Yes yes, I know, Restaurant City again. I’d usually leave posts like this to gaming sites but I received quite a good number of inquiries about Restaurant City so I figured I’ll devote a post to it. Plus, I feel like I owe people who arrived here looking for RC info something with more meat. For regular readers though, don’t worry, this will be my last RC related post. So, if you’re here purely for the food posts, this is your cue to bail.

What is Restaurant City?
It’s a game application developed by Playfish on Facebook.

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We love food, you and I. I don’t think you’d be hanging around here, reading my endless babble about food if we didn’t share the love for it. It follows that we love restaurants. We enjoy visiting our old favorites just as much as we enjoy discovering new ones. I’m also sure that I’m not the only one among us who dreams of owning her own restaurant.

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Okay. I admit it. The reason why I haven’t updated the past two weeks much? Well, partly because of work—we’ve been pretty swamped so I’ve no time to prepare bento in the mornings—and partly because the little time I have left, I spend playing with dolls. I’m currently so obsessed with this Japanese doll called Pullip that I have gone cuckoo and made REAL food bento for her.

Yes folks, real food. For a doll. Curious? That’s a sakura denbu onigiri, a side of pickled ginger, carrot sticks (doll-sized of course), a raisin, and some quail egg wedges. When you think about it, it’s probably the World’s Smallest real obento. Real food, all in my tiniest Polka Dot Sauce container. That’s roughly an inch on the long side. Beat that, Re-Ment¹!

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I was supposed to feature today’s bento, a filling affair full of lovely leftovers, but a livejournal post from ksolaris derailed all thoughts of bento. It’s slightly off tangent, but it’s food related, so indulge me as I fangirl because…

Majesco has picked up COOKING MAMA 2: Dinner with Friends!

After a sojourn to the Nintendo Wii with Cooking Mama: Cook-Off, Mama’s back on the Nintendo DS with Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends! A game that’s based on cooking, Cooking Mama allows you to use the stylus to perform various cooking tasks like chopping, frying, kneading and mixing, to be able to cook a wide assortment of dishes, “just like Mama.” The new version features 80 new recipes, a wireless cook-off mode against up to four friends, a customization mode that lets you dress up your kitchen, Mama included! And the friends part? After you cook, nine of “your” picky friends taste and judge your cooking! It has the makings of a Food Network reality TV show, don’t you think?

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