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- 51 God-Tier Gourmet 神级美食家 The countryside is beautiful, and the food is delicious. Fry up some dishes, grow some crops, raise some fish, play with the dog, and make some babies. That’s the leisurely country life of Qin Feng, the God of Cooking. One day, Qin Feng sat lazily in the courtyard of his farmhouse restaurant and lifted his eyelids to glance at the three foreigners standing respectfully before him. “Boss Qin, this is the president of our country, who’s come especially to sample your cooking.” “Sorry, we’re sold o 1.7kReads8.3Score14414d adds
- 52 The God of Cooking Takes Over, and I Turn My Sha County Restaurant into a Rip-Off! 厨神附体，我把沙县开成了黑店！ [Food + System + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Great with a Meal + Cunning Protagonist] Original title: The God of Cooking Takes Over, and I Turn My Shaxian Snack Shop into a Scam! After his best friend stabbed him in the back, Li Zhibai somehow ended up taking over a Shaxian snack shop in the most expensive part of Jiangcheng, and piling up a mountain of debt in the process. Luckily, he bound himself to the God of Cooking System and awakened a bizarre talent: [Charge Based 147.4kReads8.6Score10.3k14d adds
- 53 Selling Egg Fried Rice at a Street Stall, Wielding My Spatula Until the Wok Smokes! 摆摊卖蛋炒饭，抡得锅铲都冒烟！ Food + Games + Challenges + Comfort Food + Heartwarming + Showbiz + No Romance After her contract expires, Shi Yi chooses to leave showbiz. By chance, she is selected by a food game, which requires her to take a little three-wheeled cart out to sell food every day. Level One: Sell ten-yuan boxed meals and throw in a bottle of water! The customers can’t believe what a bargain it is! “Boss Shi, I’ll have an order of braised ribs!” “Oh my gosh, you’ve even got king crab?!” “Boss Shi must be running 3.8kReads7.5Score38814d adds
- 54 I Just Set Up a Stall, but My Customers Beg Me in Tears to Feed Them 我就摆个摊，那些食客哭着求投喂 The novel is complete! Dive in with confidence. Gourmet, doting dad, one heroine, heartwarming, slice of life, food to enjoy with your meal, and catching criminals. In his previous life, Yan Qingzhou married the village chief's daughter so he could escape the mountains. Relying on his good looks, he charmed a rich heiress, only to end up abandoned by everyone. Then he was reborn on the night before he eloped! He had not yet made a terrible mistake. His daughter had not been kidnapped, and his 2.8kReads8.3Score27014d adds
- 55 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 656Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 56 The Day the Chef Left, the Diners Wept Until Their Tears Ran Dry 厨子跑的那一天，食客老泪都流干 Xu Yuan never expected that, as a recent college graduate, he would one day get bound to a System. The System said, “As a chef, your job is to let diners experience delicious food.” Then it added, “But as the creator of delicious food, how can you let work tie you down?” And so... “Ding! This month’s mission: Apply for a job as a restaurant chef, then quit after working for half a month to claim your System reward...” Xu Yuan: “You little schemer!” And so it went. Restaurant owner: “I’m not brag 8.9kReads8.5Score79814d adds
- 57 Gourmet: I Sell Lunchboxes at a Kindergarten, and Everyone Craves Them 美食：幼儿园卖盒饭，全都馋哭了 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Su Haoze took in the little tyke left behind by his big brother and sister-in-law. To support the family, he opened a small lunch spot outside a kindergarten. Who would’ve thought he’d end up bound to a Gourmet System! Braised lion’s head meatballs, chicken tofu soup, Dongpo pork, sweet-and-sour ribs, cola chicken wings... Dish after delicious dish won over not only the children, but also a whole crowd of parents. “Boss, do you sell meal plans?” “I want 5kReads7.3Score38814d adds
- 58 I Have a Divine Cauldron: Slay Demons, Cook, and Cultivate Immortality 我有神鼎，斩妖烹饪修仙 [The new book has just received its rating, so it'll gradually rise.] [Slow-paced + food + healing + ensemble cast + daily life + medicinal cuisine] I have a divine cauldron. I slay the fiercest demons and cook the most delicious dishes! The sect's fortune has been secretly stolen by a schemer, and my fellow disciples are all at rock bottom! Don't worry. If you've been poisoned, come have a bowl of soothing medicinal soup. If you've suffered broken bones and serious injuries, take a bite of brai 7.2kReads8.6Score69214d adds
