Novels like The Gourmet Empire
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Gourmet Empire, best match first.
- 1 Strangle the Bright 绞明 The Wanli Restoration: the Ming Dynasty's final glory. When it thrives, the people suffer. When it falls, the people suffer. Overthrow the local tyrants and divide up the land! To build a better life, a transmigrator resolutely ignites a sweeping land revolution! Reader group: 515, 920, 510 0Votes18kRecs7.4kFans
- 2 Conquest and Colonization 伐清与殖民 Zheng En, son of Zheng Zhilong: Now that I’ve come here, perhaps I can do something: bring this wretched age of chaos to an end? Make the Qing army’s bloody slaughter of our people a thing of the past? Perhaps even spread the Yellow race to every corner of the world? Each goal is harder to achieve than the last, but that won’t stop me from striving toward them for the rest of my life. Everyone is welcome to join the group and chat. My newly signed novel, “My Father Is Z 0Votes4.7kRecs7.5kFans
- 3 Twilight Clouds over the Great Tang 大唐暮云 A rebellion that marks a watershed in the Tang Empire, a suspicious emperor whose legacy remains controversial, a pair of star-crossed lovers at first sight from rival frontier commands, a high-ranking governor who twice misses his chance at love, the covert struggle among three regimes, the stalemate between the rebellions of the four military governors and the campaigns to rescue the emperor, and five years of chaos. In the end, the most magnificent story is still that of our Great Tang. 0Votes24.1kRecs45.2kFans
- 4 Returning to the Tang Dynasty to Become Emperor 回到大唐当皇帝 In the second year of Shenlong under the Tang dynasty, modern man Li Jun was reborn in the body of Li Chongjun, Crown Prince of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang. On the surface, the Tang empire was flourishing, all song and dance, but in truth it was already beset by internal strife and outside threats. Wu Sansi, nephew of Empress Wu Zetian, used his influence as a royal relative to seize control of the court, frame loyal officials, and eliminate members of the imperial clan. The Turks and Tibetans wer 0Votes2.6kRecs7.5kFans
- 5 I Killed Cao Cao from the Start 开局就杀了曹操 (The protagonist starts out with the might of a legendary overlord.) At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, Cao Cao fails to assassinate Dong Zhuo, presents him with the Seven-Star Sword, then flees Luoyang alone... On the way, he stops at his uncle Lü Boshe’s home. Lü Boshe goes out to buy wine and has his family slaughter a pig to treat their guests. Hearing the sound of a knife being sharpened, Cao Cao thinks they mean to kill him, so he and Chen Gong go on a killing spree... Liu Cheng, ca 0Votes47.3kRecs449.6kFans
- 6 EN My Cultivation Cheat System 我修炼有外挂 Wang Tianyu transmigrated... Then Wang Tianyu discovered that something strange had appeared in his mind. “Basic Cultivation Method: Level Nine (Can be upgraded).” “Basic Fist Technique: Level One (Can be upgraded).” Seeing the words “Can be upgraded,” Wang Tianyu had a thought. “Upgrade!” 0Votes35.3kRecs119.3kFans
- 7 I Become a Dragon God in the Three Kingdoms 我在三国当龙神 The Three Kingdoms era was the most magnificent period in Chinese history, with strategists as numerous as clouds and fierce generals as plentiful as rain. Cao Mengde, Liu Xuande, and Sun Zhongmou contended for supremacy. Liu Dalu says: This has nothing to do with me. I'm just a snake. With the Dragon God System, I can lie low until I outlast all of you. You fight and kill each other. I'll change the world... 0Votes40.9kRecs62.3kFans
- 8 The Sun and Moon of the Flourishing Tang Dynasty 盛唐日月 No System, no wise old mentor, and he starts off being chased by wolves. He finally realizes he's transmigrated to the Tang dynasty, only to discover that even the Tang dynasty requires ID cards... See how history's unluckiest transmigrator carves out a place for himself in the Tang dynasty. 0Votes219.5kRecs112.8kFans
- 9 The Peerless Commoner 无双庶子 Li Xin, the illegitimate son of the Marquis of Pingnan. After his mother died of illness, he followed his great-uncle to the capital to seek out his relatives. The Marquis of Pingnan's household called him a bastard and threw him out. With nowhere to go, the young man froze to death in a ruined temple. When he awoke again, another Li Xin had come to this world. As a proud transmigrator, Li Xin set himself two goals. First, survive. 0Votes293.8kRecs334.9kFans
- 10 Rise of the Primitive Age 崛起原始时代 [Grand Nation Chronicles: The Legend of Qin essay contest gold medalist] Reborn in the primitive era, he teaches grain cultivation, passes on medical knowledge and martial arts, makes bricks, builds houses and cities, and leads his people to rise upon the land. Note: A primitive-era farming and conquest story, with no mysterious supernatural powers, only the martial arts brought by th 0Votes65kRecs71.5kFans
