Novels like First, a Bowl of Lychee Cream
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- 1 After Xiangchao Went Viral, I Made It Big with Yongzhou Cuisine 湘超爆火后，我靠永州美食出圈 (An unconventional food story + urban fantasy + women's growth. A slow-burn, steady-paced story with simple writing. If you only want pure food descriptions, this may not be for you.) At thirty, an age when even dogs find you annoying, Zhao Min lost her job! She was already frustrated about being unemployed, and the thought that she might also face even more intense pressure to get married only made things worse! When she was feeling utterly dejected, her best friend called: "Minmin, come bac 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Set Up a Little Stall Outside the University 我在大学门口摆小摊 [System + demolition windfall + food + travel] Su Xi has been a little busy lately. She has just been hit with a double blow: her cheating boyfriend dumped her, and her company fired her. Then the huge payout from the demolition of her childhood home arrives. She was hoping to live the carefree life of a rich slacker, but instead she's forced to bind herself to a Gourmet System! System: [Ding! Congratulations, Host! You've acquired the “God-Tier Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry” skill! Mission: Set up 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 One Hundred Ways to Feed the Villain 投喂反派的一百种方式 The rating has only just opened, so it’ll go up later. Don’t worry, enjoy! (Bright and cheerful little chef x obsessive, villainous Seventh Prince) [Devoted couple + transmigrate into a book + food + redemption + villain + obsessive love + forced love] Xiao Jin, the Seventh Prince of the Dasheng Dynasty, was born to be a whetstone. For twenty years, Crown Prince Xiao Jing had sharpened his blade on Xiao Jin’s bones. His mother died suddenly, and her entire family was executed. In the original s 82Reads8.0Score124Shelves
- 4 The Cold Palace Cook Wins Over the Harem with Her Food 冷宫厨娘靠美食炸翻后宫 The Cold Palace Cook Sets the Imperial Harem Ablaze with Her Cooking The day I transmigrated into the abandoned consort of the Cold Palace, a eunuch was already trying to hang me from a tree with a white silk sash. Suddenly, the Imperial Kitchen sent over my last meal. I whipped out a packet of Chongqing hot pot seasoning from my pocket dimension instead. Just as the spicy aroma swept through the entire palace, the tyrant kicked open the palace doors. “Who’s skimping on My spicy hot pot?” I blin 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 My Cat Turned Into a Person! 我家猫变成人啦！ Gu Yi, who had loved reading Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio since childhood, brought home a little cat. Who could have guessed that overnight, the cat would turn into a person? She decided to go into business with the little cat spirit and opened a pet lifestyle shop. Her tiny shop in the human world became her very own modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. All sorts of customers came and went, each one a member of a different demon clan hiding in the city. One old tale after anot 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 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
- 7 After Binding a System, I Opened a Dessert Shop in Ancient Times 绑定系统后，我在古代开甜品店 [Food + Alternate World + Transmigrate + System + Mutual Devotion + Not a Power Fantasy] Gu Qiyue, a top pastry chef, transmigrates into the body of a penniless orphan in ancient times. She opens her eyes to a bare-walled home with a leaky roof and finds her only family, her younger brother, emaciated. Just as she's worrying that life is bitter as wormwood, a “ding” sounds in her mind... She has bound the [Food Business System]. What are household schemes, palace intrigues, backbreaking farming, 178Reads—Score102Shelves
