Tales Of Vesperia Guide: How To Get All Recipes, Wonder Chef Locations

Are gel costs preventing you from buying other things like weapon and armor in Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition? Then why not make use of the cooking mechanic to keep your party’s wallets as full as their stomachs?

What Is Cooking?

Unlocked early on in Quoi Woods, cooking is exactly what it sounds like — you use ingredients that you find or buy in order to make food for your party to eat, recovering HP/TP or gaining stat buffs in the process.

From there, there are several things to take note of:

• You can only cook once between battles, regardless of whether the attempt was successful.
• Up to four different dishes can be selected as shortcuts, allowing you to cook immediately after a battle ends.
• Any character (except for Repede) can make any dish they want, getting better every time they make it.
• Each character has their own preferences (Raven doesn’t like desserts, for instance) which dictate whether they’ll get extra benefits from whatever they just ate or only a portion of them.
• The effectiveness of any given recipe diminishes after repeated use, thus providing incentive to make use of multiple dishes. You know, maintaining a balanced diet and all that.

Beyond all that, the only thing you concern you’ll have is getting more recipes because the first one you get quickly loses effectiveness and provides no additional benefits.

How Do I Get New Recipes?

You have two options if you want to obtain new recipes, either:

1. Cook a certain dish with a specific character until a new one is unlocked.
2. Find the Wonder Chef disguised as various objects throughout the game.

For the sake of simplicity, I’ll list the recipes that can be unlocked through these methods before listing all the recipes, ingredients and effects:

Unlockable via Recipe

Recipe	Requirement To Unlock
Rice Ball	Estelle / Sandwich
Beef Bowl	Yuri / Rice Ball
Pork Stew	Raven / Beef Bowl
Japanese Stew	Judith / Pork Stew
Sukiyaki	Judith / Japanese Stew
Omelette Rice	Karol / Beef Bowl
Meat Sauce	Karol / Omelette Rice
Pudding	Yuri / Sorbet
Cake	Yuri / Pudding
Sashimi	Raven / Salad
Sushi	Karol / Sashimi
Scottish Egg	Estelle / Fried Chicken and Fries
Okonomiyaki	Raven / Scottish Egg
Vegetable Stir Fry	Rita / Salad
Soup Noodles	Raven / Vegetable Stir Fry
Miso Soup	Estelle / Minestrone Soup
Clam Chowder	Estelle / Miso Soup
Fruit Parfait	Rita / Crepe
Pork Miso Soup	Estelle / Vichyssoise
Udon Noodles Hot Pot	Yuri / Pork Miso Soup
Tempura	Judith / Croquette
Steak	Flynn/Salisbury Steak
Beef Stew	Flynn/Cream Stew
Fisherman’s Hot Pot	Patty/Seafood Bowl

Unlockable via Wonder Chef 

Recipe	Location	Details
Salisbury Steak	Aspio	Disguised as a jumping daikon in the bottom left hand corner outside the town’s gates.
Sorbet	Capua Nor	Disguised as a yellow duck past the inn at the right of the ticket station.
Fried Chicken and Fries	Capua Torim	Disguised as a hopping blue fish right next to the lighthouse.
Fish with Miso Sauce	Heliord	Disguised as a teruteru bouzu doll hanging at the back of the room where Yuri is interrogated in.
Minestrone Soup	Dahngrest	Disguised as a golden egg directly to the right of the entrance to the Don’s room.
Salad	Ghasfarost	Disguised as a pinwheel in the middle of the tower where you activate the gears.
Kebab Sandwich	Nordopolica	Disguised as a jiggling trophy to the right of the entrance inside the colosseum registration hallway.
Curry	Mantaic	Disguised as a cactus between two palm trees.
Croquette	Yormgen	Disguised as a statue inside of the inn between the partitions and the beds.
Cream Stew	Myozoro	Disguised as an ice cream cone in the southeastern part of the city.
Vichyssoise	Nam Cobanda Isle	Disguised as a wooden cutout painted with the Wonder Chef outfit behind the ticket exchange Antlionz.
Crepe	Aurnion	Disguised as a scarecrow in the far east part of town.
Mabo Curry	Nordopolica	Mabo Curry

Full Recipe List

HP Recovery

Recipe	Effect	Ingredients	Method To Unlock
Sandwich	10%	Bread, Egg	Default Recipe
Beef Bowl	20%, Cures Poison	Beef, Onion, Rice	Yuri/Rice Ball
Curry	30%	Carrot, Meat, Onion, Potato, Rice	Wonder Chef/Mantaic
Cream Stew	40%	Carrot, Chicken, Milk, Onion, Potato	Wonder Chef: Myozoro
Udon Noodles Hot Pot	50%	Egg, Napa Cabbage, Shiitake, Shrimp, Squid, Sticky Flour	Yuri/Pork Miso Soup

