7 titles, most popular first
Kim Sam-soon is a loud, gifted pastry chef nearing thirty who hates her old-fashioned name. On Christmas Eve she is dumped by her cheating boyfriend and loses her job. Hyun Jin-heon, owner of a fancy French restaurant, hires her, and when she needs money to save her mother's house, he offers it if she will pose as his girlfriend.
Squad Chief Go's team of narcotics detectives keeps botching operations, and after a chase ends in a massive pileup, their jobs are on the line. To redeem themselves, they launch an undercover stakeout of an international drug gang, using a fried chicken restaurant as their cover.
Yeon Ji-yeong is a modern French-cuisine chef who has just won a top prize in Paris. On her flight home to Seoul, a solar eclipse sends her back to the Joseon era. She lands in the court of King Lee Heon, a feared ruler with a refined palate, and must win him over with her cooking.
After failing the national exam to become a teacher, Hye-won quits her part-time job in Seoul and heads back to the country village where she grew up. Her mother is no longer there, but as Hye-won cooks through the seasons, memories of how her mother made a home for her come back, and she reconnects with two childhood friends.
Go Seung-ji is a gifted pastry chef whose prickly, cold exterior hides a kind and caring heart, much like a hedgehog. Pan Da-yang is a cheerful, easygoing café owner who takes life as calmly as a panda. The story centers on these two very different personalities.
Goo Dae-young is stuck in a rut now that he is in his thirties. To recover, he sets out to revisit the dishes he loved in his twenties, joined by his old college classmate Lee Ji-woo, and over shared meals the two look back on memories from their past.
Yeo Bong-soon grew up in the countryside and gets the chance to work as a chef at the Blue House, the presidential residence. People there first see her as naive and old-fashioned, including Nam Bong-ki, a lazy, self-centered presidential guard, while her heart already belongs to Jang Joon-won, a doctor she once saved on a mountain near her home.
