Novels like Gourmet: You Asked Me to Teach, but I Ran Off With the Parents
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- 1 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 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Transmigrating to the 1980s: I'm the One and Only Banquet Chef in the Countryside 穿越八零，农村吃席大厨非我莫属 Food + Countryside + System + Rural Banquet Cooking Wu Hao transmigrates to the 1980s. A banquet is being held in his village, and he gets drunk and boasts, “There’s no one within fifty li who can cook a banquet as delicious as mine.” After a couple more drinks, he makes an even bigger claim: “There’s no one in the whole country who can match my cooking.” Luckily, he gets a System to help him win a beautiful wife and become a master chef, letting him rule the 1980s. Everyone who once looked down 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 I’m a Chef in the Underworld 我在地府当厨师 [Cozy] [Healing] [Whimsical] [Gourmet] [Good food and love are both too precious to neglect] To keep up with the times and make the underworld more humane, the authorities offer perks to both the ghosts already living there and the newly arrived. You Xia, a human with an official underworld position, can travel between the living world and the underworld. An exceptionally skilled cook, she is assigned to a restaurant where she’ll prepare one free meal for each ghost, on the condition that they t 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 After Opening a Cafeteria, the Ancestral Dragon and Phoenixes Became My Top Supporters 开食堂后：祖龙二凤成我榜一大哥 [No CP + food story + lighthearted comedy + historical what-if + emperors bonding] After Shen Tingxue died, she was bound to the “Come Again” space. From the start, she made Meng Po cry with craving by bringing out a bucket of braised beef noodles. After becoming the owner of the underworld cafeteria, the place gradually went completely off the rails. The First Emperor and Taizong competed every day to be the top donor. The First Emperor (Ying Zheng) came by daily to wait for tomato beef noodles 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Cultivating Immortality? Isn’t It Just About Eating Whatever You Can? 修仙？那不是能吃就行吗 [Cultivation + Food + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Slow-Burn Pacing] Welcome to the foodie's cultivation world~ Cultivating too slowly? Eat more rice. Not enough spiritual energy? Have another helping. Shi Yu has just transmigrated. She wants to join a powerful food sect and eat her fill for free, but instead she faces the hardest entrance trial in a hundred years. Ten minutes into the exam “What? Everyone taking the trial ran off?” “Why?” “Don't they like houttuynia, stinky tofu, and du 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 My Restaurant Connects Two Worlds 我的饭店通两界 A new story is here. I hope you'll enjoy it! Shen Yanshu was specially admitted and promoted to Saint Delan Noble Academy because of her excellent grades. Who could have guessed that people at the school would take a dislike to her and bully her? But she wasn't one to take it lying down. After slapping a bully, she resolutely dropped out. She returned to the house her grandparents had left her, only to unexpectedly awaken a System and start a restaurant in ancient times. Even more surprising, s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 I Awakened a Gourmet System After Being Laid Off, and Became a God by Selling Street Food 被裁后觉醒美食系统，我摆摊成神 [Gourmet] [System] [Tycoon] [Feel-Good Story] [No Female Lead] [Daily Life] I’d just been laid off when I unexpectedly activated the Gourmet God System! What? The beginner quest is to sell “Devil’s Giant Chicken Cutlets” outside a fitness center? System, are you out of your mind? But when the golden, crispy cutlets sizzle in the fryer, their irresistible aroma instantly sets off a sensation! The fitness trainers’ knees go weak at the smell. Food bloggers nearly cry from craving them. A Michelin- 258Reads6.0Score10714d adds
- 8 White-Cut Chicken and Kapok 白切鸡与木棉 [Foodie Romance] [One-on-One, Both Chaste] [Slow-Burn Love] [Marriage Alliance Between Powerful Families] [Two Strong Leads] [Self-Media] The poached chicken needs to be soaked, lifted and dipped three times so the skin turns out perfectly crisp. The rose-soy duck needs to be basted, with the caramel cooked to a deep amber. Shrimp dumplings need twelve pleats. He takes her hand and shows her: "Pinch tightly here." She counts the seconds as the ginger milk sets: "Seventy seconds. Just right." The 2Reads—Score15214d adds
