I remember realizing that my Genshin characters weren’t built at all and ended up with low health when I first started Genshin Impact. I opened up my inventory, thinking that there must be something in the game that would help me increase my health. I clicked on an apple and saw my character’s health going up by a small chunk. That was how I got introduced to Food in Genshin Impact!
Shortly after I got finished with the task, I started collecting Sunsettias, Sweet plants, and Apples like a maniac. I thought I had to eat them and should gather as much as possible. What do you expect from someone who saw a game’s trailer and now thinks he can ace the game without the following tutorial? Luckily, I went past Lynn, an adventurer who introduced me to cooking. Now, I have plenty of dishes in my inventory and do not depend on raw food items.
To focus more on dishes in the game and know more about them, In this Genshin Impact food guide, I’ll take you through tons of dishes. Not only will I introduce them but also list some unique dishes that you can make in the game. Without further ado, let’s hop onto some tasty dishes that you can make!
Introduction to Food
One of the most essential items in the game is food. You can go to cooking pots and access the cooking menu to cook plenty of dishes. You can obtain Suspicious, Normal, or Delicious dishes depending on the quality. All food items have various uses with a different rarity that can be used in many situations. Each food item has an effect on your character, which can be instant or last for some time.
Now, with food, there are types of them, and we will soon go through some of the common ones in the game. But there are Food items that are event-exclusive like Lantern rite dishes, fresh dishes, or unique dishes. These items remain in your inventory until the event and expire after that.
Additionally, food items have a cooldown associated with them; Stamina dishes have a 5-minute, and Revival food has a 2-minute cooldown. While I can list Dishes in a variety of categories, I will stick to the ones you can find on the cooking menu. I’ve put my short remarks under the dishes that can give you a gist of them and list a few stats to present the information precisely.
Also, some special dishes can be made by using certain characters for cooking. Currently, as of now, the Raiden shogun is the only character who cannot cook. Character special dishes provide better buffs and are suited for more refined use. Or, you can prefer to keep them in your inventory for a showcase. Let’s go over the dishes one by one and get an overview of them.
Adventurer’s Dishes
As the name suggests, these dishes are related to stamina, and consuming them will affect your stamina or your consumption rate.
2-Star Dishes
Goulash
Goulash is a healthy dish in the Dragonspine region that helps to reduce the rate of sheer cold accumulation on your team members.
Noodles with Mountain Delicacies
A particular variant, ” Cold Noodles with Mountain Delicacies,” is available if you cook this dish with Chongyun. Both dishes help to restore stamina for the active character.
Northern Smoked Chicken
It is an easy-to-make dish that can help you to restore stamina on consumption. You can quickly obtain its ingredients and process and cook them while going out on an exploration.
Cream Stew
A particular variant, ” Cream stew,” is available if you cook this dish with Barbara. Both dishes help to decrease sprinting stamina consumption rate.
Sangayaki
A dish that uses Fish and Snapdragon as its core ingredients can help to decrease sprinting stamina consumption rate for all party members.
Lotus Seed and Birds Egg Soup
A particular variant named “Cloud-Shrouded Jade” is available if you cook this dish with Yun Jin. Both dishes help to decrease sprinting stamina consumption rate for the party.
3-Star Dishes
Five Pickled Treasures
More like a mixed veg dish that can help to restore stamina on your active character. It uses a few ingredients available in Inazuma and is easy to get, so it’s a feasible dish.
Barbatos Ratatouille
A special variant of this dish named “A Buoyant Breeze” can be made if you cook this dish with Venti. Both dishes help to reduce the rate of gliding and sprinting stamina consumption.
Minty Meat Rolls
Consuming this dish will help you decrease all-party members’ stamina consumption rate for sprinting and gliding, which can help you explore a vast range of areas.
Omelette Rice
A special variant, ” Omurice Waltz,” is available if you cook this dish with Kuki Shinobu. Both dishes help to reduce climbing and sprinting stamina consumption rate.
Sticky Honey Roast
An easy-to-make dish that can help reduce the stamina consumption rate of your party members. It decreases sprinting and climbing stamina consumption rate.
