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- 1 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
- 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 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
- 5 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
- 6 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
- 7 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
- 8 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
- 9 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
- 10 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
- 11 Reborn in the 1980s as a Little Chef: Cherished After Divorce 重生八零小厨娘：离婚后被宠上天 This novel is absolutely perfect for reading over a meal. Slurp~ A Michelin-starred chef travels back to the 1980s. Freshly divorced, she turns her life around with her cooking! She revamps a traditional stove, sells noodles at a street stall, and recreates a hundred classic dishes from Recipes from the Garden of Contentment: crab-stuffed oranges bursting with flavor, milky-white mutton soup, and Wensi tofu sliced into strands as fine as silver thread. The little stall at the town entrance draws 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 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
- 13 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
- 14 From the Start, I Had a Spatula, and the Big Shots Kept Chasing Me for a Meal 开局一把锅铲，大佬追着我干饭 [System + quick transmigration + food and business + reborn + pocket dimension + feel-good power fantasy] Bai Yuxi was an ordinary office worker in the imperial capital. Desperate to achieve financial freedom and buy a home in her hometown as soon as possible, she worked herself to the bone, only to die suddenly from overwork. Then, against all odds, she was reborn? This time, she decided to live life on her own terms! After giving her exploitative boss a piece of her mind and securing severance 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 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
- 16 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
- 17 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
- 18 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
- 19 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
- 20 A Chili Sauce Stall from the Start 开局一个辣酱摊 A pot of hot oil and a handful of scallions and ginger: she transmigrates into the body of a poor girl whose engagement has been broken off, with nothing but a shabby account book and half a sack of brown rice. No one knows how the girl, who used to do nothing but bury herself in bookkeeping, suddenly acquired such nimble hands. The neighbors say a deity visited her in a dream. She just smiles and says nothing. The little shop on the back street opens, and its enticing aroma fills Yunyang County 1.1kReads—Score186Shelves
- 21 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
- 22 Gourmet: Running a Nursing Home Kitchen, While the Whole World Begs Me to Open a Restaurant 美食：掌勺养老院，全世界跪求我开店 [Food + cozy daily life + healing and relaxing + building a fortune] Lin Momo, a nursing home caregiver, unexpectedly acquires a gourmet pocket dimension. Every time she earns praise through her cooking, she can claim even better rewards! Crispy river shrimp, stir-fried to bring out their fresh, savory flavor; Silk-baby vegetable wraps in rich broth, full of texture and good for your health; Steamed soup dumplings with thin skins, generous fillings, and plenty of juice; Rich, delicious coconut m 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Little Chef: Daily Life Running a Shop in Ancient Times 厨神小娘子：古代开店日常 After transmigrating to the Southern Song Dynasty, Ji Zhitang just wanted to lie flat in peace. But with her family dirt poor and creditors knocking at the door, what could she do? No big deal! Braised meat wraps, spicy shredded chicken frames, deep-fried baby crabs, stone-pot bibimbap, seafood feasts... Modern dishes were just what it took to win over ancient palates! From a roadside stall to a wildly popular fast-food shop, from Taoyuan Town to Lin'an's top-tier star, her food business flouris 5.9kReads8.4Score628Shelves
- 24 The Internet’s Most Polished Girl Is Setting Up Stalls Everywhere? 网络精致女孩她居然到处摆地摊？ [Gourmet] [Street Stalls] [Farming] [No Romance] [Light Technology] Yang Xiu binds to a trending food System, which assigns her one online video-shooting task every so often. She drives the utility vehicle provided by the System, wears its exquisite outfits, and disguises herself so thoroughly that even her mother wouldn’t recognize her, all to complete the food challenges the System assigns. She takes a mini old-timer car to a highway rest stop to cook century egg and pork congee, drives an RV 80Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 I Transmigrate into a Book and Open a Restaurant That Makes the Whole City Smell Amazing 穿书后我靠开食肆香遍全城 The heroine transmigrates into a book and opens a restaurant. The story focuses on the day-to-day business of running a food shop, with no awful relatives or angst. It's warm and comforting, so enjoy without worry~ The male lead appears later and doesn't have much page time. He's a puppy-like guy who follows our little Hua around everywhere (the male lead of the transmigration novel), and he's blessed with a protagonist's halo: getting close to him brings good luck. (Hugging the big shot's leg.j 3.8kReads8.1Score363Shelves
