Novels like Bringing a Tiny Kitchen to Cook for an Entire Ancient Army Camp
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- 1 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 261Reads—Score100Shelves
- 2 Hooked on Cases 案上瘾 [Transmigration + marriage first, love later + devoted to each other + gourmet food + sweet romance + entrepreneurship] A sunny, charming chef-princess versus a seemingly aloof, seemingly impartial prince who is actually cunning Nan Yu was a highly sought-after head chef for state banquets in the 21st century. Little did she know that after one meal, she would transmigrate into the body of a notorious foreign princess. On the journey to her political marriage, “she” mysteriously disappeared. R 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times, Met a Scumbag, and Opened a School with My Cooking 穿越古代遇渣男，我靠美食开学院 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Food + Pocket Dimension + System] A lighthearted summer treat, perfect for enjoying with a meal, featuring detailed descriptions of all kinds of delicious food. Su Ning, a young woman from the interstellar era, transmigrates one day and becomes the daughter of a deceased scholar in ancient times. Her scholar father had raised a young husband for her, but who knew he would turn out to be a scumbag? He used her money to pass the imperial exams and become the top c 12Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 4 A Snack Stall in Chang'an 长安小食摊 Shen Yu died in the kitchen of her Sichuan restaurant. When she woke up, she had become an orphan girl in Chang'an's West Market, saddled with fifteen strings of debt. The original owner couldn't even get the stove hot. With half a sack of flour, a battered wok, and her own two hands, she started out with a street stall in the West Market. Her improved iron wok produced the Tang Dynasty's first stir-fry, and it took the West Market by storm. From a roadside stall to the finest restaurant in the 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Gourmet: Boss, You're Bold to Run a Street Stall 美食：老板你摆摊真任性啊 [Everyday Life] [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [Perfect with a Meal] Ming Xuan unexpectedly awakens a street-stall System, and from then on, starts a life of randomly slacking off, no, running a stall. He sells flatbread and fried dough sticks in front of the DD Building, noodles at a middle school gate, and zongzi outside a university. What? The reward is 996,000 yuan. Why is the number so oddly specific? Wait, something's not right. Why is it 996? Is there something cursed 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Reborn as a Chef: Mastering My Little Transmigration 重生为厨娘之小小穿越拿捏 Historical romance + food + female chef + sweet romance + System After transmigrating into an era where food is scarce, she finds herself a mother raising her frail younger brother and child alone, while she herself longs for rice. She hopes to open a restaurant of her own and use her skills to give her family a better life, but then her father, a general, suddenly appears. What? She should become an imperial chef? She's not interested. Marry a young general? She can't stand him. She'd rather ma 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Boss, Have You Eaten Today? 东家，今日吃了吗？ [Food + farming + everyday life] Chapters 1–23 cover her childhood; the male lead appears in Chapter 23, and she heads to Shaojing in Chapter 34. The whole story is about 200,000 words. Good riddance, rotten tomatoes. Tu Ling has been a picky eater since childhood, but fortunately her grandmother dotes on her, her mother protects her, and her father spoils her. She grows her seasonings from seedlings, starts handling the spatula as a toddler, learns to cook in the dining hall, and gets her resta 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Su Yao’s Food-Stall Challenge 苏瑶的美食摆摊任务 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 From the Start, I Quit My Job on the Spot, and My Food Stall Took the Whole City by Storm 开局裸辞，我的美食小摊火遍全城 [Female lead with no romance] [Stalls all over town] [Lighthearted slice of life] Foodie at heart, absurd to the soul! Chen Jinyue, whose college major was a dead end, finally managed to find a job. But her boss took credit for her work and squeezed her dry with endless overtime every day. She’d had enough. After quitting without another job lined up, she unexpectedly bound herself to Food System 007. She thought it was a sure thing, but every mission turned out to be more outrageous than the la 956Reads—Score103Shelves
