Novels like Tell Me, Why Is Northeastern Chinese Food So Good?
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- 151 I Opened a Restaurant in the Warring States Period 我在战国开食肆 [Female-oriented + no romance + farming + business management + food + history] Bound to a System while playing a business management game? Jiang Fu stares at the dilapidated house and the System interface in front of her, completely dumbfounded. But the System says that if she opens eateries and builds a reputation, she'll get a ten-billion-yuan cash prize and a time-travel ticket home once she completes the achievements. Wow! At this time, Qin Shi Huang is still a hostage in Zhao, the smoke of 5.7kReads8.2Score73514d adds
- 152 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. 554Reads—Score10214d adds
- 153 Bound to a Food System, My Little Shop Is Packed Every Day 绑定美食系统，我的小店天天爆满 [No CP + daily life + food + opening a shop + street vending + entirely handmade, no AI] After binding to a System, Peng Jie hopes to get rich by cooking and reach the pinnacle of life. But it turns out every dish he’s rewarded with must be practiced, and his cooking mentor is a senior administrator at KK Park. Every time he receives a new dish, he’s bound to get electrocuted. After making the whole street a hit, his greedy landlord raises the rent and forces him to leave South Street. Back in h 22kReads8.1Score1.8k14d adds
- 154 I Woke Up to Find I'd Inherited a Hot Pot Restaurant 一觉醒来，我继承了一家火锅店 Yu Wan, who has traveled through countless worlds, is finally ready to enjoy a quiet retirement. To make sure she can eat hot pot every day, she inherits a hot pot restaurant. But... She only came here for a vacation, so why has she somehow become the richest person in the world? In a TV interview: Reporter: How did you become such a tycoon? Yu Wan: Honestly, I really just wanted to open a shop at first~ [Strong female lead, no romance. Maybe multiple love interests, too. Who can say?] 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Reborn: Returning to the Village with My Kids to Farm 重生之带娃回村种田 [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + food + transmigration + pocket dimension + adorable kids] My name is Lin Yaoyao. My parents named me Yaoyao because I was a girl, and they hoped I would die young. Under the weight of my parents’ vile hopes, I grew up, got married, and had a daughter. Before marriage, everyone praised my husband as a good man. Afterward, he cheated, drank, and beat me. I fell asleep holding my child and woke up in an ancient village, in the body of a peasant woman from Xia 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 A Widow’s Busy Night-Market Food Stall in Bianjing, and She Won’t Remarry 深夜食摊搞钱忙，汴京寡妇不嫁人 Reader’s guide: [ensemble cast + food business + heartwarming everyday life of ordinary people + no romance + fictional Northern Song setting] Wang Chunhua and Zhang Taonian were “mortal enemies” at the same company, bickering every day. After an accident, the two find themselves in Bianjing, the Northern Song capital, a thousand years in the past. And they become sisters-in-law in a family of street vendors at Zhouqiao Night Market!? The original family was devastated by swine fever. All the me 6.7kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 157 Canceled After Becoming a Villainess, I Set Up a Food Stall and Make the Whole Internet Drool 穿成恶女被封杀，摆摊馋疯全网 [Food System + Lighthearted Comedy + Cozy + Heartwarming + Transmigration into a Food Story + Functional Ingredients + Comfort Food + Beautifully Plated Dishes + Romance] The male lead is more of a background character, just one part of our heroine’s play~~ (*^3^) /~☆ Transmigrated into a disgraced, scandal-ridden nobody, with her role stolen, her contract locking her in, and the entire internet telling her to get lost? Jiang Li tears up her contract and makes a run for it on the spot: “Let the 285Reads5.6Score10014d adds
