Novels like A Spoonful of Chili Essence, and the Gods Beg Me to Stop
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Spoonful of Chili Essence, and the Gods Beg Me to Stop, best match first.
- 101 The Company Went Bankrupt? One Plate of Eggplant Revives It 公司破产？我一盘地三鲜起死回生 Li Yichen had barely been reborn when he was faced with a complete mess. His company's account balance had dropped to less than fifty thousand. He couldn't pay salaries or social security contributions, and soon he wouldn't even be able to afford meal allowances! With the company on the brink of collapse and his employees ready to quit, the God of Cooking System suddenly awakened! So Li Yichen decided to start with the meal allowances. To cut costs, he would cook for his employees himself! But o 6.7kReads7.6Score578Shelves
- 102 Making a Living in Chang'an 穿到长安城养家糊口 The Qiang flute plays bright melodies, while Hu music stirs dancers to their feet. The streets of Chang'an teem with carriages and horses, and visitors crowd together like a woven tapestry. An Tanyin arrives from another world and becomes the eldest daughter of the An family, a Han-Hu family in Chang'an. All she wants is to live peacefully in this vast city with her younger brother and sister. Both her parents are dead, yet even her meager inheritance draws covetous eyes. She lives by the princi 725Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 103 Managing the Myriad Worlds: I Brought Blue Star Back to Life 万界经营：我复活了蓝星 Rui Ye opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated into the body of Alice Tao, an orphan who died of heart disease in the interstellar age. Before she can even recover from the shock, her smart device has changed her name, and the Myriad Worlds Planet Management System drops right into her lap. What? Because of the interstellar chaos, her home planet, Blue Star, has lost its cultural heritage and its people are scattered, so she has to manage and rebuild it, restoring Blue Star to its former 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Country Chef at the Wok, Villagers Want a Feast Every Day! 农村掌大勺，村民天天想吃席！ Gu Ze transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to the top chef System. Other people who transmigrate get a food System that appears and disappears without a trace, and customers chase it down the street. But his System has just one task: cater banquets and earn ten thousand yuan a month. After Gu Ze caters a harvest feast for an entire village, his name spreads through the little town. The villagers spend every day plotting how to get a seat at a banquet. “You say you don’t know me? F 4.9kReads8.8Score393Shelves
- 105 I Became a Starwide Sensation by Livestreaming Gourmet Food 我靠美食直播爆红全星际 Wen Tian, a food blogger popular with everyone, transmigrated. The good news was that she had arrived in a technologically advanced interstellar future. The bad news was that her height and weight were now the same, and this interstellar age was a culinary wasteland. To make a living, Wen Tian decided to return to her old profession. She would livestream her cooking while losing weight. She never expected her skills to be so good that they would draw ridicule. “If you can make ramen yourself, I’ 578Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 106 Pack Up, Aze! The Special Task Force Can't Take It Anymore! 收摊吧阿泽！专案组扛不住啦！ [Don't Be Fooled by the Low Rating, You'll Get Your Money Back If It's Not Good + Hilarious Street Food Stall + Unconventional Crime Solving + Disturbing Dishes + Interlocking Mysteries] Su Ze is bound to a food-stall System. He thinks he'll make a fortune selling food, but the System isn't quite right. It's great at cooking, yet obsessed with solving crimes and catching criminals. From the start, he sets up his stall in a residential compound late at night, alarming the local police station and 528Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 107 The Side Character Strikes Back: A Thousand Ways to Feed a Yandere 女配翻身：投喂病娇的千种方式 Yun Zhimiao finds herself inside an old novel about a fake and a real heiress. She thinks she has landed in a family-intrigue drama, but it turns out she has been bound to a Food System. To avoid being erased by the System, she diligently cooks and saves up points. Crispy rice cakes, fried fresh milk, lobster-tail noodles, cheese-filled crispy chicken cutlets, Thai-style cured seafood, fragrant spicy rice crackers, sweet-and-sour pork tenderloin, Guobaorou, pudding tarts, jasmine iced rice. The 395Reads8.4Score109Shelves
