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Chef and Seo You-kyung are dating!

Chef and Seo You-kyung

are dating in the kitchen!

Chef and Seo You-kyung are dating!

Since you announced our relationship to the world,

you need to keep it to yourself in the kitchen.

Every morning you can shout to the world

and come out to the kitchen.

You got it?

Yes, Chef.

Okay. That's enough.

I'm sleepy.

Me too, Chef.

Go to sleep.

Hey, wake up.

We are here.

We are home.

What are you going to do now, Chef?

Why do you ask?

I just want to know what you do at this hour.

I wash.

Me too.

Work out.

I sometimes eat breakfast and sometimes don't.

You are just like me.

Are you having breakfast today?

You want to come over?

What?

Sneak out and have breakfast with me.

That would be a little...

Come over to make breakfast.

Let's see if you are any good with other food, besides pasta.

You didn't like my stew before?

I did.

I'm can cook quite well other than pasta.

That's good to hear.

Come over and make some breakfast and we can go to work together.

Get off.

I never imagined that someone asking me to cook would feel this good.

I thought you were out.

Can I have a word with you?

Sure.

Where are you two coming back from?

I just saw you two coming back in together.

We went to get Eun-su.

He's coming back. Isn't that great?

You-kyung.

Hyeon-uk and I didn't just study together in Italy.

Aren't you curious

why we always argue

in the kitchen?

You are curious, aren't you?

Do you like Chef Choi?

I wanted to ask you sooner,

but I was being cautious since we work and live together.

Should I not talk about it?

No.

Please tell me everything.

We were deeply in love.

We were in a relationship and we were each other's rivals

as well as partners who dreamt of becoming a chef in Italy.

But I made a mistake.

I was greedy and lost him.

You-kyung.

Although he is pushing me away right now,

Hyeon-uk is the only man

that I want to be accepted by as a chef and as a woman.

But today,

I saw the look on your face

that resembled mine.

Am I right?

Is that how you feel?

Am I mistaken?

I'm sorry.

I need to get ready to go.

Who'd be doing the kitchen assistant from now on?

I guess You-kyung is going to have to continue being the assistant.

I'm sorry.

I will work even harder from now on.

-Jung Eun-su! -Get over here.

-Come here! -Hold him!

Grab him!

-Welcome back. -Put him down.

-Kick him! -You.

-You better get your act straight! -You fool!

Don't run away anymore.

-That's right. -Hurry up and get changed, Eun-su.

You look good.

Hey, Goldfish.

Come over here.

Did you fall asleep?

What's wrong with your expression?

Did somebody hurt you?

Yes.

Who?

You did, Chef.

I did?

When did I hurt you?

We're just starting out and...

You deserve a punch, Chef.

What was that?

JUNG EUN-SU

It is now the graduation and admission season

At family gatherings, people prefer separate pasta dishes than course meals,

so we will have an overload of pasta orders.

I will change if needed,

but although it may not be easy,

pasta line should take care of all the orders

without the help of the entrée chefs.

Is that clear?

-Yes, Chef! -Yes, Chef!

Table five, one lobster, Sicilian style, and two vongole.

Table 11, one ravioli and crab chowder,

one green risotto with shrimp, one chicken breast Caesar Salad.

Table 17, two of today's specials.

Table eight, two Bologna, one balsamic dressing salad,

one spinach mushroom bass.

That's it.

-Yes, Chef! -Yes, Chef!

-Yes, Chef! -Yes, Chef!

Hurry it up. The orders are in.

-Yes, Chef! -Yes, Chef!

Table 12, vongole.

Seo You-kyung.

How many more do you have?

I have four left including the one I'm doing now.

How about you, Ji-hun?

I have two risottos left.

Hey, Deok. Make up for the ravioli with Eun-su.

Yes, Chef.

Ravi...

-Ravioli. -Ravioli.

I'm done. Give me an order.

Table 12, two vongole.

Table 25, one vongole, one basil pesto.

You take it.

Seo You-kyung!

Do you think the clams came all the way here

to take a dive into our kitchen floor?

I'm sorry, Chef.

Give it to me.

Come on out and give it to me.