- 158 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 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Unemployed? The Gourmet System Takes Me Straight to the Top 失业？美食系统直接带我飞 [Gourmet System + Golden Finger + Ordinary Person Quietly Making a Fortune + No Romance] Li Beibei is an utterly ordinary university student, and her transition from graduation straight to unemployment goes perfectly smoothly. After yet another failed job application, Beibei gets on her knees and begs every god in sight to grant her a job. She knocks her head so hard that, with a clang, heaven drops a Gourmet System and a small, upgradable shop into her lap. Before she can even celebrate, she di 98Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Reborn as a Market Town Girl, I Open a Shop and Make a Fortune 穿成市井小娘子开店发家记 [Humble Life + Time Travel + Food + Opening a Shop + Power Fantasy + Lighthearted] Set in an imaginary dynasty, so don’t worry about historical accuracy. Food takes center stage, with the plot playing a supporting role. The story is cozy and mellow throughout, with no dramatic ups and downs. It’s about everyday life and making a better living. The plot and characters are fairly ordinary, so it’s a good read when you’re bored. In her previous life, Jiang Yao lived alone through five years of the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Shen Family Cookbook 沈氏食经 Through the lens of food, we observe the myriad aspects of society and the twists and turns of life. Every dish is more than a culinary craft: it is human connection, memory, and a philosophy for living. Follow Shen Yan through his many experiences as he rises from poverty to become a renowned master chef. 1.1kReads7.1Score14414d adds
- 162 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—14d adds
- 163 I'm Just a Cook! I Can't Heal the Sick and Save the Nation! 我就是个厨子啊，不会治病救国！ Zhang Weiguo, a chef at a five-star hotel, gets fired. Before he can catch his breath, he finds himself in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When you have a skill to fall back on, there’s nothing to be afraid of. The little beggar he saved turns out to be the young son who went missing from the Grand Tutor’s family two years ago? So I’m the one who saved both siblings? What, you’re saying the emperor came by yesterday to eat pork trotter rice? Zhang Weiguo promptly faints. Ever since he tried my cook 43Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 164 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 131Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 165 A Chinese Cuisine Chef Takes on a Handsome Mixed-Race Pastry Chef 中餐女厨师对上混血美男甜点师 In 2060, Li Ke'er, the eldest daughter of the head of Yunhelou, the leading inheritor of Sichuan cuisine in Huaxia, is sent abroad! All the way to France, thousands of miles away! The tabloids write, “Heiress of a listed restaurant group driven out in a power struggle.” Nono! The truth is that the girl is too fiery and too talented. She's mastered all eight great culinary traditions. Today she'll trade eighty-year-old Maotai for an heirloom recipe; tomorrow she'll challenge someone to a cooking 73Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 166 Milk Tea in One Hand, Fried Chicken in the Other: The Princess Travels Between Past and Present 左奶茶右炸鸡公主她穿古今 [Food + master chef + System + lighthearted everyday life + comedy + perfect mealtime reading + pocket dimension + traveling back and forth] Lin You, the most outstanding master chef of the twenty-first century, accidentally transmigrated into an ancient era and became a useless princess mocked by the entire court. Lin You turned and smiled. “Bring me everything: luosifen, fried chicken, milk tea, and all eight great cuisines!” Her casual braised pork filled the entire palace with its aroma. The 132Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 My Stall Is Full the Moment I Open! Do You Know How Hard This Is? 刚出摊就客满，知道我有多苦吗？ [Comfort-Food Cuisine] [Delicate Writing] [Easygoing Daily Life] [Warm and Healing] After being reborn, Su Yu unexpectedly binds himself to the Ultimate Gourmet System. Egg fried rice: golden in color, with every grain distinct. One bite and you can't stop! Braised chicken: tender, juicy meat with layers of flavor. The sauce gushes out with the slightest bite! Chili oil noodles: chewy noodles that sizzle with heat, spicy and fragrant, with a lingering aftertaste! Every dish is top-notch, leaving 73Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 168 The Charming ’80s Chef: From the Start, I Cut Ties and Set Up a Street Stall 八零俏厨娘：开局断亲摆摊忙 [Period Setting + System + Delicious Food + Entrepreneurship + Taking Down Scumbags] When she opens her eyes, a state banquet chef has become Shen Jingshu, a young factory worker in the 1980s. Her own mother wants to sell her off in exchange for her brother’s iron rice bowl, while her younger brother scolds her: “You should be sacrificing yourself for the family.” Shen