Could have been so good.....
The chemistry and story between the ML and FL is 10/10, but the long drawn out family scenes completely drag the story down, especially the ones focused on the Shen men. Yes, some of the family scenes are very sweet and cute, but this drama is trying too hard to be a family comedy. It's akin to having to explain a funny joke, the joke might be funny but when you explain it.... it's no longer funny, and the explanation becomes annoying. The Shen men scenes, 30 seconds funny, 2 minutes plus of drawn out annoying behavior, just drags the story out. It's not the actors fault, they're great but this suffers from poor editing and too much fillerWas this review helpful to you?
Boring, monotonous
At first, I found it very interesting; it's a blend of classic historical drama with humor, but then it becomes monotonous, with boring dialogue.The father and son characters, in particular, are incredibly silly and dull.
They're the worst part of the story.
I've seen Chang Long act in better comedies, playing very funny characters, but this isn't one of them.
Wang Ying Lu and Li Yun Rui seemed like a good pairing that would elevate the series, but their lead characters simply fizzled out, becoming secondary characters.
Watching it is a waste of time.
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No originality, the only thing it is good for is the food, and a few funny scenes
Yummy Yummy Yummy is a historical costume time-travel CDrama starring Wang Ying Lu and Li Yun Rui. The best part about this drama is all the food; it is funny to watch, but nothing extraordinary. It would be better to cut it short to 24 episodes instead of 32. Too many repetitive scenes.Synopsis: The story follows the Shen family, who accidentally arrive in Yong'an City and encounter Lin Yan, a royal official. This chance meeting leads them on an extraordinary journey filled with culinary delights, local traditions, and an unconventional love story. But what twists and turns await them in this remarkable adventure?
My Reviews:
1. Acting: 7
2. Script: 6
3. Music/OST: 7
4. Production Quality: 7
5. Cinematography: 7
6. Rewatchable: 6
7. On-Screen Chemistry: 7
Overall Rating: 6.5
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A potentially great story completely butchered...
I was really looking forward to this show and had high expectations for this. They had Wang Ying Lu, Li Yun Rui, and I was even a little excited over Chang Long...How did they butcher this so badly?? I did not need this to be a romance focused show but when I realized how poor/boring the plot was turning out, I put all of my hopes into the romance. Bad idea. Lin Yan falls for Shen Shao Guang first, which is sweet and adorable to watch...at first. But when SSG finally realizes that she loves him back, the hell she puts both him and herself through is so stressful and ridiculous. It takes the entire drama for the misunderstanding between them to be cleared up and the main couple to get together. And the way they resolve the two thinking they are related this whole time is... the dumbest member of the family (Shen Shao Jie) simply remembers that they aren't from something their grandfather told him. So they find out they aren't relatives and marry in the same ep. They are married for 1 ep in total before tragedy rips them apart in the form of a fire that was destined to happen at the family restaurant. So the ML is left without his wife and dies alone. Oh, and NO ONE remembers that family ever existed except him. Meanwhile in the future, no one remembers anything that happened besides SSG and she is told she was dreaming. Her and LY are reunited in the end for 30secs when his future self sees her at her ancestor's shrine. Apparently they both had the same dream? I don't know... My forehead hurts from how many times I've slapped it watching this garbage! I can't fault WYL or LYR at all for this though. Their acting was still good. It's just terrible storytelling.And the parts of the drama that I was hoping would make it more tolerable fell flat as well. Anything the Shao Guang family did was either cringy or boring. The men in the family were just insufferable. Yang Yang was cute and the mother was admirable at times but that's no where near enough to save the show. Li Chuang was also enjoyable but there was not enough of him either. We did get a 2nd CP which was Pei Fei and the Grand Princess....another forehead slap for that one...And finally we have Lin Yan's revenge agenda. They spend a lot of time uncovering the truth but the resolution in the end was so quick and senseless how it played out . It wasn't even satisfying. Best part of the drama...most of the food looked good.
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Yummy Yummy Yummy: Flavors of Love and Home
🔹 Would I rewatch? Yes🔹 Can food, family, and fate weave a love story in a city you never meant to reach?
