Dubious Food
Dubious Food is a recurring Meal in The Legend of Zelda series.[1][2][3]
Location and Uses
Breath of the Wild
Dubious Food can be made from several different Cooking combinations:
- Food with Monster Parts or critters, but not both
- Monster Parts on their own
- Critters on their own
- Any recipe that would produce an Elixir without an effect (e.g. monster part + Chilly critter + Spicy critter)
- Seasonings without Food
Dubious Food is noted to be too gross to look at and permeates a bizarre smell.[1] However, it can restore a random amount of Link's Hearts depending on the ingredients used.
Moza, who can be found near Ishto Soh Shrine, will give Link three recipes, two of which result in Dubious Food. One is her ancient meat dish, which involves cooking meat with a part from a Guardian.[4] When Link calls this gross, she'll scold him, saying the only way to cook meat is something with history.[5] She asks Link how else she's supposed to make her ancient meat dish.[6] However, Moza admits to Link that her only results have been Dubious Food.[7]
For her other dish, the ultimate survival dish, Moza tells Link to defeat monsters and to put their parts in a Cooking Pot.[8] This time, if Link calls her recipe gross, she'll say that you have to be willing to eat anything to survive in the wild.[9] Though she always ends up with Dubious Food, she asserts she won't achieve her goal unless she makes some sacrifices.[10] She also admits to Link that she's not sure what's so dubious about using Monster Parts.[11]
Tears of the Kingdom
Other Appearances
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
The recipe for Dubious Food is earned by completing the Quest "Extreme Survival Cuisine". It is made using two Hearty Durians, two Rock Salts, and two Hot-Footed Frogs. However, it can be lowered to one of each ingredient through the completion of "Hungry Hunches". When prepared before a Challenge or Scenario, the Warriors will gain twice as many Rupees, including those earned after the mission, but they will have 20% less total Hearts.
Nomeclature
 Names in Other Regions  | ||
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| Language | Names | Meanings |
 Japanese |
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   ChineseTR | 奇異的菜餚 (Qíyì de càiyáo) (BotW | TotK) | |
 ChineseSI |
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 Dutch | Mislukte maaltijd (BotW | HWAoC)[12][13] | Failed Meal |
 FrenchCA | Plat douteux (TotK) | |
 FrenchEU | Plat douteux (BotW | TotK) | |
 German | Dubiose Matsche (BotW | TotK) | |
 Italian | Poltiglia (BotW | TotK) | |
 Korean |
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 Russian | Сомнительное блюдо (Somnitelʹnoye blyudo) (BotW) | |
 SpanishLA | Comida sospechosa (BotW) | |
 SpanishEU | Comida sospechosa (TotK) | |
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Gallery
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Dubious Food icon from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dubious Food
It's too gross to even look at. A bizarre smell issues forth from this heap. Eating it won,t hurt you, though...probably." — Inventory (Breath of the Wild) - ↑ "Dubious Food
It's too gross to even look at. A bizarre smell issues forth from this heap. Eating it won't hurt you though...probably." — Inventory (Tears of the Kingdom) - ↑ "Dubious Food
It's too gross to even look at. A bizarre smell issues forth from this heap. Eating it won't hurt you, though...probably." — Cooking (Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity) - ↑ "Sure thing! I'll happily teach you the recipe for my ancient meat dish. First, prepare the meat you want to use. I recommend either bird meat or steak. And then you cook it with something from a broken Guardian... AN ANCIENT PART!!" — Moza (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "[That sounds gross.] Hey! That's not nice! Cooking delicious meat with something that smacks of history is the only way!" — Moza (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "How else would one create an ancient meat dish the likes of which no one has ever seen before?!" — Moza (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "To be honest, what I always end up making is dubious food... Though I don't see what's so dubious about it! Even when I use ingredients I'm certain will be perfect, there are lots of times I still mess it up. Cooking is complicated." — Moza (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "Sure thing! I'll happily teach you the recipe for my ultimate survival dish! First, you'll have to defeat a monster!! After that, just find yourself a cooking pot and toss in... tons of monster parts!!" — Moza (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "[That sounds gross.] In order to survive out in the wild, you've got to be willing to eat anything! That's the idea behind my ultimate survival dish!!" — Moza (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "I may end up with nothing to eat but dubious food...but I won't achieve my goal unless I make some sacrifices!" — Moza (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "I don't see what's so dubious about using monster parts, though... Even when I used ingredients I'm certain will be perfect, there are lots of times I still mess it up. Cooking is complicated." — Moza (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "Mislukte maaltijd" — Inventory (Breath of the Wild)
- ↑ "Mislukte maaltijd" — Cooking (Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity)