History VideoGame / TheTaleOfFood

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: All food spirits are male, scattered everywhere on the [[{{Bishonen}} male]] [[{{Hunk}} attractiveness]] spectrum. The young master themself counts as one of them if they're male.

%% * GameGourmet: Need examples of the game's actual recipes in order to count.

* GameGourmet: It's one part RPG adventure, another part restaurant management. During your off-time, you can cook a variety of dishes to serve customers at your restaurant. The recipes also extend to real life, as unlocking the in-game dishes also unlocks the recipe for you to recreate for yourself, making it double as a cookbook.

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Merfolk in this universe resembles humans with fish parts and doesn't seem to have trouble breathing in air.

* AndOddPlaceToSleep: If there are not enough beds for all food spirits in a guest room, ones without beds to sleep on will fall asleep on the floor.

* SleepCute: All food spirits have a (real-time) schedule; when placed into guest rooms, they will go to sleep when it is late night in real time depending on the server's locale.

* ImmortalityThroughMemory: This is how Food Spirits live; as long as the dish they embody is alive through tradition, then the spirit lives on. Otherwise, they will die if their dish becomes forgotten and lost to time.

''Shíwùyǔ'' (食物语 "food story") is a Chinese turn-based mobile battle game developed by Tencent, released on September 3, 2019. It is set in a China where its dishes manifest good-looking male {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s known as "food spirits" (食魂). Long ago, the "food deity" Yī Zhì (伊挚) built a place called ''Kòngsāng'' (空桑) to house and protect food spirits, whom he formed pacts with in the titular [[TitleDrop Tale of Food]]. However, Kòngsāng is then destroyed by Yi Ya, head steward of the Realm of Melanaya who plans to usurp the throne from him for his master. As Kòngsāng burns, the Tale of Food becomes corrupted, threatening to turn all the food spirits into demons. The player, taking up the role of the food deity's child, a.k.a. the young master of Kòngsāng (空桑少主) and next in line as food deity, having little power to undo the corruption, destroys the Tale of Food, breaking all the spirits' contracts, erasing their memories of their life, and sending them back to their origins to save them from becoming demons. With Kòngsāng in ruins, the young master is on a quest to rebuild the place, reunite the food spirits, and defeat evil.

* HelloInsertNameHere: The young master's name is input by the player, and voiced dialogues avoid saying their name.

* NoSwastikas: Earliest versions of Lord Fú featured a swastika pendant and a line of dialogue that alludes to [[UsefulNotes/NonNaziSwastika Nazis]]. This design was removed and the dialogue rewritten in later updates, and the Japanese build never has this at all.

* PurelyAestheticGender: The young master's gender has no bearings on the plot; it only leads to minor changes in story dialogue and stills, and in the Japanese build, their [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns first-person pronoun]].

A Singapore/Malaysia localization opened on May 27, 2020. A Japanese localization, complete with dubbing, opened on Nov 3, 2020 and closed on Apr 7, 2023. Later, an English localization was released on April 19, 2023.

''Shíwùyǔ'' (食物语 "food story") is a Chinese turn-based mobile battle game developed by Tencent, released on September 3, 2019. It is set in a China where its dishes manifest good-looking male {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s known as "food spirits" (食魂). Long ago, the "food deity" Yī Zhì (伊挚) built a place called ''Kòngsāng'' (空桑) to house and protect food spirits, whom he formed pacts with. However, Kòngsāng is then destroyed by villains and the spirits' pacts broken, erasing their memories of life their and sending them back to their origins. The player, taking up the role of the food deity's ''child'', a.k.a. the young master of Kòngsāng (空桑少主) and next in line as food deity, is on a quest to rebuild the place and defeat evil.

A Singapore/Malaysia localization opened on May 27, 2020. A Japanese localization, complete with dubbing, opened on Nov 3, 2020 and closed on Apr 7, 2023.

A Singapore/Malaysia localization opened on May 27, 2020. A Japanese localization, complete with dubbing, opened on Nov 3, 2020.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The list of collectible characters is incredibly long and ''growing''.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Food spirits have a wide range of hair colors, from black, red, blond, to pink, blue, orange.

* NoSwastikas: Earliest versions of Lord Fú featured a swastika pendant and a line of dialogue that alludes to [[NonNaziSwastika Nazis]]. This design was removed and the dialogue rewritten in later updates, and the Japanese build never has this at all.