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- 51 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
- 52 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—Shelves
- 53 A Little Taste of Chinese Cuisine to Spice Up Food Wars! 给食戟之灵来点小小的中餐震撼 [Food Wars! fanfic + No romance + Serious cooking + Lighthearted] Shen Mo, a somewhat well-known Chinese chef, transmigrates by accident. In this world, it seems that cooking skills can determine just about everything? I’ll try to keep all the recipes grounded in reality, and describe the cooking process in fairly complete detail. This is a free platform, after all, so feel free to use them as recipes if you like. If not, you can just skip those parts. 3.6kReads9.3Score254Shelves
- 54 The Otherworld's Gourmet King 异界的美食天王 [Food + System] An ordinary chef is brought to the Continent of Gods and Demons, where he runs a restaurant that’s anything but ordinary. The food here can’t be found anywhere else, yet people from every corner of the continent can make their way to this restaurant. This world has magic, battle qi, cultivators, and charlatans. I, Chen Mo, just want to be an ordinary chef, winning every customer’s heart with the Chinese cuisine they can’t get in this other world. [Some characters in this book may 106Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 55 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 6.6kReads8.6Score737Shelves
- 56 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 1.1kReads8.7Score102Shelves
- 57 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 3.4kReads8.8Score448Shelves
- 58 Mutated Wasteland: Exotic Delicacies on the Tip of the Tongue 变异废土，舌尖上的异种美食 [Mutant Disaster] [Gourmet] [Slice of Life] [Business and Farming] How many times more protein do mutated creatures have than beef? Having just arrived in this world, Liu Bi was shocked by his own thought. He awakened a Master Chef System on land polluted by spores. Was something wrong here? Could every kind of mutated creature be turned into a gourmet dish? Then hurry up and serve it! A specialty restaurant on the edge of the safe zone, serving unconventional comfort food in the midst of everyd 9.2kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 59 Gourmet: My Little Shop Is Famous Around the World 美食：我的小店，名震全球 [Gourmet] [Opening a Restaurant] [No Female Lead] [System] [Perfect with a Meal] [Heartwarming] [Everyday Life] [A Different Menu Every Day] [Affordable Prices] [Ensemble Cast] Lou Yuanzhou has eaten so many ready-made meal packs that he actually gains a Chef God Gourmet System! As long as he opens a restaurant and completes all kinds of bizarre missions, he can earn rewards! Steaming hot wontons, springy zhajiang noodles, and the legendary lamb stew... all made by Lou Yuanzhou himself! Once his 9.6kReads9.0Score796Shelves
- 60 In a Gourmet World, Eat Delicious Food and Evolve! 人在美食，吃美味，就进化！ [Gourmet] + [Cooking] + [Gourmet Cells] + [Gourmet Cell Demons] + [Special Abilities] + [Power Trip] No detailed fight scenes. (I can take you out with one move, so why waste time fighting you?) There's not much of a plot or romance. It's mainly about all kinds of incredible food! Enter at your own risk if this isn't your thing! After transmigrating into the world of Toriko, I activate the Eat Delicious Food to Evolve System. [Ding! You ate a chocolate caterpillar and gained Oil-Pan Fist!] [Ding 7.5kReads9.2Score598Shelves
- 61 God of Cooking: A Little Restaurant from the Start, Making the Cultivation World Drool 厨神：开局小食肆，馋哭修真界 Gourmet, healing, no System, no romance, raising a daughter. After transmigrating from the apocalypse to the Cultivation Realm, Yang Feng runs a small eatery. Despite its humble size, the place is packed with big shots from every realm. The Demon Clan's holy maiden: “Waaah, mapo tofu is so delicious! I accidentally ate three more buckets of rice.” A sect leader: “The giant pork knuckle is the best! I can polish off ten in one go!” A celestial master: “I’ve read the signs, and today is a good day 3.8kReads8.7Score350Shelves
