[Line Chef] New Restaurant: Sweet House

Sweet House is the latest restaurant. It is harder then previous restaurants as the main dishes will be harder to prepare in advance as you proceed on.

Remember to upgrade Count items first.

Then remember to upgrade Time items, especially the fridge.

One of the harder stage is stage 34-3. So be prepare to lose life and practise a few times. 

After I get all the keys and cleared the restaurant, I went back to play the rest of the stage.

The hardest stage is the last stage, Stage 40-3 (Score: 31,500). The most I can score is 29000+. Even after using the continue item, somehow I just can't pass. In the end I used the score item to pass it.

Line Chef: Thai Street Difficult Stages

Remember to upgrade the Count items first. For more tips about what to upgrade first, take a look at my other blog post: LINE CHEF: 3 Tips You Need To Succeed

Stage 29-3 Like Stage
Stage 32-3 Score Stage -> 57 combo is not enough to pass it. I got 63 combo when I passed this stage.

Stage 39-1 Score Stage -> I have upgraded all score items.
Stage 39-3 Score Stage

Stage 40-2 Score Stage

Stage 40-3 Score Stage

Believe in yourself, one day you will clear this restaurant!

Line Chef: Pasta Away Difficult Stages

Below are some stages that are more challenging. You need to be more prepared when playing these few stages. Don't worry if you fail, it's normal!


Stage 27  Like Stage
Stage 32-3 Score Stage
Stage 33-3 Like Stage
Stage 35-1 Score Stage


Stage 35-2 Like Stage
Stage 36-2 Score Stage
Stage 39-3 Score Stage

Stage 40-2 Score Stage

Stage 40-3 Score Stage

This stage is really hard, even after 40 combo also not enough score. I used Continue item and finally managed to pass this stage! Yeah! I would recommend using the item only if after 20,000 score at the end of the stage cause you will only get 15 extra seconds. Do take note that some main dishes that you are cooking will disappear when the 15 extra seconds start.

LINE CHEF: 3 Tips You Need To Succeed

Tip 1: Prepare in Advance
Like most time management game, able to plan for the future one of the skills that you need to hone.

There usually be some time at the beginning of the stage for you to prepare your food. Click on dishes that required more cooking time first. 

Dishes that wouldn't burn after preparing should be click on before the item is used up. Don't wait till it is used up then click! Since there is no penalty for preparing the dishes, click on it whenever you have the time or when you used up 1 out of 3 of the dish. 

Usually there is some fixed combination that you can prepare in advance. For example, for Pasta Away Restaurant, Toast and eggs often come together, prepare in advance using one plate while leaving 2 more plates for more variation.

Tip 2: Upgrading
Upgrade count items first then time items. When you can't seems to overcome a score stage, then it's time to start to upgrade the score items. So the sequence should be:

1. Count
2. Time
3. Score

Upgrade the main dish first, which is usually the first stage items. Leave the drinks to the last until you come to a stage whereby many customers order drink or if you have some cash to spend. Most of the time, the side dish will be ordered more often then the drinks.

When a new item appear, there will be a stage where many customers will order that dish with the item. By upgrading the number of kitchen utensils and plate, you will be able to pass the stage easily.

Tip 3: Be Aware of the Mission and Parameters
The strategies you need to use will slightly changed based on the type of mission (Like, Serve and Score stage) and parameters (cannot burn food, cannot throw away food, can not have angry customer).

Be aware of parameters can help you prevent failing of stages. This is because it can help you to make a better decision. For example, for stage that don't allow you to throw away food but wouldn't penalise you for burning your food, you may choose to just let the food get burned when needed.

Don't worry if your food gets burned 

Likewise, if the stage allow you to throw away food but not burning your food, you may choose to throw away the wrongly prepared food away to give way to the readied to serve dish.

Can throw away unwanted food

Keeping the type of mission in mind will let you prioritise the needs.

For example:
-score stage, prioritise combo number over the number of happy customers you have.
-like stage, prioritise the number of happy customers over the combo number.

Take a look at my another blog post ( about the strategies taken for the 3 different types of mission here.

Use the appropriate Buddy to make it easier for you to pass the stage.

Tips to Pass 3 Different Missions in Line Chef

LINE Chef is a time management game. There are 3 different mission: Score, Serve and Like.

Score stage - score a certain number of points

To gain higher score, increase the score given by each dish and the combo. Combo will continue by giving the customer 1 dish before the combo time gauge runs out.

Delay giving the last item to the last moment until the next customer walks in to extend the combo time. You can always prepare the food in advance and serve based on your own tempo to make full use of the combo time.

Use buddy with combo skills to help increase the number of combo.

Towards the end (usually the third level of the restaurant), there will be certain score stages that can't be complete just by using skills. You will need to use item. Usually these items will be given to you free so you don't need to spend any diamonds or cash. So do remember to save your item till then.

Serve stage - serve a certain number of customers' dish

This type of stage is the easiest. Even if your customer is angry, it is fine. Just make sure that you serve before the customer leave in anger.

However, there will be time when you serve everyone but it still doesn't reach the number of items required. In this case, there is nothing you can do but to keep playing. Each time you play, the customers and items will change, so the number of items will be different.

Like stage - serve customers before their satisfaction gauges get too low to get Likes.

It will be best if you serve customers based on their sequence, but it can be hard to keep track once there are more customers. So, my advice is serve the first dish of two or three customers first. The satisfaction gauge will decrease in time, every time you serve a dish, it will increase.

When you reach a difficult stage, consider using the sweets that you saved up. (The sweets will be given to customer with the lowest satisfaction gauge.) The sweets aren't very rare, as long as you don't use it often, it will be enough for this moment.

LINE CHEF Review

LINE CHEF is a time-management app game created by LINE Corporation.

