Novels like The Riverside Little Chef
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Riverside Little Chef, best match first.
- 101 Cuisine Between Two Worlds: Farming, Fishing, and Street Vending in the City 两界美食：我在都市种田赶海摆摊 [Urban + Food + System + Family + Farming and Coastal Foraging + No Romance + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Qin Youyou, an overworked 996 office drone, is fired by her company, and her grandmother is hospitalized in critical condition. Just when she is desperate, she binds to the “Happy Food System”! From then on, her life takes off. Not only does she gain an exclusive space where time flows ten times faster, she also receives “Starlight Squid,” which can heal both body and mind! At her night-market 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 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 658Reads8.0Score102Shelves
- 103 A Hundred Herbs for Food, My Medicine Cabinet Connects the Past and Present 百草为粮，我的药柜通古今 (Infrastructure development + slow living + knowledge of Chinese medicinal herbs + local cuisine) If someone offered to trade you meat, eggs, and fish for naturally grown wild vegetables and completely organic grains from ancient times, would you take the deal? Chen Qingzhi is born into ancient times after transmigrating as a baby. When her foolish uncle needs looking after, her family of six is cast out after being disowned and having their household split up. Fortunately, she gets a medicine b 10.8kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 104 I Went Viral After Binding the Gourmet Check-In System! 绑定美食打卡系统后，我爆红了！ System + Gourmet + Travel + Lighthearted (Warning: There's some family drama at the beginning. If that's not your thing, don't read.) Lin Xi is a seasoned homebody, with severe social anxiety and chronic procrastination. She tried taking the graduate school entrance exam and the civil service exam, but failed both. After working for half a year, she couldn't stand her idiot boss's abuse any longer, so she quit in a fit of anger and went home to live off her parents. She spent over a year lying a 213Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 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 63Reads—Score103Shelves
- 106 The Entire Demon Realm Comes to My Little Restaurant 全妖界都来我的小饭馆 (The rating just came out, so it’s low for now. It’ll rise later.) Historical romance + gods and monsters + alternate setting + food + slow burn A new little restaurant has opened on Yong’an Street. The proprietress is lovely, and the food is delicious. Fish fermented with purple ginger, tangy, spicy, salty, and fragrant; crispy fried duck, tender and juicy. Smoky, savory cured meat, richly red and glossy; fresh sunflower greens with fine bamboo shoots, light and refreshing. Diners flock to t 129Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 107 The Humble Origins Chef 寒门厨娘 After transmigrating into the body of the lowest-ranking palace maid in the Imperial Kitchen, A He only wants to slack off, lie flat, and survive to a ripe old age. But the head steward skimps on the palace rations with moldy rice, then serves spoiled food to the elderly maids. She quietly brings out the culinary skills she won in her previous life as “Little Master of Chinese Cuisine”: A dish of cabbage boiled in clear broth shocks the Imperial Food Bureau, while three spoonfuls of crab-stuf 54Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 108 Might as Well Go Home and Farm 不如回家种田去 [Farming] [Gacha] [Gourmet] [No CP] [Everyday Life That Just Keeps Getting Better] When she graduated, Xu Yu had three mountains weighing on her: student loans, fraud-related debt, and no job prospects. Her vision went black. She couldn't see a future at all. But then, just as she was about to give up... She was bound to a Farming System. [Congratulations on binding to the Farming System] [Beginner's Perks: 20 free draws, one bottle of Spirit Liquid, and 1,500 quest points] [Unlock limited seed 58Reads—Score135Shelves
- 109 I Took In a Blue-Robed Young Man and Built My Soy Sauce Business 捡个青衫郎：我以酱坊立业 [Cool-Headed Strategist VS Little Chef] [He can hold his own in the parlor and the kitchen. She runs the business + food and farming story] After being framed for theft at a restaurant, Wen Wantang returned to Qingxi Village with the cookbook her grandmother had left behind. She set up a snack stall, and with her excellent cooking and keen palate, led the whole village in starting a sauce workshop. She also opened a school and became the village's boss. The male lead, Song Yan, knew all about t 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 I Sell Grilled Cold Noodles, and the Gourmet Association Has Its Eye on Me 摆摊烤冷面，我被美食协会盯上了 (Food + Northeastern Chinese snacks + all kinds of other snacks + System + no romance + laid-back daily life + livestreaming, entrepreneurship, and opening a shop + steady rise to success) Yu Duoduo quit her job in the prime of her life, at just twenty-two. Working for someone else is hard. It’s enough to drive you into a funk. Yu Duoduo: Entrepreneurship! I have to start a business! When she looked at the terrible grilled cold noodles in front of her, tears of excitement welled up in her eyes! 57Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 111 Quick Transmigration: Mission, Spread Gourmet Food Across the Universe! 