- 59 The Kitchen God's Daily Life as a Mortal Worker 灶君下凡的打工日常 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] After ascending from a small world, Jixiang served for three hundred years as the Divine Lord of Blessings, also known as the fourth-generation Kitchen God. As a newcomer, he found that the vast Heavenly Court had no place for him to stay. And this so-called post as Kitchen God involved far more than simply tending the fire and cooking. Did immortals really live on nothing but nectar and dew? Deeply puzzled, Jixiang gathered his things and returned to the trade he knew 1.8kReads9.1Score23114d adds
- 60 You Want Me to Open a Breakfast Shop? I Only Open in the Afternoon 让我开早餐店？我下午才营业 [System] [Gourmet Food] [Healing] [Lighthearted Comedy] No heartburn while reading! Enjoy without worry! Fan Li used to manage livestream operations. Under pressure, he developed insomnia, showed up late, and was fired. Then he unexpectedly obtained a God-Tier Breakfast System. But his old daily routine had nothing in common with the schedule of selling breakfast. Customer 1: What! In this godforsaken place, he dares to charge eighty-eight yuan for a steamer of soup dumplings? Customer 2: When i 232.8kReads8.5Score17.1k14d adds
- 61 Gourmet: The Dishes I Cook Come with Buffs 美食：我炒的菜有BUFF [Gourmet] [No CP] [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] [Healing] [Perfect with a Meal] His broad palm gently patted the snow-white skin. Fine, soft hairs brushed over his fingertips and palm, their ticklish, tingling touch so intoxicating he could hardly tear himself away. He stroked, kneaded, and patted. Ripples spread across the skin, making the tender flesh beneath quiver along with it. His long fingers gathered together, reluctant to let go, and gave it one last pinch. Then he gripped the knife an 293Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 62 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Feast, but I Made the Imperial Banquet Chef Drool 让你农村烧大席，你馋哭国宴主厨 He transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a food System. Qing Yun, an unemployed man who has returned to his hometown, begins his rise to the top by cooking grand feasts in the countryside. First, an old woman wants one last taste of her own funeral banquet before she dies at ninety. Then a baby at a full-month celebration cries their eyes out because the food looks so good... With no other choice, Qing Yun takes up his giant wok again and again. “Red-braised pork knuckle, oil-splashed a 1.6kReads8.7Score10814d adds
- 63 You Opened a Restaurant, So Why Are You Serving Customers at Three in the Morning? 让你开美食店，你凌晨三点营业？ [Gourmet]+ [Urban Fantasy]+ [Comedy]+ [Healing]+ [No Female Lead] Recently unemployed Lu Feng was planning to sell the little restaurant his parents left him, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. One quest each week, a random dish, and random opening hours. He turns ordinary dishes into peerless delicacies, and ravenous customers line up and scramble to get them. Customer One: Boss Lu, these soup dumplings are the best I've ever had in my life! Customer Two: I even threw out my 467Reads7.2Score10514d adds
- 64 I Opened a Restaurant Beside a Funeral Home, and It's Packed 殡仪馆旁开饭店，人都挤爆了 [Outlandish food settings] [Funny and lighthearted] [Everyday comfort reading] [No female lead] [Early settings: a funeral home, a school, a Middle Eastern battlefield, a food stall at home...] Lin Chong inherits the noodle shop beside his second uncle's funeral home and activates a Gourmet System. The only problem is, this Gourmet System goes haywire from time to time. Setting: a funeral home. His food makes customers so hungry that they sleep on the ground outside the funeral home in the middl 11.7kReads8.6Score57414d adds
- 65 Gourmet: My Maxed-Out Cooking Skills Are Only for a Quiet Street Stall 美食：满级厨艺的我只想安静出摊 [The short drama of the same name is now available] (The protagonist never shows off. He's mild-mannered, humble, and hardworking. There is a female lead. Please don't read if that's not your thing, thanks.) A quiet, laid-back story about everyday food and cooking. The System is even lazier than the protagonist (it just lends a hand, it doesn't take charge). Xia Yu is a foodie who graduated from college not long ago. His dream is to be a lazy slacker. Then one day, a System drops out of nowhere 6.9kReads8.7Score46614d adds
