5 titles, most popular first
In Joseon, at a time when women had little influence, the orphaned Jang-geum enters the royal kitchen as a young apprentice cook. Determined and hardworking, she sets out to master the secrets of Korean cooking and medicine, in a story inspired by a real woman of the era.
Na Bong-sun is a timid assistant chef with low self-esteem who can sometimes see ghosts. When she is possessed by Shin Soon-ae, the ghost of a young woman set on finding romance before she moves on, Bong-sun suddenly turns bold and confident, catching the eye of her arrogant star chef boss, Kang Sun-woo.
Min Chae-won is the eldest granddaughter of a family that has run a noodle factory on the edge of Seoul for three generations. Married into the wealthy family behind Golden Dragon Food, she has endured years of hostility from a mother-in-law who never accepted her, and when her husband cheats, she decides to leave him.
Two families run rival Chinese restaurants. Hyo-dong, whose father built their now-struggling restaurant through decades of hard work, meets the charming Hee-ae and Shin-ae, a poor but determined student, at a cooking class, and as he chases his dream of becoming a top chef, he falls for Hee-ae while the rivalry between the restaurants heats up.
Grieving his father, Kang Seong-jae enlists and is sent to a unit in Ganglim. Despite topping boot camp, he is put under special watch because he grew up poor with only one parent, and his food-truck experience with his mother gets him assigned to Yoon Dong-hyeon, a famously hopeless veteran cook. Then a strange virtual screen pops up, giving him a mission to feed the troops.
