Novels like First, a Bowl of Lychee Cream
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- 101 The Clever Little Chef 妙手小厨娘 A chef at a modern five-star hotel accidentally transmigrates to ancient times. Disguised as a man, she is rescued by a little beggar. When they meet again, the little beggar has become an icy prince, yet he is gentle only with her. Before long, rumors spread through the city that the prince has no interest in women. She thinks she now has powerful backing and can throw her weight around and do whatever she likes. Instead, she becomes a tyrant in the eyes of the officials, a bully who relies on 95Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 102 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 36Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 103 Reborn as a Little Chef: My Fridge Can Restock Forever 穿成小厨娘：我的冰箱能无限刷新 [Farming + leisurely pace + family life + running a business + food] Lin Yue transmigrated to ancient times, where food and clothing were scarce and the situation was unstable. A hellish start! Her husband died in battle, and a thug broke into her home. After dealing with the thug, she fled with her two scrawny younger siblings to her husband's family village. All she got was a drafty thatched hut. No money, no land. Fortunately, she had a golden finger: her modern refrigerator had come with her 965Reads6.6Score122Shelves
- 104 Food Tycoon: Reborn, Starting in a Construction Site Cafeteria 美食大亨：重生从工地食堂开始 [Rebirth + food + family bonds + cozy daily life + no System + adorable kids] In his previous life, Lin Xiaoman was the nation's richest restaurateur, yet he watched helplessly as his grandmother died of illness and his younger sister was killed by their own aunt. He died consumed by regret! Reborn at eighteen, on the day he had to choose his college major, he finds that his father has just died in a workplace accident, leaving behind a massive compensation payout. His grandmother urges him, “Us 116Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 105 Random Cuisine, Diners Beg Me Not to Close Up! 随机美食，食客求我别收摊！ [Everyday Gourmet] [No Female Lead, No Romance] [Warm and Healing] [Lighthearted and Wacky] Unemployed young man Fang Mu unexpectedly binds himself to the ultimate Gourmet System! Random stalls! Random dishes! Fried rice today, pig trotters tomorrow. It all depends on the System's mood! Fang Mu's food is unbelievably delicious. One bite is enough to blow your mind, and everyone who tries it gets hooked. But he never keeps a regular schedule, and when he closes up, he leaves whenever he feels lik 196Reads5.8Score100Shelves
- 106 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 37Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 107 Gourmet: Have I Really Been Trained to Become a Chef God? 美食：我被培养成厨神了？ [Food Wars! + no romance + food + Little Chef] Mo Yu transmigrates into the world of Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, and is born there. At first, he doesn’t realize what has happened. He simply wonders why people in this world have more refined palates than people did in his previous life. It is only after his parents die in an accident and he moves to Japan to live with his uncle that he discovers he is in the world of Food Wars. At the age of five, he officially binds himself to the System and 495Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 You Transmigrate and Still Study Law? I’ll Sell Fried Noodles and Offer Legal Advice 穿越了还学法啊？炒粉炒面送咨询 [Gourmet] [Short Legal Stories] [Everyday Gossip] [Travel Journal] [No Romance] The core competitive advantage for law students entering the workforce: stir-fry noodles, fry rice noodles, and offer legal consultations on the side. After transmigrating to another world, Xu Wenyun knew this principle inside out. But with countless delicacies out there, shouldn’t he try more delicious things? Even eating needs technique. Every bite deserves something better! In the first week, he sells pork rib 31Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 109 I'm a Delivery Driver, Yet I Become a God with One Dish at the Battle of a Hundred Chefs 我送外卖的，在百厨大战一饭封神 [System] + [Food Business Startup] + [Love Triangle Mayhem] + [Everyday Comedy] The System makes a food delivery rider enter Culinary God Showdown. He competes against a hundred chefs, wins the title of Culinary God with one dish, and takes the championship. But nobody told him registration had already closed! Then he joins a cooking variety