Novels like Gourmet: Opening a Restaurant with My Little One, Customers Line Up All Night and Crowd the Door
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- 151 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. 156Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 152 My Lady Is Hard to Please: Stop Acting Up, You Mad Warlord 夫人难哄，疯批督军你别作 Jiang Ning is the young proprietress of Yixin Restaurant. Her cooking skills are extraordinary, and she herself is even more delicious-looking than the food she makes. The moment Commander Lu lays eyes on her, he decides to claim her as his wife, even though she's engaged to someone else. He says, “Be with me, and you'll have everything.” Then he adds, “If you refuse, you'll have nothing.” She still slaps him across the face again and again, mocks his manly pride with cold words, and even presse 339Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 153 The Youngest Daughter Falls from the Sky: An Ancestral Jade Pendant Helps Me Carry My Ancestor to Victory 天降幺女之祖传玉佩让我带飞老祖 Food enthusiast Jiang Xiaoman is in a car accident on her way to an event in the 21st century. Her family’s ancestral jade pendant takes her back to the time of her Jiang ancestors. There, she uses modern cuisine to help her whole family thrive and save the impoverished noble Murong Yu. A humorous, laugh-out-loud story. 21Reads—Score114d adds
- 154 After Losing My Job, I Got a Barbecue System and Now Earn Millions a Year 失业后获得烧烤系统，我年入百万 [Late-Night Gourmet] [Mouthwatering] [Easygoing Daily Life] On the eve of his barbecue shop’s closure, Su Yan binds himself to the [Barbecue King System]. Top-tier Ningxia Yanchi Tan sheep plus spices supplied by the System: the aroma of the skewers drives the whole street wild... Lamb skewers for 18 yuan each draw a line so long the traffic police have to close the road, and the owner of the neighboring barbecue shop comes over in tears to steal his secrets! A loan shark comes to collect and 682Reads—Score10914d adds
- 155 Gourmet: My Maxed-Out Cooking Skills Are Only for a Quiet Street Stall 美食：满级厨艺的我只想安静出摊 [The short drama of the same name is now available] (The protagonist never shows off. He's mild-mannered, humble, and hardworking. There is a female lead. Please don't read if that's not your thing, thanks.) A quiet, laid-back story about everyday food and cooking. The System is even lazier than the protagonist (it just lends a hand, it doesn't take charge). Xia Yu is a foodie who graduated from college not long ago. His dream is to be a lazy slacker. Then one day, a System drops out of nowhere 6.9kReads8.7Score46614d adds
- 156 The Cousin Miss Is Climbing the Social Ladder Again Today 表小姐今天又在攀高枝 [The rating is low because the novel was just listed...] A young lady from the extended family has arrived at the Duke of the State's manor, and none of the three young masters there can stand her. One would rather become a monk, another claims to prefer men. The third would rather die in the arms of a courtesan from overindulging. Everyone in the manor says the young lady is shameless and always trying to climb the social ladder! But no one expected that the young lady despised by the Xie famil 858Reads7.0Score10514d adds
- 157 Gourmet: Stuck in Highway Traffic, I Set Up a Stall and Send Customers into a Frenzy 美食：高速堵车摆摊，顾客抢疯了 [Gourmet] [Livestream] [Daily life] [Going home for the New Year] [Holiday traffic jams] [Comedy] [Food to eat while reading] [No romance] As the end of the year approaches, the Spring Festival travel rush begins. People drive home to celebrate the New Year, and traffic jams on the highways become an annual tradition. Three days before the travel rush begins, Jiang Yang, a young man born and raised locally, gets a Gourmet System. Driving an RV, Jiang Yang checks in at traffic-jam hotspots and ea 450Reads6.7Score10814d adds
