Yummy Yummy Yummy

Started Heartwarming, Ended Heavy

The first 20 episodes were an absolute delight, genuinely funny, comforting, and heartwarming. I was laughing through most of them! The comedy landed well, and the family dynamics were such a joy to watch. The brother and father were a bit dumb and annoying at times, but were still bearable and added to the humor. I especially loved how the male lead slowly opened up to the family - it felt natural, sincere, and very comforting to see him find warmth again. The little girl was such a bright spot too; her presence added so much softness and innocence.

Overall, early episodes had that perfect balance of humor and warmth — the kind of light, cozy vibe that makes you want to keep watching. I really thought the series would maintain that tone till the end.

But just like many other dramas that lose their spark in the second half, this one wasn’t an exception. After episode 20, the tone became flat and one-note. The female lead spent almost ten episodes either crying or feeling sad. I understood why, but it eventually got too heavy. The show that began as fun and heartwarming turned into something overly sad and emotionally draining.

Then came the big revelation that he’s not actually her ancestor, and it honestly felt rushed, as if even the writer was tired of dragging that plot. My reaction was basically, “Wait, what? That’s it? And this late?” They stretched the conflict for almost ten episodes only to reveal it like it was nothing.

And poor Lin Yan. I genuinely think the writer did him dirty. He lived his whole life waiting for her. First, he lost his parents, then his wife and her family. When he finally let go of his revenge and started to really live, he lost everything again and died longing for her. Like, how can they do this to him? Yes, they meet again in the modern world, but it came after years of pain and loneliness. That’s not a happy ending for me - it’s bittersweet at best. It really felt like the writer just wanted to stretch the emotional pain, both in the middle episodes and in the ending, so that when they finally got together, viewers would feel relief and forget how dragged it was.

The whole family’s development also lost its impact when they returned and forgot everything. Sure, they became better people, but what was the point of showing such a meaningful journey if they don’t even remember it? It made the time-travel aspect feel a little pointless.

In the end, the drama leaned too much on sadness and unnecessary dragging. It could have been a truly comforting, emotional story if the pacing and tone had been better balanced. Still, I can’t deny how much I loved the first 20 episodes, the laughter, the warmth, and the feeling of comfort they gave me.... and of course, Lin Yan’s puppy eyes that somehow carried me through the slower parts.

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Warm Cozy Family Comedy with culinary delights!

Just finished watching this drama, although the title says yummy x3 this is not solely focused on food at all.The balance in the storyline was very good,combining warmth of family, time travelling, coziness of food, a little bit of Palace politics and found families in between, blended with some really good comedies which didn’t feel like over-the-top or forced for the audience.

As i watched this drama ongoing, everyday felt like a happy journey experiencing shen family in the yunshui manor with Lin yan,whom they've thought to be the ancestor of their family tree but turned out to be totally wrong later. Li Yun Rui as Lin Yan & wang ying lu as Shen Jicai are absolutely amazing in Their roles,and surprisingly all the cast members from side characters to guest roles are stunning in their acting performances,censor pei fei, Mr. cao,liu chang,the chef that arrived later,I've found myself attached to almost all the characters in the drama, even Prince zhao,his end left me speechless, even if he was a bad person, no one would deny he was a good father for a child that was never his real son.

Shen family dynamics were enjoyable,their family meetings were fun all the time,but some things Between the shen parents were dragged in the middle.This is surely an A budget drama,but production class was visible with extremely pleasant cinematography and eye soothing costumes and set,reminded me of "the double"

