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- 1 Whose Boss Sets Up a Little Stall and Takes It Nationwide? 谁家老板摆个小摊全国走 [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Funny and heartwarming] [One male lead] [System] [Perfect with a meal] Liu Nian unexpectedly bonded with a Gourmet System. Anything he made became a one-of-a-kind delicacy. Every week brought a random location, every month a random city, and with random dishes and different customers, each stop offered a brand-new treat for the taste buds. He sold stinky tofu outside a public restroom, fried skewers outside a gym, and buns outside a five-star hotel. Every 182Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Possessed by the Chef God: Uh-Oh, the System Keeps Glitching! 厨神附体，坏了，系统时常抽风！ [Food, no female lead, everyday life] Chen Huai has a bad temper, and the System is just as unusual. This human and this System, two beings from different species, have tastes that match perfectly. Whenever they see someone they dislike, they make them eat food that tastes awful, until the person starts wondering if something is wrong with their taste buds. “Is this even the same dish? Why does it taste so different from everyone else's?!” From then on, food tastings at Chen's became sharply div 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Selling Fried Chicken Outside the Gym, the Coach Leads the Way in Breaking Their Diet 健身房门口卖炸鸡，教练带头破戒 [Gourmet] [Out-of-Place Street Stalls] [System] [Comedy] [Lighthearted Daily Life] Selling fried chicken outside a gym: dancing right on the fitness fanatics' biggest pet peeve! Lu Song activates the Out-of-Place Street Stall System: sell the most incongruous food in the most ridiculous places. The bigger the contrast, the more heavenly the taste! The gym coach issues a stern warning: "Anyone who dares buy fried chicken is doing ten extra sets!" Before he even finishes speaking, the coach sneaks 825Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 You Kicked Me Out With Nothing, Now I'm a Street Vendor and the World's Richest 让你净身出户，你摆摊成全球首富 “Since you’re useless, let’s get a divorce.” Facing his wife’s contempt and pressure from the rich and powerful, Lin Fan left with nothing and raised his five-year-old daughter alone. Luckily, he awakened the Gourmet Master System and started selling food from a street stall, beginning with a plate of [Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice]. On the first day, passersby complained about the price: “Fifty yuan for fried rice? Are you crazy?” On the second day, they couldn’t get enough: “Boss, please fry me 29.3kReads7.6Score2.9k14d adds
- 5 Food Wars: From the Start, I Win Over the Haughty French Lady! 食戟：开局攻略傲娇法式贵妇！ [Includes original settings, changes to certain characters’ personalities, and a crossover world] After transmigrating into Food Wars!, Yuuki Yuzuru awakens a “galgame” System. But he soon discovers that the characters he needs to win over are a little strange! “Yuuki, why does the same recipe taste so much better when you make it?” “Well... You should chat with the recipe more to raise its affection level. You can give it a gift now and then, confess at the right moment, and finally get the rec 1.7kReads5.6Score12714d adds
- 6 Boss, Have You Eaten Today? 东家，今日吃了吗？ [Food + farming + everyday life] Chapters 1–23 cover her childhood; the male lead appears in Chapter 23, and she heads to Shaojing in Chapter 34. The whole story is about 200,000 words. Good riddance, rotten tomatoes. Tu Ling has been a picky eater since childhood, but fortunately her grandmother dotes on her, her mother protects her, and her father spoils her. She grows her seasonings from seedlings, starts handling the spatula as a toddler, learns to cook in the dining hall, and gets her resta 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Reborn in the 1980s as a Little Chef: Cherished After Divorce 重生八零小厨娘：离婚后被宠上天 This novel is absolutely perfect for reading over a meal. Slurp~ A Michelin-starred chef travels back to the 1980s. Freshly divorced, she turns her life around with her cooking! She revamps a traditional stove, sells noodles at a street stall, and recreates a hundred classic dishes from Recipes from the Garden of Contentment: crab-stuffed oranges bursting with flavor, milky-white mutton soup, and Wensi tofu sliced into strands as fine as silver thread. The little stall at the town entrance draws 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Random Cuisine, Diners Beg Me Not to Close Up! 