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- 51 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 731Reads—Score10114d adds
- 52 The Dessert Maker of Lin'an 临安城的甜点娘子 [Fantasy transmigration, food, slice-of-life business, love that grows over time, sweet romance, and an entrepreneurial rags-to-riches story] Daily life is styled after the Song dynasty, in an imaginary dynasty and fictional places, with a small ensemble cast. Jasmine sponge cake, rose steamed cakes, peony cream buns, mugwort mille-feuille, salted egg yolk pastries, pomegranate cloud rolls, hibiscus crystal cakes, jade mung bean drinks, peach blossom bird's nest soup, kumquat honey soup... The 206Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 53 What? Which Factory Cafeteria Charges Five Thousand for Meals? 见鬼！谁家工厂食堂伙食费五千？ [Slow-paced + everyday life + lighthearted + relaxing + food story set in an electronics factory] Ruan Xiuqing transmigrates to a parallel world and takes over the canteen of an electronics factory that's on the verge of going under due to poor management and lax oversight. After activating the cheat System, she receives [Master-Level Cooking], [Master-Level Knife Skills], and [Skill: Three Heads and Six Arms] from the start. Turning the canteen around is just a matter of time! Braised pork bell 271Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 54 My Breakfast Shop Took Off After I Bound a Food System 绑定美食系统后，我的早餐店火了 Su Ti was fed empty promises and manipulated by her company, so she decisively took the money and walked away. On her second day unemployed, she unexpectedly binds to the mysterious [Myriad Feasts Record] System From then on, every dish she makes gets a score: “Plain noodles: 8.9 points, just barely excellent.” “Crispy pastry: 9.8 points, astonishingly good!” Her best friend takes one bite of her noodles and slaps the table: “Quit! Open a restaurant! I’ll invest!” A neighbor tries the pastries s 2.6kReads7.2Score31214d adds
- 55 I Sold Dog Food at My Stall, and It Sold Out. I Never Said People Couldn’t Eat It! 摆摊卖狗饭被抢爆没说人不能吃吧 Shen Yi transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a rather unreliable Food System. Every week, the System assigns him a random street-stall mission: Sell boxed meals inside a haunted house that's about to close, sell milk tea in a nursing home that's going under, sell hamburgers at a weight-loss camp that can't attract any customers... Worst of all, it even tells him to sell homemade pet food at a pet shop that can't make a profit. Every dish leaves customers drooling, and once they 59Reads—Score10314d adds
- 56 My Space Connects Two Worlds: Selling Steamed Buns and Tempting the Entire Internet 空间通两界，摆摊卖包子馋爆全网 [Transmigration between two worlds + Street stalls + Getting rich + Cozy business management + Food + Farming + Mountains and a house] A warm, everyday story She gains a space in the morning and gets kicked out of the Sun family in the afternoon. Jiang Buruan looks at the dilapidated thatched cottage, the dried-up well, and the nearly dead tree in her space, and can't help feeling cheated! Then she pushes open the rusty door beside the cottage and discovers that it leads to an ancient otherwo 626Reads6.3Score10314d adds
- 57 One Stall from the Start, Great Food All Thanks to the System 开局一个摊，美食全靠系统 Chen Fang had spent over half a year stir-frying rice noodles, yet he was so broke he couldn't even pay rent. Then the System arrived. A garden in a pocket dimension, a spirit spring, ingredient exchanges, recipe unlocks, cooking skill upgrades, and surprise prize draws. He thought he could finally turn his life around, but the System said: He had to get “genuine praise” from three special diners within a week, or it was goodbye. The first was the belle of S University. She devoured two portions 11Reads—Score11814d adds
- 58 The Li Family’s Eldest Daughter: Daily Life as the Breadwinner 李家长女养家日常 [Alternate History + Reincarnated in the Womb + Family Life + Business and Prosperity + No Golden Finger] Li Jinzhu is reincarnated in the womb as the eldest daughter of a scholar in the city of Shuzhou, in the Great Yu Dynasty. Watching her unreliable parents grow more and more outrageous while the family’s finances dwindle, she decides to take control of the household purse strings. With the little silver the family has left, Li Jinzhu takes them to set up a small stall in bustling Shuzhou. 922Reads7.2Score10514d adds
- 59 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 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 I Opened an Eatery in Ancient Times and Picked Up a Child Bride Along the Way 我在古代开食铺，顺带捡个童养夫 (The rating just came out, but it’ll go up.) [Alternate world + Food + Business + Daily life + One couple only + Happy ending + Love grows over time] Ren Qingwu was born into the body of a newborn baby in one fell swoop, becoming the only daughter of a hunter’s family in the southwestern part of the Great Yong dynasty. Her parents died young, leaving her with a penniless household and a little food stall that barely kept them alive. She resolved to break through with good food: Kneading dough an 3kReads8.1Score34114d adds