- 11 I am a Primitive Man 我是一个原始人 (This is a genuine historical primitive farming novel. I don’t know how the category got changed.) The sky is a clear, flawless blue, sunlight bathes the mountain forest, and the whole world seems peaceful and still, cloaked in a tranquility all its own. Watching the chief, dressed in a sexy tiger-skin miniskirt and carrying a club, lead more than a dozen people in a raucous chase after a woolly rhinoceros, Han Cheng can’t help raising his slightly curled right hand to his parted lips and excl 0Votes190.1kRecs197.2kFans
- 12 A Common Soldier of the Northern Army of Eastern Jin 东晋北府一丘八 The wheels of history rolled past the magnificent era of the Three Kingdoms, and the Central Plains entered a peace unseen in a century. Everyone thought a golden age was about to arrive, but no one could have imagined that what awaited them would be a thousand-year nightmare the Han people would never wish to face. The Yongjia Disaster plunged the Central Plains into chaos, with tigers and wolves running rampant! The children of Huaxia wailed in pools of blood. Unwilling to live as slaves, the 0Votes1.1MRecs1.9MFans
- 13 The Great Man of Northern Song 北宋大丈夫 … Later generations all said that the Great Song had no men of courage, and that was why it was a weak dynasty. Unable to defend itself, the weak Song clung to a corner of the realm, allowing the heartland of China to fall. This is a story about a great man striding across his age. This is a story about giving the Great Song a backbone. … Jue Shi's completed novel, Bringing a Warehouse to the Ming Dynasty, runs over five million 7Votes2.6MRecs849kFans
- 14 The Wisdom of the Great Song 大宋的智慧 Yun Zheng opened a door and could never turn back. That's how life is: once the bow is drawn, there's no taking back the arrow. By the time you want to turn around, a hundred years have passed. This is a novel about the way of being a teacher. It speaks of the wisdom needed to survive, the warmth of human kindness, and the bonds between brothers. It celebrates humility, gentleness, and goodness. Here you'll find the most beautiful love and the deepest brotherly bonds... Perhaps I simply want to 11Votes1.3MRecs860.6kFans
- 15 I Want to Become a Powerful Clan 我要做门阀 In the middle of the Western Han dynasty, the people were struggling to make ends meet, and the nation was in decline. Countless celebrated scholars cried out: "If Zhang Sheng does not emerge, what will become of the world?!" And so the saying went: "Zhang and Liu share the realm." 0Votes1.3MRecs474.3kFans
- 16 EN A Top-Rank Scholar of Humble Birth 上品寒士 A seasoned modern-day backpacker transmigrates to the Eastern Jin dynasty, inhabiting the body of Chen Caozhi, a poor young man. His family’s farmland is about to be seized, and his virtuous widowed sister-in-law is being forced to remarry. How can Chen Caozhi overcome prejudice against his low-born status and change his fate, while protecting the interests of himself and his clan? Watch as this young man rises step by step through the rigid hierarchy of the Nine-Rank Official System, befriends 30Votes785.5kRecs822.7kFans
- 17 Han Village 汉乡 We inherited the legacy of our ancestors, and it made China glorious for thousands of years. We accepted it all with complete peace of mind, never once considering returning to that age when they struggled desperately to find a way forward through slash-and-burn cultivation. Repaying our suffering ancestors and finding the true meaning of home through them: that is the story this book will tell. The web series “Tang Brick,” starring Zhang Jianing and Wang Tianchen, will be exclusively streamed a 9Votes9.5MRecs3.4MFans
- 18 The Qin Empire's Bailiff 秦吏 At the end of the Warring States period, China faced an upheaval unlike any in a thousand years. Some were born into hereditary nobility. Some were princes of noble rank. But he was reborn as Heifu, a lowly Qin soldier and an obscure figure in the Qin bamboo slips from Yunmeng. To avoid dying in a ditch and take control of his own fate, he fought his way up. Fortunately 131Votes3.7MRecs1.8MFans
- 19 The Matrilocal Husband 赘婿 In the final years of the Wu Dynasty, the age was turbulent and the realm was in chaos. Jin and Liao faced off against each other, the situation was unstable, and after a century of humiliation, the first faint glimmer of dawn signaling its end had finally appeared. Emperor Tianzuo, Wanyan Aguda, Wuqimai, Genghis Khan Temujin, Jamuka, Chilawen, Mukhuali, Bo'erhu, Bo'ersu, Qin Hui, Yue Fei, Li Gang, Zhong Shidao, Tang Ke, Wu Min, Geng Nanzhong, and Zhang Bangchang: loyal ministers and treacherous 438Votes13.5MRecs5.1MFans
- 20 The Sacred Ruins 圣墟 Rising from ruin, returning from extinction. The seas turn to dust, lightning and thunder fade away, and that wisp of dark mist draws near the earth once more. The shackles of the world are broken, and a brand-new world reveals a mysterious corner of itself... 36Votes32MRecs20.3MFans
