Beef, Cupcakes And Him (Vietnamese)

To be honest, I am not sure if this was aired as a film or a mini series, but I saw it as one full length feature with a total run time of about 50 minutes. We haven't seen many BL series from Vietnam but they are picking up a lot and slowly catching up. This series tries to nicely capture BL with some delicious food, but does it succeed, lets see !!

Huy is a young chef lives with his sister in the city. When covid slows down, his restaurant reopens, but he is found to be laid off from the job. This is primarily because of the jealousy of the other chef. .Oblivious to they information, his mother sends his childhood friend from village, Thang, so that he could stay for a few days with Huy and help him find a chef job. When Thang knows about his job situation, he decides to leave but on his way back he gets mugged, so Huy asks him to stay back for few days. Together they come up with an idea of starting a business from home called 2B chefs and start food delivery. Soon they start making money and before you know, they also fall in love with each other. Seeing their success, the other chef asks him to join the restaurant back but they refuse. A surprise visit from Thang's mother changes things when she wants her son back in village to get married. On request from the evil chef, she makes a plan to get her son back, but the plan fails, bringing the two boys even closer together to continue to run their successful business.

To be honest, I found this series very below average. The actors were strictly ok. Thang looked good and also acted decent. Huy was very ordinary and you could tell he was trying so hard to act. I actually have seen that actor is some other series too, I just can't remember the name. Huy's sister and Thang's mother again were also very ordinary actors and even characters. No one was given a proper character graph. The two boys knew each other from childhood, and we see some scenes of them together, but that doesn't add anything to the story. There is also an instance, of a boy who makes a move on Huy, which I guess was his ex-boyfriend or something; but again, that adds absolutely nothing to the overall storyline. Even the chemistry between the two boys is strictly ok. How do they fall for each other is also something that's not rally explored. Its like one fine day they are cooking and next day they are kissing. 

You can safely stay away form this series/small film and not waste your time. It may have been something to talk about 4-5 years back, but with the advancement that Asian countries have shown in BL series, this one just didn't do it for me. Even the title doesn't make sense at all.  (3/10)