- 158 I Ran Away from My Wedding to Sell Wontons, and Made the Emperor Drool 逃婚卖馄饨，居然把陛下馋哭了 [Farming + Food + Chef + Transmigrate + Heartwarming, Beloved by All] Food blogger Yun Shu unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter! She can’t get her hands on a happy life, and one headache after another comes her way... They try to force her into marriage? She plays the obedient fool, then really runs away from the wedding, teaching the Duke of Zhenguo a hard lesson. Life is tough? She sets up a food stall, and her competitors can only cry, “There are 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Gourmet: Random Street Stalls, and the Campus Belle Senior Tells Me to Behave 美食：随机摆摊，校花学姐请自重 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Fan binds himself to a Gourmet System. The System randomly assigns quests. Completing them and buying items earns Gourmet Points, which can be exchanged for all kinds of rewards. Roast duck legs outside the school gates, steak at a night market stall, and spicy pepper soup in the park. One delicious food after another draws everyone in, including the upperclassmen at his school. “Damn! Where did my underclassman who sells duck legs go? He’s disappear 23.1kReads7.5Score2.9k14d adds
- 160 Running an Inn in an Infinite Game 在无限游戏里开旅店 [Please note]: This is a cozy retirement story, centered on food and travel. Jiang Jiang is summoned to an inn and becomes its owner. All her guests are NPCs from an infinite game. An immersive innkeeping story. The inn serves gourmet food, and its owner unlocks new areas of the inn and maps of little worlds. The female lead has amnesia early on but regains her memories later. She and the male lead once lived and died together, so they know and trust each other. Their first meeting is revealed l 67Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 161 A Widow’s Busy Night-Market Food Stall in Bianjing, and She Won’t Remarry 深夜食摊搞钱忙，汴京寡妇不嫁人 Reader’s guide: [ensemble cast + food business + heartwarming everyday life of ordinary people + no romance + fictional Northern Song setting] Wang Chunhua and Zhang Taonian were “mortal enemies” at the same company, bickering every day. After an accident, the two find themselves in Bianjing, the Northern Song capital, a thousand years in the past. And they become sisters-in-law in a family of street vendors at Zhouqiao Night Market!? The original family was devastated by swine fever. All the me 6.8kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 162 Livestream: Raising Kids Is a Game, and My Tricks Beat the Gods 直播：带娃是个圈，套路赛神仙 Taking care of kids has become a major concern for people from all walks of life! In response, CCTV has launched a parenting livestream to help viewers find some answers. Three fathers born in the 1980s, 1990s, and 1995 or later will show off their childcare secrets on the stream. The dad born in the 1980s is all about stern authority. Every day, he glares at his child and tries to reason with them. Viewers say, “This dad’s a little scary. He reminds me of my boss.” The dad born in the 1990s is 499Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 163 Gourmet in Another World: I Started by Conquering the Elves' Appetites 异世界美食：从征服精灵胃开始 [Healing + Gourmet + Business Management + Everyday Life] When I inherited my grandmother's shabby old shop, my best friend and I had planned to lie flat. Who knew that a newly installed wooden door would become a gateway to another world! The front door opens onto a fantasy continent of swords and magic; the back door leads to a bustling modern city. Elves lose all composure at the aroma of spicy hot pot, while dwarves go wild for barbecue skewers and beer. Could a picky old dragon really be mo 390Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Bigwigs Go Wild Fighting over a Bite to Eat 为了一口吃的，大佬们抢疯了 [Gourmet] + [laid-back daily life] + [no System] + [comedy] Li Heng is a chef who accidentally transmigrates to a cultivation world where culinary skills have fallen into decline. He discovers that his dishes are not only delicious, but can also improve cultivation and strengthen the body. One day, while Li Heng is cooking, a passing sect’s saintess spirits him away to work as their chef. As Li Heng serves up dish after delicious dish, the entire sect goes wild. The disciples go crazy competing 2.1kReads8.8Score16114d adds
- 165 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 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 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 234Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 The Snack Shop Alone Turned This Scenic Spot into a 5A Attraction? 全靠小吃店，景区升5A了？ [Gourmet] [System] [Everyday Life] [Perfect with Rice] [Food and Medicine Share the Same Roots] Zhuang Ming has just graduated from a traditional Chinese medicine college when he unexpectedly gets a system. He binds himself to it before he can even read the name. When he finally sees it, the name is “The World’s Greatest, Miracle-Working, Cure-All, Heals with a Touch... Chef System!” His heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally gives up completely. The prices are steep, the shop is sha 805Reads8.2Score10614d adds