- 9 I Sold Dog Food at My Stall, and It Sold Out. I Never Said People Couldn’t Eat It! 摆摊卖狗饭被抢爆没说人不能吃吧 Shen Yi transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a rather unreliable Food System. Every week, the System assigns him a random street-stall mission: Sell boxed meals inside a haunted house that's about to close, sell milk tea in a nursing home that's going under, sell hamburgers at a weight-loss camp that can't attract any customers... Worst of all, it even tells him to sell homemade pet food at a pet shop that can't make a profit. Every dish leaves customers drooling, and once they 59Reads—Score10314d adds
- 10 Even Monsters Have to Set Up Street Stalls 妖怪也要摆地摊 [Food] [Street Stalls] [Lighthearted Comedy] [No Romance] [Ancient Mythical Beast] The score has just come in, so it should rise later~ As Taotie, an ancient mythical beast, Song Zhiwei had never eaten a human. In fact, she was so picky that she nearly starved to death in an age when spiritual energy was scarce. Fortunately, after taking human form a hundred years ago, she was adopted by a descendant of imperial chefs. She learned everything from her guardian and honed peerless culinary skills. 11.1kReads8.0Score1.5k14d adds
- 11 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 164Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 12 Gourmet: Selling Breakfast at a Night Market Stall 美食：我在夜市摆摊卖早餐 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Everyday Life] [Comfort Food] [Business] What, you’re selling breakfast at a night market stall? And it’s actually this delicious? You’re selling breakfast? This is my dinner! Shen Yan was fired for entering the office with his left foot first. By chance, he unlocked the Gourmet System and started running a food stall, working his way toward becoming a master chef through the dishes he made. Add sea cucumber to fried rice, and abalone to instant noodles. The finer the 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 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 106Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 14 Gourmet: I Set Up a Stall at Random, and American Diners Faint from Delight 美食：随机出摊，美利坚食客哭晕 [Easygoing everyday life + System gourmet food + bickering couple + American-style food + lie flat and keep a low profile + international students next door] After transmigrating to a parallel-universe America, Li Hui finds himself in a random location every ten days, serving random dishes to different customers. Lanzhou beef noodles outside Central Park in New York, BBQ for sale in a Queens neighborhood at night. A bunch of Black guys showed up armed, just to steal one of my chicken wings. I al 444Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 15 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 536Reads8.0Score10614d adds
- 16 Transmigration: After Quitting, the System Helps Me Open a Restaurant 穿越：辞职后系统带我开饭馆儿 [System] [Gourmet] [No heroine] [No romance] [Cozy] [Everyday life] Zhang Yang is an orphan. After finally learning to cook from a master, he is transported to another world by an explosion. When he arrives, he discovers that he is still an orphan. What? Am I cursed with bad luck? Do I not deserve parents? Just then, his phone chimes: @Zhang Yang, please come to the finance office tomorrow to complete your resignation procedures. Before he can reply, a dialog box pops up on his phone: You have b 650Reads8.0Score10214d adds
- 17 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 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 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 1.2kReads8.1Score13314d adds
- 19 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—14d adds
- 20 Transmigrating to Farm: I Became the Talk of the Village 穿越种田：我竟成了农门显眼包 [Alternate world | farming | food | business | System | male lead with a minor role] In a nutshell: After transmigrating into ancient times as a village girl, she planned to enjoy a peaceful country life, but unexpectedly became the center of attention. In her previous life, Yun Lan closed her eyes after suffering from ALS and yearning desperately for a healthy body. When she opened them again, she had become a humble village girl in Yushu Village, Chun'an County, in the Great Wei dynasty. Breat 2Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 21 Reborn: Selling Luosifen in Ancient Times 重生之我在古代卖螺蛳粉 [Transmigration + Alternate Universe + Food + Shopkeeping + Farming] A food story! No palace intrigues or household scheming, and the heroine doesn't marry into the imperial family. The whole story is lighthearted, with few nasty characters. There's no romance at first, but it comes later. This is an alternate-era setting, so don't take things too seriously. When Chu Mengning wakes up and sees her family's bare walls, she sighs and decides to rely on herself to lead her family to prosperity and 3Reads6.7Score214d adds