随机美食，食客求我别收摊！ [Everyday Gourmet] [No Female Lead, No Romance] [Warm and Healing] [Lighthearted and Wacky] Unemployed young man Fang Mu unexpectedly binds himself to the ultimate Gourmet System! Random stalls! Random dishes! Fried rice today, pig trotters tomorrow. It all depends on the System's mood! Fang Mu's food is unbelievably delicious. One bite is enough to blow your mind, and everyone who tries it gets hooked. But he never keeps a regular schedule, and when he closes up, he leaves whenever he feels lik 191Reads5.8Score10014d adds
- 9 Gourmet: Have I Really Been Trained to Become a Chef God? 美食：我被培养成厨神了？ [Food Wars! + no romance + food + Little Chef] Mo Yu transmigrates into the world of Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, and is born there. At first, he doesn’t realize what has happened. He simply wonders why people in this world have more refined palates than people did in his previous life. It is only after his parents die in an accident and he moves to Japan to live with his uncle that he discovers he is in the world of Food Wars. At the age of five, he officially binds himself to the System and 460Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 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
- 11 Midnight Feasts: I Fed the Entire Imperial Court Until They Got Fat 深夜放毒：我把满朝文武喂胖了 #Food + Sweet Romance + Transmigration + Satisfying Revenge + Bickering Couple + Business# [Imperial Banquet Chef VS Picky, Arrogant Young Marquis with an Eating Disorder. Food Heals, Sweet Romance with No Angst] Jiang Zhiwei transmigrated into a kitchen maid about to be sold off by the marquis's estate. Seeing the kitchen full of top-quality ingredients being wasted, she grabbed the ladle in a fury! A bowl of braised pork cured the old matriarch's eating disorder, and a pot of braised pig offal 510Reads6.7Score10214d adds
- 12 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 374Reads7.1Score10314d adds
- 13 I Started Out as a Side Consort and Won the Crown Prince Over with My Cooking 开局穿侧妃，我靠美食馋哭太子 Ye An'an transmigrated and became the Crown Prince’s concubine, but the Crown Prince was famous for being both a picky eater and a germaphobe. He ran away on their wedding night, becoming the laughingstock of the entire capital. The good news: she brought all her modern cooking skills with her, so she was living the good life! While everyone else was fighting for favor in the palace, scheming against one another, Ye An'an was making jianbing in the little kitchen, the delicious aroma carrying fo 9kReads7.3Score39714d adds
- 14 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 1.6kReads—Score18414d adds
- 15 Gourmet: You're a Top Gaokao Scorer, and You Open a Food Shop? 美食：你一个高考状元，开美食店 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chu Yang went through high school just like everyone else. Then, with the college entrance exams just around the corner, his mom secretly bought a franchise of Nezha Immortal Drinks! Luckily, Chu Yang awakened the God of Cooking System! He received a premium braised-meat recipe from the start! Its fragrant aroma carried for miles, drawing in countless customers who couldn't wait to get their hands on it. Then came premium braised pork, fish with pickled 447Reads6.0Score10314d adds
- 16 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
- 17 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 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 I Became the Villain's Real Mother and Changed My Family's Fate 穿成反派亲妈，我来改变全家命运 [Farming + raising kids + food + business + devoted, sweet romance] After Xu Qiaoyuan died unexpectedly, she transmigrated into a world with a ramshackle hut open to the elements and two gaunt children. She thought she'd landed in a hopeless situation from the start, but then realized she'd transmigrated into a book and become the villain's wicked mother. The little villain was five years old. His father was missing, dead or alive unknown; his mother was lazy, greedy, and quick to beat and scold 