About the ending,..I didn't really mind it when I watched jicai's family not remembering their time travel journey but still owning the growths they all individually went through in the trip. Although the concept Isn't proved & It's just a thesis so far, but by physics law's, if travelling to the past is ever possible, you are supposed to forget everything that happened in the process, Any memory that is collected along the closed timelike curve will be erased before the end of the loop...My interpretation of the ending is :

when jicai 'fainted' in the ancestral hall & travelled back into the past,Lin yan's modern reincarnation also fainted at the same place & dreamed about his past life & regained his past life memories through the butterfly...I took the butterfly as the resentments & memories of Lin yan that stayed in the mortal world for thousands of years until jicai & his reincarnation was born & grown into adults in the modern time & it sustained jicai's memories even after she came back to her era.so only jicai and him remembers each other.... For Lin yan,although his time with jicai was brief, his love transcended through his lifetime,Shen family gave her the warmth he never had since his childhood, jicai gave her a love that stayed for over thousand years and beyond, and i believe he was never lonely with all his precious memories and he never regretted any moment of that time.

Thanks yummy yummy yummy for being such a delightful watch all throughout. I have liked the ending even more than ADWAD. The cast did an amazing job,i laughed a lot and cried a little. One of the best dramas I've watched this year!

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Nice story..

I liked this show.. the characters had their own individual flare and it was quirky.. its your typical going back into time and coming back to the future.. i dont think this show was trying to be extravagant or ground breaking.. but it did keep me going from episode to episode.. I wanted to know what was gonna happen next. My only thing with it was the romance was a veeeeerrryyy slow burn.. almost like a carrot waving in my face the whole entire time.. but the ML/FL were very endearing during the show. Would I recommend? Yes. Its nice a nice show. Would I watch it again? Sure 💜

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Entertaining, but don't watch on an empty stomach.

Overall, this was a fun and entertaining drama. It has a lot of different elements that made it enjoyable, from the main romance and light comedy to serious political drama and martial arts combat and of course, lots of food! And for the most part that crazy mix makes perfect sense. Most of the characters are interesting and show real growth in ways that keep you engaged. The plot has a very good core premise with some nice creative twists that keep things from being obvious. They also do a good job of avoiding some of the more annoying plot tropes common in so many romance dramas. The plot does drag down a bit in the low-to-mid 20s episodes as they fill time with some side plots. And some goofy character behavior that worked early on did become tiring around that point. But the plot recovered very well over the last half-dozen episodes and finished strong.

The actors are all very well cast and really deliver well on their roles. Both leads are excellent and have great chemistry. The production values - costumes, sets, special effects, camera-work, etc, are all top quality with only minor, irrelevant glitches here and there.

Caution: Do not watch while hungry unless you have food to eat.

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Appetizing beggining, delightfull peak, hard to digest finale

Someone said in there reviews that this story has lost its rom-com tag. It did not. In fact it was a complex story that incorporated time travel, a comedic family, a tragic almost impossible love story, some palace political issues and load of delightfull food from old chinese quisine. The romance tag was there all alone. Contrary to others I do not think it was dragged to much but it was indeed solved stupidly quickley. And besides the romantic love between the leads the story also explored filial love amoung different generations. Human imperfections personified the the family itself. And yeah...the ending....made me shead tears after having my heart fluttering for 31 episodes straight.

There were some inconsistencies but I'll pass on them since the story was so intricated and so well executed by the actors. From children to adults everybody was stunning. The child brought some joy and purity to the plot. The two disfunctional parrent brought some comedia del arte that actually kind of shows some realistic family issues that cannot be solved without comunication. The side characters like Pei Fei, The Princess, Lady Chen Yixing , the evil prince and the servents brought to the table diffrent kinds of trouble. From romantic, to life issues to politics....everything was perfectly personified. And HUGE praise for the leads for one of the most amazing carefully BUILDED chemestry dureing the show. The were amazing portaing suffering and longing for eachoter through gestures, body language and eyes. Ah those eyes....I believe I cryed with them all along. 2 leads with puppy eyes. Lovable.

Contrary to others I also liked the music. Especially since the talented cast praised above also took part in it. Which makes them even more amazing. Plus one of the songs that contaied rap reminded me of a Punch song in the KDrama Moon Lovers. Good times.