- 8 First Yours, Then Yours Again When I’m Done 先做你的，做完你的做你的 In a twist of fate, food blogger Nan Xing transmigrated into the body of a country girl in ancient times. Her family had nothing, and she was constantly sick. To pay for her treatment, her family had even sold their last few acres of farmland. Faced with such desperate circumstances, Nan Xing rolled up her sleeves and set up her very first stall. She started with thin pancakes for two coins, then moved on to steaming bowls of warming noodle soup, and finally to secret-recipe braised delicacies w 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Pastry Queen’s Journey 糕点皇后养成记 The biggest challenge of transmigrating to ancient times: no oven, no stand mixer. How can a modern baker survive? Jiang You calmly says, “No problem.” The earthen stove is too crude, so she builds a brick kiln and makes her own oven. With no proper tools, she ties bamboo strips together to make a whisk. She uses lard to create layer upon layer of flaky pastry, and cleverly packages her goods in bamboo baskets lined with oiled paper. Her Valentine's Day sushi amazes the townsfolk, her autumn-onl 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Your Highness, the Princess Consort Says Come Home for Dinner 王爷，王妃喊你回家吃饭 Gu Nianxi, a modern food blogger with a goofy sense of humor, is inexplicably transmigrated to the ancient state of Dongling after being electrocuted. She becomes the bride of Prince Zhenbei in a replacement marriage, and thus begins her journey into ancient cuisine. Excerpt 1: In the study "Your Highness, this is terrible! The Princess says she's making braised carp tonight, and she's already gone down to the pond to catch the koi the Emperor bestowed upon you." "It's fine. Don't stop her. 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Endless Ingredient Mystery Boxes: From the Start, I Ran a Little Restaurant 无限食材盲盒：开局一家美食小馆 Unemployed, broke, and down to just 200 yuan, Fang Yue bai bound herself to the Infinite Ingredient Blind Box System, thinking her big break had finally come. Instead, her starter pack was a shabby fifteen-square-meter shop with peeling walls, and a Level 1 privilege that could only draw “ordinary eggs + wilted cabbage.” System notice: Ingredients may not be taken outside the shop. Looking at the wilted cabbage in her hand, Fang Yue bai gritted her teeth. Fine, then. She’d use this old wok and f 1.7kReads6.7Score222Shelves
- 12 I Became a Hunter's Pretty Wife, Raised the Kids, Spoiled My Husband, and Made Money 穿成猎户俏娘子，养崽宠夫挣银子 [Farming + Food + Marriage First, Love Later + Adorable Kids + Cozy Daily Life + Devoted Couple] Orphan Lin Chuyun accidentally fell off a cliff and transmigrated into the body of a beautiful bride newly married to a hunter. Her husband is handsome, hardworking, and capable, and their little dumpling of a child is sweet, well-behaved, and impossible not to adore. The original owner wouldn't marry him, but Lin Chuyun will. So what if they're dirt poor? Just watch her work her culinary magic, brin 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Top Scholar County Magistrate's Little Farming Wife 状元县令的种田小娇妻 [Transmigration + Gourmet Food + Space + Making a Fortune + Slow Pace + Mutual Devotion] After an accident, Lin Wanwan transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty. When she fell into the water, Shen Yu rescued her, so naturally she had to repay him by marrying him. With her modern cooking skills and ingredients from her space, she turned a restaurant on the verge of bankruptcy into a thriving business, growing from a little street-side shop into an entire food street. From fish with pickled vegetable 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 From the Start, My God-Tier Egg Fried Rice Has the Whole Internet Drooling 开局神级蛋炒饭，馋哭全网 [No Romance + Everyday Charm + Divine Cuisine + Random Card Draws + Satisfying Face-Slapping + Beloved by All, Rising to the Top] With fifty thousand yuan in debt, a landlord on her case, and debt collectors calling nonstop, Lin Wei is desperate and just wants to disappear. Ding! The “Random Gourmet Street Stall Champion” System has been bound! Lin Wei: “???!! Sell fried rice to pay off my debt? And charge 20 yuan a serving? Are you serious, System?!” See how this debt-ridden young woman uses a 167Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Riverside Little Chef 临水小厨娘 [Farming and Food + Lighthearted + Daily Life + Romance + A Fictional Jiangnan Water Town] Su Mo, a modern culinary prodigy, transmigrates into the daughter of a small eatery owner in Linshui County. When she opens her eyes, the restaurant is on the verge of closing, and her parents are weighed down with worry. Watching her father ruin the ingredients with his cooking, Su Mo silently picks up the family's heirloom iron ladle. Just wait and see: she'll make this eatery bigger and better! 6.6kReads8.2Score654Shelves
