Novels like The Chang'an Pastry Chef
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Chang'an Pastry Chef, best match first.
- 1 I Became a Farm Girl and Found Myself a Wolfish Boyfriend 穿成小农女捡了个狼系男友 [Quirky, career-minded sweetheart + cold on the outside, warm on the inside, doting husband + both are each other's first and only + fictional setting] Shen Xiaoyuan inexplicably transmigrated to ancient times. The thatched cottage behind her was still burning, and her widowed mother clutched her, weeping: “My son is gone, and now the child bride I bought with silver is leaving too?!” She raised chickens with her stepmother, cooked delicious food, opened a shop, and struck business deals. Just a 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 After I Transmigrated, I Called Off My Engagement to the Scholar 穿越后，我退掉了和秀才的婚约 I transmigrated into another world, broke and with a scumbag fiancé to boot. I had no choice but to dump him and make my fortune through good food. Then some warrior general showed up, claiming I’d once saved his life and that he wanted to take me as a concubine! Who even are you, man? Just get lost already! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Disaster and Famine? No Worries, My Lucky Little Treasure Has Cheat Powers 天灾荒年？不慌，小福宝开挂了 [One-on-one romance, devoted couple, pampered adorable child, medical skills, space, building wealth] Five-year-old Wen Ruyi is innocent, lively, and adorable. Her biggest dream is to eat meat every day. After unexpectedly gaining a magical phone System, she becomes a little lucky charm, with fish leaping into her arms wherever she goes. News of the World, Food Around the World, Doctors Online, Storage Space, Chirpy Farm: all sorts of magical apps with different functions. 17Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 4 Transmigrated as a Farmer's Little Chef, I Lead My Mother to a Better Life 穿成农家小厨娘，带着母亲奔小康 Farming + delicious food + no romance + System + pocket dimension Late one night, Yan Wanning was lying in bed playing on her phone when a charger she had bought on Pinxixi suddenly burst into flames. When she opened her eyes, she had become Wang Xiaowan, a ten-year-old farm girl in Dayun Village of the Feize Dynasty. Her paternal grandparents favored some grandchildren over others, her father had died young, and her mother and Wang Xiaowan struggled to get by. Fortunately, after the family spli 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Butcher’s Little Diner 屠夫家的小饭馆 A fictional-world sweet romance and food story, centered on the everyday pleasures of ordinary life. The heroine comes from a family of butchers and has a meat stall. She loves experimenting with food, but her father is a miser with a sharp tongue and a soft heart. The hero is the son of a disgraced official. After his family got into trouble, he was thrown out and wandered here. Aman is the younger sister they took in. She has a simple, childlike mind. Amid all the bickering and bustle, they co 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 A Little Restaurant in Bianjing 汴京小饭馆 White jade lotus root slices, fresh sea bass sashimi, delicacies served on jade plates. A cozy restaurant, sweet wine, and a beauty as lovely as a painting. Lord Shen of the Kaifeng Prefecture has always been stern and reserved. Why does he treat a young woman who cooks for a living so differently? The sixteen- or seventeen-year-old young woman has left her former household with her mother. All day long, she thinks about setting up a stall to make money and cooking, while still finding time to a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 After My Ex-Wife Mocked Me, I Made 100,000 a Day with a Grilled Sausage System 被前妻嘲讽后，我靠烤肠系统日入十万 After My Ex-Wife Mocked Me, I Made 100,000 a Day with the Grilled Sausage System 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Reborn at the Border: Cooking Up a Storm with My Gourmet Space 重生边关：带着美食空间做厨娘 [Sweet Romance + Food + One-on-One, Devoted to Each Other] After transmigrating, Song Mingzhen finds herself a wretched daughter of a convicted official, exiled to the frontier. With a food System at her disposal, a successful career is only a matter of time. As the saying goes, the way to a person's heart is through their stomach. Before eating, the great general says, “I've spent years conquering battlefields. I've long since lost my appetite for fine food.” After eating, the great general say 36Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 9 The Taste of Fortune: A Koi-Blessed Farm Girl 食色生香：锦鲤小农女 [Gourmet farming + mutual devotion] A lighthearted read, come on in~ From the start, Xiao Yao transmigrates from a modern-day food blogger into the poor and miserable daughter of the Zhu family. Steamed buns with plain water make her more nauseous with every bite. Gruel with vegetable cakes goes down so roughly she nearly chokes to death. How can someone with a southerner's soul be too poor to afford rice?! Just as Xiao Yao is pining desperately for a bowl of rice, he shows up! And he brings ric 97Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 10 The Little Farmhouse Chef: Prince, Dinner Is Ready! 农家小厨娘：王爷，开饭啦 Overworked corporate drone Lin Zhizhi worked diligently every day, only to exhaust herself to death and transmigrate to an alternate dynasty, where she even picked up a man. Lin Zhizhi had only wanted to put her food-blogger skills to good use, build a career, make money, become a rich beauty, and reach the top. She never expected so many people to make trouble for her! The man she found in the woods is useless apart from his good looks. He’s not only sharp-tongued, but only knows how to eat. He 78Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 11 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
