Novels like Endless Ingredient Mystery Boxes: From the Start, I Ran a Little Restaurant
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Endless Ingredient Mystery Boxes: From the Start, I Ran a Little Restaurant, best match first.
- 151 Has Lord Xu Broken His Vow of Abstinence Today? 禁欲的徐大人今天破戒了吗 A new restaurant has opened in Huayang City. Its proprietor is a pretty young widow, with a slender willow waist you could barely encircle with one hand and a gaze that seems to hook you in... People have taken to calling her the “Beguiling Blossom Proprietress.” The stern prefect, who has always kept his desires in check, darkened at the sight and scolded her coldly: “Shameless and depraved!” Later, the aloof Lord Xu, who never paid attention to women, met the beguiling and enchanting proprie 4.1kReads9.3Score570Shelves
- 152 Gourmet: Taking Over the Bear’s Prison Canteen 美食：从承包毛熊监狱食堂开始 After a disastrous blind date, Tang Lei flees overnight, only to bind himself to a Chef God System that randomly assigns him a place to run: the cafeteria of a prison in a nation of tough fighters! Pork stewed with potatoes, red-braised pork, stuffed eight-treasure duck, sweet-and-sour ribs… Homestyle dishes! State-banquet cuisine! Every delicacy imaginable! Bring a taste of the culinary kingdom to Siberia, a barren wasteland of food! The vicious, unruly inmates: “Boss, do you need anyone to was 2.8kReads9.2Score309Shelves
- 153 I Serve Manchu-Han Banquets at Kindergarten, Making the Whole City Drool 我在幼儿园做满汉全席，全市馋哭 24.5kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
- 154 Alternate Ancient China: Building a Fortune in Jiangnan 架空古代：江南人家经营致富日常 [Ancient-Style Business and Wealth-Building] + [A Jiangnan Family] + [Everyday Family Life] + [Lighthearted, Sweet, and Satisfying] A lighthearted, stress-relieving story about the everyday business and family life of a small household in peaceful Jiangnan, filled with warmth, joy, kindness, and ordinary domestic moments. It tells the story of common people in ancient times. The main characters are not princes or ministers, nor are they members of noble or aristocratic families. From the very st 73kReads9.3Score7.4kShelves
- 155 A Great War in the Cultivation World, All for a Bite to Eat?! 修仙界大战，只为抢口饭？！ [Gourmet cooking + immortal cultivation + scheming sect disciple + lighthearted comedy + goofy daily life + no female lead or harem] Zhu Fan transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a disciple of a sect. Just as he was about to receive his golden finger, something unexpected happened Zhu Fan: Anyone else know this feeling? I was about to become a tycoon in the immortal realm! Once my divine pill was ready, I’d ascend to immortality! But someone suddenly cut in and bound me to the wrong 15kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
- 156 From the Start with a Spirit Spring, I Turn My Hometown into a Peach Blossom Paradise 开局灵泉，我把老家打造成桃花源 [Pocket dimension and spirit spring + country life + raising pets + mutual healing, lighthearted and heartwarming] Her mother had cancer, her scumbag boyfriend was cheating on her, and he and his mistress had stolen her designs. Then she was fired from her company. With her life at its bleakest, An Nuan planned to take her mother back to their hometown to spend her final days there. Then she unexpectedly unlocked a pocket dimension and a spirit spring. Working herself to the bone for a pittance 35.1kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
- 157 I Quit My Job and Opened a Farm for Immortals 辞职后，我开了家神仙农庄 [System + farming + one-on-one romance, both devoted] After refusing workplace sexual harassment and slapping the offender on the spot, Lin Yunxiu came across the song “Resignation March” while scrolling Douyin. She unexpectedly acquired a farming lottery System and resolutely quit her job to return to her hometown. Now that she had a System, why keep being a corporate drone? Of course she was going to farm, drink tea, tend flowers, and live a peaceful life in the countryside! To complete the Sy 5.9kReads9.2Score543Shelves
