Novels like I’m Just Cooking, Why Are the Demonic Beasts So Nervous?
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I’m Just Cooking, Why Are the Demonic Beasts So Nervous?, best match first.
- 101 Gourmet: I Cater Village Banquets, and the Villagers Crowd Around My House 美食：村里烧宴席，村民堵我家门 [Lots of Food + Revenge + Slow-Paced + Romance + No Female Lead + No-Brainer Fun + Comfort Food] Zhou Peng transmigrates to a parallel world and unexpectedly binds himself to a Food System. Complete a customer's random banquet request and receive a random reward. A Double Ninth Festival banquet for the elderly, a baby's one-month celebration, a wedding banquet for a couple who got married on a whim. Braised pork, a whole chicken, a whole fish! Finish with a plate of stir-fried greens! The most t 67Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 I Run a University Cafeteria, and My Goal Is to Make a Hundred Million 承包大学食堂，我的目标是一个亿 [Food] [No Romance] [System] [Quick Transmigration] [Slice of Life] [Comedy] After Tang Lin died, his soul was pulled into a food-themed game. If he cleared the game, he could be reborn. * Game 1: "A University Cafeteria on the Verge of Closing" The cafeteria at Huamei University was about to shut down, yet a senior in his final year took it over! The students gritted their teeth: “So what if they changed the person in charge? Capitalists are all the same!” “I'd rather starve than eat at Cafeter 25Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 103 Gourmet: A Street Stall Outside the Police Station That Makes Wanted Criminals Drool 美食：警局门口摆摊，馋哭通缉犯 [Food + Daily Life + Comedy + Lighthearted + No Romance + The Perfect Read While Eating] “Shocking! A man set up a pancake stall outside a police station and made a wanted fugitive passing by drool so badly that he turned himself in?” “Exclusive breaking news! A fugitive who had been on the run for a month has been captured. The reason? A street vendor’s cooking reminded him of the taste of his mother’s food?” “Inside scoop! A fugitive renounced his death sentence and left a final message before 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Top Students from China's Best Universities Go Crazy for Roast Goose Legs 为吃烤鹅腿，清北状元都抢疯了 [Wayward Son Turns Over a New Leaf + Food + System + Goose-Leg Auntie] “Wan Hao, you bastard!” Beside the hospital bed, Wan Hao slapped himself hard across the face. He wished he could beat himself to death. He was a lazy good-for-nothing who spent his days loafing around and living off his parents. Once, after losing money gambling, he had no way to repay his debt, so he stole his mother's bankbook, planning to withdraw some cash to tide himself over. Instead, he accidentally discovered his mot 11Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 105 Setting Up a Stall Outside the Elementary School, Mom and Dad, Save Some for Me 小学门口摆摊，爸爸妈妈给我留点 This book is also known as "After I Grabbed My Bucket and Ran, I Awakened the Gourmet God System". [Comedy] [Comfort Food] [System] [Gourmet] [Goofball] As a civil engineering graduate, Zhang Yang followed his seniors’ advice on starting a business and became a proud freelancer: selling snacks outside an elementary school as a street vendor. Egg fried rice, pan-fried buns, and all kinds of other delicious food took the school gate by storm. The elementary school students and their parents lined 430Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 106 A World of Flavor 风味人间 Food is the main storyline, travel the side plot. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, there’s no face-slapping, and the tone is laid-back and slice-of-life. (He starts out alone and picks up friends along the way.) Xu Jinhuan is a skilled chef, with questionable manners, and the number-one slacker in the country. After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world and unlocking the Food System, Xu Jinhuan goes from a newly graduated aspiring chef to a creator of flavorful cuisine. His schedu 12Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 107 The God of Cooking: The Whole Sect Goes Wild for a Bowl of Rice 厨神，宗门上下竟为一碗饭疯狂 [Chef God System] [No female lead] [Everyday life + pure wish fulfillment] [Sect] After transmigrating into a cultivation world, I become a disciple at the menial labor peak and activate the Chef God System. A single bowl of rice is enough to make countless people fight over it. My food is not only delicious, it also has the effects of medicinal pills. Everyone who tries it says it's great. 240Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 108 The Internet’s Most Polished Girl Is Setting Up Stalls Everywhere? 网络精致女孩她居然到处摆地摊？ [Gourmet] [Street Stalls] [Farming] [No Romance] [Light Technology] Yang Xiu binds to a trending food System, which assigns her one online video-shooting task every so often. She drives the utility vehicle provided by the System, wears its exquisite outfits, and disguises herself so thoroughly that even her mother wouldn’t recognize her, all to complete the food challenges the System assigns. She takes a mini old-timer car to a highway rest stop to cook century egg and pork congee, drives an RV 76Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 109 I Transmigrate into a Book and Open a Restaurant That Makes the Whole City Smell Amazing 穿书后我靠开食肆香遍全城 The heroine transmigrates into a book and opens a restaurant. The story focuses on the day-to-day business of running a food shop, with no awful relatives or angst. It's warm and comforting, so enjoy without worry~ The male lead appears later and doesn't have much page time. He's a puppy-like guy who follows our little Hua around everywhere (the male lead of the transmigration novel), and he's blessed with a protagonist's halo: getting close to him brings good luck. (Hugging the big shot's leg.j 3.7kReads8.1Score32414d adds
- 110 Random Street Stall: Customers Search the Whole City for Me 随机摆摊：顾客对我全城搜索 [Gourmet] [No female lead] [Everyday life] [Heartwarming] [Healing] [Comedy] After transmigrating, Luo Bo unexpectedly awakens an Unlimited Gourmet System, which randomly grants him a god-tier culinary skill every week. “Ding! Wraps at one hundred percent! Sell wraps at a bus stop at midnight.” “Ding! The ultimate temptation of instant noodles! Go to an internet cafe at nine at night and treat the gamers' taste buds.” “Ding! The culinary wisdom of an eighty-year barbecue chef has been bestowed u —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Gourmet: You Dumped Me for Being Poor, Now You Beg to Get Back Together at My Food Stall 美食：嫌我穷分手，摆摊你求复合 [Food, random street stalls, one female lead, sweet everyday romance, ex-girlfriend regrets the breakup, crafty stall owner + hapless customers.] After Jiang Wanzhou breaks up with his girlfriend, he binds himself to a random street-stall System. Every week, the System randomly refreshes his recipes and selling locations. He sells barbecue at a gym, chicken at a private club, boxed meals at a highway service area, and braised snacks outside a university at two in the morning. Each new stall loca —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Banquet, So I Made the Manchu-Han Imperial Feast 让你回村烧大席，你烧出满汉全席 Ou Huang returned to his hometown, intending to enjoy a leisurely life. But he was forced to bind himself to a strange System. He was assigned to be the village cook, responsible for preparing dishes for village banquets. Whether it was a senior's birthday, a baby's full-month celebration, or a wedding feast... every joyous occasion in the countryside was in Ou Huang's hands! From red-braised pork knuckle to four-joy meatballs to pork belly with preserved mustard greens, every dish Ou Huang ma 429Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 Immortal Chef, Come Eat! What Are You Afraid Of? 仙厨，请吃饭，你们害怕什么？ [Lighthearted] + [Funny] + [Meme-filled] + [Side Effects] + [Cultivation] + [Immortal Chef] Spirit Dish: Heart Demon Wife Cake Effect: Removes obstacles caused by heart demons Side effect: Kidney deficiency??? Li Pu transmigrates into a Cultivation world and acquires an abstract-style Immortal Chef System, becoming an Immortal Chef, one of the many arts of Cultivation. The only problem is that the side effects of his spirit dishes are a little outrageous Braised chicken legs that boost cultivati 6Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 114 Livestream: The Hospital’s Roaming Food Stall 直播：医院的流动美食摊贩 After Lu Zijin got the System, he started doing a doctor's work despite not being a doctor. High blood pressure, diabetes, leukemia, mental illness, Alzheimer's, and more: none of them were a problem for Lu Zijin! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Gourmet: Starting with Banquet Cooking 美食：从烧大席开始 Urban + Countryside + Gourmet + System + Cozy + The Beauty of Ordinary Life Zhang Yang is an ordinary man who unexpectedly gains the backing of a Gourmet System and instantly makes a stunning comeback! Rising from the dust, he goes from being unknown to famous around the world, forging the legend of an extraordinary master chef in the midst of an ordinary life! 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 I Transmigrated to the Beast Taming Sect to Become a Cook 穿越到御兽宗当厨子 Cultivation + ordinary mortal + fantasy + no female lead. Chen Xun was the owner of a humble roadside food stall. After collapsing from overwork, he wakes up in the body of an orphan on the Xuanling Continent, having transmigrated there. By a twist of fate, the Beast Taming Sect recruits him as a cook. Since he's here, he might as well make the best of it. Follow Chen Xun as he starts out as a little cook, tames spirit beasts, cultivates techniques, and rises to the pinnacle of immortality. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 I Was About to Sell My Farmstay, but the System Insisted I Was an Immortal Chef Sect 刚想卖了农家乐，系统非说仙厨宗 [Feel-good story + Gourmet + Cultivation + Multiple heroines] Just after the System tells him he has transmigrated to a world of cultivation and become the young sect master of the Immortal Chef Sect, Xiang Tian opens his eyes to find himself in the same dilapidated farmhouse inn, buried in debt and stripped bare! System, are you lagging? Did you set the wrong location? [Ding! This farmhouse inn is now bound as the Immortal Chef Sect’s headquarters. The sect master is your father, and the sect m 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Survival: My Teammate Is Actually a Man with a Woman's Face 求生：我的队友竟是男生女相 My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 119 A Max-Level Social Butterfly Gets Rich in a Period Novel 满级社牛，在年代文里暴富 [Transmigrate into a Book + Food + Everyone's Favorite + Farming + Business] Oh no! Tian Cheng went to sleep and woke up as the vicious supporting female character in a period novel. She has a sweet face but a bad-tempered, unpleasant personality, and she has a crush on the male lead. Jealous of the heroine, she targets her at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death, leaving everyone sighing over her fate. But Tian Cheng is a food lover, and she has no plans to repeat the same mistakes. 9Reads—Score114d adds
- 120 A Taste of Legend: The Gourmet Guardian’s Journey 味觉传奇：美食守护者之旅 Aiven is a young gourmet hunter with an all-encompassing sense of taste. Together with his partner Lillian, a talented and beautiful chef, he searches for rare ingredients across the land of Huaxia and the mysterious Gourmet World. Their journey is filled with the unknown, danger, and miracles. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 Gourmet: I Returned from China After Learning to Cook 美食：我从华夏学厨归来 Feng Mingyuan returns from studying the culinary arts in Huaxia. Once again, he faces relatives who are trying to seize ownership of his family restaurant through a food duel. In this life, he will use the superb cooking skills he learned in Huaxia to protect his family's restaurant. In this world, restaurants are ranked into ten grades according to the Heavenly Stems, from highest to lowest: Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui. Chefs in this world are ranked into twelve levels acco 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Head Chef in an Eagleland Prison: Inmates Beg for Longer Sentences 鹰酱监狱当主厨，犯人集体求加刑 [Gourmet] + [Comedy] + [No Female Lead] + [Perfect for Mealtime] + [Recipes] + [Don't Read Late at Night] After an accident, Li Xiang becomes the head chef at an Eagle Sauce prison and acquires the God of Cookery System. Inmates: “I don't want to stay in this dump another day! I'm breaking out!” “Exactly! They serve us food even dogs wouldn't eat! This bread's hard enough to use as a brick!” Then Li Xiang arrives... “My God, this is so delicious! I don't want to leave! I want to spend the rest o 17Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 123 Gourmet: My Late-Night Diner Might Not Be Entirely Scientific 美食：我的深夜食堂可能不太科学 [Food + System + entertainment industry + lighthearted daily life] If someone asked where an unconventional late-night diner came from, Luo Jia would tell them it all started with him standing up for the people and beating up a mage whose ritual was disturbing the neighborhood. He knew because he had experienced it himself. Thanks to the immense merit he earned by sacrificing the mage from the start, Luo Jia got a System and embarked on the path to becoming a God of Cooking. He moved to a film s 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 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 989Reads8.7Score10614d adds