- 16 The Little Mermaid Chef: Spring Drunkenness, Begonias Bloom, and Dawn Goes Unnoticed 人鱼小厨娘【春酲海棠不觉晓】 Mermaid landlady x a young marshal who says one thing but means another | Food entrepreneurship | A love story that begins in a coffin and makes you cry When Shen Haitang woke up inside a coffin, she had forgotten everything. She remembered only two things: First, she wasn’t human. Second, she was hungry. The man beside her, who was said to have been dead for three days, woke to the sound of her gobbling up the offerings. When he opened his eyes, she was holding up a huge chicken leg, crumbs 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Little Chang'an Eatery 长安小食肆 [Food Business Comeback + Clear-Headed Heroine + Everyday Food and Drink + No Romance, but Plenty of Suitors] In her previous life, Jiang Yuan was a chef in the Imperial Kitchen, bound to a mission. For ten years, she treated Crown Prince Zhao Heng's food aversion, prepared soups for him, and soothed his mind, giving him everything he asked for. The day he ascended the throne, he rewarded her with poisoned wine. She drank it with a smile. Mission complete. The System unbound, and at last she was 270Reads6.8Score108Shelves
- 18 Miss Su Cooks, and the Prince Comes Running Like a Cat 苏姑娘做饭，王爷像猫一样跑来 [Food + pocket dimension + opening a shop + ancient-era romance] I, Su Zi, was a modern food blogger, and never expected that I would transmigrate. I opened a shop and became a little rich lady, serving spicy hot pot, fried chicken, luosifen, instant noodles, tornado potatoes... I was determined to introduce the wonders of modern food to the ancients. Of course, my cooking was so delicious that all sorts of friends came to lend a hand. The princess cooked, the emperor washed vegetables, the crow 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Neighboring Streamer's Daily Feedings 隔壁主播的投喂日常 Synopsis: "The Neighboring Streamer’s Everyday Food Deliveries" Tian Qi, a food streamer with crippling social anxiety, unexpectedly opens the door of her neighbor, the picky gaming expert Chai Jingmo, with a bowl of tomato-braised beef brisket made without scallions, ginger, or garlic. Chai Jingmo has a sensitive stomach and a fussy palate, but Tian Qi’s home cooking hits the spot. From then on, they settle into a rhythm of sharing food. Tian Qi often brings extra lunchboxes to the door opposit 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Xiaoman Chronicles: Surviving with the Disgraced Prince 小满纪事：我与被废皇子相依为命 Food + ensemble cast + lighthearted daily life + ordinary people’s lives Once a prince brought low, once a humble palace maid. The two were cast out of the palace and relied on each other to survive. They sought neither wealth nor glory, only steady meals and a peaceful life together through the ordinary days. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Xing'an Ward Diner 兴安坊小饭馆 [No romance, a warm ensemble cast, a slow pace, and an unwavering female perspective with a focus on women] Yan Luo transmigrates to the Great Yong Dynasty and becomes the eldest daughter of Madam Song. In Liushui Alley, Madam Song raises her two daughters alone. The hardships they endure go without saying. Hardworking Yan Luo throws herself once more into the food business she loves. Dear guests, come cool off with a bowl of liangpi on a hot day! Tender chicken, silky noodles, and a mouthwateri 18.7kReads8.6Score2.5kShelves
- 22 Making a Fortune with Food in Bianjing 我在汴京靠美食暴富 [Farming + Food + Transmigration + Slice of Life + Love That Grows Over Time + Building Wealth] After transmigrating through time, Sheng He discovered that the Song dynasty she had arrived in was nothing like the weak and impoverished one described in history books. Instead, it was a golden age, with envoys from countless nations paying tribute and Bianjing flourishing like a dream. The markets bustled, people of many backgrounds mingled, and the air was filled with the enticing aromas of spices 19Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 23 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times, Met a Scumbag, and Opened a School with My Cooking 穿越古代遇渣男，我靠美食开学院 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Food + Pocket Dimension + System] A lighthearted summer treat, perfect for enjoying with a meal, featuring detailed descriptions of all kinds of delicious food. Su Ning, a young woman from the interstellar era, transmigrates one day and becomes the daughter of a deceased scholar in ancient times. Her scholar father had raised a young