Sweety
Sweety (known in Japanese as Fondou and in Chinese as Hongdou) is a staff member at the Yum Cha Sin dim sum restaurant located in Cheng Huiping within the Weifei District in Zenless Zone Zero. Beloved by locals who warmly refer to her as the shop's proprietress, she serves visitors and manages the busy establishment. Beyond handling culinary service, her tea house functions as a hub for civic Hollow commissions, placing her at the center of local errands and organizational requests.
Overview
Sweety (known in Japanese as Fondou and in Chinese as Hongdou) is a staff member at the Yum Cha Sin dim sum restaurant located in Cheng Huiping within the Weifei District in Zenless Zone Zero. Beloved by locals who warmly refer to her as the shop's proprietress, she serves visitors and manages the busy establishment. Beyond handling culinary service, her tea house functions as a hub for civic Hollow commissions, placing her at the center of local errands and organizational requests.
Appearance
Sweety has purple eyes and ash-blonde hair styled with straight bangs covering her right eye, paired with chignons and braided twintails. She wears sunglasses atop her head and dresses in a black china dress lined with red and gold accents, featuring a deep slit reaching her waist and an opening exposing her lower chest. Auspicious motifs decorate her attire, including text reading "Good Fortune" and "Gold" on her back, along with "Longevity", "Wealth", and poetic culinary phrasing on her hair accessories. She carries a plantain fan marked with "Ten Thousand Taels" and wears black fingerless gloves, black and red underwear, a thigh ring, a jade Buddha ankle charm, and black shoes with a green bell accent on her left foot.
Personality
Sweety possesses an energetic and highly welcoming personality, frequently greeting customers with cheerful enthusiasm. She takes her work seriously while maintaining a playful demeanor, offering advice on business promotion and staying attentive to her guests. Highly dependable in crisp situations, she readily coordinates support for others and demonstrates a warm, considerate attitude toward her acquaintances.
Abilities
Sweety is an exceptionally skilled dim sum worker, capable of preparing widely praised dishes and managing high-volume customer traffic efficiently. She also excels at handling civil logistics, gathering and categorizing Hollow exploration requests to distribute appropriate commissions to external contractors.
Background
Operating out of the 24-hour Yum Cha Sin tea house in Cheng Huiping, Sweety works alongside her fellow staff to serve the district. When the main characters first arrive in the area, she becomes connected with them during their orientation. As efforts to restore the Casual View take shape, she acts as a key intermediary, issuing official tasks to support the cause and staying active whenever local trouble arises.
Relationships
Sweety maintains a close relationship with Ju Fufu, interacting with her during local ventures and coordinating in urgent situations. She acts as a supportive senior to the intelligent mechanic employee Yellow Foo, offering advice on customer engagement, and respects the efficiency of part-timer Chunshi. She shares straightforward banter with Pan Yinhu over his frugal habits while admiring his cooking talent, and maintains contact with regulars such as Fuwa Yuzuha and Zhao.
Trivia
Her character design is heavily themed around traditional Chinese auspicious symbols, integrating elements representing fortune, prosperity, and longevity into her clothing accessories and fan. Her Japanese name reading was explicitly clarified in in-game text as "Fondou".
