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koreaguides · 1 year

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Side Dishes in Korea

Why do we get served so many each meal?

1. Background Information

One of the most appealing things about eating out in Korea is the unlimited free refill on the side dishes, known as banchan.

This practice is deeply rooted in Korean history and character as a nation

2. Kimchi

There are hundreds of different types of kimchi, but the signature cabbage banchan is offered at pretty much every restaurant.

Koreans have for generations been storing vegetables in pots to ferment so that they will have food available for the winter.

3. Common Banchans

Other than kimchi, there are bean sprouts, cucumber vegetables, and sesame leaves pickled in soy sauce.

Some of the more luxurious Korean restaurant sever egg rolls, tteokbooki, and ganjang gejang.

4. Banchans At Restaurant

Eating at a Korean restaurant is always an exercise in how to maneuver all the dishes to actually fit on the table.

It is not uncommon to receive 3 or more different banchan dishes alongside the main course that you order.

5. Homemade Banchans

During a kimchi-preparation event called kimjang, a large amout of kimchi is laid out for all members of the family work on.

This practice is less common these days, but parents still like to prepare kimchi and distribute it to their children as a show of affection.

6. Why Are Banchan Unlimited?

One reason is that white rice was much more expensive than kimchi and banchan during difficult times in the Korean economy.

It was too expensive for restaurants to give refills of rice, but in order to make sure you were full, they offered you a second helping of banchan.

7. How Is Banchan Served?

In order to reduce operating costs, some restaurants have suggested limiting or removing the unlimited banchan options, which many Korean people weren’t happy about.

To meet in the middle, many Korean restaurants these days have adopted a self-service system in which you can eat as much as you like, but you have to approach the food station and fill your own bowls.

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ryllen · 2 months

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. (i)treasure(you)berries .

#it is always depicted in medias that the bite with the strawberry is the most desirable & the most treasured so we're spoiling him rn #even tho strawberry as it is always sour for me so i'm like ??? is it that nice ?? tho with condensed milk it's pretty nice indeed #twst #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #fanart #twst yuu #twst mc #happy almost birthday soon #can't wait to see his groovied platinumjacket card #there was this korean manga where the daughter and father share one strawberry shortcake slice #and always leave the piece with strawberry on top last #and just offer each other to eat it instead of themselves #yes u deserve it sebek #eat with peace #yes it's not only horn-kun that deaerves this many strawberries

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britcision · 2 months

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My friends of Dungeon Meshi

I have a gift for you and it is IRL Laios and Senshi

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Someone gave this lovely Korean couple a supermarket that will sell them American cheese 100 slices at a time and I just… yeah it’s them

They have also acquired ostrich eggs and on the one hand they are the perfect people to have them and I’m delighted they did but on the other hand it does feel like someone should be trying to stop them

Not succeeding. Just… trying

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I now feel a very visceral understanding for Marcille and Chilchuck’s experience because I am watching in mild horror but I would also have no choice but to try it given the chance

Note: if you’re gonna be a chickenshit about unusual ingredients you haven’t eaten before your Laios or Senshi fan card will immediately be revoked I do make the rules

There’s a bunch of fascinating things they’re doing with tripe and organs and things I’ve never eaten and absolutely none of it gives me the visceral urge to run of boiling noodles in American cheese

Also their mayo is in The World’s Worst Squeeze Bottle it looks like tentacles and it gives me inverse ASMR so watch with caution for shit to get weird but none of you are gonna embarrass this fandom by saying something like “oh gross guts”

The channel is called Try To Eat and I’m not gonna lie I have complete faith in their abilities to eat absolutely anything they want to

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #try to eat #korean cooking youtubers #coming for my heart #food wizards #ostrich egg meringue #cooking ramen in boiling cheese #tbh i’d probably die breathing the air in their kitchen i cannot handle spices #not even the ones that taste reeeeeeeally good 😭#cracked black pepper can fuck me up i can’t eat any of their savouries 😭#but i want tooooooooooo 😭#food #adventurous food #Youtube

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bengiyo · 8 months

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The Knowing: Being Queer in BL

I’ve been talking about The Knowing a lot lately with @lurkingshan @waitmyturtles @ginnymoonbeam and @shortpplfedup and so I felt it was time to gather all those thoughts into one place.