And speaking of which....I have my own interpretation over the ending. The time travel did happened and all characters were left with something after all. Even though their memories were gone. And the ones that were left with the memories were the leads so that they can find eachoter eventually. It was most defenetly not all a dream but it might have happened precisley because they met again and they needed to see with thier own eyes the past life. Li Yan/Che/Anran's ending was extreamlly sad and made me cry rivers. It might have seemed unfair that he had to suffer his entire life and die alone as the only one that remember the Shen family and his love. But I believe his wish to keep their memorie alive was exactely what gave him a change to meet them again in the future. The payback for a life full of loneliness was a bright future life. The writers could have simply left the Shen's in the past to leave a happy life but they wanted to point out that all this multidimensional love stories were strong and real enough to resist through all kinds of times. In their case the journey had to end because they all got what they came for. Gongcai overcame his failures in life and learned how to believe in himself. Yang Yang started to love school and to love to be smarter then anyone. The parents learned how to accept eachothers flows and how to overcome them togheter as a family. Jicai learned how to believe in love and how love always makes you stronger. And Anran learned the joy of a family. As somebody said....the colective amnesia might have something to do with the low of phisics. For the family it was needed so they won't leave forever into the past. For the ones in the past it was because during those times there was no other way to explain the dissapearence of an entire family that did so much good. BUT...with it comes the biggest inconsistency of the show. The story was supposedly passed down during generations and the grand grand father knew that the Shens died in the fire. Now the past should have changed since everybody there behaved like they never even came back. The only one that preserved the paintings and the story was Anran that rebuilded the diner , wrote the story down and waited patiently until he died. They genuinely wanted to leave a strong message behind. Food tastes better with a sip of love in it. Life makes more sense filled with love. Love is not perfect but is strong enough to sometimes last multiple lifetimes. And of course....loves goes through the stomach first.

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A Warm, Funny Take on Time Travel and Family

Anyone who’s seen my profile knows this already, but I’ll say it again: I LOVE time travel. I eat that shit up every single time. So when I found another drama with time travel and romance? I was immediately in 👀✨

What really sold this for me was that it wasn’t just one person time traveling, it was the entire family. That alone made it feel fresh. And honestly? I loved the family so much. Every single member felt necessary. No one felt like dead weight or filler, which is rare. Their reactions felt natural, the humor landed, and the acting across the board was really solid.

This drama is also genuinely funny. Like, not forced “insert laugh track here” funny. The jokes, the reactions, the absurd situations… it all worked. And I really appreciated how often the show set up a cliché only to completely subvert it and do its own thing instead. That was one of its biggest strengths for me.

Now, fair warning: this is very much a cooking drama. Like… a LOT of cooking 🍜
There are long cooking scenes, and they really lean into food culture, recipes, and historical Chinese cuisine. Personally, I think it’s a nice cultural touch and adds depth to the world-building. But if you’re not into cooking at all, you should know those scenes can drag. I’ll be honest, after a while I started skipping some of them ¯\(ツ)/¯

Story-wise, it was surprisingly tight. Not many plot holes, the characters actually figure things out instead of being stupid for plot convenience, and most storylines were handled well. Some side characters did feel a bit forgotten or unnecessary, but nothing that ruined the experience.

The romance? I liked it! At first it’s framed as this forbidden situation, and I spent a good chunk of the show going “something is off here…” and I was right. SPOILERS from here:

The reveal that they’re actually not related was… not great. The brother hitting his head and suddenly remembering “oh yeah grandpa told me ages ago” was such a weird and lazy way to handle something that important. That was easily my biggest pet peeve of the entire drama.

Overall, this was a very fun, very enjoyable watch. I didn’t feel like it dragged, the writing stayed consistent, things wrapped up nicely, and yes it has a good ending, which we love 😌💖

I gave this an 8.5/10, which is a BIG score coming from me. I don’t hand those out easily.

