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- 51 Random Stalls Across Time and Space: A World of Fine Food Every Week 随机摆摊异时空，世界美食每周逢 [Gourmet] [Perfect with Rice] [System] [Alternate World] [No Female Lead] [Street Stalls] After taking a nap, Jiang Sui was taken by the System from his original world to a parallel one. From then on, he began a life of running a different street stall every day. Indian flying pancakes, chicken tikka masala, smoked beef and rye sandwiches, maple syrup pancakes, Japanese sushi, tonkotsu ramen... Whatever you’re craving, there’s nothing Boss Jiang can’t cook. In 2040, Jiang Sui was managing an ent —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 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 20Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 53 Spring Festival Travel Rush: I Sell Lunchboxes on the Train, and the Passengers Can’t Stop Drooling 春运：火车卖盒饭，乘客都馋哭了 [A Relaxed, Slow Pace] [Top-Tier Food] [A Delight to Read] [Impossible to Put Down] A three-star chef transmigrates by accident. The moment he opens his eyes, he finds himself in a dire situation from the start: his predecessor’s terrible cooking has left him in a mess, with one demanding diner after another to deal with. But when it comes to a little situation like this, Du Hao just wants to say coolly: “That’s it? That’s all you’ve got?” He promptly sneaks back into the kitchen. Then, one deli 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 I’m Just Cooking, Why Are the Demonic Beasts So Nervous? 我就做个菜，妖兽你紧张什么？ Xie Fan, a food lover, accidentally transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and awakens the God of Cooking System! He thought a world of cultivation would be full of fun, but there’s no internet or air conditioning, and worst of all, the food is terrible! With the principle that he can give up cultivating immortality, but he can’t give up eating, Xie Fan decides to fend for himself! The entire sect goes wild! The disciples: “What is this? How can it be so delicious!” “Eating a bowl of f 700Reads6.6Score112Shelves
- 55 What? Which Factory Cafeteria Charges Five Thousand for Meals? 见鬼！谁家工厂食堂伙食费五千？ [Slow-paced + everyday life + lighthearted + relaxing + food story set in an electronics factory] Ruan Xiuqing transmigrates to a parallel world and takes over the canteen of an electronics factory that's on the verge of going under due to poor management and lax oversight. After activating the cheat System, she receives [Master-Level Cooking], [Master-Level Knife Skills], and [Skill: Three Heads and Six Arms] from the start. Turning the canteen around is just a matter of time! Braised pork bell 271Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 56 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—Shelves
- 57 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 324Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 58 Transmigrating Between Two Worlds: My Little Interstellar Eatery Goes Viral 穿越两界：我的星际小饭馆爆火了 [No CP] [No Jerks] [Ensemble Cast] [Food and Business Focus] [Cooperates with the State] [From a Small Shop on the Star Network to the Richest Person in the Galaxy] The black cat she adopted suddenly started talking, then repaid her kindness by dumping her in a future where food had gone extinct across the stars. Su Su sighed. Fine, as long as I can get back. Starting with a rundown little shop on the Star Network, she was forced to travel between two worlds, bringing all kinds of lost delicacie 3.5kReads7.3Score794Shelves
- 59 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—Shelves
- 60 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—Shelves
- 61 A Taste of Changing Times 食过景迁 A text message sent by a twist of fate brought two people whose lives had run parallel onto the same path. From their school days to entering the working world, their conversations as online friends brought them ever closer. They could talk about anything and found comfort in each other. Though they lived in different cities and followed different paths in life, they eventually came together... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 I Became a God-Tier Tycoon by Running a Street Stall, and My Customers Chase Me All Over Town 摆摊成神豪，食客追我满城跑 [Food + Tycoon + Comedy + System + No Romance + No Heroine + Daily Life + Comfort Food + Wish Fulfillment] Li Hai is a wage earner who longs to get rich. By chance, he binds to the Food Tycoon System. From then on, he sets out to run street-food stalls. The locations and dishes are random. Every time he completes a stall-running task provided by the System, he receives a generous reward. [Congratulations, Host! Task complete. Reward: ten million yuan.] [Congratulations, Host! Task complete. Rewa 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 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 714Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 64 This Food Streamer's Niche Is Way Too Weird 这美食主播的赛道过于邪门 [Gourmet] [Video Blogger] [Livestream Variety Show] [No Female Lead] [Ensemble Cast] [Unhinged Protagonist] [Goofy Daily Life] [No Romance] [No Romance] [No Romance] We’re saying it three times because it’s important. Beautiful women and delicious food are the most tempting things in the world. Bai Yu is a man who gives off a strong sense that he’s up to something. That only gets more complicated after he awakens the Borderline Gourmet Blogger System. Among gourmet bloggers, he has the best body 56Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 65 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—Shelves
- 66 A Random Gourmet Stall, Leaving Diners Craving Every Day 随机美食摊，食客天天被馋哭 (Food, healing, and everyday life) Lin Zhixia is 32 years old. She works nine to five, with no weekends off, yet in the end she has no money, no savings, and not even a boyfriend! Why? Because she loves eating and experimenting with food! All day long, she fantasizes about getting rich overnight! She never expected to get no windfall, but to be reborn instead, back in her college graduation year. A top-tier Gourmet System comes with her. “The little boss's fried rice is so good. Could you eat i 158Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 67 Gourmet: Opening a Restaurant with My Little One, Customers Line Up All Night and Crowd the Door 美食：带着萌娃开店，顾客连夜排队堵门 Su Chen, a stay-at-home dad, awakened a Super Gourmet System and opened a breakfast shop near a university campus! From then on, the once-peaceful campus was swept up in a food frenzy! The students had to get competitive for a taste of the food, waking up earlier and earlier! When they realized Su Chen’s shop couldn’t feed every student, students from three universities secretly launched a plan to win him over! Divide and conquer, honey traps, playing the victim, fabricating stories, befriending 333Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 68 Gourmet: I Set Up a Stall at Random, and Diners Chase Me for Four Miles 美食：随机摆摊，食客追我八里地 [Everyday life, no overpowered golden finger, a slow burn, slice of life] Family squabbles and all the flavors of life: there’s always one that can touch your heart. Wang Qin was an orphan adopted by Grandpa Wang, and the Wang couple had never cared for him. The year he finished the college entrance exams, his grandfather fell ill. The couple didn’t want to pay for his treatment or look after Wang Qin, so they sold the house, took all the money, and ran, leaving the two of them behind with a mou 41Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 69 My Food Truck Is a Hit, and the City Inspectors Show Up Every Day! 餐车生意火爆，城管天天来报道！ [Gourmet]+ [Food Truck]+ [System]+ [Daily Life] Song Jie was saddled with a mountain of debt after his ex-girlfriend, who always put her younger brother first, set him up. In a fit of anger, he seized her younger brother's food truck. He had planned to sell boxed lunches part-time and shake off the label of being in debt as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, he accidentally activated the Gourmet System... Completing missions not only earns him ultimate recipes that captivate every palate, but also 47Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 70 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—Shelves
- 71 Gourmet: Setting Up a Stall with My Cat, I Have the Soldiers Chasing After Me 美食：带猫摆摊，引兵哥哥狂追 Lin Yan, unemployed the moment she graduates, unexpectedly gets a Gourmet System. Teaming up with an intelligent AI plush cat, she reaches the pinnacle of life by selling street snacks. Today, she sets up a stall outside an elementary school, drawing a swarm of students that packs the entrance. The security guard hastily puts up barricades, while the principal cries for help. Tomorrow, she sets up beside a light-rail station, attracting crowds of office workers on their way home. The traffic cop 108Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 A Food Blogger Transmigrates and Sets Up a Stall, Making the Whole City Drool 美食博主穿越后，摆摊馋哭全城人 [Everyday food + transmigration + lighthearted wish fulfillment + historical romance + farming + building wealth] Su Weiyang, crowned the King of Chefs at a modern food competition, wakes up to find she’s transmigrated back to ancient times! She’s become the notorious, same-name-and-surname villainess of the Su family, who has just been jilted. On her very first day after transmigrating, a strikingly handsome stranger rescues her, causing a sensation throughout the village. Su Weiyang takes a lo 273Reads—Score100Shelves
