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Hello, fellow adventurers! 이호 here!

Have you ever looked at food in a game and wished you could try it in real life? I actually have cat cake and gold-and-silver spicy fish stew on my food bucket list. The cake may be made of 0s and 1s, but it’s so perfectly my kind of cute that I can never bring myself to eat it. The stew made the list because of a comment from someone I shared it with—one that left me feeling hungry.

Food in Mabinogi Mobile gives you helpful effects in battle, but it all looks so cute that using it always makes me hungry (ㅋㅋ). My cat cakes feel too precious to use, so I keep them in storage and only bring them out to share on special days!

If you love cute desserts or have ever wondered what in-game food would actually taste like, today I have a few food stories from Mabinogi Mobile to share with you!

The food icons in Mabinogi Mobile are so cute. Even at that tiny size, the artwork is detailed and absolutely adorable. Whenever I browse through the food, I naturally start thinking about real-life dishes, too.

My favorite is the cat cake. I already love cats, so a cake shaped like one? That’s hard to pass up.

So naturally, I’m leaving it in storage to rot forever instead of eating it (?)

How am I supposed to eat a cake this cute?! Sob. I usually choose my pre-battle food based on its effects, but this cake is reserved for truly special days. Like when I meet someone I’d like to get to know better.

This image was generated using AI, based on the Sweetly Fragrant Mocha Meow Cake.

If somewhere sold cat cakes like this in real life, I’d love to buy one and try it. Doesn’t it look like it would taste rich with cream cheese and yogurt?

I considered making one myself for all of 1 second, but I’m hopeless at this sort of thing, so I’ll just wait forever for someone to start selling them.

One special occasion that called for bringing out the cat cake was the day a new guild member joined. We gathered around the campfire and shared it!

When I say I “bring out” a cake, I mean sharing it with others at a campfire. In Mabinogi Mobile, you can sit at a campfire and share food with the players sitting nearby.

That day, we shared the food I usually kept tucked away in storage. Of course, considering how long it had been there, it might have gone bad (?), but sharing my favorite cake with lovely people made it all the more memorable.

Fragrant Jasmine Tea (Source: 에린넷)

I imagine every player has a food they save for special occasions. When Hard difficulty first came out for the 카브락 raid, someone treated me to Fragrant Jasmine Tea, which you can no longer obtain.

The moment the party leader brought out the jasmine tea, the other adventurers couldn’t stop exclaiming, “Wow!” and “Jasmine teaㄷㄷㄷ”. Of course, I also took that treat as a little nudge to give it my all.

There’s a bit of a tradition in Mabinogi Mobile of treating others to food at campfires. It’s a way of saying “Let’s do our best!” through food, without needing words.

In Season 1, our usual dish for this was “Gold-and-Silver Spicy Fish Stew.” Once, when I shared some, this was the response I got.

“Ahh—that’s got a nice spicy kick.”

That stuck with me because I’d had a similar thought myself. I love seafood anyway, and we were sharing it at 7, just as I was about to have dinner. So I was already feeling a little peckish.

After our party finished fighting, I told the others that the comment about the spicy kick had made me hungry for a moment. Someone who’d fought alongside us said they’d already ordered spicy fish stew for dinner. I was so jealous.

After sharing and eating Gold-and-Silver Spicy Fish Stew throughout Season 1, I started thinking of it automatically whenever I saw “spicy fish stew” on a sign out on the street. I still haven’t tried it in real life, but it’s on my food bucket list as something I’d love to taste at least once.

Combat did sneak into all this food talk for a moment! In Mabinogi Mobile, eating gives you helpful effects for a set amount of time. These are called buffs.

The official food guide explains that eating food increases your maximum HP and gives you effects specific to each dish. That extra maximum HP gradually decreases over time.

One thing to keep in mind is that eating more won’t keep stacking the effects. Eating a different food refreshes the duration of your maximum HP increase, and you can choose between the previous food’s effects and the new food’s effects. Some foods also give extra effects when shared, so it’s worth checking what changes when you eat together rather than alone.

Gold-and-Silver Spicy Fish Stew is one of those dishes. It was a staple in Season 1, and besides increasing all stats, it has an effect that boosts attack and defense based on your current party size when 2 or more people share it at a campfire.

Flavorful Steak, our usual food to share now in Season 2

Some of the foods with the best effects have been Mackerel and Salmon Steak, nicknamed “고연스,” in Season 0, and Gold-and-Silver Spicy Fish Stew, known as “금은매,” in Season 1. Now, in Season 2, Flavorful Steak is one of the best.

They’re all dishes I like the sound of, so getting hungry every time is an added bonus.

Looking at today’s dishes has made me hungry, but before I go, here’s a quick recap.

• A dessert with the cutest artwork: The cat cake I save for special days.

• Something to make you crave a spicy dish: Gold-and-Silver Spicy Fish Stew, which stuck with me thanks to someone’s description of its flavor while we shared it.

• If you’re preparing for battle: Check each food’s buffs and sharing requirements first.

I’d love to buy a cat cake and try it in real life. I’m also curious whether we’ll get a new food for Pepero Day this coming November 11!

The dessert icons in Mabinogi Mobile have especially cute artwork, so I think they’d give Pepero a cute, distinctive look, too! This Halloween’s candy really made me want a bite as well (ㅋㅋ)

Is there any in-game food you’d love to take a bite of in real life?