- 168 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—14d adds
- 169 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 11.7kReads8.6Score57414d adds
- 170 After Getting Laid Off, I Restarted My Life with a Street Stall 被裁员后，我靠摆摊重启人生 [God Chef System] [Culinary Superstar] [Heartwarming Story] At 26, Xu Zichuan's life had hit rock bottom: he was unemployed and unmarried. Then, to his surprise, he awakened the “God Chef” System and became the most formidable culinary superstar in the food world. “Thirty-eight yuan for beef chow fun? Are you robbing me?” As soon as he said that, the man added, “...I'll take it. And give me another one.” Someone asked, “Boss, why are there only nine dishes on your menu every day?” “Because I onl 195Reads—Score15514d adds
- 171 I Just Set Up a Stall, but My Customers Beg Me in Tears to Feed Them 我就摆个摊，那些食客哭着求投喂 The novel is complete! Dive in with confidence. Gourmet, doting dad, one heroine, heartwarming, slice of life, food to enjoy with your meal, and catching criminals. In his previous life, Yan Qingzhou married the village chief's daughter so he could escape the mountains. Relying on his good looks, he charmed a rich heiress, only to end up abandoned by everyone. Then he was reborn on the night before he eloped! He had not yet made a terrible mistake. His daughter had not been kidnapped, and his 2.8kReads8.3Score27014d adds
- 172 A Culinary Void: I Take Chinese Cuisine by Storm Around the World 美食断层：我携华夏美食席卷全球 [No female lead!!] Mu Yunfei transmigrates to a world with a shallow food culture, where he has to eat vegetarian dishes every day. He's about ready to throw up! Thankfully, he awakens a Divine Chef System! Jianbing guozi is soft, chewy, and fragrant; preserved-egg and pork congee makes foreigners fall in love with preserved eggs! Hot-and-sour noodles are impossible to resist, and beef brisket rice noodles are snapped up in an instant! Food critic: “I can die without regrets now!” Food blogger: 306Reads7.2Score10014d adds
- 173 Eat, Eat, Eat! Come and Eat! 吃吃吃，都来吃 [Unconventional Food Story + Improving the Nation’s Health + Ensemble Cast + No Romance + System Pocket Dimension. Chasing Dreams, and the Heroine Means Business!] Wu Shuang, who grew up in an orphanage, had just graduated from college when a speeding car sent her flying. The good news: she was in great shape and wasn’t hurt. Even better news: she got a food System and a pocket dimension! Wu Shuang sighed: at last, the thread of her fate had grown thicker!!! From then on, Wu Shuang’s hot pot res 228Reads—Score10614d adds
- 174 Good Food and Sweet Dreams with You 与君美食复甘眠 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Farming + Food + Woman Chef + Romance] The meat is so tender it seems carved from beauty, and the fragrant aroma never stops rising from the pot. As a humble office worker in the twenty-first century, Su Yu had few interests, and food was the only one she loved. Her one and only wish was to stop being exploited by every capitalist under the sun and become a capitalist herself. So the gods heard her prayer and granted it. She closed her eyes and woke up as a poor 331Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 175 Reborn in the 1970s: Extra-Spicy Hot Pot and a Henpecked Male Lead 重生七零：火锅变态辣男主耙耳朵 [Transmigrate into a book + Period setting + Gourmet + System + Adorable kids + Military marriage + Sweet romance + Get rich] Wu Fengjuan is reborn in the body of a cannon-fodder military wife in the 1970s. From the start, the male lead has “died in action,” her in-laws despise her, and she has three hungry little babies to feed. Life is hard? Luckily, the [Good Fortune Gourmet System] drops right into her lap! Get pregnant and have babies to level up! From pearl milk tea and golden pumpkin cake 196Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 The Mountain God's Little Diner 山神大人的小饭馆 No romance, a slow-paced life, and heartwarming healing. Perfect for when you want to switch off your brain. Hey, everyone! The female lead has no romantic pairing. There are no catfights, just a healing-hearted cook. The only ones around her are the adorable monsters of Denglong Mountain and its sharp-tongued, aloof, tsundere mountain god. It's a fairy tale written for grown-ups, the kind that can lull you to sleep. After returning to her hometown, Lin