- 73 Sweet Pampering in the 1980s: The Foodie Wife Is No Pushover 八零暖宠，美食娇妻不好惹 She opens her eyes and finds herself back in 1983, transformed into a pitiful bride whom her parents “sold” to a local thug for two hundred yuan. Her bride price went straight toward covering the debts of her good-for-nothing younger brother. With her husband’s family living in abject poverty and her own family watching like vultures, she wields spicy mala xiang guo in one hand and braised intestines in the other, winning over the whole street with her cooking and turning her carefree husband in 456Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 A Walking Lucky Charm: It All Started When I Won the Lottery Jackpot 行走的锦鲤，从彩票中一等奖开始 During the three years of the pandemic, Wu Shuangshuang was unemployed for all three, barely making ends meet by writing novels. Her elderly father took up foreign exchange trading and mortgaged the house to get a loan, only to lose every last cent. To make matters worse, she also lost what little savings she had in the stock market. Her boyfriend of two years had a family that did everything they could to oppose their relationship, and one text from his mother ended things on her son’s behalf. 412Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 75 Gourmet: I Just Wanted to Lie Flat and Slack Off, but I Was Forced to Get Back to Work 美食：本想躺平摆烂，却被迫营业 Lu Fei bought a place in Hengta, hoping to lie flat and live off the rent. But before long, Hengta was hit by a financial scandal, and his dream of collecting rent went up in smoke. Luckily, fate still had something in store for him: he was fired from his job, too. Just when he was at his most desperate, he awakened a Gourmet System. He never expected that on his very first day running a food stall, someone would try to kill him. And so begins the underdog’s rise to success. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 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—Shelves
- 77 Trial by Fireworks 烟火劫 After transmigrating to ancient times, he finds his pockets empty. Fortunately, he was a cook in his previous life. He uses green tangerines to make tofu, purifies coarse salt, and gathers all kinds of ingredients from the mountains that no one in this world has ever seen. One by one, he brings them home and turns them into dish after dish. From being ignored to having customers clamoring for every serving, his little eatery slowly draws people together and builds a life of its own. A foodie far 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 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—Shelves
- 79 Selling Liangfen on the Street, I Make the Whole City Crave It 摆摊卖凉粉，全城百姓被馋哭了 [Food + farming + love at first sight + doting romance + slow-burn sweetness] Xu Yingchun transmigrates into a book and becomes its wicked villainess, doomed to a miserable ending. She’s going to escape the villainess’s fate and become the heroine of her own story! After buying her freedom from the Jiang household, she sets up a street stall, opens a restaurant, and buys land. Her life gets better and better. Milk tea, barbecue, crawfish, hot pot, and big-plate chicken: she’ll serve it all! The 314Reads8.0Score121Shelves
- 80 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 613Reads8.4Score103Shelves
- 81 You Asked Me to Cook Vegetarian Meals, So Why Is My Incense Offering Exploding? 让你做斋饭，我香火怎么被干爆了 [The rating has just been posted and is sure to rise] (System) (Food) (Everyday Life) (Lighthearted Comedy) Lu Chen used to be an overworked corporate drone, but after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he was fired. Just as he was waiting to die, he unexpectedly obtained a Divine Incense System and bonded with Tianlin Temple. As long as the temple receives incense offerings, Lu Chen's lifespan increases. But Tianlin Temple is about to go under! Lu Chen can only use the divine cooking skills 5kReads6.7Score443Shelves
- 82 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—Shelves
- 83 The Night Market King: Sausages from the Meng Family Stall Are Flying Off the Grill 夜市一霸：孟家小摊的烤肠卖爆啦 One-line summary: After transmigrating with a refrigerator, she starts building a fortune by selling grilled sausages from a street stall. [Farming + minor golden finger + family life + heartwarming + rags to riches + no awful characters] On an utterly ordinary night, Meng Qi had just gotten home from work. She opened the refrigerator, planning to make herself tomato-and-egg noodles, and the next moment, she transmigrated without warning, refrigerator and all. Meng Qi: “Wait, do people transmigr 1.4kReads—Score149Shelves