show, where a cool and capable director takes him under her wing, a sharp-tongued campus beauty sees him as a rival, and a talkative art student treats him 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Transmigrating with a System to Farm, I Make Gourmet Food in Ancient Times 带系统穿越种田，我在古代做美食 [Gourmet Food + Farming + Countryside + Transmigration + System Space] On her way home from a late-night shift, a modern young woman transmigrates into the body of Liu Shuxi, a peasant girl in ancient Pear Blossom Town. She gains a portable space and a shop that rewards her with upgraded cooking skills. She starts out selling food at a stall and builds her fortune through cooking. She thinks she’ll be able to enjoy a leisurely life in ancient times just by selling luosifen and grilled meat skewe 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 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 20Reads—Score182Shelves
- 113 Exiled to Lingnan: I Made My Fortune Gathering Seafood 流放岭南：我靠赶海发家致富 Synopsis: [The rating is low because it just came out. It’ll rise later.] [Transmigrate into a book + Food + Foraging by the sea + Business + Everyday life + Family squabbles + Mostly lighthearted.] Xu Nan has one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. The good news: she got into a car accident… but survived and managed to cling to life. The bad news: she transmigrated into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder first wife of the wicked villain. The moment she opens her eyes, her bargain-bin 3.9kReads7.5Score342Shelves
- 114 Eating and Cat-Wrangling in the Tang Dynasty 我在大唐吃饭撸猫 [Historical romance + transmigration + food + sweet romance + devoted 1v1] You Xiu transmigrates into the body of the second daughter of the wealthy You family in the Tang dynasty. She has money and free time, is young and beautiful, and has both parents in a happy family. As long as she doesn’t do anything stupid, she’s guaranteed an easy life. On top of that, she gets bound to a System during her transmigration. It’s incredibly powerful: any recipe, seed, or cooking utensil from anywhere in th 100Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 115 I Sell Grilled Cold Noodles, and the Gourmet Association Has Its Eye on Me 摆摊烤冷面，我被美食协会盯上了 (Food + Northeastern Chinese snacks + all kinds of other snacks + System + no romance + laid-back daily life + livestreaming, entrepreneurship, and opening a shop + steady rise to success) Yu Duoduo quit her job in the prime of her life, at just twenty-two. Working for someone else is hard. It’s enough to drive you into a funk. Yu Duoduo: Entrepreneurship! I have to start a business! When she looked at the terrible grilled cold noodles in front of her, tears of excitement welled up in her eyes! 57Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 116 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
- 117 Shocking! The Prime Minister’s Legitimate Daughter Wins Over the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 惊！丞相嫡女靠美食征服整个京城 Modern chef Su Yuwan transmigrates and nearly gets taken out by ancient “cuisine” the moment she opens her eyes! Overly sweet pastries? Greasy meat? What kind of awful place doesn’t even have potato chips or spicy strips?! “This dump isn’t fit for pigs!” When she realizes that life among the nobility is truly dull... “Heh. Time to show you what a whole different level of competition looks like!” She fries golden potato chips from potatoes meant for pigs, and the emperor secretly tucks them int 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 After Transmigrating, My Little Tavern Goes Viral in Another World 穿越后，我的小酒馆在异世爆红了 [Healing + Food + Golden Finger + Western Fantasy Otherworld + Farming + Game Mashup] Ye Linna transmigrates and takes over a tavern on the verge of closing. She plans to keep her head down, cook for a living, and wait for the end. But then... She brews a batch of liquor and hatches the Lord of Water. She roasts some meat and attracts the Lord of Fire. “Vodka... One more glass...” The Lord of Water leans drunkenly on the bar, tracing melancholy poetry on the glass with frost gathering at his fin 15Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 119 An Eatery Keeper's Journal 食肆经营手札 The comic adaptation is out. If you're interested, check it out! [Food] [Business] [Everyday Life] [Romance] [One-on-One, Both Pure] Ji He transmigrates into another world, where both her parents are dead. All they leave her is a restaurant on a busy street and a clan full of relatives eyeing it greedily. With no one to rely on and barely a penny to her name, all she has is her cooking skill. She sets up a street stall and revives the old restaurant. With a stove and a pot, she brings every flav 11.1kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
