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Videos pile up across apps, and the one you wanted is never there when you’re hungry.
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Saved it? Now actually cook it. Especially Asian food.
Know exactly what to buy, and stop standing in the Asian supermarket for 30 minutes. Works with any cooking video, from pasta to dumplings.
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- Pork belly 1 jin ≈ 600 gSchweinebauch mit Schwarte · Butcher
- Soy sauce 3 tbspKimlan soy sauce · Asian store
- Fried shallots 2 tbspFried shallots · Asian storeor Röstzwiebeln from the supermarket
- Rice wine 1 tbspKorn · SupermarketCan’t find Taiwanese mijiu? Use ⅔ the amount
- Rock sugar 1 small pieceWeißer Kandis · Supermarket
From a Taiwanese recipe video, shopping in Germany
Sound familiar?
Saving recipes is easy. Cooking them isn’t.
“A splash” of what?
Videos skip the amounts. You guess, and it never tastes like the video.
14 soy sauces. Which one?
The recipe says “soy sauce”. The shelf at the Asian store has fourteen.
Especially good at Asian cooking
It understands the recipe. And your supermarket.
Most recipe apps stop at the ingredient list. Simmi knows what the words mean and what to put in your basket — even when the recipe comes from Taipei and you shop in Berlin.
Vague units, made exact
- 少許 a pinch
- ≈ ⅛ tsp
- 適量 to taste
- to taste
- 1 斤 jin
- 600 g in Taiwan · 500 g in China
A cup is 240 ml in the US and 200 ml in Japan. Simmi checks where the recipe is from.
Which bottle to buy
- 醬油 in a Taiwanese recipe
- Kimlan soy sauce
- 生抽 light soy
- Lee Kum Kee Premium Light
- 老抽 dark soy
- for colour, not saltiness
Every ingredient comes with a recommended product, alternatives and a tip.
What to use instead
- 米酒 Taiwanese rice wine
- Korn · any supermarket
- 紹興酒 Shaoxing wine
- dry sherry (Fino)
- 油蔥酥 fried shallots
- Röstzwiebeln
Substitutes you can buy at a normal German supermarket.
Meat cuts, in German
- 五花肉 · 豚バラ · 삼겹살
- Schweinebauch
- 牛腱 beef shank
- Rinderhesse
- 小排 spare ribs
- Schälrippchen, sawn into 3–4 cm
Plus the sentence to say at the meat counter.
Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean pantry staples, 33 meat cuts and Chinese herbs — in six languages.
Import
Bring any recipe, in any language.
YouTube
Paste a link
Simmi reads the captions, listens to the audio when it has to, and pulls out ingredients, steps and timings.
Instagram & Facebook
Paste a reel
Recipes hiding in a caption or a quick video become a recipe you can actually cook from.
Photo
Snap a page
A cookbook page, a handwritten card from home, a magazine clipping. Take a photo and Simmi structures it.
Your own
Write it down
The dish you’ve made for years. Type it once and it lives in your cookbook.
How it works
From video to dinner in three steps.
- 01
Bring the recipe in
Paste a link, snap a photo or type it yourself.
- 02
Simmi does the reading
Ingredients, steps and timings are structured. Units are converted and every ingredient is matched to something you can buy.
- 03
Shop, then cook
Take the shopping list to the store, then cook step by step with timers and the screen kept awake.
Also in the app
Everything a home cook needs. Nothing they don’t.
Translate any recipe
Read your mum’s Chinese recipe in German, or a Korean video in English.
Scale to what you have
Change servings, or tell Simmi you have 450 g of pork and everything else follows.
Metric or US
Switch units with one tap. Grams, millilitres, cups and spoons.
Cook mode
Full-screen steps, built-in timers and a screen that stays on.
Nutrition at a glance
Calories, protein, fat and carbs per serving.
Your cookbook, organised
Filter by cuisine, dish type and cooking time.
Questions
Is Simmi only for Asian recipes?
No. Any recipe in any language works — pasta, roast chicken, cakes. Asian cooking is simply where Simmi goes further than other apps.
Which videos can I import?
YouTube, Instagram and Facebook links, photos of cookbook pages or handwritten recipes, or recipes you type yourself. TikTok is on our list.
I don’t live in Germany. Is it still useful?
Yes. Importing, translation, unit conversion and cook mode work everywhere. Shopping tips — store types and local substitutes — start with Germany, with more countries to follow.
What does it cost?
There will be a free plan. Any paid plan will be clearly priced before launch, with no hidden trials.
Who makes Simmi?
A Taiwanese–German couple living in Germany, who kept running into exactly these problems while cooking for each other.
When can I download it?
Simmi is coming soon to iOS and Android. Leave your email below and we’ll tell you the day it launches.
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