📕 Overview
🔹 32 episodes, historical romance and culinary slice-of-life
🔹 Adapted from the web novel “Chang’an Small Restaurant” (长安小饭馆) by Ying Tao Gao (樱桃糕)
🔹 Wang Yinglu plays Shen Shaoguang, a clever daughter leading her family into new experiences
🔹 Li Yunrui plays Lin Yan, a royal official whose life becomes tangled with the Shen family
🔹 After a sudden twist of fate, the Shen family time-travels to Yong’an City.
🔹 At the time of review, 7 episodes have aired
🔹 Among the food-centered historical dramas of 2025, this series shines with its grounded style.
🔹 Rather than palace intrigue or heavy romance, it captures the warmth of sharing meals with people who become like family.
🔹 Watching feels like Modern Family meeting Chef Hua comfort food, light comedy, and family bonding with a Chinese twist.
🌸 How It Felt Watching
🔹 Warm, romantic, and emotionally stable. Each episode made me want to share a meal with their family.
🔹 Tone: gentle, hopeful, heartfelt
🔹 Themes: home, renewal, food, connection, chance
🔹 Like "A Table for Two in Chang’an" (2025) and "City of Silk and Saffron" (2024), this 2025 drama blends food, family, and fate.
🔹 It shows how sharing meals and new beginnings can turn strangers into family.
✨ Cast & Acting
🔹 Wang Yinglu as Shen Shaoguang: brings energy and humor to every scene
🔹 Li Yunrui as Lin Yan: initially guarded but warms up as he settles in with the Shen family
🔹 The supporting cast, including the entire Shen family and regulars at the marketplace, adds humor and heart, while the royal characters provide a refreshing change of pace.
🎵 OST
🔹 Red Dust Traveller (红尘客) by Curley Gao
🔹 Feast Begins (喜宴开) by Wang Yinglu and Li Yunrui
🔹 Where to Go (何从) by Wang Wei Yi
🔹 A Multitude (千绪) by Bo Yuan
🔹 Poor Luck (薄幸) by Zhang Zi Ning
🎞️ Production Style
🔹 I liked the director and the team’s use of natural light and warm tones that enhance the food scenes and highlight color.
🔹 Costumes and sets are colorful, full of everyday details, with markets and kitchens that look lived-in
🔹 The pacing lets the viewers enjoy each story beat and meal
☕ Tea Notes
🔹 What worked: chemistry between leads, plenty of visual comfort (especially food scenes), easy flow from episode to episode
🔹 What didn’t: for me, a few side plots pulled attention away from the central story, and sometimes jokes felt a bit forced. I also wished there was more in-depth food culture explored
☕ SpillTheDramaTea’s Rating: 9.5 / 10
🌿 Tea-Scale: Full of flavor and heart
✏️ As SpillTheDramaTea, do you believe that home is created through shared meals and small acts of kindness?
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Time travel drama.....with a twist.
I really enjoyed watching this drama. Unlike many time travel dramas ,the FL time traveled with her entire family, and they decided to stay in that time period.Great chemistry between the FL and ML.
Li Yun Rui is not just a handsome face, his acting has definitely progressed with each drama.
I enjoyed the quirky personalities of her family and how they all cared for each other.
When the ML found out who was behind his parents deaths, I had mixed emotions due to the fact that despite having murdered his family he took him in and actually cared for him like a son.
The romance between the ML and FL was very slow burn, but name a Chinese drama where they don't kiss for the first time after episode 25! But at least in this drama, the FL had a reason why she kept rejecting the ML.
So many people did not like the ending. I didn't mind it and here's why....
It was heart wrenching that they finally got together and the FL and her family realize that this is the point where according to history they die. The unexpected part is that we continue to see what the ML goes through once they are gone, it was so sad!! But it made me think of how in real life, went we visit historical places, I realize that I am walking into a place that used to be someones home, but their memories and existence are forgotten. Man the tears came flowing.
Now in present day the FL is the only one who remembers, so she starts to think that it was all a dream....until the very last scene, she meets the present day ML and he tells her he had a dream about her too.
