History YMMV / TheTaleOfFood

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Creator/DaikiYamashita, Japanese dub actor for Zǐtuī Swallow, used to voice Karuraten from ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'', who's also an adult-looking man with bird wings and a voice deeper than the actor's usual range. For extra hilarity, that character and Zǐtuī are ''polar opposites'' in terms of both design and personality.
** Creator/HiroshiKamiya voices Izumi Kyōka from ''VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist'', known for liking rabbits. He goes on to provide the dub voice for Crab in Orange, who's involved with a lot of rabbits.

* AmericansHateTingle: While a great success in China, the game only gained moderate popularity in Japan and eventually gets pulled there.

* HoYay: Since most recurring characters are male, this is bound to happen.
** Any master/food spirit interactions remain the same with all of their wordings and undertones regardless of the young master's gender, meaning a lot of those interactions come off as this if the master is male.
** Food spirits are a bunch of good-looking men all living in a community together and interacting with each other. Suffice to say some degrees of this trope occur between them.
** Any new food spirits introduced in pairs will be inevitably shipped.
** Specific cases have [[HoYay/TheTaleOfFood their own page]].

* RainbowLens: Given Táohuāzhōu's stance on romance, he may or may not be UsefulNotes/{{Aromantic}}.

* {{Wangst}}: Zǐtuī's gloomy attitude and whininess can get {{narm}}y and/or annoying after a while.

** Creator/HiroshiKamiya voices Izumi Kyōka from ''VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist'', known for liking rabbits. He goes on to voice Crab In Orange, who's involved with a lot of rabbits.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/DaikiYamashita, Japanese dub actor for Zǐtuī Swallow, used to voice Karuraten from ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'', who's also an adult-looking man with bird wings and a voice deeper than the actor's usual range. For extra hilarity, that character and Zǐtuī are ''polar opposites'' in terms of both design and personality.

* SignatureScene: Lord Fú on top of the player character in a sexually suggestive manner. That this is literally the ''beginning scene'' only hammers it further into this status.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/DaikiYamashita, Japanese dubber for Zǐtuī Swallow, used to voice Karuraten from ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'', who's also an adult-looking man with bird wings and a voice deeper than the actor's usual range. For extra hilarity, that character and Zǐtuī are ''polar opposites'' in terms of both design and personality.

** Túsū has a tragic background that leads to losing faith in humanity, has lost use of his legs and is well-meaning deep down, but there's no denying he's still an all-around {{Jerkass}} who [[EasilyForgiven gets off too lightly]] for his unpleasant behavior.

** Túsū had a tragic background that lead to losing faith in humanity, has lost use of his legs and is well-meaning deep down, but there's no denying he's still an all-around {{Jerkass}} who [[EasilyForgiven gets off too lightly]] for his unpleasant behavior.

* JerkassWoobie: [[DeathSeeker Zǐtuī]] is no doubt a tragic character, but there's the fact he's stated he wants every single other food spirit as well as Kòngsāng to perish with him.

** Dēngyǐng, a LovableSexManiac who wears skimpy clothes and whose at least 70% of dialogues is suggestive.

* JerkassWoobie: [[DeathSeeker Zǐtuī]] is no doubt a tragic character, but there's the fact he's wished he wants every single other food spirit as well as Kòngsāng to perish with him.

* MemeticMolester: Lord Fú, a flirty AmbiguouslyBi MrFanservice; the game's story mode literally opens on a shot of him lying on top of the young master in a suggestive manner.

** Food spirits are a bunch of good-looking men all living in a community together and interacting with each other. Suffice to say some degrees of this trope occur between them.