Chewing gum that has long since lost its flavor may be stimulating, but it's not really enjoyable. “Lady Chef Royale” is about a young lady who is reborn as the daughter of an aristocrat. Bullied in “our” world and having lost her zest for life, she had to rediscover it, which she managed to do thanks to a wonderful teacher. In the new world, however, she is now a noblewoman's daughter who has tried to take her own life several times – presumably because her mother was not a noblewoman and she therefore feels excluded. But the protagonist is different and begins to win her familyback over to her side – among other things through cooking, which is extremely highly valued in this world.

“Lady Chef Royale” has over 150 chapters—but I stopped reading after chapter 150. In short, I found the work uninspired. The classic tropes of a “reborn as a noble daughter” story, mixed with (some) cooking, are the theme here. That wouldn't be bad if the manga managed to do more than repeat these tropes over and over and over again until they feel like chewing gum that lost its flavor 30 minutes ago. That's why, among other things, the manga fails to build good characters that are consistently present. Villains in particular disappear regularly and are replaced by a clone that looks different but does the same thing.

On top of these chewing gum tropes, there are a number of annoying problems with everything the medium has to offer—meaning images and text. The art style changes slightly several times throughout the story, which was always a little irritating, but the translation is the real problem. Completely normal at the beginning, it quickly starts to use the wrong pronouns – women are referred to as “he” and men as “she” – titles or names change, and sometimes the sentences are so clunky that it's difficult to understand them. On top of that, it sometimes feels as if chapters or at least individual pages are missing – I can't say whether pages are actually missing, the translation is strange and that's why it seems that way, or whether the story simply has such jumps.

All in all, it's a story that starts out generic but entertaining, but soon becomes less enjoyable and then almost annoying.