Novels like I Returned to Ancient Times and Reached the Top with My Cooking
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- 151 I Started Out in the Mountains Amid Chaos, So What Have I to Fear with My Peach Blossom Haven? 乱世开局进深山，我有桃源怕啥？ [Pure Farming + Family Life + No System + Fleeing Famine in a Time of Chaos + Infrastructure Building + Transmigrate into a Book + Business + Stockpiling Food] Tian Xiaomai was a newly minted office drone from the 21st century who devoted her life to her desk. When she opened her eyes again, a twist of fate had turned her into a child bride bought by the He family to bring good fortune. Once she adjusted to her new surroundings, everything began to seem familiar. Wasn't this the plot of a novel 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 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 26.1kReads9.2Score4.3k14d adds
- 153 You Want Me to Do Chores? I'll Stun the Glorious Tang Dynasty with Modern Cuisine 让我打杂？我用现代美食震惊盛唐 [No Romance + Spirit Spring Space + Gourmet Farming + Feel-Good Story + Palace Intrigue + Leveling] Reincarnated as a lowly kitchen maid tending the fire in the Tang imperial palace, Pei Xuan wields the God of Cooking's space and takes on the palace's finest chefs. A spirit spring, mystical fields, and spirit fire: she has it all. Chili peppers, strawberries, coffee beans? Grow them all! Fried chicken, cola, spicy hot pot? Make them all! Ovens, woks, microwaves? Use them all! Modern cuisine coll 492Reads8.6Score10214d adds
- 154 I Set Up a Street Food Stall, So How Did It Take Over the Internet? 摆个美食小吃摊，咋就火爆全网了 [Gourmet] [Random Pop-Up Stalls] [Lighthearted] [Slice of Life] [Warm and Healing] [Comedy] [No CP] [Perfect with a Meal] Su Can transmigrated to a world suffused with spiritual energy and unexpectedly acquired a Divine Chef System. Each time, he sets up his stall somewhere new, making all kinds of spiritual delicacies. He sells bon bon chicken at the entrance to the Dark Forest secret realm, grills spirit-beast meat beneath the city walls, and serves spicy hot pot inside secret realms. Every di 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 I Conquered the Interstellar World with Gourmet Food 我靠美食征服星际 A little chef is reborn in the future, in the interstellar age. What? Earth has been destroyed and its civilization lost? Chefs have actually become the most prestigious and rarest profession? It really does run in the family, this love of food. You want to challenge me to a cooking competition? Dear, do you know the Eight Great Cuisines? My mental strength may be trash and my physique good-for-nothing, but I know I’m a good chef. 65Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 156 The Apocalypse's Number One Food Stall: Stall Owner, Don't Run! 末世第一美食摊，摊主你别跑 [System + Post-Apocalypse + Food + Street Stall Business + No Romance + Lighthearted Healing] It's the tenth year of the apocalypse. Natural disasters strike one after another: extreme cold, extreme heat, and constant flooding. Crops are hard to grow, and plants and animals are mutating all over the place. Then, a food stall suddenly appears outside Nanyang Base. The owner is a pretty young woman who pedals a beat-up tricycle and sells all kinds of delicious food. Mutated wild boars are useful f 501Reads8.2Score10414d adds
- 157 Sell Her to the Mountain God? The Miao Healer Strikes It Rich and Builds a Mansion 卖她祭山神？苗疆医女暴富盖大房 Qiao You Ning, a Miao healer, transmigrates and becomes the despised, mute granddaughter of the Qiao family. Her biased grandparents want to sell her to appease the mountain god? Well, it looks like this family’s rules need a serious overhaul! With a magical Gu-worm space at her fingertips, should she be afraid of this bunch of awful relatives? She takes on her biased grandparents, kicks her vicious aunt, and whacks her bizarre third uncle with a stick. Her parasitic cousins, too, all get what’s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 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 8.1kReads8.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 159 The Side Character Strikes Back: A Thousand Ways to Feed a Yandere 女配翻身：投喂病娇的千种方式 Yun Zhimiao finds herself inside an old novel about a fake and a real heiress. She thinks she has landed in a family-intrigue drama, but it turns out she has been bound to a Food System. To avoid being erased by the System, she diligently cooks and saves up points. Crispy rice cakes, fried fresh milk, lobster-tail noodles, cheese-filled crispy chicken cutlets, Thai-style cured seafood, fragrant spicy rice crackers, sweet-and-sour pork tenderloin, Guobaorou, pudding tarts, jasmine iced rice. The 379Reads8.4Score10914d adds
