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- 1 Unemployed? The Gourmet System Takes Me Straight to the Top 失业？美食系统直接带我飞 [Gourmet System + Golden Finger + Ordinary Person Quietly Making a Fortune + No Romance] Li Beibei is an utterly ordinary university student, and her transition from graduation straight to unemployment goes perfectly smoothly. After yet another failed job application, Beibei gets on her knees and begs every god in sight to grant her a job. She knocks her head so hard that, with a clang, heaven drops a Gourmet System and a small, upgradable shop into her lap. Before she can even celebrate, she di 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Open a Canteen in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 我在锦衣卫开食堂 “I’m a famous food blogger! There’s no way I can’t handle you lot!” Food blogger Song Zhaozhao accidentally transmigrated into the body of a vicious female supporting character. She ended up in a poor little mountain village, but her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her older brother protected her. With a wave of her expert hand, Song Zhaozhao gave up on her childhood sweetheart and opened a canteen for the Embroidered Uniform Guard. “From today on, I’m in charge of your meals!” 1.6kReads—Score178Shelves
- 3 Gourmet: Laid-Off Office Worker Bags a Million Orders! 美食：被裁社畜，狂揽百万订单！ [Gourmet] + [Entrepreneurship] + [System] + [Comeback] + [Getting Rich] + [Everyday Life] + [Feel-Good Story] Yang Lin was an unlucky programmer who got laid off. He thought his life was about to go downhill for good, but instead he kicked his Gourmet career into overdrive! His parents’ boxed-lunch business was on the verge of going under. The moment Yang Lin took over, the Super Chef System came to his rescue, and his cooking skills instantly became god-tier. His boxed lunches and braised meat 261Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 4 Gourmet: This Culinary God Makes Food So Good It's Unfair 美食：这个厨神做饭过分好吃 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [System] [Comfort Food] [Cozy] [Slice of Life] [Ensemble Cast] Ye Mingyu was a master chef in the celestial realm, but after dozing off during a meeting, he was sent down to the mortal world. The good news was that he still had his cooking skills. The bad news was that he had to complete the “Craving It?” System's tasks to return to the celestial realm. But for the food lovers of the mortal world, every day felt like New Year's. Braised pork, hand-pulled noodles in chi 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Charming ’80s Chef: From the Start, I Cut Ties and Set Up a Street Stall 八零俏厨娘：开局断亲摆摊忙 [Period Setting + System + Delicious Food + Entrepreneurship + Taking Down Scumbags] When she opens her eyes, a state banquet chef has become Shen Jingshu, a young factory worker in the 1980s. Her own mother wants to sell her off in exchange for her brother’s iron rice bowl, while her younger brother scolds her: “You should be sacrificing yourself for the family.” Shen Jingshu calmly serves up a bowl of plain noodles, makes the whole family drool, then slaps down her ledger. “You raised me for t 88Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Gourmet: Don’t Talk to Me About Calories, If It Tastes Good, It’s Calorie-Free 美食：别跟我谈热量，好吃就零卡 [Gourmet] + [Random Food Stalls] + [Lighthearted] + [Cozy] + [Everyday Life] + [Taking It Easy] + [Unusual Food Stall Locations] + [Perfect with a Meal] + [No Female Lead] Fang Yuan, a programmer who has just quit his job, is ready to take it easy... Ding! The Ultimate Food Stall System is at your service. Each week, your stall location and menu will be selected at random. This week, please go to Peace Plaza at noon to sell roasted sweet potatoes. Fang Yuan looks up at the blazing sun, shining 1.3kReads6.2Score110Shelves