I define The Knowing as “growing up and suffering with the knowledge that you are queer (specifically that you are not like other kids) and understanding that you must keep that knowledge to yourself.”

Part of what initially drew me to BL was how often many of these shows took place in what @absolutebl calls “The Bubble” where cultural and structural homophobia is less prevalent or nonexistent. Many of these stories are about guys learning something about themselves for the first time when it comes to being attracted to other men. However, I always find myself drawn to the characters that clearly Knew who they were a long time ago. What’s interesting about these characters is that many of them carry an intense sadness and loneliness that plagues them and their relationships.

I am in my mid-30s. I’ve had to unlearn a lot of language over the decades. When I first realized I was different from other kids I was eight years old. I was a lot like Chiron in Moonlight (2016) asking the question, “What’s a faggot?” I wish I’d had someone like Juan around to say, “A faggot is a word used to make gay people feel bad.” To which Chiron asked, “Am I a faggot?” and Juan quickly corrected. “Nah. You can be gay, but you ain’t gotta let nobody call you no faggot.” I know it’s hard for some of you to read slurs written out so plainly, but I grew up with them being part of the day-to-day language used by kids around me. If you instinctively recoiled at me typing the word four times, imagine experiencing that constantly for your entire adolescence while also fearing the consequences of being discovered by your peers. That’s what I survived. That’s what some of these boys survived.

Before I learned other words, I thought I was weird or broken. I knew I was drawn to boys before I even hit puberty, but I didn’t have language for existing on the ace-spectrum until I joined Tumblr in the early 2010s. Before that I just thought there was something wrong with me. When we see a character in BL who has clearly been gay for a long time, I find myself examining the environment around them to see if they suffered The Knowing.

The worst part of The Knowing is for the boys who can pass as straight if they try hard enough. I always talk about how I think femmes are stronger than those of us (like me) who can pass. They face the public scrutiny of being queer and the danger of that constantly. People like me often go unnoticed unless we’re amongst our peers or explicitly tell people who we are.

I’m writing this post as a love letter to the boys who suffered the Knowing. Sometimes these characters get a bad reputation in fandom for being boring or sad sacks, but they are the characters I love the most. I’d like to talk about some of my favorite boys who Knew. Unsurprisingly, the exact kind of melancholy Japan is willing to play with means they have strong presence on this list.

Korn (Until We Meet Again)

Korn is the character who began my discussion about this in a conversation with @wen-kexing-apologist about Kao’s acting. I pointed out that the saddest thing about Korn in Until We Meet Again is that he knew what he was going to do the entire time. The tragedy of UWMA is that Korn loved Intouch and let him in, and unfortunately learned that Intouch’s love couldn’t fix the horrors that plagued him. You can see it in Kao’s eyes for the entire show whenever we see the In and Korn flashbacks. He suffers under the weight of masculine expectation and crumbles.

The Entire Cast of What Did You Eat Yesterday?

WDYEY is all about characters who Knew. Kenji and Wataru may have been unable to pass and have chosen to accept who they are, but we know Wataru suffered for it because of his feelings about family. Shiro hid who he was for a very long time, and still hides it from most people. His trauma from The Knowing regularly threatens his relationship with Kenji. Kohinata also clearly knew who he was the entire time, and works diligently for the life he’s built for himself. So much of this show is about being gay in a world that does not value us.

Book, Christina, and Yok (Make It Right)

Book is actively victimized because of The Knowing. He left his previous school and doesn’t live with his family because he was outed by a past boyfriend, and is disowned after revenge porn of him is posted.

Both Chrstina and Yok are femme and cannot pass. Unlike many of the boys in this show figuring out who they are, they are trying to survive without losing themselves.

