Sleep well, Miss Cook.
That sounds like the best compliment.
And this sort of thing.
Don't wear it in front of me a second time.
The cactus' flower has bloomed. (red light/green light: one of a game)
Goodnight, Sae Young.
Goodnight chef.
Ah, you scared me!
What are you doing now?
What's going on with you and the President, huh?
What kind of relationship must you have with him to be covering each other's eyes and be playing around?
There's nothing going on between us.
I could ask the same of you and Oh Sae Young.
There's nothing going on between us, either.
One more time you ask me a useless question...
I'll take the anchovies� poo and make a fish balls. And put it into a pasta and feed it to you.
Anchovies poo-balls....
You're enjoying this? You even call Poo-Ball a pasta.
Anchovies poo-balls....
Go inside!
Good night.
Why did he come out?
San
You have to come so early in the morning.
I was embarrassed about seeing the employees.
If you know enough to be embarrassed,
then why would you take the money and put the blame on an innocent?
And Seo Yoo Kyung, the weakest person?
I returned the $10,000.
And also...
Did you apologize to the one you used as a scapegoat?
I understand. I will.
Is it bearable?
This is just the beginning.
The kitchen is a really dangerous place.
There are knives, fires, oil...
And there are lots of accidents in the kitchen.
And the chefs even injure themselves.
And so?
You. Buy an insurance policy from me.
I have to live and feed my kids, too.
You, just make the chefs take out a policy, eh?
Accept my request, please.
When the president tells them to do it, it's not like they'd refuse.
Anyway, you're the president.
Ah, it's the president, after all. If the president tells them, they'll do it.
If he says get one, they will.
As president, you can use your influence that way, you know.
The cactus' flower has bloomed.
Excuse me, Customer.
I mean, president.
What?
Are you the cactus, by any chance?
You're not the cactus from my locker, are you?
I'm not.
Really? Mmmm.
I understand.
This is a warning to you...
Don't act too chummy with me.
Please don't act in a way that our Chef would misunderstand.
He'll make me do all kinds of things if he thinks I've got you guarding my back.
So, unless you're prepared to accept all those demands,
please don't act like you're close to me or that you're guarding my back.
Why aren't you responding?
I'll do it. I'll guard your back.
Ask me anything.
Your back, what else?
Oh, he's such a strange guy...
Oh, my...
Oh, it's so cold...
Do a good job.
These king mushrooms. Clean them well and make sure you put them in the fridge.
- These are fresh. - Yes, chef.
Invoice.
VIP's special.
How much is it worth?
This is the best, for tomorrow's VIP order.
$500 worth.
In one box.
Per crab, dork.
500...
Hey.
How many times do you plan on going back and forth carrying hardly anything?
You're not going to take this?
Go on.
29...
Did you verify this?
Yes, Chef.
Make sure there's enough room in the fridge for this. Don't forget.
I understand, Chef.
What about the cheese?
The cheese is right there...
Hold on.
There.
Put the lobster in the refrigerator, in its usual place.
Yes, chef.
How much is the total today?
It'll probably come out to a lot.
It's about $2500.
$2500?
Who ordered this?
These are ingredients for Oh Sae Young's new item.
Where did you go that you're only now showing up?
I'll carry things, too.
That's a given, isn't it?
Are you not a cook...?
Yes, Chef.
Hey!
Don't carry that, but carry this.
That?
You're in charge of vongole, aren't you?
You have to care of your "children".
-Yes! -Carry it.
Hurry and go.
Yes, Chef!
Are you trying to show that you're a woman?
No, Chef.
Hurry, go!
No, don't do it.
I'll get in big trouble.
Give it here!
You come here.
You should be carrying the senior chef's stuff, and here you are...
When you should be going back and forth more often...
Open your eyes, open them.
Stay put exactly like that.
It's been a long time.
Seeing each other in the same kitchen.
Go inside.
Yes, chef.
I'm so nervous.
You covet everything of mine, don't you?
I do not want to take yours away,
I just want to work in the same kitchen as you.
