Yummy Yummy Yummy — Watch It for the Family, Not the Romance 🍜
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
I really thought Yummy Yummy Yummy was going to be more of a romance when I started it, especially because I love both Wang Yinglu and Li Yunrui.
It really isn't.
This is much more of a family drama, and honestly, that ended up being the part I liked the most.
The entire Shen family gets thrown into the past together, so instead of the female lead having her own little time-travel adventure while everybody else disappears from the story, her family is right there causing chaos with her.
Their relationships, arguments, teamwork, and attempts to survive in a completely different time period are what made the drama fun for me.
If I were recommending this to someone, I would say:
Watch it for the family dynamics.
Not the romance.
I Love Both Leads ❤️
I want to make that clear because my problem was definitely not Wang Yinglu or Li Yunrui.
I like both of them.
Their characters are likable, they work well together, and I enjoyed watching their relationship develop.
The chemistry is there.
The romance is there.
But the romance never became the main reason I was watching.
The family did.
And for me, that is actually the most important thing to know before starting this drama.
If you go into Yummy Yummy Yummy expecting the main couple to dominate the story, you may end up wondering where your romance went.
If you go into it expecting a family comedy with romance mixed in, it works much better.
The Shen Family Is the Real Star 👨👩👧👦
This is what kept me watching.
I liked seeing an entire modern family trying to survive in historical China instead of the usual setup where one person time travels alone and spends half the drama hiding who they are.
Here, everybody is confused together. 😂
They argue.
They interfere in each other's lives.
They embarrass each other.
They make plans together.
And when something actually matters, they act like a real family.
That dynamic gave the drama warmth.
Even when the story slowed down or wandered away from the romance, I still enjoyed watching the family interact.
Honestly, I think the drama would have been much weaker without them.
And Then Came the Ancestor Nonsense 🙄
This is where the story started testing my patience.
The drama gradually creates the idea that Lin Yan might somehow be connected to the Shen family's ancestry.
Eventually, that becomes a serious problem for the romance because Shaoguang believes that the man she has feelings for might actually be one of her ancestors.
And let me tell you:
I was so tired of hearing about this ancestor situation. 😂
The important part is that Shaoguang is not just being stupid.
The drama intentionally gives her and the family reasons to believe it.
The SHOW wants us to think there may actually be an ancestry problem.
So this is not:
“Why did this woman randomly decide her boyfriend is Grandpa?”
It is more like:
“Why did the writers create this giant fake ancestry problem just to torture the romance?”
Because there were already plenty of things happening in this drama.
I really did not need:
Historical romance, family survival, food business... and genealogy panic.
I Did Not Finish the Drama
This is important.
I did not finish all 32 episodes.
I liked the drama overall, but somewhere along the way I lost enough momentum that I stopped watching.
That does not mean I hated it.
A 4/5 is still a very good rating from me.
I love both leads, I enjoyed the family, and there were plenty of things about the drama that worked.
It just became one of those shows where I eventually realized I was not motivated enough to keep pressing “next episode.”
The length did not help.
Neither did the ancestor storyline.
And because this is such a food-centered drama, there is also a LOT of cooking and eating.
Anyone who knows me already knows that food-heavy plots are not exactly the easiest way to keep me invested. 😂