Li Ming (Moonlight Chicken)

Li Ming has a gay uncle and still suffers The Knowing. He is hiding his attraction from everyone until he develops feelings for Heart.

Itou Akira (Life: Love on the Line)

We experienced the entire arc of this man’s life and how much The Knowing crushed him. This is probably the most The Knowing character on the list.

Oumi Mitsuru (Eternal Yesterday)

Oumi has such a frank expression of The Knowing and how much it hurts that he likes Koichi but feels like he can’t express it.

Takahashi Satoru (Koisenu Futari)

The man literally blogs about The Knowing, and it’s how Sakuko began to understand herself. He has a questionnaire prepared to help you figure out how long you’ve Known.

Ren (Tokyo in April Is…)

I wrote multiple posts about Ren and his experience with The Knowing. So much of what goes wrong for them is because Ren couldn’t believe that Kazuma could like him, too, and he knowingly faced the consequences of being discovered to save Kazuma’s life.

Pete (Love by Chance)

Pete knows who he is and can’t change it. Trump uses this against him. Pete doesn’t want Ae to be gay like him and suffer with the realities of being a Known Gay. Pete has one of the first coming out scenes in BL that I really enjoyed.

Cairo (Gameboys)

Cairo was clearly struggling with Knowing, and his close friend took his coming out from him. Cairo is a brat, but goddamn do I appreciate some of his angst.

See-eiw (My Only 12%)

He watched The Love of Siam (2007) and had a complete emotional breakdown as he was finally able to name his feelings for Cake. Top-tier expression of The Knowing.

Shin (3 Will Be Free)

I mean, we don’t have to look much further than his entire sad existence and being pushed into sex with a prostitute in the first episode. Also there’s, “It wasn’t that you didn’t like boys. You just didn’t like me.” Shin is the only boy in BL-adjacent media to suffer a specific version of The Knowing: being rejected and discarded by your own people in a homophobic way so they could stay closeted.

Phupha (A Tale of Thousand Stars)

Phupha’s entire romantic angst is built around The Knowing and what others seeing him for who he is will do for him.

Pran (Bad Buddy)

Though Bad Buddy exists in The Bubble, Pran has one of the most painful versions of The Knowing I’ve ever experienced because his is wrapped up in family angst and an unrequited crush.

Lee Wan (Our Dating Sim)

Lee Wan suffered The Knowing and broke things with his best friend after confessing. The Knowing destroyed his ability to see a version of his life where he and Shin Kitae overcame the upcoming challenges together and so he takes that choice from Kitae. Crushing.

Ueda Minoru (Our Dining Table)

Minoru is so familiar with The Knowing that he preemptively breaks up with Yutaka after kissing him.

Kiyoi (My Beautiful Man)

The reveal that Kiyoi already knew who he was and noticed Hira the entire time? Beautiful. One of the best reveals in J-BL history.

Minato (Minato’s Laundromat)

This man is one of the sadder examples of The Knowing because he’s in a place where he understands who he is now, but the internalized homophobia cripples almost all of his romantic and closer relationships.

Han Baram (Sing My Crush)

This boy is suffering so much from The Knowing that his love confession song is literally titled “Letter of Apology.”

Oh-aew (I Told Sunset About You)

He Knew. “Are you proud of me?”

Noh Shinwoo and Shin Daon (Light On Me)

Noh Shinwoo clearly suffered The Knowing and was discovered. His bullies still plague him on the streets when they see him. Shin Daon was not surprised by his attraction to Woo Taekyung; he struggled with his parents expectations.

Nagisa (His: I Didn’t Mean to Fall in Love)

Nagisa definitely Knew who he was and was probably going to stay quiet about it until Shun showed up in his life. What upsets me so much about Nagisa is that he is the one who leaves Shun later in the movie after pulling queerness out of Shun.

The Secret Crush on You Quartet

All four of them get a spot on this list for The Knowing. Toh, Kaojao, and Daisy clearly suffered The Knowing, and Som has clearly taken care of them for a long time.