Jingshu calmly serves up a bowl of plain noodles, makes the whole family drool, then slaps down her ledger. “You raised me for t 99Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 I Used My Divorce Settlement to Open a Mushroom Hot Pot Restaurant 拿着和离费我开了家菌子火锅 [Transmigrate into a game + food + both leads are each other's first + sweet romance + System] Xiao Ling, a twenty-eight-year-old who's never been in a relationship, encounters No. 000, a female-oriented romance game System from the game Radiant Light. She gets to experience a real-life transmigration game. Starting out in the prince's manor, she earns enough silver to leave with a thousand taels and return to the countryside, where she builds a home of her own. The story is set in an alternate —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 The Chief Minister's Darling Wife: I Run a Country Feast in the Ancient Countryside 首辅娇娘：我在古代农村烧大席 [Banquet Cooking + Farming + Business + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance] Tang Yuanyuan, from a family of master chefs, wakes up in the body of a farm girl in Great Zhou, only to have her engagement broken off from the start! Her father is sickly, her family is poor, and when they run out of grain, they eat bran. The whole family scrimps and saves, going hungry one day and eating their fill the next, just to pay their taxes. How are they supposed to get through these hard times? They’ll get through 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 An Eighties Military Marriage: From Socially Anxious to Social Butterfly 八零军婚，社恐爆改社牛的日常 Chang Xin, a modern-day overworked wage slave, wakes up in the 1980s as Chang Xin, a shy bookworm. She’s got herself a child and becomes a mom without the pain... The System requires her to talk in order to earn points. She chats about gossip and daily life, rediscovering her long-buried desire to share. Before she knows it, the people around her have grown more and more fond of her. After she takes her child back to the countryside, her inner anxiety finally fades away. Work from sunrise to sun 51Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 I Went Home for New Year and Took Charge of the Cooking, Now My Relatives Won't Leave! 过年回家掌厨，亲戚赖着不走了！ [Food + Mouthwatering + Makes You Drool + No Romance + Cozy Daily Life + Comedy] As soon as final exams ended, Chen Zhuo unexpectedly bound himself to a Setting-Based Food System. By loading different everyday-life settings, he could gain the cooking skills associated with them. On his first day back home, he loaded the “Spring Festival” setting. Cured meat, cured fish, and sausages were just the appetizers. Under his hands, fish cakes, fish balls, meatballs, lotus-root sandwiches, spring rolls, 860Reads6.4Score10014d adds
- 173 You're the God of Food, Yet You Want Me to Cook a Banquet? 身为食神，你居然让我做大席？ Countryside + Gourmet + Heartwarming. The simple comforts of everyday life are what soothe the human heart. Chu Ci is reborn in a rural village in a parallel world and unexpectedly obtains the God of Food System. But the very first task the System gives him is to cook a feast for a crowd? But I don’t know how! Yet, looking at the kind, honest smiles of his family back home, Chu Ci has no choice but to take the job. Light the stove and get the dishes moving! Turns out, cooking a feast like this i 326Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 174 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 3.5kReads8.1Score31614d adds
- 175 The Taste of Life, All These Years (Complete in 2 Volumes) 世味余年（全两册） Bi Luo rushes back to China when her grandfather falls gravely ill, and suddenly finds herself shouldering the burden of revitalizing the family’s century-old restaurant, Four Seasons Spring. She reunites with Shen Linfeng, the man she had a crush on while studying in Country F, only to discover that the seemingly gentle and refined Shen has ulterior motives involving the restaurant. She also unexpectedly meets Tang Lu, who is determined to buy Four Seasons Spring. The two go from constantly cla 179Reads9.7Score3214d adds