That to me made all the difference, because if the ML also didn't remember her, then it would feel like it was for nothing, but he did remember her.
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I love this series so much, i would watch it again and again yet still not over about the ending.
The series went all good. For me, there's no much of problem there except of these, i agree to that one review here saying it's be more epic if the plot executed well. It could have been more funnier. About the ending well its alright too but i kinda hope that they've added more episodes for Lin Yan's pov since he says that he also dreamed about Jicai. The bonding of Shen's family is so sweet yet chaotic, i like it when they're always welcome for others. I love the chemistry between the main cast😍. Overall, i love it and its so good to watch. I've been watching it 2x now😂Was this review helpful to you?
Fresh Ancient Chinese Drama with Food themes!
Honestly, I started watching this just for fun since I’ve been following Li Yunrui lately. But from the very first episode, it already hooked me , it’s fun, has a nice sense of humor, and never gets boring. Each episode tells different stories, not only focusing on the main characters, so it always keeps you interested to keep going.What I love most is how this series actually gives a lot of life lessons, especially about family, self-growth, and learning to express your emotions. I even learned some things I didn’t know before, like how some people hurt themselves to shift emotional pain. There are also some fun facts about food here and there.
Even though it’s set in ancient times (and yeah, there’s always some revenge in the background 😂), the story still feels clear and meaningful. The acting is amazing and super refreshing. This drama definitely deserves all the praise! 💯✨
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Started Sweet, Ended Dull
I went into this drama really wanting to love it — the concept seemed fresh and full of potential. A whole family time-traveling together? That was something new and interesting. I’d watched When Destiny Meets the Demon, which also plays with time travel, so I was curious to see how Ying Lu would handle a similar idea — and it actually started off well. The humor was on point, the sarcasm landed nicely, and the family dynamics felt warm and genuine. Even the romance had that slow-burn charm that made me root for the characters at first.But somewhere along the way, I completely lost interest. By the time I reached around episodes 10 to 30, everything just felt empty and repetitive. I wasn’t emotionally invested anymore — I was just finishing it for the sake of finishing it. I was bored. The romance dragged on way too long, especially with the ancestor plot, which was just dull. The revenge storyline also felt hollow; it didn’t really define the character, and even the acting didn’t sell the emotional depth it needed.
As for the ending, it was bittersweet — at least they met again. The final scene, with him sitting on the chair as it snowed, reminded me of Kill Me, Love Me. It was beautiful visually, but it didn’t hit as hard emotionally, probably because I already expected the reunion from earlier scenes.
Overall, I’m disappointed. I truly wanted to enjoy it, but it just fell short. The humor turned silly instead of witty, the romance lost its spark, and the final twist — where the whole family resets back to zero — made everything feel pointless since none of the characters remembered their growth or experiences.
Would I recommend it? Maybe, if you’re looking for something light and don’t want to think too much between heavier dramas. It’s not terrible — the concept is good in essence — but the execution and writing were weak. It’s a drama with a fun idea that unfortunately never lived up to its potential.
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yucky yucky yucky
yummy yummy yummy is another pretentious ancient chinese drama that begins its long tedious run with the overused time travel narrative. the acting and story direction are more than cringe. every episode is filled with unbearable jokes and superfluous plot that goes nowhere. and the music is just as insufferableWas this review helpful to you?
I'll Be Asking My Grandparents About Our Ancestors Incase I Will Also Time Travel Hahaha
Wang Ying Lu is my second favorite c-actress before Chen Du Ling and damn, her drama is always my comfort drama and dare I say that she is busy so busy promoting her 2025 drama's wahaha.
When I saw this, I thought it was so funny since her 2025 drama's is almost all time travel hahaha and this one was so different from the other drama since the whole family is the one traveling instead of her only like any other drama.
The first episode was so hilarious that I expected, and they are so unserious at the same time and also I didn't expect how long the episode will be before they will get together and how short when they are together like "😵" but that's fine because that's also the reason I'm staying till the end.
Now let's talk about about the characters, cause damn this may be long like essay thing cause I like them all and I will give a damn opinion in every one of them.
