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.
- 101 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
- 102 Unwavering Love: A Food Blogger in the 1970s 深情不渝：美食博主在七零 Gu Yu is a nighttime food blogger. All she did was try out a popcorn machine, and it sent her to the 1970s, a place where everything is in short supply! Luckily, her giant supermarket came along too, complete with a spring of spirit water. Gu Yu can’t tell if this is heaven’s way of making it up to her. From then on, the Gu family’s table, where they used to be so poor they could only eat coarse rice porridge, is laden with delicious dishes: braised wild rabbit, fish with pickled cabbage, garlic 2.1kReads7.2Score168Shelves
- 103 Selling Egg Fried Rice at a Street Stall, Wielding My Spatula Until the Wok Smokes! 摆摊卖蛋炒饭，抡得锅铲都冒烟！ Food + Games + Challenges + Comfort Food + Heartwarming + Showbiz + No Romance After her contract expires, Shi Yi chooses to leave showbiz. By chance, she is selected by a food game, which requires her to take a little three-wheeled cart out to sell food every day. Level One: Sell ten-yuan boxed meals and throw in a bottle of water! The customers can’t believe what a bargain it is! “Boss Shi, I’ll have an order of braised ribs!” “Oh my gosh, you’ve even got king crab?!” “Boss Shi must be running 3.9kReads7.5Score407Shelves
- 104 A Family in a Little Village 小村人家 [Farming + Food + No System + No Romance + Building a Career] When Li Yun wakes up, she is still Li Yun, but not quite the same Li Yun anymore. She has been reborn as Li Yunniang in Anyang Village. Her father dotes on her, her mother loves her, and her older brothers and sisters-in-law spoil her. She has plenty to eat and drink, but not a penny to her name. No matter. Let's see how Yunniang leads her family in farming and storing grain, then makes delicious food to sell at a stall. She builds wo 246Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 105 My Husband Is Strange, and She Laughed 夫郎不正常，她笑了 [Reverse Harem, Golden Finger, Food, Household Intrigue, Sweet Romance, Lighthearted] As a woman who transmigrated, Shen Qingruo made herself a tidy little fortune in just one year, then happily and comfortably decided to lie flat. That was until the authorities forced her to marry a husband, or rather, six of them. Shen Qingruo’s happiness vanished. And so began her quest to find husbands. A cold and dignified leader of a martial arts sect; a delicate, frail young master from a wealthy family. 163Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 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
- 107 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
- 108 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
- 109 I Became a Starwide Sensation by Livestreaming Gourmet Food 我靠美食直播爆红全星际 Wen Tian, a food blogger popular with everyone, transmigrated. The good news was that she had arrived in a technologically advanced interstellar future. The bad news was that her height and weight were now the same, and this interstellar age was a culinary wasteland. To make a living, Wen Tian decided to return to her old profession. She would livestream her cooking while losing weight. She never expected her skills to be so good that they would draw ridicule. “If you can make ramen yourself, I’ 570Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 110 Gourmet: Xiao Fugui Has Become My Gourmet Demon 美食：小福贵竟成了我的美食恶魔 (Gourmet cooking) (Lighthearted) Zhou Hao transmigrates into the world of Toriko. It’s paradise for chefs and foodies! There are steaks and rice growing on trees, islands made of ice cream, and even rivers of milk and chocolate! Everyone can enjoy the deliciousness of food. Then he discovers that the Gourmet Demon he’s awakened is actually Little Master, the genius chef! That’s right, the one with a golden finger who can make an ordinary radish taste like meat! Now he’s determined to show this w 2.2kReads8.4Score155Shelves
- 111 Wow! The General’s Wife’s Tea Treats Were Snatched Up Again 哇趣！将军夫人做的茶点又抢光了 [Transmigration + food + cozy vibes + adorable kids + love that grows over time] Yang Chuxue and her younger brother, Yang Chudong, depend on each other. They both die in a car accident! When she wakes up, she discovers she has transmigrated to ancient times, into the family of a farming household that has just gone bankrupt in business. She has a strange illness and already has two children from the start. Fortunately, her family dotes on her. She used to work as a dim sum chef in a Cantonese t 1.1kReads8.7Score113Shelves
- 112 Two Stunning Sisters with Amazing Cooking Skills, Leaving Diners Squealing for More 绝色双姝厨艺妙，馋哭食客哇哇叫 (The rating only came out on February 8 and is slowly climbing) [Double-female-lead business story (pure friendship) + romance + both leads are each other's only partners + food + lighthearted] Yu Zhile and her best friend, He Sitian, were killed by an object thrown from a great height. When they opened their eyes, they had transmigrated to the Nan Yu Kingdom as two orphan girls. Their adoptive father had just passed away. The bad news: They had no one to turn to, were dirt poor, and had the wor 1kReads8.6Score163Shelves
