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- 101 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.3kReads8.7Score1.2k14d adds
- 102 Bound to a Gourmet System, I Become the God of Food by Opening a Restaurant 绑定美食系统，我靠开店成食神 The rating just came out! Feel free to start reading~ (Food + no romance + System + lighthearted comedy + everyday healing) Boss Xie will never get a partner!! Your System and my System don’t seem to be the same~ Other people’s food Systems: max level with one click, instant culinary godhood, become the God of Food without lifting a finger! Xie Yan’s food System: start from scratch and unlock things one step at a time. Xie Yan spread his hands. It’s fine, it’s fine. Having one is better than hav 23.8kReads8.1Score2.2k14d adds
- 103 Cosmic Invasion: I Rebuild Blue Star Through Food and Business 宇宙入侵：我靠美食经营重振蓝星 [Food] [Business Simulation] [Wasteland] [Infinite Worlds] [Rules-Based Horror] [System] One food cart from the start, and customers chase me for eight whole blocks! Jiang Yao transmigrates to Blue Star in the year 4026. People here survive entirely on nutritional soil, but she awakens a food business System! With premium ingredients from the shop and recipes for cuisines from the twenty-first century, she will rescue the wasteland Blue Star from its culinary desert! An invasion from the whole u 28Reads—Score10314d adds
- 104 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 184Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 105 A Beautiful Married Woman Shows Up at My Door on Opening Day 开店第一天，美妇堵上门 [Food + doting dad + entrepreneurship + romance + everyday urban life] Zhang Yang unexpectedly comes across an all-purpose secret recipe for delicious food. He quits his job at once to start a business, opening a shop selling braised dishes. Other shops offer opening deals where the more you buy, the more you save. But at his shop, the more you buy, the more expensive each dish gets. The customers watching from the sidelines condemn Zhang Yang as a greedy profiteer, while their mouths water unco 226Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 106 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 906Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 107 Gourmet: Stop Stewing It, Even the Village Dogs Are Drooling! 美食：别炖了，村里狗都馋哭了！ Kuang Rui refuses to get caught up in the rat race and chooses to lie flat back in his hometown. He inherits his father’s braised meat shop and, after rejecting the rat race, gains a Food System. Together, they breathe new life into the shop. The humble home-cooked dishes that once went unnoticed are transformed into viral hits that customers flock to check in and try. Take steamed stinky tofu with minced meat, for example. It smells awful but tastes delicious, and one bite is enough to leave y 2.4kReads6.4Score15614d adds
- 108 A Brain-Cell-Killing Sweet Romance 降智小甜饼 A modern college graduate writing her thesis transmigrates into the body of an unloved princess consort! Armed with a business System as her golden finger, she can return to her original world as soon as her sales reach the System’s target. Together, she and the System set out to build a fortune. With her superb cooking skills and modern know-how, she thrives in the ancient world. She even manages to lead the aloof prince astray. The System’s most frequent line is: “Could you two stop showing of 4Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 109 I Sell Grilled Cold Noodles, and the Gourmet Association Has Its Eye on Me 摆摊烤冷面，我被美食协会盯上了 (Food + Northeastern Chinese snacks + all kinds of other snacks + System + no romance + laid-back daily life + livestreaming, entrepreneurship, and opening a shop + steady rise to success) Yu Duoduo quit her job in the prime of her life, at just twenty-two. Working for someone else is hard. It’s enough to drive you into a funk. Yu Duoduo: Entrepreneurship! I have to start a business! When she looked at the terrible grilled cold noodles in front of her, tears of excitement welled up in her eyes! 54Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 110 Quick Transmigration: Mission, Spread Gourmet Food Across the Universe! 快穿：目标，将美食传遍全宇宙！ [Food + ensemble cast + a stronger nation + no romance] Shen Muqing was bound to a food System and returned to her previous life. Her mission was simple: make delicious food in different worlds and bring happiness to her customers through the pleasure of eating. In her first life, she was reborn as a wealthy heiress who kept losing money every time she opened a shop, yet persevered in pursuing her dream. Shen's father and mother: “Sweetheart, why don't you just come home and inherit the family f 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The University President Can Cook, and Faculty and Students Work Themselves to the Bone 大学校长会做饭，师生全往死里干 [Gourmet] [No heroine] At a very young age, Xu Ji becomes a university president. He assumes the organization has entrusted him with an important responsibility, only to discover that the university is already slated to close. It can't even qualify for a ranking, and is worse than a diploma mill. It turns out he's only there to hold the fort until the bitter end. Just when Xu Ji is despairing, he binds himself to a Gourmet System. The stronger the school becomes, the more plentiful its rewards. 77Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 112 He Vanishes from His Night Market Stall, Driving All His Customers Crazy 他夜市摆摊玩失踪，食客们全疯了 [Food + heartwarming + laid-back + business + street stall + no female lead] “Stop eating, stop eating! Take a look at yourselves. Do you even look like actors anymore? You're as round as balls!” Hearing the director's warning, a certain top-tier star tearfully polished off a bowl of braised pork. “Director, I promise, I promise I'll start working hard to lose weight tomorrow!” The director flew into a rage, snatched the braised pork, and took a bite. He was about to say, “Is this it?!” Then he 1.7kReads7.0Score11114d adds
- 113 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 1.1kReads8.4Score12114d adds
- 114 Your Five-Yuan All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant: What the Heck Is King Crab? 你五元自助饭店，帝王蟹什么鬼？ [Gourmet] [Everyday Life] [Meme References] [Comedy] [Cozy] After transmigrating, Lin Xiao inherited a tiny roadside all-you-can-eat restaurant where everything cost five yuan. From the start, he was in a tight spot, unable to pay next month's rent. Luckily, the [Ultimate Restaurant System] came with him! All he has to do is collect customers' emotional points to unlock all kinds of cuisines and expand the restaurant. And so, a disruptive force in the all-you-can-eat fast-food world was born. Fr 3.4kReads7.9Score38614d adds
- 115 Giant River Crabs Are Taking Over? I’ll Eat Them Until They’re Protected 大闸蟹泛滥？我给吃成保护动物 [Gourmet] [Comedy] [No romance] [Heartwarming] [Everyday life] [Perfect mealtime reading] That year, an invasive species crisis struck the United States. All kinds of plants and animals multiplied out of control: mitten crabs and crayfish took over school campuses; locusts and cicadas caused massive natural disasters on farms; cunning wild rabbits and boars ravaged the crops before running off; and wild mushrooms grew rampant across the hillsides... The Americans tried every solution they coul 640Reads7.3Score11914d adds
- 116 Gourmet: I Take My Little Sister to Kindergarten and Make the Teachers Drool 美食：带妹妹去幼儿园，馋哭老师 [Gourmet]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Comedy]+ [Comfort Food]+ [Dad]+ [Adorable Kids]+ [Heartwarming]+ [Healing] Zhou Lin took his little sister to apply for a chef position at a kindergarten, only to face a challenge from a five-star chef. He won the cooking contest and became the head chef at Shuitian Kindergarten. From then on, teachers at kindergartens all over town tried everything they could to get a taste of Zhou Lin’s cooking. Parents did everything they could to transfer their children to Shuiti 673Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 117 I'm Investigating a Case, So Why Are the Diners Chasing Me? 我查案啊，食客怎么追着我跑？ Lin Feng graduated from the police academy and became an undercover plainclothes officer, only to awaken a Gourmet System. He set up a stall selling jianbing guozi and gathered intelligence, but ended up surrounded by a huge crowd of customers. He went up into the mountains to sell barbecue and gather intelligence, but customers climbed the mountain through the night just to get a bite, turning a deserted hill into a bustling town. Lin Feng: I'm undercover, okay? Why are all you customers chasin 249Reads6.7Score10614d adds
- 118 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 2.6kReads7.1Score19014d adds