husband for her, but who knew he would turn out to be a scumbag? He used her money to pass the imperial exams and become the top c 12Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 24 The Little Chef: Daily Life Running a Shop in Ancient Times 厨神小娘子：古代开店日常 After transmigrating to the Southern Song Dynasty, Ji Zhitang just wanted to lie flat in peace. But with her family dirt poor and creditors knocking at the door, what could she do? No big deal! Braised meat wraps, spicy shredded chicken frames, deep-fried baby crabs, stone-pot bibimbap, seafood feasts... Modern dishes were just what it took to win over ancient palates! From a roadside stall to a wildly popular fast-food shop, from Taoyuan Town to Lin'an's top-tier star, her food business flouris 5.9kReads8.4Score628Shelves
- 25 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 3.8kReads8.1Score363Shelves
- 26 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 2.6kReads7.2Score309Shelves
- 27 After the Villainess Started Cooking, Everyone Spoiled Her! 恶女做美食后，被团宠了！ [Not a wish-fulfillment story + slow burn + food + everyday life + heartwarming] After a car accident, Shang Shixu transmigrated to the Great Xia dynasty. The good news: Her father was an official, and a fairly high-ranking one! The bad news: She was a notorious villainess in the capital. She not only seduced unmarried young men, but also went after married men. Everyone in the city despised her, and her family suffered for it too. She would ask people for favors to their faces, then call them i 336Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 28 After Becoming His Wife, I Switched Careers to the Wok 穿成他老婆后我改行颠勺 I woke up as the wife of the person I'd had a crush on in school, a cool, aloof beauty who could play the guzheng but couldn't do anything else. My husband was cold, my daughter kept her distance, and the whole family treated me like a pretty ornament. Hah, so what if he was my crush? Nothing beats wielding a wok. As I won over hundreds of thousands of viewers in my livestream with one delicious dish after another, the husband who used to stay out all night sobbed in the chat: “Come home, honey! 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I Opened a Sichuan Restaurant in Ancient Times 穿到古代开川菜馆 [Brooding, rugged man + love at first sight + sweet, doting daily life + golden finger + food + everyday family matters] After a car accident, Zhong Ruyi opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated to an alternate dynasty, where she has become the youngest daughter of Old Man Zhong. She has suffered from a form of soul loss since childhood. Though she is mentally impaired, her parents and several older brothers dote on her. After transmigrating, Zhong Ruyi feels guilty, thinking her soul has 137Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 A Bowl of Lard Rice Had the Entire Army Drooling 一碗猪油拌饭馋哭大军 [No System + Food + Farming + Business and Development + Frontier] Su Qingwan worked herself to the bone for half her life to support her husband's civil service exams, only to receive a letter of divorce and hear him say, “You're not worthy of being the wife of an official.” She didn't cry or make a scene. She took her meager settlement and headed for the rough-and-tumble frontier. The winds here were fierce, and people died often, but the locals were straightforward and fiercely loyal. She 1.9kReads8.2Score240Shelves
- 31 Transmigrating to the Song Dynasty: The Little Chef Sets Up a Stall, and the Powerful Crowd Her Door 穿宋：小厨娘摆摊，权贵踏破门槛 Su Qingyan, a top-tier star of modern home-style cooking, is accidentally transported into the Northern Song Dynasty, where she becomes a frail orphan in a poor scholar’s family in Bianjing. Their home is bare, her father is paralyzed, her mother is sick, and her three younger siblings are still crying for food. Snow has sealed off the city, charcoal prices are soaring, and the whole family is one step away from starving to death! Luckily, she is bound to a home-cooking inheritance dimension, co 556Reads8.0Score106Shelves