Together?
If we're together, we can make the kitchen even better.
I'll see you later.
One more time!
It's coming out, your muscles coming out.
My nephew (or niece)
speaks English so well that
those who've come back from studying abroad, can't hold their heads up.
Exactly what I said. There's no point in going abroad.
It's all up to how you do it.
The fusion cuisine you made yesterday was impressive.
The best!
Even after getting destroyed by us in first round, they don't even blink at defeat.
Is that confidence?
Yeah...
Hyung, you've never thought about going to study abroad?
Study abroad?! Pshh. I didn't have enough money to go to university that I had to go to a trade school.
Oh, you came in?
What is this? Why is the mood like this?
Sous chef, we should've gone out for a drink or something.
Because of you guys eyeing me,
are you guys not able to show you're happy when you actually are?
No...it's not like something good happened.
Just because we beat the Italy guys in the first round, will our lives get any better?
Why are you guys so pessimistic?
No matter how hard we work,
the Italy guys will get scouted faster and become chefs faster than us.
And we'll continue to be under them.
Hands, arms, legs, shoulders, will all be in pain.
Up until now, I've only taught you guys to be patient and endure, but now I don't know if that was right.
Not one that is run by one person's pride but one that is run by everyone cooperating,
I've thought of a kitchen like that.
Let's show them. How scary cooking for life and death is.
No, but, how...?
What is it? Take a look.
New Chef Cooking Competition? Is this a place we can enter?
You guys, have more than enough qualifications.
Good morning.
Until when do we need to be looked down on because we're domestically trained?
The winners of the competition will represent Korea in Dubai and has an opportunity to study in Italy.
Only 1 team is allowed to enter per restaurant.
Keep this a secret from the other guys, and roll our sleeves and get ready.
We'll do our best!
It's foie ChilChi.
It's foie gras.
Can't I taste your experimental foie gras just once?
I don't want you to.
I'll take out the liver for you. I'll clean it, if I help...
I don't want you to.
Can I just try one bite of even one that failed?
I hate that even more.
He's usually like that, that person.
Until it exceeds his liking, He doesn't let anyone taste it.
If you're only going to use the liver, can't you give me the meat?
Don't touch it! It's my flesh.
Why?
So you can make jwee-poh? (dried cuttlefish)
I want to keep working on my fish ball pasta. I thought you told me try and entice?
In what day and age?
Are you at least eating as you go around?
These days, I don't really feel like I'm living.
I'm not sleepy and I have no appetite.
Look at how my complexion has gotten rough.
Isn't that because your skin was originally thick?
Why are you being like that? We're all in the same boat. Yesterday.
Riding the same boat, eh?
And it wasn't doing your best for Choi Hyun Wook?
You were running all over the place with plates of his foie gras. Did you go there to wait tables?
I want to go back to La Sfera...
If only Choi Hyun Wook isn't there...
You know, Kim San, the owner of La Sfera? He's my junior.
And until now, that's the reason he left La Sfera in my hands.
Even though I kept saying I didn't want to, because our San kept pushing me, I did it.
You don't believe me? Y-you don't believe me?
Just now, I was on my way back from meeting with our San.
He told me to take a break because that Choi Hyun Wook guy was kicking up such a fuss.
Our San can't even dream of taking care of La Sfera without me.
Just now when I met him, his nose was hitting the ground as he apologized profusely to me.
So is he firing him? PRESSURE HIM HARD!
He won't last long.
If he disappears, then we can go back, right?
But... but of.....we may still have a chance at La Sfera
So this is worth $1000, eh?
It's one month's salary.
Oh, jackpot!
Hey, Jung Eun Soo, don't just stand there, follow me.
yes.
Okay, dinner is completely ready, right?
Yes, Chef!
And the prep work for tomorrow's reservation for a 100 can't be taken lightly, so after service finishes today,
Seo Yoo Kyung, Jung Eun Soo, stay behind.
yes, chef.
Is there enough linguine?
Yes, Chef.
The dinner guests have arrived.
