Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum (ENG) - Board game

Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum

Take your seat for a delicious competition in Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum from Hot Banana Games. In this colourful board game, you visit a world-renowned dim sum restaurant and play as one of twelve animals from the Chinese zodiac, each with unique abilities and tastes. Collect food tokens, rotate the central turntable and purchase steaming baskets of dim sum before your rivals get to them. Fortune Cards, Fate Cards and variable player powers keep every feast interactive, tactical and full of surprises.

Key Features:

• Delicious Dim Sum Theme: Collect five popular types of dim sum, including shrimp dumplings, meat dumplings, BBQ meat buns, sticky rice and phoenix claw.
• Unique Rotating Turntable: Steamers are placed on a central turntable, making positioning important as you compete for dishes within your Feast Zone.
• 12 Animal Characters: Play as one of twelve animals from the Chinese zodiac, each featuring unique abilities and food preferences that influence your strategy.
• Tactical Action Management: Perform two different actions each turn and carefully decide when to collect food tokens, purchase steamers or use other opportunities.
• Fortune and Fate Cards: Fortune Cards can benefit you or disrupt opponents, while Fate Cards introduce events affecting the table from the second round onwards.
• Packed with Components: The Standard Edition includes 75 Dim Sum, 18 steamers, 50 food tokens, a turntable, 12 Animal Boards and a wide selection of cards and markers.
• Accessible Family Game: Designed for 2–5 players aged 8+, with a playing time of approximately 40–60 minutes; this edition is in English.

Why Choose Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum?

Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum combines an original culinary theme with approachable tactical decisions and an eye-catching tabletop presentation. The rotating table creates interesting positional choices, while the different animal characters encourage varied strategies from game to game. Set collection, action management and unpredictable Fortune and Fate effects provide plenty of interaction without making the game unnecessarily complex. This makes Steam Up an appealing choice for families, groups of friends and board gamers looking for an inviting game with simple foundations, meaningful decisions and plenty of personality.