- 120 Cosmic Invasion: I Rebuild Blue Star Through Food and Business 宇宙入侵：我靠美食经营重振蓝星 [Food] [Business Simulation] [Wasteland] [Infinite Worlds] [Rules-Based Horror] [System] One food cart from the start, and customers chase me for eight whole blocks! Jiang Yao transmigrates to Blue Star in the year 4026. People here survive entirely on nutritional soil, but she awakens a food business System! With premium ingredients from the shop and recipes for cuisines from the twenty-first century, she will rescue the wasteland Blue Star from its culinary desert! An invasion from the whole u 29Reads—Score103Shelves
- 121 Street Food Stall: Selling Egg Fried Rice in Paris 美食摆摊：我在巴黎卖蛋炒饭 [Absurd Comedy + Food + System, Focused on Street Stalls, No Romance] An old French man slaps down 20 euros. "If there's no gold in this golden egg fried rice, I'm calling the police!" Fang Yuan is just about to explain when the System pops up with a ridiculous line: [This rice was made using Eastern alchemy. The gold has been fried into every single grain.] "Are you sure?" Fang Yuan asks under his breath. Three minutes later, the old man finishes eating and bursts into tears, saying he 124Reads—Score113Shelves
- 122 What?! Curing His Eating Disorder Means I Have to Cure His Lovesickness Too?! 啥！治好厌食症还要负责相思病！ [Transmigrated Foodie vs. Aloof Marquis with an Eating Disorder] [Sweet Romance + Mutual Firsts] Ji Chutang caught the transmigration wave, but she wasn't as lucky as everyone else. Other people transmigrated as princesses or young ladies from wealthy families, while she was just a poor girl with no parents! Luckily, she was a wonderful cook, and even on her own she could make a good life for herself. By chance, Ji Chutang rescued a gaunt man with an eating disorder who was on the brink of death 199Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 123 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 63Reads—Score103Shelves
- 124 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 90Reads5.7Score107Shelves
- 125 Getting Rich Selling Glutinous Rice Balls in Another World 在异世界卖糯米饭暴富 [Business + food + transmigration + Western fantasy + low magic + ensemble cast + nonhumans + 1v1] Lin Wenyi inherits her grandmother’s breakfast shop and unexpectedly gains the ability to travel between the real world and another world. She decides to open a shop and do business there. A devoted admirer of good looks, she hires one gorgeous employee after another: a handsome fish-man who can sing, a cat beastman who’s a great cook and fighter with the nurturing instincts of a househusband, and 146Reads—Score101Shelves
- 126 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 12Reads—Score118Shelves
- 127 The Jiang Family Restaurant: A Day-to-Day Story 江家食肆经营日常 Jiang Zi opened her eyes and found herself a village girl in ancient times. Her family had nothing; her mother was bedridden and frail, her older brother worked himself to the bone to earn money, and her youngest brother was only five, thin and weak. At least they had no awful relatives, and the whole family was doing their best to get by. What was there to fear about being poor? A person with a skill could make a good life anywhere. They earned money, built a house, bought farmland and shops, a 1.1kReads6.5Score143Shelves
- 128 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 24.2kReads8.8Score2.2kShelves
- 129 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—Shelves
- 130 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 205Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 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
- 132 Week One of My Random Street Stall: Selling Beer Duck at a Driving School 随机摆摊第一周：驾校卖啤酒鸭 [Gourmet] + [Random Street Stalls] + [Perfect with Rice] + [Healing] + [No Romance] The warmth of everyday life is what soothes the human heart most. Lin Chuan, an overworked office worker who died suddenly from exhaustion, unexpectedly awakens the Gourmet Healing System. Every week, he sets up a stall at a random location and serves random dishes. Completing tasks earns him amazing rewards. But the System's very first weekly task leaves Lin Chuan completely dumbfounded (⊙_⊙) Selling beer-braise 1.4kReads6.0Score132Shelves