- 10 Transmigrated as a Farmer's Little Chef, I Lead My Mother to a Better Life 穿成农家小厨娘，带着母亲奔小康 Farming + delicious food + no romance + System + pocket dimension Late one night, Yan Wanning was lying in bed playing on her phone when a charger she had bought on Pinxixi suddenly burst into flames. When she opened her eyes, she had become Wang Xiaowan, a ten-year-old farm girl in Dayun Village of the Feize Dynasty. Her paternal grandparents favored some grandchildren over others, her father had died young, and her mother and Wang Xiaowan struggled to get by. Fortunately, after the family spli 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Taste of Memories 寻味记 The warmth of everyday life is what comforts ordinary hearts most. To Lin Xi, that warmth means wild grape wine, osmanthus wine, candied hawthorns, chicken wings braised in a three-sauce hotpot, old hen soup with astragalus and red dates, sweet soup made with white flour, tofu with bear’s paw mushrooms, sweet-and-sour yam balls, braised pork knuckle, crystal pork knuckle, shiitake mushrooms stuffed with meat, and daikon and egg soup... Savor the colors and flavors of everyday life, And watch the 153Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 After Xiangchao Went Viral, I Made It Big with Yongzhou Cuisine 湘超爆火后，我靠永州美食出圈 (An unconventional food story + urban fantasy + women's growth. A slow-burn, steady-paced story with simple writing. If you only want pure food descriptions, this may not be for you.) At thirty, an age when even dogs find you annoying, Zhao Min lost her job! She was already frustrated about being unemployed, and the thought that she might also face even more intense pressure to get married only made things worse! When she was feeling utterly dejected, her best friend called: "Minmin, come bac 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Cook Takes Charge: I Use Food to Crush Villains and Become a Legend 厨娘当家：我靠美食虐渣封神 After transmigrating, Su Qiaoqiao, a twenty-first-century chef, wakes up in the body of a girl from a poor farming family in ancient times. From the start, she's in an “epic” mess: her parents want to sell her sister to pay for her brother's education. Faced with her self-important brother's disdain and her parents' obsessive devotion to their son, she lets out a cold laugh and goes berserk on the spot. “Sell my sister? Think bigger! Why not sell off you, the tender-skinned scholar, to become a 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Transmigration: After Quitting, the System Helps Me Open a Restaurant 穿越：辞职后系统带我开饭馆儿 [System] [Gourmet] [No heroine] [No romance] [Cozy] [Everyday life] Zhang Yang is an orphan. After finally learning to cook from a master, he is transported to another world by an explosion. When he arrives, he discovers that he is still an orphan. What? Am I cursed with bad luck? Do I not deserve parents? Just then, his phone chimes: @Zhang Yang, please come to the finance office tomorrow to complete your resignation procedures. Before he can reply, a dialog box pops up on his phone: You have b 658Reads8.0Score102Shelves
- 15 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 336Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 16 I Sold Dog Food at My Stall, and It Sold Out. I Never Said People Couldn’t Eat It! 摆摊卖狗饭被抢爆没说人不能吃吧 Shen Yi transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a rather unreliable Food System. Every week, the System assigns him a random street-stall mission: Sell boxed meals inside a haunted house that's about to close, sell milk tea in a nursing home that's going under, sell hamburgers at a weight-loss camp that can't attract any customers... Worst of all, it even tells him to sell homemade pet food at a pet shop that can't make a profit. Every dish leaves customers drooling, and once they 63Reads—Score103Shelves