- 66 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a KTV? I'm Actually Very Serious 美食：ktv卖饭？我真的很正经 [Food + everyday life + entertainment + comedy!] Jiang Feng transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes a cook in a KTV kitchen and awakens the God of Cooking System! While other KTVs are busy coming up with discount packages, his place starts selling meals instead. “Hello, boss. This is our KTV's new specialty service: a platter of braised meats.” “What? Your KTV doesn't offer anything naughty, and you sell food?” “Holy crap, this braised meat is freaking incredible! Quick, bring me ten 31Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 67 Running a Street Stall with My Daughter, I Have the Whole World Drooling! 带女儿摆地摊，全球被我馋哭了！ (Food + comfort reads + devoted dad + urban slice of life + heartwarming comedy + System + no female lead) Su Chen binds himself to a food System and takes his daughter to set up a stall at a random location each week. He sells cold noodles outside a gym, leaving the trainers and their students drooling as they lament how hard it is to lose weight! He sells extra-spicy crayfish outside a hospital, where patients with hemorrhoids endure the agony just to take one more bite! He sells lemon chicken 1.6kReads8.6Score18414d adds
- 68 A Chef Who Can’t Grow Vegetables Isn’t a Good Landlady 不会种菜的厨师不是好包租婆 At the crucial moment of his training, Zhu Ganglie crashes into Jiang Qingxi. Her vision goes black, then white, and... closes again. When she opens her eyes, she’s back in her life before last? In that life, she had land, a house, and a car in the countryside, but insisted on heading to the big city to make her way in the world. Before she could get anywhere, she died and woke up in another world. Her master brought her into the trade, and after twenty years she was about to succeed. Who would 1.1kReads6.9Score10414d adds
- 69 Exploring the World of Food 美食世界探索 📖 A hard-core hunting adventure in a world of gourmet food ✔️ No golden finger, no female lead. The protagonist relies entirely on real skill to brave dangerous places, hunt exotic ingredients, and cook hearty dishes. ✔️ A muscular protagonist and realistic, hard-core hunting details turn the wilderness into a feast for the senses. ✔️ No deliberately torturing the protagonist. The pace is brisk and satisfying, with no frustrating setbacks. Later on, his combat power goes through the roof, and he 99Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 The Company Went Bankrupt? One Plate of Eggplant Revives It 公司破产？我一盘地三鲜起死回生 Li Yichen had barely been reborn when he was faced with a complete mess. His company's account balance had dropped to less than fifty thousand. He couldn't pay salaries or social security contributions, and soon he wouldn't even be able to afford meal allowances! With the company on the brink of collapse and his employees ready to quit, the God of Cooking System suddenly awakened! So Li Yichen decided to start with the meal allowances. To cut costs, he would cook for his employees himself! But o 5.8kReads7.6Score49314d adds
- 71 As Long as the System Pays, I'll Work 996 to the End 只要系统出得起，996也干到底 [Food-focused (not purely a food story) + a touch of interstellar flavor + no romance + extremely laid-back and ambition-free] Lu Wei graduated from a mediocre university and found a nine-to-nine, six-days-a-week job. After working overtime for far too long, she eventually died suddenly from exhaustion. When she opened her eyes again, she had arrived in a strange world and become bound to a peculiar thing called the Food System. “Starting today, Host must go to the area beside Hope Elementary Sc 1.2kReads8.7Score10214d adds
- 72 This Chef Can Do Magic 这个主厨会魔术 While Chen Xi was selling fried rice on the street, a gas canister suddenly exploded, and he unexpectedly gained control over fire. After a series of twists and turns, he became the head chef at a restaurant in San Francisco that was on the verge of closing. Under the guise of magic, he grilled pizza, meat, chicken, steak... The food was delicious, and the amazing fire performances were a sight to behold. The little seaside restaurant gradually became a hit. Chen Xi started receiving bigger and 6.4kReads9.1Score45814d adds
- 73 I Set Up a Random Stall, and Every Customer Goes Quiet After One Bite! 随机摆摊，顾客一吃一个不吱声！ The novel is complete! [Food + healing + villain + slice of life + cozy + delicious reads + comedy] No romance The spoiled rich kid Lin Mo is told by the System that he's actually a fake young master, and even worse, a villain in a book. To change his fate, the System assigns him a street-stall quest. This outgoing rich young man sets out on the path of running a street stall. Selling baked flatbreads at a cemetery, fried chicken at a psychiatric hospital? Stinky tofu at the marriage registry? R 6.4kReads8.6Score70914d adds
