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- 1 The Mistress of the House 当家娘子 Lin Yan, the youngest chef ever to cook at a state banquet, transmigrates. And becomes the sickly young wife of a family! Her father-in-law is gravely ill and has passed away, her frail mother-in-law can barely look after herself, and her grandmother-in-law is wicked and plays favorites. The family is also drowning in debt! To keep from starving, she can only put her best skills to work, open a shop, and start cooking delicious food! No soy sauce or vinegar here? She’ll make some! No chili peppe 110Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 2 Gourmet: I Set Up a Stall, and the Whole Internet Begs Me to Open a Restaurant 美食：人在摆摊，全网跪求我开店 [Food + daily life + no romance throughout + lighthearted + cozy + deliciously satisfying] A pork bun with no meat filling to bite into activates the Food System for Xu Yang. With divine recipes in hand, he sets up a little stall from the start. A single batch of soup dumplings sets off a citywide craze. “Seriously? You've never had soup dumplings with chili oil for dipping?” “Stay away from me. I don't make friends with people who've never tried soup dumplings.” “That's not right! Roujiamo is t 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Farming in Ancient Times: I Lead the Whole Village to Prosperity 古代种田，我领全村做大做强 [Farming]+ [A Seasoning System Whose Goods Cannot Be Resold]+ [No Romance]+ [Gourmet]+ [Building Wealth]+ [Fun Ancient-Era Facts Throughout]+ [No Annoying Characters]+ [Clever, Breezy Read] (The range of food is limited while the protagonist saves up capital at first. There will be more dishes once she opens a restaurant later on.) (The business will eventually expand far and wide, but the protagonist only travels between the village, county, and prefectural city.) Ji Ning, who worked so much o 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 A Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant for Everyday Life 生活系川菜馆 Other people's college lives are about graduate school exams, professional certificates, and dating. Lu Chuan's college life is about flipping woks, cooking, and running a restaurant. After unexpectedly activating the Lifestyle Food System, his life changes completely. He can spot what's wrong with every dish, unlock lost Sichuan recipes, and read the life stories hidden in every spoonful and bite. He opens a little Sichuan restaurant beside A University, and it becomes a late-night refuge for c 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Daily Sign-In: I Become a God of Cuisine in Another World 每日签到，我在异世当食神 Gu Yu had spent twenty years working as a chef when, by chance, he transmigrated to a different continent of swords and magic. Unlike everyone else's golden finger, his cheat turns out to be a "Cooking System." "What? The System's new quest is to make Wellington beef? I don't have any beef on hand, so I'll use wyvern meat!" Pork strips in Beijing bean sauce made from two-headed demon lizard meat (edible, Grade A, magic resistance +30), Octopus balls made with fresh Kraken tentacles (edible, G —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Three Qin Sisters 秦家三闺女 Qin Dayong and Chen Manman's three daughters each have very different personalities. The eldest, Qin Lanzhi, is strong-willed and always means what she says. Spoiled by her father since childhood, she is confident and outgoing. The second daughter, Qin Yaozhi, has only ever had her big sister to dote on her, so she learned early to read people's moods and became a bit of a people-pleaser. The youngest, Qin Xizhi, was pampered by her mother from an early age, growing up spoiled and domineering. 969Reads6.1Score100Shelves
- 7 Reborn in Ancient Times: Love and Career, I Can Have Both 胎穿古代爱情事业两手抓 After accidentally falling off a cliff while mountain climbing, An Yining was born into an ancient era. She had only enjoyed a few years of carefree living when she witnessed the upheaval of a dynasty change. Then she fell off a cliff again and awakened a troublemaking System. From then on, Princess Anning, who could throw her weight around anywhere in the capital, became everyone's favorite. A spoiled young nobleman pleaded, “Big Sis, help us out! Hot pot, milk tea, popcorn, Journey to the West 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 A Southern Song Culinary Legend: From Small Shop to Business Empire 南宋餐饮传奇：从小店到商业巨擘 Su Ran, a modern chef, is struck by a mysterious