Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle 2010 (South Korea)

Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle 2010 (South Korea), also known as Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Wars, Shingaek: Kimchi Jeonjaeng is South Korea drama premiere on Jan 28, 2010

Plot Synopsis by DramaWiki Staff ©

"Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of kimchi. The Japanese Prime Minister makes the bold claim that kimchi is an original Japanese dish which sets off the Korean president.

Upon the Korean's president return home, he sets upon a globalization plan for kimchi, which includes a nationwide "Kimchi Contest". Then, a lady named Jang Eun (Kim Jung Eun) and her step-brother Sung Chan (Jin Goo) compete in the Kimchi dish contest, with both siblings using their mother's kimchi recipe.

Jang Eun is a famed chef in Japan who returns to Korea to compete in the contest. Jang Eun also wants to close down "Chunyang-gak" - the traditional Korean restaurant that her mother has been running. Jang Eun has felt that her mother loved the restaurant more than herself and her own daughter. Meanwhile, Sung Chan wants to keep the restaurant and proposes to his step-sister that the winner of the Kimchi contest should have the rights to their mother's restaurant ...

(AMW)