- OK. - Yes.
I heard you had a good talk with Oh Sae Young.
Huh?
Tomorrow, reporters will gather and we'll have a presentation of our new menu.
We'll show the well received foie gras from the hotel event, together with the first place. Three Taste Pasta.
Oh Sae Young said she would make the Three Tastes Pasta herself,
Are you talking about here?
Of course. It is a part of our menu now.
Does that make sense? A kitchen can't have 2 chefs.
There cannot be any case of having 2 chefs in 1 kitchen.
It's the same as having 2 conductors in an orchestra.
Will conducting be possible? What about the other members?
If they ask us to play a do, one asks us to play a high do and the other a low do.
What are we supposed to do? If we go back and forth, it'll break us in two.
Even if she developed a new item and won, she's still an outsider. I feel that the proper thing to do is for her to turn the recipe over to the restaurant.
New president, that's a bit. I think it's because you just don't know any better, but in a kitchen...
It's not like it's a snake with two heads or anything...
We even closed the restaurant for three days. Didn't everyone here agree to the conditions?
Chef, all you need to do is concern yourself with the foie gras.
She isn't here by any chance, is she?
Yes.
Please take good care of me.
"In my kitchen, there are no women". You're not going to use that reason to get rid of me, are you?
I will stand where the chef wants me to, and use the stove that he assigns,
I don't care where it is. I will follow the chef's will.
Where shall I stand, chef?
Shall I stand wherever I want?
Can we talk?
What do you want? You want me to leave this kitchen?
Chef, I only wish to revive La Sfera to what it once was.
Think of it simply as a new menu item being added.
Whatever the case, you personally selected the dish. We have to let it be made in our kitchen.
It looks that easy and simple to you, doesn't it?
97% chef status, if you're worried you will lose your chef position, you don't need to worry.
Although there are many chefs, I don't have any intention of seeing someone else as the chef.
Do you not have confidence? In your own kitchen?
My kitchen?
How is this my kitchen?
In my kitchen, there aren't two chefs.
All this time, you have done as you please in that kitchen.
Are you going to give it up now?
Then let's see how the kitchen you changed turns out. 97%
You mixed up Table 3 and table 7!!
Agh...!
Yes!
I'll get it ready quickly.
Is it going to take a while?
Wait.
Hurry up.
Get the soup ready.
Yes, of course.
Jung Eun Soo, do you not see that this fell?
Yes.
I knew something like this would happen because of Oh Sae Young
I know right? Why in the world would you pick her dish?
Hot!
Ouch, watch out!
Hey, why are there 3 Vongoles?
...1....2....3.....
Table 12,
Just finish making it.
Aish!
Chef.
Chef!
Of all the times I've heard your voice, this time is the boldest.
Are you doing well???
Right now, the kitchen is pure chaos here!
Where are you now?
When are you going to come?
Come over here to play...
Chef.
Don't bring anyone else and just come alone.
Let's play together.
Are you crazy?
Hey, Seo Yoo Kyung! Let's play together!
He must be crazy...
Everyone already left. What are you doing by yourself?
I want to finish what I was told to do this morning before I leave.
He said to get the prep food ready for tomorrow.
Why aren't you going home, director?
Chef may not come back to this kitchen.
He's not the kind of person who would easily throw out his kitchen.
He's more the kind to abruptly come in during the middle of the night.
He may even come to nag at me about my poor performance.
It's my first day as president,
don't you worry about me at all?
Work hard.
Oh! It's Seo Yoo Kyung!
Hey.
Want a drink?
Chef, after leaving like that...now,
Is it okay to do this?
Were you always this type of person?
It's not like you, a father who left his kids and ran away from home.
Do you know how chaotic it was for us running this way and that way on our own?
What about tomorrow? What are you going to do tomorrow? Tomorrow's going to be even more...
Ah...I can't hear a thing you're saying.
No matter how angry you were, still.
It's not the customers' fault.
The guests probably wondered whether they were eating through their mouths or their noses.