explosion while developing a new dish in his kitchen and unexpectedly transmigrates to Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song dynasty. Armed with his modern culinary skills, he sets out to build a restaurant business in the Southern Song. Su Ran's restaurant is an instant hit, but its success sparks the envy of his competitors and lands him in one crisis after another. In the midst of his troubles, he happens to rescue the emperor, who is travel 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Stop Chasing Me, I'm Really Just Selling Ice 别追了，我真的只是卖冰的 [Food + opening a shop + pocket dimension + romance, but not much of it] Not for you if that bothers you She transmigrates as a stand-in for someone's beloved, and is told from the start to become a concubine. Leng Ruoxi sneers. The scumbag and his vile lover can stay together forever. She turns around and launches a milk tea business. Iced lemon water, pearl milk tea, passion fruit overload, crispy skyscraper snacks… With her Mixue Ice Cream and Tea, she takes the whole capital by storm. From —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Gourmet: I Set Up a Food Stall and the City Inspectors Chased Me Down! 美食：摆摊卖饭，被城管狂追！ To bind himself to a System, Gu Ze emptied his savings to build a three-wheeled food cart and started selling meals on the street. His utterly ordinary egg fried rice drew countless customers. “Whoa, this is egg fried rice? It’s incredible!” “Another serving, to go!” “...” Business was so brisk that Gu Ze’s little food cart caught the attention of the city inspectors. They chased him relentlessly as soon as they spotted his cart! Gu Ze: “You’ve been chasing me for ten kilometers already. You’re —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Transmigrating to Another World: Winning Hearts with Ready-Made Meals 穿越异世：我用预制菜俘获人心 Modern chef Lu Nianyi transmigrates into a Western fantasy world as a poor girl named Eli, where she unexpectedly acquires a prepackaged-meal System. In a world overrun by monsters, she wields her spatula to satisfy mercenaries with prepackaged fish-fragrant shredded pork, soothe ghosts with frozen dumplings, and save adventuring parties with self-heating hot pot. While everyone else is hooked on the delicious food, only Eli knows her greatest torment: using the industrialized production she hat 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Tale of Eating Love 食爱物语 [Short stories + Episodic tales + No central plot + Urban romance + Food + Cozy healing + Blind dates + Sweet and angsty] People have all kinds of tastes in food. Some love hot pot, while others prefer desserts. Love stories have their ups and downs, too. Some find true love, while others meet scumbags. But who doesn’t find comfort in good food? And who wouldn’t want a good romance? Some love stories are like porridge, warm and delicate; some are like spicy hot pot, passionate and fiery. Here ar —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Whose Boss Sets Up a Little Stall and Takes It Nationwide? 谁家老板摆个小摊全国走 [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Funny and heartwarming] [One male lead] [System] [Perfect with a meal] Liu Nian unexpectedly bonded with a Gourmet System. Anything he made became a one-of-a-kind delicacy. Every week brought a random location, every month a random city, and with random dishes and different customers, each stop offered a brand-new treat for the taste buds. He sold stinky tofu outside a public restroom, fried skewers outside a gym, and buns outside a five-star hotel. Every 190Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Whole Universe Is Full of Customers Who Get Ripped Off at My Food Stall 全宇宙都是我美食摊的怨种顾客 [No romance + food + System] A breakfast shop outside the subway station, wafting with the aroma of tea eggs. In an office tower, a sip of invigorating herbal milk tea. On a desert oasis, succulent whole roast lamb. In a small town by the Hehuan Sect, a shop selling iced tea right next to the brothel. At the foot of Shifo Mountain, the rich aroma of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. As zombies surround the world in the apocalypse, the aroma of spicy hot pot tempts the living. At the top interstellar f 160Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Gourmet: Selling Breakfast at a Night Market Stall 美食：我在夜市摆摊卖早餐 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Everyday Life] [Comfort Food] [Business] What, you’re selling breakfast at a night market stall? And it’s actually this delicious? You’re selling breakfast? This is my dinner! Shen Yan was fired for entering the office with his left foot first. By chance, he unlocked the Gourmet System and started running a food stall, working his way toward becoming a master chef through the dishes he made. Add sea cucumber to fried rice, and abalone to instant noodles. The finer the 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Master Chef 金牌厨神 A genius chef returns to his hometown and happens to meet a girl with an eating disorder. Only he can satisfy her appetite... 322Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 17 If the Club Isn't X-Rated, Is It Doomed? I Made the Whole City Famous with My Cooking 会所不黄就黄？我靠美食火遍全城 2.5kReads6.0Score270Shelves
- 18 I'm the God of Cooking! My Food Takes the Nation by Storm! 我！厨艺界的神！全国风靡！ [Food + System + transmigration + cozy + everyday life + lighthearted comedy + perfect with a meal] Mi Tu transmigrated to a parallel world remarkably similar to Earth. But this world's food scene was woefully underdeveloped. What? The neighbors have never tried lemon-pepper pickled chicken feet? Coming right up. They've had fish-fragrant shredded pork, mapo tofu, and crispy sweet-and-sour pork, right? They haven't? Then I'll make those too. Surely you've at least had barbecue? Still no? Poor th 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 A Basket of Potatoes from the Start, and You Want Me to Open a Restaurant? 开局一筐土豆，让我开饭馆？ [Food] [System] [Healing] [Alternate World] [No Romance] [Congratulations, Host, you have successfully bound the Chef System. Now, please start cooking~] Xu Yuan somehow got bound to the Chef System, but all it provided was a basket of potatoes. What could she make with potatoes? Crispy and delicious hot-and-sour shredded potatoes, appetizing red-oil potato slices bursting with flavor, fragrant wolf-tooth potatoes... With these three potato dishes, she successfully opened a "Tasty Inn" in a myst 990Reads—Score158Shelves
- 20 The Imperial Chef's Comeback: Leading the Whole Town Out of Poverty! 御厨逆袭，带领全镇脱贫！ No female lead × food × imperial chef transmigrates × lighthearted healing A small-town chef’s comeback! The Bai Family Noodle Shop? It’s practically going bankrupt. What could be good about the food there? There are so many better things to eat! Then they take one bite. Oh my god, this is so good! That barbecue place only sells offal? It’s filthy and stinks. I’m not eating there! Then they turn around. “Boss, give me fifty more skewers!” Are these people crazy? Sitting in the sun eating hot pot 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Pingjiang Prefecture Food Journal 平江府美食日志 Upon waking, Ye Jing found herself transmigrated to Pingjiang Prefecture in the Great Song. Willow-lined banks and painted bridges, green curtains stirring in the breeze. She had hoped to take it easy, admire the scenery, and sample the local delicacies, but she didn’t have a penny to her name. So she had no choice but to open a shop, cook delicious food, and strive to be a model citizen. And maybe win herself a handsome husband along the way. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Reborn, I Build a Fortune Through Food 重生后我靠美食发家致富 Cheng Zhimai died young, then was reborn with the help of a System. Those who bullied him in his previous life will pay a thousand, no, ten thousand times over! Given a second chance, he gradually builds up his food business with the help of the System, ultimately making his way to wealth and prosperity! Family, friendship, and riches: he'll have them all! And his dear husband stays faithfully by his side. This is what it means to reach the pinnacle of life! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 I’m a Chef in the Underworld 我在地府当厨师 [Cozy] [Healing] [Whimsical] [Gourmet] [Good food and love are both too precious to neglect] To keep up with the times and make the underworld more humane, the authorities offer perks to both the ghosts already living there and the newly arrived. You Xia, a human with an official underworld position, can travel between the living world and the underworld. An exceptionally skilled cook, she is assigned to a restaurant where she’ll prepare one free meal for each ghost, on the condition that they t 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Selling Egg Fried Rice in a Public Restroom from the Start 开局厕所卖蛋炒饭 Book One is complete and safe to start reading. Book Two is in