Novels like After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Open a Cafeteria in the Cultivation World
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- 101 Giant River Crabs Are Taking Over? I’ll Eat Them Until They’re Protected 大闸蟹泛滥？我给吃成保护动物 [Gourmet] [Comedy] [No romance] [Heartwarming] [Everyday life] [Perfect mealtime reading] That year, an invasive species crisis struck the United States. All kinds of plants and animals multiplied out of control: mitten crabs and crayfish took over school campuses; locusts and cicadas caused massive natural disasters on farms; cunning wild rabbits and boars ravaged the crops before running off; and wild mushrooms grew rampant across the hillsides... The Americans tried every solution they coul 640Reads7.3Score119Shelves
- 102 A Food Blogger Transmigrates Into a Book Set in the Republic of China and Just Wants to Make Money 美食博主穿书民国只想搞钱 Food + Baking + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket Dimension + No Romance Food blogger Jiang Hongyao transmigrates into a book, becoming Jiang Hongyao, a minor character who serves as a casualty in the romance between the leads in the novel A Lady of the Republic. She's not the second female lead or the third. She doesn't even qualify as the fourth. She's just a passerby with barely any lines, the kind who doesn't even get an ending. Since she's here, there's no going back. At least the spacious 1.7kReads8.6Score174Shelves
- 103 Gourmet: My Late-Night Diner Might Not Be Entirely Scientific 美食：我的深夜食堂可能不太科学 [Food + System + entertainment industry + lighthearted daily life] If someone asked where an unconventional late-night diner came from, Luo Jia would tell them it all started with him standing up for the people and beating up a mage whose ritual was disturbing the neighborhood. He knew because he had experienced it himself. Thanks to the immense merit he earned by sacrificing the mage from the start, Luo Jia got a System and embarked on the path to becoming a God of Cooking. He moved to a film s 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Cooking Up a Storm in the 1980s, My Kids Are Drooling 八零年代做美食，家里小孩馋哭了 [Everyday family life, told at an unhurried pace] Yao Jiang's consciousness inhabits the body of a chef in another world. After learning a wealth of skills, she returns to the 1980s, with a culinary pocket dimension thrown in as a bonus. She opens a steamed bun shop and raises a well-behaved child. All in all, life gives her plenty to look forward to. 424Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 The Super Food God Tycoon 超级食神大亨 Yang Song happens upon the Chef God System. With nothing but a secondhand food cart selling grilled gluten skewers, he steadily climbs to the peak of success. The richest man's son works for him as a waiter, goddesses throw themselves at him to help run his shop, and top female students from campus come to peel potatoes for him... A beautiful TV reporter asks in an interview, "I hear lots of celebrities come to dine at Baifeng Pavilion. Do they have to wait in line too?" Yang Song replies calmly 224Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 106 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
- 107 Interstellar Street Stall! Sis Song, Could You Stop Running Off? 星际摆摊！宋姐，咱能不能别乱跑 The rating just came out, so it'll go up! [Interstellar + food + System + one heroine + no male lead + no CP + lighthearted + everyday life + comedy + perfect mealtime reading] After Song Quan died from overwork, she found herself in an interstellar age proudly known as a “culinary wasteland.” [You have successfully linked to the God of Cooking Lottery System!] All she had to do was collect customers' mood points to unlock new recipes and street-stall locations. Mood points could also be used fo 10.7kReads7.1Score1.6kShelves
- 108 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 31Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 109 I Returned to College and Used a Gourmet System to Make the Whole Campus Drool 重回大学靠美食系统馋哭全校学生 [System] [Food] [Rebirth] [Business] [Comedy] [Slice of Life] Reborn in her freshman year of college and bound to a Food System, Shi Sui uses her secret seasonings to make delicious, aromatic healthy meals in her dorm, driving her dieting roommates wild with hunger. The aroma wafts everywhere, and the whole campus comes rushing over. The calorie-conscious eaters are thrilled, students studying for exams feel fully recharged, and one bite soothes the heartbreak of a lovesick upperclasswoman. Even 906Reads—Score111Shelves
