Food and love. Both are filling and both can give you a stomach ache depending on the day. Either way both are enjoyable in the long run.
Here are seven Korean food shows that are so sweet you won’t need dessert to satisfy your sweet tooth.
Which one is your favorite? Let me know in the comments below!
1. Wok of Love
What’s It About: Talented chef Seo Poong works at a popular Chinese restaurant inside of a hotel. His fiance cheats on him with the hotel CEO. Seo Poong swears revenge on the CEO and quits his job. A shabby Chinese restaurant named the Hungry Wok, operates across the street from a six star hotel. The restaurant used to be operated by a former gangster, Doo Chil-Seong. Seeing as it is now out of business, Seo Poong buys the abandoned restaurant and brings over all of the customers from the popular hotel. Dan Sae-Woo has had her life turned upside down. She applies at the shabby Chinese restaurant where Seo Poong falls in love with her at first sight.
Starring: Jang Hyuk, Junho, Jung Ryeo Won
Where To Watch: Rakuten Viki, Kocowa
Watch The Trailer Here:
2. Pasta
What’s It About: Seo Yoo-kyung has always been an assistant in the kitchen at LaSfera restaurant. For three years she has worked steadily to earn her place. One day, she finally gets to become the newest Assistant Pasta Chef. The old executive chef gets fired and the restaurant hires a new chef named Choi Hyun Wook. Upon his arrival, the female chefs are fired one by one and Seo Yoo-kyung finds herself as the last woman standing. She gets fired several times by Choi Hyun Wook but wins a permanent position in a blind taste test. Choi Hyun Wook’s old rival/girlfriend gets hired at the restaurant by the new owner. All of this leads to jealousy, rivalry, love and hatred in the complicated relationships between the four characters.
Starring: Lee Sun-kyun, Kong Hyo-Jin, Lee Na-Hee
Where To Watch: Rakuten Viki
Watch The Trailer Here:
3. Sweet Munchies
What’s It About: Park Jin-Sung is a chef that owns a late-night snack bar. Customers are given free reign over their drinks, but chef Park Jin-Sung matches their food with their drinks. He has an uncanny ability to give his customers the exact food they are craving. Television producer, Kim Ah Jin is a frequent customer at the restaurant. She asks the chef to host her next variety show. He eventually agrees after she convinces him the show will be a success. Jin-Sung develops feelings for Kim Ah Jin after working together on the popular show. Enter a new man, Tae Wan, a fashion designer, and things get taken to a whole new level. Will Jin-Sung be able to express his feelings to Kim Ah Jin?
Starring: Jung Il-Woo, Kang Ji-Young, Lee Hak-Joo
Where To Watch: Rakuten Viki
Watch The Trailer Here:
4. Chocolate
What’s It About: Lee Kang is form a small seaside town. All of his life he has dreamed of becoming a chef. Now an adult he is a neurosurgeon that still holds onto his old dreams. Moon Cha-Young was a small child when she met Lee Kang at a restaurant in his hometown. He cooked for her and that happy memory led her to become a chef as an adult. Both working in a hospice, the two meet again and become reaquainted. They try to heal their emotional scars together by preparing meals for the patients.
Starring: Ha Ji-Won, Yoon Kye-Sang, Jang Seung-Jo
Where To Watch: Netflix
Watch The Trailer Here:
5. I Order You
What’s It About: Can a divorced man learn to love again? A heartbroken Yeo Gook Dae hides behind his attitude. He owns and operates a homemade dosirak (Lunchbox) where he makes wonderful meals to take his mind off of the heartbreak. Park Song Ah comes to his dosirak one day and the two begin a bickering relationship. Their meeting makes the two deal with secrets of the past. Does the back and forth couple realize the two are meant for each other?
Starring: Jung Yun-ho, Kim Ga-eun, Jong-Won Baek
Where To Watch: Rakuten Viki
Watch The Trailer Here:
6. How Are U Bread
What’s It About: A genuis patissier Han Do-Woo works at a mysterious bakery. Every moring he bakes bread to grant wishes. His bakery soon becomes the talk of the town. Noh Mi Rae is a writer for a hit bakery show. She is determined to have Han Do-Woo join her show. She tries any and everything to get him to join. Noh Mi Rae’s attempts at wooing Han Do-Woo slowly causes her heart to flutter after spending all of her time with the mysterious patissier.
Starring: Kim Jun-myeon, Lee Se-young, So Young Han
Where To Watch: Rakuten Viki
Watch The Trailer Here:
7. Gaduri Restaurant
What’s It About: Ga Du Ri’s outlook on love and life is high. She has found the man of her dreams. After he leaves her, she is broken hearted and decides to pick herself back up. Ga Du Ri opens a sushi restaurant and it proves to be successful. She also becomes a love and dating coach. Ga Du Ri catches a mysterious young man around her apartment complex, that turns out to be her new neighbor, Cha Woo Bin. He disregards the opinions of others and Ga Du Ri is determined that he is up to something. She sets her mind to find out who the real Cha Woo Bin is.
Starring: Lee Joo Bin, Hyuk, Kim Sung Tae
Where To Watch: Rakuten Viki
Watch The Trailer Here:
