Novels like The Top Chef in a Culinary Wasteland
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Top Chef in a Culinary Wasteland, best match first.
- 151 I Run a University Cafeteria, and My Goal Is to Make a Hundred Million 承包大学食堂，我的目标是一个亿 [Food] [No Romance] [System] [Quick Transmigration] [Slice of Life] [Comedy] After Tang Lin died, his soul was pulled into a food-themed game. If he cleared the game, he could be reborn. * Game 1: "A University Cafeteria on the Verge of Closing" The cafeteria at Huamei University was about to shut down, yet a senior in his final year took it over! The students gritted their teeth: “So what if they changed the person in charge? Capitalists are all the same!” “I'd rather starve than eat at Cafeter 26Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 152 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 351Reads6.2Score100Shelves
- 153 I Set Up a Stall Before the New Year and Left Customers Drooling 过年前摆一波摊，馋坏食客 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your follows motivate me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Wang Xu, the “King of Street Stalls,” quit his job right before the New Year and encountered a Gourmet System. Unlike a tycoon System, this one had a simple, no-nonsense way of taking its cut: a 70/30 or 60/40 split. Under this arrangement, Wang Xu had to meet the System’s KPIs while also working hard to increase his own earnings. 646Reads—Score102Shelves
- 154 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 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Healing Food for Other Worlds: Su He’s Traveling Kitchen 食愈位面：苏禾的移动小厨 [Quick transmigration + No Romance + Gourmet Buff Heals the Whole World + Savior] Su He accidentally binds herself to a World-Healing Gourmet System, taking her life in a whole new direction. Pushing a little food cart, she travels through worlds on the verge of collapse, using her cooking skills to slowly fix one mess after another. Whether it’s a lawless wasteland, a star realm filled with chaotic energy, or an ancient world where spiritual energy is nearly depleted… No matter how broken the 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 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
- 157 Reborn: Returning to the Village with My Kids to Farm 重生之带娃回村种田 [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + food + transmigration + pocket dimension + adorable kids] My name is Lin Yaoyao. My parents named me Yaoyao because I was a girl, and they hoped I would die young. Under the weight of my parents’ vile hopes, I grew up, got married, and had a daughter. Before marriage, everyone praised my husband as a good man. Afterward, he cheated, drank, and beat me. I fell asleep holding my child and woke up in an ancient village, in the body of a peasant woman from Xia 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 A Warm Meal and Slow-Burning Romance with You 与你暖餐慢恋 [Lovers Across Time and Space] + [An Old House and Parallel Timelines] + [A girl plagued by bad luck falls for a lonely man from another time and space] Is your time moving too slowly, or am I moving too fast? Why is it that once I leave this place, I can never see you again? In an old house with peeling walls, I open the door and let the breeze blow through. You stand in the doorway and ask me, "Can I come with you?" 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 A Bowl of Lard Rice Had the Entire Army Drooling 一碗猪油拌饭馋哭大军 [No System + Food + Farming + Business and Development + Frontier] Su Qingwan worked herself to the bone for half her life to support her husband's civil service exams, only to receive a letter of divorce and hear him say, “You're not worthy of being the wife of an official.” She didn't cry or make a scene. She took her meager settlement and headed for the rough-and-tumble frontier. The winds here were fierce, and people died often, but the locals were straightforward and fiercely loyal. She 1.9kReads8.2Score240Shelves
- 160 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
- 161 Running a Plane-Space Restaurant, I Rise to the Top 经营位面餐厅，走向人生巅峰 [Cuisine x business x card draws x interdimensional travel x ensemble cast x growth x lighthearted] Chu Tian, a pampered young lady who had never lifted a finger around the house, had just graduated and was dragging her suitcase out of her dorm when an unknown System pulled her into the universe, making her the first person to venture beyond the solar system into an unknown star system. [Run an interdimensional restaurant successfully and complete all your missions, and you'll be able to return 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 You Transmigrate and Still Study Law? I’ll Sell Fried Noodles and Offer Legal Advice 穿越了还学法啊？炒粉炒面送咨询 [Gourmet] [Short Legal Stories] [Everyday Gossip] [Travel Journal] [No Romance] The core competitive advantage for law students entering the workforce: stir-fry noodles, fry rice noodles, and offer legal consultations on the side. After transmigrating to another world, Xu Wenyun knew this principle inside out. But with countless delicacies out there, shouldn’t he try more delicious things? Even eating needs technique. Every bite deserves something better! In the first week, he sells pork rib 31Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 163 After I Bound Myself to a Gourmet System, the City's Diners Hunted Me Down 绑定美食系统后，食客全城搜捕我 [No CP] [Gourmet] [Transmigration] [Making Money] [Business Management] [Heartwarming] Lin Fei is dragged to ancient times by a terrible Gourmet System. From starting out with her family ruined and her business going bankrupt, to selling crayfish for ten taels of silver a serving and driving the entire imperial capital wild. Even at an absurd price, the line is still packed every day. The System comes with facial recognition and can identify customers for its Host. Our restaurant’s official rule —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 The Little Chef of Chaoyang City Serves Delicious Food Every Day 朝阳城小厨娘美味天天有 [Food! Food! Food!] If you love historical food novels, this is one you can’t miss! As soon as Luo Jinyao transmigrated, her wicked stepmother slapped her three times! How could Luo Jinyao put up with such humiliation? She immediately slapped her right back. With the village chief’s help, she arranged for her stepmother to marry a good-for-nothing man. To make ends meet, Luo Jinyao took her younger brother to Chaoyang City. He studied while she opened a restaurant. She also worked as a private c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 I Transmigrated and Opened a Five-Star Farmstay in Ancient Times 穿越后在古代开五星级农家乐 Zhou Boyan transmigrated while on her way to work overtime. She came dropping out of the sky and landed headfirst in a basket full of pig feed. Because her clothes didn’t fit, people mistook her for a frail young scholar. To survive in this unfamiliar dynasty, Zhou Boyan had no choice but to disguise herself as a man, then as a woman again, though life in ancient times was simple and dull. But Zhou Boyan wasn’t scared. Drawing on the cooking skills she had picked up while working, she bought duc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 From the Start, I Had a Peppercorn, So I Went Back in Time to Sell Hot Pot 开局一粒花椒，我穿回古代卖火锅 [Ultimate face-slapping + wildly satisfying comeback + food business] The heroine is fierce, and she never goes easy on scum. All that matters is the satisfaction! After transmigrating into the body of a poor village girl in ancient times, she finds her mother timid, her younger brother foolish, and her father and stepmother eager to bleed them dry. Lin Wei slams the table: “I’m done living like this! We’re splitting the family! We have to split up!” With her only two loved ones by her side, she —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Granny Tian's Rebirth: Late-Night Cafeteria Livestream 田老太重生记深夜食堂直播间 The feisty, capable 95-year-old Tian Caigu is reborn in 1987. At 55, she quits her job and opens a late-night diner that becomes a refuge for countless migrant workers. She spends her days bustling amid the smoke and steam, serving customers warmth and comfort. She also has a livestream that connects to the future. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 I Set Up a Street Stall, Boss, Why Do You Look Different Every Week? 摆摊，老板你怎么一周一个样 [System + Food + Street Stalls + Lighthearted + Comfort Food + Making Money + One Heroine] Ye Tian loses his job from the start, but is lucky enough to activate a food System. From then on, every week Ye Tian sets up a food stall, selling a randomly chosen dish at a random time and place. In the first week, he sells fire chicken noodles outside a school. Student: Boss, the fire chicken noodles sold by your competitor were so spicy they made my family’s old hen sterile. In the second week, he sel —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 Banished to the Countryside, She Farms Her Way to Becoming a Princess 被赶到乡下后，她靠种田成了郡主 Li Jinning, a modern office worker, visited left-behind children in a poor mountainous region during a holiday. On her way back, she was caught in a thunderstorm and struck by lightning, which “sent” her and her car to ancient times. Or rather, the car was charred, and the modern woman was dead. Her soul woke up in the body of a little girl in ancient times, also named Li Jinning. It took her half an hour to accept reality. Then, with great effort, she gave the charred car and her modern self a 83Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 170 A Good-for-Nothing's Struggle After Transmigration 穿越废柴奋斗记 [Transmigration, farming and business, woman disguises herself as a man, coming of age, no romance] Gu Xinyu, a modern-day good-for-nothing, inexplicably transmigrates to the fictional Great Li Dynasty and becomes a ten-year-old girl named Gu Xin. Her parents are both dead, their home is nearly bare, and she has a little brother who just turned four. With survival looking so difficult, the siblings follow their late mother’s instructions and head to the capital to seek help from the Duchess of J 167Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 171 The Farmhouse’s