- 27 The Little Kitchen of Fireworks 烟火小厨 [Character Growth × Slow Burn × Ensemble Cast] Food blogger Xiao Wei wakes up one day and finds herself transmigrated to ancient times. She thinks it’s just a cruel joke of fate, but little does she know that her life’s journey has only just begun. Fu Qingtang was born into privilege. She has much, and is destined to bear even more. Lin Qiaolan is proud and headstrong, but no matter how tough her shell, it cannot shield her from the push and pull of fate. Their fates are different, and they come 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 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
- 29 Little Chef of China: The Path of the Culinary Dao 中华小当家：厨道食途 [Gourmet] [The perfect dish to eat with rice] [Ancient-style setting] [Chinese Culinary Master] [Feel-good novel] The imperial kitchen inspector kicked over his stall. “You run a roadside stall, and you dare call yourself a chef?” With the few ingredients he had left, Cheng Xiaocai made a bowl of scallion oil noodles. An old Taoist watching the crowd finished a bite and immediately declared, “I'll take care of the authorities for you!” It turned out Cheng Xiaocai was descended from a famous chef 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Little Chang'an Eatery 长安小食肆 [Food Business Comeback + Clear-Headed Heroine + Everyday Food and Drink + No Romance, but Plenty of Suitors] In her previous life, Jiang Yuan was a chef in the Imperial Kitchen, bound to a mission. For ten years, she treated Crown Prince Zhao Heng's food aversion, prepared soups for him, and soothed his mind, giving him everything he asked for. The day he ascended the throne, he rewarded her with poisoned wine. She drank it with a smile. Mission complete. The System unbound, and at last she was 270Reads6.8Score108Shelves
- 31 From Breakfast Stall Owner to the Richest Woman in the Empire: Customers Fight to Throw Money at Me 从早食摊娘子到当朝首富，古人送钱抢破头 [Food + Business + A Little Scientific Farming (the male lead promotes farming)] In her previous life, Xu Sangrou was a food blogger. She transmigrated to a small county town in an unknown dynasty. Her father was a poorly paid county constable, her mother managed the household, and she had a younger brother and sister. The only thing of value they owned was their little courtyard. But the family was so hard up they could barely afford her younger brother's school fees. Looking at the last few gr 351Reads6.2Score100Shelves
- 32 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
- 33 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
- 34 A Little Country Bride: Husband, You're in for a Treat 农门小娇妻，相公你有口福了 [Farming + food + transmigrate into a book + light, sweet romance] Jiang Zhiyu was hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk, then nearly drowned right after transmigrating into a book. She dares anyone to claim they are more unlucky than she is! Being transmigrated as a top-tier cannon-fodder character is no big deal. With enough hard work, even cannon fodder can turn their life around! First, she sets a modest goal: open a food street and make a hundred million! There's no problem food can't 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 So Addictive! I’m Getting Caught Up in the Cutthroat Competition of Ancient China’s Restaurant Business 香懵了！我在古代餐饮业搞内卷 [Farming + food + business + raising children] One day, Jiang Yan, a mature single food blogger, transmigrated and got her wish of becoming a mother without the pain of childbirth. She became a widowed mother of three. Not having a man around was fine, but what was with all this debt, huh? And she was supposed to sell her daughter, too? Jiang Yan hugged her sweet, soft, adorable daughter close. This was the dream child she’d always wanted. Selling her was out of the question! So how was she goin 484Reads8.5Score100Shelves
- 36 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
- 37 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
