The Ultimate Dish

Key takeaways

The quest is primarily a cooking conversion activity rather than a combat mission.

• Find the smoky well Look for Rikoka Hills Well, which is identified by black smoke, then descend into the well to find Moza's restaurant.
• Bring failed food Moza wants Dubious Food or Rock-Hard Food. These results can come from cooking unsuitable combinations such as minerals or monster parts.
• Unlock a useful service After completion, Moza can be visited again to fix failed dishes, giving otherwise unwanted cooking results a practical use.

Overview

The Ultimate Dish? is a small cooking side quest that turns failed recipes into something useful.

The quest takes place at Rikoka Hills Well, where the chef Moza has established a restaurant inside the well. The entrance is marked by black smoke, making the location easier to identify from the surrounding area. To begin, locate the well and descend into the restaurant below ground.

Moza asks for failed cooking results rather than a conventional ingredient. The acceptable examples identified for this quest are Dubious Food and Rock-Hard Food, both of which can result from combining unsuitable materials in a cooking attempt. Minerals and monster parts are specifically noted as materials that can produce these failed dishes.

Once the requested food is handed over, Moza transforms it into Monster Stew in a humorous cutscene involving a wooden spoon. Completion also gives the player a repeatable way to return to Moza and have failed dishes fixed, providing a practical use for inventory items that might otherwise remain as clutter.

Where this sits

Requirements

Reach Rikoka Hills Well and carry a failed cooking result that Moza can use.

• RequiredReach Rikoka Hills WellThe well is marked by black smoke. Descend into it to reach Moza's restaurant.
• RequiredBring Dubious Food or Rock-Hard FoodEither named failed cooking result is identified as suitable for the quest.
• OptionalUse unsuitable cooking materials if necessaryMinerals or monster parts can create failed dishes, although the supplied material does not define a specific recipe or quantity.

Objectives

1. Find Rikoka Hills WellUse the black smoke marking to identify the well from the surrounding area.
2. Descend into the wellThe restaurant and Moza are inside the well rather than at the surface entrance.
3. Provide Moza with a failed dishSubmit Dubious Food or Rock-Hard Food as the cooking result requested for the quest.
4. Complete the conversionWatch Moza transform the failed result into Monster Stew.
5. Return to Moza when neededAfter completion, the chef remains available to fix failed dishes whenever the player wishes.

Walkthrough

1. 01

   Find the entrance

   Locate the smoke-marked well

   Travel to the area around Rikoka Hills Well and look for the black smoke that marks its entrance. The smoke is the key visual signpost supplied for finding the quest location, so search for the well rather than looking for a surface restaurant.

   Location: Rikoka Hills Well

   TipUse the black smoke as your navigation landmark.

2. 02

   Reach Moza

   Descend into Rikoka Hills Well

   Enter the well and travel downward until you reach the restaurant built inside it. Moza is not encountered at the surface; the quest giver is located below ground in the restaurant.

   Location: Inside Rikoka Hills Well

   Watch outDo not leave after finding the entrance without descending into the well, because the quest interaction takes place inside.

3. 03

   Start the request

   Speak with Moza

   Find Moza, the chef who opened the restaurant in the well, and begin the conversation that explains the requested cooking result. The task is not to prepare a polished meal for the restaurant; it is to provide a failed dish for Moza to process.

   Location: Moza's restaurant

4. 04

   Prepare or retrieve an acceptable dish

   Obtain a failed cooking result

   Bring Dubious Food or Rock-Hard Food to the restaurant. If you do not already have one, the supplied sources identify minerals and monster parts as examples of materials that can create failed dishes, but they do not specify a single required recipe or quantity.

   Location: Any cooking location, then Rikoka Hills Well

   TipUse an existing failed dish if one is already in your inventory instead of deliberately wasting valuable materials.

5. 05

   Submit the cooking result

   Give the failed dish to Moza

   Return to Moza inside Rikoka Hills Well and provide the eligible failed cooking result. The named acceptable results are Dubious Food and Rock-Hard Food; other failed outcomes are not confirmed by the supplied material.

   Location: Moza's restaurant

   Watch outA normal successful meal is not the item described for this request.

   Checkpoint
6. 06

   Complete the cooking conversion

   Watch Moza make Monster Stew

   After receiving the failed dish, Moza processes it into Monster Stew during a humorous cutscene involving a wooden spoon. Let the scene finish so the conversion and quest completion can register.

   Location: Moza's restaurant

   Checkpoint
7. 07

   Repurpose future failed dishes

   Use the unlocked service later

   Once the quest is complete, return to Moza whenever you want to have failed dishes fixed. This post-quest function is the lasting benefit of the mission and gives Dubious Food or Rock-Hard Food a use beyond occupying inventory space.

   Location: Moza's restaurant

   TipKeep the location in mind if failed cooking results accumulate during later exploration.

Mission mechanics

The quest uses failed cooking as its central mechanic. Instead of asking for a rare ingredient or a combat trophy, Moza accepts the deliberately undesirable results known as Dubious Food or Rock-Hard Food.

Minerals and monster parts are identified as examples of materials that can lead to these failed dishes when cooked. The supplied sources do not establish a particular combination, cooking location, quantity, or recipe, so the safest approach is to use a failed dish already available or follow the game's normal cooking interface without sacrificing materials you need.

Moza's conversion changes the role of these items from failed experiments into a useful restaurant service. The completion cutscene presents the transformation into Monster Stew with a wooden spoon, and the same interaction remains useful afterward for repairing later failed dishes.

What works and what does not

Completion checklist

• Identify the black smoke marking Rikoka Hills WellThe smoke is the supplied landmark for the quest location.
• Descend into the wellMoza's restaurant is inside the well.
• Find MozaMoza is the chef who opened the restaurant.
• Carry Dubious Food or Rock-Hard FoodThese are the failed dishes identified as acceptable.
• Hand the failed dish to MozaThis begins the conversion.
• Finish the Monster Stew sceneThe transformation includes a wooden spoon cutscene.
• Return later to use Moza's serviceCompleted quests allow future failed dishes to be fixed.

Rewards and drops

• Monster Stew
  Moza transforms the submitted failed cooking result into Monster Stew during the completion scene.
• Failed-dish conversion service
  After completing the quest, the player can return to Moza to fix failed dishes whenever desired.

Aftermath

Trivia

• Moza's restaurant is located inside a well rather than in a conventional building.
• The failed-dish conversion is presented as a humorous cutscene involving a wooden spoon.
• The quest turns cooking mistakes into the basis for a repeatable service.

Sources

• The Ultimate Dish? quest guide
• The Ultimate Dish? guide
• The Ultimate Dish? reference
• The Ultimate Dish? walkthrough

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