Beloved Daughter: The Regent’s Adorable Chef Wife 农门团宠：摄政王的厨神萌妻 (No nasty relatives, just a warm and loving family) She transmigrates into the body of a sweet young farm girl. What should she do when she opens her eyes to a home with nothing but bare walls? They don’t even have a brick house, just a thatched hut that leaks when it rains! But that’s all right. Since she can’t change the fact that she’s transmigrated, she’ll work hard to change her circumstances. Her family dotes on her, and they all live happily together. As for making a fortune, how hard can 55Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 172 The Top Chef: The Prince Regent Can’t Get Enough 一品厨娘：摄政王爷吃上瘾 Before they married, he was the legendary Prince Regent: hot-tempered, irritable, and cold-hearted. No woman ever left his chambers unscathed. Some were so terrified they took to their beds, while others went into permanent seclusion in the countryside. After their wedding, Su Xiaonan is utterly baffled. What happened to accepting her miserable fate? What happened to resigning herself to a lonely life? Can someone tell her who this cheeky little man is, following her around and begging for snack 35Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 173 With a Street Stall, I Turned a Remote Mountain Forest into a 5A Scenic Area 靠摆摊，我把深山老林变5A景区 The rating has only just opened, so it’ll go up later. Yun Jin died, then came back to life. She had transmigrated into the fake heiress of a marquis’s household, a girl who had taken another girl’s place! The original owner couldn’t accept going from a pampered young lady to a hunter’s daughter. On the way back to the mountains, she jumped from the carriage and killed herself. But Yun Jin, a modern cancer patient, just smiled: Being alive is what matters. Who cares about being poor? I’ve got a 26Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 174 Whose Boss Sets Up a Little Stall and Takes It Nationwide? 谁家老板摆个小摊全国走 [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Funny and heartwarming] [One male lead] [System] [Perfect with a meal] Liu Nian unexpectedly bonded with a Gourmet System. Anything he made became a one-of-a-kind delicacy. Every week brought a random location, every month a random city, and with random dishes and different customers, each stop offered a brand-new treat for the taste buds. He sold stinky tofu outside a public restroom, fried skewers outside a gym, and buns outside a five-star hotel. Every 190Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 After Binding a System, I Opened a Dessert Shop in Ancient Times 绑定系统后，我在古代开甜品店 [Food + Alternate World + Transmigrate + System + Mutual Devotion + Not a Power Fantasy] Gu Qiyue, a top pastry chef, transmigrates into the body of a penniless orphan in ancient times. She opens her eyes to a bare-walled home with a leaky roof and finds her only family, her younger brother, emaciated. Just as she's worrying that life is bitter as wormwood, a “ding” sounds in her mind... She has bound the [Food Business System]. What are household schemes, palace intrigues, backbreaking farming, 178Reads—Score102Shelves
- 176 Reborn and Fleeing Famine: I Pick Up a Crown Prince as My Child Groom 重生逃荒：捡个储君童养夫 After Tong Miao dies unexpectedly, she opens her eyes to find herself following her brothers along the road to exile. Her brothers have no idea how to care for a child, and everything from food and clothes to shelter and transportation is terribly inadequate. She can put up with everything else, but she absolutely cannot stand the food! Boiled meat in plain water? Meat grilled until it's a lump of charcoal? Tong Miao rolls up her sleeves and gets to work, stopping everyone from ruining the food 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Su Yao’s Food-Stall Challenge 苏瑶的美食摆摊任务 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Become the Top Imperial Merchant Through Food 穿书后，她靠美食成为首席皇商 [Food + System + Unofficial Frontier Life] Tang Qingshi never imagined that driving along in broad daylight would send her crashing right into a book. And just her luck: not only has she transmigrated into a bit-part character with barely any scenes, but she’s in a total madhouse from the start. The mysterious System is nothing but a dog. It vanishes when trouble strikes, and all it does is whine about having nothing to offer. WTF? She’s supposed to save the original plot and keep the small worl 2Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 179 I Set Up a Stall Wherever I Please: Sis, We’ve Been Looking Everywhere for You 随机摆摊，胖姐我们找你找得好苦 [Gourmet] [Daily Life] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [No Romance] [Street Stalls] [System] [Transmigration] [Cozy] [Animals] [Parallel World] P.S. This book has a laid-back, everyday plot, with few dramatic twists and turns. It focuses more on cozy, down-to-earth moments. This is not a power fantasy! This is not a power fantasy! Li Meng accidentally transmigrates into a parallel world, where she can't get by without an identity. Just when she least expects it, the essential golden finger for anyone 212Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 180 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
