Novels like I Opened a Fried Chicken Shop in Ancient Times
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- 1 Kung Fu Soccer 功夫足球 Kung Fu Soccer 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Blue Shadow 蓝影 Blue Shadow —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Ruthless Killer 狠人杀 Ruthless Killer 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Immortals’ WeChat Group 神仙微信群 The Immortals' Group Chat 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 S: First Encounter S初遇 S: A First Meeting —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Lu Chen, the CEO: An Extra Story 陆沉总裁番外 Lu Chen: CEO Side Story —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn in 1992: Starting with a Hunan Restaurant 重生1992：从一家湘菜馆开始 Food blogger Shen Yan is reborn in 1992. From the start, he takes over a Hunan restaurant on the verge of closing. The kitchen is filthy and chaotic, the dishes are slapped together, and a “Business for Transfer” sign has been hanging outside for three months. That year, Deng Xiaoping has just completed his southern tour, and the winds of reform and opening up have finally reached the Three Xiang region. The golden age of private business is just beginning. Shen Yan binds himself to the “Huna 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 What Kind of Setup? A Blind Date! 什么局？相亲局！ What kind of setup? A blind-date setup! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Rules Are Everywhere in This House 这个家到处是规则 This House Is Full of Rules —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Household Rules 家庭守则 Family Rules —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Liu Jianzhong, Who Keeps Getting Reincarnated 又穿的刘建中 Liu Jianzhong, Back for Another Round 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 An Ultra-Realistic Tabletop Maze 超真实桌游迷宫 Ultra-Realistic Board Game Maze 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Transmigrated into an Ancient Gluttonous Mother-in-Law, I Open Food Shops Across the Country 穿成古代馋嘴婆婆，食铺开遍全国 Food blogger Tian Mei wakes up as a gluttonous woman in her fifties in Yunshan Village, Li Kingdom. Her husband died young, her three sons are mamas' boys, her daughter has married into a wealthy family, and her three daughters-in-law are all clear-headed. Tian Mei looks up at the sky. “Heavens, you can't mess with me like this!” Looking at the few coins the family has left, Tian Mei rubs her hands together. So you're all greedy for food? Then let this old glutton show you what she can do. With —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 My Little Sister Must Live 我妹必须活 My Little Sister Must Live —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Gourmet: The God of Food Starts a Business with a Street Stall 美食：食神创业从摆摊开始 [Gourmet] [Lighthearted] [Slice of Life] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [No Romance] After losing his job, Zhao Lei unexpectedly gets bound to a God of Food System. Starting with a street stall selling jianbing guozi, he makes all kinds of Chinese delicacies until everyone is drooling for a taste. “Young man, our secretary wants you to be the head chef at the municipal canteen. You can get a civil service position without taking the exam.” “What? My alma mater, New Oriental, wants me to come back and g 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 One VIP Guest, Welcome! Right This Way! 贵宾一位，欢迎光临，里面请！ [System + food + opening a restaurant + no romance + business management + slow-paced] Aren’t people born in the 2000s supposed to be reforming the workplace? So why can’t I even get into one? Do I even deserve a job? Chen Fanmo has graduated, and she’s unemployed too. You want to know why an outstanding graduate can’t find a job? Work hard, and you’ll wreck your back, ruin your eyes, go bald, and lose your mind! Working for a boss is out of the question. She’d never do it in this lifetime. All 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Gourmet System: Opening a Restaurant with My Adorable Baby 美食系统之带着萌宝开餐厅 Xia Ji, an orphan from the 21st century, never imagined she would suddenly die and transmigrate just as her career and home life were both taking off... Alone with two adorable children and a rundown shack, Xia Ji is a little panicked... “I’ll give you everything you want: a career and a home.” At the crucial moment, the System makes a dazzling entrance... With the System’s help, let’s see how Xia Ji uses 21st-century cuisine to win over the people of this otherworldly continent... “My lady, wou 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Art of Medicine 药法 A potion mage whose soul comes from a chef on Blue Star, together with his companions, adventures across another world and gathers all kinds of delicacies and an astonishing variety of medicinal plants. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Reborn in the 1980s as a Little Chef: Cherished After Divorce 重生八零小厨娘：离婚后被宠上天 This novel is absolutely perfect for reading over a meal. Slurp~ A Michelin-starred chef travels back to the 1980s. Freshly divorced, she turns her life around with her cooking! She revamps a traditional stove, sells noodles at a street stall, and recreates a hundred classic dishes from Recipes from the Garden of Contentment: crab-stuffed oranges bursting with flavor, milky-white mutton soup, and Wensi tofu sliced into strands as fine as silver thread. The little stall at the town entrance draws 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Gourmet: I Set Up a Little Stall and the Whole City Put Me Under Surveillance 美食：摆个小摊，竟被全城盯梢 [Gourmet] [Daily Life] [Comedy] [Perfect with a Meal] [Healing] After Lu Yang gets bound to a random Gourmet System, every day becomes more exciting than the last. Each week brings a random location and a random task, and he’s not allowed to tell customers in advance. He only wanted to coast along and collect rewards, but every time the place is packed, leaving him exhausted as a dog! He sells grilled sausages outside a school, barbecue in a park, wontons on a mountaintop, and grilled fish in th 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Awakening Era 觉醒年代 The Age of Awakening 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Little Kitchen of Fireworks 烟火小厨 [Character Growth × Slow Burn × Ensemble Cast] Food blogger Xiao Wei wakes up one day and finds herself transmigrated to ancient times. She thinks it’s just a cruel joke of fate, but little does she know that her life’s journey has only just begun. Fu Qingtang was born into privilege. She has much, and is destined to bear even more. Lin Qiaolan is proud and headstrong, but no matter how tough her shell, it cannot shield her from the push and pull of fate. Their fates are different, and they come 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Drifting into the Haunted Room 漂移凶间 Mild Horror + No Stupid Decisions + Narrative-Driven + Slow Pacing + Large Cast In her previous life, Shen Qingyue was a brilliant but ill-fated rising forensic pathologist. Just as she was about to expose a shocking conspiracy, her life was cut short by a murder disguised as an accident. As her consciousness faded, she saw the killer's blurred, cold smile. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to three years earlier, to the crossroads of her fate. She had just joined the Municipal P 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Gourmet: I Set Up Random Food Stalls, and Customers Beg Me Through Tears Not to Leave 美食：随机摆摊，顾客哭求我别走 [Everyday life] [Random street stalls] [Whimsical ideas] [No romance] [System] Qin Feng, a trained chef, transmigrates to Blue Star and activates the God of Cooking System. By completing the System's tasks each week, he earns different rewards. He grills barbecue in a fitness park packed with gym-goers; sells starch sausages by the dozen outside an elementary school full of parents; and hawks fresh pork wontons atop a mountain in gale-force winds and pouring rain. His customers are constantly le —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 A Warm Meal and Slow-Burning Romance with You 与你暖餐慢恋 [Lovers Across Time and Space] + [An Old House and Parallel Timelines] + [A girl plagued by bad luck falls for a lonely man from another time and space] Is your time moving too slowly, or am I moving too fast? Why is it that once I leave this place, I can never see you again? In an old house with peeling walls, I open the door and let the breeze blow through. You stand in the doorway and ask me, "Can I come with you?" 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 A Max-Level Social Butterfly Gets Rich in a Period Novel 满级社牛，在年代文里暴富 [Transmigrate into a Book + Food + Everyone's Favorite + Farming + Business] Oh no! Tian Cheng went to sleep and woke up as the vicious supporting female character in a period novel. She has a sweet face but a bad-tempered, unpleasant personality, and she has a crush on the male lead. Jealous of the heroine, she targets her at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death, leaving everyone sighing over her fate. But Tian Cheng is a food lover, and she has no plans to repeat the same mistakes. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Selling Lunchboxes at the Cemetery, With Customers Chasing Me for a Meal 墓地摆摊卖盒饭，食客追着我干饭 [Gourmet + everyday life + healing + comfort food + no romance + random street-food stalls + System + urban fantasy] The restaurant went under, the owner ran off, and my job fell through. Then a Gourmet System came out of nowhere, giving me a random location and random dishes each week, along with quests, rewards, and all kinds of customers. Rice bowls topped with meat at a cemetery stall, fried braised jelly at a trendy morning market. Fried skewers delivered outside a gym, grilled chicken legs —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Top Chef: The Prince Regent Can’t Get Enough 一品厨娘：摄政王爷吃上瘾 Before they married, he was the legendary Prince Regent: hot-tempered, irritable, and cold-hearted. No woman ever left his chambers unscathed. Some were so terrified they took to their beds, while others went into permanent seclusion in the countryside. After their wedding, Su Xiaonan is utterly baffled. What happened to accepting her miserable fate? What happened to resigning herself to a lonely life? Can someone tell her who this cheeky little man is, following her around and begging for snack 34Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 29 I Opened a Restaurant by the University [Gourmet] 我在大学旁开饭馆【美食】 [Cozy farming and food story] [No romance] [A System is present, but it stays in the background] [Ensemble cast] [The apocalypse is only part of the heroine’s backstory and has nothing to do with this story] Xu Ruyi was an utterly ordinary person. When she transmigrated into an apocalyptic world, she thought she’d gotten cheat powers and become the main character, but it turned out she was just an extra. After transmigrating back to the modern world, she decided that, having lived two lifetimes 164Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Gluttonous Shopkeeper and the Lovely Chef 贪吃掌柜俏厨娘 [Food + Sweet Romance + Delightful Daily Life] At some point, an out-of-towner arrived in Bianliang and opened a fine-dining restaurant in a misty, rainy alley. There was always a long line outside, with commoners from the streets as well as high-ranking officials from the imperial court. A certain official hurried home from court, shouting, “Are there any soup dumplings left?!” A noble young lady from a prestigious family got up early to queue: “Save those cherry pastries for me!” People came a 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 I Set Up a Snack Stall and Made the Whole Town Drool 摆摊卖小吃，全镇馋哭了 [Farming + shop + food + street vending + opening a restaurant + slice of life + making a fortune] Lin Yuan wakes to the sound of an argument and realizes he has transmigrated! He's landed in a mountain village, in the body of a poor, scrawny young man. The thatched hut has mud walls and floors, and his entire family is painfully thin. Lin Yuan is close to tears, but luckily, heaven has gifted him a shop in this new life. Looking at the food and goods displayed in the shop, Lin Yuan immediately 57Reads—Score102Shelves
- 32 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—Shelves
- 33 Gourmet: My Snack Shop Time-Travelled to Ancient Times to Make Money! 美食：小吃店夜穿古代搞钱！ [Food + alternate setting + business + heartwarming + no romance] Tian Xin transmigrated into an alternate era one night and unexpectedly came into possession of a shop. She discovered that she could travel between ancient and modern times from inside the shop, and began a nightly journey to the past, making modern food and earning money. The little shop is equipped with every modern kitchen appliance she could need, and she can bring them along when she transmigrates. In this alternate era, whe 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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 13Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 35 Foodie Card Draws: I Reach the Top as a Chef by Setting Up Random Stalls 美食抽卡：我靠随机摆摊登顶厨神 [Food] [Random Pop-Up Stalls] [No CP] [Cards] [Daily Life] [Healing] [Funny and Lighthearted] [Ensemble Cast] Jiang Yan, who has a laid-back attitude and what seems like a cheat-code life, binds to a Food Card Draw and Random Stall System and declares: "I’m going to become the God of Cooking!" One draw a day, and the food transforms in all kinds of ways. S-rank cards shine with golden light again and again. (The System will upgrade, and the protagonist will unlock new abilities. Later on, he won 1.6kReads—Score184Shelves
