Novels like Reborn in 1980: A Five-Star Chef Gets Rich with His Wife and Daughters
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- 1 The Mortal Flavors I Share with the Kitchen God 我和灶神君的人间风味 In a corner of the Culinary Capital, there’s a little shop with no sign. It serves food so delicious you’ll want to swallow your tongue, and boasts a handsome, cool-headed owner, a cute chef, and a line of customers stretching to the end of the street. “What did you say? You want to steal my little chef? Keep dreaming...” The cool-headed owner turns around, glaring furiously. “Hey, cook! Where are you running off to? You’ll never escape me in this lifetime...” 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Fragrance and Flavor of Lotus 荷香食味 The day she was divorced, Ye Hexiang took only two acres of barren land and the cookbook her grandmother had left her. Her rundown house leaked in the wind. She had no money to her name and carried a secret she couldn't tell anyone. She thought her life was over. Then she sold her first jar of pickled radish for a single coin. A bowl of hot soup, a little shop, and a taciturn but gentle man. She learned that life's greatest flavors come from turning bitter days into sweet ones. 7.7kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves
- 3 Five-Year-Old Master Chef: My Street Stall Makes the City's Bigwigs Drool 五岁小厨神：靠摆摊馋哭全城大佬 [Food, adorable kid, System, slice of life] Mom is in a coma after a car accident, and Dad can’t afford the medical bills. Just as the whole family is on the verge of despair, five-year-old Youyou accidentally activates the Adorable Kid Chef God System! [Happiness-Inducing Egg Fried Rice], [Little Wontons That Restore Your Courage], [Koi Soup That Helps You Make a Fortune]… From then on, one adorable five-year-old and a roadside food stall become the hottest attraction in the whole city! Want a 1.6kReads—Score185Shelves
- 4 I Became a God-Tier Tycoon by Running a Street Stall, and My Customers Chase Me All Over Town 摆摊成神豪，食客追我满城跑 [Food + Tycoon + Comedy + System + No Romance + No Heroine + Daily Life + Comfort Food + Wish Fulfillment] Li Hai is a wage earner who longs to get rich. By chance, he binds to the Food Tycoon System. From then on, he sets out to run street-food stalls. The locations and dishes are random. Every time he completes a stall-running task provided by the System, he receives a generous reward. [Congratulations, Host! Task complete. Reward: ten million yuan.] [Congratulations, Host! Task complete. Rewa 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 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 472Reads6.0Score103Shelves
- 6 You're the God of Food, Yet You Want Me to Cook a Banquet? 身为食神，你居然让我做大席？ Countryside + Gourmet + Heartwarming. The simple comforts of everyday life are what soothe the human heart. Chu Ci is reborn in a rural village in a parallel world and unexpectedly obtains the God of Food System. But the very first task the System gives him is to cook a feast for a crowd? But I don’t know how! Yet, looking at the kind, honest smiles of his family back home, Chu Ci has no choice but to take the job. Light the stove and get the dishes moving! Turns out, cooking a feast like this i 353Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 7 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 4kReads8.1Score366Shelves
- 8 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 719Reads8.0Score102Shelves
- 9 One Stall from the Start, Great Food All Thanks to the System 开局一个摊，美食全靠系统 Chen Fang had spent over half a year stir-frying rice noodles, yet he was so broke he couldn't even pay rent. Then the System arrived. A garden in a pocket dimension, a spirit spring, ingredient exchanges, recipe unlocks, cooking skill upgrades, and surprise prize draws. He thought he could finally turn his life around, but the System said: He had to get “genuine praise” from three special diners within a week, or it was goodbye. The first was the belle of S University. She devoured two portions 12Reads—Score118Shelves
- 10 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 21.6kReads7.2Score2.3kShelves
- 11 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
