Any Tips for passing the chinese food restuarant in the lunar sec

I've made it to lunar section and I am having so much trouble passing the Chinese one towards the end. I only have 43 tokens and cant purchase the 55 recipe and all my other stuff is bought up any suggestions?

Here are my tips for getting through the game in general. I finally finished it for the first time (my second attempt). One thing to keep in mind is that even using this strategy - I only got the third best ending.
The first thing is that you need the better recipes. The first time through I also didn't focus on recipes and couldn't get past the next to last (Chinese) restaurant. This time I went for buying 1 recipe every time I could of whatever restaurant type I was on currently. The only other thing I bought (for the most part) was ingredient upgrades. The most important one is the vegetables because they're used everywhere. So each time I would buy 1 (only) upgrade and a recipe if I could. I got all the 100 coin recipes and a couple of the next one up. I got fully upgraded ingredients for veggies and all the meats and some of the other stuff by the end. I did buy a few (5 total) songs and they do definitely help, but I don't recommend getting a lot of them - at the end the only one you really need is the one that gets the cat lady, the maestro and the mad scientist. I don't worry about the rock star or swapping between songs. 5 songs might have been more than I needed. I didn't buy any desserts or more than one or two machine upgrades.
Using this strategy I ended up with $10000 on the Chinese restaurant and only barely beating the last one, which requires $8000. Don't neglect any of the restaurants. The other thing I did was, when I got to the last one, I looked at recipes and made sure that I had upgraded the ingredients as far as I could for only the ingredients used in those recipes.
I think, ultimately, that you have to focus on recipes and one other thing. A VERY little of the other stuff is okay, but don't focus on them - just be resigned to the fact that you aren't going to be able to do ALL the side goals and when you know you can't (I couldn't ever get the soup or beverage ones for instance) just focus on an expert score and don't worry about it.
The other thing that you really have to do is chain your deliveries. You have to take the second or two to look at what order you need to deliver them in. Leave one spot filled with money so you don't have one person waiting impatiently and only have the three people you're working on active. Slows down how fast people get upset and the chain bonuses are critical to getting big dollar scores.
Hope this helps!

I guess Im gonna have to start over... Thanks for the advice. I figured out about the song thing waaaay too late. I have to reload to fix the stairway problem so I guess now is as good a time as any. Yeah, Im on the 7000 chinese one... I got to like 5256 with keeping the last customer there until I ran out of power ups, but I just couldnt get over the marker. Thanks again.

Yeah - I couldn't either my first run through. It's fun enough that I didn't mind too much - trying to pace myself and not go back and do another complete run through TOO soon...
Pretty addictive game.
Glad I could help!

I'm so glad someone posted some tips. I was on my 2nd game - the first time I had made it about halfway through then it became too hard to beat with what I had, so it was pretty much impossible to keep playing. This time I was on the Lunar Station wtih I think 7 restuarants remaining & I spent over 2 weeks trying to beat this level where you have to make $4000.
If I hadnt paid for this game, and then later ended up spending so much time on it, there is no way I'd start over again. I"m actually pretty agitated that it got that hard.
PS I am sooooo happy they got forums on BFG!! I have been waiting for that for so long.
So originally I was going to post something about how the heck do you get past that level, but I'm just going to start a new one & choose to save my tokens for the expensive recipes rather than certain food upgrades or music. I noticed there are only a very few songs that are used at all.

I have to admit that I was pleased that it turned out to be a challenge to get through without feeling (to me) to be impossible. It seems like many of them that I try either end up just being "I can't get past this point" and not feeling like I could have done anything differently or easy enough that I never felt like it became a challenge.
I'm trying a new strategy this time through - similar but a little different. I'm still focusing primarily on recipes, with my secondary concern being the soup and drinks and doing occasional ingredient upgrading. Haven't touched desserts this time and so far I haven't bought any songs, although I may buy one or two eventually.
I am really glad that the time I've put into it is helping other people enjoy it too.