- 110 A Feast for the Senses: The First-Class Chef 食色生香，一品美味小厨娘 She transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a fat, ugly farm wife, hated by everyone in the village, even the dogs. Her husband is incredibly handsome, but they have nothing to their name, no money or food, and they’re bullied by all sorts of awful relatives. Liang Shiqi does the math and can’t help feeling she got the short end of the stick. At least her parents-in-law are reasonable, and her little brother-in-law is sweet and adorable. So be it! She has her cooking skills to rely on, and wi 52Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 111 The Restaurant Survival Guide: Cooking and Gossiping, All in a Day’s Work 食肆生存法则，做饭吃瓜两不误 [Shopkeeping + food + mystery-solving + farming] Overnight, food lover An Qiao transmigrates into the imperial palace as a cook. After leaving the palace, all she wants is to build a career: create the first chain of restaurants and bring delicious food to every corner of the country. Who could have guessed?! The eatery she buys at the start is right next to the Court of Judicial Review. Qi Ning'an gets dragged into one case after another, and the restaurant becomes the place to go for all the l 615Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 112 Gourmet: Renting a Private Jet Just to Eat a Boxed Lunch? 美食：为了吃盒饭，开私人飞机？ Just as Yu Hui loses his job, he learns that a scenic spot in his hometown is looking for vendors. Without hesitation, he decides to go home and set up a stall selling delicious food. On the way home, he unexpectedly activates the Gourmet System. From then on, his cooking skills improve by leaps and bounds, and he can whip up all kinds of delicious dishes with ease. Braised chicken: tender and silky, richly flavored, with an irresistible aroma. Tomato and egg stir-fry: sweet and tangy, soft an 81Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 113 The Gourmet Blind Box Is Wild: The Host Draws, Then the Customers Do 美食盲盒有点疯，宿主抽完顾客抽 [Gourmet + No CP + Perfect With a Meal + Cozy + Street Stalls + Comedy + Career-Focused] After being reborn in a parallel world, Qin Yi arrives in Rainbow City. She binds to a Gourmet blind-box street-stall System. At first, the location, time, and tasks are all randomly drawn. Later, even the food comes in blind boxes. From bowls of late-night rice noodles for 50 yuan to floral cake rolls for 200 yuan. From all kinds of little meatballs to a blind-box lunchbox truck with a thousand different di 530Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 114 Gourmet: I Take Over the Cafeteria, and Tsinghua and Peking University Fight Like Crazy to Hire Me 美食：承包食堂，清北抢我抢疯了 [Gourmet, comedy, no romance, lighthearted, everyday life, recipes, tutorials] P.S. I'll use my ten years of experience as a chef to show you all the wonders of food. This is pure fiction. Please don't take it as reality! After transmigrating to a parallel world, Yang Yi awakened a Gourmet System. His mission was to take over a college cafeteria. From then on, the students of Qingbei began battling over him. Even the senior administrators of both universities got involved! Huaqing student: “Stud 414Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 115 EN Diners Say I’m a Show-Off, but They Still Devour My Food 食客说我装逼犯，但是还嗷嗷干饭 [Transmigration + Urban Life + System + Food + No Romance + Showing Off] “I can't help it. I don't want to, either, but as the God of Cooking, I've got to show off!” After transmigrating to a parallel world, Shen Chuan binds himself to the God of Cooking System, gaining the ability to create every delicacy imaginable. Just thinking about using his culinary skills to reach the pinnacle of success and earn everyone's admiration, with diners clamoring for a taste, is enough to make him blush! But h 25.4kReads8.8Score2.3kShelves