Zhongyuan Chop Suey
A dish that can help you reduce stamina consumption of climbing and sprinting on all your team members. It is easy to get through. You may need to buy a few ingredients.
Attack Boosting Dishes
These dishes will provide you with a variety of effects like Damage bonuses or boosts to stats like CRIT rate, CRIT damage, and more.
2-Star Dishes
Almond Tofu
A special variant of this dish named ” Sweet Dream” is available if you cook with Xiao. Both of these dishes help increase your character’ attack by a flat amount.
Crab Roe Kourayaki
You can get the recipe for this dish after completing a world quest, “The Gourmet Supremos: The Seashore Strider,” and it helps to increase the flat attack of all party members.
Fried Radish Balls
A dish already available in the game helps increase the flat attack of all your team members.
Berry and Mint Burst
You can obtain this item from Angel’s share with Mora, and it helps to increase the CRIT rate of all team members.
Jueyun Chilli Chicken
A special variant of this dish named ” Rockin’ Riffin'” is available if you cook this dish with Xinyan. Consuming either of these dishes will help to boost your characters’ CRIT rate by a certain percentage.
Radish and Fish Stew
A dish featuring meat and vegetables together will help increase the CRIT rate of your party members by a certain percentage.
Satisfying Salad
A special variant of this dish named “Der Weisheit Letzter Schluss” is available after you cook this dish with Mona. This dish helps to increase your characters’ CRIT rate.
Stone Harbor Delicacies
A dish that brings out its innate flavors featuring fried vegetables helps increase the CRIT rate of all your team members by a certain percentage for a short time.
Katsu Sandwich
You can buy a dish from Ryouku in Ritou, Inazuma. It is a nutritionally balanced meal that helps increase your party member’s flat attack.
Mint Salad
You can purchase this recipe from Wanmin Restaurant in Liyue. After consumption, your characters’ flat attack increases for a short duration.
Wolfhook Juice
You can purchase a drink from Charles in Angel’s share, which increases your party members’ flat attack after consumption for a short duration.
3-Star Dishes
Jueyun Guoba
One of Liyue’s specialty snacks that you can buy from Ms. Bai. Consuming this dish will help you to increase all party members’ physical damage by a certain percentage.
Come and Get It
A special variant of this dish named “No Tomorrow” is available after you cook this dish with Qiqi, and consuming it helps increase your characters’ CRIT rate. The special dish will additionally increase CRIT damage on top of the CRIT rate.
Cured Pork Dry Hotpot
A dish consisting of Ham, Matsutake, and Snapdragon with a Pepper flavor helps to increase party members’ CRIT rate by a specific percentage.
Imported Poultry
After completing a world quest, Gazing Three Thousand Miles away, you can obtain this dish. It’s another dish that can increase the CRIT rate of all your party members by a particular percentage.
“Pile ‘Em Up”
A special variant of this dish named ” Once Upon a Time in Mondstadt” is available if you cook this dish with Diluc. Consuming these dishes will increase your party members’ CRIT rate by a certain percentage. The special dish will also increase CRIT damage by a specific percentage.
More-and-More
Quite a unique name indeed, the dish consists of Bacon, Lavender Melon, Fish, and Flour. After consuming this dish, your characters will get a physical damage bonus for a short time.
Qingce Stir Fry
A somewhat similar name, You can obtain the recipe for this dish from Ms. Bai in Qingce village. This dish helps to increase your party members’ flat attack for a few minutes.
Sauteed Matsutake
After you eat this dish, your team members will have an increase in their flat attack for a short duration of time. You can quickly obtain this dish from the Good Hunter in Mondstadt.
Tri-Flavored Skewer
I would say this dish looks quite unique in itself and has beauty to it. As you consume this dish, your characters will increase their attack by a flat amount, and you can obtain this dish’s recipe from Kiminami Restaurant in Inazuma.
Adventurer’s Breakfast Sandwich
By interacting with an NPC named Hertha, you can obtain this dish’s recipe from the Mondstadt city reputation system. Once you reach level 4 in the reputation system, you can get the recipe, learn it and cook this dish. Consuming this dish will help to increase all party members’ attacks by a flat amount.