- 84 I Became the Eldest Sister-in-Law of a Farming Family, and Now They All Listen to Me 穿成农门长嫂，全家都听我的 [Farming + Alternate World + Family Squabbles + Cozy Daily Life + Food] Liu Zhixia transmigrates and is forced to marry into the Ji family. She’s willing to be a replacement bride, but only if she first cuts ties with her family! She has several younger siblings and a few houses. They may be poor, but at least they don’t cause her trouble. Thanks to her skills, life gets better and better, and the younger ones become her biggest fans. “We’ll do whatever Sister-in-law says!” “Eldest Sister-in-law 2.3kReads8.2Score307Shelves
- 85 After Binding to a System, My Food Stall Goes Viral 绑定系统后，我的美食小摊爆火了 [Randomized Food + Street Stalls + System Golden Finger + No CP + Healing Slice of Life] Graduation immediately brings unemployment, and his family has major expenses to cover. Just as Chen Zhaoning is falling into despair, he unexpectedly obtains the [Super Food Tycoon] System. Huge cash rewards? Bonus attribute points? All kinds of magical random drops, and even more surprises waiting at the end... See how Chen Zhaoning, born to be a wage slave, uses his culinary talent and System golden finge 145Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 86 The Cute Chef with a Gourmet System 美食系统之萌神厨娘 Ye Yun is a food streamer with a beautiful face, a sweet voice, and an elegant air. By a twist of fate, she transmigrates to ancient times. Before she can figure out what’s happening, the thoroughly confused Ye Yun is married off in her older sister’s place to the dying eldest son of the Rong family. She also finds herself saddled with a baffling food System. “The Minister of Revenue wants Dongpo pork? Have him book a month in advance.” “The little princess wants ice cream? No way. She stole fru 23Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 87 The Private Kitchen of a Little Farm Girl 私厨小农女 [No romance; the heroine loves only money and just wants to earn enough to laze around. There is a secondary couple.] Ji Shu was a sought-after private chef and small-business owner in the modern world, but after being born into this era, she had to eat boiled vegetables for thirteen years?? Ji Shu can't take it anymore!! She'll use delicious food to reach a comfortable life: set up a street stall, then buy a shop, buy a house, and make money. What is love? It's just an optional seasoning in lif 164Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 88 Gourmet: Starting from the Start with Fried Rice, I Astonished the Police 美食：摆摊开局蛋炒饭惊动110 [System + No Romance + Everyday Life + Perfect with a Meal + Growth] Jiang Yu transmigrates into the life of a poor girl whose parents are both dead. Her heartless uncle has seized the family’s property, and after kicking her out, even the rent is beyond her means. Just when she’s at her wit’s end, she binds the [Random Street Stall System]. She sells egg fried rice outside a school, and the students’ frenzied orders alarm their parents! The police show up to investigate an “extortion case,” onl 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 She Tastes So Good 她，很美味 [Food + farming + palace and household intrigue + devoted, faithful couple + exclusive affection later on + System + transmigration] Jiarou, a hugely popular food blogger, transmigrated into the body of an unfavored concubine in a prince’s household. Hoping to return to her own world as soon as possible, she worked hard to complete her System tasks. Jiarou’s dishes were so delicious that people couldn’t stop thinking about them, couldn’t resist them, and couldn’t help drooling. With her cook 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Gourmet: This Is Crazy! People Queued for Three Blocks Just to Eat 美食：疯了！为口吃的排了三条街 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Everyday Life] [Comfort Food] [Lighthearted] Xia Ning unexpectedly awakens a random Gourmet Shop System. Each time, he opens a shop in a completely random location, serving randomly selected delicacies to all kinds of customers. He sells sweet and spicy duck neck on Gourmet Street, and Tongguan roujiamo on the pedestrian street... While countless customers are still fretting over being unable to buy his food, Boss Xia has opened yet another shop... “Boss, could you op 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Taste of Life, All These Years (Complete in 2 Volumes) 世味余年（全两册） Bi Luo rushes back to China when her grandfather falls gravely ill, and suddenly finds herself shouldering the burden of revitalizing the family’s century-old restaurant, Four Seasons Spring. She reunites with Shen Linfeng, the man she had a crush on while studying in Country F, only to discover that the seemingly gentle and refined Shen has ulterior motives involving the restaurant. She also unexpectedly meets Tang Lu, who is determined to buy Four Seasons Spring. The two go from constantly cla 154Reads9.7Score—Shelves