- 36 The Sichuan-Spiced Little Chef 川辣小厨娘 Her birth mother was violent and uncivilized, her birth father weak and selfish, and her adopted younger brother all fake smiles and empty pleasantries. Luo Qinglan said, “One comes, I beat one. Two come, I beat them both.” She opened a chain of restaurants and distinctive inns, bought mountains and fields to build vegetable farms, and launched a chain of cold-drink shops. Armed with her modern cooking skills and experience managing restaurants, she thrived in the ancient world. Her only problem 15Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 37 I Sell Meals at an Ancient Army Camp, and the Soldiers Go Wild for Them 我在古代军营卖饭，将士们吃疯了 Must-Read Comedy: The Battle of Xiaoying, Liu Yu's campaign against Southern Yan, and the Battle of Yubi. Li Yi'an transmigrates to an ancient battlefield and binds to a System that lets her sell meals. The swords and blades the soldiers once used to reap heads have now become clubs for shoving their comrades aside; the once-sturdy shields are knocked every which way. Men who weren't afraid to die on the battlefield are now pushing, cursing, and even brawling like madmen just to get one step clo 3.2kReads—Score296Shelves
- 38 My Princess Who Loves to Cook 我那爱做美食的公主 [Imperial Princess + Food Livestreaming + Superpowers + Insectoid Race + No CP] Luo Xiyue got herself killed because of a moment of misplaced compassion. She swore she wouldn’t be softhearted in her next life, then transmigrated to the interstellar age and became a beloved little princess of the empire on the home planet. A culinary wasteland? Rampaging alien beasts? An insectoid invasion? Luo Xiyue says none of that is a problem. She plans to return to her old line of work, transforming from an 58Reads—Score100Shelves
- 39 Fired for Rejecting Premade Meals, I Become a Master Chef with the System 拒预制菜被开除，我靠系统成厨神 Chen Feng, head chef at a five-star hotel, is fired on the spot after standing up to his boss and refusing to use premade food! Who would’ve thought he’d be bound to a [Culinary Inheritance System], receive the Golden Egg Fried Rice recipe from the start, and take over a run-down 50-square-meter neighborhood shop? With his authentic, no-nonsense cooking, one bowl of fried rice brings the whole street to tears! No artificial tricks, just top-quality ingredients, from egg fried rice to Kung Pao ch 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Gourmet: Boss, You're Bold to Run a Street Stall 美食：老板你摆摊真任性啊 [Everyday Life] [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [Perfect with a Meal] Ming Xuan unexpectedly awakens a street-stall System, and from then on, starts a life of randomly slacking off, no, running a stall. He sells flatbread and fried dough sticks in front of the DD Building, noodles at a middle school gate, and zongzi outside a university. What? The reward is 996,000 yuan. Why is the number so oddly specific? Wait, something's not right. Why is it 996? Is there something cursed 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 God of Cooking: I Own a Gourmet Food Truck 厨神：我有一辆美食餐车 Daily life + travel + food + no female lead. “What? A tea egg costs a hundred thousand? Are you crazy, or am I?” “It's delicious? Even if it's delicious, it's not worth that much!” “It can make you stronger and keep you young forever? Are you joking?” “It can stop cancer cells from spreading, and eating one for ten days can cure cancer?” “Enough talking. I'll pay two hundred thousand for one. Buy it now!” Daji, an intelligent life-form from the Food God Planet, falls into the hands of a poor you 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Little Chef in the Modern World 小厨娘在现代 From a little cook in the Prime Minister’s residence to a down-and-out young woman in the modern world, Jiang Yiyi takes it all in stride. With her cooking skills, she never has to worry about food or clothing. (No awful characters, just everyday life and delicious food.) 