- 158 You Have a New Thirst-Quenching Drink Order 您有新的渴了么订单 [Character development + business simulation + infrastructure building + healing + no romance + a touch of court intrigue] They say the emperor was corrupt and incompetent, and Heaven sent down divine punishment. Not a drop of rain had fallen on this land for nearly twenty years, and countless people had died of thirst. Then, all of a sudden, a milk tea shop opened in the desert. In spring, there were all kinds of ice-cold fruit juices, along with seasonal drinks like cherry blossom and lychee b 13.4kReads9.4Score1.9kShelves
- 159 After She Died, the Coldhearted Powerful Official's Hair Turned White Overnight 她死后，冷冰冰的权臣一夜白头 [Not an angst novel + heartwarming + no logic + read it to see if it suits your taste] After transmigrating into a book, Hua Zhao had her memories erased and became a tool whose job was to give the heroine a golden finger. To top it off, she was also the infamous, short-lived first wife of the villainous minister. Luckily, she regained her memories and cut her losses in time. The heroine’s golden finger? Sorry, that’s a family heirloom that came with me when I transmigrated into the book! Her in 135.8kReads9.4Score10.5kShelves
- 160 The 1970s: A Sweet Island Life for a Cannon-Fodder Supporting Female Character 七零之炮灰女配的海岛甜宠日常 [Period setting + marriage first, love later + cozy life raising children + entrepreneurship] Lin Xia gets into a car accident on her way to a matchmaking date and unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel full of angst, becoming the foolish cannon-fodder woman who brings about her own doom. The original Lin Xia sabotages the male and female leads at every turn, so the male lead takes revenge by sending her to the countryside, where she eventually meets a tragic end. After reading a 15.9kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
- 161 Opening a Little Restaurant in Shengjing 我在盛京开小馆 [Alternate world, slow burn, not a wish-fulfillment novel, food + court intrigue + transmigration. Read with caution if that’s not your thing.] Miss Li’s Changhuan Eatery, tucked away on Qingxing Alley, serves delicious food at affordable prices. The officials who get up early for roll call tug at their increasingly tight uniforms, but still can’t help ordering another bowl of fresh pork wontons. Pei Hongzhi happened to eat there once and discovered that Miss Li didn’t just make excellent breakf 27.9kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
- 162 The Military Wife’s Farming Life in the 1970s 七零军嫂种田忙 Lin Yunxi wakes from a nap and discovers that she has transmigrated into the body of a military wife in the 1970s. She got married young and already has an adorable son. In an era when people don't have enough to eat or warm clothes to wear, Lin Yunxi isn't worried at all: her pocket dimension for growing crops came with her! Watch as she wins the country's support, opens factories, starts businesses, and builds a business empire of her own. She hears that a courtyard house in the capital co 9.3kReads9.0Score732Shelves
- 163 All I Can Do Is Grow Vegetables and Cook, Yet I Became Cultivation World's Top-Tier Star 只会种菜做饭，却成了修真界顶流 [Hilarious and Heartwarming + Food + Farming + A Touch of Modern Cultivation] She inherited a cultivation legacy, and her innate talents were cooking and growing vegetables. She became the leader of a sect, but living in poverty was the norm. From the start, all she had was a ramshackle building, a patch of wasteland, and half a mountain forest. A leader with no great ambitions and four idle disciples. Sect leader Jiang Tingyun said, “In modern society, spiritual energy has dried up. Cul 23.6kReads9.5Score3.3kShelves
- 164 Crying Through Childbirth, I’m Spoiled by a Powerful Man in the 1990s 生崽痛哭，我在九零被大佬宠上天 [Set in a bygone era + sweet romance + family life + building wealth + devoted one-on-one couple] Everyone at Big Willow Courtyard knew Gu Lin was a reckless hooligan who brought misfortune to his relatives. They warned their children to stay away from him, or they'd end up unlucky too. Mu Ning transmigrated into a period novel as the cannon-fodder ex-wife of a major supporting character. Her original body's fate was to die in childbirth. She touched her four-month baby bump and trembled with fe 7.9kReads8.7Score497Shelves