development. When Yang Lei was jolted awake by a voice, he was lying in his rented apartment, his phone showing 4 a.m. “Ding! The Master Chef Training System has been successfully bound.” Other systems give you divine ingredients and fortunes worth billions. His does only three things: assigns hellish tasks, hands out ridiculous traits, and picks the most inconvenient spots imaginable for his street stall. Like selling extra-spicy c 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Warmth of Everyday Life: My Healing Life 人间烟火味：我的治愈系人生 Food x everyday life: one dish in every chapter, and every dish delivers a tender blow. Introverted husband x fiery female reporter: no arguments, just meals, and an ordinary life that becomes poetry. The warmth of home cooking soothes the exhaustion and bustle of city life. A heartwarming, healing food-and-everyday-life story that comforts the stomach and the soul! A slow-paced, soothing read: no domineering CEO, just the warmth of everyday life. One female lead, one male lead, no bratty kids. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Last-Days Food Truck 末路美食车 [Apocalypse + Natural Disasters + System + Monsters + Food] The apocalypse struck without warning. Cities fell, animals mutated. Shh! Hide when night falls. They’re coming. A sudden mutation forced Qiao Xiaomai to separate from her parents. In a world overrun by monsters, she was overcome with despair until she unexpectedly gained an RV and help from the System. Traveling through the apocalypse in her RV, she sells delicious food while searching for her parents. See how Qiao Xiaomai carves out a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 After Reincarnating as a Poor Noble, I Conquer the World with Desserts 穿成穷鬼贵族后我用甜点封神 [Transmigration + System + strong heroine + building wealth + food + sweet romance] A Michelin-starred chef transmigrates into the body of a down-and-out noble buried in debt. Is the sky falling? Not a chance! She has a dessert magic System! One soufflé brings the icy Duke to tears, one macaron sends the nobles of the royal capital into a frenzy. She opens a chain of shops, saves up gold coins, and gathers a crew, using modern culinary know-how to build a top-tier dessert empire, one step at a t 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Reborn, I Really Just Want to Lie Flat 重生我真想躺平 Zhang Yu is reborn, but all she wants is to lie flat and be a slacker! Then her ideal is rosy, but reality is harsh! Her goal remains out of reach, so Zhang Yu keeps trying! (The female lead definitely won’t have a love interest. The other characters’ romantic storylines are still being planned, so I’m not sure yet.) (A slow-paced everyday-life story, not a power fantasy with a badass female lead. The protagonist isn’t a genius, and being reborn won’t turn her into one, so keep that in mind befo 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Midnight Fireworks 深夜烟火 Lin Fan is an ordinary young man who runs a cozy bookstore in the city. There’s tea and delicious food, and he tells every story with care. In the warmth of the late-night lights, may this little shop bring you comfort and warmth too. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Chinese Food Has Foreigners Drooling: I'm a Master Chef in Britain 中餐馋哭老外，我在英伦当厨神 [Food] [Everyday Life] [Comedy] [Perfect with a Meal] [Cozy and Comforting] Yan Yuan was about to graduate when his family suddenly fell on hard times, and his parents wouldn’t let him return home. After making a late-night snack for his landlord, he awakened the [Food Culture Conquest System]. From then on, foreign diners’ taste buds were in for a whole new level of Chinese cuisine. After tasting his century egg and pork congee, the landlord wept with emotion. “This black egg tastes like heaven 19Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 31 My Food Truck Is a Hit, and the City Inspectors Show Up Every Day! 餐车生意火爆，城管天天来报道！ [Gourmet]+ [Food Truck]+ [System]+ [Daily Life] Song Jie was saddled with a mountain of debt after his ex-girlfriend, who always put her younger brother first, set him up. In a fit of anger, he seized her younger brother's food truck. He had planned to sell boxed lunches part-time and shake off the label of being in debt as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, he accidentally activated the Gourmet System... Completing missions not only earns him ultimate recipes that captivate every palate, but also 51Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 32 How's Your Stomach Today? 