- 7 Gourmet: Starting with Randomly Setting Up a Stall to Sell Liangpi 美食：从随机摆摊卖凉皮开始 No heroine, food, street vending, healing, daily life, and a relaxing tone. The protagonist sets up a stall at random spots on the street, selling all kinds of snacks, changing locations every week. The food on offer varies, including cold noodles, grilled gluten skewers, tofu pudding, spicy beef noodles, handmade spicy strips, congee, steamed buns, and more. 156Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 8 From Michelin to Street Stall: It Took Me Only Three Days 从米其林到摆摊，我只用了三天 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Canceled After Becoming a Villainess, I Set Up a Food Stall and Make the Whole Internet Drool 穿成恶女被封杀，摆摊馋疯全网 [Food System + Lighthearted Comedy + Cozy + Heartwarming + Transmigration into a Food Story + Functional Ingredients + Comfort Food + Beautifully Plated Dishes + Romance] The male lead is more of a background character, just one part of our heroine’s play~~ (*^3^) /~☆ Transmigrated into a disgraced, scandal-ridden nobody, with her role stolen, her contract locking her in, and the entire internet telling her to get lost? Jiang Li tears up her contract and makes a run for it on the spot: “Let the 285Reads5.6Score100Shelves
- 10 I'm Just a Cook, So How Did I Become the Rebel Leader? 我一个做饭的，咋成反贼头子了？ [Not a brainless power fantasy + Food + Farming + System + Lighthearted Comedy + No Angst + Invincible Protagonist] Modern culinary god Qi Sheng opens his eyes and finds himself transmigrated into a “vegetable person” during a famine in the cultivation world. One moment later, and he would have ended up on someone’s dinner table! At his moment of greatest peril, he binds himself to the [God of Cooking System]. Earn praise points for his cooking, and he can exchange them for experience cards feat —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 My Kindergarten Went Bankrupt, So Instead of Giving Up, I Started a Street Stall 幼儿园破产，我不摆烂选择摆摊 [Comfort Food] [Master Chef System] [Adorable Kids and Their Dad] [Unlucky Diners] [No Romance] Eight years after transmigrating to a parallel world, Li Qilin already has a three-year-old kid, and the “Master Chef cheat” that had been overdue for years has finally arrived. The good news: the struggling daycare can stay afloat. The bad news: starting a daycare inevitably leads to “commando-style street vending.” … Whether they’re little rascals or young villains, they’re all adorable food lovers 1.5kReads8.4Score153Shelves
- 12 You Sell Fried Rice Every Night? Is This KTV Even Legit?! 夜夜卖炒饭？你这KTV正经吗！ [Gourmet] [Entrepreneurship] [Wild Imagination] [Slice of Life] [Humor] After going bankrupt and being reborn, how does a respectable restaurant owner end up taking over an incredibly upscale business karaoke lounge? Just as Chen Nian thinks his luck is finally turning around, he learns the karaoke lounge is about to go under! Well, can he start over? As he’s at his wit’s end, a Gourmet Business System appears! Chen Nian: “What gives? You didn’t show up when I ran a restaurant, but now you pop u 1.1kReads6.5Score100Shelves
- 13 Wanted for Cooking with a Wok in the Immortal Realm 在仙界支锅炒菜被通缉了 Li Xiaochu is a modern-day food streamer. She’s drooling over a Beef Wellington. She closes her eyes, then opens them, and she’s gone! She opens them again, and, would you look at that! She’s taken the place of a lowly fire-tending fairy in the Immortal Realm? From the start, she’s at the peak. Other people transmigrate into immortal cultivation harems as heroines and enjoy sweet romances! She transmigrates into a wanted criminal in the Immortal Realm? The reason: she polluted the realm with sti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Youngest Daughter Falls from the Sky: An Ancestral Jade Pendant Helps Me Carry My Ancestor to Victory 天降幺女之祖传玉佩让我带飞老祖 Food enthusiast Jiang Xiaoman is in a car accident on her way to an event in the 21st century. Her family’s ancestral jade pendant takes her back to the time of her Jiang ancestors. There, she uses modern cuisine to help her whole family thrive and save the impoverished noble Murong Yu. A humorous, laugh-out-loud story. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 He Vanishes from His Night Market Stall, Driving All His Customers Crazy 他夜市摆摊玩失踪，食客们全疯了 [Food + heartwarming + laid-back + business + street stall + no female lead] “Stop eating, stop eating! Take a look at yourselves. Do you even look like actors anymore? You're as round as balls!” Hearing the director's warning, a certain top-tier star tearfully polished off a bowl of braised pork. “Director, I promise, I promise I'll start working hard to lose weight tomorrow!” The director flew into a rage, snatched the braised pork, and took a bite. He was about to say, “Is this it?!” Then he 1.7kReads7.0Score111Shelves
