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Reply 1988 and My side dishes that comprise the main meal

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AS EIGHTH POST FOR THE #foodflixflex which my friends and I will be doing this September to celebrate food and cinema, I present you my instant ensemble of spicy noodle soup, sweet and spicy fish cake, scrambled eggs, kimchi and rice wrapped in nori which I would like to connect to Reply 1988, a Korean teleseries which has a high rating for me for good casting and directing though there was a bit of struggle to keep some side story interesting before the story finally concludes at the strange number of 19th episode.  The story is about the two generations of friensdships between and among the four families in the 80s. The story started with the four friends who were told by their parents to bring some side dishes to the next doors and the four took turns in going in and out of the doors as if they were in a maze, and Deoksun, the story's narrator, concluded why don't they all just eat together. That part was visually witty and just so memorable for me, a...