Here's the link to the android version on Google Play. This game is not an offline game.

There are 3 main levels in each restaurant. You will need to collect the keys by playing certain stages. Overall, the different levels will start to become more complicated as it proceed on.

You can use buddy with corresponding skills to help you pass the stage. You need to earn tokens to "adopt" buddy. You can't choose the specific buddy. Buddy have different skills and grades. 

For hard stages, you will need to use item to help you get through the stage. I didn't spend a single cash for the item. So just save the item until you really need to use them to pass the hard stage. 

However, it isn't absolute that it will get harder as you proceed on to a higher level especially towards the latter stage of each restaurant.

As you proceed on to a new restaurant, there is a slight increase in difficulty but that will only be more obvious as you move on. The first few stages of each new restaurant are easy and manageable so that you have a better idea on the steps to cook.

However, for intermediate players, this will feel a bit tiresome. It will be great if there is a way to increase difficulty or jump straight to a higher stage if the player is skillful. It will also be fun if there is a unlimited version, where we can keep serving until 3 customers get angry and leave.

This app is still burgeoning and is coming up with new restaurant. However, their updating speed is much slower than players (aka me) playing. I have uninstalled the game before just because there is no more level to play.

This time management game is nice to play because there are levels that take a bit of skills to pass, usually the Score and Like stages.

Below is one of my gameplay. If you are interested in this game, follow me for more updated gameplay!

Thailand Snack Reviews

Thailand Snack Reviews

You can buy Thailand snacks practically at every tourist area. Price will varies at different location even though it is under the same store.

Pocky Mango Flavour

Price: 10 baht per box.
Sold at Platinum Mall

1 box inside only got 12 sticks.

The smell and flavour is intense and strong. Once you open up the packaging, you can smell the mango flavour already.

Lotte Koala's March Mango biscuit

Price: 100 baht per box (7 individual packets in one box).

Sold at Big C.
At the 6th floor of platinum mall, CHOKDEE & MEECHAI sold 2 for 150 baht.

It is actually like hello panda, but with mango fillings instead. The mango fillings are lesser than the chocolate fillings in hello panda.

I do not recommend this.

Pretzel Tomyam flavour

Price: 12 baht

There is similar item sold in Singapore too. This one seemed to be more worthwhile as compared to Pocky as there were many in one box.

Bento squid

Price: 45 baht for 12 packets
Sold at Big C.
Spicy and not crispy.
I do not recommend this as you can buy it in Singapore too.

Crab flavour Seaweed

Sold at Big C
Crab flavour was not strong, just taste like the usual seaweed. It is still tasty though.

Shopping Experience in Bangkok 2019

Shopping Experience in Bangkok 2019

Most Worthwhile Shopping Mall: Terminal 21

The food is cheaper and tastier than other place. It is even cheaper than the foodcourt in platinum mall. There were many food variation in Terminal 21 too.

Terminal 21 have different theme at each level, making it a place where you can take ton of pictures.

If you like T-shirt with cute design, you can find some here too. But most clothes are mid-price range.

Cheapest (and nice) clothes: Chatuchak Market

There is one shop that sells t-shirts for 60 baht. However, she don't allow us to bargain even when we bought 3 shirts. But the clothes is cheap enough so we bought it anyway.

Do note that the cutting of the armhole of the grey sleeveless shirt isn't really good. The cutting is lower than normal armhole, and the cloth at the front armhole, near the chest area, will protrude out.

The following was common in Bangkok: 

1. Many T-shirts with cute design at an affordable price (below 200 baht). 
2. Fruit flavour hand-made soap
3. Essence sticks
4. Undergarments
5. Denim material clothing (is cheaper in bangkok)

However, they don't have the following:

1. Long wallet
2. Knee length vest 
3. Cheap Sneakers (below S$10)
4. Cheap, comfortable and trendy sandals  (below S$10)

Lesson learnt:

1. 4 hours of shopping was our limit.
2. Shopping under the sun will really diminish the desire to shop.
3. Foot massage is really necessary.
4. Prices at Airport was really expensive, so don't leave your souvenir shopping (eg. Boots shopping) till than.
5. Don't think clothing in Bangkok is always cheap. 100 baht clothing was not very common. Usually those stylish piece will be more expensive and you can easily get it online at the same price or even cheaper. 

There were indeed many stalls in Bangkok. It wasn't a fruitful trip as we were very self-disciplined adults, buying what we really need than what we think is nice. 

I think shopping in Bangkok will be more suitable for 24 years old and below where they will need more T-shirts in their wardrobe. 

Bangkok Shopping Trip - Day 6

Day 6 - 30 May 2019 Thursday

Summary

1. Victory Monument 

9 am - We left for Victory Monument. Some stalls were opened before 10 am but not all. It could be because it rained in the morning but I'm not sure.  There were indeed small stores that sold 100-200 baht clothing.

10 am - We went to Center One, similarly, not all stores opened. So come after 11 am will be better. Prices were below 200 baht. 

We continued walking via skywalk to the other staircase. 

There were a bag store that sold less than 100 baht. It was all thrown together and the quality may not be very high.

We went back to Center One for lunch.

There was a shop that sold earrings at 20 baht and 6 for 100 baht. However, the design weren't as special as those we saw else where.

  

At this restaurant we experienced eating boat noodle style. There were small and big portion. We tried small one of various types. Prices were reasonable and food were delicious.  

We ate at this restaurant

Menu

Crispy Wanton, 15 baht

Tom Yam Noodle Soup, 15 baht

Deep Fried Crispy Pork Skin, 15 baht

 

Beef Dried Noodle

The Boiled Pork with Lemon Spicy Sweet were also tender and nice! 

We went back to our accommodation and make our way to the airport. 

We made our back to Singapore!