Novels like The Riverside Little Chef
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Riverside Little Chef, best match first.
- 51 Everything Costs Two Yuan, and My Desserts Make Billionaire Tycoons Drool 全场两元，我的甜品馋哭亿万首富 Modern Romance Fantasy + Food + Business + System + Romance (War Hero) Jiang Mianmian took over a tiny shop that was on the verge of closing, starting out in debt, but unexpectedly became bound to the Super Dessert Master System. The System leveled up through prize draws using customers' “satisfaction.” It wasn't interested in making money, only in building a dessert empire. So Jiang Mianmian charged just 2 yuan for everything. Top-quality tiramisu, 2 yuan! Molten cheese tarts that burst with fi 374Reads7.1Score103Shelves
- 52 A Beautiful Chef Wins Hearts with Her Cooking Alone 貌美厨娘，纯靠美食俘获人心 [Farming + gourmet food + making a fortune + alternate setting, no transmigration] The Wen family is confiscated, and on the way to seek refuge with relatives, they run into bandits. The matriarch, Madam Wang, pushes Wen Li forward to offer her to the bandits in exchange for her own safety. Wen Li is furious. Damn this matriarch, she has her own mother! The whole family are leeches. She’s done serving them, so she decisively takes her mother back to their old home in Jiangzhou. No money? What to 32Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 53 The Laid-Back College Student Is Open for Business 摆烂女大学生，在线营业 [A hilarious food story + slice-of-life diary + friendship + healing + farming, no romance, no pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger] A group of friends having a good time together What do you do when you don't want to go to work? Head back to the countryside and lie flat! After graduating from college, Xia Wan briskly packed her bags and returned home to take over the restaurant her grandfather had left her. This city is all takeout and rat-race grinders. She’s not staying here! After 105Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 54 The Tian Family Shop Is Open Again?? 田家铺子又开业了？？ Tian Tian is the pride of Tianjia Village. First, she talks her parents into opening a little restaurant in the county seat, serving home-style dishes and drawing in plenty of familiar faces. Then she persuades her eldest brother to open a hot pot restaurant, which does such brisk business that it makes people green with envy and earns them trouble. Next, she boldly talks an out-of-town visitor into opening a grilled fish restaurant, and it’s packed every day. In the end, she and her friends ope 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 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 12Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 56 The Blacksmith's Girl Next Door 打铁匠的邻家小娘子 (Reborn in the womb + food + girl pursues boy + easygoing daily life + adorable kids + life among the common folk + farming and business) The blacksmith next door was tall and muscular, with a fierce face that made him look unapproachable. Thinking of her ill-intentioned relatives and her young brother, A Fu figured that if she could marry this man, she wouldn’t have to worry about them stealing the family fortune. Once she’d made up her mind, all A Fu could think about each day was how to win 461Reads—Score106Shelves
- 57 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 4Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 58 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 1.9kReads—Score209Shelves
- 59 First, a Bowl of Lychee Cream 先来一碗荔枝膏 [Transmigrate + build wealth + imperial exams + everyday life + career-focused] [A slow, steady story. There are bad people now and then, but no cartoonishly awful villains.] Lin Qishu, founder of a modern Chinese tea-drink brand, transmigrated to the Great Liang dynasty after being targeted by online harassment. The moment she opened her eyes, she found herself orphaned and responsible for raising her younger brother. To make matters worse, unscrupulous competitors were watching her, ready to f 2.6kReads8.2Score405Shelves
- 60 The Cook Takes Charge: I Use Food to Crush Villains and Become a Legend 厨娘当家：我靠美食虐渣封神 After transmigrating, Su Qiaoqiao, a twenty-first-century chef, wakes up in the body of a girl from a poor farming family in ancient times. From the start, she's in an “epic” mess: her parents want to sell her sister to pay for her brother's education. Faced with her self-important brother's disdain and her parents' obsessive devotion to their son, she lets out a cold laugh and goes berserk on the spot. “Sell my sister? Think bigger! Why not sell off you, the tender-skinned scholar, to become a 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Clay Pot Chicken Cured My Lodger’s Loss of Appetite 地锅鸡治好了房客的厌食症 An anorexic big shot from the capital and a homestay owner, 1v1, sweet romance with no nasty supporting characters, both virgins, and lighthearted everyday life Lin Ji never imagined that her “luxury homestay,” listed at 28,888 yuan a month, would actually attract a tenant as spectacularly unlucky as Zhou Zhixu, who was set to rent it for exactly three months! The anorexic CEO from the capital spends a fortune just to lie flat at her place, and even insists that she be his “personal tour guide.” 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 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—Shelves
