I placed several restaurants in my save with dishes from different cultures and just put the corresponding meals on the menu. I already have an Asian restaurant and am going to place a Mexican and Indian too. I think it's a faster way to learn the recipes than just traveling to the city all the time. You also never know if there's actually a vendor at the stalls or they are bugged at the edge of the neighborhood again.

"Chazzzy;c-16617835" wrote:I recommend going to that park in San Myshuno. It has like 4 food stalls. You can learn the majority if not all of the recipes in one visit if you’re willing to fatten your Sim up lolIf I don’t feel like doing that, I also have a mod that makes it so I can learn all of the recipes by reading one new book. B-but that's cheating! D:

"Huiiie_07;d-944837" wrote:I placed several restaurants in my save with dishes from different cultures and just put the corresponding meals on the menu. I already have an Asian restaurant and am going to place a Mexican and Indian too. I think it's a faster way to learn the recipes than just traveling to the city all the time. You also never know if there's actually a vendor at the stalls or they are bugged at the edge of the neighborhood again. That's a good idea, but would it be quicker? Every time my Sims go out to eat, the meal takes about 7 hours to get through. My Sims can scarfe down three or more servings at a food booth in the same amount of time.Slightly off topic: is there a way to see what recipes my Sim has learned without attempting to cook?

Or just place all the stands somewhere, for example in a park.

I think my teen really wanted to get a taste of the food from the stalls she autonomously left the house around 4-5am to the food stall across the house and it was closed. She stood there and the second she left it opened :D https://imgur.com/ysn8g7U.jpghttps://imgur.com/mGkUlCC.jpg

To find out what you've learned you can pretend to cook something to get the menu and then see what's on it.

An easy way to learn the City Living recipes...

paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-16617835" wrote:
I recommend going to that park in San Myshuno. It has like 4 food stalls. You can learn the majority if not all of the recipes in one visit if you’re willing to fatten your Sim up lol

If I don’t feel like doing that, I also have a mod that makes it so I can learn all of the recipes by reading one new book.

B-but that's cheating! D:
wildwolfspirit
7 years ago
"Huiiie_07;d-944837" wrote:
I placed several restaurants in my save with dishes from different cultures and just put the corresponding meals on the menu. I already have an Asian restaurant and am going to place a Mexican and Indian too. I think it's a faster way to learn the recipes than just traveling to the city all the time. You also never know if there's actually a vendor at the stalls or they are bugged at the edge of the neighborhood again.

That's a good idea, but would it be quicker? Every time my Sims go out to eat, the meal takes about 7 hours to get through. My Sims can scarfe down three or more servings at a food booth in the same amount of time.
Slightly off topic: is there a way to see what recipes my Sim has learned without attempting to cook?
DoloresGrey
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
Or just place all the stands somewhere, for example in a park.
BlueSeaWaves
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I think my teen really wanted to get a taste of the food from the stalls she autonomously left the house around 4-5am to the food stall across the house and it was closed. She stood there and the second she left it opened :D https://imgur.com/ysn8g7U.jpg
https://imgur.com/mGkUlCC.jpg
susanleona
Seasoned Traveler
7 years ago
To find out what you've learned you can pretend to cook something to get the menu and then see what's on it.
ldm2
New Spectator
7 years ago
I send the whole family to the spice festival, which usually has a wide variety of food to choose from, and have them each order a different dish. Then those old enough to cook take turns making their dish at home & soon the whole family knows them, and passes them on to their children.
Wndblwz
New Traveler
7 years ago
Just found a mod by LittleMsSam that provides cookbooks for each of the specialty food genre: https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175405693313/cookbooks-cultural-experimental-seafood-jungle
BayouGir1
7 years ago
I made a park and just had my sim hire the vendors to get it over with. I just kept a handful of benches for the sim and vendors to nap on while I got it done.

Then I had to move my sim to a new save, and all of the recipes she had learned were lost. The prospect of having to learn the recipes all over again makes me not care about them anymore. But it was doable.
Wndblwz
New Traveler
7 years ago
LittleMsSam also made a mod the makes the vendor hiring cost-free: https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175407521658/free-staff-and-no-phone-call-animation-for
TheRealTink
7 years ago
"ldmarko;c-16619508" wrote:
I send the whole family to the spice festival, which usually has a wide variety of food to choose from, and have them each order a different dish. Then those old enough to cook take turns making their dish at home & soon the whole family knows them, and passes them on to their children.

That's what I do too.