- 116 The Beloved of the Family in the 1980s: I Open a Shop with My Family and Make Everyone Drool 八零团宠：带全家开店馋哭天下人 (Period setting + System + gourmet food + rich beauty + transmigrate) The original owner was the youngest daughter, adored by her entire family. After transmigrating, Song Mengying gets the God of Cooking System. Though she has never cooked in her life, this complete novice starts by steaming buns. Then she and her family sell food from a handcart, steadily making their way toward prosperity, one step at a time. Huh? How did I get so strong? Huh? Why do I have so much more energy? Good heavens, 128Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 117 The Little Chef of Judge Shen's Household 沈提刑家的小厨娘 Fresh crucian carp sliced thin, celery soup from the emerald stream. A breeze brushes the willows, and a beauty... can lift a mountain with a mighty roar! Everyone knows that Miss Meng of the inn is as beautiful as a flower and a wonderful cook, but no one knows she can lift a giant vat with one hand or bend down and pull up a willow tree. Passing by, Judge Shen: Excuse me! * I love you, my lord. Do you know? The audacious Meng Sujin pounced on Shen Shinian, the judicial commissioner of the Cour 686Reads7.2Score124Shelves
- 118 The Apocalypse's Number One Food Stall: Stall Owner, Don't Run! 末世第一美食摊，摊主你别跑 [System + Post-Apocalypse + Food + Street Stall Business + No Romance + Lighthearted Healing] It's the tenth year of the apocalypse. Natural disasters strike one after another: extreme cold, extreme heat, and constant flooding. Crops are hard to grow, and plants and animals are mutating all over the place. Then, a food stall suddenly appears outside Nanyang Base. The owner is a pretty young woman who pedals a beat-up tricycle and sells all kinds of delicious food. Mutated wild boars are useful f 501Reads8.2Score104Shelves
- 119 I Opened a Food Shop in Bianjing 我在汴京开食铺 Su Tang opens an eatery on Majia Street in Bianjing. Every day, she's either experimenting with new dishes or going out to visit friends. In autumn, there's tea brewed over a brazier, osmanthus sweet-bean paste dumplings, and roasted milk tea with osmanthus honey dumplings. In winter, there's plum-blossom soup noodles, plum-blossom honey, boiled meat and vegetables, and candied hawthorn skewers. In spring, there's osmanthus cake, spring platters, wontons with bamboo shoots and bracken, green ric 736Reads—Score101Shelves
- 120 Stacking Every Buff at My Food Stall Across the Ten Thousand Worlds 万界美食摊buff叠满 What’s it like to become unemployed and immediately get a System? In just one month, Yue Yue goes from jobless to a millionaire worth tens of millions. Her family goes from poverty to living in a villa with all their needs taken care of, becoming a newly risen elite family in everyone’s eyes. The one thing she never expected was to draw a chance to set up a stall in other worlds. And later on, the food even comes with buffs!!! Selling stinky tofu that boosts cultivation in a world of immortal cu 11Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 121 Bound to a Gourmet System, I Become the God of Food by Opening a Restaurant 绑定美食系统，我靠开店成食神 The rating just came out! Feel free to start reading~ (Food + no romance + System + lighthearted comedy + everyday healing) Boss Xie will never get a partner!! Your System and my System don’t seem to be the same~ Other people’s food Systems: max level with one click, instant culinary godhood, become the God of Food without lifting a finger! Xie Yan’s food System: start from scratch and unlock things one step at a time. Xie Yan spread his hands. It’s fine, it’s fine. Having one is better than hav 24kReads8.1Score2.2kShelves
- 122 Max-Level Kid, Reborn as the Night Market Food King 满级小孩哥，重生夜市美食之王 "Food + System + Cooking with Sincerity + No Romance + Family Bonds + Healing" Zhou Qi, one of Huaxia's top chefs, was hit by a speeding truck the day before competing in the World Chef Championship. Just like that, he transmigrated into the body of an eight-year-old boy named Zhou Qi. With no other way to make ends meet, Zhou Qi joined his adoptive father in setting up a stall at the night market. And then... Passerby: “Whoa! What smells so amazing?” Campus beauty: “Little bro! How am I suppose 445Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 123 Gourmet: The School Chef Parents Never Want to Leave 美食：在小学当大厨，家长不愿走 [Stop nitpicking, everyone here is just a tool] [No romance] [Heartwarming] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Chen binds himself to the [Culinary Excellence System]. Every time he makes a delicious dish, he unlocks a new recipe, so he decides to become the head chef at an elementary school. He cooks one limited-edition dish after another, and the kids aren’t happy about it. “This big brother’s food is so good, I’d marry my big sister off to you!” “...” “Wow, it really is delicious~” 725Reads6.1Score102Shelves
- 124 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
