What Did You Eat Yesterday? - Recommendations

Alt title: Kinou Nani Tabeta?

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

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Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy

Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy

F-mi Y-naga is a mangaka whose life revolves around three things: work, sleep… and food! One day, the food-loving F-mi gets an assignment to introduce people to fine dining around the city and – with various friends in tow – she commences a gastronomic tour of Tokyo restaurants. From plates of Italian seafood salad with her room-mate S-Hara and rich French cuisine with fellow foodie, O-ta, to Sushi with her gay friend A-Dou and all you can eat Chinese dim-sum with her secret crush, F-mi is intent on eating her way around the world one dish at a time.

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AirCommodore AirCommodore says...

Fumi Yoshinaga really likes food, eh?

Both of these manga are slice-of-life tales told through meals (either restaurants or cooking). There's not a lot of action or drama, it's mainly just the characters talking to each other (so tons of characterization), and lots and lots of descriptions of delicious foods (that will make you very hungry). Kino Nani Tabeta? includes recipes for everything prepared, and Not Love But Delicious Foods includes detailed information about the real-life restaurants visited, so if you're in Tokyo (or have access to a very well-stocked grocery) you can eat everything yourself.

Dining Bar Akira

Dining Bar Akira

In Tomoko Yamashita's Dining Bar Akira, romantic passions battle with cool logic behind kitchen doors. There's always drama when you're trying to run a busy bar and restaurant. Akira Koji, the manager, is stuck in the middle of it all, trying to keep his cool.Then he gets a late night confession from one of his employees. Not only that, it's a very attractive male employee a full six years younger than him, 26-year-old Torihara. Akira has never considered a homosexual relationship before, but things start to change when he can't get the young man out of his head. Will the two of them be able to remain professional when things start to get serious?

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Two shounen-ai titles that eschew most of the predominant cliches. Both are about adults instead of teenagers, the seme≠big and rough, the uke≠look like a little girl, their relationships are pretty balanced, there's no "I'm going to rape you because I love you" scenes, characters don't act stereotypically "shounen-ai" (they're more concerned with either getting drunk and bickering, or being a savvy lawyer than fawning all over each other). They also both food-oriented, though while in Kinou Nani Tabeta? food is the main focus and the relationship is a mere side-dish, in Dining Bar Akira the opposite is true.

Little Forest

Little Forest

Ichiko lives alone in a forest surrounded by the majesty of nature. Each chapter features a dish or meal scavenged or harvested from Ichiko's surroundings in rural Komori ("little forest").

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Little Forest and Kinou Nani Tabeta? are gentle slice-of-life manga told through cooking. Both lack a chronological story, instead opting for glimpses into the lives and meal-times of their slightly unusual (but believable) adult protagonists. Both include recipes, facts about food, and other yummy goodness. Sure to make you hungry.

Antique Bakery

Antique Bakery

Tachibana is an heir to a huge and successful corporation. He can speak five languages, play musical instruments, and has even passed the bar exam, so naturally he's now... running a bakery?! At the Antique Bakery, Ono, known as the ‘Gay of demonic charm' serves as the head patissier; ex-boxing pro Eiji works as Ono's apprentice; and Tachibana's bumbling henchman and shadow, Chikage, helps out to the best of his rather limited abilities. As a carefree ladies man, Tachibana is always ready to turn on the charm if it means getting a sale, though aside from his love of women, no one really knows why the grandson of a successful businessman would suddenly decide to open a bakery. Could a traumatic event in Tachibana's past have anything to do with why he set up shop?

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Both of these manga by Fumi Yoshinaga are technically shounen-ai, but both are much more concerned with slice-of-life, and filling each page with as many mouth-watering descriptions of food as possible. Both are about adults in their 30s/40s (though you couldn't guess by looking at them), so the moods are more mature than standard BL.

The Drops of God

The Drops of God

Yutaka Kanzaki, a wine critic whose reviews have enough clout to move the industry worldwide, has died—leaving behind a wine collection worth over two billion yen. Only the one who can name his favorite bottles, plus vintages, will inherit this dream of a cellar. It's a battle between Yutaka's biological son Shizuku and adopted child Issei to identify these "Twelve Apostles"—along with the very best wine in his collection, the so-called "Drops of God."

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These two seinen manga feature page after page of adult dudes waxing lyrical about delicious food and wine. They're both pretty mellow, though very informative, and would definitely appeal to the same audience.

Confessions of a Shy Baker

Confessions of a Shy Baker

Toshimitsu Yamamura, who runs a real estate business, and Genta Tsubakisaka, a caregiver, live together contentedly. In his spare time, Toshimitsu loves baking and making candies, and coincidentally, Gonta loves eating them! While their day to day lives might be full of difficulties and stresses, the time they spend together at their home café is a sweet treat.

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feathertail38 feathertail38 says...

both series are cute slice of life vignets with a recipe as a through line                             

Nigakute Amai

Nigakute Amai

Having an attractive face and figure, sparkling career, trusted by the superiors and idol among the juniors – that is our protagonist Maki, a woman around 30. On the other hand, we have Nagisa – a natural-born hottie who works as a teacher at an all-boys school and tries hard to hide a certain secret. What will happen when the two start living together?! A food-love-comedy, describing the unlikely cohabitation of two completely different people – a woman with no luck in men and a man with no interest in women – and centered around the topic of “food.”

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Nigakute Amai: refrain

Nigakute Amai: refrain

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Aki wa Haru to Gohan wo Tabetai Okawari!

Aki wa Haru to Gohan wo Tabetai Okawari!

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Hokusai to Meshi Saeareba

Hokusai to Meshi Saeareba

Yamada, Bun is a shy, quite, keep to herself kinda girl but when it comes to cooking she gets really into it and is an awesome cook. She lives alone with a talking stuffed animal named Hokusai but only she can hear him speak. Bun is fine with her life as long as she has her food and Hokusai.

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