Eating is Intimate completed Eating is Intimate AUTHOR: IamA13eliever
LEAD: D.O.
GENRE; SETTING: romance, food; slice of life
CHAPTERS: 9
READER INFORMATION: None  

"Sharing food is the most intimate act you can perform with your clothes on. It's authentic and primal. No great relationship can ever begin until you've taken food from the same dish."

When Kyungsoo takes a bite out of Jia's leftover Chinese food, he also takes a little bite out of Jia's heart that has her both attracted to and repulsed by her brother's best friend. Being stuck together in the same house for two weeks with one fridge can only bring these two food lovers together or have them tearing each other apart. Will they come together to share a meal or leave it unfinished?

thoughts PLOT: Jia's big brother, Jongin, has his best friend over to stay. Kyungsoo and Jia are both bottomless pits when it comes to food, though Kyungsoo's a good cook and Jia basically lives on take-out and food at the local mall's food hall. She takes an instant disliking to Kyungsoo when he steals a bite of her Chinese, which is a bad thing for two reasons: 1) he's staying for two weeks and 2) he likes teasing her and he's staying for two weeks.

And 3) he's hot.

I have to admit, from the description, I thought it was going to be more of a stuck-home-alone-with-big-brother's-best-friend-food-wars kind of thing, but it wasn't. It was fluffy, light-hearted, funny, and Jia's family just as much as Kyungsoo did.

There were one or two inconsistencies, like the timeline – it was very hard to make out how that was progressing, and I was pretty sure we were still on about day four or something when it was coming to an