- 108 Farming in a Fishing Village: The Lucky Carp's Sweet, Tender Bride 渔村种田，锦鲤甜妻软又娇 Food blogger Li Ying opened and closed her eyes, and found herself in ancient times, suddenly a mother... Her mother-in-law was unkind, her brother-in-law overbearing, and her husband indifferent... With a pocket dimension and one hundred thousand coconuts, Li Ying flipped the table. She was done with this! She was taking the kids and running away! After ending up in a small fishing village, Li Ying’s eyes widened. Those seafood products being sold for next to nothing could all be turned into de 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 You Want Me to Open a Breakfast Shop? I Only Open in the Afternoon 让我开早餐店？我下午才营业 [System] [Gourmet Food] [Healing] [Lighthearted Comedy] No heartburn while reading! Enjoy without worry! Fan Li used to manage livestream operations. Under pressure, he developed insomnia, showed up late, and was fired. Then he unexpectedly obtained a God-Tier Breakfast System. But his old daily routine had nothing in common with the schedule of selling breakfast. Customer 1: What! In this godforsaken place, he dares to charge eighty-eight yuan for a steamer of soup dumplings? Customer 2: When i 224.2kReads8.5Score16.3kShelves
- 110 The God of Food Is Here 食神来了 Three years after hanging up his cleaver, Ye Gui, head chef of the state banquet kitchen, makes his comeback. This time, he’s returning by livestreaming visits to restaurants. The book is also known as: “Death Has Arrived,” “The God of Food Livestreams Restaurant Visits, and Chefs Around the World Panic,” “The Food Safety Act,” “A Chef Must Stay True to His Principles,” “The Streamer Says You’re Going to Jail, So You’re Really Going to Jail,” and “Fact-Checkers, This Is What Real Fact-Checking L 1.1kReads8.7Score100Shelves
- 111 Goodbye, I'm Going Home to Run a Stall 拜拜了您，我回家摆摊了 [Gourmet + Slice of Life + No Romance + Heartwarming] Shen Huan was an ordinary office worker. The company was rife with cutthroat competition, and her direct boss kept making things difficult for her. After working diligently overtime for half a year, she'd finally had enough of his torment and quit. Who cared about this lousy job? In a fit of anger, Shen Huan quit without another job lined up, packed her things, and went back to her hometown. When she decided to start a street food stall, she 3.5kReads8.6Score253Shelves
- 112 Spreading the Cuisine of Huaxia Across the Future 我在未来传播华夏美食 [Interstellar cuisine + male lead + robot male lead Shen Li] Shen Lulu transmigrates into the body of an interstellar orphan. With adulthood approaching and no money left for food, she sets her sights on Capital University’s cafeteria and takes it over. Before long, the students of Capital University are all living happily. "Meat-stuffed flatbread or jianbing for lunch today?" "I think soy milk and fried dough sticks are the best." "Breakfast has to be dumplings or wontons!" "What about steamed 1.2kReads8.2Score112Shelves
- 113 Gourmet: A Restaurant Across from the High School 美食：高中对面开饭馆 [Everyday life + delicious food] [Male protagonist] [No romance] The romance tag wasn’t my choice, sob Orz [July 28: I just saw that the rating is up! Thank you all for rating my story (bows). Thanks for your support.] Yao Yiji works overtime to support his sister’s two children, then collapses at his desk. Bound to System 677, he’s told that completing his mission will send him back to the day before he died suddenly. After the mission ends, he returns to the present day with System 677. He pla 643Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 114 You Want Me to Get Married Just So You Can Eat at the Wedding Banquet? 为了吃席，你竟然催我结婚？ Worn out both mentally and physically by the cutthroat rat race in his industry, Chen Yuan returns to his hometown. He had planned to lie flat and live as a slacker, but the System forcibly binds itself to him. The System scans for available careers: village banquet chef, rural content creator, expert farmer, and rural Taobao partner. Before Chen Yuan can react, the System automatically selects village banquet chef, sending him off to cook up feasts in the countryside. Master Chen accidentally f 7kReads8.1Score529Shelves