- 74 Running a Food Stall Alone with My Little Sister, We Take the World by Storm 孤身带妹，我的小吃摊火爆全球 Su Yang is raising his three-year-old younger sister all by himself when he unexpectedly binds to the Divine Snack Stall System. So he starts selling buns on a bridge late at night, roast chicken in the park at dawn, pork intestines outside a proctology hospital, and barbecue at a marathon… The food Su Yang makes leaves customers coming back for more, completely hooked. But to complete his missions, Su Yang can only set up his stall at random locations each time. Soon, his customers can’t take i 8kReads8.1Score91014d adds
- 75 Growth-Type Chef God: My Proficiency Rises Every Day 成长系厨神：我的熟练度每日上涨 [Food] [System] [Everyday Life] [Leveling Up] [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted] (The animated series is now out, and the print edition has been signed. Feel free to dive in!) Song Yan was tricked into coming home by his father to inherit the breakfast shop, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. [Host]: Song Yan Seasoning (Beginner): 165/1000 (Not enough to kill anyone) …Collapsed… Knife Skills (Beginner): 0/1000 (You should worry more about cutting your hand than cutting vegetables 150.6kReads8.7Score15.1k14d adds
- 76 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 1.5kReads8.4Score18714d adds
- 77 Gourmet: The Truth Is, I'm a Max-Level Chef 美食：摊牌了，其实我是满级厨师 [Completed] [Illustrated throughout] Xu Lai was a max-level chef who transmigrated to a parallel world, only to end up as a one-star vegetable washer. The restaurant got shut down? No big deal! My cooking is out of this world. I can make it anywhere. Worst comes to worst, I’ll open another restaurant! Buried in debt? No big deal! Win a cooking competition and you get a ten-million-yuan prize! Lost my sense of taste? No big deal... Wait, what? You’ve got to be kidding me. How can a chef lose his 3.4kReads9.1Score33814d adds
- 78 World Capital of Cuisine: Eel Wars 世界美食之都·鳝战 The World’s Food Capital: Eel Wars 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 I'm a Culinary Genius, So Why Does Everyone Call Me a Heretic Cultivator? 明明厨艺天才，怎么都叫我邪修？ [Gourmet] [Comedy] [Slice of Life] Lin Xiaoyan is a rookie food blogger who, in an age when food bloggers are locked in a fierce struggle for clicks, has opened up a new path by learning as she cooks. But Lin Xiaoyan's videos never go the way you'd expect. She gets every step wrong, yet somehow the finished dishes turn out brilliantly! “Wait, if you don't know how to caramelize the sugar for red-braised pork, you can just use cola instead? And it still comes out so glossy and red. Are you sure 4.5kReads8.9Score33114d adds
- 80 Food Stall Diaries: Call Me Boss Su 美食摆摊：请叫我苏老板 A gas explosion kills Su Mo. Then Su Mo successfully transmigrates, and it turns out she’s transmigrated into a book, too. The good news: she isn’t the heroine or a supporting character, just an inconspicuous background character. The bad news: the background character’s mother is “crazy,” and the original owner has been emotionally manipulated all along. As transmigration stories go, Su Mo gets a Food System. And so begins her life running a food stall. Outside elementary schools, at hospital e 5.5kReads8.1Score71114d adds
- 81 I Opened a Breakfast Shop with My Daughter and Made Millions of People Drool 带女儿开早餐店，馋哭千万国民 [Food + System + dad life + cozy everyday moments] After divorcing his wife, Ye Cheng becomes a single father. One day, he awakens the Culinary God System and opens a breakfast shop with his three-year-old daughter. With the simplest cooking methods, Ye Cheng creates incredibly delicious food. His daughter's classmates meow with longing, customers come in an endless stream, and more and more people flock to his shop, all left drooling with tears in their eyes… 859Reads7.6Score10314d adds
- 82 A Culinary Void: I Take Chinese Cuisine by Storm Around the World 美食断层：我携华夏美食席卷全球 [No female lead!!] Mu Yunfei transmigrates to a world with a shallow food culture, where he has to eat vegetarian dishes every day. He's about ready to throw up! Thankfully, he awakens a Divine Chef System! Jianbing guozi is soft, chewy, and fragrant; preserved-egg and pork congee makes foreigners fall in love with preserved eggs! Hot-and-sour noodles are impossible to resist, and beef brisket rice noodles are snapped up in an instant! Food critic: “I can die without regrets now!” Food blogger: 306Reads7.2Score10014d adds