- 176 The Runaway Bride Chef: The Amnesiac Prince Won’t Leave Me Alone 逃婚小厨娘：失忆王爷赖上我 (Food + sweet romance + political intrigue + slow-burn character growth) I’m Mei Youyou, courtesy name Qiniang. At sixteen, I’m the seventh-ranked disciple of the Medicine King Valley on Baihua Mountain, and the head chef who cooks a different dish every day of the year for all 360 people in the valley. I live by two rules: One: No matter how much my father tries to matchmake me, I’ll never marry! Two: Anyone I save has to pay for treatment, even if he’s the emperor himself! But right now, I’m c 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Reborn in the Tang Dynasty With a Gourmet System 重生唐朝美食系统 Top modern chef Lin Xuan opens his eyes and finds himself dumped from the kitchen of an international culinary competition into a dilapidated hut outside Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. With nothing but four bare walls around him, he is starving and freezing, with only a broken knife, half a bowl of cold rice, and a life hanging by a thread. Just as he thinks he is about to starve to death, the Chinese Cuisine System quietly binds itself to him. Cooking earns points, selling meals rai 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 178 I Told You to Be a Cook, So How Did You Become the Demon Cult Leader? 让你当伙夫，你怎么成魔教教主了 [Food + System + Demonic Cult + Management + Farming] The good news: Lu Chen transmigrated. The bad news: He’s in the infamous Blood Moon Sacred Sect. The even worse news: The previous 998 cooks all died. Faced with 427 demonic cultivators whose eyes have gone red with hunger, Lu Chen can only light the stove and simmer a pot of spicy pepper soup. From that day on, the Asura Hall’s whole atmosphere changes. Others cultivate immortality to live forever. The Sacred Sect’s disciples cultivate just 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Reborn at the Border: Cooking Up a Storm with My Gourmet Space 重生边关：带着美食空间做厨娘 [Sweet Romance + Food + One-on-One, Devoted to Each Other] After transmigrating, Song Mingzhen finds herself a wretched daughter of a convicted official, exiled to the frontier. With a food System at her disposal, a successful career is only a matter of time. As the saying goes, the way to a person's heart is through their stomach. Before eating, the great general says, “I've spent years conquering battlefields. I've long since lost my appetite for fine food.” After eating, the great general say 31Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 180 I Became an Exile and Made It Big with Food in Lingnan 穿成流放犯，我靠美食爆火岭南 After a car accident, Su Baozheng, a food blogger with a million followers, transmigrated into the body of an ancient exile. The original owner was frail and died of a high fever on the road just ten days into her exile. When Su Baozheng opened her eyes, she was faced with a chipped bowl of murky cold water, her mother's despairing tears, and the greedy extortion of the escort official. Lingnan? A land of miasma? The end of the exile route? Su Baozheng looked at the wild shepherd's purse growing 9.2kReads8.7Score76514d adds
- 181 A Country Chef Gets Questioned? I Fire Back with a State Banquet! 农村厨子被质疑？我反手端国宴！ Zhang Yuan, a chef in Ping'an Village, is possessed by someone who transmigrated while he was haggling over prices. He takes over the village's celebration and funeral banquets, but he's so broke he can barely make ends meet. After awakening the Banquet Chef God System, he fires up three woks at once, frying spices until the aroma draws a million views! His knife work turns Wensi tofu into a chrysanthemum, astounding provincial officials. Even his sworn rival follows the aroma over with a 300-yu 134Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 182 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Banquet, So I Made the Manchu-Han Imperial Feast 让你回村烧大席，你烧出满汉全席 Ou Huang returned to his hometown, intending to enjoy a leisurely life. But he was forced to bind himself to a strange System. He was assigned to be the village cook, responsible for preparing dishes for village banquets. Whether it was a senior's birthday, a baby's full-month celebration, or a wedding feast... every joyous occasion in the countryside was in Ou Huang's hands! From red-braised pork knuckle to four-joy meatballs to pork belly with preserved mustard greens, every dish Ou Huang ma 454Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Gourmet: I Set Up a Stall at Random, and American Diners Faint from Delight 美食：随机出摊，美利坚食客哭晕 [Easygoing everyday life + System gourmet food + bickering couple + American-style food + lie flat and keep a low profile + international students next door] After transmigrating to a parallel-universe America, Li Hui finds himself in a random location every ten days, serving random