- 160 The Princess Consort's Cooking Is So Good, All of the Capital Begs Her to Open a Restaurant 王妃做菜太香了，全京城跪求开店 As the only legitimate daughter of a century-old family of chefs, Jiang Yi received the baton from her father three days ago and formally became the new head of the Jiang family. She is determined to seek out rare ingredients from across the land and rediscover the flavors of long-lost dishes. She travels to the Great Yan kingdom with a time-traveling bracelet. While searching far and wide for ingredients, she unexpectedly meets a handsome man. She made the mistake of saving his life, and now he 731Reads6.9Score10214d adds
- 161 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 3.3kReads8.6Score33714d adds
- 162 The Little Chef Takes on the World 小厨娘闯天下 Female lead: Shen Cao (her name has a special meaning). Male lead: Ji Lingfeng [Transmigration + food + business + making a fortune + slow-burn development + sweet romance] After becoming a master chef, Shen Cao falls off a cliff while gathering mushrooms and transmigrates into the body of a village girl who shares her name. Her parents love each other, her brothers are on good terms, and even her younger sister looks up to her. The only problem is that her family is so poor they can barely affo 1.3kReads7.7Score14614d adds
- 163 Born with Memories, I Make a Living Gathering Seafood: A Food Blogger's Guide 胎穿赶海，美食博主了解一下 [Raising children + food + fisher girl] Xu You, who is considered a fool, marries Xing Jianian, who was exiled here. Faced with the need to make ends meet, the once high-and-mighty young master is forced to work as an accountant at a restaurant, barely keeping the family afloat. When Xing Jianian learns he’s married a foolish wife, he figures he might as well treat it as having one more child to raise. But one day, when he comes home, he finds his two young nephews crouched expectantly outside t 249Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 164 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 396Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 165 Stop Yelling! Keep It Up and I'll Eat Your Food Cart Too! 别骂了，再骂连摊车都给你吃了！ [Gourmet]+ [Daily Life]+ [Comedy]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Comfort Food]+ [Feel-Good] Qin Zihan transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a Gourmet System full of hostility. As long as he completes food-selling missions, he earns rewards, and the worse his service, the better the rewards. He sets up a malatang stall next to a hotpot restaurant at the bottom of the sea. “Hey! You there, don’t cut in line. Can’t you have a little damn decency?!” “Buying that much? Couldn’t you leave s 553Reads8.4Score10514d adds
- 166 I Make Chili Pork, and the Big Shots of the Stars Are Drooling? 我做个辣椒炒肉，星际大佬都馋哭了？ [System + food + livestreaming + transmigration] Lin Yao never imagined she would end up in the interstellar era, owing tens of millions... She started livestreaming her cooking just to put food on the table. Who could have guessed that culinary arts had been lost in this world, and ingredients had mutated? Even a single cabbage could be deadly... But that was no problem! She served up all eight major Chinese cuisines, and her food therapy reached every corner of the universe... Before she knew 144Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 167 Goodbye, I'm Going Home to Run a Stall 拜拜了您，我回家摆摊了 [Gourmet + Slice of Life + No Romance + Heartwarming] Shen Huan was an ordinary office worker. The company was rife with cutthroat competition, and her direct boss kept making things difficult for her. After working diligently overtime for half a year, she'd finally had enough of his torment and quit. Who cared about this lousy job? In a fit of anger, Shen Huan quit without another job lined up, packed her things, and went back to her hometown. When she decided to start a street food stall, she 3.1kReads8.6Score23114d adds
- 168 Spreading the Cuisine of Huaxia Across the Future 我在未来传播华夏美食 [Interstellar cuisine + male lead + robot male lead Shen Li] Shen Lulu transmigrates into the body of an interstellar orphan. With adulthood approaching and no money left for food, she sets her sights on Capital University’s cafeteria and takes it over. Before long, the students of Capital University are all living happily. "Meat-stuffed flatbread or jianbing for lunch today?" "I think soy milk and fried dough sticks are the best." "Breakfast has to be dumplings or wontons!" "What about steamed 1kReads8.2Score11114d adds