- 119 Running a Restaurant That Makes Everyone Drool 经营一家饭店，馋哭所有人 Step right up, don’t miss out! A fresh-from-the-oven food story is here~ Zhou Yuan’s vision went black. He transmigrated back from the apocalypse and gained a Food System, setting out on an inspiring journey of running food stalls across different worlds. In the modern world, Zhou Yuan is a ruthless boss who makes countless customers drool with envy. In the Underworld, countless red-clad vengeful ghosts secretly fall for him. In the vast cultivation world, the top powers issue recruitment orders 899Reads8.9Score11914d adds
- 120 The Foodie Has Arrived: Tremble, Monsters! 吃货驾到，妖兽们颤抖吧！ [Everyday foodie life]+ [Gourmet]+ [Pure physical strength]+ [System]+ [Pocket dimension] What happens when a professional chef who loves good food transmigrates to a world overrun by demons? They're all top-quality ingredients. I'm a chef. There's nothing wrong with being a little strong, right? I'm a chef. There's nothing wrong with carrying a kitchen knife around, right? “Azure Dragon, bring me your dragon liver nice and easy. Don't make me come get it myself!” “Phoenix, be a good bird and I' 2.7kReads7.5Score27114d adds
- 121 Urban: Teaching My Daughter Otherworldly Skills, Getting a Hundredfold Return 都市：教女儿阴间技能，百倍返还 As society pays more and more attention to children's education and well-being, Mango TV and CCTV have teamed up to produce the variety show Fatherly Love. Dads born in the 1980s focus on strict, attentive parenting, while dads born in the 1990s favor a more relaxed approach and letting kids grow freely. When Su Yang, a dad born in the 2000s, and his daughter Su Xiaoyu join the show, viewers notice that the atmosphere starts to change. At the welcome party, the other kids show off their talents 990Reads7.2Score10814d adds
- 122 I Returned to College and Used a Gourmet System to Make the Whole Campus Drool 重回大学靠美食系统馋哭全校学生 [System] [Food] [Rebirth] [Business] [Comedy] [Slice of Life] Reborn in her freshman year of college and bound to a Food System, Shi Sui uses her secret seasonings to make delicious, aromatic healthy meals in her dorm, driving her dieting roommates wild with hunger. The aroma wafts everywhere, and the whole campus comes rushing over. The calorie-conscious eaters are thrilled, students studying for exams feel fully recharged, and one bite soothes the heartbreak of a lovesick upperclasswoman. Even 906Reads—Score11114d adds
- 123 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Feast, but I Made the Imperial Banquet Chef Drool 让你农村烧大席，你馋哭国宴主厨 He transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a food System. Qing Yun, an unemployed man who has returned to his hometown, begins his rise to the top by cooking grand feasts in the countryside. First, an old woman wants one last taste of her own funeral banquet before she dies at ninety. Then a baby at a full-month celebration cries their eyes out because the food looks so good... With no other choice, Qing Yun takes up his giant wok again and again. “Red-braised pork knuckle, oil-splashed a 1.6kReads8.7Score10814d adds
- 124 Gourmet: From Country-Style Banquets to a Better Life! 美食：从农村烧大席开始奔小康！ Illustrations throughout [System, food, reborn, farming, warm everyday life] Wang Cheng suddenly returns to the 1980s and binds to a Chef God Training System. In his previous life, he aimed too high and ended up dying suddenly at his factory job, tightening screws. This time, he returns to the countryside. With a few plates and bowls, eight cold dishes and eight hot ones, chicken, fish, pork knuckles, and meat dishes that disappear as soon as they hit the table, he’ll rule the world with nothing 559Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 125 I Sell Lunch Boxes, So Isn't It Only Natural for the School Cafeteria to Go Under? 我卖盒饭，学校食堂倒闭很正常吧 [Food + comedy + one heroine + transmigration + System] Lu Rong rents a small stall on a college campus to sell boxed meals, but business is so poor that he's on the verge of closing down. Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakens a Super Gourmet System and instantly becomes a top chef. A simple plate of egg fried rice is enough to draw countless students and teachers to his stall. Then Lu Rong starts offering even more top-quality dishes, and the whole campus goes wild. Everyone joins the rank 1.2kReads8.6Score10014d adds
