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You finished Squid Game. Then you finished Alice in Borderland. Now what? If our recent recommendations have gotten you hooked on manga-inspired series, try long-running Japanese hit show Midnight Diner. There are five seasons on Netflix, but it’s an anthology, so you can jump in anywhere. Each 24-minute episode introduces you to a different customer at the Tokyo all-night bar and restaurant run by the mysterious Master, who listens as well as he cooks. Weirdly and brilliantly, the characters' lives are always marked by a particular dish that the Master makes for them — and at the end of every episode, you get a two-minute lesson from them on how to cook it yourself.

For a more recent — and slightly more out there — manga adaptation that also offers cooking and general household tips, there’s anime series The Way of the Househusband, which follows former yakuza boss the Immortal Dragon Tatzu as he brings all his underworld intensity to the task of being the perfect stay-at-home husband. It’s silly and cute, and you might even learn something. There’s a live-action version too.

⚽ Continuing on from Super Saturday in the English Premier League yesterday, we’re following two matches today: Everton v West Ham, which kicked off at 3pm today and is still ongoing at publication time, and Newcastle v Tottenham, which starts at 5:30pm.

In the Spanish league: Barcelona will face Valencia at 9pm, and Villarreal plays Osasuna at 6:30pm.

Juventus v Roma kicks off at 8:45pm in the Italian league, while the Napoli-Torino match will take place earlier at 6pm.

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Binge Cairo arrived on the gastropub scene earlier this year promising “comfort food uplifted” — and that’s what we got when we popped by. Located in New Cairo’s Garden 8 Mall, Binge is open every day from 2pm until 1am, though it’s only family-friendly until 7pm. The decor is sharp with a breezy garden seating area, and true to its comfort-food brand, carbs abound: The menu stars thick burgers and crisp flatbreads with an upscale twist. Is it your cheat day? Go for a crazy shake, topped with all manner of froth, fruits, syrup and sprinkles. It seems there’s no delivery, so you can burn off some of the kcals getting there and back. We recommend you reserve a table on weekend nights.

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The Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) continues with a “virtual reality experience” at the Victoria Rooftop Building from 4pm-10pm every day this week until Thursday. Visitors to the exhibit don Oculus headsets to “plunge into the otherworld.” VR films by French artists will also be screened, in cooperation with the French Institute.

Also from D-CAF, audio walk exhibit How to Disappear Completely by Hungarian MeetLab studio launches at a 7pm reception tonight at the Liszt Institute in Downtown. Bring headphones and a smartphone to tap into the show, which uses geo-location to tell audiences a story as they walk through the city in an experience that falls somewhere between a game, audiobook and walking tour.

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Short Arabic fiction, in English: The quarterly journal and blog for all things Arabic literature in translation, ArabLit, this month announced the recipient of its 2021 Short Story Prize. Maisaa Tanjour and Alice Holttum are the translators of How Kind They Are, written by Syrian playwright and author Mustafa Taj Alden Almosa. The judges’ panel described the story as a “compelling and haunting tale” that makes for “one of the most memorable short stories about madness vs. sanity.” This is the first year the prize has been awarded to co-translators. Read the translated story in full at no charge here, or subscribe to ArabLit Quarterly for more Arabic fiction in English.