- 113 My Restaurant Connects to a Thousand Worlds 我的食肆通万界 Quick Transmigration + No Romance + Gourmet + Everyday Life + Shopkeeper Stories World One: Total War of Resistance (Complete) World Two: An Lushan Rebellion (Complete) World Three: Human Apocalypse (Ongoing) Xin Yi, a recent food science graduate, has always dreamed of opening a restaurant of her own. She unlocks all kinds of gourmet recipes and connects multiple parallel worlds. In every era and place, people suddenly discover a simple little shop that wasn’t there before, its air filled with 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Reborn: Farming in the Deep Mountains and Selling Mushrooms 重生之深山老林种田上山卖菌子 P.S. [Food Story]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [No Space]+ [No System]+ [No Awful Relatives] A Heartwarming Family's Everyday Life, Building a Life from Nothing At first, she works hard selling snacks. Later, she opens a hot pot restaurant and a cake shop! A heartwarming food story with no awful relatives. Best enjoyed with takeout at night! Setting up a street stall to sell braised pork intestines, tiger-skin chicken feet, spicy crayfish, spicy boiled fish, poached pork slices, mixed vegetables and ed 155Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Farming in a Fishing Village: The Lucky Carp's Sweet, Tender Bride 渔村种田，锦鲤甜妻软又娇 Food blogger Li Ying opened and closed her eyes, and found herself in ancient times, suddenly a mother... Her mother-in-law was unkind, her brother-in-law overbearing, and her husband indifferent... With a pocket dimension and one hundred thousand coconuts, Li Ying flipped the table. She was done with this! She was taking the kids and running away! After ending up in a small fishing village, Li Ying’s eyes widened. Those seafood products being sold for next to nothing could all be turned into de 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 The Rising Foodie 进击的美食达人 [Secret Crush Turns Real + Sweet Romance + Workplace + Everyday Life + Inspirational] Her classmates mocked her as “petty and hopeless,” saying she was only fit to scrape by at a small company. But through her own efforts, she created the hugely popular food channel “Feast on Fire.” One day, she accidentally let her true identity slip, leaving everyone stunned! Fans: “I always thought you were a huge fatty. I never imagined you’d be such a beauty! You love eating so much, yet you’re still that s 265Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 117 Random Food Stall: My Customers Keep Making Group Chats to Track Me Down 随机美食摆摊，顾客纷纷建群堵我 Tang Chen, from a parallel world, unexpectedly gets a food-stall System. Each month, the System randomly chooses a location and a type of food. Successfully setting up shop earns Food Points, which can be used for lucky draws. To his surprise, the stall wins over wave after wave of customers. They even set up hundreds of group chats to track down Boss Tang. The moment he opens his stall, they want to be first in line. 830Reads6.4Score101Shelves
- 118 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
- 119 A Taste of Jiangnan 江南小食记 Jiangnan water-town setting + laid-back daily life + gourmet business + no romance + adorable little sister After transmigrating into a family in a Jiangnan water town, Jiang Yun decides to lie flat and make the most of eating and having fun! She runs a little shop by the river and enjoys the slow, easygoing rhythm of life in Jiangnan. At home, she makes soft, chewy osmanthus rice cakes, pork belly braised with bamboo shoots, and fragrant beggar's chicken that draws people from every corner of 2kReads—Score174Shelves
- 120 Gourmet: A Restaurant Across from the High School 美食：高中对面开饭馆 [Everyday life + delicious food] [Male protagonist] [No romance] The romance tag wasn’t my choice, sob Orz [July 28: I just saw that the rating is up! Thank you all for rating my story (bows). Thanks for your support.] Yao Yiji works overtime to support his sister’s two children, then collapses at his desk. Bound to System 677, he’s told that completing his mission will send him back to the day before he died suddenly. After the mission ends, he returns to the present day with System 677. He pla 634Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 121 Fired, I Opened a Restaurant 被辞退，开了一家美食店 [System + Everyday Life + Taking Care of a Girl + Sweet Romance + Food] Xu Ziqi refuses to work overtime and gets fired. He plans to return to his hometown, but unexpectedly binds himself to a God of Food System and opens a restaurant there. From the start, he gets the [Divine Steamed Bun Skills], making passersby drool and even attracting the campus belle to work for him for free. He unlocks [Magical Congee], which cures patients who have suffered from anorexia for years. He unlocks [Divine Sna 844Reads8.5Score100Shelves