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 From Michelin to Street Stall: It Took Me Only Three Days 从米其林到摆摊，我只用了三天 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 The Little Chef: Daily Life Running a Shop in Ancient Times 厨神小娘子：古代开店日常 After transmigrating to the Southern Song Dynasty, Ji Zhitang just wanted to lie flat in peace. But with her family dirt poor and creditors knocking at the door, what could she do? No big deal! Braised meat wraps, spicy shredded chicken frames, deep-fried baby crabs, stone-pot bibimbap, seafood feasts... Modern dishes were just what it took to win over ancient palates! From a roadside stall to a wildly popular fast-food shop, from Taoyuan Town to Lin'an's top-tier star, her food business flouris 5.8kReads8.4Score61314d adds
- 22 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
- 23 My Breakfast Shop Took Off After I Bound a Food System 绑定美食系统后，我的早餐店火了 Su Ti was fed empty promises and manipulated by her company, so she decisively took the money and walked away. On her second day unemployed, she unexpectedly binds to the mysterious [Myriad Feasts Record] System From then on, every dish she makes gets a score: “Plain noodles: 8.9 points, just barely excellent.” “Crispy pastry: 9.8 points, astonishingly good!” Her best friend takes one bite of her noodles and slaps the table: “Quit! Open a restaurant! I’ll invest!” A neighbor tries the pastries s 2.6kReads7.2Score31214d adds
- 24 I Set Up a Snack Stall and Made the Whole Town Drool 摆摊卖小吃，全镇馋哭了 [Farming + shop + food + street vending + opening a restaurant + slice of life + making a fortune] Lin Yuan wakes to the sound of an argument and realizes he has transmigrated! He's landed in a mountain village, in the body of a poor, scrawny young man. The thatched hut has mud walls and floors, and his entire family is painfully thin. Lin Yuan is close to tears, but luckily, heaven has gifted him a shop in this new life. Looking at the food and goods displayed in the shop, Lin Yuan immediately 57Reads—Score10214d adds
- 25 The University President Can Cook, and Faculty and Students Work Themselves to the Bone 大学校长会做饭，师生全往死里干 [Gourmet] [No heroine] At a very young age, Xu Ji becomes a university president. He assumes the organization has entrusted him with an important responsibility, only to discover that the university is already slated to close. It can't even qualify for a ranking, and is worse than a diploma mill. It turns out he's only there to hold the fort until the bitter end. Just when Xu Ji is despairing, he binds himself to a Gourmet System. The stronger the school becomes, the more plentiful its rewards. 77Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 26 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 20.6kReads7.2Score2.1k14d adds
- 27 You Asked Me to Cook Vegetarian Meals, So Why Is My Incense Offering Exploding? 让你做斋饭，我香火怎么被干爆了 [The rating has just been posted and is sure to rise] (System) (Food) (Everyday Life) (Lighthearted Comedy) Lu Chen used to be an overworked corporate drone, but after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he was fired. Just as he was waiting to die, he unexpectedly obtained a Divine Incense System and bonded with Tianlin Temple. As long as the temple receives incense offerings, Lu Chen's lifespan increases. But Tianlin Temple is about to go under! Lu Chen can only use the divine cooking skills 5kReads6.7Score44314d adds
- 28 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
- 29 Our State Banquet Master Sets Up a Stall to Sell Roujiamo to Foreigners 我国宴大师，摆摊卖肉夹馍给老外 [Food + light System + overseas business + comfort-food read + no romance + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + detailed recipes] Lu Chuan, a seventy-two-year-old master chef of state banquets, is reborn as an undocumented laborer overseas. He gets bound to a Chinese cuisine promotion System, and each mission is more outrageous than the last. Get people who have eaten sweet-and-sour chicken for decades to try real Kung Pao chicken instead. Get people who only have coffee and bread for b 97Reads—Score10314d adds
- 30 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.3kReads8.7Score1.2k14d adds
- 31 Bound to a Gourmet System, I Become the God of Food by Opening a Restaurant 绑定美食系统，我靠开店成食神 The rating just came out! Feel free to start reading~ (Food + no romance + System + lighthearted comedy + everyday healing) Boss Xie will never get a partner!! Your System and my System don’t seem to be the same~ Other people’s food Systems: max level with one click, instant culinary godhood, become the God of Food without lifting a finger! Xie Yan’s food System: start from scratch and unlock things one step at a time. Xie Yan spread his hands. It’s fine, it’s fine. Having one is better than hav 23.8kReads8.1Score2.2k14d adds
- 32 After I Transmigrated, I Used Food to Save a Kindergarten 穿越后，我用美食拯救幼儿园 After transmigrating as the principal of a bankrupt kindergarten, Lin Xiaoxia takes one look at the rundown courtyard and nearly blacks out. She’s a Michelin-level backup chef, and now she has to look after kids, clean, and sing nursery rhymes? Then she hears, “Ding! You have been bound to the Chinese Little Chef Pro Max System.” Three months later “Mommy, I used the molecular gastronomy machine to make rainbow cloud marshmallows today!” The adorable four-year-old pulls out a piping bag. “The p 67Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 33 When It Comes to Noodles, I'm the Best in the Country 论做面，我全国最强 [Food] Yu Shaoxian inherited his family's noodle shop. Looking at the shabby, 90-square-meter old shop in front of him, he listened to the System announce his task, eager to give it a try. “Host, your task is to make countless dishes using noodles as the main ingredient.” “Complete the task, and you'll receive a cash reward of 300 million.” “The reward will be delivered in the form of lottery winnings.” “Ding! Your beginner's gift pack has arrived.” “Congratulations, Host! You've received unlimi 1.2kReads8.0Score21314d adds
- 34 Running a Mountain B&B, My Casual Cooking Leaves Michelin Chefs Stunned 山里开民宿，随手炒菜震碎米其林 Shen Qi’s Cloud Perch Lodge has three rules: no guests who leave bad reviews, no repeating dishes, and no disturbances after ten at night. Tourists call him arrogant, until his “Jadeite and White Jade Soup,” made with spirit spring water and stir-fried over a fierce flame, comes out of the pot. Its fragrance carries for miles and cures a provincial TV host’s ten-year illness. The Michelin reviewers arrive with high expectations, only to find a bowl of plain noodles so delicious it makes them que 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 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 1.5kReads6.0Score14814d adds
- 36 Max-Level Kid, Reborn as the Night Market Food King 满级小孩哥，重生夜市美食之王 "Food + System + Cooking with Sincerity + No Romance + Family Bonds + Healing" Zhou Qi, one of Huaxia's top chefs, was hit by a speeding truck the day before competing in the World Chef Championship. Just like that, he transmigrated into the body of an eight-year-old boy named Zhou Qi. With no other way to make ends meet, Zhou Qi joined his adoptive father in setting up a stall at the night market. And then... Passerby: “Whoa! What smells so amazing?” Campus beauty: “Little bro! How am I suppose 445Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 37 Heavenly Realms Resort: From a Seaside Shack to a Master Chef 诸天度假村：从海边破院开始颠勺 Overworked office drone Lin Du dies suddenly and is reborn as the manager of the only unfinished, rundown resort on a deserted island in the East Sea. There’s no running water or electricity, no guests, and only a ridiculous System bound to the stove. Others start out rich. Lin Du starts out grilling fish. Then his first guest, an Immortal Realm Emperor who came out to sea to clear his head, finishes a plate of scallops with scallions priced at 88 yuan and has his Dao heart shattered on the sp 21Reads—Score214d adds
- 38 The Riverside Little Chef 临水小厨娘 [Farming and Food + Lighthearted + Daily Life + Romance + A Fictional Jiangnan Water Town] Su Mo, a modern culinary prodigy, transmigrates into the daughter of a small eatery owner in Linshui County. When she opens her eyes, the restaurant is on the verge of closing, and her parents are weighed down with worry. Watching her father ruin the ingredients with his cooking, Su Mo silently picks up the family's heirloom iron ladle. Just wait and see: she'll make this eatery bigger and better! 6.6kReads8.2Score66114d adds