- 61 Gourmet: The Easy Life of a Little Restaurant at a Highway Service Area 美食：服务区小饭馆的躺赢人生 [Gourmet] [Shopkeeping] [No Male Lead] [System] [Cozy] [Everyday Life] [Affordable Prices] Jiang Banxia unexpectedly inherits a fast-food shop at a highway service area. She thinks the location seems pretty good, but it turns out the highway is remote and sees very little traffic. Just as Jiang Banxia is at a loss about how to keep the business going, she learns that there's a traffic jam on the highway not far away! So Jiang Banxia heads out onto the highway carrying boxed meals to sell. H —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Good Food and Sweet Dreams with You 与君美食复甘眠 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Farming + Food + Woman Chef + Romance] The meat is so tender it seems carved from beauty, and the fragrant aroma never stops rising from the pot. As a humble office worker in the twenty-first century, Su Yu had few interests, and food was the only one she loved. Her one and only wish was to stop being exploited by every capitalist under the sun and become a capitalist herself. So the gods heard her prayer and granted it. She closed her eyes and woke up as a poor 331Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 63 Reborn in the 1970s: Extra-Spicy Hot Pot and a Henpecked Male Lead 重生七零：火锅变态辣男主耙耳朵 [Transmigrate into a book + Period setting + Gourmet + System + Adorable kids + Military marriage + Sweet romance + Get rich] Wu Fengjuan is reborn in the body of a cannon-fodder military wife in the 1970s. From the start, the male lead has “died in action,” her in-laws despise her, and she has three hungry little babies to feed. Life is hard? Luckily, the [Good Fortune Gourmet System] drops right into her lap! Get pregnant and have babies to level up! From pearl milk tea and golden pumpkin cake 196Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Clever Country Kitchen Maid: Her Dandy Husband Comes Looking for Trouble 农门俏厨娘：纨绔夫君来碰瓷 Ye Qing transmigrates into an ordinary farming family’s daughter. The moment she opens her eyes, she faces the grim reality that her family can barely afford to eat. Her uncle’s family abuses and bullies them, while her grandmother shows no affection and her grandfather couldn’t care less. The only thing Ye Qing can rely on to turn their lives around is her excellent cooking. She takes on the family’s worst troublemakers, protects her loved ones, makes delicious food, and leads her mother and si 34Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 65 The Gourmet Princess: The Prince Is Delicious 美食王妃：王爷很好吃 Shen Yinan never dreamed she would transmigrate into the body of a foolish princess consort who was bullied by everyone. Fortunately, she was a food blogger, and her greatest talent was using delicious food to take care of her own appetite. To survive in the prince's manor, she had to roll up her sleeves and provide for herself. Every now and then, she also had to deal with concubines and fend off scheming women. Who could have guessed that her food would be so delicious it would win over the ap 64Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 66 The Laid-Back College Student Is Open for Business 摆烂女大学生，在线营业 [A hilarious food story + slice-of-life diary + friendship + healing + farming, no romance, no pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger] A group of friends having a good time together What do you do when you don't want to go to work? Head back to the countryside and lie flat! After graduating from college, Xia Wan briskly packed her bags and returned home to take over the restaurant her grandfather had left her. This city is all takeout and rat-race grinders. She’s not staying here! After 106Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 67 I Just Made Some Food, So Why Are You All Going Crazy? 我就做个美食，怎么你们都疯了？ Peng Huahua, who can transmigrate just by walking, is speechless when she gets bound to a Food System as well. In this parallel world, where food is scarce, she has to complete the System's missions if she wants to go home. Faced with the System's endless variety of missions, Peng Huahua can only say she's gotten herself aboard a pirate ship! The diners of the little worlds: “What is this? It's unbelievably delicious!” (Also known as: What Do I Do When My Food Is Too Delicious?) (For now, t 265Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Transmigrating to Farm: I Became the Talk of the Village 穿越种田：我竟成了农门显眼包 [Alternate world | farming | food | business | System | male lead with a minor role] In a nutshell: After transmigrating into ancient times as a village girl, she planned to enjoy a peaceful country life, but unexpectedly became the center of attention. In her previous life, Yun Lan closed her eyes after suffering from ALS and yearning desperately for a healthy body. When she opened them again, she had become a humble village girl in Yushu Village, Chun'an County, in the Great Wei dynasty. Breat 2Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 69 Transmigrated to Ancient Times as a Street-Food Chef 穿越古代摆摊小厨娘 - Modern identity: A 