Assassin's Creed Shadows: Local Dish Locations & Interactive Tracking Guide

Local Dishes in Assassin's Creed Shadows are the collectible set behind "Feast for Thought," and they take Naoe from three rations to nine and Yasuke from three to eleven. All 16 are included on our complete Assassin's Creed Shadows Japan map.

Every Local Dish Raises Your Ration Cap

Each dish is a quest item handed over free — no Mon, no bartering. Collect one, and it goes straight into your inventory under the Feast for Thought collection.

The capacity increases arrive at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 16 dishes, which means the very first one you pick up pays off immediately, and there's no stretch where you're collecting for nothing.

At sixteen, you're carrying 9 rations as Naoe and 11 as Yasuke, each restoring 40% health.

Collect Local Dishes Before the Quest Starts

Feast for Thought doesn't unlock until you kill The Fox, Wakasa's Shinbakufu member, during The Performer — recommended at around level 39.

You don't have to wait. Dishes collected before the quest activates count retroactively, registering the moment Chef Hong hands you the objective in Obama, Wakasa. So take every dish you pass during normal exploration; none of it is wasted, and nothing needs replaying.

Once the quest is live, it marks every dish you're still missing on the map automatically. Bring all sixteen back to Hong for 1,000 XP.

Tofu Is the Local Dish That Breaks Completion Runs

Fifteen of the sixteen sit in or beside a named village, castle, or Landmark. Tofu is the exception, and it's the reason most people stall at 15/16.

It's in southeastern Yamato, on a mountain path in eastern Yoshino. Head south from Niukawakami Shrine along the road and you'll find it near a path junction — with no settlement marker anywhere nearby to draw you there. It's the only dish in the game on a bare mountain route.

The Confirmed Local Dishes

• Natto — southeastern Sakai, Izumi Settsu. Across the canal from the Sakai Firearm District, just outside the town.
• Shiitake — Takatsuki, northern Izumi Settsu. Southeastern outskirts near the Church of Takatsuki, southeast of the castle.
• Yohi Mochi — northern Kyoto, Yamashiro. Northwest of the Imperial Palace.
• Miso Soup — Nagahama, Omi. Middle of town on Lake Biwa's northeastern coast, northeast of the castle.
• Persimmon — central Tsuruga, Wakasa. At Sotomo Gate, west of Tsuruga Castle.
• Narezushi — central Obama, Wakasa. Sold beside Hong himself, which is easy to miss while hunting for the quest giver rather than the dish.
• Tofu — southeastern Yamato, eastern Yoshino mountain path.

Each dish appears as a food bowl icon at x4 map zoom, and the icon disappears permanently once taken. Nothing is missable — every remaining dish stays available in post-story free roam.

Local Dishes Alone Won't Unlock Suture Self

The "Suture Self" (Silver) trophy needs rations maxed on both capacity and healing effect, and the sixteen dishes only cover capacity.

The healing side comes from the Tea Room — built at the Hideout after completing Tea Bowls for Rikyu — and the Zashiki. Collect all sixteen dishes and the trophy still won't fire until both buildings are up.

What fires on the sixteenth dish is "Collector" (Bronze), assuming you finish this set before the Tea Bowls one.