SHEN SHAO GUANG - She is the smartest yet sometimes the one who is hurt the most. I love her personality and dedication and I love/hate how she resist herself from falling inlove with Lin Yan because of that thought. I know many of you kind of hate her at that time but I'm not because if it's me, I would do the same. But after that, she is the most sweetest to be in the relationship.
LIN YAN - The man you are! I just feel sad about him when they tell him that they are lying to him but he can't resist himself to protect them because they are the one who literally the one who give him the love of parents and feel to have a family again, even if he got adopted, he was so hurt after realizing the truth of the case, but his dedication to break the rules of romance just to be together with A Ji is so heart warming (before they knew the truth).
SHEN SHAO JIE - Damn I think he is my favorite among all, he's so funny and even though he is the last to improve in the family, still he loves his family specially his child and he'd do anything to give her what she wants and that was so father code. Let me be for real, he's like my father and even though he doesn't like to express his love through word but he is so proud and supportive at us his child.
SHEN JIAN SHE - I also like him but this is not that much, he and Shao Jie is so canon with that "✌️" code of them wahahaha. Sometimes he kind of pisses me off because of "Great chief in Yong An" but he really love his wife and family, it just that he is hardly understanding the situation.
LI FENG XIA - Sweetest mother and how I love how she comforted A Ji the time she is hurting herself and she always the one who is always worried in every family members. Mother
SHEN YANG YANG - I really love how she rangebait her father so hard that's like she really knows him and even his that personality, she is still proud of him.
A YUAN - New member of the family!!! She is so loyal to them yet at the end I don't see her, just hope she doesn't go to Yun Lai Tavern, she's pitiful enough.
LIU CHANG - Favorite subordinate and bridge on the relationship of A Ji And Anran. Uhmm new crush unlock wahahha
PEI FEI - Okay, I thought he is a villain because when he becomes Lin Yan friend so easily, but he is my second favorite character here, he's so unpredictable like that 2 plot twist I didn't even think about back when I was watching the drama. I also feel sad about him because of his love story, and I understand him, it's like what he said that she is Deity while he is just a commoner but I just want to know who is his wife after all.
FU HUI - I love when I see princess that is so kind and you will ask yourself if it is a disguise. It's so funny when she is so worried that his husband will wake up hahahaha, that's loyalty (iykyk).
I actually have something to say to someone but it's getting more long.
But even if this drama ended quiet 50/50 sad/happy, I still have more questions.
Where did A Yuan And Li San go, Who is Pei Fei's wife, How did they retrieve the picture or did they think that Lin Yan is crazy when he said he has a wife, with that painting when they doesn't remember Shen Shao Guang.
But the ending is so different that other that just stare, and finally a good one but still, I really hate the fact that Shao Guang will fell Inlove to Lin Yan (modern) because he is the one who has the consciousness of Lin Yan back then but Lin Yan will live his life with only 1 wife, and that's Shao Guang.
It's so good even though the episode of them being together was too short, but still I love this drama.
I dare say, I like this time travel more than "When Destiny Brings The Demon" even though I ranked it higher that this. So It's HIGHLY RECOMMENDABLE!!!!
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lots of comedy and light romance
The first five episodes of the series have aired, and as I watched, I realized, "Yes, this is definitely my show." It had great comedy and a bit romance, which I wanted. Yes, the romance was a bit light, but the romance that developed in the final episodes was very well balanced. The chemistry between the actors was great; in fact, the cast was very good overall.We saw the couple in the modern age, yes, it would not be bad to see just a little more of them, I think, because I immediately became attached to the couple and loved them very much.
The Shen family was the most chaotic family I'd seen in a long time, and I loved them so much. Overall, this chaotic storyline made me eagerly await the series, which airs two episodes daily. Two episodes will air tomorrow, so be patient and wait. That's what I tell myself every day.
If you just want to relax and watch a beautiful couple without thinking about logical fallacies, don't miss this series, but if you want to watch a lot of romance, I'm sorry, you're in the wrong place.
This series is a chaotic yet entertaining story about a chaotic family, and it's got even me, a romance lover, hooked. As I said, the romance in the final episodes will leave you very satisfied, believe me. ^_^
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