Cooking Mama: Let's cook! - Fun cooking simulation

Chop, bake, simmer...

Prepare delicious meals with simple touch controls!

Experience this innovative cooking game.

The delectable dishes you whip up will surely whet your appetite

▼Let's Get Cooking!

Prepare food through entertaining mini-games. Over 30 different recipes are ready for you to try. Give it your all, Special Chef!

▼Happy Village!

Delight customers in your restaurant with your culinary creations. Build a grand and unique restaurant of your own.

Earn bountiful harvests through Fishing, cultivating crops in the Fields, and raising animals in your Ranch.

Collect plenty of ingredients to trade for Happy Foods!

▼Game Plaza!

Engage in non-cooking activities like "Help out," "Play Shopkeeper," and "Exercise Your Brain." More than 30 kinds of mini-games await you. Strive for top scores!

▼Challenge Rankings!

Participate in weekly events to compete for the best scores! Join the global leaderboard!

▼More Ways to Enjoy

- Embellish your kitchen with a variety of items.

- Create surprise dishes by blending two recipes.

- View realistic cooking videos for supported recipes.

- Tune into an animated video showcasing Mama's amusing daily life.

Cooking Mama Let’s Cook Tips, Cheats & Strategy Guide to Cook Dishes Like a Pro

1. How To Combine Identical Food Types

Before we get down to the nitty-gritty of things, let’s start with the basics. If you see that there are two pieces or more of the same food (Foo-Don) adjacent to each other, all you have to do is to hold down on one of the pieces so you can merge all of the adjacent foods into a substantially larger piece. This merged food item can be merged with other types of food, including food that has already been merged; it may sound a bit confusing, but you can do all that in this game as you create bigger food combinations.

2. How To Serve Your Customers

Tap on the food combination when it’s large enough and you can cook it, then serve it to your customers. You will earn points for each customer you’re able to serve. Once you’ve combined food, you’ll see a number over the piece, and bigger numbers means more points. Essentially, you’re stringing together, and clearing combos with the mechanic we explained in the above tip. You should clear all of the combos present before the round is over, because if you don’t, your efforts will go to waste as you earn zero points, regardless of how big your combination was. And, just to stress for the first time a fact that we’ll mention quite often in this guide, it will often be a high-pressure race against time for you in this game.

3. Big Combinations Before Small Ones

Once you’ve cleared out all of the big combinations, you’ll see several smaller combinations, which you should then clear as quickly as possible. Keep on clearing the smaller combos as the round progresses, so you can earn a ton of points in the process. You can also clear the smaller combinations before the larger ones, but based on our observation, clearing the big before the small seems to work better.

4. About The Game’s Questing System

By going to your book’s recipe section, which is beside the Foo-Don section, you’ll see a list of the recipes you already have. Making recipes would be a key element of most of the quests in Cooking Mama, and as you complete more quests, you will also unlock more recipes, and also more shops/restaurants. Further, you can also earn coin bonuses and get extra lives. This holds especially true when you’ve just opened a new restaurant.

Things can get a little complicated, as some quests would have to be completed in one sitting – these quests have the “1 Play” label beside them. That means if you aren’t able to complete a 1 Play quest the first time around, you’ll have to start from scratch and try all over again. Then again, you have quests that don’t require you to complete them in one sitting – these quests, on the other hand, have the Total label next to them. You can play them out over several games, as long as you continue playing in the same shop.

5. A Few Extra Details On Foo-Don

You may have been wondering about this one. Foo-Don are more than just ingredients; they’re essentially your companions in this game, and are pretty much Cooking Mama’s equivalent to pets. They can be raised outside of the many mini-games in here, and they have their own skills to boast of, which we’ll discuss later. Curiously, they also look just like food, hence the “Foo-Don” name. More experience levels for the Foo-Don means larger bonuses when you use those characters to string together combos. For each Foo-Don’s identical food that is cleared, you’ll earn one experience point per Foo-Don. You can also spend a ticket to cultivate them, and earn a handsome 1,500 XP for your efforts, all in one go.

6. Keep Tapping Foo-Dons To Make Customers Happy

As you keep on tapping more Foo-Don to create your dishes, you’ll see that your diner satisfaction (the “Happy” meter gauges this) rise up at a faster pace. The faster the tap, the faster the meter fills up, the faster you can earn coins for filling up the Happy meter.

Remember that in this game, you’re under time pressure, and lots of it. Tapping on Foo-Dons adjacent to each other and doing so quickly appears to have more of an effect in filling up the happiness meter quickly. Fast-tapping on groups of three Foo-Don also lets you cook those dishes faster, with the ingredients appearing from above at a faster pace. Not only do you get things done quicker, you also make your customers happier as a result.

