Recommendations

If you loved Cinderella Chef, then Yummy Yummy Yummy will feel like a familiar yet refreshing treat. Both dramas feature a modern woman (or family) who finds themselves in an ancient world, using modern culinary skills to survive and thrive. The mix of food, humor, and romance gives both stories a light and cozy tone.

While Cinderella Chef focuses more on one woman’s cleverness and romance with a powerful male lead, Yummy Yummy Yummy expands that charm into a family dynamic, where everyone contributes to building a food business in a historical setting.

Both series share:

? Food-centered storytelling — cooking scenes that make you hungry.

? Sweet, slow-burn romance with plenty of comedic moments.

?? A time-travel twist that brings modern wit into ancient traditions.

? Warm cinematography and a comforting tone that feels easy to watch.


If Cinderella Chef made you smile with its blend of love and laughter in the kitchen, then Yummy Yummy Yummy will feel like another delicious escape — with even more flavors of family, friendship, and fun.

Both dramas feature FLs who are chocolatiers and both dramas include a Korean actor/actress in a lead role.

- Song Joong Ki is the male lead in both
- Song Joong Ki has a younger sister who he takes care of on his own in both because her parents abandoned her.
- Both melodramas, although my youth is a melodrama in the chill way and the innocent man is more like a makjang melodrama.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
- Song Joong Ki is terminally ill in both (and it's revealed in the second half of the drama in both)
- Both have poorly written ending that have you wondering what on earth you just watched. After a time skip, Song Joong Ki is saved from his illness with no explaination whatsoever and reunites with the FL in a confusing fever-dream like way in both.

both center on a scenario where heinous criminals are targeted for death by an anonymous individual via a public bounty - "vigilante justice". both have morally ambiguous characters.
violence, action, thriller and crime.

Both are revenge plots. Nam Gi Jun in mercy for none was seeking revenge for his dead brother, going from gang members to gang leaders seeking answers to why is brother is dead and who killed him. Killing each one he come across. In Ae in No mercy was seeking revenge for her sister who was kidnapped and had suffered violence and sexual abuse from bullies. In the mission to find her, she went from person to person (people involved) killing each one. Both got their answers at the end and there was lot of fighting in both.

Chocolate. More chocolate. The other male of the triangle of boys over flowers. More pretty chocolate. Unrequited love,.like huge huge one. Cute story and more cute shocolate. Not the same slice of life as this one. The romance is not exactly that.

It's also the same thing as my last recommendation. Because it's a two parter series. This is just a miniseries.

Because of the storyline. Also, the elements of the show is basically the same thing from "The Glory".

It's also in the 90's, business related - struggling to make ends meet. Its fun with a bit of romance. I love the 90's vibe of both of these kdramas!

- Age Gap
- Slow Burn Romance
- Strangers To Friends To Lovers
- Older guy from the countryside/younger guy from the city
- Main characters are adjusting to their new respective environment
- Open Ending where both characters love each other but are not together for respective circumstances

What you can watch while waiting for "Never-Ending Summer":
"Lighter & Princess"!

Similarities:
- The typical "good girl x bad boy" trope, lol
- Break-up arc
- In both dramas, FL and ML have rather complicated relations with their families

Differences:
- Reversed familial circumstances of FL and ML in both of the dramas (L&P: FL's family is well of, while ML's isn't vs NES: opposite)

(My thoughts are only based on the novel)

If you enjoyed King the Land, you’ll probably love Bon Appétit, Your Majesty for the same reason — Lim Yoon-A. She brings that same warmth and sparkle that made Gu Won’s hotel glow, only this time she’s running the royal kitchen instead of the reception desk. While King the Land offered a breezy, modern romance, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty leans into deeper emotions. Yi Heon is far more intense and dramatic — a king who feels everything too much for his own good. Framed through a historical lens that never really gives him the redemption he deserves (at least not in his own time), it’s a different flavor of romance — richer, messier, and just as addictive.

In order to avoid being expelled from school, Ye Zi Jie lied and pretended to be sick. He used all kinds of tricks, including putting panda make-up to pretend to look pale, riding his bike into a fence, or even telling his teacher he was not fine to order to sleep at the school health room.

Unexpectedly, the teacher sent Ye Zi, the class monitor who has the same name as him, to show special concern. She always has evidence about his fake illness, and she follows closely just to confirm whether he is really sick or not. Gradually, the two get to know each other better in the spy-to-spy interaction, and become closer and closer...

Both in high school setting, the two movies use the 'bad boy, good girl' trope and give off the same vibes by using other similar elements such as the use of love triangle, fun dynamics from main characters' circle of friends, and the conflict of someone being ill. Different ending, but both tearjerkers.

Both dramas have chocolatiers as leads and explore the world chocolate making. Both are food dramas that double as romance.