Food, Slice of Life, Romance

Ivy Author

Jan 21, 2024 03:49 am

I've found a new subgenre to love: domestic food slice of life dramas with a side of romance like the following:

Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Our Dining Table

Nagatan to Aoto: Ichika no Ryourijou

These are all Japanese, I haven't found any outside Japan that do the slice of life in the same sort of comforting vibe? (If you've watched these you probably know what I mean? It's really gentle I guess is the best word?)

I'm looking for more like the above!

emeraldarrows

Jan 21, 2024 04:29 am

I love that genre!

Japanese:

8.2 Byo no Hosoku
Kitchen for Singles (no romance but healing slice of life with food)
Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san (no romance)
Pâtissier-san to Ojousan
Tabi Suru Sandwich (special, no romance)
Aki wa Haru to Gohan wo Tabetai (movie)
Bread of Happiness (movie)

Non Japanese with a similar vibe, imo:

Ingredients
Chef Hua
Delicacies Destiny
Falling in Love
Foodie Queen (a bit more out there but maybe)
Gourmet in Tang Dynasty (maybe)

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Magnoliee

Jan 21, 2024 05:13 pm

Hello Ivy,

this is a great theme!

So far I've stumbled across dramas with this genre more by chance than by explicitly looking for them because I wasn't aware that there was actually a genre. Thanks for giving recommendations in your initial post. I'll search for them as a suggestion for me. :-)

I can only think of this movie at the moment:
Extreme Job (2019)
It's been a while since I've seen it. I think there was no romance, but I remember the movie as funny.

Greetings! :-)

maidenholmes

Jan 22, 2024 02:43 am

Watched Chef Hua, cute drama but very forgettable. Mostly I remember scenes of food preparation with only her hands shown, and the hands clearly aren't hers (may be male at one point). Kind of distracting.