- 115 Gourmet: Touring the City with My Food Stall, Making Diners Drool 美食：全市巡摆，馋哭食客 [Gourmet + System + No Romance + No Female Lead + Heartwarming + Hard Work] Yan Qing, a minor actor who had spent his career playing corpses, quit the entertainment industry. To his surprise, he accidentally became bound to a Chef God Gourmet System. Before long, strange sights began appearing all over the streets of S City: the CBD, university gates, outside the film studio, by the cemetery... The lines stretched as far as the eye could see... A top star became his loyal customer and shamelessl 10.5kReads7.5Score876Shelves
- 116 The Foodie Heir and His Charming Chef 吃货世子俏厨娘 Her parents are both dead, and she has only two old servants by her side. Their money is stolen and their house is burned down. Where can they go from here? It's time to unleash her inner power! Watch her gather herbs in the mountains and turn junk into treasure, then fish in the river and enjoy a bountiful harvest year after year. Others keep cats, but she keeps a leopard. Watch her adorable pets cause a stir in the capital: Some glutton: “Fat cat! Put down that piece of meat. It's mine!” The l 360Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 117 Gourmet: Mr. Ye, Where Do You Think You'll Run This Time? 美食：叶先生，看你这次往哪跑 [Everyday Life] [No Romance] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [A Good Read Over Meals] In his previous life, Ye Fan had an accident and was dragged to the underworld by Ox-Head and Horse-Face. With a wave of his hand, King Yama changed Ye Fan's fate. He is given a brand-new identity as a master chef. Watch him complete his missions while enjoying life. Random dishes, random street-stall locations, one thing always stays the same: everything tastes amazing! Selling buns beside a restroom, lobster outs 909Reads6.6Score100Shelves
- 118 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 66Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 119 I Sell Lunch Boxes, So Isn't It Only Natural for the School Cafeteria to Go Under? 我卖盒饭，学校食堂倒闭很正常吧 [Food + comedy + one heroine + transmigration + System] Lu Rong rents a small stall on a college campus to sell boxed meals, but business is so poor that he's on the verge of closing down. Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakens a Super Gourmet System and instantly becomes a top chef. A simple plate of egg fried rice is enough to draw countless students and teachers to his stall. Then Lu Rong starts offering even more top-quality dishes, and the whole campus goes wild. Everyone joins the rank 1.3kReads8.6Score103Shelves
- 120 I Made My Fortune in the Interstellar World Through Food 我靠美食在星际发家致富 Lu Miaomiao transmigrates from the apocalypse to the interstellar age, and from the start she’s saddled with a massive medical debt. Making money is her top priority! Resources are plentiful here, but good food is scarce. Lu Miaomiao is a foodie, so she decides to become self-sufficient and sets out to become a food streamer! After watching Lu Miaomiao’s streams, the people of the interstellar age are practically drooling. One after another, they exclaim, “We want to eat that too!” 314Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 121 Smoke Rises from the Kitchen in the Deep Clouds 云深炊烟起 After retiring, Old Wu digs out a yellowed ledger filled with twenty years of favors and gift money: who gave what, who still owes him, all meticulously tallied. He thought he would spend the rest of his life counting every penny, until he met a young man from Shaanxi crying by the roadside, an elderly woman named Zhao living alone, and Old Liu, who had broken his leg… He began to understand that some debts can be calculated, but some kindnesses can never be repaid. From then on, Old Wu keeps a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 You Opened a Restaurant, So Why Are You Serving Customers at Three in the Morning? 