sold their land, her eldest brother’s engagement was called off, and her second brother even sold himself? The Su family has become the laughingstock of the village. No problem! I’ll make delicious food to earn silver, buy land and fields, build a house, and open a shop. The Su family will rise again and have the last laugh. And al 2.2kReads8.3Score219Shelves
- 50 The Struggles of the Baozi Beauty 包子西施奋斗史 [Transmigration + Food + Building a fortune + Cozy everyday life + Life among ordinary people] Shen Yu transmigrates, but her start couldn’t be worse: she’s unlucky enough to have broken off an engagement and become a jinx, and she’s poor and miserable. Give up now? No way! She takes odd jobs, sets up a stall, and opens a little eatery. The whole family works together to build a fortune, and life gets sweeter by the day! But whose son, with a county magistrate for a father, can’t even get meat a 3.3kReads8.8Score341Shelves