Cold Cut Platter
A Special variant of this dish named ” Die Heilige Sinfonie” is available if you cook it with Fischl. Consuming any of these dishes will buff your character’s physical damage by a certain percentage.
Dragon Beard Noodles
A special variant of this dish named ” Heartstring Noodles” is available if you cook this dish with Shenhe. Both dishes help to increase your party member’s attack by a flat amount.
4-Star Dishes
Tianshu Meat
I would say there are rare dishes in the game that can provide two effect bonuses at the same time. You can obtain the recipe for Tianshu meat after you reach level 7 in the Liyue reputation system. The dish helps to increase team members’ physical damage and CRIT rate by a few percentages for a short duration.
Jade Parcels
One of my most used dishes in the early and mid-game because of how good it was before I discovered Adeptus’ Temptation. Consuming this dish will give your party members two bonuses: one will increase the CRIT rate, and the other will increase attack by a flat amount.
Sashimi Platter
Another unique dish that will increase your characters’ attack by a flat amount and CRIT rate by a certain percentage. You can obtain this dish’s recipe after completing a world quest named ” The Gourmet Supremos: The Importance of Eating Well” that occurs in the Inazuma region of the game.
Chicken Tofu Pudding
A dish that helps to increase your party member’s attack by a flat amount and increase CRIT rate by a certain percentage. You can obtain this dish’s recipe after completing “A Dish Beyond Mortal Ken” world quest that occurs in the Liyue region.
5-Star Dishes
Adeptus’ Temptation
As of Genshin Impact version 2.7, this is the only 5-star attack-boosting dish in the game. I’ll recommend you obtain this dish early on in the game so that you can focus on cooking this to use in tense situations. Consuming this dish will increase your party members’ attack by a large flat amount and CRIT rate by a certain percentage. So far, I’ve used this dish to help me out and buff my characters whenever I’ve been in a tense situation.
Defense Boosting Dishes
These dishes focus on increasing defense, shield strength, and even character healing bonus effects.
2-Star Dishes
Fisherman’s Toast
A Unique variant of this dish named ” Fish-Flavored Toast” is available if you cook it with the help of Klee. This dish helps to increase your characters’ flat defense for a short duration.
Jewelry Soup
The players can obtain a recipe for this from the “Custodian of Clouds” quest, and it helps to increase party members’ flat defense for some time.
Wakatakeni
You can obtain this dish’s recipe from Kiminami Restaurant in Inazuma, and after consumption, your characters’ defense will increase.
3-Star Dishes
Sakura Tempura
A special variant of this dish named “Quiet Elegance” is available if you cook with Kamisato Ayato. Consuming this dish will help to increase your team members’ shield strength by a certain percentage.
Stir-Fried Shrimp
An exquisite version of this dish, “Dew-Dipped Shrimp,” is available if you cook this dish with Yelan. Consuming this dish will help you to increase all party members’ shield strength by a certain percentage.
Unagi Chazuke
A typical dish that has a healing effect on characters but is under the defense boosting dishes. You can obtain this dish’s recipe from Shimura’s in Inazuma, and it increases the healing bonus effect on all party members by a certain percentage.
Triple-Layered Consomme
You can get the recipe for this dish from the Wanmin Restaurant in Liyue Harbor. After you eat this dish, your party members’ shield strength will increase by a few percent.
Sunshine Sprat
A special variant of this dish named ” Woodland Dream” is available if you cook it with Albedo. Consuming either of them increases your character’s shield strength by a certain percentage.
Calla Lily Seafood Soup
A unique version of this food named ” A Prize Catch” is available if you make this dish with Tartaglia. Eating this dish will help to increase your team characters’ flat defense by a few hundred points.
Lotus Flower Crisp
A dish whose recipe can be obtained after you reach level 4 in the Liyue reputation system. As you gain City reputation EXP, you can claim the level-up reward and learn this recipe. This dish increases the defense of all party members by a few hundred points.