- 133 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 484Reads8.5Score100Shelves
- 134 Gourmet: The Chef’s Food Stall Goes Viral on a Variety Show 美食：厨娘在综艺摆摊爆火 Gu Liuyan, a former imperial chef, opens her eyes to find she has transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder actress on the variety show Celebrity Kitchen. She can’t cook, has a bad temper, and has been saddled with a mountain of bad press. With an astronomical breach-of-contract fee threatening to end her career, Gu Liuyan slaps the table. “Who says I can’t cook?” And then the entire show discovers what it means to cook like a culinary god... An actress on the show wails, “I’ve already gain 118Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 135 After I Transmigrated, I Started Selling Egg Pancakes on Dad’s Way to Work 穿越后我在爹爹上班路上卖鸡蛋饼 This story is set in a fictional world, so many things may not make sense. Please be warned!!! Liu Siling, a worker stuck in a notoriously useless major, transmigrated one day and finally became the daughter of an official in the imperial capital! Think she could finally enjoy the good life? Think again. Her family was so poor they were nearly out of food. Somebody save her! No worries: the divine goddess of egg pancakes will bless every child who loves good food! From selling food at a street s 4Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 136 Transmigrated to Marry a Sweet Young Wolfdog 穿越之再嫁小狼狗 [Transmigration + historical setting + ordinary life + face-slapping + daily life + building a fortune + raising kids] [Straightforward, clever, kindhearted and attentive transmigrator heroine × devoted local man who dotes on his wife and gets things done. A simple, heartwarming story of everyday life in an ancient town.] Su Yan nearly drowns. The good news is that she transmigrates; the bad news is that she ends up with a truly awful family. An evil mother-in-law, a scheming cousin, a spiteful 698Reads7.0Score101Shelves
- 137 After I Transmigrated, I Locked My In-Laws in the Cellar to Make Them Push for a Fourth Child 穿越后，我把公婆关地窖催四胎 [Transmigration + Villainess System + Awful Relatives + Family Squabbles + Face-Slapping Satisfaction + Building Wealth] Gu Xing'er, a top saleswoman in the 21st century, dies unexpectedly at a business dinner. In the blink of an eye, she transmigrates into the body of Li family’s second daughter-in-law, a woman with the same name who was born in Xiaohe Village, Yongning Town, Zhou Dynasty. Her awful mother-in-law is determined to have more grandchildren. But Gu Xing'er has one daughter after a 2.6kReads8.5Score296Shelves
- 138 Addicted to Chinese Food, Driving Foreigners Crazy 戒不掉的华夏菜，逼疯外国人 [Gourmet + System + Global + Daily Life + Fusion Cuisine] While traveling in Bangkok, Lu Yuan unexpectedly activated the [Global Gourmet Check-In System]. From then on, he set out to “remake” the world’s cuisines using the essence of Chinese cooking. Lu Yuan traveled all over the globe, and every stop was a crushing blow to local taste buds: His first stop was Bangkok. A “divine” tom yum soup blending Chinese bone broth with the smoky heat of wok cooking brought countless diners to tears on the 1.3kReads8.1Score137Shelves
- 139 Transmigrating Between Two Worlds: My Little Interstellar Eatery Goes Viral 穿越两界：我的星际小饭馆爆火了 [No CP] [No Jerks] [Ensemble Cast] [Food and Business Focus] [Cooperates with the State] [From a Small Shop on the Star Network to the Richest Person in the Galaxy] The black cat she adopted suddenly started talking, then repaid her kindness by dumping her in a future where food had gone extinct across the stars. Su Su sighed. Fine, as long as I can get back. Starting with a rundown little shop on the Star Network, she was forced to travel between two worlds, bringing all kinds of lost delicacie 3.3kReads7.3Score720Shelves