- 125 Stop Yelling! Keep It Up and I'll Eat Your Food Cart Too! 别骂了，再骂连摊车都给你吃了！ [Gourmet]+ [Daily Life]+ [Comedy]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Comfort Food]+ [Feel-Good] Qin Zihan transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a Gourmet System full of hostility. As long as he completes food-selling missions, he earns rewards, and the worse his service, the better the rewards. He sets up a malatang stall next to a hotpot restaurant at the bottom of the sea. “Hey! You there, don’t cut in line. Can’t you have a little damn decency?!” “Buying that much? Couldn’t you leave s 609Reads8.4Score105Shelves
- 126 I Make Chili Pork, and the Big Shots of the Stars Are Drooling? 我做个辣椒炒肉，星际大佬都馋哭了？ [System + food + livestreaming + transmigration] Lin Yao never imagined she would end up in the interstellar era, owing tens of millions... She started livestreaming her cooking just to put food on the table. Who could have guessed that culinary arts had been lost in this world, and ingredients had mutated? Even a single cabbage could be deadly... But that was no problem! She served up all eight major Chinese cuisines, and her food therapy reached every corner of the universe... Before she knew 147Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 127 Goodbye, I'm Going Home to Run a Stall 拜拜了您，我回家摆摊了 [Gourmet + Slice of Life + No Romance + Heartwarming] Shen Huan was an ordinary office worker. The company was rife with cutthroat competition, and her direct boss kept making things difficult for her. After working diligently overtime for half a year, she'd finally had enough of his torment and quit. Who cared about this lousy job? In a fit of anger, Shen Huan quit without another job lined up, packed her things, and went back to her hometown. When she decided to start a street food stall, she 3.3kReads8.6Score242Shelves
- 128 Gourmet: The Dining Spot Changes at Random, and Diners Go Wild Looking for It 美食：随机地点，食客们找疯了 [Gourmet]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Funny]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Heartwarming] In her previous life, Su Qing owned shops and was content to lie flat. Then she woke up in a parallel world and found herself bound to a [Random Street Food System]. “I just want to lie flat!” Su Qing wailed. In the CBD late at night, the aroma was irresistible! Zhang Wei, an overworked office worker, exclaimed, “Holy crap! This oden broth is so delicious my tongue is practically melting! Boss, give me three more!” Designer Li L 353Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 129 The True Heiress, Cast Aside as Cannon Fodder, Makes a Fortune Selling Snacks to Raise Her Child 炮灰真千金，摆摊养崽赚千金 [Gourmet] [Raising Kids] [Making Money] The very moment Xia An'an is basking in the joy of having transmigrated, her wealthy family kicks her out. With no choice but to make a living, she starts a street food stall. Scallion pancakes, cold noodles, and grilled skewers: delicious and filling! 295Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 130 The Imperial Kitchen Maid Comes to the Modern World: A Small Shop's Rise 御膳厨娘闯现代：小店逆袭记 [Gourmet business + cozy everyday life + ancient times to modern day] Please note: This is a fictional setting and includes many original worldbuilding details. In a single twist of fate, Su Tang goes from being the star chef of the Imperial Kitchen to a woman with nothing: her father is dead, her mother is gone, her boyfriend has cheated, and she’s lost her job! Even worse, her two younger siblings have been tormented by cruel relatives until they’re skin and bones! Everyone is waiting to see 411Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 131 I Sell Bento Boxes in the Cultivation World 我在修真界卖盒饭 (One-on-one romance + absurd comedy + System + food + trash-talk champion) Zhang Jiuqiu accidentally transmigrated into the role of a vicious female antagonist and got bound to a diss System that let her diss anyone she couldn’t stand. From then on, Zhang Jiuqiu’s name spread far and wide, and she became the foulest-mouthed person in the cultivation world. After eating the meal her senior brother cooked, Zhang Jiuqiu’s cultivation level dropped. Zhang Jiuqiu: “What the hell is this? Even my dog 174Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 132 Guizhou Cuisine, Making Him Lose His Cool 黔味厨娘，勾他破防 "Craving Her: The Cold-Faced Imperial Guard Wants Cuddles" Transmigrate into a book with a Guizhou cuisine space. Good news: Bai Tingyu, the family's savior, has happened to contract the "food-aversion Gu," and Guizhou cuisine is its natural enemy. Bad news: The space is a "money pit." Every time someone infected with the Gu eats food from her space, half her family's money vanishes. The urgent task: repay the favor, run away, and get rich. But after tasting her spicy, crispy potato cakes, he tu 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a KTV? I'm Actually Very Serious 美食：ktv卖饭？