Gourmet Food Supplier - Reviews

is this dropped? i plan to read this.

Omg, there’s more chapters now !!!!!

Hey, there. I'm the guy who's translating the work with the help of the editor. First, thank you for all readers' support. Will humbly accept all the criticisms or suggestions. I will be more careful with the translation quality and try my best to make it easily understandable to most readers. Hope you can enjoy the travel of cuisines.

Thank you, guys, for your company and support. You really give me strengths to go on translating this CUISINE novel.Just like you, I'm often tempted to salivate when I'm translating the description of the tasty dishes. I'm also a foodie. : )

All I can say is:
Chapter 358; If you can stomach the MC’s attitude then by all means keep reading. I had such high hopes for this novel too but I dropped it like it was an ugly baby and the mother was Chinese xenophobic discrimination and propaganda.

if you are Chinese and you hate every other country then your own then you will probably keep liking this novel past chapter 358 but if you are not then don't bother reading it because you will just waist your time. Went from being a great read to the Chinese being racist again.

Okay I'll be honest. I skipped over this story multiple times because I read the synopsis and didn't think it would be interesting. But alas I ran out of reading material so I came back to this and starters reading. I am glad I did because 3 chapters in I have already become interested. It's a unique-ish Idea and I real freaking like it.

It was enjoyable and a good read until nationalism rears its ugly head.

How come most modern novels from Qidian contains xenophobia and nationalism? And, the thing which boggles the mind is how unapologetic they are for being hard core china-numbah-wan-bully.

Great translation and update stability. Very poor character design and world background.

Shame with the xenophobia and nationalism.

Dear COOK COMPASS, you can cook in my DROPPED section.

This story has really started to grow on me, although I do admit to struggling with it quite a bit. I think it was the pacing at first, as the story seemed to promise a slow upward trend instead of something fast and exciting. In any case the story is about a guy in his 20's throwing himself into the deep end alongside a mysterious system that has dedicated itself to improving his cooking to the peak.

I tend to judge a story based on its faults rather than its pro's, so that's what I've decided to focus on for this review. However, I hope readers realize that this is without context and however damning it might seem, my issues might not necessarily be issues for you.

1. The story can get very repetitive. After you've read 50 chapters or so you'll start to notice the same thing happening over and over again. Cooking for his customers, getting a mission, getting the reward and introducing it to the customers, then rinse and repeat a few dozen times. The food he cooks does change with time as well as the faces visiting his shop. It keeps things a little fresher, but I really don't suggest reading the story in large chunks like I did because the repetition becomes very apparent. More missions would likely have helped with this I think.

2. The author likes to surround his MC with the aura of a mysterious and elevated figure. That's usually something that's fun to read, but in this story that's the role the MC plays when in the company of other characters(Which is almost literally every chapter so far). What ended up happening is the MC stopped being a person in my mind and became someone else's... Wish fulfillment? Their Gary Stu? I've read 129 chapters but have yet to see the MC experience a single loss worth mentioning :/

3. The freaken aliens man... I was promised aliens... That's what really got me to this point, the promise that eventually this story is supposed to reach towards the stars and go galactic. My curiosity keeps demanding I read on, but the logic portion of my mind is telling me it could take a year before the translation reaches that point. Well, the logic portion is also suggesting I've been lied too because I haven't seen anyone else talking about it, but that could just be because it's all written in another language right? Help please? :(

Regardless of whether or not you're interested in the premise or just want to kill some time, this story is a decent read despite its flaws. So give it a shot and maybe you'll like it.

I'm surprised to see this here its a really good read if you can ignore the nationalism and biases, as it covers at least more than half of the characters if not all. its a good past time.
another thing , (I'm not sure if its allowed so I wont mention the name or add link), this is completed in a different site with real low quality(maybe MTL) translation, but if you mastered the dao of trashlation you'll understand it.

Like many lightnovels, Gourmet Food Supplier reeks of Chinese nationalism, although it tries (and fails) to be subtle about it.

Yuan Zhou aspires to be a master chef. Ok. Cool. You would expect that a master chef would like to learn and "master" every dish out there. Yet whenever the MC learns a western dish (a rarity), he internally rants about "damned capitalism" and other such bs about why foreign dishes are inferior versions of more authentic, Chinese dishes.

If the author is familiar with Chinese cuisine and thinks it is the best food out there, why not make Yuan Zhou the "Chinese Master Chef," or just be blatant and make the MC say that "Chinese food = best food, therefore Master Chef = someone who can cook Chinese dishes."

Again, like many others, this author wants to portray that they are an unbiased source, and simultaneously convey that China rules and every other country sucks. Sorry, but both of those statements just cannot be true.

2.7/5