Made With Love, an Indonesian drama on Netflix, shows that you can make a show about a top restaurant and not have people screaming at each other or waxing poetic about how important restaurants are to the fabric of society. Sometimes a simple story and loving shots of food are enough.
Opening Shot: The sun rises over Bali. Someone does morning prayers and offerings on the beach. A woman drives to work. A restaurant opens.
The Gist: Umah Rasa has been a top restaurant in Bali for a quarter century, thanks to the attention to detail of its owner and head chef, Sari Saraswati (Sha Ine Febriyanti). Sari’s daughter Luka Amanda (Mawar de Jongh) has carried on her mother’s legacy, working as Sari’s sous chef. She toils away under what she considers her mother’s inflexible rules because she is determined to take over the restaurant when Sari decides it’s time
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