I will do it, Chef.

I will do it.

Do it right this time.

What's the matter with you?

The noodles and the oils are not mixing into each other.

It's because your hands and your mind

are not working together like this pasta.

What's wrong with you?

I'm sorry Chef, I will do it again.

You take hers too. A total of six.

Do it over.

Goldfish.

Get over here.

Do you know why we stir these clam shells in the frying pan

when we can't even eat them?

You think we put in those shells that are ten times their size

so we can eat the tiny bit of clam in them?

To make it look more in size?

It is to keep the clam juice inside the shell.

As it opens up,

it should release fresh clam juice.

For that reason,

you have to stir at the same speed

with the same strength.

So that all clams get cooked and opens up simultaneously.

That is the key to make vongole.

Okay?

Aren't you going to answer me?

Yes, Chef.

Go back.

-This place is good, right? -Yes.

-Thank you. -You're welcome.

Did you say you are Mr. Seol?

Yes.

STAFF SEOL JUN-SEOK

PRESIDENT SEOL JUN-SEOK

Here.

You are the president.

President Seol Jun-seok.

Can I have one too?

Here you go.

President of La Sfera, President Seol?

President?

You better listen here, Seol Jun-seok.

-You are pretending to be the president-- -Hold on.

Can you wait until they are gone?

Please.

Follow me right now.

It's nothing.

Goodbye.

Madam.

Madam.

Madam!

-Goodness. -Please.

What are you doing?

If you ever do that again...

Of course. Never.

Let go of me.

Have a seat, Chef.

How do you feel about

sharing the chef's room with Chef Oh from tomorrow?

Is that an order?

1. CHOI HYEON-UK

I'm hungry.

It's uncomfortable in here, isn't it?

No.

It's not so bad.

We feel uncomfortable.

What should I do then?

Do you really not know what we want?

Or do you think you can really change Chef's mind to love you again,

like how you forced us to change the soup stock?

You will use my soup stock

to cook with your own hands. I'll make that happen.

But I won't force you to do so

and so will about Chef Choi.

Se-yeong is a chef just like you.

I don't think it's right to have her share a room

full of guys who she does not feel comfortable being around.

I don't want to.

It will help you two to work better together

if you share the same space.

I don't want to.

You will have to even if you don't want to.

She should be using the chef's room because she is a chef.

Am I the one being weird here?

This office is nice and big.

Right?

Why don't you bring her in here

instead of trying to squeeze her in with me?

Is it really for the good of Se-yeong

or is it for you

that you want me to share the room?

Start being honest about that.

You will be sharing the room with her starting tomorrow.

Yes?

-Did you ask for us? -Yes.

What are we going to do about the stock?

Shouldn't we settle this?

We can't work like this.

Either we give in or make her give in.

We need to come to a conclusion after all this time.

It is only right that she gives in.

That's right. That was the only possible conclusion from the start.

How about you, Deok?

I feel the same way.

If we thought we were going to give in

then we would not have left the kitchen in the first place.

How do you like the taste?

It's not that good.

I didn't like it.

I didn't like the taste either, Chef.

She is just trying to win the power struggle.

Alright.

If that's how you feel.

Okay. You can go home now.

-Yes sir. -Yes sir.

What are you doing here?

Thanks for your hard work, Chef.

Aren't you cold?

I'm okay. I was in front of a hot fire all day.

Hey.

Are you upset because I scolded you?

It's not the first time you got yelled.

Why do you look so upset all day?

Being scolded hurts my pride now.

That's a good thing.

It feels even worse now because I felt like I was being compared to Chef Oh.

Of course.

Of course?

Of course.

That is the only way you will get better.

Without even getting your pride hurt.

If you start to think

getting scolded by your seniors is natural

and that your seniors are naturally better than you

and you are naturally a bad cook,

you won't get better, not even in millions of years.

You have to be compared and get your pride crushed

to improve your skill. You got it?

-Really? -Yes.

So from tomorrow on I will compare you two even more and hurt your pride even worse.

Just because I like you, it doesn't change a thing.

You will have to swallow your pride even more than now. You got it?

Yes, Chef.

