Friends

Friends

You should aim to visit your Friends' restaurants as frequently as possible - once a day if you can manage it. This will enable you to collect ingredients from the dishes and food stands in their restaurants. These extra ingredients will often be things that you would otherwise be missing (like Garlic, for example, early in the game), so it is important to recognise this as another source to get them.

To recognize the areas where it is possible to collect ingredients, look out for the signs by the items. You are not guaranteed to get the ingredients - in fact, more often than not you won't get what you're after. Keep trying though, and remember that you are saving Energy by collecting ingredients in this fashion as opposed to using it back in your own area.

TIP: You can focus your Friend requests on Roses rather than ingredients if you aim to get all of your missing foodstuffs from Friend's restaurants instead.