- 63 The Xu Family Girl’s Pinduoduo Eatery 徐家小娘的拼夕夕食铺 Xu Qingqing transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a penniless orphan girl in a village near Qingshan Town. She looks at the empty rice jar, and before she can squeeze out a tear, she's struck by the "Pinduoduo Ready-Made Meal System"! Can picking wild vegetables earn points? Ready-made meal packs? High-tech seasonings? From then on, a remarkable little food stall appears in Qingshan Town. Fragrant braised pork rice, pan-fried dumplings with thin wrappers and generous fillings... Delicious a 20Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 64 The Fake Heiress Returns to the Village to Farm? Stockpiling Food and Raising Kids to Become the Richest 假千金回村种田？屯粮养崽成首富 The animated series The Fake Heiress Builds a Fortune with Her Kids is now streaming~ [Farming]+ [Gourmet]+ [Building wealth]+ [Everyday business]+ [Real and fake heiresses] Qi Miaoyi accidentally enters a novel and becomes the fake heiress who was switched at birth with the Song family's daughter. When the real heiress returns, the first thing she does is demand that Qi Miao leave the home she supposedly stole. Remembering how the fake heiress in the novel dies with her eyes open, Qi Miao grabs 20.7kReads8.2Score2kShelves
- 65 The Dessert Maker of Lin'an 临安城的甜点娘子 [Fantasy transmigration, food, slice-of-life business, love that grows over time, sweet romance, and an entrepreneurial rags-to-riches story] Daily life is styled after the Song dynasty, in an imaginary dynasty and fictional places, with a small ensemble cast. Jasmine sponge cake, rose steamed cakes, peony cream buns, mugwort mille-feuille, salted egg yolk pastries, pomegranate cloud rolls, hibiscus crystal cakes, jade mung bean drinks, peach blossom bird's nest soup, kumquat honey soup... The 206Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 66 My Whole Family Cooks in a Giant Pot and Goes Viral in the Western Han 我全家炒大锅饭，爆红西汉 [The whole family transmigrates + ordinary people + food and business + everyday family life + an alternate Western Han dynasty] The rating was just posted, so it’s a little low right now~ No contrived drama, and there’s a romantic pairing (the male lead barely appears, so feel free to ignore him; the heroine and her family are focused on building their business). A slice-of-life tale about ordinary people in a frontier town. The three members of the Lin family, village-feast chefs, transmigrate 2kReads8.4Score268Shelves
- 67 Gourmet: From the Start, I Grind My Knife Skills to Mastery 美食：开局爆肝刀工熟练度 [Dark past. Don’t read.] Gourmet + everyday life + slow-paced + obsessive grinder + period setting + no heroine Reborn in 2002, he doesn’t go into business or make trouble for anyone. He just focuses on cooking. Lin Jiang was a jerk in his previous life. He dropped out of school at nineteen. He looked down on his dad’s shabby Sichuan restaurant. After failing in business, he switched careers and became a chef again. Later, he worked himself to the bone to earn the title of Michelin-starred chef, 5kReads8.3Score566Shelves
- 68 From Breakfast Stall Owner to the Richest Woman in the Empire: Customers Fight to Throw Money at Me 从早食摊娘子到当朝首富，古人送钱抢破头 [Food + Business + A Little Scientific Farming (the male lead promotes farming)] In her previous life, Xu Sangrou was a food blogger. She transmigrated to a small county town in an unknown dynasty. Her father was a poorly paid county constable, her mother managed the household, and she had a younger brother and sister. The only thing of value they owned was their little courtyard. But the family was so hard up they could barely afford her younger brother's school fees. Looking at the last few gr 351Reads6.2Score100Shelves
- 69 An Amnesiac, Rugged Man Took Me Home, and I Got Rich Selling Fried Chicken 被失忆糙汉捡回家，我卖炸鸡暴富 [Transmigration + both leads have amnesia + no pocket dimension + no System + no golden finger] When Mu Siqi woke up, she found herself lying in the mountains! Fragments of memories flashed through her mind, telling her she'd transmigrated. But when she woke again, those memories had vanished… With no money and nowhere to go, she shamelessly latched onto the person who had saved her. Her rescuer's family was desperately poor, with two little children crying to be fed. She gave her behavior the f 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 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! 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 After Becoming a Delivery Driver, I Used Food to Rule the Three Realms 穿成外卖员后，我靠美食掌控三界 The title has been changed to “I Deliver Takeout in Heaven and Become a God Through Food” When Tang Xiaojiao, a chef specializing in spicy dry pot on Chunxi Road in Chengdu, accidentally transmigrates into the No. 001 delivery rider on the Celestial Realm’s takeout platform, Immortal Express... Open flames are strictly forbidden in the Celestial Realm, so all the immortals rely on takeout to get by! The Jade Emperor is secretly obsessed with milk tea. He even learned how to kick people out of 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 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 23.6kReads8.1Score1.9kShelves
