Japanese Cooking Games

Sushi Go Round

• Sushi Go Round is a free game available on miniclip.com. In this game, you are the replacement sushi chef and you have only one week to learn the necessary skills and get the job. You start the game with a customer in front of you who places an order. You need to consult the recipe book, click on the necessary ingredients, and click on the sushi roller to make and serve the customer's order. As you complete more orders, you run out of ingredients and need to order more by clicking on the telephone. When the customer pays and leaves, you must clean the dishes by clicking on them, and wait for the next customer. Keep customers happy to move on to the next day and meet your daily goals.

Sushi

• Sushi is a free sushi-making game on girlsgametoo.com. This game is set in a restaurant where you make sushi for customers but, unlike many online sushi games, you do not order ingredients. Rice comes through on a conveyor belt, and you click it and drag it to your station. Drag the topping on top of the rice and drag the order to the customer's plate. The goal is to work as quickly as possible and meet your quota before time runs out.

Wasabi

• Wasabi is a free game on armorgames.com that takes a slightly different approach to Japanese cooking games. Once again, you are the owner of a sushi restaurant, but in this instance, all your tasks are completed outside of the restaurant. At the top right of the screen, you have a vegetable bar and a fish bar that indicate your current inventory for those ingredients. If you run low on fish, you can go fishing at the pier on the right of your screen. You can grow vegetables on the left side of your screen. To the far left is a store where you can buy additional supplies like seeds to grow. The goal is to keep your sushi restaurant stocked with the necessary ingredients to turn it from a no-star restaurant to a 3-star restaurant.

Board Games

• Several Japanese cooking board games are available, in addition to the many games online. One game is Sushi Panic. Players start with a game board with a table on it. They take turns placing plastic sushi ingredients on this unsteady table until it finally collapses, like a Japanese cooking version of Jenga. Another available board game is Wasabi! Wasabi! is card game that has players competing to finish sushi recipes by pulling a card from their hand and placing it on the previously-played card. Points are earned for completed recipes, and the player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.