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Yong Jiu Grocery Store taiwanese drama review
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Yong Jiu Grocery Store
6 people found this review helpful
by ann
Sep 13, 2020
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 9.0

Simple yet realistic

“Sometimes, I feel that each and every one of us is like a wandering planet. Only because we both got lost were we able to meet.”
I guess it’s a fate that our male lead went back to his childhood place to continue running his grandfather’s store.
This story is about opening and closing chapter of your life. Opening for new memories and remembering what it was like going back to your childhood place, closing for the wounds to heal, for the words left unsaid and for the questions left unanswered.
The place itself feels like us viewers(in my opinion) as we can witness the story from the grandfather’s life to the grandson. The store itself watched the people as they come and go of this countryside.
The relationships of our main lead to all the people in the town is superb. They are taking care of each other, specially our elders to him, guiding him and explaining to him what to do for the store. I love how the elders remind him of the memories he had lost and how simple and nice the life at the countryside. We can also in the first five episodes the struggle of our male lead to make decisions that will affect the rest of his life. And overall, the people at the town feels like a one whole family as they know each other very well.
The acting for this drama is good but needs improvement, sometimes I don’t get the emotion of each characters. I don’t feel the chemistry of the two main leads sometimes. But the acting of the people who are portraying the grandfather’s life is on point. As being said, that is the one who standout for me in this drama.
The OST in this drama is decent as well as the BGM. And the male lead can sing too! I love his voice when he was singing in this drama. (may be a spoiler or not)
If you want a healing drama again, then this is a nice rewatch for you. It’s light and heavy at the same but it will give you the healing feeling that we are all looking for when we are feeling down. So for me, whenever I feel like that I’m sure I’ll pick this drama for a rewatch.

Overall 9/10 the actings can be improved but the story is what I love the most is the friendship of the boys in this drama. It is also lesson that we can all learn and remember. The forgiveness that we are asking for will be given to us at the right time. The healing after asking for forgiveness is a satisfaction that we can all have watching this drama.
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