让你开美食店，你凌晨三点营业？ [Gourmet]+ [Urban Fantasy]+ [Comedy]+ [Healing]+ [No Female Lead] Recently unemployed Lu Feng was planning to sell the little restaurant his parents left him, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. One quest each week, a random dish, and random opening hours. He turns ordinary dishes into peerless delicacies, and ravenous customers line up and scramble to get them. Customer One: Boss Lu, these soup dumplings are the best I've ever had in my life! Customer Two: I even threw out my 450Reads7.2Score105Shelves
- 123 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 449Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 124 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
- 125 Shocking! The Entire Court Is Drooling Over My Cooking 震惊！满朝文武都被我馋哭了 [Food + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + business + farming] Overnight, Shen Qing transmigrated into the only daughter of a restaurant owner. She thought she’d have a comfortable life, but the moment she opened her eyes, she found herself in hard mode. Her father had died in an accident, and with no sons in the family, her cousin had seized their vast estate. She and her mother were forced to live in a dilapidated house, while her scumbag fiancé broke his promise and went off to enjoy roman 31.9kReads7.9Score2.8kShelves
- 126 My Kitchen Connects to Teyvat 我的厨房连通提瓦特 [Finally got a rating~ Just watch it slowly climb~] [Genshin Impact fanfic_two-world transmigration_food_daily life_shopkeeping_light yuri_cozy and angst-free_character illustrations] Huajuan is a petite chef who has just graduated. Burdened with a 300,000 yuan debt borrowed from her father, she opens a place called the Doorway Diner in the suburbs. Her biggest secret is the starry-sky watch left behind by the missing former owner. It lets her step straight from the real world into Mondstadt's 1.2kReads8.2Score108Shelves
- 127 I Have a Divine Cauldron: Slay Demons, Cook, and Cultivate Immortality 我有神鼎，斩妖烹饪修仙 [The new book has just received its rating, so it'll gradually rise.] [Slow-paced + food + healing + ensemble cast + daily life + medicinal cuisine] I have a divine cauldron. I slay the fiercest demons and cook the most delicious dishes! The sect's fortune has been secretly stolen by a schemer, and my fellow disciples are all at rock bottom! Don't worry. If you've been poisoned, come have a bowl of soothing medicinal soup. If you've suffered broken bones and serious injuries, take a bite of brai 7.6kReads8.6Score750Shelves
- 128 I Used One Bowl of Noodles to Put a City on the Map 我靠一碗面，带动一座城 [Food + Scenic Area Management, No Stressful Shopkeeping, Well-Plotted, No Stupid Characters] From the start, he quit his job and headed home to take over his father's noodle shop. He turned the little shop into a countywide tourism sensation, putting the county's cultural tourism industry on the map. The Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Transportation Bureau, the Market Regulation Bureau, and even the county magistrate all begged to get on his good side. He even took over a bankrupt A-grade s 71.1kReads8.3Score7.8kShelves
- 129 The Little Restaurant in the Capital 京城小饭馆 Tender green bamboo shoots, fresh crucian carp sashimi, and Xindu mugwort Glossy green oil, fragrant scallions, refreshing wine, and slender, jade-white hands A little eatery has opened on East Street in the capital, where every inch of land is worth its weight in gold. And the owner is a girl of only fifteen or sixteen? Everyone who hears about it shakes their head and calls it foolishness. Isn't she just throwing her money away? The proprietress, Gu Nianxi, insists she doesn't care about makin 1kReads8.1Score147Shelves
