Cooking Crush

Series Similar to Cooking Crush

If you enjoyed Cooking Crush, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Moonlight Chicken

   2023 · Drama, Food, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Food / Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on GMM25.

   Moonlight Chicken follows Jim and Wen who are ready to reveal their recipe of love and dish of happiness, Steamed Chicken with Rice, that will make your heart full.  It tells the story of love and complicated relationships in different flavors of moods waiting to be touched and tasted.

2. Julia

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Food · ended

   Recommended for similar Food profile.

   Julia is inspired by Julia Child's extraordinary life and her show The French Chef, which essentially invented food television. Through Julia and her singular can-do spirit, it explores an evolving time in American history – the emergence of a new social institution called public television, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity, and America's cultural growth. At its heart, the show is a portrait of a marriage with an evolving and complicated power dynamic.

3. King of Baking, Kim Tak Goo

   2010 · Food, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Food / Romance profile, highly rated (8).

   Kim Tak Goo is the eldest son of Goo Il Joong, the president of Samhwa Enterprise, a legend in the baking industry. Although he is an extremely talented baker and seemed destined to succeed his father as president, Goo Il Joong's family plotted to rob him of his inheritance because he was born to Il Joong's mistress. Tak Goo's determination to become number one in the baking industry drives him to rebuild his career from scratch despite the many trials he faces.

4. Boys in Love

   2025 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.2), hidden gem, also on GMM25.

   Hop on the rollercoaster of love among 12th graders! Shane, a smart and driven student who excels in academics and school activities, has no interest in teenage life. That is, until he meets Kit, a carefree student who's his complete opposite. Forced to spend time together, sparks fly in unexpected ways. Meanwhile, Kim, another of Shane's classmates, is a hopeless romantic determined to find love before graduation. When he meets Mon, a new transfer student, Kim decides to do whatever it takes to win his heart. This new semester, open your heart to chaotic love experiences!

5. Chocolate

   2019 · Food, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Food / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   The story of a man who became a neurosurgeon though he dreamed of becoming a cook, and a woman who became a cook because of him.Lee Kang is a neurosurgeon, who once dreamed of becoming a chef. As a child, Moon Cha Young once met Lee Kang at a small restaurant in the seaside town. There, Lee Kang cooked and gave her a meal, which in part inspired her to become a world-famous chef. Many years later, the two meet again at a hospice ward and together they heal their own emotional scars by preparing meals for the patients there.Not counting the commercials, each episode is 60-65 min long.

6. The Heart Killers

   2024 · Comedy, Action, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.1), hidden gem, also on GMM25.

   When hitmen are in love, they put both their lives and hearts at risk. Now only one question needs to be answered: is it to kiss… or to kill? Kant, a badass tattooist police informant, is asked to investigate a hitman brother duo. But when his attempt to dig up information by getting close to the younger brother, Bison, gets curbed by the overprotective big brother Fadel, Kant has no choice but to find someone to take Fadel out of the way. That's where Style, his good-looking foolhardy mechanic friend, comes in. Now the two friends are putting their lives, and hearts, on the line.

7. Cherry Magic

   2023 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on GMM25.

   Meet Achi, an extremely ordinary employee at a stationery company. He is single and a virgin because he has never been in a relationship in his life. On his 30th birthday, Achi is shocked to discover his superpower to read minds by touching people. Of course, it's not something he wants. Believing mind reading is only going to give him headaches, he avoids touching anyone at all costs. Unfortunately, Achi's situation takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally reads his handsome, perfect colleague Karan and learns that this guy who is always in a good mood and has a smile on his face is falling for him. To stop things from going too far, Achi tries to keep a distance from Karan.Achi goes to his 30-year-old writer best friend Jinta for advice, considering he might be a love expert. At first, Jinta thinks Achi has probably worked too hard and imagined things in his head. On Jinta's birthday not long after, it turns out that he is also a virgin with the same superpower. More importantly, Jinta is currently falling in love with a delivery guy named Minwho is almost 10 years apart. The two best friends are caught up in a love mess. Also in the picture are Rock, a younger staff member who seems very close to Achi and gets Karan into his possessive mode, and Pai, a cute single girl at the office whom everyone roots for to date Achi. However, Pai is a boys' love fan who can't help but notice that there's something going on between Karan and Achi in secret. How will the love story of 30-year-old virgins unfold? 

8. Me and Thee

   2025 · Comedy, Crime, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.3), also on GMM25.

   Thee Theerakit Kian Lee, the eldest son of an ex-mafia, left his past in arms trafficking behind to launch a perfume and accessories brand called Arseni. Chaos erupts when Mr. Thee has his eyes on  Aran, a model close to Peach Peachayarat, a famous freelance photographer shooting the brand's new perfume collection. Peach loves his quiet, introverted life—but it's turned upside down forever when he's roped into becoming Mr. Thee's love coach, only to be pursued by him instead in over-the-top ways, as if trying to set a new world record in wooing.

9. Hidden Agenda

   2023 · Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on GMM25.

   Hidden Agenda tells the story of a person who is secretly in love with someone who has a hidden agenda. Before birth, it was a love that had to be betrayed by the heart.Zo, a third- year political science student in international relations, has a dream is to study abroad by winning a scholarship from a debate competition. He was scorned by close friends like Pat and Kat that he could not do it because he couldn't even confess his love to someone who has secretly liked for 3 years, Nita.Zo still isn't brave enough, so a plan was born to flirt with Nita.  Zo was recommended to ask Joke,who was Nita's ex-boyfriend . However, there is an exchange that Zo may need to make for Joke's help. The flirting operation with a hidden secret plan begins!

10. My Love Mix-Up!

    2024 · Comedy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on GMM25.

    My Love Mix-Up! follows Atom, a shy high schooler with a big crush on his classmate, Mudmee. One day, he accidentally discovers that Mudmee has written the name of Kongthap, the super cool basketball player, on her eraser. In a moment of clumsiness, Atom drops the eraser, and Kongthap sees his name on it, misunderstanding the situation and thinking Atom is crushing on him.