Don't droop like a dying plant

just because your pride has been hurt.

Yes, Chef.

Stop getting closer. People will notice.

People will not be suspicious when we are in the open like this.

I have good news for you.

Do you want me to tell you?

What is it?

There's a guy who likes you.

Aren't you happy?

Yes, but why are you telling me this?

So that you can have confidence.

Who knows? The guy might be a better person than me?

Yes?

I have some good news for you too.

What is it?

Somebody likes you too.

Really?

Who is it?

Is she pretty?

Is the guy rich?

Is she pretty?

Yes.

That's good.

Yes.

Having my pride wounded so that's a good thing?

Of course!

All right.

If you get in trouble

or your pride is hurt don't get sad, get even.

Just stand up tall and be jealous.

It's better to be jealous than to be a drooping dead leaf, you got it?

Yes, Chef!

What did I tell you to be?

Jealous.

Now you look a little better.

Yes.

What?

I'm going to become a chef that you can be proud of.

Let's go get them!

Let's go get them!

Seriously.

Oh Se-yeong is going to make us in to soup stock pretty soon.

You didn't taste the stock either?

We are in trouble.

This means we lied to Chef.

What lie? We didn't lie?

We know what chicken stock taste like.

We don't need to taste it.

I don't like it and that's not a lie.

Forget it. Let's just go home.

Hey!

What are they still doing here at this hour?

What are they doing?

Sous-chef, what should we do about our practice?

Let's just split up the ingredients and keep it at home for now.

Let's try again tomorrow.

What's wrong with them all of sudden?

Didn't they learn everything at Italy already?

Right?

Do you think they found out about us entering the New Chef contest?

If the Chef found out he would have said something already.

They must have something that needs to be done. Let's go.

They have the good looks, skill and talent.

How are we to ever compete with them if they stay back to practice?

Such snobs!

I can compete with my looks.

Me too.

Get in the car.

You can taste the wine more than the soup stock in the white sauce.

There's not much difference.

Not much difference in the cream sauce because the cream flavor is so strong.

The problem is the tomato sauce.

Oh Se-yeong was right. This is customer's favorite

and the stock definitely brings out the savory flavor of the tomatoes.

The taste is more fragrant.

We should have tasted it before we made our decisions.

If he finds out we objected without even tasting it first,

he might make us take our uniforms off.

Meet me in the early morning.

I will teach you how to stir the shells on the frying pan.

From now on,

I'm going to scold you nonstop in the kitchen. Got it?

That way people won't get suspicious of our relationship.

Yes, Chef.

And then I will teach you

the next morning about the things I screamed at you for.

So now,

I can scream at you all I want, right?

Yes, Chef.

Instead,

you can't turn into a drooping dead flower after I scream at you.

You will go into the fridge and laugh to yourself.

Tell yourself that was Chef's way of showing you his affection, got it?

-His affection? -Yes.

Does that mean the more you scream, the stronger your affection is towards me?

Yes!

Then...

What about when you're being nice?

Then is everything the opposite? Does that mean you don't like me?

No. That just means I like you too.

Then you are showing me affection all day long?

That's right. I will be showering you with my affection all day long.

After this,

if you don't get better

after all that affection and love,

then you are in serious trouble, got it?

Yes, Chef!

-What time should we meet? -At 5 a.m?

-Don't you ever sleep? -Then 6 a.m?

Make that 7 a.m.

Yes, Chef.

You are late.

Yes.

You had a tough day today, didn't you?

I thought about what I said to you today,

about whether I was wrong to tell you.

I thought about it a lot all day long.

But...

Now that I said it, I think it was the right thing to do.

Although it's uncomfortable to be together like this,

I think it was very honest

and brave of you to tell me the truth.

You-kyung.

How about this? You do your way and I will do my way.

I promised Chef Choi when I came to La Sfera

that I would be fair.

I will only play fair and be honest in getting him back

like I would with my pasta and my recipes.

If not, this victory will not mean anything to me.

Would that be okay?

Yes, Chef.

You are must be tired. Why don't you go in and rest.

Yes, Chef. Good night.

Let's go in. Hurry up.