- 125 A Bride Price of 28,000? Forget This Wedding 下车礼两万八？这婚不结也罢 [Sichuan Cuisine Master, entrepreneurship, adorable child, everyday life, one heroine] “Twenty-eight thousand eight hundred for the door-opening gift, every last yuan.” “How about I give you the rest after the wedding?” “No. My best friend said the door-opening gift can’t be delayed. You have to give it to me right now, this instant.” On their wedding day, Ning Yi’s bride-to-be was egged on by her best friend. She refused to get out of the car unless he paid the door-opening gift. No amount of r 613Reads8.4Score10314d adds
- 126 Gourmet: I'm Going Crazy! I Never Wanted to Be a Chef! 美食：疯了，我也没想干厨师啊！ (Leave your brain here) I just transmigrated to a parallel world, and I'm already being hounded for debt! The previous restaurant owner owes us money. Not much! Just fifty million! Su Lang snapped: The boss owes you money. What does that have to do with me!? Before he ran off, he transferred the restaurant to your name. Oh, and he left you ten penguins, too! What the heck? Penguins!? So you ran off and paid our wages with penguins? Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have bound the Food Is Heaven S 87Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 127 My Everyday Food Adventures in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界的美食日常 [Cultivation + Gourmet + Lighthearted Comedy + Harmonious Sect + One Female Lead] {This book focuses on cultivation, with food as a supporting element. There will be other plotlines besides cooking, so if that's not for you, please don't read.} Lin Xiaofan transmigrates. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in the cultivation world. Huh? A menial disciple, the standard from-the-start setup. So where's the System? Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've awakened the Culinary Immortal System! 12Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 128 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a Highway Rest Stop During Lunar New Year, I Bring Traffic to a Standstill 美食：春节服务区卖饭，高速堵疯 [Food + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] Gu Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Food System. At the start, he draws a location for his business, only to get a tiny highway service area! And the ridiculous task is to sell three hundred boxed meals in a single day? Just as Gu Rui is at his wits’ end, a male streamer shows up at the highway service area by chance. After one meal of dumplings, the streamer hugs him and keeps calling him “Mom”! Travel surges during the Spring 171Reads8.2Score2214d adds
- 129 After Awakening the Chef God Martial Soul, I Made All of Humanity Drool 觉醒厨神武魂后，全人类馋哭了 [Food + spiritual qi revival + no heroine] This is a world where spiritual qi has revived, martial souls awaken, and all races vie for supremacy. A once-notorious maker of bizarre dishes on Earth transmigrates here and accidentally binds to a System that was late because it overslept. He thinks the System will help him become the God of Cooking in no time. But his bizarre dishes turn out to be even more terrifying. Even so, people who haven’t eaten for a thousand years are extremely interested i 131Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 130 From the Start, It’s Oil-Splashed Noodles: The Old Qin People Feast! 开局油泼面，吃嗨老秦人！ [Great Qin]+ [Not The Legend of Qin]+ [Shopkeeper Story]+ [Travel Between Two Worlds]+ [Food]+ [Comedy] “Master, do you have anything to eat?” “Of course!” “Oh? What is this?” “This is our shop's specialty: oil-splashed noodles!” Ever since Zhao Dong stumbled upon a time portal leading to 221 BC and welcomed his first customer, an old Qin man, his problems were solved: his million-yuan debt and his struggling restaurant in the modern world were no longer an issue. At Zhao's shop in Xianyang, 3.7kReads7.4Score26614d adds