- 130 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.3kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 131 Selling Egg Fried Rice at a Street Stall, Wielding My Spatula Until the Wok Smokes! 摆摊卖蛋炒饭，抡得锅铲都冒烟！ Food + Games + Challenges + Comfort Food + Heartwarming + Showbiz + No Romance After her contract expires, Shi Yi chooses to leave showbiz. By chance, she is selected by a food game, which requires her to take a little three-wheeled cart out to sell food every day. Level One: Sell ten-yuan boxed meals and throw in a bottle of water! The customers can’t believe what a bargain it is! “Boss Shi, I’ll have an order of braised ribs!” “Oh my gosh, you’ve even got king crab?!” “Boss Shi must be running 4kReads7.5Score420Shelves
- 132 After Getting Laid Off, I Restarted My Life with a Street Stall 被裁员后，我靠摆摊重启人生 [God Chef System] [Culinary Superstar] [Heartwarming Story] At 26, Xu Zichuan's life had hit rock bottom: he was unemployed and unmarried. Then, to his surprise, he awakened the “God Chef” System and became the most formidable culinary superstar in the food world. “Thirty-eight yuan for beef chow fun? Are you robbing me?” As soon as he said that, the man added, “...I'll take it. And give me another one.” Someone asked, “Boss, why are there only nine dishes on your menu every day?” “Because I onl 185Reads—Score155Shelves
- 133 The Kitchen God's Daily Life as a Mortal Worker 灶君下凡的打工日常 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] After ascending from a small world, Jixiang served for three hundred years as the Divine Lord of Blessings, also known as the fourth-generation Kitchen God. As a newcomer, he found that the vast Heavenly Court had no place for him to stay. And this so-called post as Kitchen God involved far more than simply tending the fire and cooking. Did immortals really live on nothing but nectar and dew? Deeply puzzled, Jixiang gathered his things and returned to the trade he knew 1.9kReads9.1Score241Shelves
- 134 God-Tier Food Truck: Foodies Around the World Beg Me to Set Up Shop 神级餐车：全球吃货求我出摊 System, Food, Street Stalls, Slow Pace, No Romance, Widowed The book’s new-release rating may be low at first, but 95% of reviews are five stars. Enjoy with confidence! Ye Wanting unexpectedly gets a magical mobile food cart System. Flatbread + pork floss + seaweed = seaweed-and-pork-floss turkey noodles Crab + flour = crab roe soup dumplings Lamb offal + garlic + pepper = peppery lamb offal soup Quality ingredients + premium recipes + perfect cooking = food adored by thousands Three-wheeled car 685Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 135 I'm a Culinary Genius, So Why Does Everyone Call Me a Heretic Cultivator? 明明厨艺天才，怎么都叫我邪修？ [Gourmet] [Comedy] [Slice of Life] Lin Xiaoyan is a rookie food blogger who, in an age when food bloggers are locked in a fierce struggle for clicks, has opened up a new path by learning as she cooks. But Lin Xiaoyan's videos never go the way you'd expect. She gets every step wrong, yet somehow the finished dishes turn out brilliantly! “Wait, if you don't know how to caramelize the sugar for red-braised pork, you can just use cola instead? And it still comes out so glossy and red. Are you sure 4.7kReads8.8Score333Shelves
- 136 Nourishing the Land with Food: My Fruits and Vegetables Have Come to Life 靠美食养地：我的瓜果通灵了 [Urban fantasy + food + slice of life + no romance + random street stalls + perfect mealtime reading] Fresh out of college and already unemployed, Gao Lin unexpectedly binds to a Food System and decisively heads home. Each week, he randomly sets up a stall to sell food, and in return his fruits and vegetables receive a huge upgrade. Tiny tomatoes can be prepared in a hundred different ways. A whole field of rotten tomatoes gets a new lease on life, and even college students who can't live withou 1kReads7.4Score102Shelves