快穿：目标，将美食传遍全宇宙！ [Food + ensemble cast + a stronger nation + no romance] Shen Muqing was bound to a food System and returned to her previous life. Her mission was simple: make delicious food in different worlds and bring happiness to her customers through the pleasure of eating. In her first life, she was reborn as a wealthy heiress who kept losing money every time she opened a shop, yet persevered in pursuing her dream. Shen's father and mother: “Sweetheart, why don't you just come home and inherit the family f 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 EN Diners Say I’m a Show-Off, but They Still Devour My Food 食客说我装逼犯，但是还嗷嗷干饭 [Transmigration + Urban Life + System + Food + No Romance + Showing Off] “I can't help it. I don't want to, either, but as the God of Cooking, I've got to show off!” After transmigrating to a parallel world, Shen Chuan binds himself to the God of Cooking System, gaining the ability to create every delicacy imaginable. Just thinking about using his culinary skills to reach the pinnacle of success and earn everyone's admiration, with diners clamoring for a taste, is enough to make him blush! But h 24.2kReads8.8Score2.2kShelves
- 113 The Saturday Otherworld Cafeteria 周六异世界食堂 Xin Beimò was forced to quit her dead-end job after five years. Disheartened, she inherits a humble private restaurant in a small county town from a distant relative. She expects life to carry on quietly, but the very next day after taking over, she opens the door to a whole new world and receives a pass that lets her connect to other worlds. Thus begins her extraordinary adventure running an interdimensional dining hall! 1. Inspired by the anime Restaurant to Another World, with some elements 1.1kReads8.4Score134Shelves
- 114 Gourmet in Another World: I Started by Conquering the Elves' Appetites 异世界美食：从征服精灵胃开始 [Healing + Gourmet + Business Management + Everyday Life] When I inherited my grandmother's shabby old shop, my best friend and I had planned to lie flat. Who knew that a newly installed wooden door would become a gateway to another world! The front door opens onto a fantasy continent of swords and magic; the back door leads to a bustling modern city. Elves lose all composure at the aroma of spicy hot pot, while dwarves go wild for barbecue skewers and beer. Could a picky old dragon really be mo 390Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Gourmet: I Keep Myself Alive by Eating on a Dating Show 美食：我在恋综靠干饭续命 [Food first, with a goofy dating show on the side. The heroine is all about her career; men only slow down my eating.] After transmigrating into the body of a bit-part actress who won't survive three days, Ning Meng is packed off to a dating show as the universally disliked foil. Just when she's about to despair, the [Food Keeps You Alive System] binds to her! [Host, you have to eat to stay alive!] While everyone else is flirting and chasing butterflies, she calculates how many minutes a dish wi 72Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 116 The Alleyway Cooking God: Starting with S-Rank Turnip Cake 小巷厨神，从S级萝卜糕开始 (Urban setting + food + no female lead + everyday life + slow burn. Not a street-stall story: they open a restaurant.) In a bustling city, an old neighborhood left untouched by redevelopment for one reason or another sits on an aging street. In this urban village, surrounded by the central business district, a young culinary genius makes his home. After his parents die in a car accident, Fang You resolutely drops out of school and returns home to take over the breakfast shop they ran for over tw 21.2kReads7.2Score2.2kShelves