Rocky and Judah (Quaranthings)

I love that these two explore The Knowing from a class perspective. Judah is wealthier and eventually comes out, but Rocky is poor and struggles with it a lot longer.

Han Tae Joo and Kang Gook (Where Your Eyes Linger)

The Knowing, bodyguard edition. The yearning between the two of these is palpable. It hurts that they can’t even talk to each other about it.

Mafuyu (Given)

He Knew and lost his boyfriend to The Knowing.

Kim Dong Hee (Unintentional Love Story)

He won’t acknowledge Go Ho Tae’s feelings because he feels a sense of loyalty to Ho Tae’s mom for taking care of him after his parents disowned him over the gay thing. Huge case of The Knowing.

Edit: New Additions October 7, 2023.

Nekoyashiki Mamoru (Kabe-Koji Nekoyashiki-kun Desires to be Recognized)

He describes a textbook case of the Knowing and finding community at the convention.

Zo (Hidden Agenda)

He definitely Knew, and got messed over by his friends badly for it.

Yuuki (Me, My Husband, and My Husband's Boyfriend)

We almost lost Yuuki to the Knowing.

All of the Eclipse Gays

Literally all of them. The entire show is about how fascism turns queer people into agents working against their own community.

Joe (The Warp Effect)

He clearly Knew before his encounter with Army, and he also suffered for being outed.

#Ben writes #The Knowing #too many shows to tag #what did you eat yesterday?#until we meet again #bl series #thai bl #japanese bl #korean bl #filipino bl

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dictee · 1 year

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There are two ways you can think about the shows that louis and lestat go see in iwtv and theyre not mutually exclusive but like 1. as louis narrates the interview in dubai he is specifically inserting his own intertextual references for the audience's benefit. bc he's well read and insane. and like actually in the past they went to see like. idk operas and plays that werent about failing patriarchs as well and he's just focusing on these ones to subtly mock lestat. or 2. lestat was genuinely routinely taking louis to see like a doll's house on wednesday and a kate chopin reading on thursday and sitting there happily eyeing debutantes like a horny goldfish wondering why his marriage is dissolving while louis, possibly literally playing his servant, is next to him losing his mind

#뱀터뷰 #on the phone w my mom the other day and we were talking about if my dad watched beef would he like. would he notice 😭#or would he just be like this second generation korean man w my same first name and haircut and anger issues and habit of eating burger ki #ng and deranged diaspora nationalism. is such an asshole.#chopin died in 1904 but pretend

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eastgaysian · 1 month

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on some level i dont think i ever grew out of believing my mom when i was a kid and she told me 'you have to eat foods that are all different colors to be healthy'

#as a wise man once said to me 'koreans eat like they are homosexual'

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waitmyturtles · 1 month

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Koreaboo would like to write a BL for us, for real

#this is what i'd like to propose #i would like gong yoo and lee dong wook to do the korean version of what did you eat yesterday?#gong yoo as kenji would be my LIFE #lee dong wook as shiro would also be perfect #i want to BELIEVE #i want to believe they are asking for this #gong yoo #lee dong wook

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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 9 months

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Aren't you going home?

#jun x jun #jun and jun #jun & jun #jun & jun the series #lee jun x choi jun #I felt so bad for our director #he just wanted to spend time with Jun #and help him #and be near him #and eat cake with him #korean series #korean drama #korean bl #kbl #bl drama #bl series #asianlgbtqdrama #myedit

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kexing · 1 year

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Since that day, I’ve been thinking about why I draw. All this time I’ve been drawing on blog that no one will see. Erasing and redrawing every night. That was what I did and the reason was… There was someone I wanted to show this to. I drew it with the thought that someday that person will see my drawings.

Without that person, my art would be meaningless.