我真的很正经 [Food + everyday life + entertainment + comedy!] Jiang Feng transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes a cook in a KTV kitchen and awakens the God of Cooking System! While other KTVs are busy coming up with discount packages, his place starts selling meals instead. “Hello, boss. This is our KTV's new specialty service: a platter of braised meats.” “What? Your KTV doesn't offer anything naughty, and you sell food?” “Holy crap, this braised meat is freaking incredible! Quick, bring me ten 31Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 134 Gourmet: Touring the City with My Food Stall, Making Diners Drool 美食：全市巡摆，馋哭食客 [Gourmet + System + No Romance + No Female Lead + Heartwarming + Hard Work] Yan Qing, a minor actor who had spent his career playing corpses, quit the entertainment industry. To his surprise, he accidentally became bound to a Chef God Gourmet System. Before long, strange sights began appearing all over the streets of S City: the CBD, university gates, outside the film studio, by the cemetery... The lines stretched as far as the eye could see... A top star became his loyal customer and shamelessl 10.1kReads7.5Score793Shelves
- 135 The Foodie Heir and His Charming Chef 吃货世子俏厨娘 Her parents are both dead, and she has only two old servants by her side. Their money is stolen and their house is burned down. Where can they go from here? It's time to unleash her inner power! Watch her gather herbs in the mountains and turn junk into treasure, then fish in the river and enjoy a bountiful harvest year after year. Others keep cats, but she keeps a leopard. Watch her adorable pets cause a stir in the capital: Some glutton: “Fat cat! Put down that piece of meat. It's mine!” The l 349Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 136 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
- 137 When It Comes to Noodles, I'm the Best in the Country 论做面，我全国最强 [Food] Yu Shaoxian inherited his family's noodle shop. Looking at the shabby, 90-square-meter old shop in front of him, he listened to the System announce his task, eager to give it a try. “Host, your task is to make countless dishes using noodles as the main ingredient.” “Complete the task, and you'll receive a cash reward of 300 million.” “The reward will be delivered in the form of lottery winnings.” “Ding! Your beginner's gift pack has arrived.” “Congratulations, Host! You've received unlimi 1.2kReads8.0Score213Shelves
- 138 A Fridge Connecting Past and Present Makes a Family of Three Rich 冰箱通古今，一家三口齐暴富 The rating has only just opened, but it’ll rise later, so enjoy with confidence. [Past and Present Connected + Good Food + Lighthearted + Business and Fortune-Building + Wish Fulfillment + Sweet Romance] In the little town of Hongfu stands an ancient bridge with a long history: Hongfu Bridge. Hong Molih’s ancestors have a two-hundred-square-meter ancestral home on the far side of the bridge. After living in the old town all their lives, the older generation wants a change of scenery, so they han 71Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 139 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
- 140 If You Meet a New Oriental Chef, You'd Better Get on Your Knees! 遇到新东方的厨子，你就跪了吧！ [Spiritual Qi Revival + Traveling Frog + Everyone Misreads the Situation + Food] [A slow-burn, slice-of-life story focused on fun.] A thousand years after the spiritual qi revival, almost everyone can cultivate. One of the rare ordinary people who can’t, Su Mingge can only make a living by running a small restaurant in the slums. To save up for a kitchen renovation, he enters a livestream talent competition. Show off a talent? I’ll fry an egg for everyone! Someone wants to challenge me? Beho 222Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 141 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