With the kitchen a total mess, can you imagine what the food must have tasted like?
What kind of chef leaves in the middle of dinner preparations?
Keep going. What was all that nagging about?
Is it because Oh Sae Young is a woman?
Or is it because you and Oh Sae Young are both chefs?
Let's play.
It's not like someone else picked her. You were the one who chose her as first place.
Let's play, Seo Yoo Kyung!
Do whatever you please!
But please fulfill your responsibilities before playing.
How can you only pass your time doing work?
You only know work, don't you?
When I become a chef, I'm going to play and yell, "In my kitchen, there are no men."
While yelling, I'm going to drink, and live just like that.
In my kitchen,
Having you is more than enough women for me.
OK?
Hey, if you're going to keep nagging, then just leave.
I don't want to listen to your nagging.
Go.
Go on.
Go.
In my kitchen,
having you is more than enough women for me, satisfied?
Handphone!
Are you with Yoo Kyung?
No.
She didn't come back yet.
I saw her leaving...
Really? Then, she ought to come home soon.
Am I going to be able to run my business properly tomorrow?
You'll have to be able to.
Really?
Excuse me!
What am I going to do?
What is this?
There's no binding.
again.
Do you really want to make such cowardly food?
Do it again.
Are you trying to let it show that you're a woman? Huh?
Anybody there?
The customer you are calling is unable to answer the phone...
Mom!
The new menu item,
Fine.
You make it yourself.
So starting tomorrow, I can go to work?
Thank you.
It's just that I need a decent chef with a good menu item.
That's all.
Don't misunderstand.
Nothing has changed.
Where's Seo Yoo Kyung?
It looked like she didn't come back last night.
Good morning.
He came.
Then do we have...
2 chefs now?
Let's go.
Hey!
Come over here.
Yesterday,
who left this out here?
Did you put this out or not?
Sorry, chef.
Today, the VIP,
including reporters,
What's the menu?
Foie gras, caviar, wild mushrooms and the new first-place menu item.
Move.
Yes, chef!
What is this?
Is sunbae locked in there?
Sunbae! Sunbae!
The door is...
Then was she trapped in there?
Hey, Seo Yoo Kyung!
Hey!
The door was strange yesterday...
Why are you saying that now?
Sunbae!
Get out of the way.
Hurry up!
Thank you.
Miss cook, are you alright?
Seo Yoo Kyung, are you okay?
Are you ok?
Yes, I'm ok.
But...
But what's with the temperature in here?
It was turned off...
Check all the seafood first.
You guys check the vegetables and the herbs.
Yes.
Move.
We can't use this. The color's changed already.
All the stuff over here is okay. If we re-refrigerate, it should be fine.
I don't think we can salvage the herbs.
The sauce was all ruined. What are we going to do?
What about the most expensive items?
Chef!
The sea urchin roe is all...
This is all the stuff that Chef Oh specifically ordered.
And it's all stuff for tonight's dinner.
H-How much is all of this?
Forget the price, how are we going to get these things again?
Get out, immediately.
Get out of here!
Yes, chef!
Step out for a bit.
Hello.
- Seriously? - Yeah, I'm serious.
- What are we going to do? - I don't know!
Everything's...
Are you okay?
Why didn't you just freeze to death instead?
You're a chef.
Is your mouth frozen?
I'm asking you if your mouth is frozen?
I did it because I wanted to live.
I was scared.
I knew that if I died in here, I was a true chef,
but I lost.
I thought I had to live in order to be a chef.
Kill off all the ingredients and have just the chef remain alive.
Thank you.
For living.
I'm disgustingly grateful.
If you're okay, then stand up.
We'll have to postpone the unveiling.
You can't do that.
How can we put it on under these circumstances?
The food has to come out according to schedule. That's what a restaurant does.
Citing unforeseen circumstances and postponing things a couple of days,
that appears so unprofessional.
On top of that, we closed for three days.
After just one day, we're going to postpone things again?
I'll give it a shot.
Go and take care of Yoo Kyung, huh?