- 83 Shocking! The Entire Court Is Drooling Over My Cooking 震惊！满朝文武都被我馋哭了 [Food + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + business + farming] Overnight, Shen Qing transmigrated into the only daughter of a restaurant owner. She thought she’d have a comfortable life, but the moment she opened her eyes, she found herself in hard mode. Her father had died in an accident, and with no sons in the family, her cousin had seized their vast estate. She and her mother were forced to live in a dilapidated house, while her scumbag fiancé broke his promise and went off to enjoy roman 32.9kReads7.9Score3k14d adds
- 84 After Becoming a Master of State Banquets, I Started Running a Street Stall 成为国宴大师后开始摆摊 The warmth of everyday life is what comforts the human heart most. [Food + street stalls + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + street-stall guide + slow-paced everyday life + detailed recipes + no harem + the author genuinely wants to teach readers to cook] Chen Feng has studied cooking for years and mastered the four major regional cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang. He became the youngest person in the Dragon Kingdom to earn the title of National Banquet Master. Af 4.1kReads8.9Score27014d adds
- 85 We're Reborn, So Of Course We Should Break Up First! 都重生了，当然要先分手！ [Food + cooking + farming + reviving a time-honored brand] [No cultivation] [The System plays a very minor role] [Food, cooking, business, and realism take center stage] Feng Bin is reborn in the 1990s. After breaking up with his wife from his previous life, he chooses to ride the wave of the times and seek his fortune in a big city. By chance, he takes over a time-honored restaurant. It all begins with saving the old establishment. With his superb cooking skills, Feng Bin revives the venerable 1.8kReads8.7Score10714d adds
- 86 My Takeout Shop Somehow Became a Hit Across the Internet 我的外卖店竟然火爆全网 [Food + Golden Finger + Career + System] [System Introduction] After transmigrating back, Lin Xiazhi smacks her sleazy boss and quits to open a restaurant, then unexpectedly binds herself to a food System. When a rookie System meets a true food expert, life after the binding is nothing but chaos. The System exclaims, “I really am a lucky charm! No need to worry about tasks, I’ll be the boss in no time.” Lin Xiazhi is crestfallen. “I’m the unlucky one. I’m staring at heaps of gold and silver, but 1.6kReads9.0Score15614d adds
- 87 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 1.1kReads8.7Score11314d adds
- 88 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 3.5kReads8.6Score34614d adds
- 89 After Quitting My Job, I Inherited Grandma's Little Restaurant 辞职后，我继承了奶奶的小饭馆 [Healing + food + a touch of farming + slow-paced + everyday life] Wen Nian's new life began with a resignation letter. A well-paid job in the big city, endless overtime, cold convenience-store rice balls... She suddenly realized it had been a long time since she'd tasted anything like happiness. Steaming hot soup dumplings in the morning mist, soft and chewy cloud cakes with Pu'er tea in the afternoon, little river shrimp roasted crisp and red by Grandpa... It all felt like a distant, different 3.1kReads8.8Score41714d adds
- 90 It Started at a Stinky Tofu Stall, and Now the Owner's Acting Strange 从臭豆腐摊开始，这老板变奇怪了 [Urban rebirth + one heroine + sweet romance + career success and wealth + food] Top-notch stinky tofu, unbeatable river-snail rice noodles, super fresh fertilized duck eggs, secret-recipe braised intestines… On the street behind the university sits a little food shop famous for its stink. The owner loves flaunting his romance, and everything he sells reeks to high heaven. Yet somehow, it still sells out every day. Ning Yao: “You’re sweating buckets. Take a break first!” Ye Fei: “No need. Give m 574Reads8.9Score10114d adds
- 91 The Three-Star Hole-in-the-Wall That Refused a Michelin Rating 拒绝米其林评级的三星小店 After the internet influencer Liu Dao visited the shop, the breakfast restaurant the Chen family had painstakingly run for over a decade teetered on the brink of closing. After binding with a System, Chen Yang quit his white-collar job in the city and took over the little shop. Newbie gift pack: an ingredient identification and rating feature. The fresh pork belly from a free-range mountain pig that swims regularly has three distinct layers of fat and lean meat. After roaming the hills, its fles 3.6kReads8.8Score36814d adds
