Delicious Novels with Semi Realistic Food. Yum!
Delicious Novels with Semi Realistic Food. Yum!
Novels with yummy descriptions of delicious food that readers could maybe create.
All novels featuring cooking, eating and descriptions of delicious food, whether made from real ingredients or fantasy are welcome.
List will include Slice of Life, Martial Arts, Cultivation, Transmigration, BL, yuri and more!
All novels featuring cooking, eating and descriptions of delicious food, whether made from real ingredients or fantasy are welcome.
List will include Slice of Life, Martial Arts, Cultivation, Transmigration, BL, yuri and more!
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Created: Jul 18th, 2020, Updated: Apr 6th, 2022
Created Jul 18th, 2020
Updated Apr 6th, 2022
321 Chapters Every 84.7 Day(s) 4120 Readers 61 Reviews 11-20-2020
This one s**ked me into the whole world of translation. It's so good that I begged the original translator to let me help so that I can let English speaking readers access to this wonderful gem!... more>>
45 Chapters Every 6.5 Day(s) 1680 Readers 5 Reviews 01-12-2021
Osaka food and culture! You'd be surprise how different Osaka food and culture is to Tokyo.... more>>
72 Chapters Every 139.7 Day(s) 2318 Readers 13 Reviews 08-27-2020
Description of food is gorgeous, now, if only the plot and characters could be even a quarter as good...
709 Chapters Every 123.7 Day(s) 15659 Readers 265 Reviews 03-31-2019
FL is an amazing cook, there is even a restaurant!
115 Chapters Every 124.1 Day(s) 13202 Readers 160 Reviews 08-15-2023
When you're transmigrated into an unknown world, you'd want things that are familiar to you, like books papers, shampoo and of course, food!
648 Chapters Every 4.1 Day(s) 12647 Readers 94 Reviews 04-24-2024
Attracted a Super OP wolf via cooking, guess what the protagonist did most of the time to appease his familiars?... more>>
345 Chapters Every 52.7 Day(s) 2864 Readers 18 Reviews 04-13-2022
When a chef transmigrated into ancient fantasy China... of course they'd cultivate via cooking! But we don't just see the protagonists food, we see her... more>>
41 Chapters Every 127.5 Day(s) 844 Readers 2 Reviews 01-06-2022
When you can make alchemy happen through a pair of magic hands, via cooking!... more>>
251 Chapters Every 113 Day(s) 3272 Readers 43 Reviews 09-11-2019
I translated this until it's licensed. But the cooking is fairly decent in terms of realism. Only really high level cooking which I could never... more>>
155 Chapters Every 7.7 Day(s) 7828 Readers 42 Reviews 04-20-2024
Vending machine has oden, karaage, cola, canned soup etc, so what's not to like?... more>>
101 Chapters Every 123.3 Day(s) 3864 Readers 8 Reviews 09-20-2020
It's an izakaya! Aaah, all the things I love, karaage, beer, simmered food...... more>>
0 Chapters Every 2376 Day(s) 5715 Readers 24 Reviews N/A
A lot more hunting and butchering scenes here, but still fairly educational. I always like a novel where they peddle food, whether at stalls or... more>>
41 Chapters Every 94.3 Day(s) 2684 Readers 11 Reviews 07-21-2022
Growing food! How could anyone not live the sight of a golden field filled with nodding rice paddy?
5 Chapters Every 481.4 Day(s) 2945 Readers 11 Reviews 10-07-2018
Creation of marketable food products (among other things) is what I love about these otome/villainous stories. Bring in the soap, the soup and so much... more>>
139 Chapters Every 181.3 Day(s) 10505 Readers 70 Reviews 12-11-2016
Life at near artic temperature where the sun could not be seen for months. What do people do? No, no, aside from THAT!... more>>
200 Chapters Every 107.3 Day(s) 7980 Readers 77 Reviews 07-03-2021
Ah, I always love a good fatty protagonist. The obsession with food, the craving, the horrible diet...... more>>
#17Fantasy Farm
314 Chapters Every 5.7 Day(s) 8318 Readers 60 Reviews 10-30-2023
Slow cooked BL, horror, comedy and wonderfully realistic food that are sometimes made with fantasy animals. Come for the BL, stay for the horror and... more>>
701 Chapters Every 51.9 Day(s) 8004 Readers 191 Reviews 03-22-2022
The protagonist really loves her food and her cooking seems so luxurious for the rural people. She cooks things like pig trotters, lungs, shrimp skin (actually dried acetes shrimp. It's so small that once it dried, the shell is all that's left. Quite delicious in omelettes actually) Gumi actually feels incompetent compared to her...... more>>
246 Chapters Every 8.1 Day(s) 885 Readers 27 Reviews 02-06-2024
I'll admit, I am translating this one because author said this is her favourite and that The Feast was like the prototype for this novel.... more>>
169 Chapters Every 71.6 Day(s) 6995 Readers 154 Reviews 05-27-2021
It's actually pretty great, for the first 90% to 92%.... more>>
20 Chapters Every 119.3 Day(s) 6075 Readers 112 Reviews 06-11-2019
I reached chapter 217 and decided to stop before I dislike it.... more>>
106 Chapters Every 63.3 Day(s) 4803 Readers 106 Reviews 09-25-2021
The novel is hilarious. The iron ladle spirit transmigrated into a woman's body and worked hard to be a soft beauty. Unfortunately, she became known... more>>
113 Chapters Every 73.9 Day(s) 4311 Readers 84 Reviews 04-30-2021
Contains authentic cooking, less authentic characters and somewhat incomplete plot lines. The novel as a whole was not properly fleshed out (119 chapters only) but... more>>
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This one s**ked me into the whole world of translation. It's so good that I begged the original translator to let me help so that I can let English speaking readers access to this wonderful gem!
A must read for anyone who wants to know more about Chinese cooking. As a bonus, links to various well known cooking are given. Less well known recipes with only Chinese pages are translated into English!
Foodies and home cooks, you musn't miss this!