- 117 In the Year of Famine, I Feed the Nation with My Buffet 饥荒年，我靠自助餐厅养全国 [Gourmet + business management + farming + women supporting women] Jiang Yuxi, the fake heiress of a wealthy family, is thrown out and returns to her village to inherit the buffet restaurant her biological parents left her. The restaurant is in a remote mountain wilderness. With no money or customers, Jiang Yuxi also has to raise funds for her biological father’s surgery. Just as she’s about to despair, she accidentally activates the [Buffet Restaurant System]. The restaurant connects to an [anc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 I Transmigrated and Made My Fortune with Crayfish! 穿越，从小龙虾开始发家！ When a modern jack-of-all-trades transmigrates into the body of a poor farm girl in ancient times... What, you say? A water bug that wreaks havoc on the village? Ever heard of spicy crayfish? The traditional hierarchy puts merchants at the bottom? They have no status? Ever heard of the Four Great Inventions? Emperor: Reward her! Reward her! Reward her handsomely! Ennoble her! Ennoble her! Give her another title! The general slams his hand on the table. “You favor civil officials and look down on 12Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 119 Damn It! This Is a Restaurant, Not a Community Farm! 可恶！这是饭庄，不是共享农场！ [Urban Fantasy] [Communicating with Animals] [Food and Adorable Pets] [Revitalizing the Countryside] [Rural Development] After losing his job, Xu Buyan returned to his village and bound himself to the Big Restaurant Bird System. To get his business going, he had to dig soil from a garbage mountain in the cultivation world and use it to grow ingredients. He planned to grow a few vegetables, and talked with the rich second-generation heir who owned the orchard about picking a few fruit trees from 2.9kReads—Score328Shelves
- 120 Gourmet: The Easy Life of a Little Restaurant at a Highway Service Area 美食：服务区小饭馆的躺赢人生 [Gourmet] [Shopkeeping] [No Male Lead] [System] [Cozy] [Everyday Life] [Affordable Prices] Jiang Banxia unexpectedly inherits a fast-food shop at a highway service area. She thinks the location seems pretty good, but it turns out the highway is remote and sees very little traffic. Just as Jiang Banxia is at a loss about how to keep the business going, she learns that there's a traffic jam on the highway not far away! So Jiang Banxia heads out onto the highway carrying boxed meals to sell. H —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 After Leaving the Entertainment Industry, This Has-Been Opens a Restaurant and Takes the Internet by Storm 糊咖退圈后，开饭馆爆红全网 As a good-for-nothing in the cultivation world, Ming Tang idly watched someone else's lightning tribulation. As luck would have it, she took a direct hit and died a miserable, ridiculously unlucky death. When she opened her eyes again, she was a little-known actress in the modern entertainment industry. After turning down her unscrupulous agent's dinner-party demand, Ming Tang took the agent's advice to go home and sell roasted sweet potatoes, and promptly returned home to open a small restauran 480Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 122 I Set Up a Stall Wherever I Please: Sis, We’ve Been Looking Everywhere for You 随机摆摊，胖姐我们找你找得好苦 [Gourmet] [Daily Life] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [No Romance] [Street Stalls] [System] [Transmigration] [Cozy] [Animals] [Parallel World] P.S. This book has a laid-back, everyday plot, with few dramatic twists and turns. It focuses more on cozy, down-to-earth moments. This is not a power fantasy! This is not a power fantasy! Li Meng accidentally transmigrates into a parallel world, where she can't get by without an identity. Just when she least expects it, the essential golden finger for anyone 212Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 123 After I Bound Myself to a Gourmet Game, Diners Started Chasing Me Down 绑定美食游戏后食客狂狂追 [Food System] + [Pop-Up Stalls in Random Locations] + [No Romance] + [Heartwarming] Xu Youyou had just graduated from college and was unemployed from day one. After striking out with company after company, she was at her wit's end and decided to post online looking for work. She wasn't expecting much. But to her surprise, she actually found a job. The other person said, “Type 1 and I'll give you a job that pays a million a month.” At first, she didn't believe it. She thought some elementary scho 358Reads—Score135Shelves
- 124 Random Food Stalls: Boss, Don’t Run! 美食随机摆摊，老板不要跑！ [Gourmet] [Great with a meal] [System] [Street vending] [Feel-good power fantasy] [Romance] Gu Muxi finally completes the System's ten-lifetime mission and earns the chance to return to the modern world. But the System unexpectedly malfunctions, trapping her in a black hole with no one to talk to. Then one day, she hears a voice calling her. It turns out to be the Main System. To make it up to her, the Main System binds her to a new System and gives her the chance to return to the modern world. 1.3kReads—Score100Shelves
- 125 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