Kui turns her grandmother's old house int 69Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 177 I Opened a Restaurant, Then Got Called Up to Cook at the State Banquet 开餐饮店，被叫去担任国宴主厨 Synopsis: Food + System + doting dad + everyday life Shen Yi divorces Jiang Ruoyun, the CEO of a publicly listed company, and leaves with nothing but the custody of their daughter. To his surprise, he awakens the most powerful food System! Earn money, and you get to draw prizes! From then on, a Shen's Restaurant opens at No. 14 Fuhua Road. He wins god-tier bun-making skills in a prize draw! Soft and springy, bursting with savory flavor with every bite! A passing schoolgirl is so tempted that tea 2.5kReads8.7Score22314d adds
- 178 Nourishing the Land with Food: My Fruits and Vegetables Have Come to Life 靠美食养地：我的瓜果通灵了 [Urban fantasy + food + slice of life + no romance + random street stalls + perfect mealtime reading] Fresh out of college and already unemployed, Gao Lin unexpectedly binds to a Food System and decisively heads home. Each week, he randomly sets up a stall to sell food, and in return his fruits and vegetables receive a huge upgrade. Tiny tomatoes can be prepared in a hundred different ways. A whole field of rotten tomatoes gets a new lease on life, and even college students who can't live withou 955Reads7.4Score10214d adds
- 179 The God of Cooking Takes Over, and I Turn My Sha County Restaurant into a Rip-Off! 厨神附体，我把沙县开成了黑店！ [Food + System + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Great with a Meal + Cunning Protagonist] Original title: The God of Cooking Takes Over, and I Turn My Shaxian Snack Shop into a Scam! After his best friend stabbed him in the back, Li Zhibai somehow ended up taking over a Shaxian snack shop in the most expensive part of Jiangcheng, and piling up a mountain of debt in the process. Luckily, he bound himself to the God of Cooking System and awakened a bizarre talent: [Charge Based 147.4kReads8.6Score10.3k14d adds
- 180 Mobile Food Stall: My Customers Are Wild About the Food 移动美食摊：我的食客太疯狂 [Reader's guide: No CP, not a romance. The Tomato app's tags are wrong, so romance fans should take note before reading.] [Gourmet][Comfort food][Lighthearted][Cozy][Healing][Everyday life][No CP] Sun Xiaoting accidentally binds herself to the Gourmet System and gains unparalleled cooking skills. She also triggers random street-stall missions. She sells jianbing at the night market for 15 yuan a serving, leaving grease shining on her customers' lips; She sells 100-yuan boxed meals outside a luxu 277Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 181 My Kindergarten Went Bankrupt, So Instead of Giving Up, I Started a Street Stall 幼儿园破产，我不摆烂选择摆摊 [Comfort Food] [Master Chef System] [Adorable Kids and Their Dad] [Unlucky Diners] [No Romance] Eight years after transmigrating to a parallel world, Li Qilin already has a three-year-old kid, and the “Master Chef cheat” that had been overdue for years has finally arrived. The good news: the struggling daycare can stay afloat. The bad news: starting a daycare inevitably leads to “commando-style street vending.” … Whether they’re little rascals or young villains, they’re all adorable food lovers 1.5kReads8.4Score15314d adds
- 182 Otherworldly Culinary Lord: Starting by Adopting a Silver Dragon Girl 异界厨神领主：从收养银龙娘开始 [Western Fantasy, Demon King, Gourmet, Lighthearted, Monster Girls, Invincible] (Note: The lord arc begins in Chapter 119.) On the Lamas Plane, the down-and-out Demon King Luxiu Charles arrives in human territory. Thanks to the special talent “Soul-Piercing Cuisine” granted by his Godhood System, he starts rebuilding his fortune by opening a small Chinese restaurant. Not long afterward, he unexpectedly adopts a little dragon girl, and his life as a demon quietly takes a new turn. He’s tired of a 572Reads7.2Score10114d adds
- 183 A Food Blogger Transmigrates Into a Book Set in the Republic of China and Just Wants to Make Money 美食博主穿书民国只想搞钱 Food + Baking + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket Dimension + No Romance Food blogger Jiang Hongyao transmigrates into a book, becoming Jiang Hongyao, a minor character who serves as a casualty in the romance between the leads in the novel A Lady of the Republic. She's not the second female lead or the third. She doesn't even qualify as the fourth. She's just a passerby with barely any lines, the kind who doesn't even get an ending. Since she's here, there's no going back. At least the spacious 1.7kReads8.6Score17414d adds