- 92 The Fake Heiress Falls on Hard Times? The Powerful Flock to Her Restaurant 假千金落魄？权贵挤满她酒楼 [Food + 1v1, mutually devoted, System missions, building a career, ensemble cast] (A quick heads-up: There are many couples in this story, so please steer clear if that's not your thing. It mixes romance with BL, so please steer clear if you dislike that. This is a light, wholesome food-themed romance with multiple pairings, and its overall tone is warm and cozy. It is not a strong-female-lead story, so please steer clear if that's not your thing.) Synopsis: ↓ Yun Zhiyue, the president of a ca 1.9kReads8.8Score19814d adds
- 93 The Shen Family Cookbook 沈氏食经 Through the lens of food, we observe the myriad aspects of society and the twists and turns of life. Every dish is more than a culinary craft: it is human connection, memory, and a philosophy for living. Follow Shen Yan through his many experiences as he rises from poverty to become a renowned master chef. 1.1kReads7.1Score13414d adds
- 94 The Top Chef in a Culinary Wasteland 我在美食荒漠当第一厨娘 Bai Qingwan, the owner of a private kitchen, was hit by a car while saving someone and transmigrated into the body of a farm girl with the same name in a fictional dynasty, whose surname was Yong. To her surprise, this place was a culinary wasteland that didn't even have soy sauce. Her family lived by the mountains and near the sea, yet what they ate was the sort of stuff even pigs wouldn't touch. Then she found herself bound to the Huaxia Cuisine System. To help her fulfill her mission of sprea 795Reads8.8Score10914d adds
- 95 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
- 96 A Feast of Delicacies: Dream of the Red Chamber Cuisine Meets the Tang Dynasty 红楼美食适配大唐，饕餮盛宴 [Handcrafted Cultivation, Farming, and Food] [Supernatural Tales] [Sweet Everyday Life] [Vivid Characters] [Building a City] [Claiming Land as Immortal Territory] [Running a Cultivation Sanctuary] [No System] Wu Qingwen, a transmigrator with a Red Chamber space, always thought she was following the script of an ancient food-business story. Until one day, she saw a dragon in a well. * Steamed pork head meat with rice flour makes spring water gush from a dried-up sweet-water well. Honeyed Eight-Tr 2.1kReads8.8Score27714d adds
- 97 Gourmet Food: Serving Customers from My RV, I Had My Secret Identity Exposed 美食：房车摆摊，顾客扒我马甲 The animated series is now live: [System] + [Gourmet] + [Warm and Healing] + [Main Character Has No Romance] + [A Few Secret Identities] + [Riches and Rewards] Original title: Gourmet: Food Truck Stalls, Customers Uncover My Secret Identity (Making friends through food and seeing the world with kindness. The main character sets up stalls at random all over the country, and loves to travel once a task is complete.) Wan Yi, a model from a minor agency, nearly starves to death at home while trying 3.4kReads8.8Score44314d adds
- 98 Gourmet: I Inherit a Little Shop and Take the Whole Country by Storm! 美食：继承小店的我火爆全国！ [No female lead romance + laid-back daily life + opening and upgrading a restaurant + lovingly detailed food descriptions and steady growth!] Su Baihang took over a restaurant from his parents. It was located inside a tourist attraction and was on the verge of closing. Luckily, the Strongest Culinary God System activated! Who says the food at tourist attractions can’t be delicious? Homestyle cabbage stir-fried with vinegar: sweet and sour, and even helps you lose weight! Red-braised pork: tender 1.1kReads8.7Score10414d adds
- 99 Transmigrating to a Picturesque Countryside Home of Fine Cuisine 穿越田园美食人家 When chef Xia Dong wakes up, she finds herself transformed into Xia Dong'er, a pitiful little bean sprout of a girl. Her gambling-addicted father wants to sell her, her greedy mother wants a divorce, and she has an adorable little brother. She lands straight in survival mode on the highest difficulty. Xia Dong'er says, “Wait, let me eat some meat first and catch my breath!” Sweet osmanthus fills the walnut-stuffed pastries, while pearl-like glutinous rice is rinsed in well water. A lifetime of f 1kReads8.6Score14414d adds
- 100 What Should I Do? After Our Divorce, the Cold and Aloof Villain Won't Leave Me Alone 怎么办！离婚后高冷反派总缠着我 [Completed + Food + Livestreaming + Transmigrate into a Book + So Good It Changes Your Mind] Sheng Xia transmigrated into an entertainment-industry novel as its vicious supporting villainess. The original owner had caused endless trouble, earning herself a barrage of online hate. Her wealthy husband, destined to cheat on her: “Divorce. The Huo family can’t afford to be humiliated like this!” Indignant gossip-loving netizens: “Get that vicious attention-seeker out of show business!” Sheng Xia rol 875Reads8.9Score10114d adds
