Monday, June 16, 2014

Korean Food Dramas -- Cuties and Kimchi

Do you know what is the best combination ever?  Korean food dramas.  Cute actors -- check. Delicious foods -- check.  Sappy romance -- checkcheckcheck!

Here are a few that I've been watching: 

Let's Eat starring Lee Soo Kyung and Yoon Doo Joon


This has got to be one of my favorite dramas of all time.  The plot centers around this 30-something year old divorced lady and her relationships or lack thereof.  But one thing she can always count on?  Delicious food!  What is pretty awesome is that they love to focus on the experience of eating food with others -- the sounds, the visuals, the happy feeling of a full tummy.

And I have to say, I was craving Korean food the WHOLE ENTIRE time I was watching this.  Sometimes after eating dinner, I would watch an episode and suddenly I'm overcome with this feeling that I must order some late night jjajjangmyun (black bean noodles) or hey, wouldn't some raw marinated crab be super amazing right now? (PS -- Jang su jang has it.  I wants it).

Plus, I love YDJ's character's face when the way someone is eating the specific dish (incorrectly, of course) totally offends him...


Feast of the Gods starring Sung Yuri and Joo Sang Wook 


Currently watching this drama though it is 30-something episodes long.  My cutoff is usually 25 and that's pushing it.  But this is the typical switched at birth story, except revolving around a master chef's daughter, who grows up to be this surreal chef despite no formal training.  I don't get as hungry, but it's fun to watch people running around a kitchen and making beautiful, multi-course meals.  Like, the lady makes some stunning steamed layer cake using dried daffodils? 

Any other good food dramas?  

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