- 184 Showbiz: The Behind-the-Scenes King and His Adorable Daughter 文娱：奶爸幕后天王 [Showbiz + Dad Life + Adorable Kids + Lighthearted + Everyday Life] Qin Ming transmigrates to the Great Xia Empire, a country much like the world he came from. He becomes the father of an adorable pair of fraternal twins. Watch him bring up his kids and make his way through the entertainment industry. “Anyone I want to make famous will become a superstar.”, Qin Ming 1.5kReads8.8Score10514d adds
- 185 The Super Food God Tycoon 超级食神大亨 Yang Song happens upon the Chef God System. With nothing but a secondhand food cart selling grilled gluten skewers, he steadily climbs to the peak of success. The richest man's son works for him as a waiter, goddesses throw themselves at him to help run his shop, and top female students from campus come to peel potatoes for him... A beautiful TV reporter asks in an interview, "I hear lots of celebrities come to dine at Baifeng Pavilion. Do they have to wait in line too?" Yang Song replies calmly 224Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 186 Exploring the World of Food 美食世界探索 📖 A hard-core hunting adventure in a world of gourmet food ✔️ No golden finger, no female lead. The protagonist relies entirely on real skill to brave dangerous places, hunt exotic ingredients, and cook hearty dishes. ✔️ A muscular protagonist and realistic, hard-core hunting details turn the wilderness into a feast for the senses. ✔️ No deliberately torturing the protagonist. The pace is brisk and satisfying, with no frustrating setbacks. Later on, his combat power goes through the roof, and he 99Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 World Capital of Cuisine: Eel Wars 世界美食之都·鳝战 The World’s Food Capital: Eel Wars 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 God-Tier Gourmet 神级美食家 The countryside is beautiful, and the food is delicious. Fry up some dishes, grow some crops, raise some fish, play with the dog, and make some babies. That’s the leisurely country life of Qin Feng, the God of Cooking. One day, Qin Feng sat lazily in the courtyard of his farmhouse restaurant and lifted his eyelids to glance at the three foreigners standing respectfully before him. “Boss Qin, this is the president of our country, who’s come especially to sample your cooking.” “Sorry, we’re sold o 1.7kReads8.3Score14414d adds
- 189 Reborn as a Food Lover 重生之美食爱好者 In his previous life, Ye Lan didn’t have many hobbies. He just liked cooking and reading novels. He’d been prepared from childhood to spend his whole life alone, but one day an accident happened on a plane. He thought his life was over, but when he opened his eyes, he discovered he had transmigrated to a world completely different from his own. This world was full of top-quality ingredients, and not only could he indulge his appetite, he also found himself a ridiculously powerful spirit pet. 1.4kReads8.9Score12714d adds
- 190 Strange Tales of Chinese Cuisine 中华美食异闻录 Do you know the secrets hidden in recipes? Every dish has its own little story. Come along with me as we explore the fascinating origins of delicious food! Foodies, beware: you might get hungry just reading about it! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 The Restaurant Survival Guide: Cooking and Gossiping, All in a Day’s Work 食肆生存法则，做饭吃瓜两不误 [Shopkeeping + food + mystery-solving + farming] Overnight, food lover An Qiao transmigrates into the imperial palace as a cook. After leaving the palace, all she wants is to build a career: create the first chain of restaurants and bring delicious food to every corner of the country. Who could have guessed?! The eatery she buys at the start is right next to the Court of Judicial Review. Qi Ning'an gets dragged into one case after another, and the restaurant becomes the place to go for all the l 595Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 192 God of Cooking: Have You Lost Your Mind? The Hospital Is Full of People Just for a Meal 厨神：疯了吧，为口饭医院住满了 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Comedy] [Healing] [Cozy Daily Life] Lin Yu transmigrated to a parallel world and became a cook at a hospital, despite having no cooking skills. Even dogs wouldn't eat the food he made. Just as he was about to be reassigned to clean the toilets, the God of Cooking System unexpectedly bound itself to him. As long as diners were satisfied with his cooking, Lin Yu could earn approval points. He could use those points to enter a lottery and win all kinds of rewards, gradua 5.2kReads8.5Score51814d adds
