How to Use Imagination Cafe in Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Menu, Crafting, Upgrades

Imagination Cafe in Hello Kitty Island Adventure is a special City Town restaurant built around cooking and serving. Once you unlock it, you’ll be able to expand the menu through quests, craft a wide range of food and drinks at the Chef’s Station, then manage daily business through the Cafe Computer—complete with ingredient purchases, furniture upgrades, and a rotating Daily Special that customers tend to request more often.

Release & availability snapshot (City Town DLC)

The Cafe itself is unlocked by finishing Usahana’s Level 3 Friendship Quest, “A Whole New Menu.” After that, your menu doesn’t stop expanding—keep completing additional quests around City Town to grow what you can make and serve.

There are lots of items you can prepare here, including crowd-pleasers like Mochi, Dango, and Boba Tea, plus many more. This guide-style breakdown focuses on: how to unlock recipes, how the Cafe Computer works, the rewards you can earn, and how the Cafe’s level progression ties into all of it.

• How to Unlock Imagination Cafe Recipes
• Imagination Cafe Recipes
  • Imagination Cafe Flavor Keywords
• How to Use the Imagination Cafe Computer
  • Open/Close Cafe
  • Order Ingredients
  • Order Furniture / Customize Exterior
  • Set Daily Special
• Imagination Cafe Level

• Imagination Cafe Flavor Keywords

• Open/Close Cafe
• Order Ingredients
• Order Furniture / Customize Exterior
• Set Daily Special

How to unlock Imagination Cafe recipes

Unlike Hello Kitty’s Cafe or the Espresso Machine, the Imagination Cafe offers a broader set of dishes—but not everything is available right away. To add new items to the menu, you’ll need to complete quests and explore City Town so the Cafe can unlock more recipes.

Below, you’ll find the item types currently available at the Imagination Cafe and how to track down each recipe as you expand the menu.

Imagination Cafe recipes

Every Imagination Cafe recipe is crafted at the Chef’s Station by taking a base ingredient and combining it with up to three additional ingredients. For deeper details, you can refer to a dedicated Chef’s Station guide, but here’s the quick logic behind how each item type works.

Compared with other cooking stations in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, the Imagination Cafe is flexible: you can create items by pairing a base ingredient (for example, Rice Flour for Mochi or Shaved Ice for Snow Ice) with almost any edible material.

The key rule is that the second ingredient always determines the item’s keyword. For instance:

If you combine Flour with Shaved Ice, you get Wheat Snow Ice. If you use Flour with Rice Flour, you get Wheat Mochi. And if you use Flour with Rice and Seaweed, you get Wheat Onigiri.

The list of flavor keywords and the ingredients associated with each can be found below in the guide.

How to use the Imagination Cafe Computer

Alongside the Chef’s Station, the Imagination Cafe includes a Computer you can use to run the restaurant. The Computer provides the following functions:

Open / Close Cafe

Choose “Open Cafe” to invite customers in. Customers keep arriving and lingering until you select “Close Cafe.” You can serve up to 100 customers per day. Once you hit that limit, customers stop coming until the next day.

Customers place orders for items you’re able to make at the Chef’s Station. Some requests are extremely specific—for example, an Unsweetened Apple Tea with No Boba—while others are broader, like “any Onigiri.”

For each customer, you’ll have these interaction options:

• I’ve got that – Hand over the order. You can pick from all items currently in your inventory that match what the customer asks for. You cannot give the wrong item—the game prevents incorrect deliveries.
• I’m working on it – Keep the customer in the Cafe while you go make their food at the Chef’s Station.
• I can’t make that right now – The customer leaves, and another one will take their place. There’s no penalty for refusing customers, but you can only do this once every 10 minutes.

After serving, customers reward you with City Coins, which you can spend on various items throughout City Town. They can also provide bonus rewards, such as Orange Sherbet Crates (used to unlock Visitor Apartments in the Rainbow Tower in City Town) or City Town materials like Seaweed.

Order ingredients

Using City Coins, you can purchase ingredients through the Imagination Cafe Computer. The Computer sells Tea Leaves and Tapioca, along with a daily rotating selection of other ingredients that changes each day.

To make Boba Tea, you must buy both Tea Leaves and Tapioca. They can’t be sourced anywhere else. Each Tea Leaf and each Tapioca costs 2 City Coins. The daily availability increases as your menu expands and as you complete more orders—starting at 10 per day and eventually rising to 30 per day.

Other ingredients are also priced at 2 City Coins per item. Each day, you’ll see three random items in stock, and you can buy up to five of each available item.

Order furniture / customize exterior

When you finish Usahana’s quest “Renovation Imagination,” you unlock two new Computer choices: Order Furniture and Customize Exterior.

Order Furniture lets you purchase Cafe items such as planters, awnings, walls, floors, and signs. Most items generally cost between 10 and 50 City Coins. As you complete more quests, level up the Imagination Cafe, and find gudetama, you’ll unlock additional furniture options to buy.

Customize Exterior lets you replace the default furniture with the items you’ve already purchased. You can also adjust the color and texture of your furniture by trading for materials such as Fabric, Iron Ore, Woodblocks, and Dye Pouches.

Set daily special

To the left of the Computer, there’s a clear glass case. After completing Usahana’s quest “Made with Love,” you can place an item into this case to set your Daily Special. You have to craft the item first and then interact with the case to place it.

You can swap the featured Daily Special at any time.

Customers tend to request the Daily Special more often than other menu items. Pick a featured item that you can produce repeatedly — especially options that use only two ingredients such as Mochi and Nigiri.

Imagination Cafe level

When the City Town DLC launched on consoles, the Imagination Cafe received a rework that introduced a level system. As you serve more customers, your Cafe level increases. Higher levels unlock new quests and additional rewards, including furniture for decorating and customizing your Imagination Cafe.

Every served customer gives you one point toward raising your Imagination Cafe level, no matter whether the order is simple or complex. To level up faster, aim to serve the full 100 customers each day.

You can check your current Imagination Cafe level on the Imagination Cafe PC at any time. You can also see an estimate of how far you are from the next level and what rewards will unlock when you reach it.

The chart below lists the rewards tied to each Imagination Cafe level as you progress.

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