Your body. Is it okay?
I'm sorry.
Why do you act like such a fool?
What is this?
Fortunately, I don't think there will be a problem with the caviar or wild mushrooms.
What are you going to do about the fois gras?
Hurry and marinate it in oil,
Then the flavor of the liver will be revived. Got that?
I will go and re-purchase all the vegetables.
What are you going to do about the sea urchin eggs?
It should have already boarded a plane from Jeju Island.
Already?
It's a place that I contracted with when I was doing the cooking program. They're reliable.
Don't worry.
Okay.
Anything else that we lack, go around to local restaurants and explain our situation.
It's a lot more efficient than trying to get everything from far away.
Will they quietly hand things over?
They'll probably think it's good news for them.
Last time, we didn't lend out some things, too, so that may not...
Move.
Yes, chef!
Everything's ready, right? I'm leaving now.
Yes, yes.
I'm sorry, but could I please buy some sea urchin eggs?
I'm sorry.
Hello.
President, could I please get some sea urchin eggs?
I don't have any. Please leave.
Goodbye.
Director, just once!
I don't have it.
Just once. Please.
President, I'll be in really big trouble...
Thank you.
Dad, is there anywhere I could get some fresh sea urchin eggs?
Why do you need fresh sea urchin eggs all of a sudden?
Did you cause some sort of accident again?
Excuse me.
This is wild mushroom risotto.
The wild mushroom was refrigerated with uncooked rice, to release the aromas.
We prepared this especially for you, our special guests.
Enjoy your meal.
Does the food taste good?
Yes, it's good.
The caviar is to be eaten together with this dish.
Enjoy your meal.
Is it to your liking?
Yes, the flavors are quite good.
The natural foie gras is made from wild domestic fish.
Please enjoy.
The three-flavor pasta is exactly as the name describes--three kinds of pasta,
and three different sauces. It is our new menu item.
The outside of the ravioli is coated with tomato sauce,
The inner ravioli is filled with a cream sauce.
Inside the ravioli pasta, there is another small pasta piece.
This is my ambitious creation.
Please love my three-flavor pasta a lot.
Since it's a new menu item,
everyone have a taste.
Don't tiptoe around me because I'm the chef.
Try it without any pre-conceived assumptions for or against.
Try it.
Why?
In front of me, you can't say anything. It's that, right?
Fine, then go home and criticize to your heart's content.
Then taste and by tomorrow, submit your opinions. Got that?
Yes, chef.
Eat up.
Try it.
Try mine too.
Ultimately, it's the first time for all of you to try mine, too.
It's good.
It's not overly rich, it has a good protein feeling and tan overall nuttiness is there.
Everyone worked hard.
Everyone, clean up and go home.
Yes chef!
Yes chef.
You all worked very hard.
You really suffered today.
You worked hard.
Hmm... So good, so good.
Why is it that I'm eating this, yet I'm still hungry?
When it comes down to it, we didn't eat the whole day.
I suppose.
Someone did a study about poor health habits, and chefs like us were number one.
Why?
What do you mean, "Why?" When others are eating, we can't.
And when we get off work and go home,
the thing we most dislike doing is cooking, isn't it?
That's right.
That's right, right, right! Me, too! Me, too, I'm like that. You, too?
I thought I was the only one like that. I'm so sick of it.
Uh, I'm sorry for not finishing up and just leaving first.
If I'd stayed with you, then today's incident wouldn't have happened, huh?
Get in.
It's alright Chef.
I said get in.
It's alright.
Get in!
Today was difficult, wasn't it?
I want to treat you once.
Everyone, Cool? (in agreement)
Cool.
Sounds good.
I thought maybe I'd get to visit a hotel nightclub tonight...
All of you have lovely appearances and minds.
Except for one person.
Although we came because you said you were treating, it's a bit...
Don't feel burdened. It's just that I love Italy, so I thought we could all get together and talk about Italy.
What's your favorite place in Italy?
Firenze, the city of flowers.
Wow, we trained there.
-Really? -Of course.