dishes to different customers. Lanzhou beef noodles outside Central Park in New York, BBQ for sale in a Queens neighborhood at night. A bunch of Black guys showed up armed, just to steal one of my chicken wings. I al 424Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 184 The Peerless Chef: Darling, Please Come into My Bowl 绝世妙厨，相公请到碗里来 Some man: “Miss, do you believe in love at first sight?” “Sorry, I’m already a married woman.” Ever since the brilliant and mighty Rong Xuan fell for the Ninth Miss of the Jiang family, his intelligence has been in serious decline. In her previous life, Jiang Miao was married off to Leng Bufan, the iron-faced general no one else wanted. She never knew the taste of love, and died young with a thousand arrows through her heart. Another lovesick man became a regular visitor to her grave. Reborn a 38Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 185 The Pastry Master 糕点大师 Chinese pastries have fallen into decline while Western desserts are on the rise. Qin Tian, heir to a time-honored pastry shop, has had disabled hands for over a decade. By chance, he gains a mysterious power that not only heals his hands but also heightens all his senses. From there, he sets out to revive Chinese pastries and become a master pastry chef. 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Ding! The God of Cooking Is Being Held Hostage by the Time-Space Cuisine System 嘀！厨神他被时空美食系统硬控了 [A wild idea] + [System] + [Gourmet] + [comedy] + [time travel] (plot-driven, not mindless feel-good Gourmet fiction) When Zhou Yang wakes up, he discovers that he’s somehow been bound to a high-tech system called the “Time-Travel Gourmet System.” A windfall from the heavens: his max-level cooking skills are unlocked! But before he can even celebrate, he discovers that the restaurant he spent his entire fortune building has been knocked back to square one overnight. The luxurious restaurant and 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 The Gourmet System: I Quit My Job and Became an Online Sensation Through Food 美食系统：辞职后靠美食火遍全网 [No romance + food System + food check-ins] After collapsing from working overtime all night, Cheng Xiaoxiao unexpectedly obtained a food System. Workplace bullying? Working all night to earn a few bucks? Toxic coworkers? To hell with all of it! With a food System, all she wanted was to quietly open a little eatery, earn some pocket money, and sample delicacies from all over. But... System: Host, your cooking tastes like pig slop. System: Host, you’re as weak as a chicken. System: Host, maybe yo 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 After I Bound Myself to a Gourmet System, the City's Diners Hunted Me Down 绑定美食系统后，食客全城搜捕我 [No CP] [Gourmet] [Transmigration] [Making Money] [Business Management] [Heartwarming] Lin Fei is dragged to ancient times by a terrible Gourmet System. From starting out with her family ruined and her business going bankrupt, to selling crayfish for ten taels of silver a serving and driving the entire imperial capital wild. Even at an absurd price, the line is still packed every day. The System comes with facial recognition and can identify customers for its Host. Our restaurant’s official rule 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 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 69Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 190 Building Infrastructure in a Full-Dive Game 穿进全息游戏搞基建 (Transmigration + food + street vending + infrastructure development + apocalypse + online game) Yun Zhou accidentally transmigrates into a full-dive online game, and it's a zombie apocalypse, of all things?! But while everyone else is chewing tree bark, Yun Zhou opens a little restaurant right in the middle of a zombie horde! Steaming buns, fragrant roast chicken, freshly made braised pork... With an endless supply of flour and ingredients in his System storage, he becomes the apocalypse's most 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Apocalypse Rebirth: Opening a Barbecue Shop! 末世重生：开家烧烤店！ Ye Qing died. Luckily, she'd bound herself to a System before she died. So she came back to life. And naturally, she opened a barbecue shop. A difficulty setting? Is this a game or something? Why are there Easy, Normal, Hard, and Hell modes? Oh, there's a trial period, and I can switch between difficulties whenever I want during it? Then I have to try the hardest one first! Build a house with my bare hands? Could this get any more ridiculous! Fine, fine, let's take it down a notch. Hard mode it 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 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—14d adds