- 137 Gourmet: My Restaurant Is Anything but Normal 美食：我家餐馆不正常 When Lin Zhixin was thirteen, she received the legacy of the Old Ancestor of the God of Cookery and began learning to cook in her dreams. On the day she graduated from college, the Old Ancestor told her there was an inheritance waiting for her. But there was one condition: she had to open a restaurant! She opened one, but Lin Zhixin felt there was something off about it. The prep cook was a koi spirit on the verge of ascending through a tribulation. The food runner was a Taotie who was never ful 163Reads8.1Score204Shelves
- 138 My Cooking God System Is Acting Up 我的厨神系统不对劲 A cultivation-world massacre sparked by egg fried rice, and a bowl of black sesame paste that fools people into founding a “sacred Buddhist lineage.” Lin Xian, a chef who transmigrates to the cultivation world, is bound to the “Ancient Food Cultivation System.” He thinks he can reach the pinnacle of life by cooking, until he makes a bowl of egg fried rice. Everyone who eats it sees their cultivation surge. It has just one “tiny drawback”: their hair falls out. Overnight, everyone in Radiant Sec 604Reads5.7Score100Shelves
- 139 The God of Cooking Takes Over, and I Turn My Sha County Restaurant into a Rip-Off! 厨神附体，我把沙县开成了黑店！ [Food + System + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Great with a Meal + Cunning Protagonist] Original title: The God of Cooking Takes Over, and I Turn My Shaxian Snack Shop into a Scam! After his best friend stabbed him in the back, Li Zhibai somehow ended up taking over a Shaxian snack shop in the most expensive part of Jiangcheng, and piling up a mountain of debt in the process. Luckily, he bound himself to the God of Cooking System and awakened a bizarre talent: [Charge Based 141.4kReads8.6Score10.4kShelves
- 140 Reborn as the Villain's Stepmother, Win Hearts with Good Food! 穿成反派后娘，攻心就用美食吧！ [Marriage First, Love Later + Adorable Baby + Food + Family Life + Humble Households] [Constable + Little Chef] Pu Jiaojiao discovers that she has transmigrated into a book she once read, becoming the villainous stepmother. The stepmother in the story abuses the children in every way imaginable and is utterly inhuman. Remembering the stepmother’s tragic ending, Pu Jiaojiao can’t help swallowing nervously. If she wins them over with delicious food, can she keep herself alive in the future? Watch 2.8kReads8.5Score216Shelves
- 141 I Set Up a Snack Stall in Ancient Times and Went Viral 我在古代摆摊卖小吃，火出圈了 [Transmigration + Fictional Setting + System + Cuisine + Daily Life + Wholesome Romance + Love Grows Over Time + One-on-One Romance + Beloved by All] Mu Wan transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a “dark-skinned, fat girl.” That’s not even the worst of it: she has a sickly husband who could die at any moment. No problem. She’s the head chef of the Imperial Kitchen and knows a little about medicine. If it has anything to do with food, she can handle it. Mu Wan rolls up her sleeves, ready to g 489Reads6.1Score105Shelves
- 142 My Stall Was Smashed, So I Climbed to the Top with a Gourmet System 摊子被砸，我靠美食系统踏巅峰 [System, food, lighthearted comedy, everyday city life, outlandish ideas, comeback, one heroine, slow-paced slice of life] After losing his job at thirty-six, Wang Ping’an can’t find work and returns to the small county town that’s both unfamiliar and familiar to him. There, he starts a new life running a food stall. With his cooking skills and a boost from the System, he earns titles like “Wok King” and “Beast Tamer”... Wang Ping’an: “How slow-paced is it? The System doesn’t show up until chapt 2.1kReads8.3Score159Shelves
- 143 Your Five-Yuan All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant: What the Heck Is King Crab? 你五元自助饭店，帝王蟹什么鬼？ [Gourmet] [Everyday Life] [Meme References] [Comedy] [Cozy] After transmigrating, Lin Xiao inherited a tiny roadside all-you-can-eat restaurant where everything cost five yuan. From the start, he was in a tight spot, unable to pay next month's rent. Luckily, the [Ultimate Restaurant System] came with him! All he has to do is collect customers' emotional points to unlock all kinds of cuisines and expand the restaurant. And so, a disruptive force in the all-you-can-eat fast-food world was born. Fr 3.6kReads7.9Score426Shelves