- 32 Running a Plane-Space Restaurant, I Rise to the Top 经营位面餐厅，走向人生巅峰 [Cuisine x business x card draws x interdimensional travel x ensemble cast x growth x lighthearted] Chu Tian, a pampered young lady who had never lifted a finger around the house, had just graduated and was dragging her suitcase out of her dorm when an unknown System pulled her into the universe, making her the first person to venture beyond the solar system into an unknown star system. [Run an interdimensional restaurant successfully and complete all your missions, and you'll be able to return 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Marquis's Household Wants Me Back, but the Whole City of Diners Is Losing Its Mind 侯门要迎我回府，全城食客急疯了 Gourmet + System + daily life + heartwarming + transmigrate into a book + romance + ancient-style fantasy Xue Leyi, who came from the apocalypse, transmigrated into a book. As the vicious fake heiress and villainess, she’d done every rotten thing imaginable for wealth and status, constantly brought disaster upon herself, and ultimately died abandoned and destitute. When Xue Leyi first arrived, she discovered she’d been thrown out of the Marquis’s estate. The entire capital was waiting to laugh 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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 78Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 35 Gourmet: I Only Set Up a Food Stall, I Never Meant to Become Emperor 美食：我就摆个摊，没想当皇帝啊 [Food] [Street Vending] [No Female Lead] [System] [Some Infrastructure Building] [Farming] A former imperial banquet chef transmigrates into a down-and-out prince and gets bound to a food System. Random locations, random food, just push the cart and go! Grilled sausages, cold skin noodles, soup dumplings, chicken wing burgers, stinky tofu... Mandarin fish, steak, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, braised lion's head with crab meat... Instant noodles, dried noodles, frozen dumplings, self-heating hot p 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Chief Minister's Wife: Cooking Up a Home 首辅娘子的美食养家日常 [Transmigrate into a book + food + building a fortune + alternate world] When Shen Jiaojiao opens her eyes, she finds herself in a book as the awful wife the male lead hasn't had a chance to divorce yet. The original owner was spoiled and arrogant, vain, universally disliked, overambitious, and full of herself. At least she had parents who loved her. But Shen Jiaojiao doesn't consider any of those flaws a problem. After all, she considers herself lazy, idle, greedy, slothful, shameless, and utte 309Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 37 I Risk My Life to Make Gourmet Food, and My Customers Beg Me Through Tears Not to Die 拿命做美食，顾客哭着求我不要死 After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Shen Xingyan has only half a month left to live when he gets a Food System. As long as his cooking brings people joy, Shen Xingyan can keep living. With the perfect cooking skills granted by the System, he attracts a loyal following as soon as he opens his stall. But because he's physically weak, Shen Xingyan can only make a small amount of food, drawing complaints: “Boss, can you manage any more than this? Why not make a little extra? Every time I 2.8kReads8.0Score322Shelves
- 38 Seriously? The Concubine’s Private Kitchen Has Made a Name for Itself in the Capital 当真？姨娘的私房小厨名动京城了 [Food + no romance + farming and progression + satisfying read] A private kitchen owner transmigrates overnight and becomes the personal chef to a concubine in a general's household! She comes equipped with a food System and holds the red string of fate in her hands. Lin Shuangshuang cooks up delicious food while making sure to bind the concubine and the general together for good. “I ship this couple!” she shouts, waving her fist. “Shuangshuang, I'm scared,” Concubine Lin trembles. “Don't be afr 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 After I Transmigrated, I Ran a Street Stall and Got My Whole Family into the Imperial Capital 穿越后，靠摆摊带全家卷到皇城 The comic adaptation is now online! Spiritual spring cuisine + street vending + healing + feel-good爽文 + beloved by the whole family + imperial examinations A workhorse never gets a day off. A workhorse just keeps going! Go! Go! Go! On the first day after transmigrating into the body of a sickly girl, she opens her eyes and gets straight to work! Her two younger brothers are still children, and her eldest brother was nearly forced into becoming a live-in son-in-law. The family has nothing but fou 1.3kReads6.7Score148Shelves