- 12 A Chef at Your Door, Healing Countless Diners 男厨上门，治愈万千食客 After losing his job and running out of options, Lin Zhaonan unexpectedly binds to the “Record of a Hundred Flavors” culinary System. From then on, he sets out on a healing journey, soothing hearts with food and comforting ordinary lives with the warmth of home cooking. As he heals others, Lin Zhaonan heals himself too, and finds love as well as a restaurant famous far and wide. 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 A Happy Family 合家欢 After being reborn, I excel at both studying and making money, and retire at thirty Synopsis: [Farming + Food + Business + Slow-Burn Slice of Life + No System] A farming story with no System The focus is on a gentle, steady pace No ridiculous relatives How did the Lin family's youngest daughter, once a bit slow on the uptake, suddenly become a business tycoon? Lin Wanwan: Who do you think you're looking down on? I can hold my own in the parlor and in the kitchen. I can cook, run a business, grow 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Gourmet: Starting with Selling Braised Dishes in the Countryside! 美食：从下乡卖卤味开始！ [System Golden Finger + Gourmet + Everyday Business + Farming] Ji Yanming quits his job and returns to his village to care for his elderly grandfather and start a business, never expecting to bind to a Gourmet System. The god-tier braised-food recipe he gets in the beginner’s gift pack sends him soaring right from the start. So Ji Yanming begins selling braised food in the countryside, traveling from village to village and becoming a favorite with adults and children alike. Before long, his fame 874Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 15 The AI Big Shot Has Its Eye on the Private Chef's Wife AI大佬盯上了私厨老板娘 One disastrous meal cost Yang Zhe 30 million in funding and made him see one thing clearly: the restaurant industry doesn't lack data. It lacks the people behind the data. To save his home and company, he stakes everything he owns and joins forces with Lin Manman, a private chef and restaurant owner being coerced by an anonymous person. Together, they bring AI out of spreadsheets and into the kitchen. With a day's sales, a new dish, and a birthday banquet, they put a working business model to th 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Setting Up a Stall Outside the Elementary School, Mom and Dad, Save Some for Me 小学门口摆摊，爸爸妈妈给我留点 This book is also known as "After I Grabbed My Bucket and Ran, I Awakened the Gourmet God System". [Comedy] [Comfort Food] [System] [Gourmet] [Goofball] As a civil engineering graduate, Zhang Yang followed his seniors’ advice on starting a business and became a proud freelancer: selling snacks outside an elementary school as a street vendor. Egg fried rice, pan-fried buns, and all kinds of other delicious food took the school gate by storm. The elementary school students and their parents lined 397Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 17 Yi Wan Fried Rice 伊碗炒饭 From ancient times to the present day In ancient times, Yi Wan was heir to a royal chef’s legacy. In the modern era, Yi Wan’er had lost her parents in a car accident just as she finished her college entrance exams. In a single day, Yi Wan transmigrated and became Yi Wan’er. Watch as this heir to an ancient royal culinary tradition works wonders with ingredients in the modern world, cooking up a life rich in every flavor. 11Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 18 Interstellar Street Stall! Sis Song, Could You Stop Running Off? 星际摆摊！宋姐，咱能不能别乱跑 The rating just came out, so it'll go up! [Interstellar + food + System + one heroine + no male lead + no CP + lighthearted + everyday life + comedy + perfect mealtime reading] After Song Quan died from overwork, she found herself in an interstellar age proudly known as a “culinary wasteland.” [You have successfully linked to the God of Cooking Lottery System!] All she had to do was collect customers' mood points to unlock new recipes and street-stall locations. Mood points could also be used fo 10.7kReads7.1Score1.5kShelves
- 19 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! 56Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 20 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 30Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 21 My Stall Is Full the Moment I Open! Do You Know How Hard This Is? 刚出摊就客满，知道我有多苦吗？ [Comfort-Food Cuisine] [Delicate Writing] [Easygoing Daily Life] [Warm and Healing] After being reborn, Su Yu unexpectedly binds himself to the Ultimate Gourmet System. Egg fried rice: golden in color, with every grain distinct. One bite and you can't stop! Braised chicken: tender, juicy meat with layers of flavor. The sauce gushes out with the slightest bite! Chili oil noodles: chewy noodles that sizzle with heat, spicy and fragrant, with a lingering aftertaste! Every dish is top-notch, leaving 90Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 22 You Told Me to Sell Fried Rice, and I Brought the Highway to a Standstill 让你摆摊卖炒饭，你把高速干瘫痪 Bai Ming transmigrates to Blue Star and becomes an unemployed young man. With his family fortune about to run dry, he is lucky enough to activate the Gourmet System and gain god-tier cooking skills and legendary kitchenware. It happens to be the Spring Festival rush, when everyone is returning to the cities and the highway is gridlocked. Living nearby, Bai Ming simply brings out his wok and stove and starts selling fried rice by the roadside. The drivers and passengers, already starving, are ins 1kReads8.7Score106Shelves