- 122 Gourmet: Touring the City with My Food Stall, Making Diners Drool 美食：全市巡摆，馋哭食客 [Gourmet + System + No Romance + No Female Lead + Heartwarming + Hard Work] Yan Qing, a minor actor who had spent his career playing corpses, quit the entertainment industry. To his surprise, he accidentally became bound to a Chef God Gourmet System. Before long, strange sights began appearing all over the streets of S City: the CBD, university gates, outside the film studio, by the cemetery... The lines stretched as far as the eye could see... A top star became his loyal customer and shamelessl 10.4kReads7.5Score825Shelves
- 123 The Foodie Heir and His Charming Chef 吃货世子俏厨娘 Her parents are both dead, and she has only two old servants by her side. Their money is stolen and their house is burned down. Where can they go from here? It's time to unleash her inner power! Watch her gather herbs in the mountains and turn junk into treasure, then fish in the river and enjoy a bountiful harvest year after year. Others keep cats, but she keeps a leopard. Watch her adorable pets cause a stir in the capital: Some glutton: “Fat cat! Put down that piece of meat. It's mine!” The l 349Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 124 Gourmet: Mr. Ye, Where Do You Think You'll Run This Time? 美食：叶先生，看你这次往哪跑 [Everyday Life] [No Romance] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [A Good Read Over Meals] In his previous life, Ye Fan had an accident and was dragged to the underworld by Ox-Head and Horse-Face. With a wave of his hand, King Yama changed Ye Fan's fate. He is given a brand-new identity as a master chef. Watch him complete his missions while enjoying life. Random dishes, random street-stall locations, one thing always stays the same: everything tastes amazing! Selling buns beside a restroom, lobster outs 904Reads6.6Score100Shelves
- 125 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
- 126 The Top Chef in a Culinary Wasteland 我在美食荒漠当第一厨娘 Bai Qingwan, the owner of a private kitchen, was hit by a car while saving someone and transmigrated into the body of a farm girl with the same name in a fictional dynasty, whose surname was Yong. To her surprise, this place was a culinary wasteland that didn't even have soy sauce. Her family lived by the mountains and near the sea, yet what they ate was the sort of stuff even pigs wouldn't touch. Then she found herself bound to the Huaxia Cuisine System. To help her fulfill her mission of sprea 817Reads8.8Score109Shelves
- 127 Forced to Leave Showbiz, I Inherited a Food System 被迫退圈后，我继承了美食系统 [Food-focused, no melodrama, lighthearted, one-on-one romance] As a little-known actress, Jiang Ran has always worked diligently and conscientiously. But then disaster struck. She was disfigured and blacklisted across the internet, leaving her no choice but to slink home and inherit her grandfather’s estate. A desolate courtyard and a crumbling apartment building nearly made Jiang Ran’s eyes roll back. Luckily, she got bound to a Food System and began her climb to the top. She started with a str 1.5kReads8.4Score184Shelves
- 128 She Conquers the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 她靠美食征服全京城 After she accidentally transmigrates to ancient times, Chu Yunxiang wins over the stomachs of everyone in the capital with modern-day skewers, zhajiangmian, hot pot, and more. Even the current emperor is no exception. Someone recognizes the emperor in disguise, sneaking out late at night to eat skewers at Yunlai Restaurant. The emperor, pretending to be calm: “You’ve got the wrong person.” Someone else recognizes the Ghost Doctor of the martial world. “Look at these ragged clothes. How do I look 379Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 129 The Mountain Village Gourmet 山村美食家 Clever, adorable, mischievous pets; peaceful pastoral scenery that soothes both body and mind; and breathtaking mountain landscapes. With peerless culinary skills and wondrous treasures, Chen Guanlan returns to the mountains of southwest China, where an extraordinary life unfolds in spectacular fashion. 1.3kReads8.8Score101Shelves
- 130 Food and Sex Are Human Nature 食色性也 Your cooking is a lot like the food I love, and you happen to be just like the person I love. Shang Tian had never met anyone as obsessed with food as Luo Jun. He was a perfect gentleman when he went out, but at home he polished off every meal, scraping the bottom of the pot clean. Even a simple roasted sweet potato could make his eyes sparkle! And Shang Tian loved it. Her cooking was being praised, and by such a handsome man, too. He was a feast for the eyes, and it was truly delightful. Before 39Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 131 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Made a Fortune with My Rugged Husband 穿越古代，带糙汉相公发家致富 [Historical romance + farming and commerce + sweet romance + food + rugged husband and lovely wife] Su Qingqing transmigrated into a dynasty that had never existed in history. Looking at her dilapidated home and her husband, whose clothes were covered in patches, she decided to build her fortune in ancient times with her own two hands! The first step to getting rich: Su Qingqing dusted off her signature skill, selling braised pork rice! Next came braised pork ramen, milk tea, spicy hot pot, and 679Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 132 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