- 126 Good Food and Sweet Dreams with You 与君美食复甘眠 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Farming + Food + Woman Chef + Romance] The meat is so tender it seems carved from beauty, and the fragrant aroma never stops rising from the pot. As a humble office worker in the twenty-first century, Su Yu had few interests, and food was the only one she loved. Her one and only wish was to stop being exploited by every capitalist under the sun and become a capitalist herself. So the gods heard her prayer and granted it. She closed her eyes and woke up as a poor 313Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 127 The Little Chef of Judge Shen's Household 沈提刑家的小厨娘 Fresh crucian carp sliced thin, celery soup from the emerald stream. A breeze brushes the willows, and a beauty... can lift a mountain with a mighty roar! Everyone knows that Miss Meng of the inn is as beautiful as a flower and a wonderful cook, but no one knows she can lift a giant vat with one hand or bend down and pull up a willow tree. Passing by, Judge Shen: Excuse me! * I love you, my lord. Do you know? The audacious Meng Sujin pounced on Shen Shinian, the judicial commissioner of the Cour 682Reads7.2Score128Shelves
- 128 After Leaving the Rich Family, She Settles in the Mountains to Grow Vegetables and Flowers 离开豪门后，她安居山间种菜养花 [The four seasons in the mountains + a healing little courtyard + delicious food and beautiful scenery + a touch of showbiz] Ying Songshi was the real heiress, switched at birth by a wealthy family's matriarch. Because a fortune-teller said she would “bring misfortune to the family business,” she was abandoned and sent to a farming family in a county town. Her adoptive father was an alcoholic, and her adoptive mother left home. Fortunately, she still had her master, who cared for her, and two ol 17.3kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves
- 129 Farming and Building a Business, My Transmigrated Husband Spoils Me 种田经营，穿越夫君宠上天 [Ancient farming + building a prosperous business + family life + comforting food + lighthearted daily life] Cheng Yu is a farm girl, often chided for setting her sights too high. She still hasn't married by the time she's nearly twenty, and at last her parents can't sit by any longer. The next day, they bring home a man for her, supposedly a young scholar who once studied for the exams, but who unfortunately suffered a blow to the head. Cheng Yu looks him over and thinks he seems frail. What's 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Stacking Every Buff at My Food Stall Across the Ten Thousand Worlds 万界美食摊buff叠满 What’s it like to become unemployed and immediately get a System? In just one month, Yue Yue goes from jobless to a millionaire worth tens of millions. Her family goes from poverty to living in a villa with all their needs taken care of, becoming a newly risen elite family in everyone’s eyes. The one thing she never expected was to draw a chance to set up a stall in other worlds. And later on, the food even comes with buffs!!! Selling stinky tofu that boosts cultivation in a world of immortal cu 11Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 131 The Food Blogger Who Built Her Fortune at a Street Stall 美食博主她靠摆摊发家致富 [Transmigration + Street Vending + Food + Beloved by the Whole Family + Making a Fortune + Heartwarming + Sweet Romance + Family Life + Face-Slapping + No Awful Relatives] When Gu Mingyan wakes up, she discovers that she’s the only girl in the Gu family for eight generations. The family has next to nothing and is dirt poor. Fortunately, they’re a warm and loving family. Her grandparents and parents dote on her, and her four older brothers and two younger brothers are all completely devoted to th 49Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 132 I Open a Canteen in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 我在锦衣卫开食堂 “I’m a famous food blogger! There’s no way I can’t handle you lot!” Food blogger Song Zhaozhao accidentally transmigrated into the body of a vicious female supporting character. She ended up in a poor little mountain village, but her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her older brother protected her. With a wave of her expert hand, Song Zhaozhao gave up on her childhood sweetheart and opened a canteen for the Embroidered Uniform Guard. “From today on, I’m in charge of your meals!” 1.6kReads—Score179Shelves