- 169 After My Jerk Boyfriend Dumped Me, I Got Rich Through Cooking 被渣男分手后，我靠美食暴富了 [Food + System + Everyday Life + Male Lead] Su Manning was laid off, dumped, and told her landlord was reclaiming the apartment all on the same day. Just like that, she became single and unemployed, with nowhere to live and the streets looming over her. She was at a loss for tears. Why did heaven have to be so cruel? But the very next moment, she was bound to a Food System. As long as she completed the tasks it issued, she would receive generous rewards. [System Task: Host, please cook yourself 1.5kReads9.0Score17514d adds
- 170 On Her Wedding Night, the Prime Minister’s Wife Pulls Delicious Food from Her Bosom 新婚夜，丞相夫人从怀里掏出美食 Shen Tiantian is a food blogger who transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the prime minister's wife. She thinks she can stop working hard and coast through life...but why is reality nothing like she imagined? This prime minister is so unreliable... “Madam, what are we eating today?” “Madam, I want ice cream.” “Madam, can we have hot pot today?” ...Wait a minute. Outside, the prime minister is as cold as ice and avoids women like the plague, so why is he like this at home? Is it really okay 308Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 171 Gourmet: Don’t Talk to Me About Calories, If It Tastes Good, It’s Calorie-Free 美食：别跟我谈热量，好吃就零卡 [Gourmet] + [Random Food Stalls] + [Lighthearted] + [Cozy] + [Everyday Life] + [Taking It Easy] + [Unusual Food Stall Locations] + [Perfect with a Meal] + [No Female Lead] Fang Yuan, a programmer who has just quit his job, is ready to take it easy... Ding! The Ultimate Food Stall System is at your service. Each week, your stall location and menu will be selected at random. This week, please go to Peace Plaza at noon to sell roasted sweet potatoes. Fang Yuan looks up at the blazing sun, shining 1.2kReads6.2Score11214d adds
- 172 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 1.2kReads8.7Score13414d adds
- 173 The True Heiress, Cast Aside as Cannon Fodder, Makes a Fortune Selling Snacks to Raise Her Child 炮灰真千金，摆摊养崽赚千金 [Gourmet] [Raising Kids] [Making Money] The very moment Xia An'an is basking in the joy of having transmigrated, her wealthy family kicks her out. With no choice but to make a living, she starts a street food stall. Scallion pancakes, cold noodles, and grilled skewers: delicious and filling! 281Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 174 The Imperial Kitchen Maid Comes to the Modern World: A Small Shop's Rise 御膳厨娘闯现代：小店逆袭记 [Gourmet business + cozy everyday life + ancient times to modern day] Please note: This is a fictional setting and includes many original worldbuilding details. In a single twist of fate, Su Tang goes from being the star chef of the Imperial Kitchen to a woman with nothing: her father is dead, her mother is gone, her boyfriend has cheated, and she’s lost her job! Even worse, her two younger siblings have been tormented by cruel relatives until they’re skin and bones! Everyone is waiting to see 352Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 175 I Sell Bento Boxes in the Cultivation World 我在修真界卖盒饭 (One-on-one romance + absurd comedy + System + food + trash-talk champion) Zhang Jiuqiu accidentally transmigrated into the role of a vicious female antagonist and got bound to a diss System that let her diss anyone she couldn’t stand. From then on, Zhang Jiuqiu’s name spread far and wide, and she became the foulest-mouthed person in the cultivation world. After eating the meal her senior brother cooked, Zhang Jiuqiu’s cultivation level dropped. Zhang Jiuqiu: “What the hell is this? Even my dog 171Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 176 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 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 God-Tier Food Truck: Foodies Around the World Beg Me to Set Up Shop 神级餐车：全球吃货求我出摊 System, Food, Street Stalls, Slow Pace, No Romance, Widowed The book’s new-release rating may be low at first, but 95% of reviews are five stars. Enjoy with confidence! Ye Wanting unexpectedly gets a magical mobile food cart System. Flatbread + pork floss + seaweed = seaweed-and-pork-floss turkey noodles Crab + flour = crab roe soup dumplings Lamb offal + garlic + pepper = peppery lamb offal soup Quality ingredients + premium recipes + perfect cooking = food adored by thousands Three-wheeled car 632Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 178 I Set Up a Stall Wherever I Please: Sis, We’ve Been Looking Everywhere for You 随机摆摊，胖姐我们找你找得好苦 [Gourmet] [Daily Life] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [No Romance] [Street Stalls] [System] [Transmigration] [Cozy] [Animals] [Parallel World] P.S. This book has a laid-back, everyday plot, with few dramatic twists and turns. It focuses more on cozy, down-to-earth moments. This is not a power fantasy! This is not a power fantasy! Li Meng accidentally transmigrates into a parallel world, where she can't get by without an identity. Just when she least expects it, the essential golden finger for anyone 189Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 179 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 953Reads7.4Score10214d adds