- 62 The Two Pleasures of Food and Sex 食色二事 In his twenties, Liu Zhu became the man who married a woman with a child. He devoted himself to his family, working himself to the bone for ten whole years. In return, his wife cheated on him with her ex-husband, the scumbag who had once abandoned her and her daughter. After divorcing her, Liu Zhu was utterly distraught, and then he got into a car accident. In his hospital room, he met an old man who had no one to care for him. The old man felt they were fated to meet. On his deathbed, he told L 7.8kReads9.0Score822Shelves
- 63 A Fake Cooking God Goes on a Show and Accidentally Becomes the Real Deal 骗子厨神上节目，一不小心成真了 I transmigrated. Good news: I’m famous and hailed as the God of Cooking. Bad news: The whole thing is fake. I only got here through hype, rigged competitions, and bribed judges. Being famous despite having no skill would be bad enough, but Jiang Zhou discovers that his former self used his reputation to fleece people, too. Charging sky-high fees for apprenticeships, building restaurant chains, and doing whatever it took to make money. With the whole internet cursing him and his reputation in tat 21.4kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
- 64 Age of Exploration: I Conquer Europe with Food 大航海时代：我用美食征服欧洲 [Two male leads + transmigration + food + infrastructure building + Age of Exploration + mutual pampering + 1v1] Min Xi has the bad luck to transmigrate to the Ming dynasty, and even worse, he isn't in the Ming Empire at all. He's in Europe. At this time, the Industrial Revolution hasn't begun. Europe is still in a primitive state of plunder and ruthless expansion, with chaos everywhere and might making right. Luckily, he's not alone: Yun Ji, a young master who can really fight and happens to be 4.4kReads9.1Score758Shelves
- 65 Gourmet: Healing Anorexia One Bento Box at a Time 美食：摆摊卖盒饭，治愈厌食症 [Comforting food, no getting mad, funny reading over a meal, no female lead, hilarious ensemble cast] A genius chef transmigrates into the body of a sixty-year-old man and activates a System. As long as he heals wounded souls with his cooking, he can earn extraordinary rewards. But the System’s very first task is to heal someone with anorexia! Vibrant tomato and egg stir-fry, beef stewed with rich gravy, and layered minced-beef flatbreads dripping with juice. These aren’t beautiful illustration 8.8kReads8.9Score754Shelves
- 66 An Introvert Runs a Stall Everywhere, and the Customers Lose It I人摆摊到处跑，顾客崩溃了 (Completed) [Food + healing + System + no romance] The ups and downs between food-loving customers and a heroine who loves to run away from her delicious food. (Not romance, just foodies’ pure love of good food.) The finest cuisine calls for the best ingredients and outstanding technique, brought together with customers’ ravenous stares, mouths watering, and an overwhelming craving to create a truly exquisite feast. Zhou Lin is an independent woman with exceptionally strong boundaries. Thanks to 4kReads8.2Score340Shelves
- 67 Gourmet: Taking Over the Bear’s Prison Canteen 美食：从承包毛熊监狱食堂开始 After a disastrous blind date, Tang Lei flees overnight, only to bind himself to a Chef God System that randomly assigns him a place to run: the cafeteria of a prison in a nation of tough fighters! Pork stewed with potatoes, red-braised pork, stuffed eight-treasure duck, sweet-and-sour ribs… Homestyle dishes! State-banquet cuisine! Every delicacy imaginable! Bring a taste of the culinary kingdom to Siberia, a barren wasteland of food! The vicious, unruly inmates: “Boss, do you need anyone to was 2.8kReads9.2Score309Shelves
- 68 Gourmet: My Snack Stall Has Caught the Eye of Universities Across the Country 美食：我小吃摊被全国高校盯上了 [Lighthearted everyday life + warm and funny + perfect mealtime reading + super genius] Other people's kids studied hard from a young age, hoping for a bright future. Li Ang, on the other hand, grilled goose legs as a child, and somewhere along the way, grilled his way to the peak of life... Li Ang was reborn and discovered that he had become the eight-year-old son of a barbecue stall owner outside Qingbei University. In his previous life, Li Ang had achieved financial freedom by making snac 60kReads9.2Score11.3kShelves
