I feel like I'm late to the party. This was adorable. I suspect the plot worked better as a manga. Watching it, I totally saw a manga. But watching it with real actors? There's no way real people would act like this. However, I totally ate it up. Very well acted.
Sigh. I don't like Lee Min Ki when he plays cold people. He does them too well, and they all seem the same. I prefer him when he's more animated and lively.
I have thoughts on the ending, so I'll put them behind a spoiler.
I'm glad everyone got a happy ending, but I'm left unsatisfied because:
They pulled the old "Couples must be apart for a year trope." Granted, ML & FL are technically dating, but I would have liked a wedding and a setting up house bit. SFL and SML are away from each other for 6 months and he's going to join her, but really? She couldn't have turned the trip down?
I'm a bit put out on the FL getting surprised with her own restaurant and has to run it herself. Her father could have asked if she wanted to come into the family business and let her see if she even liked running a restaurant, and then refurbish it? And she's going to run it by herself? Even food truck vendors have two people in the truck and she's going to be cook, waiter, busboy, cashier, dishwasher, and janitor? And be open on weekends and nights when ML is off work? And ML is pissed because she was late for his date? Get used to it buddy!
It is a happy ending! OK so they actually only postponed the marriage a year. Here is the dialog and reason for…
Why does every (OK not every, but so many that the trope made it to my K-drama Bingo card) K-drama have the romantic couples waiting a year or splitting up half way around the world for a year?
FL signature dish. Broccoli Risotto. Hum, it's missing something. Needs something to improve the taste and texture. EUREKA! Needs more Cauliflower!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I could have believed a squirt of lemon. I could have believed adding a dash of that 100 year old soy sauce that ex-girlfriend brews. But cauliflower? No way.
Sooooo, ML wins an award for designing an ITALIAN restaurant, and he chats up the owner / chef, and then brings a bunch of lasagna and gnocchi to FL's house.
ML sends in FL's recipe for ITALIAN RISOTTO and she wins an award.
ML introduces FL to chef and chef hires her.
What do you think? Why would we be introduced to Checkov's Italian Restaurant if FL isn't going to end up cooking there?
They pulled the old "Couples must be apart for a year trope." Granted, ML & FL are technically dating, but I would have liked a wedding and a setting up house bit. SFL and SML are away from each other for 6 months and he's going to join her, but really? She couldn't have turned the trip down?
I'm a bit put out on the FL getting surprised with her own restaurant and has to run it herself. Her father could have asked if she wanted to come into the family business and let her see if she even liked running a restaurant, and then refurbish it? And she's going to run it by herself? Even food truck vendors have two people in the truck and she's going to be cook, waiter, busboy, cashier, dishwasher, and janitor? And be open on weekends and nights when ML is off work? And ML is pissed because she was late for his date? Get used to it buddy!
But the ML and the FL have loved each other for 30 years. Proposing after 2-3 months doesn't seem so weird in this scenario to me.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I could have believed a squirt of lemon. I could have believed adding a dash of that 100 year old soy sauce that ex-girlfriend brews. But cauliflower? No way.
I swear I have a drinking game where if the couple sleeps together wearing coats, I have to drink an entire bottle of soju.
ML and FL have known each other 30 years, and been in love with each other that long.
ML sends in FL's recipe for ITALIAN RISOTTO and she wins an award.
ML introduces FL to chef and chef hires her.
What do you think? Why would we be introduced to Checkov's Italian Restaurant if FL isn't going to end up cooking there?