Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop is a cooking simulation game for the Nintendo DS that allows players to prepare 80 new recipes such as chili con carne and mushroom quiche. Players utilize the stylus for various cooking tasks across 200 mini-games, including shopping for ingredients. The game features modes for creating custom dishes, multiplayer challenges, and progressively complex recipes to satisfy Mama's expectations.
In Cooking Mama 3, players use the stylus as the ultimate cooking utensil to create 80 all new dishes including chili con carne, tulip chicken, mushroom quiche and more. For the first time players can shop for the necessary ingredients before they start cooking in 200 different mini-games that let them chop, grate, slice, and stir up phenomenal foods. Cooking Mama 3 also lets aspiring chefs create their own dishes by combining ingredients together in delicious new ways. In addition, the game features multiplayer cooking challenges and five other gameplay modes. As recipes progress from simple to complex and from small to large dishes, players must do their best to meet Mama's expectations and impress their hungry friends. If friends think a dish is delicious, gamers will get to unlock another new friend!