Chef Lady - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction

Dragoonsoft is a game developer founded in 2018 and based in Asia, where gaming is extremely popular. They know their home market very well and concentrated their well-planned launch there, but as their reputation grows you’ll find Dragoonsoft free play slots at various online casinos as well as on the company’s own site. Certain thematic areas continue to be fertile ground for demo slots and although Dragoonsoft have a very distinctive style all of their own, they are not averse to attempts to build on the success of forerunners like Skywind’s Panda collection, and in particular their Panda Chef slot.

Chef Lady has a 5-reel, 3-column grid with 50 fixed pay lines. The minimum bet size is 0.50 and the maximum is 750. There are nine symbols, the first five being Chinese dishes, Duck, Belly Pork, Dim Sum, Tofu and Fried Rice, plus the playing cards from Ace to Jack. The wild is the chef herself, the free game symbol a full platter and the bonus game scatter a pot of green tea.

Theme, graphics and soundtrack

We’re all familiar with the tendency for game developers to look to Asia for exotic themes. In the case of Chef Lady, it is the place the developers call home so you might expect to see something a little more authentic than this fairly unimaginative visualisation of a casual café serving staples of Chinese cuisine. There’s a distinct anime influence in the illustration of the chef herself but her giggle when you land a win gets rather grating after a while. The design is generally quite pedestrian and the soundtrack is a bizarre piece of electro-pop musak that sounds like Kylie’s ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ rendered by a cheap karaoke machine.

Chef Lady RTP and variance

According to Dragoonsoft, Chef Lady has an unrecorded RTP. The variance is unknown.

How to play Chef Lady

1. Click the Spin button or press the space bar to start playing using the current total bet value. 
2. Press Spin again to stop the reels at any time during the spin.
3. Click the coins icon to set the bet level from 0.01 to 15 per line across 50 lines.
4. Select Auto-play (next to the main spin button) to enter the auto-play settings menu. This allows you to set the number of spins from 100 to infinity. 
5. Press Stop Auto-play to exit auto-play mode at any time.
6. Press the lightning bolt button to enter fast spin mode
7. The balance meter at the bottom left of the screen displays your current balance which is constantly updated.
8. Only the highest win per payline is paid out. 
9. Always play gambling games such as slots responsibly and if playing at an online casion for real cahs, make sure you set limits according to what you can afford to lose. When the game is no longer fun, you should stop playing.

Bet sizes and paytable wins

The bet size ranges from 0.50 to 750. Top pay-out is 250x.

The paytable values run from 3x to 5x and the highest pay-outs are as follows:

Duck x5 = 100

Belly Pork x5 = 75

Dim Sum x5 = 50

Tofu x5 = 40
        
Fried Rice x5 = 15

Ace x5 = 10

King x5 = 10

Queen x5 = 7

Jack x5 = 7

Chef Lady bonus features

Wild

The wild symbol substitutes for all symbols except for the free game and scatter symbols.

Free Game

If you land 3 free game symbols anywhere on the reels you will trigger 6 free games. In free games every big free game symbol will win you 3 free games. Free games can be accumulated up to a total of 66. In free games every big scatter symbol rewards 3 bonus games.

In free games a large symbol is made up of symbols from reels 2, 3 and 4 and pay-outs are according to the paytable. The free game and scatter symbols appear on the reels only in the form of the large symbol.

Bonus Game

If you land 6 scatter symbols anywhere on the reels you will trigger 3 bonus games. Scatter symbols might transform into a blue teacup scatter or a pink teacup scatter at random. All cup symbols will stick in position and all other positions will turn into individual reels. If one or more additional teacups land then the number of bonus games remaining resets to 3. All prizes arising from the appearance of blue or pink cups are awarded at the end of the bonus game.

In the bonus game the blue cup scatter multiplier is 1x - 18x. The pink cup multiplier is 20x - 50x. If the bonus ends with a full complement of scatters an additional 500x bonus is rewarded.

Chef Lady review: our verdict

This really isn’t Dragoonsoft’s finest hour. There’s nothing in the gameplay to recommend it above dozens of other basic games. The pay-outs aren’t particularly generous, the graphics are a little dull and extra features are limited. Not a hit.

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