- 17 The Pastry Queen’s Journey 糕点皇后养成记 The biggest challenge of transmigrating to ancient times: no oven, no stand mixer. How can a modern baker survive? Jiang You calmly says, “No problem.” The earthen stove is too crude, so she builds a brick kiln and makes her own oven. With no proper tools, she ties bamboo strips together to make a whisk. She uses lard to create layer upon layer of flaky pastry, and cleverly packages her goods in bamboo baskets lined with oiled paper. Her Valentine's Day sushi amazes the townsfolk, her autumn-onl 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 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 168Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 19 Transmigrated into a Tragic Novel as Cannon Fodder, I Turned the Tables with Food 穿成虐文炮灰，我靠美食逆风翻盘 [Food + System + business + healing each other + obsessive, scheming male lead] Yun Shu, a descendant of imperial chefs, opens her eyes to find she has become a doomed cannon-fodder character in an old-fashioned tragic romance. Not only did she spend her life giving the heroine resources and taking the blame for her, but even after her death, she became part of their PLAY. They really used her to the very end. Why should the whole world’s lives be sacrificed just so their love story can be passi 28Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 20 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 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I Set Up a Stall Before the New Year and Left Customers Drooling 过年前摆一波摊，馋坏食客 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your follows motivate me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Wang Xu, the “King of Street Stalls,” quit his job right before the New Year and encountered a Gourmet System. Unlike a tycoon System, this one had a simple, no-nonsense way of taking its cut: a 70/30 or 60/40 split. Under this arrangement, Wang Xu had to meet the System’s KPIs while also working hard to increase his own earnings. 646Reads—Score102Shelves
- 22 I Started Out as a Side Consort and Won the Crown Prince Over with My Cooking 开局穿侧妃，我靠美食馋哭太子 Ye An'an transmigrated and became the Crown Prince’s concubine, but the Crown Prince was famous for being both a picky eater and a germaphobe. He ran away on their wedding night, becoming the laughingstock of the entire capital. The good news: she brought all her modern cooking skills with her, so she was living the good life! While everyone else was fighting for favor in the palace, scheming against one another, Ye An'an was making jianbing in the little kitchen, the delicious aroma carrying fo 9.1kReads7.3Score407Shelves
- 23 Transmigrated into a Book as a Cannon-Fodder Villainess: I Leave the Palace, Open a Restaurant, and Become a Tycoon 穿书炮灰女配，出宫开酒楼成首富 [Fake palace intrigue + Wish fulfillment + Food + Cozy + Farming + Light ensemble cast + A touch of a golden finger] Other people rely on schemes to survive palace intrigue. I rely on the wok hei! When she opens her eyes, Qiu Qiu is stunned The unscrupulous System really did toss her into an old-fashioned, melodramatic novel! The original owner is a disposable pawn the emperor uses to please his true love. Her ending is miserable: stripped of her title, sent to the Cold Palace, and left to die o 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Transmigrated to Ancient Times as a Street-Food Chef 穿越古代摆摊小厨娘 - Modern identity: A 21st-century snack enthusiast who loves experimenting with recipes for all kinds of viral snacks. She is optimistic and practical, handy, and quick-witted when it counts. She is intensely driven to make money and get rich, stemming from her modern-day office worker’s desire to escape the 996 grind. - Ancient identity: An orphan who transmigrates to Qingxi Town in the Great Jing dynasty and inherits the original owner’s body. She relies on her modern cooking skills to make 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 After Transmigrating to the Modern World, the Shadow Guard Kicks Back and Cooks 穿越现代后，暗卫开始摆烂做美食 No CP, just the everyday life of an ordinary female covert guard who loves food and gossip. Winter melon, watermelon, Hami melon, nobody’s going to stop me from getting the scoop. Juice-filled buns, dumpling juice, you little brat, get out of my way! Smash the plates, toss the chopsticks, and slap the scoundrels right across the face. I’ve got a temper and the skills to back it up. Nobody gets to push me around. Polished-up blurb A feast of fresh wine and sturgeon, a hotpot of clams. Given a sec 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Shocking! The Prime Minister’s Legitimate Daughter Wins Over the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 惊！