Cook Chinese Food Asian Cooking

Five dishes, and what makes the set work is that they use five different techniques: noodles are fried, dim sum is steamed, spring rolls are wrapped and deep-fried, fortune cookies are pressed and folded while hot, and dumplings are pleated by hand.

The folding stages are the ones worth the visit. Pleating a dumpling and folding a fortune cookie both involve doing something to a shape rather than adding to a pile, and neither appears anywhere else in this catalogue.

Orders come from clients, giving the session a spine, but nothing is timed. It runs in a tall portrait layout that suits a phone, and the interface is clear enough that no prior knowledge of any of the five dishes is needed.

1. Pick a dish from the menu.
2. Prepare the components it needs.
3. Fold, wrap or fry as that dish requires.
4. Plate it and take the next order.

Fold the fortune cookies immediately after they come off the heat. They set within seconds in this game, and a cooled disc cracks instead of folding.