7. The Importance Of The Leader Foo-Don

As Foo-Don are like ingredients that are also like “pets,” they do have “leaders” as well. You will find a leader Foo-Don meter at the bottom right hand side of your screen, and when that meter fills up, you can tap on it to activate its special skill. Leaders are chosen at random, which means you’ll need to do some reading up and find out how special skills affect your game as of the moment. Go to your book (it’s located next to the Play button) so you can see the skill benefits of each ingredient.

8. A Quick Guide To Leader Foo-Don Skills

Berry-Don (Berry) freezes your timer, which is helpful as the game could really put one under time pressure. Che-Don (Cheddar Cheese) can be activated before tapping a Foo-Don to make new dishes. Ebi-Don (Shrimp) has the leader skill of making the game’s titular Cooking Mama make dishes in just a few seconds’ time. That means your dishes will appear almost instantaneously, and be served to customers pronto. Nick-Don (Red Meat) powers up dishes, thus making the happy meter fill up faster. Pan-Don (Bread) makes a Golden Spice show up, allowing you to instantly turn ingredients into dishes.

9. Leveraging Silver Spice

By placing 15 of the same Foo-Don next to each other and tapping on one of them, you can create Silver Spice. Don’t tap on the Silver Spice just yet when you first see it on the vessel. The spice may float on top of other Foo-Don, but hold your horses – let it settle down and mellow before taking any further action. The spice will then mix with the different ingredients, and once it’s all settled, you can tap on it to turn any surrounding ingredients into food.

You should remember that creating Silver Spice is no joke. You may have to go through tons of ingredients and take quite a while to gather a whopping 15 Foo-Don of the same type; that’s not really a wise thing to focus on when you’re under the clock. But if you see a chance for a huge combo and see too many of the same ingredient type in one vessel, you may give it a little time and wait for new ingredients to show up.

10. Which Power-Ups Should You Buy?

The game has a total of six power-ups, and to be honest, all of them can help you in their own way. None of the power-ups can be truly considered as useless or overrated, but if there are a couple that are better than the others, we’d have to go with the Timer power-up, which costs 4,000 coins and helps you deal with the demanding pace of the game by giving you ten bonus seconds on your timer. The Foo-Don Reduced power-up costs a bit more at 5,600 coins, and is also quite useful, as it ensures that your vessel only includes four Foo-Don types. That makes the matching process much faster, with less Foo-Don types to deal with, and less thinking to be done as the timer ticks away.

Google Play Achievements

To unlock the following Google Play Achievements, complete the following tasks:

How to Unlock:

1. ★★★ Recipe Collector!

Make ★★★ recipes 25 times!

2. ★★★ Recipe Fan!

Make ★★★ recipes 10 times!

3. ★★★ Recipe Gourmand!

Make ★★★ recipes 50 times!

4. Apprentice Chef

Make 5 kinds of food!

5. Combined Recipe Master

Make 100 kinds of combined recipe!

6. Combined Recipe Novice

Make 10 kinds of combined recipe!

7. Combined Recipe Student

Make 25 kinds of combined recipe!

8. Combined Recipe Whiz

Make 50 kinds of combined recipe!

9. Cooking Master

Make food 100 times!

10. Cooking Novice

Make food 10 times!

11. Cooking Student

Make food 25 times!

12. Cooking Whiz

Make food 50 times!

13. Delighted Papa

Treat Papa 30 times!

14. First ★★★ Recipe!

Make a ★★★ recipe!

15. First Combined Recipe

Make a combined recipe!

16. First Recipe

Make something to eat!

17. Made Papa Happy

Treat Papa 15 times!

18. Master Chef

Make 30 kinds of food!

19. Talented Chef

Make 15 kinds of food!

20. Treated Papa

Treat Papa to a dish!

Modes

Kitchen!

    Make: Choose either "Family Chef" for Easy, "Veteran Chef" for Medium, or "Special Chef" for Hard.

    Practice: Choose one of the steps to work on before Making It.

    Combine: Pick two recipes to combine into something new.

    Mama Dojo!: Complete a recipe in a fast-paced, one try only. Doing well will net you trophies.

    Look: Observe the finished recipe.

    Treat Others: Eat the recipe and gain Game Coins.

    Deco Stamp: Decorate a recipe through the use of coloring objects, stickers, or various other features.

    Requests from Papa!: Complete objectives to gain special rewards.

Recipe Shop!: Purchase recipe packs to gain new recipes and collectibles.

Harvesting and Restaurant!: Set in Happy Village, collect Happy Foods to run your own restaurant.