- 22 The Chief Minister's Darling Wife: I Run a Country Feast in the Ancient Countryside 首辅娇娘：我在古代农村烧大席 [Banquet Cooking + Farming + Business + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance] Tang Yuanyuan, from a family of master chefs, wakes up in the body of a farm girl in Great Zhou, only to have her engagement broken off from the start! Her father is sickly, her family is poor, and when they run out of grain, they eat bran. The whole family scrimps and saves, going hungry one day and eating their fill the next, just to pay their taxes. How are they supposed to get through these hard times? They’ll get through 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 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 270Reads6.8Score10814d adds
- 24 I Set Up a Stall Before the New Year and Left Customers Drooling 过年前摆一波摊，馋坏食客 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your follows motivate me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Wang Xu, the “King of Street Stalls,” quit his job right before the New Year and encountered a Gourmet System. Unlike a tycoon System, this one had a simple, no-nonsense way of taking its cut: a 70/30 or 60/40 split. Under this arrangement, Wang Xu had to meet the System’s KPIs while also working hard to increase his own earnings. 579Reads—Score10214d adds
- 25 A Food Blogger Transmigrates and Sets Up a Stall, Making the Whole City Drool 美食博主穿越后，摆摊馋哭全城人 [Everyday food + transmigration + lighthearted wish fulfillment + historical romance + farming + building wealth] Su Weiyang, crowned the King of Chefs at a modern food competition, wakes up to find she’s transmigrated back to ancient times! She’s become the notorious, same-name-and-surname villainess of the Su family, who has just been jilted. On her very first day after transmigrating, a strikingly handsome stranger rescues her, causing a sensation throughout the village. Su Weiyang takes a lo 273Reads—Score10014d adds
- 26 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! 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 I Won't Panic Through the Famine Years: My Space Is Packed with Meat 穿越荒年心不慌，我有空间肉满仓 Everyday life’s simple comforts are what soothe the heart most~ [Food + Farming + Building a fortune + Family squabbles + Raising a child + Sweet romance + Pocket dimension] [Important: The father is out of the picture, but the child stays! The heroine transmigrates into the past and already has a baby. Pure farming story, no rebellion, no saving princes or generals.] Yun Shu transmigrated into the body of a country woman in ancient times. Just as she got pregnant, her husband cheated on her an 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Bound to a Food System, My Little Shop Is Packed Every Day 绑定美食系统，我的小店天天爆满 [No CP + daily life + food + opening a shop + street vending + entirely handmade, no AI] After binding to a System, Peng Jie hopes to get rich by cooking and reach the pinnacle of life. But it turns out every dish he’s rewarded with must be practiced, and his cooking mentor is a senior administrator at KK Park. Every time he receives a new dish, he’s bound to get electrocuted. After making the whole street a hit, his greedy landlord raises the rent and forces him to leave South Street. Back in h 22.9kReads8.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 29 Wow, I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Got Rich Selling Food 哇，意外穿越到古代靠美食暴富啦 Su Muke is a novelist. One night, she discovers that the bracelet she bought contains a pocket dimension. Her quick-witted little brain immediately jumps to the idea of transmigration, and as it turns out, she guessed right. Su Muke really does transmigrate to ancient times, with a sick man and a little dumpling in tow. With a pocket dimension at her disposal, she has nothing to fear. She does business and cooks delicious food in the ancient world, focused solely on making money. But why does th 6Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 30 In the Heatwave Apocalypse, You’re Opening a Water Park in the Girls’ Dorm? 高温末世，你在女寝开水上乐园？ (The rating has only just been posted, but it’s sure to rise! This novel is so satisfying it’ll make your scalp tingle!) [Extreme heat and drought + multiple female leads + no saintly hero + extremely satisfying face-slapping + emotional points] In a post-apocalyptic world of extreme heat and drought, I was reborn in a girls’ dormitory! In my previous life, I served my campus belle girlfriend like a dog and searched everywhere for supplies. But they kicked me downstairs and left me to bake into 122Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 31 Little Chef of China: The Path of the Culinary Dao 中华小当家：厨道食途 [Gourmet] [The perfect dish to eat with rice] [Ancient-style setting] [Chinese Culinary Master] [Feel-good novel] The imperial kitchen inspector kicked over his stall. “You run a roadside stall, and you dare call yourself a chef?” With the few ingredients he had left, Cheng Xiaocai made a bowl of scallion oil noodles. An old Taoist watching the crowd finished a bite and immediately declared, “I'll take