- 39 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 115Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 40 After Losing My Job, I Got a Barbecue System and Now Earn Millions a Year 失业后获得烧烤系统，我年入百万 [Late-Night Gourmet] [Mouthwatering] [Easygoing Daily Life] On the eve of his barbecue shop’s closure, Su Yan binds himself to the [Barbecue King System]. Top-tier Ningxia Yanchi Tan sheep plus spices supplied by the System: the aroma of the skewers drives the whole street wild... Lamb skewers for 18 yuan each draw a line so long the traffic police have to close the road, and the owner of the neighboring barbecue shop comes over in tears to steal his secrets! A loan shark comes to collect and 682Reads—Score10914d adds
- 41 Gourmet: Random Street Stalls, and the Campus Belle Senior Tells Me to Behave 美食：随机摆摊，校花学姐请自重 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Fan binds himself to a Gourmet System. The System randomly assigns quests. Completing them and buying items earns Gourmet Points, which can be exchanged for all kinds of rewards. Roast duck legs outside the school gates, steak at a night market stall, and spicy pepper soup in the park. One delicious food after another draws everyone in, including the upperclassmen at his school. “Damn! Where did my underclassman who sells duck legs go? He’s disappear 23.1kReads7.5Score2.9k14d adds
- 42 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 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 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—14d adds
- 44 Eat, Eat, Eat! Come and Eat! 吃吃吃，都来吃 [Unconventional Food Story + Improving the Nation’s Health + Ensemble Cast + No Romance + System Pocket Dimension. Chasing Dreams, and the Heroine Means Business!] Wu Shuang, who grew up in an orphanage, had just graduated from college when a speeding car sent her flying. The good news: she was in great shape and wasn’t hurt. Even better news: she got a food System and a pocket dimension! Wu Shuang sighed: at last, the thread of her fate had grown thicker!!! From then on, Wu Shuang’s hot pot res 228Reads—Score10614d adds
- 45 Gourmet: Stop Stewing It, Even the Village Dogs Are Drooling! 美食：别炖了，村里狗都馋哭了！ Kuang Rui refuses to get caught up in the rat race and chooses to lie flat back in his hometown. He inherits his father’s braised meat shop and, after rejecting the rat race, gains a Food System. Together, they breathe new life into the shop. The humble home-cooked dishes that once went unnoticed are transformed into viral hits that customers flock to check in and try. Take steamed stinky tofu with minced meat, for example. It smells awful but tastes delicious, and one bite is enough to leave y 2.4kReads6.4Score15614d adds
- 46 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 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Midnight Diner: Duck Blood and Vermicelli Soup 深夜食堂：鸭血粉丝汤 Late-Night Diner: Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup 25Reads—Score114d adds
- 48 Nourishing the Land with Food: My Fruits and Vegetables Have Come to Life 靠美食养地：我的瓜果通灵了 [Urban fantasy + food + slice of life + no romance + random street stalls + perfect mealtime reading] Fresh out of college and already unemployed, Gao Lin unexpectedly binds to a Food System and decisively heads home. Each week, he randomly sets up a stall to sell food, and in return his fruits and vegetables receive a huge upgrade. Tiny tomatoes can be prepared in a hundred different ways. A whole field of rotten tomatoes gets a new lease on life, and even college students who can't live withou 955Reads7.4Score10214d adds
- 49 Gourmet System: A Street Food Stall from the Start 美食系统：开局一个路边摊 [You have activated the Gourmet System. Would you like to bind it? Yes; No] During graduation season, Jiang Tiantian, an ordinary university student, hadn’t received a single suitable job offer and had only her last 500 yuan left. As she wondered what to do, she activated the [Gourmet Business System]. -New User Starter Pack-: Congratulations, Host! You’ve received a shop and unlocked your starting dish, sweet-and-sour cold noodles. Sell 10 portions to unlock the next dish. -Special Rewards-: Ev 3.3kReads—Score37714d adds
- 50 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 361Reads—Score13514d adds