TP Recovery

Recipe	Effect	Ingredients	Method To Unlock
Sorbet	10%	Fruit, Milk	Wonder Chef/Capua Nor
Pudding	20%	Egg, Milk	Yuri/Sorbet
Cake	30%	Egg, Milk, Strawberry	Yuri/Pudding
Crepe	40%	Banana, Egg, Kiwifruit, Milk	Wonder Chef/Aurnion
Fruit Parfait	50%	Egg, Fruit, Milk	Rita/Crepe

HP and TP Recovery

Recipe	Effect	Ingredients	Method To Unlock
Rice Ball	5%	Dried Seaweed, Rice, Salmon	Estelle/Sandwich
Omelette Rice	10%, Cures Petrify	Egg, Chicken, Onion, Rice	Karol/Beef Bowl
Meat Sauce	15%, Cures all negative status effects	Onion, Pork, Sticky Flour, Tomato	Karol/Omelette Rice
Mabo Curry	20%, Revives from K.O.	Onion, Potato, Rice, Tofu, Tomato	Wonder Chef/Nordopolica

Attack Bonus

Recipe	Effect	Ingredients	Method To Unlock
Salisbury Steak	3%, 5% HP	Beef, Egg, Onion	Wonder Chef/Aspio
Pork Stew	5%, 5% HP	Kelp, Pork, Radish	Raven/Beef Bowl
Kebab Sandwich	7%, 5% HP	Bread, Beef, Lettuce, Tomato	Wonder Chef/Nordopolica
Steak	10%, 5% HP	Beef, Potato	Flynn/Salisbury Steak
Sukiyaki	15%, 5% HP	Beef, Napa Cabbage, Shiitake, Tofu, Egg	Judith/Japanese Stew

Defense Boost

Recipe	Effect	Ingredients	Method To Unlock
Fish With Miso Sauce	5%, 5% HP	Rice, Mackerel, Miso	Wonder Chef/Heliord
Sashimi	10%, 5% HP	Tuna, Mackerel, Salmon, Scallop, Squid	Raven/Salad
Seafood Bowl	15%, 5% HP	Rice, Tuna, Salmon, Scallop, Shrimp, Cucumber	Woman Near Inn/Capua Torim
Fisherman’s Hot Pot	20%, 5% HP	Salmon, Cabbage, Onion, Carrot, Shiitake, Miso	Patty/Seafood Bowl
Sushi	25%, 5% HP	Rice, Fish, Dried Seaweed, Kelp	Karol/Sashimi

Magic Boost

Recipe	Effect	Ingredients	Method To Unlock
Fried Chicken And Fries	10%, 5% HP	Chicken, Potato	Wonder Chef/Capua Torim
Scottish Egg	20%, 5% HP	Meat, Egg, Tomato	Estelle/Fried Chicken And Fries
Croquette	30%, 5% HP	Meat, Potato, Onion	Wonder Chef/Yormgen
Okonomiyaki	40%, 5% HP	Meat, Sticky Flour, Egg, Shrimp, Squid, Cabbage	Raven/Scottish Egg
Tempura	50%, 5% HP	Vegetable, Sticky Flour, Shrimp, Squid, Egg, Chicken	Judith/Croquette

Magic Defense Boost

Recipe	Effect	Ingredients	Method To Unlock
Minestrone Soup	20%, 5% HP	Onion, Tomato	Wonder Chef/Dahngrest
Miso Soup	40%, 5% HP	Tofu, Onion, Miso	Estelle/Minestrone Soup
Clam Chowder	60%, 5% HP	Onion, Scallop, Potato	Estelle/Miso Soup
Vichyssoise	80%, 5% HP	Sticky Flour, Milk, Potato	Wonder Chef/Nam Codanda
Pork Miso Soup	100%, 5% HP	Pork, Tofu, Carrot, Miso	Estelle/Vichyssoise

Speed Boost

Recipe	Effect	Ingredients	Method To Unlock
Salad	2000, 5% HP	Lettuce, Tomato, Cucumber	Wonder Chef/Ghasfarost
Japanese Stew	2200, 5% HP	Radish, Squid, Kelp	Judith/Pork Stew
Vegetable Stir Fry	2400, 5% HP	Meat, Cabbage, Onion, Carrot	Rita/Salad
Beef Stew	2600, 5% HP	Beef, Onion, Carrot, Potato	Flynn/Cream Stew
Soup Noodles	2800, 5% HP	Sticky Flour, Pork, Cabbage, Onion, Carrot	Raven/Vegetable Stir Fry

Dog Food

Recipe	Effect	Ingredient	Method To Unlock
Dog Food	1% HP/TP, Humor, Shame	Any	Repede/All

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