21st-century snack enthusiast who loves experimenting with recipes for all kinds of viral snacks. She is optimistic and practical, handy, and quick-witted when it counts. She is intensely driven to make money and get rich, stemming from her modern-day office worker’s desire to escape the 996 grind. - Ancient identity: An orphan who transmigrates to Qingxi Town in the Great Jing dynasty and inherits the original owner’s body. She relies on her modern cooking skills to make 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 I Became a God-Tier Tycoon by Running a Street Stall, and My Customers Chase Me All Over Town 摆摊成神豪，食客追我满城跑 [Food + Tycoon + Comedy + System + No Romance + No Heroine + Daily Life + Comfort Food + Wish Fulfillment] Li Hai is a wage earner who longs to get rich. By chance, he binds to the Food Tycoon System. From then on, he sets out to run street-food stalls. The locations and dishes are random. Every time he completes a stall-running task provided by the System, he receives a generous reward. [Congratulations, Host! Task complete. Reward: ten million yuan.] [Congratulations, Host! Task complete. Rewa 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Bound to the Kitchen God System, I Made the Whole City Wake Up Craving Food 绑定灶王系统，我把全城都馋醒了 After graduating from college, Jian Yanshen sent out resumes that went nowhere, then returned to Yunxi City looking utterly dejected. His grandfather’s breakfast stall was about to be taken away, and his younger sister, a high school senior, was still counting on him to support her. Just when he was at the end of his rope, an old iron wok spoke inside his head: [Kitchen God System, ownership confirmed]. But the System only provided recipes. It wouldn’t give him the skills for free. Want to make 27Reads—Score15214d adds
- 72 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 2kReads8.4Score25614d adds
- 73 The Weekly Menu Changes at Random, and Customers Beg Me to Set Up My Stall 每周美食随机换，顾客跪求我出摊 [Food] [Cozy Everyday Life] [No Female Lead] [Comedy] [Feel-Good] Jiang Feng was sick of his nine-to-six office job. Wanting to be free, he quit and set up a food stall, only to unexpectedly awaken a Food System that unlocked a random dish every week! “Holy crap, I was worried I wouldn’t make money selling food from a stall, but with a System, making money should be a piece of cake!” Jiang Feng thought he’d enjoy a wonderful life where he could open his stall whenever he wanted and sleep in as l 12.1kReads6.5Score1.5k14d adds
- 74 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 67Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 75 Gourmet: You Asked Me to Teach, but I Ran Off With the Parents 美食：让你当老师，你把家长拐跑 (Don't leave! The rating just came out and will go up. A heartwarming story.) Chen Chu is unemployed and living off his sister's family when he unexpectedly awakens a Gourmet System. Just as it happens, his niece's kindergarten is short a food teacher, so Chen Chu proudly takes the job. Day One: An eighty-year-old grandpa comes to pick up a child, then cries and makes a scene, demanding to enroll. Day Two: A naughty kid who hates school says that going to school is the happiest thing in the worl 860Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 76 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 335Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 77 From the Start, All I Had Was a Bowl of Luosifen: My Goal Is to Make a Hundred Million 开局一碗螺蛳粉，目标挣它一个亿 [Restaurant Management + Food + System + No Romance + Light Livestreaming + Grow and Prosper + Helping Farmers + Going Global] A bolt from the blue! Mu Xiaoxiao was unjustly fired by her company the day before she was due to become a permanent employee. Well, if there’s no place for me here, there’s a place for me elsewhere! What’s done is done. First, I’ll have a bowl of luosifen. As she slurped the noodles, she couldn’t help shouting inwardly, “If only I had a luosifen shop of my own!” [Host’s 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 The Cousin Miss Is Climbing the Social Ladder Again Today 表小姐今天又在攀高枝 [The rating is low because the novel was just listed...] A young lady from the extended family has arrived at the Duke of the State's manor, and none of the three young masters there can stand her. One would rather become a monk, another claims to prefer men. The third would rather die in the arms of a courtesan from overindulging. Everyone in the manor says the young lady is shameless and always trying to climb the social ladder! But no one expected that the young lady despised by the Xie famil 858Reads7.0Score10514d adds