- 193 Gourmet: I Returned from China After Learning to Cook 美食：我从华夏学厨归来 Feng Mingyuan returns from studying the culinary arts in Huaxia. Once again, he faces relatives who are trying to seize ownership of his family restaurant through a food duel. In this life, he will use the superb cooking skills he learned in Huaxia to protect his family's restaurant. In this world, restaurants are ranked into ten grades according to the Heavenly Stems, from highest to lowest: Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui. Chefs in this world are ranked into twelve levels acco 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 The Chubby Princess's Little Chef: Miserly Crown Prince, Don't Run! 肥妃小厨娘，抠门太子你别逃！ [1v1, lighthearted writing, no nasty characters, multiple transmigrators, a chaotic gathering of transmigrators] Three-Michelin-starred chef Lin Manyue opened her eyes and found the world turned upside down! Yesterday she had been preparing foie gras at Paris's Tour d'Argent. Today she'd been dropped into a greasy, bloody ancient-era butcher shop. Her new life as a fierce, 200-jin butcher's wife came with no time to adjust! Neighbors slapped the chopping block and shouted, "Fatso, chop that mea 37Reads6.9Score614d adds
- 195 Granny Tian's Rebirth: Late-Night Cafeteria Livestream 田老太重生记深夜食堂直播间 The feisty, capable 95-year-old Tian Caigu is reborn in 1987. At 55, she quits her job and opens a late-night diner that becomes a refuge for countless migrant workers. She spends her days bustling amid the smoke and steam, serving customers warmth and comfort. She also has a livestream that connects to the future. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 I Set Up a Street Stall, Boss, Why Do You Look Different Every Week? 摆摊，老板你怎么一周一个样 [System + Food + Street Stalls + Lighthearted + Comfort Food + Making Money + One Heroine] Ye Tian loses his job from the start, but is lucky enough to activate a food System. From then on, every week Ye Tian sets up a food stall, selling a randomly chosen dish at a random time and place. In the first week, he sells fire chicken noodles outside a school. Student: Boss, the fire chicken noodles sold by your competitor were so spicy they made my family’s old hen sterile. In the second week, he sel —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Plane-Hopping Quick Transmigration: After Getting Tangled Up with the Shopkeeper System 位面快穿：被开店系统缠上后 [No Male Lead+Business Management+No Preachiness+Pure Wish Fulfillment+Anything Implausible Is Authorial License] Xu Zhi, who died of cancer, thought she would end up in the underworld. Instead, she got stuck with a little bird claiming to be a store-opening System. It tried every trick in the book to get her to become a shopkeeper. After a lifetime as an office drone, Xu Zhi decided to give it a try. And so she became a shopkeeper selling items in an infinite-flow world, a hot pot restaurant ow 477Reads—Score11414d adds
- 198 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 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 What? The Management Game Became Real! 什么？经营游戏成真了！ [Mainly business and progression + no romance + leisurely daily life + healing + pocket worlds] From the start, all she had was a tea egg, and it launched a whole street of gourmet food. What? Her tea eggs boost your health? What? Her hot pot makes you look younger? What? Her milk tea keeps you from losing sleep? … Feng Zhu had been an orphan since childhood. She had spent twenty years doing her best to get by, only to be diagnosed with cancer and given less than a year to live. Just as she was 665Reads8.7Score10214d adds
- 200 Transmigrated as a Kitchen Maid, I Win Over the Devil Prince with Viral Dishes 穿成厨丫，网红美食拿捏魔鬼殿下 A food blogger transmigrates and becomes an obscure kitchen maid in the Third Prince’s household! Her immediate superior is the notoriously fussy and difficult Third Prince, a devil who beats and berates the staff whenever a dish fails to please him. No problem! This modern food blogger’s skills are the real deal! Milk tea, cream-filled pastries, and creative snacks make their way to the table one after another, and before long she has the icy Third Prince completely wrapped around her finger. H 14Reads—Score114d adds