今天你的胃还好吗？ Xu Nan runs a little shop in an old alley every day. Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, Xu Nan enjoys a peaceful, comfortable life with three meals a day. Is this the Back to Field lifestyle everyone longs for? Please give it lots of attention ^_^ 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 A Chef in Another World, a Hitman on the Side 人在异界当厨师，兼职却是杀手 [The Supernatural + Ghosts + System + Infinite Flow + Master Chef + Small but Sharp + A World of Everything] When Su Xiaobei woke up, he found he was no longer in his own room. He was standing in front of a shop. The sky was blood-red, as if someone had spilled paint across it. The sight was eerie and terrifying. “Well~ are you here to eat, or to apply for a job as a chef?” A clear, bright female voice rang out. A figure emerged from the shop, making Su Xiaobei shudder with terror until his legs 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 No More Hiding My Cooking Skills: The Chef Begins with Country Banquets 美食不装了厨神从农家乐席面开始 Luo Fan has just graduated from college when a sudden Gourmet System transforms his rustic banquet dishes into something extraordinary. What used to be simple country cooking becomes a culinary destination that diners clamor to visit. Steamed stinky tofu with minced meat: pungent yet fragrant, it leaves diners hooked after just one bite. Napa cabbage stewed with egg dumplings: its lingering flavor is like a taste of home. Rabbit in savory sauce and spicy diced pork are fragrant, tender, and deli 9Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 35 The City Gate Opens at Random, and People from Every Dynasty Are Drooling! 随机开启城门，历代古人馋哭了！ [Food + historical figures from every dynasty + no female lead + heartwarming + running a business + healing + everyday life] [Ding-dong! A city gate has been opened at random] [The gate to Han City, Class B, is now open] [Host, please hurry to Han City, Class B, to set up your stall] What does it feel like to wake up one morning and find you've got a golden finger? Qin Yu was stunned, because the System's first words were: You're dead. Then he found himself in a place called Elysium. Apparently 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Fired for Rejecting Premade Meals, I Become a Master Chef with the System 拒预制菜被开除，我靠系统成厨神 Chen Feng, head chef at a five-star hotel, is fired on the spot after standing up to his boss and refusing to use premade food! Who would’ve thought he’d be bound to a [Culinary Inheritance System], receive the Golden Egg Fried Rice recipe from the start, and take over a run-down 50-square-meter neighborhood shop? With his authentic, no-nonsense cooking, one bowl of fried rice brings the whole street to tears! No artificial tricks, just top-quality ingredients, from egg fried rice to Kung Pao ch 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 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
- 38 I’m a Chef, So What Use Is Immortality to Me? 我一厨师，长生不老有何用？ [Foodie Fiction + Daily Life + Immortality + Lighthearted + Low-Profile System] Yi Chen transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a spendthrift chef whose creditors are knocking at his door. All he wants is to make a living with his cooking, pay off his debts, open a little shop, and enjoy a peaceful life. But then... His dishes bring diners back to their warmest memories. His wine wins over a prince on the spot. A chef he casually offers guidance to becomes the personal disciple of the imperi 678Reads8.1Score109Shelves
- 39 Gourmet: I Asked You to Cook, Not Make the Scenic Spot Go Viral 美食：让你做饭，没让你带火景区 [Gourmet + Comfort Food to Watch Online + Inhumane System + Healing] [Comedy + Internet + Street Vending and Shopkeeping] Gao Ze transmigrates to a parallel world. With an unruly System in tow, he begins sharing delicious food at a tourist attraction. One night, the crispy, fragrant roujiamo leaves countless beauty influencers drooling, their eyes nearly welling with tears. The snacks he sells at his first street stall immediately win over parents, students, and teachers alike. No one can re 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 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
- 41 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
