You Look Thin! Guide: How to Survive Grandma's Table
You Look Thin! is a game about a grandmother who has decided you are too skinny. Your job is to make her happy before your stomach bursts. This guide covers how the meal works, how to read her, and how to go further in the Daily Feast and the Bottomless Bowl. The later years stay spoiler free.
How a meal works
The heart bar at the top is how happy she is. You fill it by making food leave your bowl. There are two ways to do that:
- Eat it. Tap a piece. It is safe, it counts in full, and it fills your stomach. If the stomach reaches 100%, a button flies off and the meal is over.
- Hide it. Drag a piece to Bao the dog on the left, or to your cousin on the right. It does not touch your stomach, but it counts for a bit less, and it only works while she is not looking.
You can never eat everything she serves. The whole game is choosing what to swallow and what to smuggle.
Read her before you move
The label at the top tells you what she is doing, but your ears are faster. She hums while she cooks. When the humming stops and you hear her slippers, she is turning around. You have a moment left, and hiding food during the turn is still safe. Once she is facing you, anything you hide gets you caught.
Getting caught costs you a heart, costs happiness, and earns you an extra large helping. Three hearts and she stops talking to you. In later meals she sometimes starts to turn and goes back to the stove, so do not freeze for too long.
Never empty the bowl
This is the one rule that surprises everyone. An empty bowl does not mean you are finished. It means she walks straight over with the pot. She can sense it from the stove. Keep two or three pieces in the bowl as a decoy, and work through the rest.
Pick your bites
Light food is your friend when your stomach is high. Greens, carrot and mushrooms barely fill you, while pork and chicken legs fill you fast but make her happier. Big pieces also take longer to chew, and you cannot start a new bite with your mouth full.
- The Fish Head is worth a lot and takes a long time. Eat it when she is at the stove and your mouth is free.
- Bird chilies barely fill you but make you chew slowly for a few seconds.
- Bones cannot be eaten. Bao can have them.
- Lucky dumplings are rare, gold, and worth grabbing at once.
Burp
The Burp button clears some room in your stomach. It takes a while to recharge, so use it whenever it pulses. If you burp while she is watching, she takes it as a compliment and it makes her happier too.
Bao and your cousin have limits
Bao’s meter empties slowly as he digests. If he is full he refuses, and you are left holding the food. Your cousin is worse: fill that meter and everything comes flying back into your bowl. Spread food between them and do not push either one to the top.
New Year questions
At the New Year meal the aunties ask questions. A timer runs under each one. If you are chewing when it runs out, your mouth is full and you do not have to answer. If you are not, it gets awkward and she loses happiness. Save a big slow bite for the moment the timer is nearly gone.
Daily Feast and Bottomless Bowl
The Daily Feast is the same meal for everyone that day, with no perks. Share your code and a friend gets exactly your meal. Bottomless Bowl has no finish line: every bowl comes faster, and the score is how many you survive.
Red envelopes and the recipe book
Every meal pays red envelopes, which buy Stretchy Pants, a Strong Jaw, Good Ears, a Bigger Dog and a Thunder Burp. Perks do not work in the Daily Feast. Every new dish you taste adds a page to her recipe book. Read it. She wrote it for you.
A note on the later meals
The game moves through the years. Some of the last meals cannot be lost, and they are not meant to be hurried. Take your time at the table.