The celebration on Yelan’s birthday by HoYoverse simply became a Twitter statement that saw every Genshin fandom member rushing to comment-suffice it to say-food was the main discussion. There is a fun post by Genshin Impact, confirming Yelan’s birthday, with hints of tantalizing food tours in the city of Liyue, capped off with some good-humored dice-rolling for the decision on where to finally go. Classic Yelan vibes, really!
The tweet opens with a taste dilemma: Golden Shrimp Balls from the Xinyue Kiosk, boiled fish from Wanmin Restaurant, or noodles from the Liuli Pavilion? But then again, given that Yelan is the ultimate gambling queen, she decides that the players don’t get to choose-whoever rolls the best gets to pick.
Two it is; boiled fish from Wanmin Restaurant. And, oh, she changes it up: lightly spicy. Although, to be fair, her definition of lightly-spicy may differ from others. Relatable. Have you ever asked for a “3” on that scale but then regretted it? Yeah, that’s us.
The post directs players towards TikTok to look for more Yelan stuff, which are very likely to be flooded with edits showing all her glorious moments; after all, who doesn’t love that smirk and the cool, calculated style of fighting?
It’s an odd part-there’s an empty replies section. Empty comments. You don’t really need to be a genius to infer that this is madness for a Genshin birthday post, considering there tends to be a fandom stampede over every minute detail.
Such posts usually come with lots of fan arts, thirsty tweets, or debates about meta builds. But none whatsoever. Maybe everyone was speed-running to Wanmin for some food by then and couldn’t make a comment. Or perhaps the algorithm just decided to bury all that chaos this time? Who knows.
But the tweets themselves are a tiny homage to Yelan’s personality-a bit risk-taking, a bit decisive and a bit mischievous. Unofficially, the food descriptions alone are an incentive to log back in just to eat. Genshin cooks a pretty dish, and I swear it just makes you log in just to eat.”
Happy Birthday, Yelan! May the boiled fish be seasoned well, may the dice rolls always be in your favor, and may your haters stay pressed. Well then, time for me to go to Liyue to see if Xiangling’s cooking is as good as she claims.
