Gourmet Gaming

Description

Kang Minhyuk suffers from a rare disorder that makes it impossible for him to stop eating. Despite strict diet and exercise, Minhyuk’s weight is now life-threatening. As a last resort, his doctor recommends a unique treatment—Athenae, a VR game where one can eat as much as they want without consequence. Crispy fried chicken! Scrumptious samgyetang! Inside Athenae, all food tastes real, but earning it is no cakewalk. In order to live, Minhyuk must go on the ultimate fantasy gourmet adventure!

Original Webtoon:
KakaoPage, Daum

Official Translations:
English, Japanese, S.Chinese, T.Chinese, Thai

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

Gourmet Gaming (Novel) (Adapted From)

Associated Names

Babman Meoggo Level Up

I Level Up, by Eating!

Leveling Up through Eating

Leveling Up, by Only Eating!

Leveling Up, Only by Eating

Meshi Dake Kutte Level Up

吃貨的私房升級餐

吃货的升级路

我靠美食来升级

飯だけ食ってレベルアップ

밥만 먹고 레벨업

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

c.181 by Rackusreads 1 year ago

c.122 by Wan team 2 years ago

c.113 by Rackusreads 3 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

200 Chapters (Complete)

S1: 50 Chapters (1~50)
S2: 51 Chapters (51~101)
S3: 49 Chapters (102~150)
S4: 50 Chapters (151~200)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 7.3 / 10.0 (113 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.09 / 10.0

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28%

Last Updated

March 4th, 2025 9:19am PST - 2 months ago

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Genre

Adventure Fantasy Shounen
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

PARK Mingyu

Artist(s)

Coge

Year

2020

Original Publisher

CARROTOON

Daum

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

Kakaopage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #467

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Monthly Pos #824

(-98)

3 Month Pos #1093

(+77)

6 Month Pos #1042

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Year Pos #1483

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List Stats

On 842 reading lists

On 152 wish lists

On 11 completed lists

On 57 unfinished lists

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Shitty MC disguised as a Good Boy

by BepsRose
10 months ago

Rating: N/A

I get that the entire shtick of this comic is the MC's one track mind centered solely on food consumption, but I really dislike how the characters around him are beguiled by it.

Yes, he is really suffering from a debilitating illness. It's the misinterpretation of his actions that I hate.

What people are interpreting as Good Boy Charm is MC acting on his own selfish desires to the exclusion of everyone around him. Even the game is trying to teach MC that helping other people benefit is a good thing. It's a novel concept for him that he resists unless he knows ahead of time what he will gain from doing it. I'm totally cool with MCs who are selfish psychos that don't hide it (or are purposefully hiding it to be manipulative), but I'm not cool with MCs who are selfish psychos but everyone, including himself, accepts and encourages the behavior just because the situation ends up helping people.

If the author wanted to play it that way for comedic purposes, then I need it to be a bit more extreme. His condition is certainly extreme enough to play it that way. I enjoy comedic misunderstandings, but this is too subtle for me to find funny, and instead I find it annoying as hell.

Another commenter dropped the story at Ch 82. Having now read it, I understand... It introduces a black character, which is great. BUT. Hah...

He's from a poor village in Africa. Not a specific place, or even made up place. Just Africa. Cringe. And then it turns out MC's father came to this village and fed the starving kids great food and gave them gaming VR capsules to play the game. That's some major lazy writing circa pre-2000.

But hey turns out the black kid is a ranker and a tamer, who pledges to follow MC and then the MC tells him to wash dishes. So now the ranker logs into the game to wash dishes. Yup. Good job, author!

Fights are boring because MC is too OP and doesn't break a sweat. He just wins and everyone is amazed. Yawn.

... Last updated 10 months ago

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Very good.

by thehamzatsuit
1 year ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Really wholesome (korean) foodie webtoon. Insta drop at chapter 82 though. Iykyk.

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Only good for Korean food scenes

by MaruNeko
2 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Only good for the food scenes. MC is pretty unbearable. Typical webtoon. Previous reviewer is correct-- PMScans sucks. Luckily you don't really need to know much plot. In chapter 90-something they translate "whisk" as "whipper".

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Basic food porn

by ssbanks2000
2 years ago

Rating: 4.6 / 10.0

I made it to chapter 5.
Guy that has been deprived of most foods, for reasons, can now eat them and savors the new/familiar flavors.
If it gets good, it took too long to do it.

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Read the Arang or Lynx scans

by AM_Woody
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

As of ch.20, it's a pretty fun story, with a nice MC and side characters. Biggest problem is trying to suffer through the PMScan translations. Arang is much better, but harder to find unfortunately. I'm trying not to be entitled, but how could proofreaders and quality checkers approve the state of some chapters' translations..

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So many delicious dishes..

by hoBRO
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Makes me hungry when I read, BUT I HAVE NO ACCESS TO QUITE A FEW OF THOSE FOODS! Like.. the sweet potato latte! Noooo!

MC is a funny boy..

I didn't wanna read it at first cause I thought it would be boring if I just see him buy ingredients and eat but.. he actually goes on an adventure to collect the ingredients himself so-- I like it so far.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Fun to read- scanlators are being pricks

by Killerthug
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

Fun story, but scanlators upload nonsense to fool aggregators... Except even their website has stupid translations

If I open the manga on your site, I want to read the manga, not some 12 year old's concept of humour.

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Mhmmm

by Etheiria
4 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Lighthearted, wholesome manhwa about food in a VR setting! Made me laugh quite a bit. The MC is pretty likeable (as the other characters are), and albeit OP, but it isn't the focus of the story, which is great. Makes me super hungry too!

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yummy

by ranmaru
5 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

this is so fun to read 😂

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