When did you go?
Since it was 7 years ago, on my honeymoon...
Then, on my second honeymoon, Milano.
Oh, it was so nice there, too.
Your second honeymoon?
Why?
Nothing.
Now, I'm bored with the north.
For my third honeymoon, I'd like to go to Sicily.
Philip, what do you think?
I don't care much for the heat.
It's winter there.
Me too
I don't like hot places, either.
I'm hungry.
Let's go eat.
Eat up.
It should thaw your body some.
But you know, you sure are sticky (persistent).
Even men would have thrown in the aprons and run if they'd been criticized for their faults as much as you have.
You're still sticking it out.
Without making excuses, and without whining.
It's good that you have such a dumb side to you.
Those who are too clever for their own good,
even make a big ____ out of the food they eat.
Those who ___ with the food people eat don't have the right to be chefs, you know.
Hey, goldfish.
You're really quite a sincere person.
You don't lean on anyone. You're close-mouthed. You're a loner.
You may think it doesn't show, but everyone can see.
Chef...
Eat before it gets cold.
I don't want to eat.
Why?
Hey!
What's wrong with you?
Why are you acting out? It's not you did anything to be proud of.
You made the kitchen a total mess the whole day...
What do you feel is so unjust that you've got that look on your face?
Did you do well?
I know I did wrong.
So what?
Do you think I'm a joke because I like you?
You think I'm a pushover because I like you so much, don't you?
Why do you say it would have been better if I'd frozen to death, then say I'm a good person,
Then ask if I'm a real chef, then say I'm a sincere person? Why do you play with people?
Is that my fault?
Then, whose fault is it?
It's because you do well then mess up, then back again.
It's because you appeal to me sometimes and then you don't. That's why.
Yes, I'm sorry that's my fault too, then.
What's wrong with you really!
Chef, in your kitchen, you chase people out and fire the women.
It must be really great to do whatever you please.
Yeah. I like it.
Yes. I'm a youngster and a newbie, and it's an ordeal for me to tiptoe around everyone. But you must enjoy making me feel like that.
That's right, I like it that way!
Yeah, so, what has worked out the way I wanted anyway?
Not just once,
But many times, I fired you, but you're still around, still causing chaos in my kitchen.
I tell you to freeze to death, and you don't do that either.
Then you throw a fit because I buy you something hot to eat so you won't freeze to death.
I'm doing that so I can be happy. I'm doing what I want to live comfortably and eat well. So what?
Stop right there!
You said there were no women in your kitchen, so why is it that you keep me?
What are you going to do now that there are two women in the kitchen?
You're not going to close that mouth?
You must be so happy.
Say one more thing, seriously.
Then why are you making a person's emotions come and go?
Why are you knifing my heart and pounding out, dumping salt on it, then sugar. Frying it and making a meal out of it?
Am I a piece of fish on your cutting board?
I'm not making a meal out of you.
You don't fear anything because you're wielding the knife, right?
As you're filleting, you can cut yourself. And as you're eating you could get a bone stuck in your throat and go off to the next world.
You don't know that?
The fish that are already on the cutting board aren't scared of a knife at all.
They're hiding the bones quietly in their flesh.
So what?
I'm saying that I have those bones too. Every person has them.
So what?
I'm just telling you to be careful of those fish bones.
You're not even a fresh catch.
You were caught a long time ago, and you don't have much of a shelf life left.
You think that's all?
You're hard to fillet, you take a lot of work, and there's not much left of you. And after all the hard work, you're not even pretty.
In any case, you're not a good food item. Huh?
So, I'm not going to stick you on my cutting board and take my knife to you.
I'm not going to cook with you. Satisfied?
So I'm telling you to get off the cutting board.
Telling me to get off the cutting board is...
I'm already on the cutting board. If you tell me to get off the cutting board...
All that's left is the garbage can.
Are you saying to throw away my heart?
Let's go home.
Let's go home...
You're not going home?
I'm going home.
Where are you going instead of going home?
I said I'm going home! Hey!