Rice Cake Soup
Another dish whose recipe is available from a reputation system. To get this dish’s recipe, you have to reach level 4 in the Inazuma reputation system and cook it after learning the recipe. It helps to increase all party members’ defense by a few hundred points for a short duration.
Sakura Shrimp Crackers
Visit the Shimura’s in Inazuma to get this dish’s recipe. This dish is unique as it helps increase your characters’ health by a few percentage points for some time.
4-Star Dishes
Butter Crab
A dish whose recipe can be obtained after reaching level 7 in the Inazuma reputation system. It has double bonus effects that help you to increase flat defense and healing effects by a few percent for all party members.
Golden Crab
You can obtain this dish’s recipe in the “To Mondstadt” quest. As the name suggests, this dish uses Crabs and also provides you with double effects. After consumption, your party members’ flat defense and healing effects are increased by a certain percentage for a few minutes.
Moon Pie
A special variant of this dish named ” Stormcrest Pie” is available if you cook it with Eula. Consuming this dish helps to boost flat defense and increase shield strength for all party members.
Recovery Dishes
Before we dive into food dishes, here are a few terms that you should have in mind. To keep it concise, I’ve sorted out three types of dishes from Recovery ones that have a typical effect on your character. Take a look below.
Restoration Dish: These dishes are ones that will instantly add health to your characters by a certain percentage or flat health. It might be possible they also add additional health after the first effect.
Regeneration Dish: These dishes will regenerate your HP over time, usually over a period of 30 seconds.
Revival Dish: As the name suggests, they are used to revive your fallen character and usually have a cooldown period.
1-Star
Sweet Shrimp Sushi
It is a revival dish that can restore a few amounts of HP to your character; it’s available at Shimura’s in Inazuma.
Teyvat Fried Egg
A unique variant of this dish can be obtained after using Bennett to cook the item. Named “Tevyat Charred Egg,” it’s a revival dish and regeneration dish.
Soba Noodles
A restoration and regeneration dish whose recipe is sold by Kiminami Restaurant in Inazuma.
Rice Buns
A restoration dish that is sold by the Wanmin Restaurant in Liyue.
Radish Veggie Soup
This dish’s recipe is available by default in your inventory. It helps to restore and regenerate the health of your character over time.
Pop’s Teas
You can drink tea to restore and regenerate your health over time and purchase it from Pops Kai in Qingce Village in Liyue.
Chicken Mushroom Skewer
Another dish is in the inventory by default and sold by a lot of merchants in the game. It’s a restoration dish that you can consume to fill up some health for your character.
Mora Meat
An exquisite variant, “Qiankun Mora meat,” is available if you use Ningguang to cook this dish. It acts as both a revival and regeneration dish for fallen characters.
Steak
If you cook this dish with Amber, then you can obtain “Outrider’s Champion Steak,” which is both a revival and regeneration dish.
Fruity Skewers
A unique variant of this dish is available by the name of “Fruity Skewers” if you cook this dish with Kaeya, and its acts as a restoration dish for your character.
Mint Jelly
“Satiety Gel” can be obtained after cooking this dish with Aloy and is a restoration dish for your characters.
Grilled Tiger Fish
You can obtain “Survival Grilled Fish” after you cook this dish with the help of Keqing, which acts as a restoration dish.
Mondstadt Grilled Fish
A unique variant, “Definitely Not Bar Food,” is available after you make this dish using Diona, which acts as both a revival and restoration dish.
Egg Roll
“Faith Eternal” can be obtained after you cook this dish with Kujou Sara and is a revival and restoration dish at the same time.
Stir-Fried Fillet
Beidou’s specialty, ” Flash Fried Fillet,” can be obtained if you cook this dish using her, which is a revival and restoration dish.
Dry-Braised Salted Fish
A unique dish from Kaedahara Kazuha, who can obtain ” All-Weather Beauty” from this dish. It is a restoration dish for your characters.
Bird Egg Sushi
Suppose you cook this dish with Sangonomiya Kokomi. In that case, you have a chance to obtain “A Stunning Stratagem,” which is a restoration dish.
