Traveling Chef is a mobile game where you cook culturally significant dishes from all over the world. It aims to make people interested and engaged in learning about different cultures through cooking.

 

According to our survey involving nearly 100 participants, quite a few young adults are interested in learning about culture, but the time-consuming process dissuades them. We tackled this problem by focusing on food, a culturally relevant topic, but easily approachable due to the fact that everybody needs to eat. To make it less time consuming we made Traveling Chef a mobile game with short gameplay cycles (2-5 minutes) so people can play it while they are e.g. waiting for the bus.

 

But what makes cooking worth it? Eating the food you made! That’s why after finishing a level/dish, you get the recipe and instructions to cook that dish in real life to truly experience different cultures.