CompletedA top chef, Qiao Mianmian, transmigrates and becomes the youngest daughter in a blended family in ancient times. Her father is a butcher, her mother takes on odd sewing jobs, and their family of nine are ordinary people living at the bottom of society. With her elder siblings reaching marriageable age, the government increases taxes, and a heavy rain destroys one of their mud houses... Life is so tough that they struggle to eat two meals a day. Qiao Mianmian dreams of a life with a house, land, and wealth. To achieve her ideal life, she sets up a small stove beside the butcher shop and starts by selling braised pig offal.
Lu Zhao is a newly appointed commander. After renting a new residence, he notices the delicious aroma of food wafting from next door every mealtime: braised fish today, roast mutton tomorrow... Seeing his attendant burning rice every day, Lu Zhao sighs, holding his forehead. Upon learning that the young lady next door runs a small food stall, he immediately heads out with money. Later, Lu Zhao's elderly mother, worried he might starve, comes to visit. As soon as she enters, she is stunned and can't recognize him. "Who are you?" Lu Zhao, now taller and sturdier, replies, "Grandmother, it's me." Seeing his round-faced attendant beside him, the old lady thinks she's seeing things. My goodness, even piglets don't grow that fast!
Note: This is a group portrait slice-of-life food story, slow-paced and set in a fictional era.
The second story is about Zeng Shuyi, who is on a blind date at a state-run restaurant. Her date spits while talking, and Zeng Shuyi puts down her chopsticks. The matchmaker introduces them enthusiastically, but Zeng Shuyi's mind wanders. Her eldest brother is preparing for his third attempt at the college entrance exam, her second sister is returning to the city with her family from the educated youth point, and her younger brother was expelled for illegal buying and selling. The whole family is crammed into a small three-room courtyard on Wutong Lane, with even the passageway occupied by a bed. The siblings each have their own thoughts and desires, all wanting a better life. Zeng Shuyi is also determined to fight for herself. Seeing her neighbor, Xiao Wang, selling fish balls by the window, and selling out in the time it takes to eat a meal, Zeng Shuyi decides to go in a different direction. After much thought, Zeng Shuyi tells her parents "no" for the first time, intending to be at the forefront of the times and start an individual business!
Note: This is a family drama group portrait story with imperfect characters and a long timeline.
CompletedZhou Yang transmigrated to a parallel world.
He also obtained a system called the 'Unconventional Gourmet'.
Thinking that having a system is better than not having one, he embraced it.
Leveraging his maxed-out cooking skills from the golden finger, Zhou Yang began roaming various parts of the city.
Instant noodles, stir-fried stones, roasted wild vegetables...
All sorts of unique and bizarre cuisines created a legendary stir within the bustling metropolis.
CompletedXu Milu was drowning in debt. After obtaining a dimensional travel system, she embarked on an irreversible path of selling interdimensional ingredients across the universe.
She hawks pearls from the East Sea Dragon Palace to sea monsters, recommends spicy hot pot from Sichuan to dwarves, offers hair-growing small toon fruit juice to Earthlings, and cooks a fragrant batch of spicy snails for the Black and White Impermanence guardians.
Braised pork with yellow wine and abalone, peony and silver belt raw fish slices, luo luo pork lion's head, explosive hot mushroom stewed black fish, purple seaweed cold salad, red braised seven-star shrimp balls, exquisite white water stuffed tofu, spicy fried cherry blossoms and shrimp with chives, dragon body phoenix tail overlord eel... Aren't these delicious?
Giant mutated delicious radishes two meters tall, chilies that allow you to breathe fire, immortal dates from the South Pole Immortal翁 Island, fragrant silver osmanthus from the Moon Palace, and huge flat peaches from the Heavenly Court...
Rare ingredients from various dimensions are introduced to Earth, and all sorts of delicacies are successively served on the Chinese dining table. Countries around the world send cables:
CompletedSlow-burn daily life | Dual top students | Mutual crush | Food | Starts angsty, ends sweet.
Resilient wild grass little sun x gentle and clingy human-robot personality.
A romance that started with a portion of pork trotters and a lie.
To try delicious food, the gluttonous Jiang Yichun met a kind senior named "Xixi" while eating pork trotters.
To secure her recommendation for postgraduate studies at University A, she, a veritable 'king of competition,' was encouraged by "Xixi" to reluctantly approach the postgraduate senior He Yinxin.
He was clean-cut, academically excellent, and spoke with propriety. He seemed perfect in every way, almost like an AI.
Until he uttered those words: "When I eat with you, my calories disappear."
Jiang Yichun: Do AIs need meal buddies these days?
Subsequently, he handed her a contract.
An agreement titled 'Postgraduate Recommendation Guidance and Dining Companion Agreement.'
Jiang Yichun: Whoa, whoa, whoa! This is going too far. Author, you didn't tag this as 'marriage of convenience'!
Fine, for the sake of the offer, what's wrong with signing an agreement?
The moment she signed the agreement, Jiang Yichun didn't realize that her fate with him had already quietly begun with a bowl of pork trotters and with "Xixi."
Because of this peculiar contract, she, who was afraid of intimacy, and he, the human-robot, lingered over various delicacies.
The two gradually grew closer.
However, she began to notice something amiss: this human-robot and "Xixi" seemed to have some inextricable connection!
Could he be deliberately toying with her, while also being connected to "X…