Miso Soup
With the help of Thoma, you can get a “Warmth” special dish that is both a restoration and regeneration dish.
2-Star
Matsutake Meat Rolls
An easy-to-make dish that requires Matsutake and Raw Meat to turn into a restoration dish that can heal your character.
Grilled Unagi Fillet
A restoration dish that you can obtain by using Unagi meat and sugar to restore HP to your character.
Sweet Madame
One of my favorite dishes in the game to use in the NRE menu. Another restoration dish, “Dinner of Judgement,” can be obtained if you cook this dish using Rosaria.
Crystal Shrimp
“All-Delicacy Parcels” is a special dish that you can get if you use Xinqiu to cook this dish. Crystal shrimp is both a restoration and regeneration dish.
Stir-Fried Fish Noodles
As the name suggests, you need Fish, Rice, and apparently Snapdragon to cook this combination of restoration and regeneration dish.
Dango Milk
Ei loves Dango Milk, and so do I! You can obtain a combination of restoration and regeneration dishes from Tomoki in Inazuma.
Tuna Sushi
Relatively easy to guess ingredients, Rice and Fish, that will turn into this fantastic restoration dish for you.
Onigiri
“Dizziness-Be-Gone no Jutsu Version 2.0” is Sayu’s special dish if you are using her to cook Onigiri. The dish restores your hp and regenerates some of it over time.
Flaming Red Bolognese
Lisa’s special dish “Mysterious Bolognese” can be obtained if you use her for cooking this dish in the cooking menu, and it restores and regenerates HP over time.
Crab Roe Tofu
“My Way” is a special dish you can obtain by using Yanfei to cook Crab Roe Tofu, helping revive and restore HP for a character.
Udon Noodles
You can get a “Fukuuchi Udon” unique dish if you use Yae Miko in the cooking process. The dish is a combination of restoration and revival dishes.
Vegetarian Abalone
“Ghostly March” is obtained if you cook the dish using Hu Tao, which matches her personality. Ironically, the dish revives and restores HP for a character.
Tea Break Pancake
A beautiful special dish, “Lighter-Than-Air Pancake” by Noelle if you use her for cooking it. Helps to revive and restore HP for a character.
Mixed Yakisoba
“Way of the Strong” is a specialty dish of Arataki Itto, and it suits him well. The dish is a combination of restoration and revival dishes.
3-Star
Universal Peace
A restoration dish that is a specialty dish of Ganyu is “Prosperous Peace.” You can use her in the cooking menu to get this dish.
Mondstadt Hash Brown
“Puppy-Paw Hash Brown” is one of the cutest dishes in Genshin Impact, and it is a restoration dish you can get by using Razor.
Taiyaki
Another cute dish that helps to restore and regenerate HP to your character recipe is available at Kiminami Restaurant in Inazuma.
Squirrel Fish
You can obtain this dish’s recipe from Wanmin Restaurant in Liyue, and it helps to restore HP to your selected character.
Tricolor Dango
“Summer Festival Fish” is a restoration dish that can be obtained using Yoimiya to make Tricolor Dango.
Tonkotsu Ramen
“Victorious Legend” is a special restoration dish that can be used to heal the character and is obtained if you use Gorou to cook it. I would say the name is entirely in sync with Gorou’s personality.
Northern Apple Stew
A simple dish whose recipe is available after you reach level 1 in the Mondstadt reputation system. It helps to restore HP to selected characters.
Konda Cuisine
An easy-to-make dish that requires common ingredients that helps to revive and restore HP to a character. Its recipe is available once you reach level 1 in the Inazuma reputation system.
Mushroom Pizza
I love pizza! Thanks a lot, Jean! You can get this special dish, “Invigorating Pizza,” if you use Jean to cook it, and it is a combination of restoration and regeneration dishes.
Bamboo Shoot Soup
Similar to Zhongli’s patient personality, you can get this special dish, “Slow-Cooked Bamboo Shoot Soup,” by using Zhongli in the cooking menu. This helps to restore and regenerate HP for characters.