- 23 I Bound the God of Cooking System and Became Unbeatable in the Sect 我绑定厨神系统，在宗门无敌了 [Everyday life + silly, brainless wish fulfillment] After transmigrating into a fantasy world, Ye Chenxing takes charge of all the old, weak, sick, and young members of Cangqiong Peak from his senior brother. A good-for-nothing second senior brother takes over as peak master. Cangqiong Peak is doomed! After binding to the God of Cooking Food System, Ye Chenxing cultivates through cooking. His dishes can increase spiritual energy, help people reach enlightenment, raise their cultivation, and ha 505Reads8.7Score110Shelves
- 24 I’m Just Cooking, Why Are the Demonic Beasts So Nervous? 我就做个菜，妖兽你紧张什么？ Xie Fan, a food lover, accidentally transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and awakens the God of Cooking System! He thought a world of cultivation would be full of fun, but there’s no internet or air conditioning, and worst of all, the food is terrible! With the principle that he can give up cultivating immortality, but he can’t give up eating, Xie Fan decides to fend for himself! The entire sect goes wild! The disciples: “What is this? How can it be so delicious!” “Eating a bowl of f 790Reads6.6Score112Shelves
- 25 Guizhou Cuisine, Making Him Lose His Cool 黔味厨娘，勾他破防 "Craving Her: The Cold-Faced Imperial Guard Wants Cuddles" Transmigrate into a book with a Guizhou cuisine space. Good news: Bai Tingyu, the family's savior, has happened to contract the "food-aversion Gu," and Guizhou cuisine is its natural enemy. Bad news: The space is a "money pit." Every time someone infected with the Gu eats food from her space, half her family's money vanishes. The urgent task: repay the favor, run away, and get rich. But after tasting her spicy, crispy potato cakes, he tu 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 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 17.5kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
- 27 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 1.3kReads8.0Score215Shelves
- 28 I Ran Away from My Wedding to Sell Wontons, and Made the Emperor Drool 逃婚卖馄饨，居然把陛下馋哭了 [Farming + Food + Chef + Transmigrate + Heartwarming, Beloved by All] Food blogger Yun Shu unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter! She can’t get her hands on a happy life, and one headache after another comes her way... They try to force her into marriage? She plays the obedient fool, then really runs away from the wedding, teaching the Duke of Zhenguo a hard lesson. Life is tough? She sets up a food stall, and her competitors can only cry, “There are 80Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Gourmet: I'm the Company Chef, and Everyone Wants Overtime 美食：我公司掌勺，全员要求加班 [The male lead’s career path: employee → self-employed → employee → self-employed → employee → ... an endless cycle...] Su Bin, an outstanding soon-to-be graduate, was about to start an internship at a major company when a jealous classmate secretly changed his assigned position, turning a white-collar job into a late-night restaurant cook position. As it happened, Su Bin unexpectedly acquired a Gourmet System. Inside the company shuttle-bus drivers’ break room: “It’s past nine at night. Why is 281Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 30 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 308Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 31 My Best Friend and I Set Up a Street Stall, So How Did We Bring Glory to Our Country? 我，和闺蜜摆摊，怎么为国争光了 [Gourmet] + [Street Stalls] + [Best Friends] + [System] + [Making a Fortune] A feel-good version of 2 Broke Girls! If you love 2 Broke Girls, you have to check this out! When two unemployed best friends are so broke they have to split a packet of instant noodles, Chang Yixin’s [God of Cooking System] awakens! And so the strongest street-food best-friend duo on earth is born! Chang Yixin is in charge of the flavor. One bowl of fried noodles is enough to make customers weep and exclaim, “It tastes 503Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 32 Giant River Crabs Are Taking Over? I’ll Eat Them Until They’re Protected 大闸蟹泛滥？我给吃成保护动物 [Gourmet] [Comedy] [No romance] [Heartwarming] [Everyday life] [Perfect mealtime reading] That year, an invasive species crisis struck the United States. All kinds of plants and animals multiplied out of control: mitten crabs and crayfish took over school campuses; locusts and cicadas caused massive natural disasters on farms; cunning wild rabbits and boars ravaged the crops before running off; and wild mushrooms grew rampant across the hillsides... The Americans tried every solution they coul 823Reads7.3Score119Shelves
