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‘A modern-day fairytale’: the joyful Japanese food and friendship drama you should never watch hungry

With a Netflix Top 10 that, in the UK at least, features Ginny & Georgia, Vikings: Valhalla and , you might be forgiven for wondering if there is much left on the streaming platform that isn’t either totally daft or about serial killers. There is, though it requires a bit of digging; it would be a shame if the gorgeous nine-parter The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House gets passed over. The series is adapted from a, who won the Palme d’Or for in 2018.

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