- 16 The Snack Shop Alone Turned This Scenic Spot into a 5A Attraction? 全靠小吃店，景区升5A了？ [Gourmet] [System] [Everyday Life] [Perfect with Rice] [Food and Medicine Share the Same Roots] Zhuang Ming has just graduated from a traditional Chinese medicine college when he unexpectedly gets a system. He binds himself to it before he can even read the name. When he finally sees it, the name is “The World’s Greatest, Miracle-Working, Cure-All, Heals with a Touch... Chef System!” His heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally gives up completely. The prices are steep, the shop is sha 805Reads8.2Score106Shelves
- 17 Running a Restaurant That Makes Everyone Drool 经营一家饭店，馋哭所有人 Step right up, don’t miss out! A fresh-from-the-oven food story is here~ Zhou Yuan’s vision went black. He transmigrated back from the apocalypse and gained a Food System, setting out on an inspiring journey of running food stalls across different worlds. In the modern world, Zhou Yuan is a ruthless boss who makes countless customers drool with envy. In the Underworld, countless red-clad vengeful ghosts secretly fall for him. In the vast cultivation world, the top powers issue recruitment orders 899Reads8.9Score119Shelves
- 18 Gourmet: Mr. Ye, Where Do You Think You'll Run This Time? 美食：叶先生，看你这次往哪跑 [Everyday Life] [No Romance] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [A Good Read Over Meals] In his previous life, Ye Fan had an accident and was dragged to the underworld by Ox-Head and Horse-Face. With a wave of his hand, King Yama changed Ye Fan's fate. He is given a brand-new identity as a master chef. Watch him complete his missions while enjoying life. Random dishes, random street-stall locations, one thing always stays the same: everything tastes amazing! Selling buns beside a restroom, lobster outs 906Reads6.6Score100Shelves
- 19 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 7.2kReads8.6Score692Shelves
- 20 I Used One Bowl of Noodles to Put a City on the Map 我靠一碗面，带动一座城 [Food + Scenic Area Management, No Stressful Shopkeeping, Well-Plotted, No Stupid Characters] From the start, he quit his job and headed home to take over his father's noodle shop. He turned the little shop into a countywide tourism sensation, putting the county's cultural tourism industry on the map. The Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Transportation Bureau, the Market Regulation Bureau, and even the county magistrate all begged to get on his good side. He even took over a bankrupt A-grade s 69.8kReads8.3Score7.5kShelves
- 21 Selling Barbecue Outside a Temple, I Get Chased Across the Country by Foodies 寺庙门口卖烧烤，吃货追着我全国 [A new city every week, forced to set up a random food stall!] [Food + everyday life + comedy + comfort food + no romance + healing] Chen Mo accidentally binds to a random food-stall System. Every week, he transmigrates to an unfamiliar city and has to sell its local snacks. The results... He sells extra-spicy grilled skewers outside a thousand-year-old temple, juicy scallion pancakes by West Lake, and ice-and-fire pineapple buns at the foot of a snowy mountain! In every city he has “wreaked ha 234Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 A Transmigrant’s Rise from Humble Beginnings 穿越小门小户发家史 A money-loving, sunny chef heroine VS a reliable, resilient, handsome constable Just after winning the Culinary Association’s “Golden Chef Award,” a chef transmigrates to the Great Ji Dynasty... Li Qiao’an says her greatest talent is cooking, and the thing she loves most is food! Poor? No problem! With a spatula in hand, the world is mine! And maybe I’ll snag a handsome husband to play house with! Crab roe noodles, boiled fish, sweet-and-sour ribs, caramel milk tea, whole roasted lamb... She’ll 205Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.3kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