- 133 Dumped Before the Wedding? I’m Feasting on Meat in a Famine Year, and You Can’t Have Me! 被退婚？荒年我吃肉你高攀不起！ [Farming + Food + Everyday life + Feel-good wish fulfillment + Making a fortune] Jiang Wansheng transmigrated into a book. Her fiance, Li Hongwen, was a gold-digger. He came to break off their engagement for the sake of the scheming Jiang Ruxue, and his future mother-in-law raised a huge fuss at the Jiang household. After Jiang Wansheng angrily banged her head against a tree, she regained the memories of her previous life. It turned out that Jiang Ruxue was reborn. Using her knowledge of the 300Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 134 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 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 The Tough Wife Takes Charge 悍妇当家 [Farming + spiritual spring + lighthearted comedy + everyday life + building a fortune] Du Jiaojiao, a burly woman, accidentally overhears her sister-in-law urging her mother-in-law to sell Du Jiaojiao’s child to a landowner. Pregnant and furious, she charges over and beats them both up. After the fight, her mother-in-law kicks Du Jiaojiao and her family out, leaving them to scrape by in a makeshift shelter just outside the village... Two months later, Du Jiaojiao gives birth to boy-and-girl twi 3.7kReads8.4Score331Shelves
- 136 The Hunter's Little Husband from Another World 猎户的异世界小夫郎 A handsome, brawny hunter who dotes on his husband and spoils his wife rotten (Jiang Chuhang) X a pretty, sunny, capable young husband (Shi Luo) Shi Luo woke up one day to find himself in a forest, where a hunter rescued him. A red mole had suddenly appeared on his hand, and he had become a young male spouse. After that, he and the hunter began a life of hunting, making delicious food to sell at a stall, farming, opening a restaurant, and raising an adorable child. A sweet, indulgent food story 27Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 137 A Chef Who Can’t Grow Vegetables Isn’t a Good Landlady 不会种菜的厨师不是好包租婆 At the crucial moment of his training, Zhu Ganglie crashes into Jiang Qingxi. Her vision goes black, then white, and... closes again. When she opens her eyes, she’s back in her life before last? In that life, she had land, a house, and a car in the countryside, but insisted on heading to the big city to make her way in the world. Before she could get anywhere, she died and woke up in another world. Her master brought her into the trade, and after twenty years she was about to succeed. Who would 1.1kReads6.9Score104Shelves
- 138 Reborn: Farming in the Deep Mountains and Selling Mushrooms 重生之深山老林种田上山卖菌子 P.S. [Food Story]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [No Space]+ [No System]+ [No Awful Relatives] A Heartwarming Family's Everyday Life, Building a Life from Nothing At first, she works hard selling snacks. Later, she opens a hot pot restaurant and a cake shop! A heartwarming food story with no awful relatives. Best enjoyed with takeout at night! Setting up a street stall to sell braised pork intestines, tiger-skin chicken feet, spicy crayfish, spicy boiled fish, poached pork slices, mixed vegetables and ed 155Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Spiritual Energy Is Fading? I Build a Peach Blossom Paradise Through Farming 灵气陨落？我靠种田打造桃花源 [Modern Farming + Everyday Gourmet Cooking + Land Development + Wilderness Foraging + Minor Golden Finger + Spirit Spring (can't be used for farming or drinking) + Another World + Fantasy Creatures + Divine Game] - After a gray-mist disaster, soil fertility across the country plummeted and crop yields fell. The whole country entered the canned-food era. Yu Wenxia had been able to see the numerical values of things in nature since childhood. After a string of bad luck, she unexpectedly returned t 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Mobile Food Stall: My Customers Are Wild About the Food 移动美食摊：我的食客太疯狂 [Reader's guide: No CP, not a romance. The Tomato app's tags are wrong, so romance fans should take note before reading.] [Gourmet][Comfort food][Lighthearted][Cozy][Healing][Everyday life][No CP] Sun Xiaoting accidentally binds herself to the Gourmet System and gains unparalleled cooking skills. She also triggers random street-stall missions. She sells jianbing at the night market for 15 yuan a serving, leaving grease shining on her customers' lips; She sells 100-yuan boxed meals outside a luxu 298Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 141 Your Majesty, What Are We Eating Today? 娘娘，今天吃什么 Just to be clear, this novel has no romance, no romance, no romance! The first thing Xia Zhixia does after transmigrating is nearly faint from hunger on an ancient street. Luckily, she’s rescued by Qin Yu, a general’s daughter dressed in red and riding a white horse, whose only wish is to roam the world. Even more remarkably, the two women look almost exactly alike. “Girl, this has to be fate!” Qin Yu says, her eyes lighting up. “You go into the palace for me and live like a queen! My father is 909Reads8.4Score108Shelves