- 126 You Opened a Restaurant, So Why Are You Serving Customers at Three in the Morning? 让你开美食店，你凌晨三点营业？ [Gourmet]+ [Urban Fantasy]+ [Comedy]+ [Healing]+ [No Female Lead] Recently unemployed Lu Feng was planning to sell the little restaurant his parents left him, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. One quest each week, a random dish, and random opening hours. He turns ordinary dishes into peerless delicacies, and ravenous customers line up and scramble to get them. Customer One: Boss Lu, these soup dumplings are the best I've ever had in my life! Customer Two: I even threw out my 467Reads7.2Score10514d adds
- 127 I Left with Nothing, but Was Rewarded with a Small Shopfront 净身出户，奖励一间小门面 Chen Fan was selected by his university for postgraduate study, but after marrying because of an unexpected pregnancy, he became a househusband. Five years later, Rong Hui had built a successful career and found fault with Chen Fan at every turn. So, after a period of cold war, the two divorced. To win custody of his son, Chen Fan not only gave up their 80 million yuan in marital assets, but also the home he had bought before they married. Then he unexpectedly gained the Perfect Life System and 1.7kReads7.9Score12614d adds
- 128 The Gourmet Blind Box Is Wild: The Host Draws, Then the Customers Do 美食盲盒有点疯，宿主抽完顾客抽 [Gourmet + No CP + Perfect With a Meal + Cozy + Street Stalls + Comedy + Career-Focused] After being reborn in a parallel world, Qin Yi arrives in Rainbow City. She binds to a Gourmet blind-box street-stall System. At first, the location, time, and tasks are all randomly drawn. Later, even the food comes in blind boxes. From bowls of late-night rice noodles for 50 yuan to floral cake rolls for 200 yuan. From all kinds of little meatballs to a blind-box lunchbox truck with a thousand different di 530Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 129 I Was Promised a Gourmet System, So Why Am I Possessed by a Ghost? 说好的美食系统，怎么是鬼上身 Lighthearted comedy + food + running a business + rural revitalization + fake System (No suspense or horror, just everyday life and food.) When Xiang Yunduan was broke and about to sleep on the street, a voice appeared in her mind, claiming to be a “System.” System: Go bow three times in front of the “I Miss You So Much at xx” road sign, and I’ll make you rich! Xiang Yunduan: Are you nuts? The next second, Xiang Yunduan dropped to her knees. “Are three enough? If not, I’ll do thirty. System, ple 27.5kReads9.2Score4.5k14d adds
- 130 EN Diners Say I’m a Show-Off, but They Still Devour My Food 食客说我装逼犯，但是还嗷嗷干饭 [Transmigration + Urban Life + System + Food + No Romance + Showing Off] “I can't help it. I don't want to, either, but as the God of Cooking, I've got to show off!” After transmigrating to a parallel world, Shen Chuan binds himself to the God of Cooking System, gaining the ability to create every delicacy imaginable. Just thinking about using his culinary skills to reach the pinnacle of success and earn everyone's admiration, with diners clamoring for a taste, is enough to make him blush! But h 25.4kReads8.8Score2.3k14d adds
- 131 My Stall Is Full the Moment I Open! Do You Know How Hard This Is? 刚出摊就客满，知道我有多苦吗？ [Comfort-Food Cuisine] [Delicate Writing] [Easygoing Daily Life] [Warm and Healing] After being reborn, Su Yu unexpectedly binds himself to the Ultimate Gourmet System. Egg fried rice: golden in color, with every grain distinct. One bite and you can't stop! Braised chicken: tender, juicy meat with layers of flavor. The sauce gushes out with the slightest bite! Chili oil noodles: chewy noodles that sizzle with heat, spicy and fragrant, with a lingering aftertaste! Every dish is top-notch, leaving 83Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 132 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 731Reads—Score10114d adds
- 133 Running a Food Stall Alone with My Little Sister, We Take the World by Storm 孤身带妹，我的小吃摊火爆全球 Su Yang is raising his three-year-old younger sister all by himself when he unexpectedly binds to the Divine Snack Stall System. So he starts selling buns on a bridge late at night, roast chicken in the park at dawn, pork intestines outside a proctology hospital, and barbecue at a marathon… The food Su Yang makes leaves customers coming back for more, completely hooked. But to complete his missions, Su Yang can only set up his stall at random locations each time. Soon, his customers can’t take i 8kReads8.1Score91014d adds