- 69 I Sent You to Kindergarten, and You Say You Can Cook Six Dishes? 让你上幼儿园，你说能炒六个菜？ Su Wan transmigrated in the most bizarre way imaginable. In her previous life, she was a chef. Now she's the director of a kindergarten on the verge of closing down. She also received a Food System, and from then on, the whole kindergarten's atmosphere changed completely. Mom: Son, what did you learn at kindergarten today? Son: I don't want to talk about work after I get home. Dad: Sweetie, did you have fun with your friends at school? Daughter: How should I put it? They don't know how to pitch 10.4kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
- 70 Are You Crazy? I Just Opened a Restaurant, and the Campus Belle Shows Up With a Child 疯了吧！刚开餐厅校花带娃找上门 [Adorable Kids + Food + Campus Beauty + System + Everyday Life Running a Restaurant] Also known as: “Gourmet Cooking Starts with a Bowl of Egg Noodles,” “The Late-Night Diner: A Foodie’s Paradise,” “A Delicious Diner for Dad,” and “You Told Me to Be a Couch Potato, but I’m Determined to Be a Master Chef!” Su Feng chose to live as a couch potato, but somehow ended up bound to the “Universe’s Number One Cooking Master” System and became the owner of a little restaurant! From that moment on, his co 17.3kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
- 71 In America, Eastern Cuisine Takes Over New York 人在鹰酱，东方美食占领纽约 “No one in this country understands jianbing guozi better than I do!” The New York Times’ Mr. Dong column On bustling Fifth Avenue, the line stretches as far as the eye can see. Cut in line, and you could find yourself in a street shootout within minutes. Stinky tofu takes over Wall Street, crawfish conquer Silicon Valley, and the scent of luosifen fills the air all over Manhattan. The giant screens in Times Square play a nonstop reel of mysterious Eastern magical cuisine. Americans don’t e 6kReads9.3Score735Shelves
- 72 I’m a Grade-Schooler, and I’ve Become a Culinary God! 谢邀，我，小学生，已成厨神！ [Gourmet]+ [Slice of Life]+ [No Romance]+ [Heartwarming]+ [Healing]+ [Comedy] “The only thing an elementary school student should be doing is studying hard... But I think Master Fang going to school is neglecting his proper work.” “I’ve finally made it to the front of the line... Master Fang, can we put your homework aside for a bit? Could you fry me some rice first?” “You think I’m waiting outside the elementary school to pick up my own kid? I’m actually here to pick up Master Fang after schoo 24.5kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
- 73 I Open a Supermarket in the Tang Dynasty 我在大唐开超市 Lin Shen transmigrates to the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty and gets bound to a divine-level supermarket System. He opens a supermarket in Chang’an, and his very first customer is Princess Changle. With the System’s help, Lin Shen quickly makes a name for himself in the Tang Dynasty. Princess Changle: “Boss, I’ll take all the lipstick you have. You can give the matches to my father.” Princess Chengyang: “If I call you a good big brother, will you give me a few boxes of chocolate?” Li Er: “I’l 6.9kReads8.5Score476Shelves
- 74 I Opened a Restaurant in Another World in Genshin Impact, and Ningguang Is Drooling 我在原神开异界餐厅，凝光馋哭了 [Original titles: I Opened an Otherworldly Restaurant in Genshin Impact, and Ningguang Is Drooling; Genshin Impact: How My Cooking Made the Seven Archons Drool] (No character assassination, no angst. Food + combat + one heroine + healing old wounds. You can read this even if you haven't played Genshin Impact. Bring snacks if you're reading late at night~) On the continent of Teyvat, there is an otherworldly restaurant. Here, you can sample delicacies never before seen in Teyvat. Gradually, every 2.8kReads9.4Score320Shelves