Overall:
Fun, funny, surprisingly well-written, and a good time from start to finish.
Emz recommends.

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Nicely wrapped time travel drama even with the Chinese censorship

I liked the ending of this drama. Unlike "Summit of Our Youth", this actually had a happy ending.
Even though it was dragged for like 10 eps more or less, it was quite nice and enjoyable. It was funny and heartwarming.

I felt bad at the end when Lin Yan died alone, but that was not the point. The point was- his devotion to his wife until death and not marrying into another family, so his tale and loyalty can be passed down to generations of Shen descendants. He might not be the ancestor, but he was a relative of Shens.

If they had both grown old and died naturally at old age, their story would have been a common one and not a story of love and loyalty.

Then, when both of them woke up, both of their dreams aligned, and they found each other again.
I would like to believe that he didn't die alone, but his soul has changed the timeline. And after years of hardship, and for the love and loyalty to his wife, God gave him his own happy ending as a reward.

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TIME TRAVEL BUT IT JUST A DREAM

watched this drama for fun, but honestly first 20 eps really fun and entertained. The chemistry between the leads is great. The SHEN family has two men that sometimes the audience felt angry because of their stupidness. But, when this drama reached to ep 21 and above, I kinda miss their random humor. It's suddenly feel a little angst.

The ending, Shaoguang woke up at the place in ep 1 and everything just a dream where she recalled her previous memories. She and Linyan knew those things where the family didn't. So far , it's still a good drama, if i would like to rewatch, I'll rewatch from ep 1-20 where they enjoyed their moments living in Changan handling their small restaurant.

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Light hearted drama with a green flag male lead!

I thought it was a bit different from other time travel dramas where only one of the leads go back in time, but this took back an entire family. Their dynamics were fun to watch. (A shame that they didn't keep their memory of going back, that's the only issue with the ending I have got.)

Apart from that, the script follow the basic plot of time travel drama so it was nothing out of the ordinary, for me, Li Yun Rui was the star here. He was so damn perfect for this role. Had it not been for him, this would have been more like one those mini dramas.

Thankfully, we have Li Yun Rui leading this, so I knew it wouldn't drop the ball in terms of acting, this gave me a chance to appreciate Wang Ying Lu as an actor. I might seek out some of her dramas as well now, especially When Destiny Brings the Demon.

The ending was as expected, for once I hoped that they gave us more than this simple and then they met again in modern times excuse.

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Fresh Take on Time-Travel

This was a fun one-time watch with a fresh take on time-travel. The premise: not just one person, but a whole family, gets transported to ancient times, where they make a livelihood by opening a restaurant using modern cooking methods and marketing strategies.

The family is your typical sitcom variety — level-headed mom, clueless dad, lazy brother, precocious little sister. Some of the characters can lean toward caricatures at times, but the leads — played by Wang Ying Lu and Li Yun Rui — hold things together.

Wang Ying Lu as the female lead is smart, resourceful, conveniently a history buff, and pretty much single-handedly keeps her family alive in their unfamiliar environment. Her sensitive performance — enhanced by an expressive face and big, bright eyes — give the character some needed emotional gravitas in contrast with her loud and chaotic family members.

The male lead is a successful but lonely young official who ends up entangled with the Shen family, who he believes to be his relatives. He’s serious and stoic, but carries a lot of emotional baggage, and Li Yun Rui plays the character’s grief and heartbreak with a quiet devastation that’s compelling to watch.

Viewers should also be on the lookout for some lovely sets (particularly the ML’s manor) and costumes. There are scenes where the camera pulls back to linger on a meaningful moment that look like they could be paintings.

In terms of genre, it’s mostly comedy with a bit of romance and a political intrigue / revenge plot. The ending, as is typical in this kind of story, is a bit contrived in order to reconcile the past and current timelines, but it’s a happy one and handled better than most dramas I’ve seen of this type.

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