#our dating sim #korean bl #kbl #mjblr #EATING THIS DRAMA EATING THIS DRAMA EATING THIS

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murasaki-cha · 27 days

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Ok I'm trying to catch up with tcf in between assignments because I'm so far behind T-T

And I'm on chapter 250 now (yes I'm that far behind and I'm not making any progress unfortunately, blame my interior design course for that)

Cale + Sky Eating Water are always such a chaotic comedy duo like the moment Cale starts using Sky Eating Water all the braincells just evaporate. I love them your honor

#just to let everyone know: THESE ARE THE KOREAN RAWS ON KAKAOPAGE AND I JUST USED THE TRANSLATE PAGE OPTION ON GOOGLE #tcf #trash of the count's family #lcf #lout of the count’s family #tcf novel #cale henituse #sky eating watr #tcf ancient powers #tcf part 2 #laws of hunting

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koreaguides · 10 months

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Hangover Cures Korean Swear By

1. Bean Sprout Soup

Bean sprout soup was voted number one for food hangovers craved after a night of heavy drinking among office workers. Many restaurants serve this dish Jeonju style in an earthenware pot with rice. It is usually served with a side of moju which is a low alochol drink prepared by boiling makgeolli and other medicinal herbs.

2. Dried Pollack Soup

Dried pollack soup is a mildly seasoned but flavorful hangover soup. A classic dried pollack soup is usually prepared by pre-soaking shredding dried pollack. The soup is seasoned with salt and pepper. It also contains tofu cubes and silky-smooth egg ribbons.

3. Soup with Congealed Oxblood

Although the name of this soup doesn’t sound appetizing, it has a mild acquired flavor. The texture of congealed oxblood is smooth with the texture of firm pudding. The soup stock is made by boiling ox bones and is seasoned with soybean paste.

4. Pufferfish Soup

Pufferfish has to be prepared only by licensed chefs who have received intense training to eliminate the toxin from the fish. Most restaurants offer this soup in spicy and non-spicy version. Usually, the non-spicy version is preferred for those seeking to chase their hangovers. This dish is especially popular in Busan.

5. Pork Spine Soup

This is a rich and spicy pork soup with meaty chunks of pork spine. Another name for this dish is gamjatang. It is usually served communal style in a large pot an is dished out into individual portions in earthenware bowls to make sure its piping hot until the end of the meal. Local usually mix the rice in the broth while enjoying this dish.

6. Golden Freshwater Clam Soup

This dish is a specialty in Gyeongsangnamdo Province. It is a clear soup made by boiling golden freshwater clams and simply seasoned with salt. Alothough the clams are small in size compared to other clam species but they are just as sweet and release lots of flavors to the broth.

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morethansalad · 2 months

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Vegan Flower Shaped Gimbap (Gluten-Free)

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soothifying-sounds-asmr · 7 months

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| Solo Autumn Camping w/ My Dog by 조조캠핑 (Jojo Camping)

| contains: campsite setup, cooking, eating, crackling fire, scenic autumn views, & a cute dog named Bunhong

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absolutebl · 9 months

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Top 10 Cozy BLs!

Our Dating Sim made me realize we have a new sub genre of BLs happening right now: the cozy BL.

I decided to invent/identify/name this new BL category because... I can. I crowd sourced (here in the hellhole) opinions of how to define it and what should go on it. The collective brainstormed and elected the following qualifications:

low angst

low stakes

high domesticity

a central relationship that is more cute than anything else

extra points for found family

AKA BLs that make you feel happy and comfortable.

These BLs leave you feeling warm and safe, like a hot water bottle. I will list them in order of my personal preference when in the mood for “cozy.”

1. Our Dating Sim

(Korea, Viki)

Did I create this list for this show? Yes I did. It defines this category. It is a very low stakes, high domesticity, extremely warm and gentle second chance at love office romance.

This is a fuzzy blanket of a story that perfectly suited KBL’s short-length tendencies. The pacing is... muuuuuah... chef’s kiss.