- 180 Gourmet: My Restaurant Is Anything but Normal 美食：我家餐馆不正常 When Lin Zhixin was thirteen, she received the legacy of the Old Ancestor of the God of Cookery and began learning to cook in her dreams. On the day she graduated from college, the Old Ancestor told her there was an inheritance waiting for her. But there was one condition: she had to open a restaurant! She opened one, but Lin Zhixin felt there was something off about it. The prep cook was a koi spirit on the verge of ascending through a tribulation. The food runner was a Taotie who was never ful 160Reads8.1Score2114d adds
- 181 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 9.5kReads7.5Score73114d adds
- 182 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 2.1kReads8.3Score16414d adds
- 183 Transmigrate to the 1980s, and I Offer One-Stop Banquet Services 穿越80，我搞酒席一条龙服务 [Alternate setting + Transmigration + System + Food + Business management + Family life + Countryside] Original title: Transmigrated to the 1980s, I Run a One-Stop Banquet Service Lin Chujiu transmigrates to 1988 in a parallel world, where her grandfather mistakes her for a relative returning from Hong Kong. She decides to play along, setting up a stall in town and selling roast duck under the title of a five-star chef from Hong Kong. Her crispy roast duck breaks a tradition that has stood f 17.2kReads8.7Score1.7k14d adds
- 184 My Wicked Aunt Was Reborn and Stole My Marriage? I Split from the Family and Went Off to Make Money 恶婶重生抢姻缘？我分家赚钱去了 [Transmigration + Farming + Food and Business + Splitting Up the Family + Rebirth for Two + No Spirit Spring Space] Shen Qiao, a 22-year-old college senior, opened her eyes to find herself in the body of a farm girl whose parents had died. Her mother's keepsakes were stolen. Her older brother went to town to do a day's labor, but when he got home, his second aunt took the money he'd earned. His second aunt also stole the marriage proposal that had originally been meant for Shen Qiao, then accept 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Street Food Stall: Selling Egg Fried Rice in Paris 美食摆摊：我在巴黎卖蛋炒饭 [Absurd Comedy + Food + System, Focused on Street Stalls, No Romance] An old French man slaps down 20 euros. "If there's no gold in this golden egg fried rice, I'm calling the police!" Fang Yuan is just about to explain when the System pops up with a ridiculous line: [This rice was made using Eastern alchemy. The gold has been fried into every single grain.] "Are you sure?" Fang Yuan asks under his breath. Three minutes later, the old man finishes eating and bursts into tears, saying he 135Reads—Score11314d adds
- 186 Getting Rich by Setting Up a Stall in a Psychiatric Hospital! 在精神病院摆摊，暴富！ One heroine + food + no romance Li Xier is an orphan. To pay her rent and electricity bills, she sets up a food stall on the street outside a psychiatric hospital. Her dazzling variety of delicious dishes draws every diner nearby, and passersby stop to join the queue. Tourists and influencers from across the country and abroad flock to her stall. As her business grows bigger and better, Li Xier uses her culinary skills to launch a chain of restaurants and become a successful business owner, r 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Running a Restaurant in Ancient Times: All Tricks and No Shortcuts 混在古代搞餐饮，全是科技与狠活 What do you do when you accidentally get a kitchen that can travel between ancient and modern times, but you can’t cook? No problem! We crooked cultivators run our restaurant with nothing but technology and additives! Open the fridge, take out some scissors, snip open the package, pour it into a bowl, and put it in the microwave. Defrost for thirty seconds, heat for three minutes. Ding! Your kung pao chicken is ready, honored guest. What? You want a bowl of chicken soup? Coming right up! I’ll ad 23.9kReads7.8Score2.8k14d adds
- 188 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 1.5kReads8.4Score19014d adds
- 189 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 42.9kReads7.8Score2.7k14d adds