- 134 Max-Level Kid, Reborn as the Night Market Food King 满级小孩哥，重生夜市美食之王 "Food + System + Cooking with Sincerity + No Romance + Family Bonds + Healing" Zhou Qi, one of Huaxia's top chefs, was hit by a speeding truck the day before competing in the World Chef Championship. Just like that, he transmigrated into the body of an eight-year-old boy named Zhou Qi. With no other way to make ends meet, Zhou Qi joined his adoptive father in setting up a stall at the night market. And then... Passerby: “Whoa! What smells so amazing?” Campus beauty: “Little bro! How am I suppose 445Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 135 Boss, You're Running a Stall, So Why Do You Have a Roaming Skill? 老板摆个摊，怎么还带游走技能？ [Food + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Heartwarming] Jiang Yiwen transmigrates to a parallel world. He had planned to lie flat, but who could have guessed he’d be bound to the Ultimate Delicious Food System? On his first day, his goal is to earn three hundred yuan to complete a mission and receive a mysterious reward. And so, a boss who leaves every customer utterly frustrated makes his debut. When the aroma of his food wafts for miles and keeps everyone coming back for more. 294Reads6.4Score11114d adds
- 136 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 609Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 137 You Told Me to Sell Fried Rice, and I Brought the Highway to a Standstill 让你摆摊卖炒饭，你把高速干瘫痪 Bai Ming transmigrates to Blue Star and becomes an unemployed young man. With his family fortune about to run dry, he is lucky enough to activate the Gourmet System and gain god-tier cooking skills and legendary kitchenware. It happens to be the Spring Festival rush, when everyone is returning to the cities and the highway is gridlocked. Living nearby, Bai Ming simply brings out his wok and stove and starts selling fried rice by the roadside. The drivers and passengers, already starving, are ins 991Reads8.7Score10614d adds
- 138 What Can a Chef Do in the Cultivation World? 论一个厨师能在修真界做些什么 [Two male leads!!! Song Lanqing (bottom) x Zhao Mohan (top)] Song Lanqing rides the wave of transmigration, suddenly dying and arriving in the cultivation world as a swaddled baby. His master, who loves picking up abandoned children but has no time to raise them, finds him and takes him home. Thus begins his path to immortality. The comedic version: Song Lanqing transmigrates into the body of a baby. Above him are a master who loves picking up abandoned children but has no time to raise them, an 714Reads8.2Score14014d adds
- 139 Guizhou Cuisine, Making Him Lose His Cool 黔味厨娘，勾他破防 "Craving Her: The Cold-Faced Imperial Guard Wants Cuddles" Transmigrate into a book with a Guizhou cuisine space. Good news: Bai Tingyu, the family's savior, has happened to contract the "food-aversion Gu," and Guizhou cuisine is its natural enemy. Bad news: The space is a "money pit." Every time someone infected with the Gu eats food from her space, half her family's money vanishes. The urgent task: repay the favor, run away, and get rich. But after tasting her spicy, crispy potato cakes, he tu 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 I Left With Nothing but My Daughter, and Got a Dumpling Shop as a Reward 带女儿净身出户，奖励一家饺子铺 [Urban life + doting dad + farming + tycoon + System + everyday life] [The author humbly begs all you kind readers not to let this novel pile up in your reading list, or it’ll be doomed! Your support means a lot to me. Thanks for reading along!] After five years of marriage, they reached the end of the road. To win custody of his daughter, Ye Chen chose to walk away with nothing. But just after receiving his divorce certificate, a strange, mechanical voice suddenly rang out in his mind. “Ding! H 531Reads8.5Score10114d adds
- 141 After Leaving the Entertainment Industry, This Has-Been Opens a Restaurant and Takes the Internet by Storm 糊咖退圈后，开饭馆爆红全网 As a good-for-nothing in the cultivation world, Ming Tang idly watched someone else's lightning tribulation. As luck would have it, she took a direct hit and died a miserable, ridiculously unlucky death. When she opened her eyes again, she was a little-known actress in the modern entertainment industry. After turning down her unscrupulous agent's dinner-party demand, Ming Tang took the agent's advice to go home and sell roasted sweet potatoes, and promptly returned home to open a small restauran 473Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 142 Urban: I Run the Cafeteria Kitchen at a Junior College