- 24 After Getting Laid Off, I Restarted My Life with a Street Stall 被裁员后，我靠摆摊重启人生 [God Chef System] [Culinary Superstar] [Heartwarming Story] At 26, Xu Zichuan's life had hit rock bottom: he was unemployed and unmarried. Then, to his surprise, he awakened the “God Chef” System and became the most formidable culinary superstar in the food world. “Thirty-eight yuan for beef chow fun? Are you robbing me?” As soon as he said that, the man added, “...I'll take it. And give me another one.” Someone asked, “Boss, why are there only nine dishes on your menu every day?” “Because I onl 191Reads—Score155Shelves
- 25 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 147.4kReads8.6Score10.3kShelves
- 26 My Stall Was Smashed, So I Climbed to the Top with a Gourmet System 摊子被砸，我靠美食系统踏巅峰 [System, food, lighthearted comedy, everyday city life, outlandish ideas, comeback, one heroine, slow-paced slice of life] After losing his job at thirty-six, Wang Ping’an can’t find work and returns to the small county town that’s both unfamiliar and familiar to him. There, he starts a new life running a food stall. With his cooking skills and a boost from the System, he earns titles like “Wok King” and “Beast Tamer”... Wang Ping’an: “How slow-paced is it? The System doesn’t show up until chapt 2.1kReads8.3Score169Shelves
- 27 I'm Just a Chef, Director, Stop Adding Drama! 我只是个厨子啊，导演别加戏了吧 [Food + film sets + everyday life + comfort food + warmth + healing + comedy + fun] Lin Zhou joins a casting call for extras and unexpectedly gets bound to a Gourmet System. From then on, he only ever plays cooks. He can be a five-star chef in a domineering CEO drama, or the head cook at a country banquet in a rural drama. He can whip up roadside restaurant dishes so fragrant they fill the air for miles, or make stall food so delicious you'll savor every bite. Whatever the role calls for, he'll 1.9kReads7.5Score146Shelves
- 28 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 1kReads8.6Score144Shelves
- 29 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 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 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 1.6kReads8.7Score108Shelves
- 31 Country Chef at the Wok, Villagers Want a Feast Every Day! 农村掌大勺，村民天天想吃席！ Gu Ze transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to the top chef System. Other people who transmigrate get a food System that appears and disappears without a trace, and customers chase it down the street. But his System has just one task: cater banquets and earn ten thousand yuan a month. After Gu Ze caters a harvest feast for an entire village, his name spreads through the little town. The villagers spend every day plotting how to get a seat at a banquet. “You say you don’t know me? F 4.6kReads8.8Score390Shelves
- 32 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 232.8kReads8.5Score17.1kShelves
- 33 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 795Reads8.8Score109Shelves
- 34 I Sell Lunch Boxes, So Isn't It Only Natural for the School Cafeteria to Go Under? 我卖盒饭，学校食堂倒闭很正常吧 [Food + comedy + one heroine + transmigration + System] Lu Rong rents a small stall on a college campus to sell boxed meals, but business is so poor that he's on the verge of closing down. Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakens a Super Gourmet System and instantly becomes a top chef. A simple plate of egg fried rice is enough to draw countless students and teachers to his stall. Then Lu Rong starts offering even more top-quality dishes, and the whole campus goes wild. Everyone joins the rank 1.2kReads8.6Score100Shelves
- 35 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 1.5kReads8.4Score187Shelves
