This is a David and Goliath battle between a talented chef who is sacked from a luxury hotel kitchen and starts up a small restaurant of his own with the help of a gangster.
He eventually meets and becomes involved with the FL who is in reduced circumstances due to her wealthy father being framed.
He employs her - and soon is asked for work by three people whom he does not know are part of her family. He gives them all jobs and a right ungrateful bunch they are. They are very willing to betray him and leave him stranded despite him giving them work when they needed it. I find this aspect of the story very distasteful - I had no liking or sympathy for the three concerned after that.
Of course we have the interfering and dominant mother - this is a constant occurrence in Kdramas - and it is well past its sell-by date.
There is the usual love triangle as the gangster who gave the ML his chance to set up another business - is also in love with the FL.
For her part she got on my nerves with her constant chirpy grin and ridiculous appearance with a fencing mask and a horse.
It wasn't funny in the least - neither were the talking horse scenes.
There were so many cooking scenes it looked like a documentary at some points - just pure filler - forgive the pun.
That poor little kitten - forever licking concrete which somebody had smeared some fish oil on by the looks of it. So cruel.
I liked the two ML's - but the rest of them were pretty forgettable except the guy with the grey hair.
It was too long - and suffered seriously from a lack of originality and fresh ideas. There are only so many times you can use love triangles - parental interference - enforced separation - and deliberate misunderstandings to drive a plot forward.
It's worth watching with a finger on the ff button for the endless cookery scenes.
He eventually meets and becomes involved with the FL who is in reduced circumstances due to her wealthy father being framed.
He employs her - and soon is asked for work by three people whom he does not know are part of her family. He gives them all jobs and a right ungrateful bunch they are. They are very willing to betray him and leave him stranded despite him giving them work when they needed it. I find this aspect of the story very distasteful - I had no liking or sympathy for the three concerned after that.
Of course we have the interfering and dominant mother - this is a constant occurrence in Kdramas - and it is well past its sell-by date.
There is the usual love triangle as the gangster who gave the ML his chance to set up another business - is also in love with the FL.
For her part she got on my nerves with her constant chirpy grin and ridiculous appearance with a fencing mask and a horse.
It wasn't funny in the least - neither were the talking horse scenes.
There were so many cooking scenes it looked like a documentary at some points - just pure filler - forgive the pun.
That poor little kitten - forever licking concrete which somebody had smeared some fish oil on by the looks of it. So cruel.
I liked the two ML's - but the rest of them were pretty forgettable except the guy with the grey hair.
It was too long - and suffered seriously from a lack of originality and fresh ideas. There are only so many times you can use love triangles - parental interference - enforced separation - and deliberate misunderstandings to drive a plot forward.
It's worth watching with a finger on the ff button for the endless cookery scenes.