Bokura no Shokutaku (2023)

Saeki Kou works in the sales department of an architectural firm. She is good at her job and admired by her juniors but she often falls into a fantasy world that combines food with love. This is the story of the five different food items and love stories with the five different imaginary boyfriends Kou fantasizes about.

Both are Japanese productions that feature the male lead becoming involved with another guy who is responsible for raising a child (sibling vs own child). 'Our Dining Table' is much more lighthearted, whilst 'His' is more realistic with the topic of child custody.

'His' is the sequel movie to the series 'His - Koisuru Tsumori Nante Nakatta', which focuses on how the main characters met during their youth, but the movie can be watched as a stand-alone.

Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane—two brothers, many years apart in age—who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! Yutaka soon finds himself having a change of heart as he looks forward to the meals they share together.

Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane—two brothers, many years apart in age—who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! Yutaka soon finds himself having a change of heart as he looks forward to the meals they share together.

Journalist Jun discovers an exceptional bakery hidden in the middle of Seoul, but the family business is on the verge of closure. Meanwhile, estranged brother Sang Hyuk returns to reconnect and, with Jun's help, protect the secret family recipes.

Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane—two brothers, many years apart in age—who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! Yutaka soon finds himself having a change of heart as he looks forward to the meals they share together.

Slice of life BL Japanese romance which heroes caretaking. Well-acted and sweet characters, very chased. Also the main characters both work in a restaurant for some of the story

Both have a ML with trauma/social anxiety who enjoys cooking and begins preparing food for the other ML who is drawn to his kind heart.

Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane—two brothers, many years apart in age—who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! Yutaka soon finds himself having a change of heart as he looks forward to the meals they share together.

Both are short BLs in which one of the MLs is socially withdrawn and likes to cook, and the other ML begins sharing his food and becoming part of his life.

Both are short, warm, and gentle BLs focused on food and the day to day life of the MLs.
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Similarities:
-Characters cook delicious & meaningful foods
-Depicts found family as one of the central themes
-Explores childhood trauma
-Features friendship as another important theme
-Teaches life lessons
-Includes gay characters
-Shows both heart-warming/wholesome moments and tear-jerking moments
-Shows comedic moments
-Both dramas are adapted from Mangas

Differences:
Baker Boys:
-There is a kidnapping investigation subplot (personally, I would skip those scenes)
-Main characters compete in dessert challenges in the storyline
-Minimal romance
-The main series typically takes place in Punn's bakery
-Main language is Thai

You can watch Baker Boys with english subtitles on GMMTV Youtube channel. Here is the link to the playlist for all 12 episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAej3-wF5w6jlNTVwxuVCGkNHi3ezXtCB

Bokura no Shokutaku (Our Dining Table):
-Has a slow-burn romance subplot, focusing on the relationship between Yutaka and Minoru
-The main characters usually make home-cooked meals for either lunch or dinner
-This series mainly takes place in the Ueda's house
-Main language is Japanese

You can find Bokura no Shokutaku (Our Dining Table) with english subtitles on either GagaOOLala website or Dramacool.hr website.

Both of the actors who played Yutaka (Inukai Atsuhiro) and Minoru (Iijima Hiroki) previously starred in this crossover movie, Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders. If you watched Bokura no Shokutaku (Our Dining Table) and want to see these actors interact again, I suggest watching the movie. Very different storyline, but I enjoyed their characters as Kamen Rider Build/Sento and Kamen Rider Ex-Aid/Emu.

You can find Bokura no Shokutaku (Our Dining Table) with english subtitles on either GagaOOLala website or Dramacool.hr website.

Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders with english subtitles link:
https://tokuzilla.net/watch/kamen-rider-heisei-generations-final-build-ex-aid-with-legend-riders.html

*If the first link doesn't work, try watching the movie on this website:
https://toku.fun/post/kamen-rider-heisei-generations-final-build-ex-aid-legend-riders-english-sub

Hao's only hope is that his grandson Mark enters a prestigious university, but Mark's dream is to follow his grandfather's footsteps and become a chef and take over the family restaurant. Due to Hao's difficult personality, the restaurant is on the verge of bankruptcy and he finally collapses. In order to save the restaurant, Mark enters a cooking contest without his grandfather's knowledge and consent in Shanghai. He competes against talented chefs from Japan, Korea and Australia, and freely shows off ravishing cooking skills that he has accumulated from his grandfather over the years. As Mark wins round after round and gains attention, Julia, the contest producer notices something peculiar about him, then slowly realizes that Mark and her husband David resemble each other.

Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane—two brothers, many years apart in age—who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! Yutaka soon finds himself having a change of heart as he looks forward to the meals they share together.