Meals in Monster Hunter Outlanders raise your Health and Stamina for an hour and restore Satiety, and the better ones add a Canteen Skill such as more damage dealt or less damage taken. Here are the meal effects, which meals to eat, how meals tie into hunger, and how to order at the Canteen. Info as of November 10, 2026.
What Meals Do
Eating a meal raises your Health and Stamina and restores Satiety. Each meal below lasts 1 hour (01:00:00). Higher-tier meals also give a Canteen Skill, such as more damage dealt, less damage taken, better part breaks or stronger healing. Ordering a meal costs Research Points.
Only two meals, Giant Rice Dumpling and Premium Bamboo Rice with Cured Meat, are on the menu at first. You unlock the rest by gathering or catching certain ingredients enough times, or by getting the meal's Esoteric Tome from quests, the Trial Expedition or the Adventurers' Guild Shop.
Meal List and Effects
Here are the main meals, from the weakest to the strongest. Health, Stamina and Satiety show how much each meal adds.
| Meal | Health | Stamina | Satiety | Canteen Skill | How to Unlock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giant Rice Dumpling | +10 | +35 | +40 | None | Available from the start |
 Premium Bamboo Rice with Cured Meat | +10 | +35 | +50 | None | Available from the start |
 Rou Jia Mo | +25 | +50 | +80 | Damage taken -6% | Gather Exquisite Island Rice ×50 |
 Summer Tofu Pudding | +25 | +50 | +80 | Healing effects +16% | Gather Exotic Honeyfruit ×50 |
 Prosperity Sour Fish | +25 | +50 | +80 | Part break efficiency +16% | Prosperity Sour Fish Scroll (Quest reward) |
 Lava Cocoa Cake | +35 | +50 | +100 | Healing effects +24% | Gather Dragonbloom ×75 |
 Vibrant Sashimi Platter | +35 | +50 | +100 | Part break efficiency +24% | Catch Starrycanth ×10 |
 Exquisite Braised Delicacy | +35 | +50 | +100 | Damage dealt +15% | Exquisite Braised Delicacy Scroll (Quest reward) |
 Super Meat Feast | +35 | +50 | +100 | Damage taken -9% | Super Meat Feast Scroll (Clear stage 60 of the Trial Expedition) |
 Crispy Spicy Tofu | +50 | +50 | +100 | Damage dealt +20% | Gather Heavenberry ×75 |
 Master Dim Sum | +50 | +50 | +100 | Damage taken -12% | Master Dim Sum Scroll (Quest reward) |
 Feast of Prosperity | +50 | +50 | +100 | Survive any one hit once, if your Health is above a set amount | Feast of Prosperity Scroll (Adventurers' Guild Shop) |
 Golden Tonic Soup | +50 | +50 | +100 | The first faint in your squad doesn't count | Nourishing Goldspring Broth Scroll (Clear stage 120 of the Trial Expedition) |
Best Meals to Eat
For Most Hunts: More Damage
Crispy Spicy Tofu has the strongest damage boost (+20% damage dealt) and also gives Health +50. Until you unlock it, Exquisite Braised Delicacy (+15%) is the next best. Make one of these your default meal.
For Tough Hunts: Fewer Faints
Master Dim Sum cuts damage taken by 12%, the most of any meal. Feast of Prosperity lets you survive one hit once as long as your Health is above a set amount, and with Golden Tonic Soup the first faint in your squad doesn't count. Eat one of these when a monster keeps knocking you out.
For Breaking Parts
Vibrant Sashimi Platter raises part break efficiency by 24%, the most of any meal. Eat it when you farm materials that drop from broken parts.
For Healing
Lava Cocoa Cake raises healing effects by 24%, the most of any meal. Pick it when your squad relies on healing to stay up.
Early Game: Unlock Meals by Gathering
The two starting meals only raise stats and have no Canteen Skill. Early on, gather Exquisite Island Rice and Exotic Honeyfruit to unlock Rou Jia Mo (damage taken -6%) and Summer Tofu Pudding (healing +16%).
Meals and Hunger (Satiety)
Every meal restores Satiety, from +40 up to +100. Satiety doesn't drop in safe areas, only over time in hunting areas such as the Free Hunt.
Below 40 Satiety you get hungry, and below 20 you are Starving and the edges of the screen go dark. Low Satiety doesn't drain your HP, but your HP stops recovering on its own outside hunts. Eat a meal before you head out so the stat boost and a full Satiety bar both last through the hunt.
In the field, Well-Done Steak restores Satiety from 0 to 100 but gives no stat boost, so a meal is still the better choice before a hunt.
How to Order Meals at the Canteen
The Canteen is in Kulune Village. Talk to the Head Chef, "Swift Blade" Meowffin, to order a meal. It unlocks with the Chapter 2 story quest Slingers and Suppers.
Chapter 2 Walkthrough / Base Facilities Guide
When you order, choose Dine In to eat right away or Take Out to keep the meal in your pouch and eat it later. Take Out is handy when you don't need the effect yet, or when you'll play longer than an hour and want the next meal ready.
Once your Proof of Mastery reaches Seasoned Explorer I, your first Dine In meal each day costs 50% fewer Research Points, and from Fabled Master I it uses no Research Points or ingredients at all. Use Dine In for your first meal of the day.
After you unlock Field Cooking in the Survival tab of Research, you can eat meals from the squad screen before a hunt (Edit Squad) without going to the Canteen. It works the same as ordering at the Canteen, so eat right before each hunt.