- 140 A Beautiful Chef Wins Hearts with Her Cooking Alone 貌美厨娘，纯靠美食俘获人心 [Farming + gourmet food + making a fortune + alternate setting, no transmigration] The Wen family is confiscated, and on the way to seek refuge with relatives, they run into bandits. The matriarch, Madam Wang, pushes Wen Li forward to offer her to the bandits in exchange for her own safety. Wen Li is furious. Damn this matriarch, she has her own mother! The whole family are leeches. She’s done serving them, so she decisively takes her mother back to their old home in Jiangzhou. No money? What to 32Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 141 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 105Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 142 The Four-Season Farming Life of a Young Wife in Lotus Village 荷花村小娘子四时种田日常 [Farming + Gourmet Food + Everyday Life + Business + A Touch of Ensemble Cast + Prosperous Alternate Ancient Era + No Golden Finger, Just Hard Work] When Liu Shitian woke up after a car accident, she discovered she had transmigrated into the body of a young woman in Lotus Village, Great Zhou, who shared her name. The original owner had once had a happy family. Her parents loved each other, and her family was fairly well-off by village standards. Unfortunately, good times didn’t last... Her famil 385Reads8.1Score108Shelves
- 143 The Tian Family Shop Is Open Again?? 田家铺子又开业了？？ Tian Tian is the pride of Tianjia Village. First, she talks her parents into opening a little restaurant in the county seat, serving home-style dishes and drawing in plenty of familiar faces. Then she persuades her eldest brother to open a hot pot restaurant, which does such brisk business that it makes people green with envy and earns them trouble. Next, she boldly talks an out-of-town visitor into opening a grilled fish restaurant, and it’s packed every day. In the end, she and her friends ope 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Poor Scholar: Getting Rich from a Street Stall and Shocking the Powerful 寒门秀才：摆摊暴富惊动权贵 Between Jiangning and Jinling, Chu Lan was originally just a nobody with a younger brother to care for. To make ends meet, he studied food and ran a little shop. By chance, he caught the attention of Fuman Tower and sparked a wave of culinary innovation. He then teamed up with Meng Xuan, a young master from one of Jinling's great families, to make his mark in the bustling metropolis, creating a "two-city legend" with sausages and home-style dishes. On one side was Meng Xuan, a shrewd merchant wh 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Hooked on Cases 案上瘾 [Transmigration + marriage first, love later + devoted to each other + gourmet food + sweet romance + entrepreneurship] A sunny, charming chef-princess versus a seemingly aloof, seemingly impartial prince who is actually cunning Nan Yu was a highly sought-after head chef for state banquets in the 21st century. Little did she know that after one meal, she would transmigrate into the body of a notorious foreign princess. On the journey to her political marriage, “she” mysteriously disappeared. R 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Card-Drawing Management: From a Run-Down Flat to the World's Number One Restaurant 抽卡经营：从老破小到天下第一楼 [Food + System + Inn Management + Transmigration + No Romance + Building Wealth + Light Comedy] A slow-paced story! Gradual progression! Heartwarming! Even with its leisurely pace, the author loves throwing in hilarious punchlines! If you prefer fast-paced power fantasies, think twice before reading! Thirty taels in debt from the start, and the System wants me to draw cards to cook? After Meng Qinghe died from staying up all night gaming, she transmigrated into the body of a young innkeeper in 3kReads6.2Score316Shelves
- 147 The Little Chef of Willowbank 杨柳岸小厨娘 [No CP, fictional era, opening a restaurant, cooking whatever people love to eat] Most people marveled at the protagonist’s success, but Jiang Xia couldn’t help feeling sorry for all the supporting women who’d been toyed with by fate. After a quick transmigration, she got the chance to take a supporting woman’s place and keep living. So she decided that since she’d never get what she wanted, she might as well want nothing at all. She would live well and eat well… When a minor figure in the ma 273Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 148 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 1.8kReads8.6Score178Shelves
- 149 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
- 150 After I Transmigrated, I Used Food to Save a Kindergarten 穿越后，我用美食拯救幼儿园 After transmigrating as the principal of a bankrupt kindergarten, Lin Xiaoxia takes one look at the rundown courtyard and nearly blacks out. She’s a Michelin-level backup chef, and now she has to look after kids, clean, and sing nursery rhymes? Then she hears, “Ding! You have been bound to the Chinese Little Chef Pro Max System.” Three months later “Mommy, I used the molecular gastronomy machine to make rainbow cloud marshmallows today!” The adorable four-year-old pulls out a piping bag. “The p 69Reads6.4Score—Shelves