- 193 Gourmet: Renting a Private Jet Just to Eat a Boxed Lunch? 美食：为了吃盒饭，开私人飞机？ Just as Yu Hui loses his job, he learns that a scenic spot in his hometown is looking for vendors. Without hesitation, he decides to go home and set up a stall selling delicious food. On the way home, he unexpectedly activates the Gourmet System. From then on, his cooking skills improve by leaps and bounds, and he can whip up all kinds of delicious dishes with ease. Braised chicken: tender and silky, richly flavored, with an irresistible aroma. Tomato and egg stir-fry: sweet and tangy, soft an 81Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 194 Reborn as a Poor Girl in Lingnan, I Lead My Family to Prosperity 穿成岭南贫户女，我带全家走富路 When Zhou Ling opened her eyes, the coarse texture of a dry, hard corn bun still lingered in her mouth. The thatched hut was drafty. Her younger siblings were so hungry they were chewing on their fingers, her mother wept endlessly, and her father had fainted in bed after giving the family his share of the food. This was an obscure village somewhere in Lingnan. She was the eldest daughter of a poor family, so destitute that even the mice had moved out. But Zhou Ling’s mind held the world of more 16Reads—Score114d adds
- 195 The Day the Chef Left, the Diners Wept Until Their Tears Ran Dry 厨子跑的那一天，食客老泪都流干 Xu Yuan never expected that, as a recent college graduate, he would one day get bound to a System. The System said, “As a chef, your job is to let diners experience delicious food.” Then it added, “But as the creator of delicious food, how can you let work tie you down?” And so... “Ding! This month’s mission: Apply for a job as a restaurant chef, then quit after working for half a month to claim your System reward...” Xu Yuan: “You little schemer!” And so it went. Restaurant owner: “I’m not brag 8.9kReads8.5Score79814d adds
- 196 After My Divorce, the Farming Dad Makes His Move 离婚后，种田奶爸的进击人生 [Adorable kid, everyday farming, building a fortune, king of the snack street] “Leave with nothing, Chen Feng! You’re a useless bum. How can you afford to raise your daughter?” “Let her stay with me. I’ll give you three million and a house.” “I want to stay with Daddy!” After his divorce, Chen Feng gains access to a mysterious legacy space and opens a snack shop, quickly becoming the king of the snack street. His daughter’s filial devotion soon takes an unexpected turn. A child with no one to lo 15.8kReads8.7Score2.2k14d adds
- 197 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 67Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 198 I, the God of Food and Judge! I Only Go After Shady Restaurants! 我，食神判官！专打黑心店！ [Easygoing daily life + food reviews + bickering couple + master of comebacks + lie flat and become a god] Ever since I accidentally ate a poisonous cake, I've had an ancestral spirit in my head. I'm Chen Pin, a delivery guy. A loli who calls herself the “God of Cookery” bombards me with voice messages around the clock. “Foolish mortal! You call this food? It's pig slop!” “Warning! Warning! Energy levels critically low. This God of Cookery is about to go dormant, and you'll be done for too!” “Qu 2.7kReads6.8Score16914d adds
- 199 The Great Female Chef of the Frontier 边关女大厨 The Tartars from beyond Shantong Pass came three times. The first time, Yuan Wuwei’s family’s lavish restaurant became a wonton shop. The second time, the wonton shop became a wonton stall. The third time, Yuan Wuwei lost her father, Chef Yuan. When it rains, it pours. Her stepmother, Bai Qiqi, tried to elope one night, only to be swindled, and ended up bringing home a chubby little bundle of joy. The little one had quite a background: he was the young master of the Cheng family, whose estate ha 2.6kReads9.0Score37814d adds
- 200 Gourmet: My Cooking Makes the Myriad Worlds Drool 美食，我的美食馋哭诸天万界 Fantasy, food, illustrations, comedy, scheming, farming. The starry-sky yanggeng, the undisputed beauty queen of desserts. The upgraded version of Stargazing Pie: Eyes Shut Forever. Boiled cabbage so beautiful it takes your breath away. Spicy crayfish that'll make anyone gain a few pounds before they leave. A chopped chili Kun head big enough to feed dozens. Red-braised lamb, fish-fragrant shredded pork, crystal shrimp dumplings, chicken broth soup dumplings, squirrel-shaped mandarin fish... Hel 951Reads8.9Score10114d adds
