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KDramaHQ AdminMay 28, 2025

Tastefully Yours: Episodes 5-6

by Unit

We’re halfway through our tasteful show, and things are heating up in the romance department. Our chef suddenly gets sandwiched in a love triangle, and our not-so-chaebol protagnoist will have to work overtime to ensure that his competition doesn’t cross the line from the past to the present.

EPISODES 5-6

Beom-woo and Yeon-joo’s kiss is interrupted when Choon-seung and Myung-sook catch them in the act, and a flustered Yeon-joo headbutts Beom-woo’s nose. How romantic! Yeon-joo insists the kiss was a mistake, but Beom-woo can’t gaslight himself into accepting that the kiss meant nothing. He might be onto something because Yeon-joo didn’t exactly say she doesn’t like him. Instead, she cites their horrible personalities as the reason they can’t get involved with each other. “I want to get madly involved with you!” Beom-woo fires back, and thus, cements his spot on the 2025 loser in love list. Hehe.

Moving on, Jungjae wraps up with its renovation, and the restaurant has never looked better. To celebrate, Beom-woo orders branded uniforms for the squad — except Choon-seung since he was only supposed to work with them until the repairs were done. Nooo! Give our maknae a uniform, juseyo. Choon-seung protests against the attempt to remove him from the family register because “Once you’re a part of Jungjae, you’re forever a part of Jungjae,” and voilà! Beom-woo pulls out a uniform for him. Aw. Choon-seung has come a long way from the immature troublemaker he once was, and I love to see it.

Of course, Beom-woo is still the primary product of the Jungjae rehabilitation centre — and even the local butcher points out that he’s no longer the obnoxious city boy they used to know. Yeon-joo also notes that Beom-woo seems more sincere now, and she likes it. And trust Beom-woo to be extra-fixated on the “like” part. Hehe.

But just as Yeon-joo’s new romance is heating up, an old flame arrives to join the mix in the person of her ex-boyfriend, chef JEON MIN (special appearance by Yoo Yeon-seok). Yeon-joo and Min worked together at Le Murir, a three-star restaurant in Japan — and she took the blame when he made a mistake while cooking for the rating inspectors. But while it was her choice to take responsibility and resign, he never contacted her after she returned to Korea.

In the present, Min apologizes to Yeon-joo. But he justifies his 5-year silence with some sob story about being unable to return sooner because he wanted to continue her legacy at Le Murir. Smh. Yeon-joo gave up a job she loved to protect his career, and this is his excuse for breaking her heart? Ha! All he needs right now is a red nose and a wig, because he is clearly a clown. Thankfully, Yeon-joo smells his bullshit, and she’s not buying it.

Speaking of restaurants and romance, a couple makes a reservation at Jungjae for their meeting of the parents. The lady is French and her mom prefers mild flavors, but the man is Korean and his dad insists on Korean cuisine. Korean Dad cannot hide his displeasure about the upcoming union in relation to the difference in cultures. But he changes his mind thanks to Yeon-joo’s clever incorporation of both cultures in the dishes served. I’m still looking at Korean Dad with a bit of side-eyes, but it looks like he was just seeking common ground with his prospective in-laws, and he found it in the food. French Dad also has high praises for Yeon-joo’s cooking, and I wonder if his “famous gourmet” experience will come in handy for her in the later episodes.

After cooking a “let’s never meet again” dinner for Min, Yeon-joo goes on a date with Beom-woo! They spend a cute evening together, and she tells him a bit of her backstory — which we already know, minus the fact that she’s an orphan. And now I’m more upset with Min for ghosting her when he was the closest thing she had to family. Beom-woo claims he’s not curious about Yeon-joo’s love story with Min, but his tune changes when she tells him Min wants her to return with him to Japan. Yeon-joo assures Beom-woo she’s not leaving Jungjae — but when he resumes at work the following day, he finds a note saying she’s going to Japan for an urgent business.

It turns out that Le Murir’s owner (and Yeon-joo’s mentor chef) is very ill, and this might be her last chance to see him. Mentor-nim has dementia, and a manipulative Min plays the “let’s not shock him due to his poor health” card to ensure Yeon-joo doesn’t reveal that she took the blame for his mistake. Smh. Yeon-joo wasn’t even planning to snitch in the first place. All she wants to do is cook for her mentor — who has refused to eat, because he’s looking for a particular dish that nobody knows — and return to Korea.

In the meantime, Jungjae falls apart in Yeon-joo’s absence. The rest of the squad try their hardest, bless them, but their chef’s presence in the kitchen — and in Beom-woo’s heart — is irreplaceable. Yeon-joo leaves her recipe book behind as a guide, but Beom-woo doesn’t steal it. He even gets his right-hand man from Seoul, LEE YOO-JIN (Bae Yoo-ram), royally wasted on the best of Choon-seung’s liquors, in order to prevent Yoo-jin from finding and taking the recipe book when Myung-sook innocently tattles about it. Okay, who is this man and what has he done with the Beom-woo from episodes 1-4? Heh. We are grateful for his love-inspired character growth.

Beom-woo flies to Japan to be with the woman of his dreams, and he arrives in time to overhear Min wooing her. Min is now head chef, and he wants Yeon-joo back in Le Murir and in his life. The nerve of him to suggest that Yeon-joo is a better fit in Le Murir than in her very own Jungjae! Beom-woo refuses to stand for this, and he invites himself as a third wheel to spend the day with Yeon-joo and Min. His brand of pettiness is just what the doctor ordered!

Min brags about his three-year relationship with Yeon-joo when the guys are alone, and Beom-woo reminds him that said relationship is past tense. An undeterred Min reveals that he and Yeon-joo made a promise to open a restaurant called Jungjae outside of Seoul. But if this is his way of saying Yeon-joo is living out their joint dream, he needs to wake up and ~~smell~~ choke on the coffee. You, sir, have no place in Jungjae or in Yeon-joo’s life.

As the week comes to an end, Sun-woo fires Young-hye as La Lecel’s head chef. Ouch! A scorned Young-hye decides to return to Motto, but first, she’s curious about her replacement at La Lecel. She makes an interesting discovery, and immediately calls Beom-woo to share the news: Hansang Foods is planning to acquire Le Murir. And not just that, La Lecel’s replacement head chef is Min! Whoa! What is going on here? And what do you mean we haven’t seen the last of Min yet? *groans in we-don’t-have-time-for-unnecessary-ex-boyfriend-drama*

Beom-woo’s Hansang Foods background has already set us up for some corporate drama, and it’s not a bad idea to incorporate a part of Yeon-joo’s backstory into the rivalry between the Han brothers. But Show needs to wrap up this ex-boyfriend and corporate arc quickly so we can get back to the cooking shenanigans with our Jungjae squad. Their found family dynamics is where the heart of this show truly lies, and I’d rather spend more time with them, than chasing those twinkle twinkle not-so-little three stars that is causing problems in every restaurant in this show.