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Is there a genre name for these Japanese 20-minute TV series about eating out?

I’m talking about series like “Kantaro” or “Samurai Gourmet.” I would like to look for more titles.

So far, I have seen the following series (from favorite to “not bad”):

1. Sunshine Sento-Sake / Hiru no Sento Zake
2. midnight diner: tokyo stories
3. Kantaro
4. samurai gourmet

Would also appreciate recommendations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/vdhtxc/is_there_a_genre_name_for_these_japanese_20minute/

10 comments

  1. I personally like Solitary Gourmet (Kodoku no Gourmet). Don’t know about a genre name though sorry.

  2. Did some Googling, I think the terms グルメドラマ and 料理ドラマ are the most common.

  3. Eating out huh?

    1: うわいで外食しましょう
    2: カーペットがおやつ女性
    3: 魚香りの箱

  4. These things were they go to a place, eat a food, declare that it’s umai, then ask why it’s umai, we see the chef make a dish and it’s got an ingredient that we can all agree is pretty far out?

    I call that Japanese food porn, but don’t Google it.

  6. The closest name to a genre I can think of is “Iyashi” (癒し), but that isn’t just for these food shows but all mellow, low-stakes/no-stakes TV.

  8. I like those shows too; another slightly different version of this genre is “What did you eat yesterday?” which features lots of home cooking in a drama(comedy drama?) about 2 gay men living together.

  9. I think they’re called 衆民のオピオイド or 脳みそのチューイングガム

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