HE He HE I did it! I took your advice and bought high ticket recipes early. Made me expert almost all the way up! I forgot about the tea and soup and upgraded all my food! I bought only one of each dessert and only three songs... the L'amore and hotel cauliflower being my faves. I got a 1st best ending! I focused on the chain bonuses! That helped a lot too! I even lost a few customers and still had that great ending! oh and if your stuck on a level and have a bunch of desserts you can keep your last customer there and keep feeding them desserts and earn extra money and tokens.

Okay rambled enough... time to play again!!! YIPPPEEEE!!!!!

Oh and upgrade Beef and Veggies first!!!!!!!

That is awesome! Congrats on getting through it!
I played again and was delighted at the bonus of getting to keep your recipes from your first run through. Still haven't quite gotten through to the end yet, but I'm on the lunar ones again so shouldn't be long.
I agree that veggies and beef are the best ones to start with. Wine is about the last one to upgrade because it's used in so few recipes. It's good to look at how many recipes an ingredient is used in before deciding which one to upgrade next - the meats, in general, are pretty good.
This one was definitely a good buy. For me anyway. Enough of a challenge to keep it interesting, but not TOO frustrating.

that last statement was so true and something all other game producers should follow

make the game a challenge but not imposible

i am really adicted to this game so much so that all the family say
"oh no hes playing ORDER READY again " lol

it is certainly the best game ive bought this year

my first post , I am driving my hubby crazy trying to get through this game , I'm sooo glad I am not alone . Thanks for the tips

I had previously given up on this game, but fortunately I saw that there had been a technical problem with the first version released where the recipies you purchased did not appear when you actually played that restaurant style.

Now that they fixed it, I downloaded a new version yesterday and went all the way through to the end with only missing a target once and getting expert levels in more than half.

On my last round I got $24,880. Here are a few tips:

1) Don't bother buying any songs under the value of 20 tokens. Songs are only really useful in the second half of the game and it pays to look who you have coming up and switch songs mid-game.

2) Don't worry about your soup and drinks in the beginning two cities. You will rarely beat the challenges and will waste all your tokens upgrading them trying.

3) Better to buy one recipie worth 85 tokens early than two at 45 tokens. When you do buy it, make sure you upgrade the ingredients in that one first. When playing that round make sure you look for the really big recipie and protect that player. You can get an expert easilly in most rounds if you have at least one really big meal. One that is up around $450 in the second city. As you win more expert results work your way down in recipie sizes.

4) It is a really good idea to keep an eye on what restaurant is coming up nex before you buy market items. Buy recipies for upcoming restaurants and ingredients for them as well.

5) In the last few rounds of the lunar city, make sure you sell off what you can from completed food styles to get any available large recipies. When I played my last round I had one recipie worth $850 and two others over $600.

6) Make sure you chain combo where possible and put your drinks and soups on the most expensive item in positions 2 or three. A recipie worth $275 will have about $90 added to it when in position 3 and with a soup and drink.

Hope that helps?

Thanks everyone, for all the tips! I have been playing this for many weeks now and have two restaurants left and I don't think I can beat them...I will probably have to start over! But, this game is so much fun, I won't mind too much.

I upgraded my ingredients pretty much before other upgrades (did soup & tea over time) and ignored desserts & music for a while. I got expert level on well over 1/2 the restaurants. What is preventing me from even passing the basic level on the second to last restaurant is probably because I didn't upgrade my recipes enough - and now I don't have enough tokens to do so!

Well, I will be starting over today!

ROICOM wrote:...

5) In the last few rounds of the lunar city, make sure you sell off what you can from completed food styles to get any available large recipies. When I played my last round I had one recipie worth $850 and two others over $600.

Christym wrote:...The first thing is that you need the better recipes.

In addition to all the great tips above, this is the one I just used to finish the game without having to start over! Thank you!

I hated doing it but I sold off several of my expensive recipes (from several cuisines) and then bought the most expensive recipe I could afford for my final (French) recipe. It worked & I easily got over the goal ($8,000?).

I am really glad I didn't have to start from scratch but now I am trying to beat my score on a second run through. Great game.