- 131 Street Stall: Selling Starch Sausages, My Snack Stand Takes the Internet by Storm! 摆摊：卖淀粉肠，我的小吃摊火爆全网！ [Gourmet] [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] Qiao Anyi gains an all-purpose snack System. Starch sausages, steamed buns, pulled noodles... Every dish leaves customers drooling and craving more. He sets up a street stall with his daughter and climbs to the pinnacle of success! 339Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 132 One Stall from the Start, Great Food All Thanks to the System 开局一个摊，美食全靠系统 Chen Fang had spent over half a year stir-frying rice noodles, yet he was so broke he couldn't even pay rent. Then the System arrived. A garden in a pocket dimension, a spirit spring, ingredient exchanges, recipe unlocks, cooking skill upgrades, and surprise prize draws. He thought he could finally turn his life around, but the System said: He had to get “genuine praise” from three special diners within a week, or it was goodbye. The first was the belle of S University. She devoured two portions 11Reads—Score11814d adds
- 133 Gourmet: I Take Over the Cafeteria, and Tsinghua and Peking University Fight Like Crazy to Hire Me 美食：承包食堂，清北抢我抢疯了 [Gourmet, comedy, no romance, lighthearted, everyday life, recipes, tutorials] P.S. I'll use my ten years of experience as a chef to show you all the wonders of food. This is pure fiction. Please don't take it as reality! After transmigrating to a parallel world, Yang Yi awakened a Gourmet System. His mission was to take over a college cafeteria. From then on, the students of Qingbei began battling over him. Even the senior administrators of both universities got involved! Huaqing student: “Stud 414Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 134 The Farmstay's Culinary God 农家乐的厨神 After Cheng Liang returned to his hometown, he inherited his grandfather's farmhouse restaurant and gained a System. The farmhouse restaurant now serves fish with pickled cabbage, shredded pork with green peppers, dry-pot chicken, braised pork, twice-cooked pork, stir-fried beef, chicken giblets with pickled peppers, fish-fragrant shredded pork, steamed pork with rice flour, pork belly with preserved mustard greens, chicken stewed with mushrooms, old duck soup, and beer duck. 17.1kReads7.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 135 A Spoonful of Chili Essence, and the Gods Beg Me to Stop 一勺辣椒精，众神跪求我收手 This is a wasteland, where hunger is the only faith. That is paradise, where gourmet food is the only pursuit. When Lu Yuan, a food delivery shop owner carrying memories of Earth’s cuisine, steps into a world made of “deliciousness,” a vast food empire begins to rise! A rundown little stall from the start → a global chain of sprawling food courts! One pack of cheap spicy strips → summons a scout corps with incredible movement speed, the [Cheap Thrills]! One bowl of deadly luosifen → opens a [Bio 708Reads8.4Score20414d adds
- 136 The Kids' Cafeteria: Six Different Dishes Every Day! 萌娃食堂：一天六个菜不重样！ [Delicious food + adorable kids + livestreaming + one female lead + lighthearted fun + a low-profile System] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Jiang Chen, a man born in the 2000s, inherits a kindergarten. With the birth rate falling, it’s getting harder and harder to enroll new students. Just as the kindergarten is about to go under, Jiang Chen gets matched with a God of Cooking System. It turns out that this world’s culinary skills are so poor that egg fried rice is considered a divine 337Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 137 The Petite Gourmet 美食小娇娘 Shen Yue transmigrates. The moment she opens her eyes, she finds herself lying in an open-sided thatched shelter with straw covering her. Heavens, earth, she’s the heroine, for goodness’ sake. Why couldn’t she have been given a life where she could just laze around and enjoy free meals? Worst of all, every meal is either leftover grilled fish bones or the fish she’s on her way to grill. Does this world have nothing but fish? They call delicious beef, pork, and mutton wild beasts, mistake all kin 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 My Street Stall Moves to a Random Spot, and Customers Chase Me for a Meal 摆摊地点随机换，顾客追着我干饭 Divine Chef + Pocket Dimension + System + Alternate Era The protagonist stumbles upon the Divine Chef System. With the System at his side, he lives freely and happily, like an immortal. His days are spent eating, drinking, and cooking. Life is long and pleasant. 