丞相嫡女靠美食征服整个京城 Modern chef Su Yuwan transmigrates and nearly gets taken out by ancient “cuisine” the moment she opens her eyes! Overly sweet pastries? Greasy meat? What kind of awful place doesn’t even have potato chips or spicy strips?! “This dump isn’t fit for pigs!” When she realizes that life among the nobility is truly dull... “Heh. Time to show you what a whole different level of competition looks like!” She fries golden potato chips from potatoes meant for pigs, and the emperor secretly tucks them int 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Random Cuisine, Diners Beg Me Not to Close Up! 随机美食，食客求我别收摊！ [Everyday Gourmet] [No Female Lead, No Romance] [Warm and Healing] [Lighthearted and Wacky] Unemployed young man Fang Mu unexpectedly binds himself to the ultimate Gourmet System! Random stalls! Random dishes! Fried rice today, pig trotters tomorrow. It all depends on the System's mood! Fang Mu's food is unbelievably delicious. One bite is enough to blow your mind, and everyone who tries it gets hooked. But he never keeps a regular schedule, and when he closes up, he leaves whenever he feels lik 196Reads5.8Score100Shelves
- 29 Your Highness, the Princess Consort Says Come Home for Dinner 王爷，王妃喊你回家吃饭 Gu Nianxi, a modern food blogger with a goofy sense of humor, is inexplicably transmigrated to the ancient state of Dongling after being electrocuted. She becomes the bride of Prince Zhenbei in a replacement marriage, and thus begins her journey into ancient cuisine. Excerpt 1: In the study "Your Highness, this is terrible! The Princess says she's making braised carp tonight, and she's already gone down to the pond to catch the koi the Emperor bestowed upon you." "It's fine. Don't stop her. 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Marquis's Household Wants Me Back, but the Whole City of Diners Is Losing Its Mind 侯门要迎我回府，全城食客急疯了 Gourmet + System + daily life + heartwarming + transmigrate into a book + romance + ancient-style fantasy Xue Leyi, who came from the apocalypse, transmigrated into a book. As the vicious fake heiress and villainess, she’d done every rotten thing imaginable for wealth and status, constantly brought disaster upon herself, and ultimately died abandoned and destitute. When Xue Leyi first arrived, she discovered she’d been thrown out of the Marquis’s estate. The entire capital was waiting to laugh 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Little Farmhouse Chef: Prince, Dinner Is Ready! 农家小厨娘：王爷，开饭啦 Overworked corporate drone Lin Zhizhi worked diligently every day, only to exhaust herself to death and transmigrate to an alternate dynasty, where she even picked up a man. Lin Zhizhi had only wanted to put her food-blogger skills to good use, build a career, make money, become a rich beauty, and reach the top. She never expected so many people to make trouble for her! The man she found in the woods is useless apart from his good looks. He’s not only sharp-tongued, but only knows how to eat. He 78Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 32 From the Start, I Had a Peppercorn, So I Went Back in Time to Sell Hot Pot 开局一粒花椒，我穿回古代卖火锅 [Ultimate face-slapping + wildly satisfying comeback + food business] The heroine is fierce, and she never goes easy on scum. All that matters is the satisfaction! After transmigrating into the body of a poor village girl in ancient times, she finds her mother timid, her younger brother foolish, and her father and stepmother eager to bleed them dry. Lin Wei slams the table: “I’m done living like this! We’re splitting the family! We have to split up!” With her only two loved ones by her side, she —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Granny Tian's Rebirth: Late-Night Cafeteria Livestream 田老太重生记深夜食堂直播间 The feisty, capable 95-year-old Tian Caigu is reborn in 1987. At 55, she quits her job and opens a late-night diner that becomes a refuge for countless migrant workers. She spends her days bustling amid the smoke and steam, serving customers warmth and comfort. She also has a livestream that connects to the future. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Gourmet: I Only Set Up a Food Stall, I Never Meant to Become Emperor 美食：我就摆个摊，没想当皇帝啊 [Food] [Street Vending] [No Female Lead] [System] [Some Infrastructure Building] [Farming] A former imperial banquet chef transmigrates into a down-and-out prince and gets bound to a food System. Random locations, random food, just push the cart and go! Grilled sausages, cold skin noodles, soup dumplings, chicken wing burgers, stinky tofu... Mandarin fish, steak, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, braised lion's head with crab meat... Instant noodles, dried noodles, frozen dumplings, self-heating hot p 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 A Noblewoman's Fit and Delicious Life in Ancient Times 古代贵女的健美食光 Mu Nanjia was a moderately well-known fitness blogger. One day, after eating a huge amount of crawfish before a livestream, she pushed herself through an exhausting workout stream and transmigrated to the Great Ying Dynasty, where she became the fourth young lady of the Duke of Dingguo’s household. She adapted quickly, then noticed that people’s standards of beauty seemed a little twisted. Young women wanted to be as thin as sticks, while men wore makeup and flowers in their hair, looking neithe 412Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 36 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—Shelves
- 37 The Clever Little Chef: Running a Canteen in Ancient Times 锦心小厨娘：我在古代承包食堂 The dining hall at the Imperial College was a complete mess. Then one day, a new cook arrived, and an endless array of delicious dishes followed. The dining hall became not only a place the students flocked to, but also the dream destination of countless food lovers. “Son, go buy your father two meat-stuffed flatbreads from your dining hall today. Otherwise, I won’t have the strength to attend court.” Even the emperor was getting restless. “I hear the food at the Imperial College is delicious, b 286Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 38 The Female Head Chef at the State-Run Restaurant 国营饭店女大厨 Luo Yu, heir to a family of imperial chefs, transmigrates from the flames of war in 1939 to the remote southwest frontier in 1971. Someone arranges for her to marry a fool? She kicks him to the curb! Her family doesn’t love her? She leaves them behind! There’s something suspicious about her background? Who cares! The southwest is wonderful, the southwest is a dream, and its mountains are filled with treasures. Termite mushrooms, indigo milk caps, longans, bananas, tree tomatoes… Watch an heir to 1.5kReads8.7Score164Shelves
- 39 The Little Brocade Chef: My Cooking Made Me Famous 锦绣小厨娘：我靠美食名满天下 [Gourmet + Sweet Romance + Transmigration + Farming and Business] The renowned chef of her past life is murdered, only to wake up as the heir apparent’s wife. Her husband is the heir of Prince Dingyuan, who has been accused of treason. The heir is blind and crippled, yet has a face so stunningly handsome it seems to belong beneath a bright, cloudless sky. Even in his fallen state, people are still eager to scheme against him. Watch her trample a scummy scholar and tear apart a white-lotus neighb 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Fired for Rejecting Premade Meals, I Become a Master Chef with the System 拒预制菜被开除，我靠系统成厨神 Chen Feng, head chef at a five-star hotel, is fired on the spot after standing up to his boss and refusing to use premade food! Who would’ve thought he’d be bound to a [Culinary Inheritance System], receive the Golden Egg Fried Rice recipe from the start, and take over a run-down 50-square-meter neighborhood shop? With his authentic, no-nonsense cooking, one bowl of fried rice brings the whole street to tears! No artificial tricks, just top-quality ingredients, from egg fried rice to Kung Pao ch 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 After Being Exiled, I Made a Fortune Selling Food at a Street Stall 被流放后我靠摆摊发家致富 After competing in the semifinals of the Blue Star’s top chef competition, Qiao Ling gets into a car accident on her way back to the hotel. She transmigrates into the illegitimate second daughter of the Changrong Marquis’s household, who is being sent to marry in place of her elder sister. The second daughter was born in a difficult labor to a maid who seduced her way into her master’s bed. Her father doesn’t care for her, her mother doesn’t love her, and she grew up being bullied by her elder s 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 A Food Blogger's Guide to Getting Rich in the Great Liang Dynasty 美食博主的大梁致富记 Su Li, a rising star in food livestreaming, transmigrates one day into a “fallen heiress” in the Great Liang dynasty. From the start, she finds herself in a dilapidated hut, with her whole family so poor they're in tears. Luckily, she has her cooking skills: she can whip up wild herb rice balls, hot-and-sour