- 181 After I Transmigrated, the Minor Side Character Won Everyone Over with Her Cooking 穿越后，小炮灰靠美食逆袭成团宠 [Sweet Romance and Healing + Independent, Hardworking Heroine + Gentle, Wise Hero + Food Business + Both Pure] Shen Qinqin transmigrates into the body of a wealthy merchant’s daughter who is infatuated with General Xiao. Because her predecessor offended the general, she is cast out of her home and thrown into a river the moment she arrives. Watch her use her own abilities to save her life and work diligently to build herself a place in the world, starting with a tiny wonton stall and branching o 8Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 182 Transmigrate and Get Everyone to Love Their Food 穿越之让大家爱上干饭 [Gourmet] [Alternate Setting] [Sweet Romance] [Marriage Before Love] [Relaxed and Easygoing] [Alien Planet] [Everyday Life] Luo Yao never imagined that one day she would transmigrate to a planet much like Earth and inherit an estate. She planned to grow vegetables and cook, settling into a quiet retirement on her own. But to inherit the place, she also had to marry Mu Chen, the heir to the richest family. Mu Chen once happened to see Luo Yao squatting beside a car, eating glutinous rice ball 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 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
- 184 After Calling Off the Engagement, I Got Rich Selling Sweet Drinks 退婚后我靠糖水暴富了 [System + Dessert Queen + dessert lover + other delicious foods included] [This isn't purely a career-focused story. The male lead appears later, and romance develops in the second half.] Renowned pastry chef Shen Chuhe had just been crowned the "Queen of Sweet Soups" when she got into a car accident. She woke up in the body of a woman notorious for being a menace across the surrounding villages: She was the one who stole her little brother's school fees and kept him from attending school. She w 335Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 185 How Did I, Heir to a Legendary Chef, End Up as a Suffering International Student? 我堂堂神厨后人竟沦为命苦留子？ [Don’t make me cook!! → Cooking is so satisfying] [Gourmet fiction + System + farming pocket dimension + hilarious and heartwarming] Ning Tangtang comes from a family of master chefs, but she has no desire to inherit the family business. Her lifelong dream is to escape the kitchen. What good is a perfect knife technique when milk tea smells so good? No matter how brilliant your cooking is, nothing beats lying flat! Her family thinks she’s “neglecting her proper duties,” so they pack her off abro 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 I Set Up a Food Stall in the 1980s and Became a Sensation 我在八零摆摊卖美食，火出圈了 Tang Xi dies and returns to the age of fifteen, carrying the wordless book her master gave her years ago: All the Food Under Heaven. That year, the Tang family’s biological daughter is finally found, and Tang Xi is left behind by her adoptive parents. Feeling guilty toward their real daughter, Tang Xi gives in to her at every turn, only to earn her adoptive parents’ resentment and the disdain of her childhood sweetheart and fiancé... On top of that, she falls ill and misses the college entrance 160Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 A Random Gourmet Stall, Leaving Diners Craving Every Day 随机美食摊，食客天天被馋哭 (Food, healing, and everyday life) Lin Zhixia is 32 years old. She works nine to five, with no weekends off, yet in the end she has no money, no savings, and not even a boyfriend! Why? Because she loves eating and experimenting with food! All day long, she fantasizes about getting rich overnight! She never expected to get no windfall, but to be reborn instead, back in her college graduation year. A top-tier Gourmet System comes with her. “The little boss's fried rice is so good. Could you eat i 158Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 188 The Little Chef Takes on the World 小厨娘闯天下 Female lead: Shen Cao (her name has a special meaning). Male lead: Ji Lingfeng [Transmigration + food + business + making a fortune + slow-burn development + sweet romance] After becoming a master chef, Shen Cao falls off a cliff while gathering mushrooms and transmigrates into the body of a village girl who shares her name. Her parents love each other, her brothers are on good terms, and even her younger sister looks up to her. The only problem is that her family is so poor they can barely affo 1.4kReads7.7Score158Shelves
- 189 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 154Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 190 After Becoming a Master of Chinese Cuisine 变成国厨大师后 [Gourmet + System + no romance + cozy + funny + perfect with a meal] On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God ascends to heaven, and fragrant aromas fill every home. Lin Fan, working overtime on New Year’s Eve, unexpectedly binds to a System. And that’s only the beginning. Dumpling feasts, egg cakes, grilled chicken wings, crayfish, roasted pig trotters, spicy chicken skewers, stinky tofu, river-snail rice noodles, red-braised beef stew with potatoes, vinegar-fried ca 336Reads8.1Score104Shelves