- 79 I Ran Away from My Wedding to Sell Wontons, and Made the Emperor Drool 逃婚卖馄饨，居然把陛下馋哭了 [Farming + Food + Chef + Transmigrate + Heartwarming, Beloved by All] Food blogger Yun Shu unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter! She can’t get her hands on a happy life, and one headache after another comes her way... They try to force her into marriage? She plays the obedient fool, then really runs away from the wedding, teaching the Duke of Zhenguo a hard lesson. Life is tough? She sets up a food stall, and her competitors can only cry, “There are 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Amazing! I Made a Fortune in Ancient Times with Modern Cuisine 惊！我靠现代美食在古代发家致富 (Transmigration + alternate world + farm space + devoted couple + food + farming and business + making a fortune + cozy, peaceful daily life) Lin Qiyue was punished with transmigration for wasting half a steamed bun. She arrived in an ancient village, in the poorest household around. Her eldest brother was disabled, her younger siblings were little, and the family had neither enough to eat nor clothes to keep warm. Lin Qiyue was close to tears, but luckily there was always a way out. She bound h 179Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 This Food Streamer's Niche Is Way Too Weird 这美食主播的赛道过于邪门 [Gourmet] [Video Blogger] [Livestream Variety Show] [No Female Lead] [Ensemble Cast] [Unhinged Protagonist] [Goofy Daily Life] [No Romance] [No Romance] [No Romance] We’re saying it three times because it’s important. Beautiful women and delicious food are the most tempting things in the world. Bai Yu is a man who gives off a strong sense that he’s up to something. That only gets more complicated after he awakens the Borderline Gourmet Blogger System. Among gourmet bloggers, he has the best body 56Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 82 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 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 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
- 84 The Xu Family Girl’s Pinduoduo Eatery 徐家小娘的拼夕夕食铺 Xu Qingqing transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a penniless orphan girl in a village near Qingshan Town. She looks at the empty rice jar, and before she can squeeze out a tear, she's struck by the "Pinduoduo Ready-Made Meal System"! Can picking wild vegetables earn points? Ready-made meal packs? High-tech seasonings? From then on, a remarkable little food stall appears in Qingshan Town. Fragrant braised pork rice, pan-fried dumplings with thin wrappers and generous fillings... Delicious a 20Reads6.0Score914d adds
- 85 A Chef at Your Door, Healing Countless Diners 男厨上门，治愈万千食客 After losing his job and running out of options, Lin Zhaonan unexpectedly binds to the “Record of a Hundred Flavors” culinary System. From then on, he sets out on a healing journey, soothing hearts with food and comforting ordinary lives with the warmth of home cooking. As he heals others, Lin Zhaonan heals himself too, and finds love as well as a restaurant famous far and wide. 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Selling Liangfen on the Street, I Make the Whole City Crave It 摆摊卖凉粉，全城百姓被馋哭了 [Food + farming + love at first sight + doting romance + slow-burn sweetness] Xu Yingchun transmigrates into a book and becomes its wicked villainess, doomed to a miserable ending. She’s going to escape the villainess’s fate and become the heroine of her own story! After buying her freedom from the Jiang household, she sets up a street stall, opens a restaurant, and buys land. Her life gets better and better. Milk tea, barbecue, crawfish, hot pot, and big-plate chicken: she’ll serve it all! The 314Reads8.0Score12114d adds
- 87 The General's Delicious Wife 将军的美味娘子 She transmigrates into a farming family, where there's never enough to eat or warm clothes to wear, and she also gets a paralyzed husband and a whole crowd of awful relatives thrown in for free. Xia Yuechu counts it all up on her fingers. By any reckoning, she's the one getting the raw deal! But she's got her cooking skills to rely on, and with her clever hands she can whip up countless delicious dishes and make a fortune in no time, rising straight to the top! The better life gets, though, the 238Reads8.6Score10414d adds
- 88 After Transmigrating to the Modern World, the Shadow Guard Kicks Back and Cooks 穿越现代后，暗卫开始摆烂做美食 No CP, just the everyday life of an ordinary female covert guard who loves food and gossip. Winter melon, watermelon, Hami melon, nobody’s going to stop me from getting the scoop. Juice-filled buns, dumpling juice, you little brat, get out of my way! Smash the plates, toss the chopsticks, and slap the scoundrels right across the face. I’ve got a temper and the skills to back it up. Nobody gets to push me around. Polished-up blurb A feast of fresh wine and sturgeon, a hotpot of clams. Given a sec 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 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 171Reads8.2Score2214d adds
- 90 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 2.6kReads8.2Score41314d adds