- 36 She Conquers the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 她靠美食征服全京城 After she accidentally transmigrates to ancient times, Chu Yunxiang wins over the stomachs of everyone in the capital with modern-day skewers, zhajiangmian, hot pot, and more. Even the current emperor is no exception. Someone recognizes the emperor in disguise, sneaking out late at night to eat skewers at Yunlai Restaurant. The emperor, pretending to be calm: “You’ve got the wrong person.” Someone else recognizes the Ghost Doctor of the martial world. “Look at these ragged clothes. How do I look 371Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 37 World Capital of Cuisine: Eel Wars 世界美食之都·鳝战 The World’s Food Capital: Eel Wars 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Gourmet: Selling Meals at School Sends Students and Teachers into a Frenzy 美食：学校卖饭，师生抢疯了 [Gourmet | Everyday Life | Lighthearted | Relaxing | Slow-Paced | Comforting] Jiang Fan got a Gourmet System and rented a small food stall in his school cafeteria. “There aren’t any students eating here. You should close up.” “The food’s terrible. You’ll be out of business in a few days.” “Here comes another idiot, selling food in this place.” Everyone mocked him. Jiang Fan ignored them and checked his mission. He had to sell a hundred shaomai in one day. Could he pull that off? “Wow, these shao 2.6kReads7.1Score190Shelves
- 39 Gourmet: My Cooking Makes the Myriad Worlds Drool 美食，我的美食馋哭诸天万界 Fantasy, food, illustrations, comedy, scheming, farming. The starry-sky yanggeng, the undisputed beauty queen of desserts. The upgraded version of Stargazing Pie: Eyes Shut Forever. Boiled cabbage so beautiful it takes your breath away. Spicy crayfish that'll make anyone gain a few pounds before they leave. A chopped chili Kun head big enough to feed dozens. Red-braised lamb, fish-fragrant shredded pork, crystal shrimp dumplings, chicken broth soup dumplings, squirrel-shaped mandarin fish... Hel 951Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 40 The God of Food Is Here 食神来了 Three years after hanging up his cleaver, Ye Gui, head chef of the state banquet kitchen, makes his comeback. This time, he’s returning by livestreaming visits to restaurants. The book is also known as: “Death Has Arrived,” “The God of Food Livestreams Restaurant Visits, and Chefs Around the World Panic,” “The Food Safety Act,” “A Chef Must Stay True to His Principles,” “The Streamer Says You’re Going to Jail, So You’re Really Going to Jail,” and “Fact-Checkers, This Is What Real Fact-Checking L 1kReads8.7Score100Shelves
- 41 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 2.8kReads8.3Score270Shelves
- 42 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 5.5kReads8.1Score711Shelves
- 43 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 8kReads8.1Score910Shelves
- 44 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 1.7kReads9.0Score154Shelves
- 45 A Taste of Jiangnan 江南小食记 Jiangnan water-town setting + laid-back daily life + gourmet business + no romance + adorable little sister After transmigrating into a family in a Jiangnan water town, Jiang Yun decides to lie flat and make the most of eating and having fun! She runs a little shop by the river and enjoys the slow, easygoing rhythm of life in Jiangnan. At home, she makes soft, chewy osmanthus rice cakes, pork belly braised with bamboo shoots, and fragrant beggar's chicken that draws people from every corner of 1.8kReads—Score130Shelves
- 46 The Mountains Are Full of Treasure: A Bitter Girl’s Rise 满山都是宝，苦瓜少女的崛起 [Farming! Feel-Good Story! Golden Finger! Food! No Romance] [Content warning: No male lead, but there is one-sided affection. A gentle, cozy story!] College student Lin Xiu wakes up as a poor orphan girl in ancient times. There’s even a tiny baby by her bed, crying to be fed! A home stripped bare, doomed from the start! She thinks heaven must be against her, but then it gives her a golden finger! The mountains are wonderful! Picking mushrooms and making delicious food! Finding medicinal herbs 3.1kReads8.2Score371Shelves
- 47 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 6.9kReads8.7Score466Shelves
- 48 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 5.4kReads7.3Score411Shelves
- 49 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 6.6kReads9.1Score477Shelves
- 50 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 8.8kReads8.5Score802Shelves