- 144 A Feast of Delicacies: Dream of the Red Chamber Cuisine Meets the Tang Dynasty 红楼美食适配大唐，饕餮盛宴 [Handcrafted Cultivation, Farming, and Food] [Supernatural Tales] [Sweet Everyday Life] [Vivid Characters] [Building a City] [Claiming Land as Immortal Territory] [Running a Cultivation Sanctuary] [No System] Wu Qingwen, a transmigrator with a Red Chamber space, always thought she was following the script of an ancient food-business story. Until one day, she saw a dragon in a well. * Steamed pork head meat with rice flour makes spring water gush from a dried-up sweet-water well. Honeyed Eight-Tr 2.2kReads8.8Score258Shelves
- 145 Transmigrating to a Picturesque Countryside Home of Fine Cuisine 穿越田园美食人家 When chef Xia Dong wakes up, she finds herself transformed into Xia Dong'er, a pitiful little bean sprout of a girl. Her gambling-addicted father wants to sell her, her greedy mother wants a divorce, and she has an adorable little brother. She lands straight in survival mode on the highest difficulty. Xia Dong'er says, “Wait, let me eat some meat first and catch my breath!” Sweet osmanthus fills the walnut-stuffed pastries, while pearl-like glutinous rice is rinsed in well water. A lifetime of f 1kReads8.6Score146Shelves
- 146 After Dreaming of a Drought, I Stockpiled Food Like Crazy with My Whole Family 梦到旱灾后，带着全家疯狂屯粮 [No romance] [Stockpiling supplies + food] After thirteen years of muddling along, Song Sanniang dreams of a drought one day and regains her memories. Convinced that Heaven has sent her a warning, she begins frantically stockpiling grain and eventually makes it through three grueling years of drought. 2.4kReads8.4Score179Shelves
- 147 In Journey to the West, I Conquer Them with Food 我在西游，靠美食杀穿 [Food + Journey to the West + Cozy Daily Life + No Romance] [Little stories along the journey to the west as the main plot]+ [Cooking and eating at the heart of it]+ [A little opportunism] [Reader discretion: The heroine loves slacking off; there's no hard work or striving] [Characters may be a little out of character, but I'll avoid it unless the plot calls for it] I'll bring you barbecue, fried skewers, and braised snacks... You can break off a Ginseng Fruit, a golden pill, or a celestial peac 1.5kReads8.4Score185Shelves
- 148 God-Tier Gourmet 神级美食家 The countryside is beautiful, and the food is delicious. Fry up some dishes, grow some crops, raise some fish, play with the dog, and make some babies. That’s the leisurely country life of Qin Feng, the God of Cooking. One day, Qin Feng sat lazily in the courtyard of his farmhouse restaurant and lifted his eyelids to glance at the three foreigners standing respectfully before him. “Boss Qin, this is the president of our country, who’s come especially to sample your cooking.” “Sorry, we’re sold o 1.8kReads8.3Score159Shelves
- 149 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Feast, but I Made the Imperial Banquet Chef Drool 让你农村烧大席，你馋哭国宴主厨 He transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a food System. Qing Yun, an unemployed man who has returned to his hometown, begins his rise to the top by cooking grand feasts in the countryside. First, an old woman wants one last taste of her own funeral banquet before she dies at ninety. Then a baby at a full-month celebration cries their eyes out because the food looks so good... With no other choice, Qing Yun takes up his giant wok again and again. “Red-braised pork knuckle, oil-splashed a 1.7kReads8.7Score108Shelves
- 150 As Long as the System Pays, I'll Work 996 to the End 只要系统出得起，996也干到底 [Food-focused (not purely a food story) + a touch of interstellar flavor + no romance + extremely laid-back and ambition-free] Lu Wei graduated from a mediocre university and found a nine-to-nine, six-days-a-week job. After working overtime for far too long, she eventually died suddenly from exhaustion. When she opened her eyes again, she had arrived in a strange world and become bound to a peculiar thing called the Food System. “Starting today, Host must go to the area beside Hope Elementary Sc 1.3kReads8.7Score102Shelves