- 142 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 313Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 143 Making a Fortune Selling Fast Food in Ancient Times 在古代卖快餐赚翻了 ♥Food♡Farming♡Nurturing♡No golden finger♡No idiots♡Childhood sweethearts♥ Lin Tuan never imagined he would end up in the body of a three-year-old brat. From then on, he lived the life of a lazy salted fish. No, no, no. It was more like the life of a hardworking salted fish. 330Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 I Sell Bento Boxes in the Cultivation World 我在修真界卖盒饭 (One-on-one romance + absurd comedy + System + food + trash-talk champion) Zhang Jiuqiu accidentally transmigrated into the role of a vicious female antagonist and got bound to a diss System that let her diss anyone she couldn’t stand. From then on, Zhang Jiuqiu’s name spread far and wide, and she became the foulest-mouthed person in the cultivation world. After eating the meal her senior brother cooked, Zhang Jiuqiu’s cultivation level dropped. Zhang Jiuqiu: “What the hell is this? Even my dog 179Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 145 The Little Chef of Willowbank 杨柳岸小厨娘 [No CP, fictional era, opening a restaurant, cooking whatever people love to eat] Most people marveled at the protagonist’s success, but Jiang Xia couldn’t help feeling sorry for all the supporting women who’d been toyed with by fate. After a quick transmigration, she got the chance to take a supporting woman’s place and keep living. So she decided that since she’d never get what she wanted, she might as well want nothing at all. She would live well and eat well… When a minor figure in the ma 273Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 146 How Did I, Heir to a Legendary Chef, End Up as a Suffering International Student? 我堂堂神厨后人竟沦为命苦留子？ [Don’t make me cook!! → Cooking is so satisfying] [Gourmet fiction + System + farming pocket dimension + hilarious and heartwarming] Ning Tangtang comes from a family of master chefs, but she has no desire to inherit the family business. Her lifelong dream is to escape the kitchen. What good is a perfect knife technique when milk tea smells so good? No matter how brilliant your cooking is, nothing beats lying flat! Her family thinks she’s “neglecting her proper duties,” so they pack her off abro 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 The Restaurant Survival Guide: Cooking and Gossiping, All in a Day’s Work 食肆生存法则，做饭吃瓜两不误 [Shopkeeping + food + mystery-solving + farming] Overnight, food lover An Qiao transmigrates into the imperial palace as a cook. After leaving the palace, all she wants is to build a career: create the first chain of restaurants and bring delicious food to every corner of the country. Who could have guessed?! The eatery she buys at the start is right next to the Court of Judicial Review. Qi Ning'an gets dragged into one case after another, and the restaurant becomes the place to go for all the l 615Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 148 I Started Out in the Mountains Amid Chaos, So What Have I to Fear with My Peach Blossom Haven? 乱世开局进深山，我有桃源怕啥？ [Pure Farming + Family Life + No System + Fleeing Famine in a Time of Chaos + Infrastructure Building + Transmigrate into a Book + Business + Stockpiling Food] Tian Xiaomai was a newly minted office drone from the 21st century who devoted her life to her desk. When she opened her eyes again, a twist of fate had turned her into a child bride bought by the He family to bring good fortune. Once she adjusted to her new surroundings, everything began to seem familiar. Wasn't this the plot of a novel 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 My Cat and I Transmigrated: My Golden Finger Is a Cat 我和我的猫一起穿了之金手指是猫 [Transmigration + gathering herbs and hunting in the mountains + pocket dimension + slow-paced life + street stall + spirit pet] Jinxiu transmigrates into the body of a dirt-poor country girl. Their home is bare as can be (Jinxiu’s thoughts: It’s not actually that bad, okay!) The family has a few mu of fields and her grandparents, who depend on each other for survival. At least her cat came along too. Kun Kun is a Ragdoll cat with a sharp tongue. When they go up the mountain to gather herbs 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 The General's Delicious Wife 将军的美味娘子 She transmigrates into a farming family, where there's never enough to eat or warm clothes to wear, and she also gets a paralyzed husband and a whole crowd of awful relatives thrown in for free. Xia Yuechu counts it all up on her fingers. By any reckoning, she's the one getting the raw deal! But she's got her cooking skills to rely on, and with her clever hands she can whip up countless delicious dishes and make a fortune in no time, rising straight to the top! The better life gets, though, the 238Reads8.6Score104Shelves