    Happy Restaurant!: Use Happy Foods to manage your own, customized restaurant.

    Fishing!: Go fishing across four different locations to catch all kinds of fish and collect Happy Foods.

    Fields!: Run your own garden and grow up to 9 different kinds of produce and collect Happy Foods.

    Ranch!: Raise up to 9 different animals on very your own farm to collect products and Happy Foods.

    Orchard!: Grow your own orchard with up to 9 different fruits while collecting Happy Foods.

    Happy Market!: Run your own supermarket and sell the products you collected in Happy Village.

Enjoy the Challenge!: Challenge yourself to time limit minigames and earn the highest score.

    Test your skill!: Play several minigames based on the tasks in each step of a recipe.

    Exercise your brain!: Play multiple minigames testing your arithmetic and memorization skills.

    Help out!: Help harvest produce and clean around the house through a minigame.

    Picture Puzzle!: Complete different kinds of sliding puzzles in the fastest time possible.

    Nurture it!: Take care and raise several animals through time limit minigames.

    Play Shopkeeper!: Serve customers through different shops under a time limit.

    Festival!: Play several minigames based on the celebratory holidays of each Event Pack.

Mama's Theater!: Pay Game Coins to view videos from macaroni (マカロニ) and Cooking Mama World.

    Cooking Video!: Watch step-by-step recipe videos with ingredient list and instructions.

    Mama's Theater!: Take a look into the daily lives of Mama and her family.

Mama's Outfit: Dress up Mama with various hairstyles and costumes purchased from the item store.

Change Design!: Spruce up designs with items you have gained or purchased.

Item Store!: Collect Game Coins and use them to purchase costumes, accessories, challenges, and puzzles.

Options: Features over 25 language choices and an option to transfer data across multiple devices.

Recipes Introduction

Starter Recipes

Salisbury Steak (CMLC)

Recipe

Cut the ingredients!

Stir fry it!

Mince the meat!

Knead it!

Shape it!

Cook it!

Ingredients

Onion

Beef

Broccoli

Demi-glace

Potato Wedges

Carrot

Omelet

Recipes

Omelet (CM1)

Rice in Omelet (CM1)

Omelet (WK)

Omelette (CM3)

Omelet Risotto (CM5)

Cheese Omelet (LC)

Spanish Omelet (LC)

Starry Rice Omelet (LC)

How to Operate

Because the game was conceived for the DS, it involves lots of gameplay that is stylus-friendly. This translates well to mobile devices, as (most of us) have ten styluses on-hand at any given time.

See what I did there? On-hand. It’s funny because: fingers.

Cooking Mama Let’s Cook is no different. Whether I was flipping a burger patty or putting the frosting on a cupcake, the procedure was as easy as mashing my finger to the screen and moving it in a predetermined direction, as indicated by the arrows.

Sure there is timing involved, but the window for success is a generous one. You’ll have to try to not succeed, to not succeed, basically. At harder difficulty settings these windows shrink down a bit, but they’re still a long-shot from anything difficult.

With that said, some of the cooking procedures were a little confusing to comprehend. For example, when it came time to slice my potatoes into fries, the potato slicer was plopped down in front of me and I was shown an arrow within a double-sided arrow. “What in the name of Gordon Ramsey does this mean?” I found myself wondering. Finally, I figured out that you have to wiggle the machine up-and-down enough times for the double-sided arrow to turn green, and then you slide it down, as indicated by the inner arrow.

The potato slicer incident only stumped me for three turns. It was, by far, the hardest part of the game.

All of the other cooking tasks I encountered were easy to comprehend, and worked just as the arrows indicated they would. No problems there.

Cooking Mama Let’s Cook is free, but the base version only comes with a few recipes that players can make. If you don’t understand how arrows work, you could spend about an hour playing through the free recipes, everyone else will be able to complete all the free content in around twenty minutes.

[Game Features]

With its user-friendly controls, both kids and adults can relish the game. Even if errors occur, there are no game overs, ensuring everyone can finish preparing dishes. Moreover, children playing may nurture an interest in cooking.

[Recommended Configuration]

Android OS 5.1 or later.

**Some devices may not support gameplay even if meeting the above requirements.

**Upon downloading this game, you agree to its User Agreement.

[Supported Languages]

English,French,German,Italian,Spanish,Dutch,Russian,Portuguese,Polish,Czech,Turkish,Japanese,Korean,Simplified Chinese,Traditional Chinese,Indonesian,Filipino,Malay,Thai,Vietnamese,Hindi,Spanish-mexico,Portugues brasileiro,Arabic,Persian,Swedish,Norwegian,Danish,Finnish