Feel the rhythm.

Yes, like that.

Relax the shoulders.

Do it again.

Snap it. Snap.

Relax the shoulders.

Not again.

Come on out.

What's going on here?

Why is everyone so fired up?

What should we do, Sous-chef?

The ingredients will go bad if we don't cook them soon.

Sous-chef, do you think the others

are getting ready for the New Chef contest too?

Let's get out before Chef finds out.

Man, it's the first time ever in my life I try to study

but they are not cooperating.

Tell me about it.

Is your wrist hurting again?

No, it's nothing.

Can you give me the ball?

We have a good orthopedics department at our school.

Why don't you go see a doctor?

No thanks.

All they ever tell me to do is stop using your wrist.

How can a chef cook without using his wrist?

Then, what? Is that going to take care of the problem?

That's why I have to work it whenever I get a chance.

I wonder if that's why You-kyung took it.

-Your sister took it? -Yes.

She is too young to be having wrist problems.

I told her not to become a chef.

You are just full of fear.

Hey!

Just quit it.

Follow me.

Let's go.

Are you going to have coffee?

Put 10,000 won worth in here.

That would be...

Hundred pieces.

Hundred pieces.

Put 50 in each.

A coin weighs about five grams,

so 100 of them will make it about 500g.

The two frying pans in your hands weigh

about a kilo so it's total of 1.5kg.

It's similar to the weight of vongole.

Can you hurry up? People will be coming in to work soon.

-Okay. -Faster.

I can see Sejong the Great.

You are so ignorant.

This is Admiral Yi Sun-sin not Sejong the Great.

Yi Sun-sin was an admiral. Look at what he is wearing. This hat.

It's definitely Sejong the Great.

Yi Sun-sin.

Sejong the Great.

Yi Sun-sin.

It's Sejong the Great.

Goodness.

Try it.

The ingredients are equivalent to money so make sure you don't drop a single coin.

Every time you snap your wrist, make sure the sauce

is evenly distributed among the coins.

You should be seeing the face of Yi Sun-sin

and the back face of the coin alternately. Okay?

Yes, Chef.

Obverse, Sejong the Great.

Hey!

You!

Obverse, Yi Sun-sin.

Obverse, Sejong the Great.

How many times do I need to say this?

Don't you know it's important to mix pasta with the sauce all evenly?

Hey!

Whatever.

Chef!

You said you would teach me, but instead you've been screaming.

Obverse, Sejong the Great.

Yi Sun-sin!

Obverse...

Obverse, Sejong the Great.

Obverse, Sejong the Great.

Here.

-Here it is. -Thank you.

Can you bring it to the kitchen?

PASTA LALALA

Hui-ju. I'm not dreaming, am I?

What did you call her?

Chef!

This isn't a dream, right?

Of course. We are going to make our own pasta dish

in our own kitchen.

We don't have to worry about getting fired ever again.

-Never! -Never!

Chef. If we make it big,

let's move to Gangnam.

Let's move right next to La Sfera.

We should make it a chain, Chef.

You can each get your own store and be the head chef.

Until that day comes, let's do our best. Okay?

I'm going to work ten times, 100 times harder than I did at La Sfera!

Thousand times harder!

Thousand times harder!

You have a delivery.

Have a good day.

-Thank you. -Bye.

CONGRATULATIONS

PRESIDENT SEOL JUN-SEOK OF LA SFERA

Yes. You got it already?

You are welcome.

Thank you, Mr. Seol, the junior waiter.

-Thank you! -Thank you!

He's a character.

It was nice of him though, right?

-Yes. -It is.

You have a delivery.

Who is it now? It's huge.

CONGRATULATIONS

PRESIDENT KIM SAN OF LA SFERA

Kim San? The real president?

Do you think Chef will get upset?

What are you guys doing?

The president made us do it.

I told you I didn't want to share this office space.

I told you as well that this was going to happen.

Why are you being so narrow-minded?

Narrow-minded?

Why are you narrowing my room?

If it bothers you so much, why don't you just leave this place?

Will you just stay out of this?

Will you just leave?

We don't have any more space for that.