- 12 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
- 13 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: “ 440Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 14 Reborn in the Tang Dynasty With a Gourmet System 重生唐朝美食系统 Top modern chef Lin Xuan opens his eyes and finds himself dumped from the kitchen of an international culinary competition into a dilapidated hut outside Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. With nothing but four bare walls around him, he is starving and freezing, with only a broken knife, half a bowl of cold rice, and a life hanging by a thread. Just as he thinks he is about to starve to death, the Chinese Cuisine System quietly binds itself to him. Cooking earns points, selling meals rai —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Humble Origins Chef 寒门厨娘 After transmigrating into the body of the lowest-ranking palace maid in the Imperial Kitchen, A He only wants to slack off, lie flat, and survive to a ripe old age. But the head steward skimps on the palace rations with moldy rice, then serves spoiled food to the elderly maids. She quietly brings out the culinary skills she won in her previous life as “Little Master of Chinese Cuisine”: A dish of cabbage boiled in clear broth shocks the Imperial Food Bureau, while three spoonfuls of crab-stuf 54Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 16 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 12Reads—Score118Shelves
- 17 The Cook Takes Charge: I Use Food to Crush Villains and Become a Legend 厨娘当家：我靠美食虐渣封神 After transmigrating, Su Qiaoqiao, a twenty-first-century chef, wakes up in the body of a girl from a poor farming family in ancient times. From the start, she's in an “epic” mess: her parents want to sell her sister to pay for her brother's education. Faced with her self-important brother's disdain and her parents' obsessive devotion to their son, she lets out a cold laugh and goes berserk on the spot. “Sell my sister? Think bigger! Why not sell off you, the tender-skinned scholar, to become a 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Unemployed? The Gourmet System Takes Me Straight to the Top 失业？美食系统直接带我飞 [Gourmet System + Golden Finger + Ordinary Person Quietly Making a Fortune + No Romance] Li Beibei is an utterly ordinary university student, and her transition from graduation straight to unemployment goes perfectly smoothly. After yet another failed job application, Beibei gets on her knees and begs every god in sight to grant her a job. She knocks her head so hard that, with a clang, heaven drops a Gourmet System and a small, upgradable shop into her lap. Before she can even celebrate, she di 112Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 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
- 20 The Best Food in the Universe 宇宙最好吃 [Gourmet] [Cultivation] [Restaurant Management] [No Romance] [System Golden Finger] [Interstellar Setting] On Blue Star, a restaurant called The Tastiest in the Universe has become a sensation on the planet known as the “dumping ground.” Its owner, Hao Chi, is bargaining with her “Master Chef System,” hoping to get two extra chances in the dish draw so she can win the Eastern cuisine she has her heart set on. But the cleaver in her hand never pauses, moving so fast it seems to blur. On the stove 370Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 A Chronicle of Peach Blossom Cuisine 桃花美食录 The Peach Blossom Gourmet Chronicle —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 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
- 23 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 83Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 24 Transmigrated to the 1980s: Every Dish at My Restaurant Is in High Demand! 穿越八零：我的饭馆一菜难求！ When Tang Ruanyuan woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated to the 1980s. At the time, Danchuan Village had just implemented the household land contract system. Her family consisted of a father with a bad leg and a seven-year-old younger brother. Looking at their dirt-poor tile-roofed house and the nearly empty rice jar, Tang Ruanyuan rolled up her sleeves and started doing what she knew best, selling food, with her little brother at her side. In the gold-rush decade of the 1980s, Tang Ruan 51Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 25 Reborn and Doted on by All: Building Wealth and Becoming a Princess in Ancient Times 重生团宠：在古代发家致富当王妃 [Historical romance + everyone's favorite + food + wish fulfillment + strong female lead + dimension] In an instant, An Li transmigrates to ancient times with a supermarket. This time, she's determined to live well, expose her vicious cousin's false face, and dump her scumbag fiancé. Instead, she opens a restaurant, becomes a sensation, and keeps opening more branches, making a fortune and attaining a comfortable life in ancient times. She was planning to enjoy her wealth and retire in comfort, 11Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 26 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a Highway Rest Stop During Lunar New Year, I Bring Traffic to a Standstill 美食：春节服务区卖饭，高速堵疯 [Food + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] Gu Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Food