- 165 From the Start, I Lost My Job: Selling Lunchboxes on the Way Home 开局就失业：返乡途中卖盒饭 [A System golden finger, food, fast meals and lunch boxes, a leisurely slice-of-life pace, no romance in the main story. At readers’ request, the bonus chapters have a male lead. Male-oriented, male-oriented, male-oriented, said three times.] After working hard for three years, he’d just been made a full-time employee when the restaurant he worked at shut down. Bai Ye drove home in the secondhand car his boss had given him in lieu of pay, a heap of junk piled in the back. He never expected a S 33.8kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
- 166 I Made a Chinese Restaurant a Huge Hit in the Apocalypse of Another World 在异世界末世经营中华餐厅爆火 [Apocalypse] [Business Management] [System] [Gourmet Food] [Farming] [No CP, Ensemble Cast] After Ling Jing died, she became bound to a business management System and was randomly dropped into an apocalyptic world where plants and animals had mutated. The System asked her to name her restaurant. After thinking for a moment, she typed: Chinese Restaurant. In this mutated apocalypse, every plant and animal had become an enemy. When starving humans on the brink of death caught the scent of roaste 96kReads9.4Score14kShelves
- 167 Back to 1985: My Self-Serve Porridge Stall Is a Hit 重回八五，自助粥摊火爆了 (Her Own Woman) To escape her stepfather's clutches, Su Miao falls from the 13th floor and travels back to the day her parents divorced when she was a child. She sees through her mother's cold, indifferent nature and her habit of endlessly spoiling her younger brother. This time, she chooses without hesitation to go with her father. When her uncle tries to secure a permanent job, he blocks the door and raises a huge ruckus. Su Miao leans close to her father's ear and whispers a few words. Her fa 22.7kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
- 168 The Sweet Military Wife Is on Top, and Her Officer Husband Can't Take It 娇娇军嫂在上，军官老公顶不住 The short drama adaptation, Sweet Years, is now streaming~ The second short drama adaptation, Let Me Dwell in Your Heart, is now streaming~ [Military marriage + food + supermarket space + devoted couple + everyday life + love after marriage] Ye Muqi had just become a seven-star chef when a car accident transported her to the 1980s. From the start, she was married, and her husband was a soldier with a slim waist and long legs. For Ye Muqi, who had been single for 29 years, that was a huge plus! T 9.5kReads9.1Score857Shelves
- 169 Cutting Spring 斩春 ༆ Original title: "Slaying Spring", courtesy title: "Three Thousand Miles of Floating Light", also known as "A Little Bookshop in Chang'an" . "The audiobook is now available. Give it a listen!" . [Historical fantasy, farming, ancient romance, healing, opening a bookshop, romance, with a strong focus on the love story.] · [Heroine: Xu Jiang ★ Hero: Lou Yunchun] · [Other characters: Hu Xu ★ Song Li, Zeng Zhui ★ Lin Hongchu, Lin Qinnian ★ Madam Lin, Lou Jing ★ Madam Lou. Du Hui, Yuan Zuzu, Wu Zhi, 19.8kReads9.5Score3kShelves
- 170 The Sweet, Alluring Military Wife and Her Devoted Rough-Hewn Soldier 军嫂娇，军嫂媚，糙汉军爷宠上天 [Rugged military officer + sweet, gentle beauty] (Fictional military marriage + marriage before love + daily life with the troops + stepmother and adorable kids + food) When Jiang Rou opens her eyes, she's become the fake heiress in a period novel. Not only is she a pitiful cannon-fodder supporting character, but the real heiress has knocked her unconscious and made her marry an older man in her place. Rumor has it that the man is disfigured and lame, with two burdens to care for, one big and on 16.7kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
- 171 Who Starts Farming by Sending Three Piglets as a Gift? 种田谁家男主开局送礼送三只猪崽 Completed. Dive in without worry! (Farming + No golden finger + Family life + Romance + Building a fortune + Cozy + No awful characters) No System! No pocket dimension!! No golden finger!!! No awful characters!!!! (We’ve said it three times because it’s important. The male lead appears late. The story focuses on building a career, with romance as a side plot x3.) Baihua Cave is a village deep in the mountains, home to nearly a hundred households. Everyone says it’s a poor and remote backwater. S 23kReads9.0Score2.5kShelves
