Not only that, in 'My Name Is Busaba', Bee Namthip is often purposely made to look ugly. As for Film Thanapat, he is hot. So, I enjoyed watching him, for the first time in a lakorn blissfully lacking any criminal plots or plastic surgery identity swaps. Moreover, this had comedy and very cute moments not hiding the age gap. Like when she was crying in front of him about a betrayal of a guy she dated for SEVENTEEN YEARS, lolz. Be it age, work or dating issues, most of their scenes were precious. I often laughed aloud watching. It was clear Bee & Film got in sync by working together previously, their onscreen rapport was spot on. The comedy tremendously helped. As a blessing, no stupid crime themes were present.

Episode 6, there comes Utt Uttsada. According to his year of birth, he should be 47. He does look well preserved, lol. And he's all over Bee Namthip's main heroine. The two look good together and she doesn's have to be "aunt" with him. They start flirting soon and Film Thanapat's facial expressions while watching this are priceless. Still, I couldn't help but cheer for the Utt-Bee couple. They had cute dynamics and Film was seriously too young for Bee.

Nevertheless, I accepted Film gradually as her heart's choice, who wouldn't fall for him?:) But then we literally spend whole EPISODES watching our main heroine participating in 'SuperChef Thailand', which is bit like turning on a tv to watch someone turning on a tv, but as a result we got the screentime filler which could otherwise undoubtedly consist of classic lakorn "plots" which thankfully didn't have a place here. Rest of the time, we were focused on what's there in romance most to enjoy (another adorable couple in this one was Chef Pao & Noei), though it WAS a bit questionable to keep Bee Namthip's beauty SO toned down (though I did understand it was for a good cause) that she practically looked like a dude. (Last few episodes she started wearing obvious, thick mascara, which looked like a child applied it for the first time.)

There are plots involving family living and bussiness, but emphasis is put on human relationships like friendship, even with "annoying" or bit villain-ish side characters. There are parent-child scenes which are simple, but powerful and very well delivered. Busaba has colorful family. Nang'rai has her father. Film's praek has a couple of great scenes with his mother. It's actually more enjoyable than the romance in later stages, where Bee keeps wearing the obviously fake hair and fake eyelashes and Film's character, who had such a good rapport with her being friends is suddenly all over her, it seems rather forced and the kisses look awkward. We then have "plots" like the noble-idiocy separation or writing someone a letter that does not get delivered and misunderstandings and meddling third parties which was precisely what I previously appreciated we did not. The ending is corny but kinda sweet.