- 190 After I Transmigrated, I Got Rich With Gourmet Cooking and a Golden Finger 穿越后，我靠美食金手指发家致富 Xia Nuan transmigrates to a poor little village! She only wants to build a business and cook good food, but the System tells her that a once-in-a-century famine will strike in two years, and she has to lead everyone in fighting the disaster and getting through it together. After transmigrating into a farming family, she settles into an ordinary, peaceful life in the countryside of ancient times. Using her modern knowledge and cooking skills, she steadily levels up her System and leads everyone t 105Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 191 Exiled to Lingnan: I Made My Fortune Gathering Seafood 流放岭南：我靠赶海发家致富 Synopsis: [The rating is low because it just came out. It’ll rise later.] [Transmigrate into a book + Food + Foraging by the sea + Business + Everyday life + Family squabbles + Mostly lighthearted.] Xu Nan has one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. The good news: she got into a car accident… but survived and managed to cling to life. The bad news: she transmigrated into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder first wife of the wicked villain. The moment she opens her eyes, her bargain-bin 3.6kReads7.5Score32814d adds
- 192 After I Transmigrated, I Became the Little Boss of a Wonton Shop 穿越后，我成了馄饨铺的小老板 [Take good advice and you'll never go hungry. Two male leads, so don't read if that's not your thing] [The world is one giant amateur production] [Just scraping by and making a living] Yan Qing transmigrates into the body of a sixteen-year-old boy with the same name. His father is nowhere to be found, his mother ran off with a traveling merchant, and all they left him is an empty home. At a loss, he has no choice but to fend for himself and run a little wonton shop. See how a workhorse who only 936Reads7.4Score15314d adds
- 193 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 173Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 194 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 1kReads8.7Score11314d adds
- 195 Reborn in the 1980s: The Little Chef 重生八零小厨娘 Song Ran was reborn! She returned to the 1980s, a time of shortages, to a home with bare walls. Her sister-in-law even wanted her to marry a widower and become his children's stepmother! Song Ran was speechless. In her previous life, she'd been a renowned master chef and a top student who graduated from Tsinghua University with a degree in fashion design. There was no way she would accept this fate! A girl with a face covered in pimples? No need to worry. She had a remedy, and once she was cured 197Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 196 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 457Reads8.5Score10014d adds
- 197 A Wedding in the 1970s 七十年代结婚记 What’s it like to transmigrate into a book and become the heroine of a period novel, already married? When Shen Jing was bored, she read about a heroine in a period novel whose parents arranged a marriage with a man they knew well, one who was handsome and came from a good family. But the heroine wasn’t happy with it and actually wanted to run away from the wedding. Shen Jing couldn’t help exclaiming, “She doesn’t even want that? What’s wrong with being rich and good-looking? If she doesn’t want 87Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 198 I'm a Chef, So Isn't It Only Natural to Carry a Cleaver? 身为厨师，身上带把菜刀很合理吧 Jiang Han spent eleven years cooking in prison. There, he received a mysterious inheritance and learned 108 lost recipes. After his release, he searched high and low for work to make a living, only to be turned away at every turn. If the world wouldn’t give him a way to survive, he’d make one for himself. One long-lost, legendary dish after another returned to the world under his hands. When Jiang Han went deep into the mountains to capture a dragon and into the depths of the sea to hunt a whale 603Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 199 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 105Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 200 I Became a Little Farm Girl in Ancient Times and Built a Fortune with Food 穿成古代小农女，我靠美食发家 Xu Yaoyao transmigrated. She thought she had become a little fool, but in truth, her soul had simply returned to its rightful place. The love she had been denied in her previous life is showered on her by her family in this one. Her family is large and full of boys. She is the only girl, the family’s beloved little lucky star. Just look at her incredible luck: she picks up a radish and it turns out to be ginseng; she plucks a mushroom and it turns out to be a reishi. Watch as she goes from runni 51Reads—Score—14d adds