- 91 Little Chef of China: The Path of the Culinary Dao 中华小当家：厨道食途 [Gourmet] [The perfect dish to eat with rice] [Ancient-style setting] [Chinese Culinary Master] [Feel-good novel] The imperial kitchen inspector kicked over his stall. “You run a roadside stall, and you dare call yourself a chef?” With the few ingredients he had left, Cheng Xiaocai made a bowl of scallion oil noodles. An old Taoist watching the crowd finished a bite and immediately declared, “I'll take care of the authorities for you!” It turned out Cheng Xiaocai was descended from a famous chef 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 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 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 So Addictive! I’m Getting Caught Up in the Cutthroat Competition of Ancient China’s Restaurant Business 香懵了！我在古代餐饮业搞内卷 [Farming + food + business + raising children] One day, Jiang Yan, a mature single food blogger, transmigrated and got her wish of becoming a mother without the pain of childbirth. She became a widowed mother of three. Not having a man around was fine, but what was with all this debt, huh? And she was supposed to sell her daughter, too? Jiang Yan hugged her sweet, soft, adorable daughter close. This was the dream child she’d always wanted. Selling her was out of the question! So how was she goin 467Reads8.5Score10014d adds
- 94 Gourmet in Another World: I Started by Conquering the Elves' Appetites 异世界美食：从征服精灵胃开始 [Healing + Gourmet + Business Management + Everyday Life] When I inherited my grandmother's shabby old shop, my best friend and I had planned to lie flat. Who knew that a newly installed wooden door would become a gateway to another world! The front door opens onto a fantasy continent of swords and magic; the back door leads to a bustling modern city. Elves lose all composure at the aroma of spicy hot pot, while dwarves go wild for barbecue skewers and beer. Could a picky old dragon really be mo 390Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 The University President Can Cook, and Faculty and Students Work Themselves to the Bone 大学校长会做饭，师生全往死里干 [Gourmet] [No heroine] At a very young age, Xu Ji becomes a university president. He assumes the organization has entrusted him with an important responsibility, only to discover that the university is already slated to close. It can't even qualify for a ranking, and is worse than a diploma mill. It turns out he's only there to hold the fort until the bitter end. Just when Xu Ji is despairing, he binds himself to a Gourmet System. The stronger the school becomes, the more plentiful its rewards. 77Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 96 From Kang Bed to Kitchen Stove: My Clever Wife Makes Her Way as a Farmer 炕上灶下：娘子妙手跃农门 A chef accidentally gets reborn as a farm girl? Her house is drafty on all sides, and they’re so poor they can barely afford to eat! Food is a problem, her reputation is in tatters, and she has to support her mother and younger siblings! Food is life, and she’ll use her incredible cooking skills to win everyone’s palate over and lead her whole family out of poverty! Little does she know that just as her purse starts to fill, someone sets their sights on her... 115Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 97 Can You Have Both Dragons and Good Food? 龙与美食可以兼得吗 [Western fantasy + food + another world + business management + light adventure] When Tu Yiyi transmigrated into a Western fantasy world, she thought she’d landed the role of the Chosen One: flying through the sky on a broomstick, casually conjuring fireballs to hurl at the Demon King, and reaching the pinnacle of life from then on. Instead, her broom wouldn’t fly, she couldn’t conjure fireballs, and she was just a helpless ordinary person. Even more absurdly, she was somehow bound to a food bus 93Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 I Went Viral After Binding the Gourmet Check-In System! 绑定美食打卡系统后，我爆红了！ System + Gourmet + Travel + Lighthearted (Warning: There's some family drama at the beginning. If that's not your thing, don't read.) Lin Xi is a seasoned homebody, with severe social anxiety and chronic procrastination. She tried taking the graduate school entrance exam and the civil service exam, but failed both. After working for half a year, she couldn't stand her idiot boss's abuse any longer, so she quit in a fit of anger and went home to live off her parents. She spent over a year lying a 208Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Did the God of Light Set Up a Stall Today? 今天光明神出摊了吗 Chef Jiang Wei transmigrates to a Western fantasy world and becomes the Light Witch whom everyone wants to hunt down. To survive, Jiang Wei has no choice but to return to her old trade. She opens a food stall and then a shop, and business flourishes. On her way home from a day of vending, Jiang Wei comes across a badly injured man. As a modern woman, she knows from TV dramas that you should never pick up a strange man you find by the roadside. So Jiang Wei walks away without looking back. Unfort 89Reads5.7Score10714d adds
- 100 Gourmet: From the Start, I Grind My Knife Skills to Mastery 美食：开局爆肝刀工熟练度 [Dark past. Don’t read.] Gourmet + everyday life + slow-paced + obsessive grinder + period setting + no heroine Reborn in 2002, he doesn’t go into business or make trouble for anyone. He just focuses on cooking. Lin Jiang was a jerk in his previous life. He dropped out of school at nineteen. He looked down on his dad’s shabby Sichuan restaurant. After failing in business, he switched careers and became a chef again. Later, he worked himself to the bone to earn the title of Michelin-starred chef, 5kReads8.3Score56414d adds