care of the authorities for you!” It turned out Cheng Xiaocai was descended from a famous chef 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 After Transmigrating to the Modern World, the Shadow Guard Kicks Back and Cooks 穿越现代后，暗卫开始摆烂做美食 No CP, just the everyday life of an ordinary female covert guard who loves food and gossip. Winter melon, watermelon, Hami melon, nobody’s going to stop me from getting the scoop. Juice-filled buns, dumpling juice, you little brat, get out of my way! Smash the plates, toss the chopsticks, and slap the scoundrels right across the face. I’ve got a temper and the skills to back it up. Nobody gets to push me around. Polished-up blurb A feast of fresh wine and sturgeon, a hotpot of clams. Given a sec 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Riverside Cook: The Everyday Delights of Sanlang 江畔厨娘：三郎真香日常 In the misty rain, the Riverside Fresh Bistro opens for business! Savory pickled greens and minced pork fried cakes, a pot brimming with the freshest fish, shrimp, crab, and turtle, rose bean paste in fermented rice wine, and vegetarian tofu soup with sesame oil! Her days are filled with delicious food, but she accidentally catches the attention of the damned Fu Sanlang. Not only does her peaceful life come to an end, but she also uncovers the truth behind her parents’ murder years ago. Fu Zi: “ 445Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 34 The Weekly Menu Changes at Random, and Customers Beg Me to Set Up My Stall 每周美食随机换，顾客跪求我出摊 [Food] [Cozy Everyday Life] [No Female Lead] [Comedy] [Feel-Good] Jiang Feng was sick of his nine-to-six office job. Wanting to be free, he quit and set up a food stall, only to unexpectedly awaken a Food System that unlocked a random dish every week! “Holy crap, I was worried I wouldn’t make money selling food from a stall, but with a System, making money should be a piece of cake!” Jiang Feng thought he’d enjoy a wonderful life where he could open his stall whenever he wanted and sleep in as l 12.1kReads6.5Score1.5k14d adds
- 35 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 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Capital’s First Female Tycoon Built Her Fortune with Food 京城第一女首富她靠美食发家了 Complete. Farming + mobile shop + food + beloved by the whole family + strong female lead Song Anning, a 21st-century chef who cooked at state banquets, died suddenly while researching food late at night. She woke up in ancient times and saw that her family had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Well, she’d have to start from scratch. Watch how this village girl makes a home and builds a life with snail rice noodles, hamburgers, barbecue, hot pot, malatang, and more. She only hoped to becom 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 From the Start, All I Had Was a Bowl of Luosifen: My Goal Is to Make a Hundred Million 开局一碗螺蛳粉，目标挣它一个亿 [Restaurant Management + Food + System + No Romance + Light Livestreaming + Grow and Prosper + Helping Farmers + Going Global] A bolt from the blue! Mu Xiaoxiao was unjustly fired by her company the day before she was due to become a permanent employee. Well, if there’s no place for me here, there’s a place for me elsewhere! What’s done is done. First, I’ll have a bowl of luosifen. As she slurped the noodles, she couldn’t help shouting inwardly, “If only I had a luosifen shop of my own!” [Host’s 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Shocking! The Wealthy Family's Fat Wife Is a Max-Level Spirit Chef 惊！豪门肥妻竟是满级灵厨 (The rating was just posted and will rise later.) [Transmigration + healing through food + sweet childcare romance + cozy daily life + one-on-one romance + love that grows over time] The moment she opened her eyes, Shen Zhigeng, a renowned culinary cultivator from the cultivation world, had become a wealthy man’s fat wife, mocked by the entire internet. Her parents favored her sibling, her younger sister was a poisonous flower, her CEO husband looked at her with disgust, and everyone online was 6.4kReads8.0Score65714d adds
- 39 What? Which Factory Cafeteria Charges Five Thousand for Meals? 见鬼！谁家工厂食堂伙食费五千？ [Slow-paced + everyday life + lighthearted + relaxing + food story set in an electronics factory] Ruan Xiuqing transmigrates to a parallel world and takes over the canteen of an electronics factory that's on the verge of going under due to poor management and lax oversight. After activating the cheat System, she receives [Master-Level Cooking], [Master-Level Knife Skills], and [Skill: Three Heads and Six Arms] from the start. Turning the canteen around is just a matter of time! Braised pork bell 271Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 40 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 327Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 41 How's Your Stomach Today? 今天你的胃还好吗？ Xu Nan runs a little shop in an old alley every day. Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, Xu Nan enjoys a peaceful, comfortable life with three meals a day. Is this the Back to Field lifestyle everyone longs for? Please give it lots of attention ^_^ 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 My Space Connects Two Worlds: Selling Steamed Buns and Tempting the Entire Internet 空间通两界，摆摊卖包子馋爆全网 [Transmigration between two worlds + Street stalls + Getting rich + Cozy business management + Food + Farming + Mountains and a house] A warm, everyday story She gains a space in the morning and gets kicked out of the Sun family in the afternoon. Jiang Buruan looks at the dilapidated thatched cottage, the dried-up well, and the nearly dead tree in her space, and can't help feeling cheated! Then she pushes open the rusty door beside the cottage and discovers that it leads to an ancient otherwo 626Reads6.3Score10314d adds
- 43 So Addictive! I’m Getting Caught Up in the Cutthroat Competition of Ancient China’s Restaurant Business 香懵了！我在古代餐饮业搞内卷 [Farming + food + business + raising children] One day, Jiang Yan, a mature single food blogger, transmigrated and got her wish of becoming a mother without the pain of childbirth. She became a widowed mother of three. Not having a man around was fine, but what was with all this debt, huh? And she was supposed to sell her daughter, too? Jiang Yan hugged her sweet, soft, adorable daughter close. This was the dream child she’d always wanted. Selling her was out of the question! So how was she goin 467Reads8.5Score10014d adds
- 44 I Opened an Eatery in Ancient Times and Picked Up a Child Bride Along the Way 我在古代开食铺，顺带捡个童养夫 (The rating just came out, but it’ll go up.) [Alternate world + Food + Business + Daily life + One couple only + Happy ending + Love grows over time] Ren Qingwu was born into the body of a newborn baby in one fell swoop, becoming the only daughter of a hunter’s family in the southwestern part of the Great Yong dynasty. Her parents died young, leaving her with a penniless household and a little food stall that barely kept them alive. She resolved to break through with good food: Kneading dough an 3kReads8.1Score34114d adds
- 45 Unemployed? The Gourmet System Takes Me Straight to the Top 失业？美食系统直接带我飞 [Gourmet System + Golden Finger + Ordinary Person Quietly Making a Fortune + No Romance] Li Beibei is an utterly ordinary university student, and her transition from graduation straight to unemployment goes perfectly smoothly. After yet another failed job application, Beibei gets on her knees and begs every god in sight to grant her a job. She knocks her head so hard that, with a clang, heaven drops a Gourmet System and a small, upgradable shop into her lap. Before she can even celebrate, she di 103Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 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—14d adds
- 47 My Stall Is Full the Moment I Open! Do You Know How Hard This Is? 刚出摊就客满，知道我有多苦吗？ [Comfort-Food Cuisine] [Delicate Writing] [Easygoing Daily Life] [Warm and Healing] After being reborn, Su Yu unexpectedly binds himself to the Ultimate Gourmet System. Egg fried rice: golden in color, with every grain distinct. One bite and you can't stop! Braised chicken: tender, juicy meat with layers of flavor. The sauce gushes out with the slightest bite! Chili oil noodles: chewy noodles that sizzle with heat, spicy and fragrant, with a lingering aftertaste! Every dish is top-notch, leaving 83Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 48 After Transmigrating, She Became the Mountain Man’s Little Chef 穿越后，她成了山里汉的小厨娘 Su Yingying, the owner of a chain restaurant in the 21st century, falls into a river. When she wakes up, she finds she's transmigrated into the body of an ordinary country girl. On her wedding night, the groom doesn't even lift her veil. He leaves her a handful of copper coins and walks away, leaving her alone in their new home. With a house that's bare, not enough to eat or wear, and a scrawny, sickly-looking younger brother-in-law, Su Yingying recalls the saying, “Make a living off the mountai 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 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—14d adds
- 50 On Her Wedding Night, the Prime Minister’s Wife Pulls Delicious Food from Her Bosom 新婚夜，丞相夫人从怀里掏出美食 Shen Tiantian is a food blogger who transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the prime minister's wife. She thinks she can stop working hard and coast through life...but why is reality nothing like she imagined? This prime minister is so unreliable... “Madam, what are we eating today?” “Madam, I want ice cream.” “Madam, can we have hot pot today?” ...Wait a minute. Outside, the prime minister is as cold as ice and avoids women like the plague, so why is he like this at home? Is it really okay 315Reads8.2Score—14d adds