- 33 A Food Blogger Transmigrates Into a Book Set in the Republic of China and Just Wants to Make Money 美食博主穿书民国只想搞钱 Food + Baking + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket Dimension + No Romance Food blogger Jiang Hongyao transmigrates into a book, becoming Jiang Hongyao, a minor character who serves as a casualty in the romance between the leads in the novel A Lady of the Republic. She's not the second female lead or the third. She doesn't even qualify as the fourth. She's just a passerby with barely any lines, the kind who doesn't even get an ending. Since she's here, there's no going back. At least the spacious 1.8kReads8.6Score187Shelves
- 34 Gourmet: My Late-Night Diner Might Not Be Entirely Scientific 美食：我的深夜食堂可能不太科学 [Food + System + entertainment industry + lighthearted daily life] If someone asked where an unconventional late-night diner came from, Luo Jia would tell them it all started with him standing up for the people and beating up a mage whose ritual was disturbing the neighborhood. He knew because he had experienced it himself. Thanks to the immense merit he earned by sacrificing the mage from the start, Luo Jia got a System and embarked on the path to becoming a God of Cooking. He moved to a film s 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Super Food God Tycoon 超级食神大亨 Yang Song happens upon the Chef God System. With nothing but a secondhand food cart selling grilled gluten skewers, he steadily climbs to the peak of success. The richest man's son works for him as a waiter, goddesses throw themselves at him to help run his shop, and top female students from campus come to peel potatoes for him... A beautiful TV reporter asks in an interview, "I hear lots of celebrities come to dine at Baifeng Pavilion. Do they have to wait in line too?" Yang Song replies calmly 236Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 36 A Feast for the Senses: The First-Class Chef 食色生香，一品美味小厨娘 She transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a fat, ugly farm wife, hated by everyone in the village, even the dogs. Her husband is incredibly handsome, but they have nothing to their name, no money or food, and they’re bullied by all sorts of awful relatives. Liang Shiqi does the math and can’t help feeling she got the short end of the stick. At least her parents-in-law are reasonable, and her little brother-in-law is sweet and adorable. So be it! She has her cooking skills to rely on, and wi 50Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 37 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 617Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 38 Gourmet: From Country-Style Banquets to a Better Life! 美食：从农村烧大席开始奔小康！ Illustrations throughout [System, food, reborn, farming, warm everyday life] Wang Cheng suddenly returns to the 1980s and binds to a Chef God Training System. In his previous life, he aimed too high and ended up dying suddenly at his factory job, tightening screws. This time, he returns to the countryside. With a few plates and bowls, eight cold dishes and eight hot ones, chicken, fish, pork knuckles, and meat dishes that disappear as soon as they hit the table, he’ll rule the world with nothing 638Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 39 Selling Liangfen on the Street, I Make the Whole City Crave It 摆摊卖凉粉，全城百姓被馋哭了 [Food + farming + love at first sight + doting romance + slow-burn sweetness] Xu Yingchun transmigrates into a book and becomes its wicked villainess, doomed to a miserable ending. She’s going to escape the villainess’s fate and become the heroine of her own story! After buying her freedom from the Jiang household, she sets up a street stall, opens a restaurant, and buys land. Her life gets better and better. Milk tea, barbecue, crawfish, hot pot, and big-plate chicken: she’ll serve it all! The 329Reads8.0Score121Shelves
