Published May 9, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT

I really am living the dream: eating all my favorite foods

Tomodachi Life's Korean food looks so good I actually have to and go eat some IRL

Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon

Within the first few days of my Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream playthrough, a shop on my island was stocked with buchimgae, a Korean savory pancake dish, filled with vegetables or other goodies. "Woah, there's Korean food in this game. Neat!" I thought. But I didn't realize how much there would be.

A few days later, I got yangnyeom chicken (stylized in-game as yangnyeom chikin). Eventually I found more and more: sotteok sotteok (rice cakes and sausages on a skewer, doused in a sweet-spicy sauce), gim (dried, salted seaweed, also known as nori to some people), and gamja-tang (spicy pork bone soup). I excitedly send my group chat a screenshot of the new dish each time.…