‘Bon Appetit, Your Majesty' Becomes Global Hit with Yoona and Elaborate Food Scenes
Sep 16, 2025
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Various fusion foods in tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama 『The Tyrant's Chef" (written by fGRD, directed by Jang Tae-yu) stimulate everyone's taste and show the taste of K-food around the world. Various fusion foods such as sous vide steak, soybean paste pasta, schnitzel, and Peking duck roll, which are created by adding modern techniques based on traditional ingredients and royal food through the contest for the selection of Colonel Suragan's master, and the scenes of a national luck-taking cooking competition, are providing delicious fun to domestic and foreign viewers.
In addition to food, traditional utensils that replaced modern cooking utensils, such as bamboo molds used to shape yukhoe tartare and noodle tools for soybean paste pasta, were also intriguing. Rather than presenting the finished dish here, the chef shows the cooking process himself and presents a variety of delicately detailed attractions such as table service that stimulates appetite. In addition, unlike Yeonji-style plating using sauces and ingredients, the dishes of the masters of the Ming Dynasty gave a unique splendor with carbing, which sculpted and decorated ingredients.
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The reason "The Tyrant's Chef" has become a drama that has appealed to global viewers is that actor Lim Yoon-ah's efforts, delicate efforts by star advisory chefs, and director Jang Tae-yu's detailed directing skills have combined to create synergy. First of all, Lim Yoon-ah, who played the role of Colonel Sook-soo Yeon Ji-young, actually went to a cooking academy three months before filming and learned separately from advisory chefs, filming most of the entire cooking scene herself without a stand-in. In particular, it is said that he was familiar with all the actual cooking processes and took numerous shots in the same order and posture, showing his passion, making the production team marvel.
The cooking advice and menu development of the "tyrant's Chef" were overseen by Shin Jong-chul, head chef of a leading hotel in Korea. Chef Oh Se-deuk and Kim Jong-hyo cooked French food, Chef Choi Kang-rok was in charge of Korean food and fusion, and Chef Lee Sung-woo was in charge of Chinese food and served as a development advisor. In addition, Lee Jung-min, a court food expert, worked hard to reproduce the low table, including the jaesuban, and the surasang, such as the plating method of court cuisine and the table manners of the court people, and the food ingredients consultation increased the degree of completion with the help of Lee Chae-yoon, a diet researcher.
Director Jang Tae-yu added a delicate production so that the cooking process itself could become a story. The production team devised a menu by referring to books on what ingredients people used at the time and what foods they had, and sought fresh harmony with various factors such as bowls," he said. "It is a modern dish, such as pasta, steak, and schnitzel, which Yeon Ji-young makes, but mainly uses Korean ingredients such as soybean paste, corvina, red ginseng, and mixed grains. I wanted to show global viewers how Ji-young uses Korean ingredients to complete the recipe nicely with the recipe that Ji-young is familiar with"It gives us an idea of our efforts so far.
tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama 『The Tyrant's Chef』, which satisfies viewers' tastes with a special surasang that combines modern recipes, will air the 9th episode at 9:10 p.m. on the 20th.
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