Street Stalls
Merge ingredients into the street food of Bangkok and Taipei and serve the people at your stall.
Street Stalls is a merge game set at a street-food stall. Crates drop raw ingredients onto a 5 by 5 board; two of the same merge into the next step of a dish, from Rice to Rice noodles to Noodles in the wok to Pad thai and on. People line up at the counter, each ordering a dish at some step, and serving them earns takings that grow the stall.
The goal
Each market's stall has 20 upgrades, bought in order. Each one is a day: the strip over the board shows the day and the takings toward its goal, and the moment the takings reach the goal the upgrade is bought and the next day starts. The fourteenth, a neon sign, finishes the stall and opens the next market. Six more follow it, and after them the late nights.
| Market | How people are served | Dishes |
|---|---|---|
| Bangkok street market | A queue: the front ones order at the counter, up to 3 wait in line behind, and each takes their dish away | Pad thai, Mango sticky rice, Satay, Som tam, Coconut pancakes, Tom yum goong |
| Taipei street market | Tables: a served person sits and eats for 4 seconds before the table frees | Pearl milk tea, Pepper bun, Scallion pancake, Gua bao, Oyster omelette, Beef noodle soup |
Merging and serving
- Your first stall opens with one person, one order and the two dishes that make it, and a hand shows each move: merge the pair, serve the dish, tap a crate. Three orders are served this way, one at a time, and the third reaches the first goal. Until then no order is timed, the board does not fill itself, crates drop first steps only, and there are no golden dishes or coins on the counter.
- A later market's stall opens with three people already ordering, two crates and a board about 60% full of first steps.
- Tap a crate to drop its first step on the empty cell nearest it; one tap in ten drops the second step. A crate holds 12 charges and gets one back every 3 seconds.
- Drag a dish onto its twin to merge them into the next step, or onto an empty cell to move it. Each dish has six steps; the sixth is its top. The bar under a dish fills as its step rises.
- When everything an order wants is on the board, those dishes glow: tap one, or the order, to serve it.
- Once the stall has served, the board fills itself: while fewer than 16 of its 25 cells hold a dish, a crate drops one every half second on a free cell, without spending a charge.
| Step | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pays when served | 4 | 9 | 21 | 48 | 110 | 250 |
| Pays when sold | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 62 |
A dish made for the first time pays its serving price as a bonus. Tap a dish to see what it sells for; selling clears room on the board.
The orders
- Everyone orders from the dishes the stall's crates can make. Once the stall has bought its first upgrade, an order may ask for two dishes.
- Orders ask for steps 2 and 3 at first, up to step 4 after the third upgrade, and steps 3 to 5 after the eighth.
- From the first serve on (the fourth, in your first stall), each order has a patience ring: 42 seconds plus 6 for every first step that goes into it, so a second step waits 54 seconds and a fourth 90. When it runs out the person walks off.
- A serve within 8 seconds of the last builds the combo: each serve in it after the first pays 20% more, up to five in a row. A walk-out ends it.
- Seven lanterns hang over the street, and each serve lights one. A walk-out puts them out; seven in a row pay a tenth of the next goal (5 takings at least) and the string starts again.
- A new person steps up 1.5 seconds after a place frees.
Upgrades
| Goal | Bangkok | Taipei | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | Cool box | Scallion bundle | A new crate |
| 90 | A wider counter | A fourth table | One more person served at once |
| 150 | A string of bulbs | Red lanterns | +5% on every order |
| 260 | Papaya basket | Braising pot | A new crate |
| 380 | A bigger noodle basket | A bigger flour sack | The crate holds 16 and refills every 2.5 seconds |
| 520 | A second cart | A fifth table | One more person served at once |
| 700 | Coconut pile | Oyster basket | A new crate |
| 900 | A market umbrella | Strip lights | +5% on every order |
| 1,150 | A bigger mango basket | A bigger tea tin | The crate holds 16 and refills every 2.5 seconds |
| 1,450 | Prawn bucket | Noodle pot | A new crate |
| 1,800 | A striped awning | A red awning | +10% on every order |
| 2,200 | A third cart | A standing fan | +5% on every order |
| 2,700 | A bigger cool box | A bigger scallion bundle | The crate holds 16 and refills every 2.5 seconds |
| 3,400 | A neon sign | A neon sign | +10% on every order; the stall is finished |
| 3,900 | A bigger papaya basket | A bigger braising pot | The crate holds 16 and refills every 2.5 seconds |
| 4,500 | Paper lanterns | A menu board | +5% on every order |
| 5,200 | A bigger coconut pile | A bigger oyster basket | The crate holds 16 and refills every 2.5 seconds |
| 6,000 | A bigger prawn bucket | A bigger noodle pot | The crate holds 16 and refills every 2.5 seconds |
| 6,900 | A misting fan | Potted bamboo | +5% on every order |
| 8,000 | A stall banner | A stall banner | +10% on every order |
A bigger crate also drops a second step one tap in five. A finished stall serves five people at once, from six crates, with 35% added to every order; with all 20 upgrades, 55%, and every crate the bigger kind.
Late nights
Past the twentieth upgrade every goal is a late night: 9,000 takings for the first, then a fifth more each time (10,800, then 12,950). Each adds 3% to every order, and from the first one orders ask for steps 4 to 6.
Dish stars and regulars
- Every serving of a dish, at any step, counts toward its stars: one at 5, 15, 40, 100 and 250. Each star adds 4% to what that dish pays.
- Eight people come to each market, each with a name in the book's Regulars page, and each counts their visits. At 3, 10 and 25 visits they gain a heart, and each heart adds 5% to what they pay.
- Someone with a heart brings a gift on every fourth visit: a dish they like at its third step, or its fourth once they have all three hearts, set down on the board.
The bell and the rush
After the first serve the bell in the strip can be rung. For 30 seconds every serve pays double, the combo bonus too; a new person steps up a quarter of a second after a place frees (a table frees after 1.5 seconds); orders taken in the rush wait 60% as long; and the combo builds to eight. The bell then rests for 120 seconds.
Today's specials
Each market has three specials a day, the same for every player on that date: serve 6 to 10 dishes from one crate, reach a combo of 5 to 8 (above 5 needs the rush), and make one dish's top step. Each pays a fifth of the stall's next goal, 20 takings at least. New specials come the next day.
Board luck
- Once the stall has served, one drop in 90 is golden. Merged with its twin, a golden dish makes the step two up.
- One serve in 12 leaves a coin on the counter worth half the order (2 at least). Tap it within 12 seconds to add it to the takings.
Time away
With the game closed or its tab hidden, the stall moves on by up to two minutes: the crates refill and people come to the counter.
Controls
- Phone, tablet or mouse: tap a crate to drop a dish. Drag a dish onto its twin or an empty cell; or tap a dish, then its twin or an empty cell.
- Tap a glowing dish or a ready order to serve it, the coin on the counter to pick it up, and the bell to start a rush.
- The stall button, bottom left, shows the stall's menu, its takings and every upgrade, bought and to come, and leads to the tour of the markets. The book button, bottom right, opens Recipes (each dish's steps and stars), Regulars and Today.
- Rest the mouse on the goal bar, the day, the combo, the bell or a crate, or touch the goal bar on a phone, and a label says what it is; the goal bar's names the upgrade it buys.
- The gear, top right, opens Settings: sound and volume. Escape closes it.
Coins and awards
- Every 25 orders served on the tour pay a coin.
- Awards pay coins once: the first order served 5, each market's stall finished 25, every step of each market's six dishes made 15, and 100 orders served 10.
- Taipei opens when the Bangkok stall is finished, or at once for 150 coins.
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