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Toriko: Top-Tier Gourmet Luck from the Start 美食的俘虏：开局拥有顶级食运 After transmigrating to a gourmet world, Qin Yun encounters a [Legendary Quest] from the start: Pay respects to his adoptive father. And his adoptive father isn’t just anyone. He’s Ichiryu, the chairman of IGO. “Congratulations, Qin Yun, on completing the Legendary Quest. You have received the following hidden rewards: 1. The ultimate gourmet luck of the Gourmet World; 2. The supreme Gourmet Demon: the ancient divine beast Qiongqi; 3. Gold Trait: [Modern-Day Lu Bu] (Effects: Increases your own s 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Why Is the Boss's Wife Like This? 老板娘为何这样 [Gourmet Medicinal Cuisine + Ancient-Era Romance with a Twist + Transmigration System] After gourmet chef Lu Junjun unexpectedly falls into a vegetative state, she transmigrates to the Great Zhou dynasty, a land renowned for its cuisine! Isn't that just like stepping with her eyes closed into her comfort zone? She'd planned to enjoy a carefree life, but the System demands that she become the richest person in the capital and help the people. She can only return after completing her mission. So, 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 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
- 142 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
- 143 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
- 144 Gourmet: My Diners Form an Intelligence Group to Track Me Down 美食：为了找我，食客建立情报群 This is a magical roadside food stall. Egg fried rice, dry-fried beef chow fun, stinky tofu, savory tofu pudding... Every seemingly ordinary street snack becomes an unforgettable delicacy in the stall owner's hands. After one bite, people want a second, a third, and an Nth. But the stall owner has one “bad habit”: every time he sets up shop for a day, he moves to a new location the next day. The customers say, “It doesn't matter if we don't make any money today. Missing out on Boss Jiang's cook 30Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 145 The Little Mermaid Chef: Spring Drunkenness, Begonias Bloom, and Dawn Goes Unnoticed 人鱼小厨娘【春酲海棠不觉晓】 Mermaid landlady x a young marshal who says one thing but means another | Food entrepreneurship | A love story that begins in a coffin and makes you cry When Shen Haitang woke up inside a coffin, she had forgotten everything. She remembered only two things: First, she wasn’t human. Second, she was hungry. The man beside her, who was said to have been dead for three days, woke to the sound of her gobbling up the offerings. When he opened his eyes, she was holding up a huge chicken leg, crumbs 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 My Cooking Can Cure Any Discontent 我的美食专治各种不服 Xu Riyue transmigrates into a parallel world, where he becomes a 996 office worker driven to bankruptcy by his boss's workplace abuse. At his lowest point, the Everyday Life System binds itself to him, refreshing one street-stall task each week. Other people's golden fingers can destroy the world, but his System only wants him to suffer social death. His stall is a legend that exists in the city for just one week: It appears on Monday, using an irresistible aroma and flavor to break down everyon 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 A Chef at Your Door, Healing Countless Diners 男厨上门，治愈万千食客 After losing his job and running out of options, Lin Zhaonan unexpectedly binds to the “Record of a Hundred Flavors” culinary System. From then on, he sets out on a healing journey, soothing hearts with food and comforting ordinary lives with the warmth of home cooking. As he heals others, Lin Zhaonan heals himself too, and finds love as well as a restaurant famous far and wide. 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 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
- 149 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 77Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 150 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 174Reads8.1Score—14d adds