- 73 Selling Street Food, I Forge a Path to Immortality Across the Nation 摆摊卖美食，我在全国修出仙途 [Space, food, street stalls, no male lead] I cultivate through food and just want to focus on my training. Why are all my customers following me around? There's a magical little food shop, run by a young owner who's good at everything. Every dish is irresistible, but the owner never stays in one place. “I swear, if I get to eat the young owner's grilled chicken legs, I'll be able to code like the wind.” “Mom doesn't have to worry about me going bald anymore.” “The young owner is so thoughtful. K 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Trial by Fireworks 烟火劫 After transmigrating to ancient times, he finds his pockets empty. Fortunately, he was a cook in his previous life. He uses green tangerines to make tofu, purifies coarse salt, and gathers all kinds of ingredients from the mountains that no one in this world has ever seen. One by one, he brings them home and turns them into dish after dish. From being ignored to having customers clamoring for every serving, his little eatery slowly draws people together and builds a life of its own. A foodie far 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Transmigrate to the Mountains: Farming Life 穿越之山居种田即事 [No pocket dimension, no System. Escaping the chaos by hiding deep in the mountains, buying a mountain, farming, and raising children.] Lin Wan, a farm owner, transmigrates into the body of a young village bride whose family is forced to split up on the very day she gets married. Rumor has it that her husband went missing on the battlefield. Her husband’s younger brother and sister have been foisted on her to raise by their scheming stepmother. Lin Wan looks around the dilapidated, empty hut. Th 1Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 76 Warning: The Aroma from This Street Stall Has Captivated a Movie Star 警告，小摊香气俘获女明星 [Congratulations, Host, You've Activated the God-Tier Food System!] One night, after drinking too much at a bar, Shen Yi met the actress Lin Wan. Shen Yi unexpectedly bound himself to a food System. To earn its rewards, he began selling food at a different random location each week, serving different customers each time. He set up a fried chicken stall at People's Square, but the only people around were elderly folks dancing in the square. "My pension is eighteen thousand a month. What's wrong 3.3kReads—Score283Shelves
- 77 Transmigrated into a Tragic Novel as Cannon Fodder, I Turned the Tables with Food 穿成虐文炮灰，我靠美食逆风翻盘 [Food + System + business + healing each other + obsessive, scheming male lead] Yun Shu, a descendant of imperial chefs, opens her eyes to find she has become a doomed cannon-fodder character in an old-fashioned tragic romance. Not only did she spend her life giving the heroine resources and taking the blame for her, but even after her death, she became part of their PLAY. They really used her to the very end. Why should the whole world’s lives be sacrificed just so their love story can be passi 28Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 78 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 3kReads8.1Score338Shelves
- 79 I Opened a Food Shop in Bianjing 我在汴京开食铺 Su Tang opens an eatery on Majia Street in Bianjing. Every day, she's either experimenting with new dishes or going out to visit friends. In autumn, there's tea brewed over a brazier, osmanthus sweet-bean paste dumplings, and roasted milk tea with osmanthus honey dumplings. In winter, there's plum-blossom soup noodles, plum-blossom honey, boiled meat and vegetables, and candied hawthorn skewers. In spring, there's osmanthus cake, spring platters, wontons with bamboo shoots and bracken, green ric 736Reads—Score101Shelves
- 80 The Wealthy Little Cook 富贵小厨娘 Lu Azhuo, a superb cook, transmigrated into an imperial-examination novel, where she was destined to become the male lead's short-lived first wife. Her husband's family and her own would be ruined because of her. Another title for this story: Death Comes Calling. When she woke up, she could uproot a willow with one hand and wield a kitchen knife with the other. No one within ten miles dared provoke her. They said she could silence a crying baby just by showing up. She was making a fortune with h 299Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 81 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: “ 440Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 82 Gourmet: You Asked Me to Teach, but I Ran Off With the Parents 美食：让你当老师，你把家长拐跑 (Don't leave! The rating just came out and will go up. A heartwarming story.) Chen Chu is unemployed and living off his sister's family when he unexpectedly awakens a Gourmet System. Just as it happens, his niece's kindergarten is short a food teacher, so Chen Chu proudly takes the job. Day One: An eighty-year-old grandpa comes to pick up a child, then cries and makes a scene, demanding to enroll. Day Two: A naughty kid who hates school says that going to school is the happiest thing in the worl 860Reads6.6Score100Shelves