- 40 Transmigrated as a Farmer's Little Chef, I Lead My Mother to a Better Life 穿成农家小厨娘，带着母亲奔小康 Farming + delicious food + no romance + System + pocket dimension Late one night, Yan Wanning was lying in bed playing on her phone when a charger she had bought on Pinxixi suddenly burst into flames. When she opened her eyes, she had become Wang Xiaowan, a ten-year-old farm girl in Dayun Village of the Feize Dynasty. Her paternal grandparents favored some grandchildren over others, her father had died young, and her mother and Wang Xiaowan struggled to get by. Fortunately, after the family spli 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Butcher’s Little Diner 屠夫家的小饭馆 A fictional-world sweet romance and food story, centered on the everyday pleasures of ordinary life. The heroine comes from a family of butchers and has a meat stall. She loves experimenting with food, but her father is a miser with a sharp tongue and a soft heart. The hero is the son of a disgraced official. After his family got into trouble, he was thrown out and wandered here. Aman is the younger sister they took in. She has a simple, childlike mind. Amid all the bickering and bustle, they co 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 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—Shelves
- 43 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 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Clay Pot Chicken Cured My Lodger’s Loss of Appetite 地锅鸡治好了房客的厌食症 An anorexic big shot from the capital and a homestay owner, 1v1, sweet romance with no nasty supporting characters, both virgins, and lighthearted everyday life Lin Ji never imagined that her “luxury homestay,” listed at 28,888 yuan a month, would actually attract a tenant as spectacularly unlucky as Zhou Zhixu, who was set to rent it for exactly three months! The anorexic CEO from the capital spends a fortune just to lie flat at her place, and even insists that she be his “personal tour guide.” 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Internet’s Most Polished Girl Is Setting Up Stalls Everywhere? 网络精致女孩她居然到处摆地摊？ [Gourmet] [Street Stalls] [Farming] [No Romance] [Light Technology] Yang Xiu binds to a trending food System, which assigns her one online video-shooting task every so often. She drives the utility vehicle provided by the System, wears its exquisite outfits, and disguises herself so thoroughly that even her mother wouldn’t recognize her, all to complete the food challenges the System assigns. She takes a mini old-timer car to a highway rest stop to cook century egg and pork congee, drives an RV 80Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 46 The Private Kitchen of a Little Farm Girl 私厨小农女 [No romance; the heroine loves only money and just wants to earn enough to laze around. There is a secondary couple.] Ji Shu was a sought-after private chef and small-business owner in the modern world, but after being born into this era, she had to eat boiled vegetables for thirteen years?? Ji Shu can't take it anymore!! She'll use delicious food to reach a comfortable life: set up a street stall, then buy a shop, buy a house, and make money. What is love? It's just an optional seasoning in lif 168Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 47 I Returned to Ancient Times and Reached the Top with My Cooking 穿回古代靠厨艺走上人生巅峰 [Food + Everyday Life + Business Management + Farming] He wakes up in ancient times. Watch a master chef show off his skills! What surprises will come from the collision of culinary cultures from different eras? After being hit by a car, chef Cheng Yu travels back a thousand years. From the start, all he has is a thatched hut. How can he use his skills to improve his life? Selling wraps, making braised meat, cooking noodles in an iron pot and clay-pot rice, mooncakes and spicy crab for the M 221Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 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 154Reads9.7Score—Shelves
- 49 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
- 50 Everything Costs Two Yuan, and My Desserts Make Billionaire Tycoons Drool 全场两元，我的甜品馋哭亿万首富 Modern Romance Fantasy + Food + Business + System + Romance (War Hero) Jiang Mianmian took over a tiny shop that was on the verge of closing, starting out in debt, but unexpectedly became bound to the Super Dessert Master System. The System leveled up through prize draws using customers' “satisfaction.” It wasn't interested in making money, only in building a dessert empire. So Jiang Mianmian charged just 2 yuan for everything. Top-quality tiramisu, 2 yuan! Molten cheese tarts that burst with fi 374Reads7.1Score103Shelves