noodles, and Chinese hamburgers with ease, winning her family over one delicious bite at a time. See how she conquers ancient palates with food, leads her family to prosperity, and finds war 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Fat Princess Wants a Divorce: I'd Rather Be a Royal Merchant Than a Princess 胖王妃要和离：不做皇妃做皇商 [Strong female lead + transmigrating into a book + comeback + satisfying read + court intrigue and business rivalries + a husband chasing his wife after losing her] #No romance in the main story; the bonus chapters will even things out. Lin Yueran, owner of a dessert shop, transmigrates into a novel as the fat, ugly cannon-fodder Princess Consort of Prince Jing. She plans to lie flat, but it turns out being cannon fodder isn’t easy. The prince favors his concubine over his wife, while a scheming 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Xiaoman Chronicles: Surviving with the Disgraced Prince 小满纪事：我与被废皇子相依为命 Food + ensemble cast + lighthearted daily life + ordinary people’s lives Once a prince brought low, once a humble palace maid. The two were cast out of the palace and relied on each other to survive. They sought neither wealth nor glory, only steady meals and a peaceful life together through the ordinary days. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 After Returning from the Dead, the Gu Family's Young Miss Thrives in Ancient Times 回魂后，顾大小姐在古代风生水起 [System + entrepreneurship + strong female lead + nontraditional transmigration + warm and lighthearted] Gu Xiyue, heiress to Z Country’s largest conglomerate, created immense wealth and gave generously throughout her life. When she died of old age, she transmigrated to ancient times and became the eldest daughter of the prime minister’s household, renowned for both her intelligence and beauty. She thought she would spend her life scheming and fighting, like so many transmigrated heroines in nov 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Transported to an Ancient Food Desert: The Sisters Go on a Rampage 穿到古代美食荒漠：姐妹团杀疯了 Other people transmigrate into palace intrigue and household warfare, armed with an overpowered golden finger. Me? I transmigrated, opened my eyes in a ruined temple, found myself in a windbreaker, and had three sisters beside me who were starving and crying out for food. The good news: this dynasty has every kind of spice. The bad news: all they know how to do is boil meat in plain water. [Ding! The Food System is online!] On my first day as a street vendor, my scallion pancakes made the whole 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Xing'an Ward Diner 兴安坊小饭馆 [No romance, a warm ensemble cast, a slow pace, and an unwavering female perspective with a focus on women] Yan Luo transmigrates to the Great Yong Dynasty and becomes the eldest daughter of Madam Song. In Liushui Alley, Madam Song raises her two daughters alone. The hardships they endure go without saying. Hardworking Yan Luo throws herself once more into the food business she loves. Dear guests, come cool off with a bowl of liangpi on a hot day! Tender chicken, silky noodles, and a mouthwateri 18.7kReads8.6Score2.5kShelves
- 48 Luo Yuxin, the Folk Cooking Sage 民间厨圣洛雨馨 [Food + cooking + business + household intrigue + ancient setting + romance] “Madam, the young miss has escaped the city!” “Go after her! Bring her back! I want to tear her skin off!” Wealthy heiress Luo Yuxin flees under cover of night to save her life, with her vicious stepmother's men in hot pursuit. Luo Yuxin escapes to the countryside and builds a fortune with her cooking, quietly making a comeback to become the richest person in the Great Chang Kingdom. Her husband is Feng Ruxiao, an idl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 A Little Restaurant in Bianjing 汴京小饭馆 White jade lotus root slices, fresh sea bass sashimi, delicacies served on jade plates. A cozy restaurant, sweet wine, and a beauty as lovely as a painting. Lord Shen of the Kaifeng Prefecture has always been stern and reserved. Why does he treat a young woman who cooks for a living so differently? The sixteen- or seventeen-year-old young woman has left her former household with her mother. All day long, she thinks about setting up a stall to make money and cooking, while still finding time to a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 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 313Reads8.3Score—Shelves