- 133 With Cotton in Hand, I Have Nothing to Worry About 空间在手，一棉无忧 (Food, street stalls, and opening shops: step by step, she builds a fortune and enjoys endless delicacies.) Modern-day Jiang Xiaoxiao transmigrates into the body of Jiang Yimian, a peasant girl in ancient times. She stares speechlessly at the sky and curses the rotten heavens. What kind of awful family have they dumped her in?! Three dilapidated thatched huts, drafty and leaky, perfect for stargazing, moon-gazing, and sunbathing, with all the essentials included. Thin black porridge, perfect for 65Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 134 The Shen Family Cookbook 沈氏食经 Through the lens of food, we observe the myriad aspects of society and the twists and turns of life. Every dish is more than a culinary craft: it is human connection, memory, and a philosophy for living. Follow Shen Yan through his many experiences as he rises from poverty to become a renowned master chef. 1kReads7.1Score134Shelves
- 135 The Blessed Girl of the Farming Village 农门福女 No System + No Pocket Dimension + No Palace or Household Intrigue + Food A food blogger from the 21st century transmigrates to an unknown dynasty. She has a widowed grandmother and mother to support, along with twin younger brothers and a baby sister. Looking at their dilapidated thatched hut and her frail siblings, Li Qinghe rolls up her sleeves and gets to work, determined to lead the whole family to prosperity. Putting her past-life skills to use, she starts with a street stall, then opens a 690Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 136 A Farmer’s Happy Little Life 农家红火小日子 A cool-faced but warm-hearted young general X a beautiful, skillful country girl Zhou Qinghe worked herself so hard that she fainted. When she opened her eyes, she had become a peasant girl in ancient times, with too little to eat, too little to wear, and a house that let in both wind and rain. Luckily, her grandmother is kind, her parents are honest and hardworking, and her younger brother is bright and sensible. As for those awful relatives, they can get lost as far away as possible! Zhou Qing 3.8kReads8.7Score318Shelves
- 137 A Chef Who Can’t Grow Vegetables Isn’t a Good Landlady 不会种菜的厨师不是好包租婆 At the crucial moment of his training, Zhu Ganglie crashes into Jiang Qingxi. Her vision goes black, then white, and... closes again. When she opens her eyes, she’s back in her life before last? In that life, she had land, a house, and a car in the countryside, but insisted on heading to the big city to make her way in the world. Before she could get anywhere, she died and woke up in another world. Her master brought her into the trade, and after twenty years she was about to succeed. Who would 1.1kReads6.9Score104Shelves
- 138 What? The Management Game Became Real! 什么？经营游戏成真了！ [Mainly business and progression + no romance + leisurely daily life + healing + pocket worlds] From the start, all she had was a tea egg, and it launched a whole street of gourmet food. What? Her tea eggs boost your health? What? Her hot pot makes you look younger? What? Her milk tea keeps you from losing sleep? … Feng Zhu had been an orphan since childhood. She had spent twenty years doing her best to get by, only to be diagnosed with cancer and given less than a year to live. Just as she was 705Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 139 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
- 140 A Record of Picking Up Chopsticks 拾箸记 The Marquis of Yongning’s household is suddenly destroyed, and Wen Qingyuan dies of illness, alone and helpless in prison. But after waking from a long dream, she finds that four years have passed and two dynasties have come and gone! Once a pampered young lady, she has fallen to become a lowly kitchen girl in the residence of the current chief minister. All she can do is work hard in the small kitchen to secure a place for herself. But… is this chief minister a sweets addict? 219Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 141 Gourmet: Selling Meals at School Sends Students and Teachers into a Frenzy 美食：学校卖饭，师生抢疯了 [Gourmet | Everyday Life | Lighthearted | Relaxing | Slow-Paced | Comforting] Jiang Fan got a Gourmet System and rented a small food stall in his school cafeteria. “There aren’t any students eating here. You should close up.” “The food’s terrible. You’ll be out of business in a few days.” “Here comes another idiot, selling food in this place.” Everyone mocked him. Jiang Fan ignored them and checked his mission. He had to sell a hundred shaomai in one day. Could he pull that off? “Wow, these shao 2.6kReads7.1Score180Shelves