- 75 I'm a Chef, Yet Somehow I'm Li Er's Son-in-Law 厨师的我，竟是李二的女婿 Yin Xuan transmigrates to the seventh year of the Zhenguan era in the Tang dynasty, where he becomes the owner of a tavern and awakens the Myriad Realms Cuisine System. From then on, his life changes completely. A plate of tomato and egg stir-fry leaves Cheng Yaojin and his two sons singing its praises, while a bowl of wine gets Li Shimin dead drunk. Every dish he makes sets trends throughout the Tang dynasty. Cheng Yaojin: Little brother, how about we become sworn brothers? We don’t have to be 14.8kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
- 76 Beast Taming: I Really Just Want to Run a Peaceful Restaurant 御兽：我真的只想安稳的开饭店 [Food + opening a shop + everyday life + lighthearted fun + beast taming + System] Also known as: “The Stories I Couldn't Tell About Me and the System,” “A Leisurely Life with Three Little Ones,” “I'm Unbeatable in My Restaurant, So Do Whatever You Like,” and “Shocking! My Three Pet Beasts Are All Big Shots” Foodie Jiang Ming drinks a century-old, top-quality Daughter Red and unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel world called Blue Star, where he gains a Spirit Chef System. At first, Jiang Min 16.1kReads8.8Score2.5kShelves
- 77 A Great War in the Cultivation World, All for a Bite to Eat?! 修仙界大战，只为抢口饭？！ [Gourmet cooking + immortal cultivation + scheming sect disciple + lighthearted comedy + goofy daily life + no female lead or harem] Zhu Fan transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a disciple of a sect. Just as he was about to receive his golden finger, something unexpected happened Zhu Fan: Anyone else know this feeling? I was about to become a tycoon in the immortal realm! Once my divine pill was ready, I’d ascend to immortality! But someone suddenly cut in and bound me to the wrong 15kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
- 78 I Landed in a Fairytale World, and My Little Tavern Became a Hit 穿进童话世界，我的小酒馆爆火了 [Healing + food + another world + fairy-tale characters appear + a little farming] While passing through a little fountain square in another world, Jiang Jiang came across an absolute beauty in a tattered dress. The beautiful older sister was leaning against the fountain, sobbing miserably. Jiang Jiang, a true lover of pretty faces, was heartbroken for her. With a grand wave of her hand, she brought the woman home and served her a steaming cup of milk tea and a sweet-and-sour berry tart. The 8.7kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 79 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World: Farming with One Hand, Cooking with the Other 穿越修仙界左手种田右手美食 Synopsis [Everyday life] [BL] [Cozy] [Farming] [Gourmet] [No golden finger] A tsundere, food-loving younger seme x a gentle, refined uke who loves making money Lu Sizhe transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation. Unfortunately, cultivation still isn’t in the cards for him. After thinking it over, he decides to return to his old trade and become a chef. As his business flourishes, Lu Sizhe’s customers come from across the Nine Provinces. “Boss Lu, could you make me a plate of fried rice?” “ 7.6kReads9.1Score918Shelves
- 80 Random Street Stalls: I Use Food to Lure Snakes Out of Their Holes 随机摆摊：我用美食引蛇出洞 [Food + undercover work + comedy + catching criminals + System + no heroine + no romance] Also known as Food: The Undercover Cop Sets Up a Street Stall, and Fugitives Beg Him to Get Back to Work Xiao Lan transmigrated into the body of a police officer in a parallel world and was assigned to pose as a street-food vendor while keeping an eye on a suspect. As it happened, he’d been a cooking genius in his previous life. This was right up his alley. The next day, a tricycle loaded with top-tier food 9.9kReads9.4Score869Shelves