- 83 A Foodie Transmigrates and Wins Over Ancient-Era Powerhouses With Her Cooking 穿越吃货靠厨艺征服古代大佬 Xia Mianmian died young, in the most humiliating, frustrating way imaginable: she fell headfirst into a cesspit and drowned. Who could have a more miserable end? When she wakes again, she's transmigrated into the body of a lowly little girl in ancient times. The one bright spot is that her parents dote on her and her younger siblings are close to her. But her family is so poor they eat coarse food and watery soup every day. How can a foodie stand having no meat in her bowl? She wants hot, juicy 20Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 84 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 168Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 85 I Transmigrate into a Book and Open a Restaurant That Makes the Whole City Smell Amazing 穿书后我靠开食肆香遍全城 The heroine transmigrates into a book and opens a restaurant. The story focuses on the day-to-day business of running a food shop, with no awful relatives or angst. It's warm and comforting, so enjoy without worry~ The male lead appears later and doesn't have much page time. He's a puppy-like guy who follows our little Hua around everywhere (the male lead of the transmigration novel), and he's blessed with a protagonist's halo: getting close to him brings good luck. (Hugging the big shot's leg.j 3.8kReads8.1Score363Shelves
- 86 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 221Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 The Taste of Life, All These Years (Complete in 2 Volumes) 世味余年（全两册） Bi Luo rushes back to China when her grandfather falls gravely ill, and suddenly finds herself shouldering the burden of revitalizing the family’s century-old restaurant, Four Seasons Spring. She reunites with Shen Linfeng, the man she had a crush on while studying in Country F, only to discover that the seemingly gentle and refined Shen has ulterior motives involving the restaurant. She also unexpectedly meets Tang Lu, who is determined to buy Four Seasons Spring. The two go from constantly cla 154Reads9.7Score—Shelves
- 88 Reborn in the Tang Dynasty With a Gourmet System 重生唐朝美食系统 Top modern chef Lin Xuan opens his eyes and finds himself dumped from the kitchen of an international culinary competition into a dilapidated hut outside Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. With nothing but four bare walls around him, he is starving and freezing, with only a broken knife, half a bowl of cold rice, and a life hanging by a thread. Just as he thinks he is about to starve to death, the Chinese Cuisine System quietly binds itself to him. Cooking earns points, selling meals rai —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 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
- 90 Fake Heiress? I Farm and Raise Five Powerful Brothers 假千金？我种田养出五个大佬哥哥 [Beloved by the Whole Family] [Farming] [Mountain Foraging and Treasure Hunting] [Five Powerful Older Brothers] [Cute Pet, Da Huang] [Business and Prosperity] [Food] Shen Qinghuan transmigrated into a book, becoming the fake daughter and supporting female character in a story about a real and fake heiress. The landlord's family sent her back to a poor, remote village. Her parents were honest folk, and her five older brothers were tall and burly, but they were starving! No problem. In her previou 15.6kReads8.2Score2.1kShelves
- 91 An Eatery Keeper's Journal 食肆经营手札 The comic adaptation is out. If you're interested, check it out! [Food] [Business] [Everyday Life] [Romance] [One-on-One, Both Pure] Ji He transmigrates into another world, where both her parents are dead. All they leave her is a restaurant on a busy street and a clan full of relatives eyeing it greedily. With no one to rely on and barely a penny to her name, all she has is her cooking skill. She sets up a street stall and revives the old restaurant. With a stove and a pot, she brings every flav 11.1kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
- 92 Cosmic Invasion: I Rebuild Blue Star Through Food and Business 宇宙入侵：我靠美食经营重振蓝星 [Food] [Business Simulation] [Wasteland] [Infinite Worlds] [Rules-Based Horror] [System] One food cart from the start, and customers chase me for eight whole blocks! Jiang Yao transmigrates to Blue Star in the year 4026. People here survive entirely on nutritional soil, but she awakens a food business System! With premium ingredients from the shop and recipes for cuisines from the twenty-first century, she will rescue the wasteland Blue Star from its culinary desert! An invasion from the whole u 29Reads—Score103Shelves