Exactly my point.

Why don't we just unify it into one stock?

I'm just going to start off

using this stock for just the Triple Flavor Pasta.

Today is a big graduation day.

We will be flooded with pasta orders.

I want you to move your pans so fast that they're just a blur to me.

Are we ready?

-Yes, Chef! -Yes, Chef!

-Yes, Chef! -Yes, Chef!

Table 11, two Triple Flavor Pastas, one mare, one vongole.

Table 29, one chestnut soup,

one chicken breast Caesar salad, one salmon saffron sauce risotto.

That's it.

-Yes, Chef! -Yes, Chef!

Harder, faster.

Feel the rhythm, good.

Only use your wrist for balance, okay?

Yes, Chef.

Add more sauce.

Yes, Chef.

What are you doing? Don't you know how busy we are right now?

I'm sorry, Chef.

What are you doing, Eun-su?

Go get more soup stock.

That was it for the vegetable stock.

I was planning to make more after lunch hour during prep time.

What is that then?

That soup stock is from Chef Oh.

What kind of chef are you?

I'm sorry, Chef.

Don't you know we are going to have lot more pasta orders?

You should have made more stock just in case.

Change the stock now.

To Chef Oh's stock?

What?

Then are you going to cook the pasta without stock?

Yes, Chef!

Hold on, please.

Table three, two lunch specials.

Chef Oh.

How do you like the taste?

It tastes different.

It doesn't taste like chicken anymore.

It's actually a vegetable stock.

Vegetable stock?

It doesn't just taste like vegetables.

Did you use beans?

When you use beans it can add the chicken flavor to the vegetable stock.

You can taste and distinguish the aroma of the beans.

Everyone was against you, but you didn't give up

and you still made it, Chef.

Chef will have to acknowledge that your sauce is better now.

Thank you.

You lied about the taste.

You call yourself a chef?

While she

put in all the time and effort to come up with a new recipe,

what the hell were you guys doing?

All you did was criticize and lie.

You think you have the right to make pasta?

Why am I here?

What were you doing

not making enough stock in the first place?

You guys...

Take your uniforms off, all of you.

Are you telling us to quit?

I know it was wrong of us,

but we left everything and came back from Italy when you asked us for help.

How can you be like this to us?

How could you fire us like this?

Who said I was going to fire you?

Just take off your clothes, now.

Take off our uniforms?

It's too cold and it's snowing.

Take it off now.

Do it now!

So how does it feel to take your chef uniform off? Do you like it?

-No, Sir! -No, Sir!

Do you want to keep it off and stop cooking?

-No, Sir! -No, Sir!

If I catch you doing something like this one more time

you will never put on your uniforms ever again.

Got that?

-Yes, Chef. -Yes, Chef.

Give me 100 squats in four directions!

Yes, Sir!

Begin.

Yes!

-One, two, three. -One.

-One, two, three. -Two.

-One, two, three, four. -One, two, three, four.

-One, two, three, four. -One, two, three, four.

-One, two, three, four. -One, two, three, four.

I think they are going to produce some soup stock of their own.

Does this mean Chef Oh has won again?

I guess you are right.

I'm not all that excited about working for a female chef

but what do you think about asking Chef Oh

to be our manager for the New Chef contest?

Meet me in my office.

The stock is pretty good.

Really?

Thanks.

I finished it yesterday.

How long did it take you to finish it?

A very long time.

Yes, that is very much like you.

I did it because I had you beside me.

Because you know me well.

I wanted to do it.

I hope all you want from me

is to be accepted as a chef.

You deserve to be accepted as a chef.

Let's share it.

The kitchen and this office, too.

Let's try this out,

Chef Oh Se-yeong.

Thanks, Chef.

He asked me to share the office.

Really?

That's good news.

Thanks to you.

If you share the same office and talk more

you will become close again.

You think we will finally have some peace in our kitchen?

I hope so.

How about you? How much longer are you going to stay behind?

Why do you ask all of a sudden?

Just asking.

Should I step up and say it?

Really?

Yes.

I will vote yes.

But...

Do you think she'd come if I ask her?

Did she ever tell you who she likes?

