YMMV / The Tale of Food

• Americans Hate Tingle: While a great success in China, the game only gained moderate popularity in Japan and eventually got pulled there.
• Fandom Rivalry: With Food Fantasy for being perceived as a rip-off.
• Ho Yay: Since most recurring characters are male, this is bound to happen between spirits, especially if they're introduced as a pair. Any master/food spirit interactions remain the same with all of their wordings and undertones regardless of the young master's gender, meaning a lot of those interactions come off as this if the master is male.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Zǐtuī is no doubt a tragic character, but there's the fact he's stated he wants every single other food spirit as well as Kòngsāng to perish with him.
  • Túsū has a tragic background that leads to losing faith in humanity, has lost use of his legs and is well-meaning deep down, but there's no denying he's still an all-around Jerkass who gets off too lightly for his unpleasant behavior.
• Memetic Molester:
  • Lord Fú, a flirty Ambiguously Bi Mr. Fanservice; the game's story mode literally opens on a shot of him lying on top of the young master in a suggestive manner.
  • Dēngyǐng, a Lovable Sex Maniac who wears skimpy clothes and whose at least 70% of dialogues is suggestive.
• Rainbow Lens: Given Táohuāzhōu's stance on romance, he may or may not be openly Aromantic.
• Signature Scene: Lord Fú on top of the player character in a sexually suggestive manner. That this is literally the beginning scene only hammers it further into this status.
• Wangst: Zǐtuī's gloomy attitude and whininess can get narmy and/or annoying after a while.
• Woolseyism: Bābǎo's quacking Verbal Tic is translated as kamo in the Japanese dub, which is both the Japanese word for "duck" and "maybe".