- 93 Gourmet: The Chef’s Food Stall Goes Viral on a Variety Show 美食：厨娘在综艺摆摊爆火 Gu Liuyan, a former imperial chef, opens her eyes to find she has transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder actress on the variety show Celebrity Kitchen. She can’t cook, has a bad temper, and has been saddled with a mountain of bad press. With an astronomical breach-of-contract fee threatening to end her career, Gu Liuyan slaps the table. “Who says I can’t cook?” And then the entire show discovers what it means to cook like a culinary god... An actress on the show wails, “I’ve already gain 118Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 94 After I Transmigrated, the Minor Side Character Won Everyone Over with Her Cooking 穿越后，小炮灰靠美食逆袭成团宠 [Sweet Romance and Healing + Independent, Hardworking Heroine + Gentle, Wise Hero + Food Business + Both Pure] Shen Qinqin transmigrates into the body of a wealthy merchant’s daughter who is infatuated with General Xiao. Because her predecessor offended the general, she is cast out of her home and thrown into a river the moment she arrives. Watch her use her own abilities to save her life and work diligently to build herself a place in the world, starting with a tiny wonton stall and branching o 8Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 95 Reborn in the 1970s: Extra-Spicy Hot Pot and a Henpecked Male Lead 重生七零：火锅变态辣男主耙耳朵 [Transmigrate into a book + Period setting + Gourmet + System + Adorable kids + Military marriage + Sweet romance + Get rich] Wu Fengjuan is reborn in the body of a cannon-fodder military wife in the 1970s. From the start, the male lead has “died in action,” her in-laws despise her, and she has three hungry little babies to feed. Life is hard? Luckily, the [Good Fortune Gourmet System] drops right into her lap! Get pregnant and have babies to level up! From pearl milk tea and golden pumpkin cake 205Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Mountain God's Little Diner 山神大人的小饭馆 No romance, a slow-paced life, and heartwarming healing. Perfect for when you want to switch off your brain. Hey, everyone! The female lead has no romantic pairing. There are no catfights, just a healing-hearted cook. The only ones around her are the adorable monsters of Denglong Mountain and its sharp-tongued, aloof, tsundere mountain god. It's a fairy tale written for grown-ups, the kind that can lull you to sleep. After returning to her hometown, Lin Kui turns her grandmother's old house int 68Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 97 Transmigrated as a Kitchen Maid, I Win Over the Devil Prince with Viral Dishes 穿成厨丫，网红美食拿捏魔鬼殿下 A food blogger transmigrates and becomes an obscure kitchen maid in the Third Prince’s household! Her immediate superior is the notoriously fussy and difficult Third Prince, a devil who beats and berates the staff whenever a dish fails to please him. No problem! This modern food blogger’s skills are the real deal! Milk tea, cream-filled pastries, and creative snacks make their way to the table one after another, and before long she has the icy Third Prince completely wrapped around her finger. H 20Reads—Score182Shelves
- 98 Transmigrate to the 1980s, and I Offer One-Stop Banquet Services 穿越80，我搞酒席一条龙服务 [Alternate setting + Transmigration + System + Food + Business management + Family life + Countryside] Original title: Transmigrated to the 1980s, I Run a One-Stop Banquet Service Lin Chujiu transmigrates to 1988 in a parallel world, where her grandfather mistakes her for a relative returning from Hong Kong. She decides to play along, setting up a stall in town and selling roast duck under the title of a five-star chef from Hong Kong. Her crispy roast duck breaks a tradition that has stood f 17.6kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
- 99 The Farmer’s Daughter Chef: Beer Falls for Crawfish 农家俏厨娘：啤酒爱上小龙虾 A clueless dad, a meek mom, and awful relatives who will stop at nothing to exploit and squeeze them dry: Ye Xingjiao finds herself saddled with them all after transmigrating. So the little chef Ye Xingjiao sets out on the road to outsmarting her awful relatives, opening a shop, making money, and leading her parents to a comfortable life. Along the way, she even takes in a live-in husband. 197Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 100 What?! Curing His Eating Disorder Means I Have to Cure His Lovesickness Too?! 啥！治好厌食症还要负责相思病！ [Transmigrated Foodie vs. Aloof Marquis with an Eating Disorder] [Sweet Romance + Mutual Firsts] Ji Chutang caught the transmigration wave, but she wasn't as lucky as everyone else. Other people transmigrated as princesses or young ladies from wealthy families, while she was just a poor girl with no parents! Luckily, she was a wonderful cook, and even on her own she could make a good life for herself. By chance, Ji Chutang rescued a gaunt man with an eating disorder who was on the brink of death 199Reads7.3Score—Shelves