- 81 After Moving to the City to Farm, Every Powerful Tycoon Wants Me as Their Master 进城种地后豪门权贵都想拜我为师 [Farming + Food + Everyone’s Favorite] Jiang Mengyun is a young woman who absolutely loves farming. From the countryside to the city, from luxurious mansions to mysterious research bases, there’s no patch of land she can’t turn into a field! Mansion owner: My multimillion-dollar mansion! It’s covered in loofah vines! School administrator: My rooftop garden! It’s full of giant radishes! Senior from her sect: My medicinal herb garden! I have to search through cabbages to find the herbs! Lu Jingyua 15.2kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
- 82 From the Start, I Lost My Job: Selling Lunchboxes on the Way Home 开局就失业：返乡途中卖盒饭 [A System golden finger, food, fast meals and lunch boxes, a leisurely slice-of-life pace, no romance in the main story. At readers’ request, the bonus chapters have a male lead. Male-oriented, male-oriented, male-oriented, said three times.] After working hard for three years, he’d just been made a full-time employee when the restaurant he worked at shut down. Bai Ye drove home in the secondhand car his boss had given him in lieu of pay, a heap of junk piled in the back. He never expected a S 33.8kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
- 83 This Boss Is So Sneaky, He Takes His Street Stall Everywhere 这老板真苟，摆个地摊还到处走 [The print edition of Random Gourmet Stall is now available on major platforms] [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Comedy] [Comfort food] [Cozy] [Healing] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Zhou unexpectedly binds himself to a Random Gourmet System. Every week brings a random location, random food, and different customers. He sells buns at the park entrance, century egg and lean pork congee on a mountaintop, and candied hawthorns outside a school. Every dish is mouthwatering and 83kReads9.5Score8.1kShelves
- 84 I Made a Chinese Restaurant a Huge Hit in the Apocalypse of Another World 在异世界末世经营中华餐厅爆火 [Apocalypse] [Business Management] [System] [Gourmet Food] [Farming] [No CP, Ensemble Cast] After Ling Jing died, she became bound to a business management System and was randomly dropped into an apocalyptic world where plants and animals had mutated. The System asked her to name her restaurant. After thinking for a moment, she typed: Chinese Restaurant. In this mutated apocalypse, every plant and animal had become an enemy. When starving humans on the brink of death caught the scent of roaste 96kReads9.4Score14kShelves
- 85 My Food Refreshes at Random, Leaving Customers Drooling 我的美食随机刷新，顾客馋哭了 This book is also known as: Selling Extra-Spicy Grilled Wings Outside a Colorectal Hospital [Food + no female lead + everyday life + comedy + perfect with a meal] Lin Xuan didn't want to go to work, so he unexpectedly bound himself to a food System. Every week, it assigned a random location and a random dish. But the very first week's task left him dumbfounded. What? Sell extra-spicy grilled wings outside a colorectal hospital? What kind of devilish task was that? And that was only the beginnin 81.6kReads9.3Score8.4kShelves
- 86 The Savings System Summoned Me to Another World to Become a Rich Woman 我被存钱系统召唤到异世界当富婆 [Travel Between Two Worlds] + [Modern-Day Fantasy] + [System] + [Farming] + [No Romance] + [Food Business] + [Livestream] + [Building Wealth] + [Infrastructure] + [Redemption] Other people's Systems shower their Hosts with money and perks. Mine is all about being broke, forcing me to make money through street vending and hand over every last cent. I make a million a day Livestreaming skewers made with handsome men from the mall, only for the System to order me to turn off tips. I have to build 1.2kReads—Score103Shelves
- 87 The God of Cooking and the Demon Beasts: Oh No, We're the Ingredients! 厨神，妖兽：不好，我们成食材了 A chef transmigrates to a fantasy world and awakens the strongest Chef God System. Whenever someone praises a dish he makes, his talent, physique, and insight improve. Well, this is an instant takeoff. What's more, his dishes have special effects: they can strengthen the body, nourish one's health, and clear away hidden injuries… The entire sect goes wild. From the Ancestor, Supreme Elders, and Sect Master to the servant disciples, everyone goes crazy for a taste. The Sect Master say 66.6kReads9.1Score4.7kShelves