- 92 Gourmet: Diners Go Wild Just to Get a Taste 美食：为了尝一口，食客们抢疯了 Two and a half years after graduating from New Oriental, Dongfang Xin transmigrated into the kitchen of a film crew in a parallel world. With a gourmet System, every dish he made was an exquisite delight. From then on, every member of the film crew, young or old, man or woman, gained twenty pounds after filming. Even the dogs passing by were no exception. Countless celebrities traveled great distances just to sample his cooking. Rich businesswomen were even willing to spend a fortune to hire him —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 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 2.4kReads6.4Score156Shelves
- 94 Gourmet: The School Chef Parents Never Want to Leave 美食：在小学当大厨，家长不愿走 [Stop nitpicking, everyone here is just a tool] [No romance] [Heartwarming] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Chen binds himself to the [Culinary Excellence System]. Every time he makes a delicious dish, he unlocks a new recipe, so he decides to become the head chef at an elementary school. He cooks one limited-edition dish after another, and the kids aren’t happy about it. “This big brother’s food is so good, I’d marry my big sister off to you!” “...” “Wow, it really is delicious~” 725Reads6.1Score102Shelves
- 95 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. 294Reads6.4Score111Shelves
- 96 Gourmet: Starting with Selling Braised Dishes in the Countryside! 美食：从下乡卖卤味开始！ [System Golden Finger + Gourmet + Everyday Business + Farming] Ji Yanming quits his job and returns to his village to care for his elderly grandfather and start a business, never expecting to bind to a Gourmet System. The god-tier braised-food recipe he gets in the beginner’s gift pack sends him soaring right from the start. So Ji Yanming begins selling braised food in the countryside, traveling from village to village and becoming a favorite with adults and children alike. Before long, his fame 789Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 97 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 991Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 98 I Set Up a Food Stall in the 1980s and Became a Sensation 我在八零摆摊卖美食，火出圈了 Tang Xi dies and returns to the age of fifteen, carrying the wordless book her master gave her years ago: All the Food Under Heaven. That year, the Tang family’s biological daughter is finally found, and Tang Xi is left behind by her adoptive parents. Feeling guilty toward their real daughter, Tang Xi gives in to her at every turn, only to earn her adoptive parents’ resentment and the disdain of her childhood sweetheart and fiancé... On top of that, she falls ill and misses the college entrance 156Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 After the Villainess Started Cooking, Everyone Spoiled Her! 恶女做美食后，被团宠了！ [Not a wish-fulfillment story + slow burn + food + everyday life + heartwarming] After a car accident, Shang Shixu transmigrated to the Great Xia dynasty. The good news: Her father was an official, and a fairly high-ranking one! The bad news: She was a notorious villainess in the capital. She not only seduced unmarried young men, but also went after married men. Everyone in the city despised her, and her family suffered for it too. She would ask people for favors to their faces, then call them i 327Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 100 I Went Viral After Binding the Gourmet Check-In System! 绑定美食打卡系统后，我爆红了！ System + Gourmet + Travel + Lighthearted (Warning: There's some family drama at the beginning. If that's not your thing, don't read.) Lin Xi is a seasoned homebody, with severe social anxiety and chronic procrastination. She tried taking the graduate school entrance exam and the civil service exam, but failed both. After working for half a year, she couldn't stand her idiot boss's abuse any longer, so she quit in a fit of anger and went home to live off her parents. She spent over a year lying a 208Reads—Score—Shelves