- 191 Opening a B&B! My Food Has the Ancient Kids Drooling 开民宿！我靠美食馋哭古代小孩 [Business + food + farming with a System and pocket dimension + light fantasy + alternate world + easygoing] A few things to know: There is a romance! It's a shopkeeping story focused on running a food business. The female lead doesn't hide her pocket dimension, and she uses modern goods in the ancient world. This isn't pure farming, but a light fantasy story with a big imagination! If you can't accept these elements, read with caution!!! [Pocket dimension activated. Time until transmigration: 117Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 192 A Happy Family 合家欢 After being reborn, I excel at both studying and making money, and retire at thirty Synopsis: [Farming + Food + Business + Slow-Burn Slice of Life + No System] A farming story with no System The focus is on a gentle, steady pace No ridiculous relatives How did the Lin family's youngest daughter, once a bit slow on the uptake, suddenly become a business tycoon? Lin Wanwan: Who do you think you're looking down on? I can hold my own in the parlor and in the kitchen. I can cook, run a business, grow 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 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
- 194 Gourmet: My Diners Form an Intelligence Group to Track Me Down 美食：为了找我，食客建立情报群 This is a magical roadside food stall. Egg fried rice, dry-fried beef chow fun, stinky tofu, savory tofu pudding... Every seemingly ordinary street snack becomes an unforgettable delicacy in the stall owner's hands. After one bite, people want a second, a third, and an Nth. But the stall owner has one “bad habit”: every time he sets up shop for a day, he moves to a new location the next day. The customers say, “It doesn't matter if we don't make any money today. Missing out on Boss Jiang's cook 28Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 195 Reborn as a Market Town Girl, I Open a Shop and Make a Fortune 穿成市井小娘子开店发家记 [Humble Life + Time Travel + Food + Opening a Shop + Power Fantasy + Lighthearted] Set in an imaginary dynasty, so don’t worry about historical accuracy. Food takes center stage, with the plot playing a supporting role. The story is cozy and mellow throughout, with no dramatic ups and downs. It’s about everyday life and making a better living. The plot and characters are fairly ordinary, so it’s a good read when you’re bored. In her previous life, Jiang Yao lived alone through five years of the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 My Ancestor Is a Pot 我的祖宗是口锅 Xu Jingqing accidentally awakened the spirit of an ancestor who had been sleeping inside the family heirloom, an iron wok. Under the old ancestor's “loving” tutelage, Xu Jingqing honed extraordinary cooking skills and opened a humble little eatery. At first, people were skeptical of a restaurant run by a college girl who had never lifted a finger around the house. Then came the verdict: “It's so good!” “Mom, I want to eat big sister's cooking every day.” “What smells so good in the middle of the 414Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 197 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
- 198 Su Jixiang, the Frontier Cook 边疆厨娘苏吉祥 Food blogger Su Jixiang transmigrates into the body of a palace maid in the Cold Palace. What does palace intrigue have to do with a mere maid like her? She thought she could keep her head down and quietly survive until she turned twenty-five, when she'd be released from the palace to live like a wealthy woman. Little did she know the emperor would flee! As a remnant of the fallen emperor's court, Su Jixiang was bestowed upon a general guarding the border. The palace had one fewer Aunt Jixiang, 127Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 199 After I Transmigrated, I Used Food to Save a Kindergarten 穿越后，我用美食拯救幼儿园 After transmigrating as the principal of a bankrupt kindergarten, Lin Xiaoxia takes one look at the rundown courtyard and nearly blacks out. She’s a Michelin-level backup chef, and now she has to look after kids, clean, and sing nursery rhymes? Then she hears, “Ding! You have been bound to the Chinese Little Chef Pro Max System.” Three months later “Mommy, I used the molecular gastronomy machine to make rainbow cloud marshmallows today!” The adorable four-year-old pulls out a piping bag. “The p 69Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 200 Gourmet System: A Street Food Stall from the Start 美食系统：开局一个路边摊 [You have activated the Gourmet System. Would you like to bind it? Yes; No] During graduation season, Jiang Tiantian, an ordinary university student, hadn’t received a single suitable job offer and had only her last 500 yuan left. As she wondered what to do, she activated the [Gourmet Business System]. -New User Starter Pack-: Congratulations, Host! You’ve received a shop and unlocked your starting dish, sweet-and-sour cold noodles. Sell 10 portions to unlock the next dish. -Special Rewards-: Ev 3.4kReads—Score406Shelves