System. At the start, he draws a location for his business, only to get a tiny highway service area! And the ridiculous task is to sell three hundred boxed meals in a single day? Just as Gu Rui is at his wits’ end, a male streamer shows up at the highway service area by chance. After one meal of dumplings, the streamer hugs him and keeps calling him “Mom”! Travel surges during the Spring 186Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 27 My System Only Works When I Do Good Deeds 我的系统，做了好事才能用 Transmigration + family separation + farming + System + growth + getting rich + strong heroine She had barely transmigrated when she fainted... She landed in the household of the bullied eldest branch of the family. Her mother was gone, her father had left, her eldest brother was a consumptive, and their house was about to be seized by her own grandmother. What a disastrous start. Su Pan'er was exhausted from fighting for the house, beating up her grandmother, and arguing with the whole fami 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Transmigrated as a Farm Girl Selling Fern Cakes 穿成农女卖蕨饼 After transmigrating into a farming family, she finds a courtyard lined with two rows of thatched cottages that leak whenever it rains. Her father was taken away by conscription three years ago, leaving her mother alone to raise two children. The family has only their last mu of land and the money their mother occasionally earns from embroidery, with almost no savings. They're so poor they can barely eat their fill each day. Luckily, Yun Hua knows how to earn money and support the family. She se 160Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 29 Reborn as a Cast-Off Concubine, I Feed My Mother Meat at Every Meal 穿成下堂妾，我带着娘亲顿顿吃肉 [Farming + no System or pocket dimension + young cook + marriage first, love later + building a fortune + cooking delicious food + devoted couple] After a landslide, Shen Xiyue, a renowned chef, thought she was dead. When she opened her eyes, she was dressed in an ancient wedding gown and about to become an old man’s concubine? Thinking of her modern mansion and luxury car, she flew into a rage. She escaped home, beat up her greedy, black-hearted grandmother, and kicked her spineless, blindly fi 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Dessert Maker of Lin'an 临安城的甜点娘子 [Fantasy transmigration, food, slice-of-life business, love that grows over time, sweet romance, and an entrepreneurial rags-to-riches story] Daily life is styled after the Song dynasty, in an imaginary dynasty and fictional places, with a small ensemble cast. Jasmine sponge cake, rose steamed cakes, peony cream buns, mugwort mille-feuille, salted egg yolk pastries, pomegranate cloud rolls, hibiscus crystal cakes, jade mung bean drinks, peach blossom bird's nest soup, kumquat honey soup... The 206Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 31 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
- 32 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 132Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 33 Eating and Cat-Wrangling in the Tang Dynasty 我在大唐吃饭撸猫 [Historical romance + transmigration + food + sweet romance + devoted 1v1] You Xiu transmigrates into the body of the second daughter of the wealthy You family in the Tang dynasty. She has money and free time, is young and beautiful, and has both parents in a happy family. As long as she doesn’t do anything stupid, she’s guaranteed an easy life. On top of that, she gets bound to a System during her transmigration. It’s incredibly powerful: any recipe, seed, or cooking utensil from anywhere in th 100Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 34 After Dying a Horrible Death, I Cut Ties with My Family and Became a Top Pastry Chef 惨死后断亲，我成了顶级甜品师 In her life before last, Li Zijing was deceived and murdered by her fake wealthy parents, becoming a stepping stone for the real heiress to enter the entertainment industry. She died with her eyes open. In her previous life, she transmigrated into the interstellar era and, after countless hardships, became a highly respected pastry chef. Then she died in a period of upheaval and came back again. The real heiress, a fake innocent, accused her of pushing her down the stairs. Her poisonous stepmo 441Reads7.5Score102Shelves
- 35 I'm Just a Cook! I Can't Heal the Sick and Save the Nation! 我就是个厨子啊，不会治病救国！ Zhang Weiguo, a chef at a five-star hotel, gets fired. Before he can catch his breath, he finds himself in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When you have a skill to fall back on, there’s nothing to be afraid of. The little beggar he saved turns out to be the young son who went missing from the Grand Tutor’s family two years ago? So I’m the one who saved both siblings? What, you’re saying the emperor came by yesterday to eat pork trotter rice? Zhang Weiguo promptly faints. Ever since he tried my cook 44Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 36 Gourmet: The Easy Life of a Little Restaurant at a Highway Service Area 美食：服务区小饭馆的躺赢人生 [Gourmet] [Shopkeeping] [No Male Lead] [System] [Cozy] [Everyday Life] [Affordable Prices] Jiang Banxia unexpectedly inherits a fast-food shop at a highway service area. She thinks the location seems pretty good, but it turns out the highway is remote and sees very little traffic. Just as Jiang Banxia is at a loss about how to keep the business going, she learns that there's a traffic jam on the highway not far away! So Jiang Banxia heads out onto the highway carrying boxed meals to sell. H —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 A Feast for the Senses: The First-Class Chef 食色生香，一品美味小厨娘 She transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a fat, ugly farm wife, hated by everyone in the village, even the dogs. Her husband is incredibly handsome, but they have nothing to their name, no money or food, and they’re bullied by all sorts of awful relatives. Liang Shiqi does the math and can’t help feeling she got the short end of the stick. At least her parents-in-law are reasonable, and her little brother-in-law is sweet and adorable. So be it! She has her cooking skills to rely on, and wi 50Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 38 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
