Draw a recipe. Cook it. Keep it.
Taste of China is a free browser cooking card game inspired by eight Chinese regional cuisines. It runs without a compulsory email signup or payment.
1. Choose your chef name
The game gives you a random name. Keep it or edit it. Your online identity and collection belong to a stable anonymous ID, not to the name.
2. Draw recipes
Choose one draw or ten. Every draw gives a recipe. Duplicates are kept and owned recipes do not expire. You can preview any dish, but first acquisition is through drawing. R recipes have 70% total probability, SR 25%, SSR 5%; each draw is independent.
3. Choose a difficulty
Starter assists preparation and the flame; you still perform the key actions. Skilled gives you more handling responsibility. Chef leaves heating and handling to you. All three are available from the start.
4. Follow the current action
Use a mouse or one finger on the food, or the main action button. Some actions are taps; some require holding and releasing. The mallet force rises while held. A heat dot responds to the flame and does not swing automatically. A separate progress indicator tells you when a heating step is ready.
Space operates the main action, arrow keys select an area where applicable, and P pauses. Settings and backgrounding pause cooking. On return, resume when ready.
5. Plate and collect
Successful cooking adds a finished dish to your collection. Failure keeps the recipe and lets you retry without paying or waiting for energy. The result explains quality components and gives a specific improvement tip.
6. Compare and share
Each dish and difficulty has its own scoring-version leaderboard. Score ranks first; active cooking time breaks ties. The server verifies operations before confirming a shared record. Offline scores stay local. A confirmed shared result has a stable challenge link; an image download by itself is not a delivered social message.