2. Seven Days

(Japan, grey in 2 parts Seven Days: Monday - Thursday | Seven Days - Friday - Sunday)

Popular first year Seiryo has a policy of going out with any girl who asks… for one week. On a lark, third year Yuzuru tests to see if that policy also applies to boys. Seiryo agrees that it does. Along the way they accidentally fall in love. Possibly my favorite BL of all time. It’s very gentle with us and its characters while still having that Japanese emo edge to it.

A master class in quite yet riveting cinema.

What, you doubted me? OF COURSE it’s on the list

3. My School President

(Thailand, YouTube)

GMMTV gave us a classic high school set Thai BL with tropes like messy boys singing their feelings that made this one Love Sick for the modern age with all the gentle sweetness and pining ache, but none of the dated damaging tropes or issues. Yes, we’ve seen it all before, but I still ADORED this, and that’s partly what makes it so comforting. Who let my BL be this wholesome and funny?

4. See You After Quarantine?

(Taiwan, Viki)

Be you never expected lockdown to be comforting? This under appreciated gem is Taiwan’s answer to Gameboys and is just as charming and adorable yet still as quintessentially Taiwanese as one might hope. It features a Japanese love interest and the cutest most confused disaster gay. Slow burn because the two have almost no actual screen time together and yet manage some truly amazing chemistry plus sweetly caring and earnest. Honestly how does Taiwan do it?

5. Ingredients

(Thailand, YouTube)

At the time (during lockdown) many of us referred to this as our “emotional support grocery store advertisement.” If all you want is two soft boys being domestic, cooking together, cuddling on the couch, cat sitting, and babysitting - just put this on and be comfy.

6. What Did You Eat Yesterday?

(Japan, grey)

Basically the grown up version of Ingredients. Emotionally repressed, grumpy, salary man shows his hair dresser husband his love by cooking amazing meals. That’s it, that’s the whole show. There some queer fam drama, and blood-fam coming out drama, but mostly is husbands cooking and eating together and it’s great. Is it BL? Not really. Do we care? Not really.

7. The New Employee

(Korea, Viki)

This one is queer comfort, explicitly. If you aren’t queer you might not find it as warm and engaging. A near pitch perfect office BL with conflict derived from that setting. Also featuring found family and a lesbian bestie. Sweet & innocent (and out) Seung Hyun scores the office internship of his dreams. On his first day at work he gets into it with his cool reserved (and also v gay) boss.

As you do.

But things get romantic pretty darn quickly.

As you gay.

8. En of Love: Tossera & Future the series

(Thailand, YouTube)

Tossera = Younger boy wants to court older boy and does and… that’s it. No really that’s the WHOLE STORY. There is actually no angst, drama, or, indeed plot. But are they the softest bois ever to BL as a main couple? Yes, yes they are.

Future is... exactly the same thing.

Are we mad about it?

Nope.

9. Oxygen

(Thailand, YouTube)

Softest seme in the universe sings his affection to the older boy at the cafe. Let the slow burn courting commence. Oxygen uses every BL trope in the playbook for one of the gentlest lowest angst BLs ever made. It’s a hyung romance (younger boy courts older boy) but very very earnest about it. Am I biased? Sure. This is probably one of my biggest comfort watches.

10. Our Dining Table

(Japan, Gaga)

Lonely salaryman and talented cook gets accidentally adopted by a college kid and his little brother. It’s a quiet cozy little parable of found family alleviating loneliness. Possibly too slow for some but definitely high up there for me with the best of what Japan can do (like Restart After Come Back Home), it’s only flaw (if I dare say such a thing) is that it is not really “romantic.” Lovely & sweet but the romance beats are being used to build a family relationship, not just couple intimacy, it’s OK with me, but not totally BL.

For me one of the hallmarks of cozy BL is that as a chronic rewatcher I find myself starting to rewatch these ones even as they are still airing. Oxygen was an icon of this (also my first watch-along and the reason I realized I really had a passion for BL)

Shorts

Summerdaze - Singapore & Korea, YouTube

The 8.2 Second Rule - Japan, YouTube

A First Love Story - Korea, YouTube

Some More - Korea, Gaga

Quite a few other Strongberry offerings.