- 142 A Prosperous Era's Chef: Too Bad My Husband Lives to Eat 盛世厨娘：奈何夫君是吃货 An accident sent Lin Jiu, a twenty-four-year-old Chinese chef, transmigrating into the body of a dim-witted fourteen-year-old girl in Jiangzhou City, Great Qi. It was a strange dynasty, but it was just as full of food lovers. So Lin Jiu drew on her excellent modern cooking skills to spark a food craze in Great Qi and lead an entirely new culinary trend. What Lin Jiu didn't expect was that as her fame grew, she would also catch the eye of a certain scheming foodie… 396Reads8.3Score106Shelves
- 143 Golden Yams and Silver Beans 金薯银豆 Synopsis: Transmigration + fictional setting + farming + no spatial dimension + no golden finger + making money + gourmet food After transmigrating, the heroine discovers that her family is in a terrible situation, her village is in a terrible situation, and the farmers in this country are having a terrible time! It really is a case of fields lying fallow across the land while farmers still starve to death! She introduces sweet potatoes, potatoes, and chili peppers to make all kinds of delicious 1.2kReads6.6Score108Shelves
- 144 Transmigrating to Conquer the Ancients with Food 穿越用美食征服古代人 A sweet, capable little husband (the one who receives) and a doting, rugged hunter (the one who gives) A fluffy romance! A fluffy romance! Ye Zhiqiu transmigrates to ancient times. When he wakes up, he discovers that he's in the body of a boy who shares his name. This place is backward, and people don't have enough to eat or warm clothes to wear. Even their clothes are patched, and life is truly hard. To make sure they have enough to eat and wear, he rolls up his sleeves and starts cooking delic 282Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 145 Selling Barbecue Outside a Temple, I Get Chased Across the Country by Foodies 寺庙门口卖烧烤，吃货追着我全国 [A new city every week, forced to set up a random food stall!] [Food + everyday life + comedy + comfort food + no romance + healing] Chen Mo accidentally binds to a random food-stall System. Every week, he transmigrates to an unfamiliar city and has to sell its local snacks. The results... He sells extra-spicy grilled skewers outside a thousand-year-old temple, juicy scallion pancakes by West Lake, and ice-and-fire pineapple buns at the foot of a snowy mountain! In every city he has “wreaked ha 226Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 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
- 147 The Little Chef God of the Song Dynasty 宋朝小厨神 After waking up drunk, Yang Donghao, a graduate of New Oriental Culinary School, discovered that he had somehow transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty: the Song Kingdom. And so... Popcorn became all the rage in the capital, beloved by everyone from princes and nobles to ordinary folk. Mixue milk tea won over even the fussy palates of princesses and the empress. As for jianbing guozi and youtiao with soy milk, they became the emperor's daily breakfast. Food is the people's first necessity, and go 8.2kReads8.8Score899Shelves
- 148 A Trillion in Supplies: I Transmigrate as a Vicious Woman and Raise the Kids 千亿物资：穿成极品恶女养崽崽 [Space + food + raising children + farming + infrastructure development + sweet romance] When she woke up, she had transmigrated into the body of a nasty, spoiled woman who was lazy and gluttonous, beat her husband, and mistreated the children. Gu An'an refused to accept it. Her family was so poor they could barely scrape by. The children were gaunt from hunger, and her sickly husband looked as if he could die at any moment. And on top of all that, there were droughts, locust plagues, and a deva 577Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 149 I Opened a Restaurant Beside a Funeral Home, and It's Packed 殡仪馆旁开饭店，人都挤爆了 [Outlandish food settings] [Funny and lighthearted] [Everyday comfort reading] [No female lead] [Early settings: a funeral home, a school, a Middle Eastern battlefield, a food stall at home...] Lin Chong inherits the noodle shop beside his second uncle's funeral home and activates a Gourmet System. The only problem is, this Gourmet System goes haywire from time to time. Setting: a funeral home. His food makes customers so hungry that they sleep on the ground outside the funeral home in the middl 12.6kReads8.6Score679Shelves
- 150 The Minister I Brought Home: My Wife Is a Feast for the Eyes 家养权臣：娇妻秀色可餐 Song Yu knew that Shen Sanlang, who seemed frail and sickly to outsiders, would one day rise to high office and wield power over the court. She didn't care how rich or powerful he might become. She only hoped he wouldn't torment her to death like he did in the original book. After transmigrating into a book, she didn't squander his family's fortune, drive his mother to her grave, or sell off his younger siblings. She even helped grow the Shen family's restaurant business. So, once he earned his 721Reads8.7Score105Shelves