Black-Back Perch Stew
“Wanmin Restaurant’s Boiled Fish” is a restoration and regeneration dish that you can obtain by using Xiangling in the cooking menu to make the dish.
Invigorating Kitty Meal
I must say it’s one of the most beautiful dishes in the game, a cute little cat-like dish! It helps to restore and regenerate HP to your character, and the recipe is available once you complete Neko is a Cat: Shrine Recipe world quest.
Golden Shrimp Balls
You can get the recipe for this dish once you reach level 1 in the Liyue reputation system, and it helps to revive and restore HP to a character. I’ve used this dish on numerous occasions because I just had a lot of ingredients related to this dish.
Sakura Mochi
As serene and beautiful as Kamisato Ayaka, “Snow on the Hearth” is a revival and restoration dish that you can obtain by using Ayaka in the cooking menu.
Crab, Ham, and Veggie Bake
Guess who uses technical names? Sucrose! “Nutritious Meal ( V.593)” is a special dish of Sucrose that can revive and restore HP for a character.
Crispy Potato Shrimp Platter
A combination of restoration and regeneration dish that is obtainable from Good hunter. You can purchase its recipe from the shop and quickly cook it.
Fullmoon Egg
A combination of revival and restoration dishes whose recipe can be obtained from Xinyue Kiosk in Liyue.
A Few Questions
I know you must be hungry by now, even I am! I’m going to eat something good now! But before we leave, let’s go over some tasty questions you may have after going through our food guide.
Question: Is there any Gadget related to Food dishes in the game?
Answer: An NRE menu allows you to instantly equip your characters to use food dishes in the game. It has two slots for dishes, one for healing dishes and the other for reviving dishes. Most of the time, I used this Gadget in the game whenever I was exploring a new region or an area. If you are in a tense situation, then you can use this Gadget to fill up your character’s health or revive fallen characters. But, also, you should keep in mind that the dishes will have their cooldowns between use, and you cannot use some dishes in a row.
Question: How many ingredients or food items should I collect?
Answer: It’s no doubt that you can farm as many food items as you want in the game. Like, you can go for days and days in your or other people’s world to farm items. Although there is a cooldown for those items in your world, you can co-op to remove that limit. Ask other people nicely, and they will allow you to farm in their world. It often happens with me when randoms join in my world and ask for certain materials.
Question: What is your favorite dish to make in the game?
Answer: I mean, there are a lot of Dishes in the game, and more or less, I like to cook a few ones once in a while. But, if I have to go with one that is quick to use and easy to cook, then that’ll be Sweet Madame. Sweet Madame can recover your character’s health and is easy to cook because it needs only a few ingredients. You need sweet plants and foul to cook Sweet Madame, and voila! Your dish is ready in seconds. Additionally, with such an easy dish, you can get around 20 % of health recovery, which is pretty good, and extra health as a bonus on that.
Food Remarks
Food is an essential item in the game that forms the core of the gameplay. You simply cannot ignore food and think that you will be able to churn the content quickly. Unless you have perfect execution for characters, good team rotations, and good healers, it’s tough to manage combats without food.
Through many battles, you will realize that sometimes you may need a food item that cares for a particular niche. Some exploration will require stamina food, while others may require Attack food if you want extra firepower. Whatever may be the case, it’s always recommended to have food in your inventory because you never know when the things will escalate.
Not only will you get plenty of dishes in the game, but there are also dishes and recipes of ranging rarity that you can use. Although, I won’t recommend you to pay attention to rarity much because sometimes a lower one can be better than a higher one. You should pay attention to the item’s effect rather than its rarity and ease of cooking. Some food items require rare ingredients, while others will use common ones.
Whatever the case, I hope you will efficiently use your food items and ace through any challenges that come your way. To know more about characters, weapons, or quests, I recommend you to check our site to find some interesting facts. I’m sure the more you learn, the more you will grow in Genshin Impact. For now, the time has come for me to take a leave and meet you in the next one. Till we meet next time!
Besides writing about his favourite games, Himanshu prefers to keep himself up-to-date with the latest happenings in the financial world, watching anime, cooking and listening to music from all around the world.
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