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 After Transmigrating, I Became a Food Streamer in the Interstellar World 穿越后我在星际做美食主播 Shen Xing had just gotten a new car, but less than ten minutes after leaving the dealership, he crashed it. His heart was breaking! He immediately got out to check on his precious car, completely forgetting everything his driving instructor had told him. You can probably guess what happened next: forget the car, he was barely alive himself. As he lay dying, Shen Xing was still thinking that in his next life, he’d prepare properly for the first written driving test and grind through hundreds of p 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Healing Food for Other Worlds: Su He’s Traveling Kitchen 食愈位面：苏禾的移动小厨 [Quick transmigration + No Romance + Gourmet Buff Heals the Whole World + Savior] Su He accidentally binds herself to a World-Healing Gourmet System, taking her life in a whole new direction. Pushing a little food cart, she travels through worlds on the verge of collapse, using her cooking skills to slowly fix one mess after another. Whether it’s a lawless wasteland, a star realm filled with chaotic energy, or an ancient world where spiritual energy is nearly depleted… No matter how broken the 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Gourmet: Transmigrating to Run a Street Stall, I Leave Customers Drooling as They Count Their Money 美食：穿越摆摊，馋哭顾客狂数钱 [Gourmet] [Perfect with a Meal] [Comedy] [After Being Reborn] [Everyday Life] [Transmigration] [Lighthearted] [No Romance] After Wang Dazhi transmigrated, he had the bad luck to fall into a women's bathhouse, but unexpectedly gained a random food-stall System! The location, food, and food truck were all random. Complete a task and an immense fortune could fall right out of the sky! Selling youtiao outside a nursing home! Selling fried rice in the middle of a lake at midnight! Selling mixed noodl 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Gourmet: The Food Stall Location Leaves Customers Stunned 美食：摆摊地点让食客震惊不已 [Food + System + no female lead + comedy + comfort-food reading + easygoing + lie flat] Under crushing social pressure, the poker-faced Wu Ming transmigrates to a parallel world and acquires a Food System. As long as he sets up his stall at the location specified by the System, he can achieve financial freedom and live a life of leisure! The locations are all bizarre, and the customers are all different. He fries rice on a stone platform perched on a cliff, climbs to the summit of Mount Everest 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Horse Taming by the God of Cooking: Winning It All Through Food Therapy 厨神御马：靠食疗carry全场 Who says a chef can’t dominate the playing field? Bring modern sports nutrition to the ancient world of polo, and it’s a whole new level of competition! Other teams train themselves to the bone. Mine just has to eat! A bowl of [Muscle-Building Power Soup] before the match sends their stamina through the roof; a cup of [Rapid Recovery Drink] during the game keeps them going without end; and a plate of [Blood-Flow-Boosting Recovery Meal] afterward makes every injury disappear. I, Su Qian, used not —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 In the Cultivation World, I Set Up a Stall Selling Barbecue from the Start 人在修仙界，开局摆摊卖烧烤 [Gourmet cultivation, running a business and farming, no female lead, slow burn, hilarious power progression] I'm just a chef. Surely it's only fitting for me to have a sect of my own~ …Divider… [Cultivation Realms] Human race: Body Tempering, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refining, Body Integration, Mahayana, Tribulation Transcendence, Ascension, Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal… Demon race: (Ranks 58Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 49 Gourmet: Starting with Randomly Setting Up a Stall to Sell Liangpi 美食：从随机摆摊卖凉皮开始 No heroine, food, street vending, healing, daily life, and a relaxing tone. The protagonist sets up a stall at random spots on the street, selling all kinds of snacks, changing locations every week. The food on offer varies, including cold noodles, grilled gluten skewers, tofu pudding, spicy beef noodles, handmade spicy strips, congee, steamed buns, and more. 156Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 50 A World of Flavor 风味人间 Food is the main storyline, travel the side plot. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, there’s no face-slapping, and the tone is laid-back and slice-of-life. (He starts out alone and picks up friends along the way.) Xu Jinhuan is a skilled chef, with questionable manners, and the number-one slacker in the country. After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world and unlocking the Food System, Xu Jinhuan goes from a newly graduated aspiring chef to a creator of flavorful cuisine. His schedu 12Reads7.8Score—Shelves
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