It's someone we all know, isn't it?

I'm going to go home now.

Half past ten?

10:30 TONIGHT AT THE CONVENIENCE STORE. MR. CACTUS

Where are you going?

I'm late, I have to go now, Chef.

Where are you...

10:30 TONIGHT AT THE CONVENIENCE STORE. MR. CACTUS

Don't go!

I'm already late. Someone is waiting for me.

I will tell you about it later.

Don't go.

Nice.

This is for the punch you threw at me last time.

That hurts, Chef.

Then let's do it one more time.

Good morning, Boss.

Are you going in to work?

I need to stop over somewhere before I go to work.

This early?

Yes.

Sir.

Is something wrong?

No.

When I finally create the pasta with my name to it

then I'm going to let you be my first customer to taste my pasta.

What do you think?

Miss Cook,

do you think you can have your cake and eat it too?

Do you want both work and love?

I don't think of it separately as having my cake and eating it.

I think of it as having the cake that I love to eat.

That's what it is.

Is that so?

Yes.

That's it.

I see.

I guess you are right.

What's wrong?

Here's the first order of the day.

Table nine, spinach salad and blue cheese dressing

with pear, pine nuts, and walnuts boiled in white wine

and a veal filet mignon.

Spaghetti made from shrimp stock served with king prawn.

Two sautéed chicken breast and gorgonzola cheese cream sauce penne pasta.

Hyeon-uk, you take this order.

Yes, Chef.

Don't you smell the meat burning? Flip it over, now.

Yes, Chef.

Aren't you going to focus?

Yes, Chef.

Do you have a broken wrist? Where's the speed? Hurry it up.

Yes, Chef.

I'm going to hang you upside down like sausages if you don't hurry.

Come on and move it. Slowpokes!

Yes, Chef.

Hey you there, Goldfish. Stop.

This pasta stuck together like greasy hair

can be served to your own precious family, do you hear me?

Yes, Chef.

Without my approval, not a single plate can leave this kitchen, got it?

Yes, Chef.

Do it again.

Again?

Again.

Again?

Are you sure?

This tastes great, Chef.

Now, take this order.

Table number, here.

Seo You-kyung's pasta for one.

Yes, Chef.

The kind of ignorant pasta that is served salty

or sweet whatever way you ask for pasta for one.

Yes, Chef.

The kind of pasta that you can let them eat with kimchi

if they want to, for two.

Yes, Chef.

The kind that you can order during break time

and one that can be delivered

without an ounce of pride, pasta for three.

Yes, Chef!

Hey, Goldfish.

You call that pasta? That's just noodles mixed in the sauce.

Do you think that is the kind of pasta

that the customers expect when they get dressed up

and pay 20,000 won for a serving of pasta

that's the size of mouse excrement

on a plate from La Sfera? Do you?

No, Chef.

Only after you have mastered the 30 types of La Sfera's pasta dishes,

you can start to work on your own recipe, got it?

Yes, Chef!

If you overlook the basic foundation then you will just be full of arrogance.

It is our duty and privilege as a chef

to offer customers new tasteful dishes, not something that they are used to.

I, the chef,

will take full responsibility to teach you all the basics.

Got it?

Yes, Chef.

Yes, Chef.

Welcome, Chef.

Yes.

Have a great day.

Yes!

"I'm happy that you're around, Chef."

You're happy? Really?

You are not supposed to read that.

What have you been doing?

-You have just been caught. -Already?

The entire kitchen staff knows now.

-What's going on? -What's the truth?

-It's not true, is it? -It's true, right?

Yes.

Choi Hyeon-uk has made everything convenient for us

so we should take advantage of it.

Let's go, Miss Cook.

What?

You're finished.

Cactus.

That's you.

Yes, Chef.

"Yes, Chef."

What?

Really?

Those two?

Even chocolates?

Hey, what's wrong?

You know that Chef will take good care of you.

Yes, that's what I say.

Let's just be open about it instead of hiding it.

How should we do that, Chef?

We'll just go wherever our heart leads us.

I like Seo You-kyung.

The secrecy ends now.

Subtitle translation by Ellie Oh