- 39 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 682Reads7.2Score128Shelves
- 40 A Chang’an Food Entrepreneur’s Diary 长安美食创业记 The spring breeze stirs the willows, and apricot blossoms glisten in the misty rain. Behind the counter at the Wonderflavor Restaurant in Chongdefang, the proprietress stands poised, eyes lowered. One hand moves the abacus while the other writes and sketches on a sheet of paper. Lin Yuxi: Buy a house and land, settle in Chang’an, and live a wealthy, carefree life with fine food and wine for company. Qin Yue: I’ve established my career. It’s time to start a family. (A transmigration story in an i 197Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 41 I Opened a Food Shop in Bianjing 我在汴京开食铺 Su Tang opens an eatery on Majia Street in Bianjing. Every day, she's either experimenting with new dishes or going out to visit friends. In autumn, there's tea brewed over a brazier, osmanthus sweet-bean paste dumplings, and roasted milk tea with osmanthus honey dumplings. In winter, there's plum-blossom soup noodles, plum-blossom honey, boiled meat and vegetables, and candied hawthorn skewers. In spring, there's osmanthus cake, spring platters, wontons with bamboo shoots and bracken, green ric 736Reads—Score101Shelves
- 42 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
- 43 Transmigrating to the Northern Song: A Wet Nurse’s Daughter’s Life in the Kitchen 穿越北宋：奶娘女儿的厨娘日常 [Farming and Food] [Everyday Street Life] [Slice of Life] A modern girl woke one day in the Northern Song dynasty as the daughter of a wet nurse in an official's household. She watched the scheming around the county magistrate's legitimate daughter, the girl her mother had nursed, the tenth daughter of the Li family. Now called Tan Yawen, with the childhood nickname Wenjie'er, the little girl thought it over and over. Become the tenth young lady's personal maid, as her mother wanted? No, no. Ser 1.3kReads8.1Score119Shelves
- 44 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
- 45 The Little Lucky Star of the Farm: Her Three Brothers Can't Stop Spoiling Her 农门小福星：三个哥哥宠不停 After transmigrating, Huo Xiaonuan finds her whole family penniless, so she devotes herself to making money and helping them build a better life. Along the way, she also happens to play matchmaker for her three older brothers. “Eldest Brother, I rescued your wife while I was out and about.” “Second Brother, your wife came over because she smelled the food I cooked and couldn’t resist.” “Third Brother, your wife followed you because she got curious after I told her how strong you are.” A certain 180Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 46 This God of Cooking Really Wants to Teach Everyone 这个厨神真想教会大家 [Cooking + Dad Life + Technical Skills + No System] Feng Zheng only wanted to run his family’s little restaurant well, win back his first love, and give his daughter a warm, complete home. He never expected that livestreaming his cooking to attract customers would make him an internet sensation. His dish of eel in sizzling oil taught housewives across the country how to prepare eel at home. His delicate tofu soup became the standard for knife skills among the nation’s top chefs. His braised pork 183Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 47 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 484Reads8.5Score100Shelves
- 48 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. 154Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 49 Using My Cooking Skills to Put Meat on the Whole Family’s Table 靠厨艺让全家吃上肉 Food · pocket dimension · sweet romance Title: South Mountain Smoke Also known as: How I Used My Cooking to Put Meat on the Whole Family’s Table A cozy, sweet little story~ Companionship, growing together, and love that blossoms over time~ This story is set in a fictional world. Its place names, countries, and prices have no real-world equivalents. This is not a wish-fulfillment story. If you want an invincible heroine, please move along~ … Ahhh! The Heir of Prince Mingyang has finally returned 1.2kReads9.2Score162Shelves
- 50 Transmigrated to an Alternate World, the Prince's Daughter Is a Brilliant Cook 穿越架空，王府千金她厨艺绝佳 [Food + System + Business Management + A Little Court Intrigue + One True Pair, Both Pure] An illustrator and foodie unexpectedly binds to a food System and transmigrates into an alternate dynasty. She never expected that, despite having no close family ties, she would become a cherished young lady of the prince’s household. She thought that if she simply followed the System’s instructions, practiced her cooking, and sold food, she could live out her days in peace. But life does not go as she ho 264Reads—Score—Shelves