and Make the Principal Drool 都市：大专食堂掌勺，馋哭校长 [Gourmet food + System + cozy everyday life + humor + campus] If Lin Xiao had never been born, the world of food would have been shrouded in darkness for all eternity! As the saying goes, the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach. After Lin Xiao started working at the vocational college cafeteria, he won over the stomachs of tens of thousands of students and faculty, and with them, their hearts. “Waaah, Lin Xiao, how am I supposed to live without you? You have to take responsibility fo 37Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 143 Gourmet: I Sell Lunchboxes at a Kindergarten, and Everyone Craves Them 美食：幼儿园卖盒饭，全都馋哭了 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Su Haoze took in the little tyke left behind by his big brother and sister-in-law. To support the family, he opened a small lunch spot outside a kindergarten. Who would’ve thought he’d end up bound to a Gourmet System! Braised lion’s head meatballs, chicken tofu soup, Dongpo pork, sweet-and-sour ribs, cola chicken wings... Dish after delicious dish won over not only the children, but also a whole crowd of parents. “Boss, do you sell meal plans?” “I want 5kReads7.3Score38814d adds
- 144 You Want Me to Get Married Just So You Can Eat at the Wedding Banquet? 为了吃席，你竟然催我结婚？ Worn out both mentally and physically by the cutthroat rat race in his industry, Chen Yuan returns to his hometown. He had planned to lie flat and live as a slacker, but the System forcibly binds itself to him. The System scans for available careers: village banquet chef, rural content creator, expert farmer, and rural Taobao partner. Before Chen Yuan can react, the System automatically selects village banquet chef, sending him off to cook up feasts in the countryside. Master Chen accidentally f 7kReads8.1Score52714d adds
- 145 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 3.3kReads—Score37714d adds
- 146 My Stall Was Smashed, So I Climbed to the Top with a Gourmet System 摊子被砸，我靠美食系统踏巅峰 [System, food, lighthearted comedy, everyday city life, outlandish ideas, comeback, one heroine, slow-paced slice of life] After losing his job at thirty-six, Wang Ping’an can’t find work and returns to the small county town that’s both unfamiliar and familiar to him. There, he starts a new life running a food stall. With his cooking skills and a boost from the System, he earns titles like “Wok King” and “Beast Tamer”... Wang Ping’an: “How slow-paced is it? The System doesn’t show up until chapt 2.1kReads8.3Score16914d adds
- 147 I'm Just a Chef, Director, Stop Adding Drama! 我只是个厨子啊，导演别加戏了吧 [Food + film sets + everyday life + comfort food + warmth + healing + comedy + fun] Lin Zhou joins a casting call for extras and unexpectedly gets bound to a Gourmet System. From then on, he only ever plays cooks. He can be a five-star chef in a domineering CEO drama, or the head cook at a country banquet in a rural drama. He can whip up roadside restaurant dishes so fragrant they fill the air for miles, or make stall food so delicious you'll savor every bite. Whatever the role calls for, he'll 1.9kReads7.5Score14614d adds
- 148 One Dish a Day: Building a Culinary Empire 一天只卖一道菜，我打造美食帝国 (The rating has just come out, but it will rise later) [Gourmet] + [System] + [One heroine] + [Dad raising a child] + [Everyday life] Chen Qiu's business venture fails, leaving him a million yuan in debt, and he's forced to take over the little restaurant his parents left behind. Just when he has nowhere else to turn, he awakens the [God-Tier Gourmet Sign-In System]! His first sign-in rewards him with “God-Tier Pork Stir-Fried with Chili Peppers”! When he puts up a sign advertising it at “88 yua 42.5kReads7.8Score2.6k14d adds
- 149 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—14d adds
- 150 Gourmet: The Restaurant Chef Who Made the Whole City Gain Ten Pounds 美食：饭馆掌勺，让全城胖了十斤 Luo Wenjing, the owner of a little restaurant in a remote area, was about to shut up shop for good because business was so slow when he unexpectedly unlocked the Culinary System. The poached chicken was tender and silky, while the beef chow fun with Chinese kale was so sweet and rich it was addictive. Every dish looked, smelled, and tasted incredible. Braised eggplant, a beloved classic: crispy on the outside, tender within, and bursting with flavor and juice! The village beauty next door: “Ever 104Reads6.8Score—14d adds