- 38 Foodie Card Draws: I Reach the Top as a Chef by Setting Up Random Stalls 美食抽卡：我靠随机摆摊登顶厨神 [Food] [Random Pop-Up Stalls] [No CP] [Cards] [Daily Life] [Healing] [Funny and Lighthearted] [Ensemble Cast] Jiang Yan, who has a laid-back attitude and what seems like a cheat-code life, binds to a Food Card Draw and Random Stall System and declares: "I’m going to become the God of Cooking!" One draw a day, and the food transforms in all kinds of ways. S-rank cards shine with golden light again and again. (The System will upgrade, and the protagonist will unlock new abilities. Later on, he won 1.9kReads—Score209Shelves
- 39 The General's Delicious Wife 将军的美味娘子 She transmigrates into a farming family, where there's never enough to eat or warm clothes to wear, and she also gets a paralyzed husband and a whole crowd of awful relatives thrown in for free. Xia Yuechu counts it all up on her fingers. By any reckoning, she's the one getting the raw deal! But she's got her cooking skills to rely on, and with her clever hands she can whip up countless delicious dishes and make a fortune in no time, rising straight to the top! The better life gets, though, the 238Reads8.6Score104Shelves
- 40 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
- 41 I Opened a Sichuan Restaurant in Ancient Times 穿到古代开川菜馆 [Brooding, rugged man + love at first sight + sweet, doting daily life + golden finger + food + everyday family matters] After a car accident, Zhong Ruyi opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated to an alternate dynasty, where she has become the youngest daughter of Old Man Zhong. She has suffered from a form of soul loss since childhood. Though she is mentally impaired, her parents and several older brothers dote on her. After transmigrating, Zhong Ruyi feels guilty, thinking her soul has 137Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 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
- 43 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
- 44 Running a Plane-Space Restaurant, I Rise to the Top 经营位面餐厅，走向人生巅峰 [Cuisine x business x card draws x interdimensional travel x ensemble cast x growth x lighthearted] Chu Tian, a pampered young lady who had never lifted a finger around the house, had just graduated and was dragging her suitcase out of her dorm when an unknown System pulled her into the universe, making her the first person to venture beyond the solar system into an unknown star system. [Run an interdimensional restaurant successfully and complete all your missions, and you'll be able to return 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 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
- 46 Chu Flavor Bistro Has New Dishes Again 楚味小馆又上新啦 [Ancient farming novel + transmigration + no System + no golden finger + no romance + Hubei cuisine + fictional setting] Other people transmigrate with a System and a pocket dimension. She transmigrated with nothing but a "Hubei palate." She has just one rule for surviving in ancient times: make money and cook delicious food! Every day, she wakes up and gets to work creating new dishes. From street-food stalls to a chain of restaurants, she wins everyone over with flavor at every step. Hot dry n 172Reads—Score100Shelves
- 47 The Little Chef of Chaoyang City Serves Delicious Food Every Day 朝阳城小厨娘美味天天有 [Food! Food! Food!] If you love historical food novels, this is one you can’t miss! As soon as Luo Jinyao transmigrated, her wicked stepmother slapped her three times! How could Luo Jinyao put up with such humiliation? She immediately slapped her right back. With the village chief’s help, she arranged for her stepmother to marry a good-for-nothing man. To make ends meet, Luo Jinyao took her younger brother to Chaoyang City. He studied while she opened a restaurant. She also worked as a private c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Exiled to Lingnan, I Invite Su Shi to a Dance Party 流放岭南，我请苏轼蹦迪 [Farming + transmigration + a space with a spirit spring + family life + daily life + making a fortune + cozy + a path to the modern era + selling vegetables + no romance + building from nothing + a light ensemble cast + exile + housebuilding + cuisine + infrastructure + from modern times to ancient times] Xia Xiaomo, a modern folk singer, transmigrates one day into the body of a concubine-born daughter abandoned by her family, who died of illness on the road to exile. As she hovers between life 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 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
- 50 Why Not Add Another Bowl of Rice? 不如添碗饭 [Farming + Food + Healing + Growth + Cozy + Lighthearted Comedy] [Cheerful, lively little cook × Arrogant, childish young lord Pei Qun of the marquis’s household: a bickering couple] A young woman who sells wontons in Jingzhou City finds an arrogant, childish man at her doorstep. She takes him home and stuffs him full of food, but the next day he sneaks away. The young woman saves up to open a restaurant and takes a job as a cook in the marquis’s household. Then one day, she discovers that the a 132Reads8.1Score—Shelves