- 42 Gourmet: A Street Stall Owner Tours the Nation 美食：地摊老板，全国巡摆 Zhang Feng is a model young man who transmigrates to Blue Star in a parallel world and binds himself to a Gourmet System. From then on, a man as legendary as a myth begins appearing all across the country. Cumin lamb skewers, late-night egg fried rice, fragrant braised beef, crispy fried chicken frames... From big cities to small towns, a legend begins to spread: On some street, you may come across a man in a chef’s uniform. If you meet him, you’ll get to taste the most delicious food in the wor 70Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 43 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a Highway Rest Stop During Lunar New Year, I Bring Traffic to a Standstill 美食：春节服务区卖饭，高速堵疯 [Food + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] Gu Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Food System. At the start, he draws a location for his business, only to get a tiny highway service area! And the ridiculous task is to sell three hundred boxed meals in a single day? Just as Gu Rui is at his wits’ end, a male streamer shows up at the highway service area by chance. After one meal of dumplings, the streamer hugs him and keeps calling him “Mom”! Travel surges during the Spring 186Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 44 A World of Flavor 风味人间 Food is the main storyline, travel the side plot. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, there’s no face-slapping, and the tone is laid-back and slice-of-life. (He starts out alone and picks up friends along the way.) Xu Jinhuan is a skilled chef, with questionable manners, and the number-one slacker in the country. After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world and unlocking the Food System, Xu Jinhuan goes from a newly graduated aspiring chef to a creator of flavorful cuisine. His schedu 12Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 45 Gourmet: Setting Up a Stall with My Cat, I Have the Soldiers Chasing After Me 美食：带猫摆摊，引兵哥哥狂追 Lin Yan, unemployed the moment she graduates, unexpectedly gets a Gourmet System. Teaming up with an intelligent AI plush cat, she reaches the pinnacle of life by selling street snacks. Today, she sets up a stall outside an elementary school, drawing a swarm of students that packs the entrance. The security guard hastily puts up barricades, while the principal cries for help. Tomorrow, she sets up beside a light-rail station, attracting crowds of office workers on their way home. The traffic cop 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 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
- 47 From the Start, I Set Up a Food Stall, and My Customers Go Wild with Cravings 开局美食摆摊，顾客都馋疯啦 [Food Business] [Everyday Life] [Competitions] [System] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Yue unexpectedly gets bound to a food System. Not only does he inherit the original owner’s tricycle food stall, he also inherits a whole pile of problems. Then he takes a look at the original owner’s circumstances: born into debt, a family fallen on hard times, parents gone before he could repay their care... Great, so that’s how we’re playing it? Fortunately, the System thoughtfully gives him 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Head Chef in an Eagleland Prison: Inmates Beg for Longer Sentences 鹰酱监狱当主厨，犯人集体求加刑 [Gourmet] + [Comedy] + [No Female Lead] + [Perfect for Mealtime] + [Recipes] + [Don't Read Late at Night] After an accident, Li Xiang becomes the head chef at an Eagle Sauce prison and acquires the God of Cookery System. Inmates: “I don't want to stay in this dump another day! I'm breaking out!” “Exactly! They serve us food even dogs wouldn't eat! This bread's hard enough to use as a brick!” Then Li Xiang arrives... “My God, this is so delicious! I don't want to leave! I want to spend the rest o 20Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 49 Selling Lunchboxes at the Cemetery, With Customers Chasing Me for a Meal 墓地摆摊卖盒饭，食客追着我干饭 [Gourmet + everyday life + healing + comfort food + no romance + random street-food stalls + System + urban fantasy] The restaurant went under, the owner ran off, and my job fell through. Then a Gourmet System came out of nowhere, giving me a random location and random dishes each week, along with quests, rewards, and all kinds of customers. Rice bowls topped with meat at a cemetery stall, fried braised jelly at a trendy morning market. Fried skewers delivered outside a gym, grilled chicken legs —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 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