- 40 Gourmet: I Take Over the Cafeteria, and Tsinghua and Peking University Fight Like Crazy to Hire Me 美食：承包食堂，清北抢我抢疯了 [Gourmet, comedy, no romance, lighthearted, everyday life, recipes, tutorials] P.S. I'll use my ten years of experience as a chef to show you all the wonders of food. This is pure fiction. Please don't take it as reality! After transmigrating to a parallel world, Yang Yi awakened a Gourmet System. His mission was to take over a college cafeteria. From then on, the students of Qingbei began battling over him. Even the senior administrators of both universities got involved! Huaqing student: “Stud 426Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 41 Boss, You're Running a Stall, So Why Do You Have a Roaming Skill? 老板摆个摊，怎么还带游走技能？ [Food + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Heartwarming] Jiang Yiwen transmigrates to a parallel world. He had planned to lie flat, but who could have guessed he’d be bound to the Ultimate Delicious Food System? On his first day, his goal is to earn three hundred yuan to complete a mission and receive a mysterious reward. And so, a boss who leaves every customer utterly frustrated makes his debut. When the aroma of his food wafts for miles and keeps everyone coming back for more. 306Reads6.4Score111Shelves
- 42 You Sell Fried Rice Every Night? Is This KTV Even Legit?! 夜夜卖炒饭？你这KTV正经吗！ [Gourmet] [Entrepreneurship] [Wild Imagination] [Slice of Life] [Humor] After going bankrupt and being reborn, how does a respectable restaurant owner end up taking over an incredibly upscale business karaoke lounge? Just as Chen Nian thinks his luck is finally turning around, he learns the karaoke lounge is about to go under! Well, can he start over? As he’s at his wit’s end, a Gourmet Business System appears! Chen Nian: “What gives? You didn’t show up when I ran a restaurant, but now you pop u 1.1kReads6.5Score100Shelves
- 43 Stop Yelling! Keep It Up and I'll Eat Your Food Cart Too! 别骂了，再骂连摊车都给你吃了！ [Gourmet]+ [Daily Life]+ [Comedy]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Comfort Food]+ [Feel-Good] Qin Zihan transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a Gourmet System full of hostility. As long as he completes food-selling missions, he earns rewards, and the worse his service, the better the rewards. He sets up a malatang stall next to a hotpot restaurant at the bottom of the sea. “Hey! You there, don’t cut in line. Can’t you have a little damn decency?!” “Buying that much? Couldn’t you leave s 663Reads8.4Score105Shelves
- 44 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
- 45 This Restaurant Gets Nothing but Bad Reviews, Yet the Owner Makes a Fortune Every Day 这饭馆全是差评，老板却日进斗金 Qin Shuyang is bound to a food-promotion System. As long as he promotes food, he can earn rewards. To boost his fame, Qin Shuyang made a video documenting two snakeheads as they met, got to know each other, and fell in love. The camera work and filters made viewers feel moved and envy their romance. Some even found themselves reminiscing about their own past relationships. But in the very next moment, the camera cut to one of the snakeheads being turned into fish stew with pickled cabbage by Qin 2.1kReads8.5Score131Shelves
- 46 Gourmet: Renting a Private Jet Just to Eat a Boxed Lunch? 美食：为了吃盒饭，开私人飞机？ Just as Yu Hui loses his job, he learns that a scenic spot in his hometown is looking for vendors. Without hesitation, he decides to go home and set up a stall selling delicious food. On the way home, he unexpectedly activates the Gourmet System. From then on, his cooking skills improve by leaps and bounds, and he can whip up all kinds of delicious dishes with ease. Braised chicken: tender and silky, richly flavored, with an irresistible aroma. Tomato and egg stir-fry: sweet and tangy, soft an 84Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 47 If You Meet a New Oriental Chef, You'd Better Get on Your Knees! 遇到新东方的厨子，你就跪了吧！ [Spiritual Qi Revival + Traveling Frog + Everyone Misreads the Situation + Food] [A slow-burn, slice-of-life story focused on fun.] A thousand years after the spiritual qi revival, almost everyone can cultivate. One of the rare ordinary people who can’t, Su Mingge can only make a living by running a small restaurant in the slums. To save up for a kitchen renovation, he enters a livestream talent competition. Show off a talent? I’ll fry an egg for everyone! Someone wants to challenge me? Beho 235Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 48 God of Cooking: A Bowl of Fried Rice Throws the Heavens into Chaos! 厨神：一碗炒饭，引来诸天大乱！ (Food + No Female Lead + Laid-Back Daily Life + Lighthearted Comedy) Jiang Yuxian transmigrates to the Xuantian Continent, where his extraordinary cooking skills win over all the races. His dishes don’t just taste incredible, they also have amazing effects that even spiritual pills and medicines can’t match. Even a meal he throws together on a whim has countless people clamoring for a taste! A sect elder weeps as he says, “Xiao Jiang, your egg fried rice is out of this world! After eating it, I 3.1kReads7.7Score346Shelves
- 49 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 2.3kReads6.4Score156Shelves
- 50 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 268Reads8.5Score—Shelves