- 142 My Ancestor Is a Pot 我的祖宗是口锅 Xu Jingqing accidentally awakened the spirit of an ancestor who had been sleeping inside the family heirloom, an iron wok. Under the old ancestor's “loving” tutelage, Xu Jingqing honed extraordinary cooking skills and opened a humble little eatery. At first, people were skeptical of a restaurant run by a college girl who had never lifted a finger around the house. Then came the verdict: “It's so good!” “Mom, I want to eat big sister's cooking every day.” “What smells so good in the middle of the 414Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 143 I'm a Chef, So Isn't It Only Natural to Carry a Cleaver? 身为厨师，身上带把菜刀很合理吧 Jiang Han spent eleven years cooking in prison. There, he received a mysterious inheritance and learned 108 lost recipes. After his release, he searched high and low for work to make a living, only to be turned away at every turn. If the world wouldn’t give him a way to survive, he’d make one for himself. One long-lost, legendary dish after another returned to the world under his hands. When Jiang Han went deep into the mountains to capture a dragon and into the depths of the sea to hunt a whale 625Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 144 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
- 145 Every Day Is a Fine Day at the Tea Garden 茶园日日是好时 Su Nian is already 30. After struggling her way to a sales representative position at a major company, she earns a million yuan a year and appears to outsiders to be a glamorous city woman. In the sweltering summer heat of Shanghai, the greater pressure that comes with her promotion leads to a conflict with headquarters. She resigns, swiftly completes the paperwork and handover, then returns to Chayuan Village with her two cats. Her hometown is a place she remembers from when she was very litt 1kReads8.4Score129Shelves
- 146 The Snow-Hidden Road Home 雪隐归途 In the winter of Yongchang’s seventeenth year, an accusation of treason reduced the illustrious General Zhenyuan’s household to ashes in an instant. Zhao Xuening, the general’s only child, became the center of her family’s swirling intrigues on the eve of disaster. She watched with her own eyes as her grandmother, who usually spent her days praying and abstaining from meat, contorted her face and clutched her mother by the throat, demanding some “thing” Zhao Xuening knew nothing about. She also 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 My Whole Family Cooks in a Giant Pot and Goes Viral in the Western Han 我全家炒大锅饭，爆红西汉 [The whole family transmigrates + ordinary people + food and business + everyday family life + an alternate Western Han dynasty] The rating was just posted, so it’s a little low right now~ No contrived drama, and there’s a romantic pairing (the male lead barely appears, so feel free to ignore him; the heroine and her family are focused on building their business). A slice-of-life tale about ordinary people in a frontier town. The three members of the Lin family, village-feast chefs, transmigrate 2kReads8.4Score268Shelves
- 148 First, a Bowl of Lychee Cream 先来一碗荔枝膏 [Transmigrate + build wealth + imperial exams + everyday life + career-focused] [A slow, steady story. There are bad people now and then, but no cartoonishly awful villains.] Lin Qishu, founder of a modern Chinese tea-drink brand, transmigrated to the Great Liang dynasty after being targeted by online harassment. The moment she opened her eyes, she found herself orphaned and responsible for raising her younger brother. To make matters worse, unscrupulous competitors were watching her, ready to f 2.6kReads8.2Score405Shelves
- 149 After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Make a Comeback by Selling Lunch Boxes 穿书后我靠卖盒饭逆袭 [Gourmet] [A Love That Goes Both Ways] [Sweet Romance] Su Tian transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious older sister who meets a tragic end. She immediately decides to treasure her life and stay out of trouble. Why not sell boxed meals and enjoy her own little life? Except... Why does the original male lead’s uncle keep hanging around her? One day, Uncle Huo gives Su Tian a handbag, only to discover it listed on a secondhand marketplace app moments later. Uncle Huo: Care to explain? S 337Reads7.5Score103Shelves
- 150 My Lady Is Hard to Please: Stop Acting Up, You Mad Warlord 夫人难哄，疯批督军你别作 Jiang Ning is the young proprietress of Yixin Restaurant. Her cooking skills are extraordinary, and she herself is even more delicious-looking than the food she makes. The moment Commander Lu lays eyes on her, he decides to claim her as his wife, even though she's engaged to someone else. He says, “Be with me, and you'll have everything.” Then he adds, “If you refuse, you'll have nothing.” She still slaps him across the face again and again, mocks his manly pride with cold words, and even presse 339Reads6.9Score—Shelves