- 172 This Boss Is So Sneaky, He Takes His Street Stall Everywhere 这老板真苟，摆个地摊还到处走 [The print edition of Random Gourmet Stall is now available on major platforms] [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Comedy] [Comfort food] [Cozy] [Healing] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Zhou unexpectedly binds himself to a Random Gourmet System. Every week brings a random location, random food, and different customers. He sells buns at the park entrance, century egg and lean pork congee on a mountaintop, and candied hawthorns outside a school. Every dish is mouthwatering and 83kReads9.5Score8.1kShelves
- 173 My Food Refreshes at Random, Leaving Customers Drooling 我的美食随机刷新，顾客馋哭了 This book is also known as: Selling Extra-Spicy Grilled Wings Outside a Colorectal Hospital [Food + no female lead + everyday life + comedy + perfect with a meal] Lin Xuan didn't want to go to work, so he unexpectedly bound himself to a food System. Every week, it assigned a random location and a random dish. But the very first week's task left him dumbfounded. What? Sell extra-spicy grilled wings outside a colorectal hospital? What kind of devilish task was that? And that was only the beginnin 81.6kReads9.3Score8.4kShelves
- 174 Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老 [Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr 34.3kReads9.1Score4.2kShelves
- 175 The 1970s: My Son and His Dad Both Have Off-the-Charts IQs 七零：崽和崽他爹智商双爆表 {The short drama is now streaming ♥ Title: The Best Mom in a Period Novel} [Alternate-history period setting + transmigrating into a book + adorable child + cozy everyday life] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Su Taotao faced two choices: 1. Follow the original plot, abandon her husband and child, return to the city, and rekindle her romance with her childhood sweetheart; 2. Do nothing and wait for her husband of convenience to show up six months later and take her back to the 22.2kReads9.3Score2.3kShelves
- 176 The God of Cooking and the Demon Beasts: Oh No, We're the Ingredients! 厨神，妖兽：不好，我们成食材了 A chef transmigrates to a fantasy world and awakens the strongest Chef God System. Whenever someone praises a dish he makes, his talent, physique, and insight improve. Well, this is an instant takeoff. What's more, his dishes have special effects: they can strengthen the body, nourish one's health, and clear away hidden injuries… The entire sect goes wild. From the Ancestor, Supreme Elders, and Sect Master to the servant disciples, everyone goes crazy for a taste. The Sect Master say 66.6kReads9.1Score4.7kShelves
- 177 Quick Transmigration Across Planes: I Own a Little General Store 位面快穿，我有一间小杂货店 [No romance + no male lead + general store + ensemble cast + doing business in various novel worlds, including storylines where the heroine gets help] [Main characters: Su Ling + a calico cat] After waking up one day, Su Ling finds that her general store has bonded with a planar trade System, and she transmigrates into a book. First book world: a lucky heroine in a story set during the era of rationing. A general store suddenly appears on the hill behind Dawang Village. It has more goods tha 52.7kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves
- 178 EN After Becoming the Villainess, I Clear My Name Every Day 穿成恶女后每天都在洗白 [Everyone’s Darling + Adorable Kids + Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy]: Transmigrating into a lovesick woman, Tang Zhuyun wakes up in the middle of a scene where she’s climbing into a man’s bed. She turns around and runs. Forget this bed, she’s not getting in! Who needs a man when her father is the top scholar, her brother is the top scholar, and even her son will be the top scholar? They’ll protect her, so she can do whatever she wants! As a master physician, she’ll focus on her career, save lives, and k 33.8kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves
- 179 Pretty Eighties Stepmom Marries a Factory Director and Raises the Kids 八零漂亮后妈，嫁个厂长养崽崽 [Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a 56.1kReads9.4Score7.3kShelves
- 180 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 30.8kReads9.6Score3.7kShelves
