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Pasta (Kdrama Review & Summary)

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Kdrama 2010
Global Granary Recommendation

Pasta, MBC television series

Pasta (Kdrama Review & Summary)

  • Genre: Romance, Food, Internship
  • Date Released: 2010
  • Origin: South Korea
  • Kdrama: 20 Episodes

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I was missing  my favourite actresses of Korean dramas lately.

Gong Hyo Jin, Hwang Jung eum, Park Shin Hye, Song Ji Hyo, Choi Ji Woo, Kim Ha Neul and Ha Ji won seem not to be in any drama recently.

Gong Hyo Jin, for me, has the best track record of romantic dramas or otherwise.  She develops the best chemistry with her leading men that makes her dramas extremely watchable.

Though I was hesitant at first to watch Pasta as it was rather ‘old’ having been shown in 2010, within a few minutes I was captivated.  And before you know it I am watching episode 17 of 20 (invested 17 hours already)  and enjoying every minute of it, falling in love with Lee Sun-Kyun as the master chef, Choi Hyun-Wook, and of course Gong Hyo Jin as the newly elevated chef, Seo Yoo-Kyung, after being an assistant for 3 whole years, finally allowed to shake her own pan. 🙂

The story is endearing.  The characters are charming, which I like. No wanton show of physical affection.  It is all about the looks and smiles of the two characters.

Though there was a third wheel and even a fourth wheel in the love story of Yoo Kyung and Hyun Wook, Oh Se-Young, the ex-girlfriend of Hyun Wook was not a horrible one and Kim San, the Cactus Man is loveable. You feel sympathy for both of them, so much so you want them to get together.

The story shows the hectic behind the scene of the kitchen in a busy restaurant. Each chef has his/her designated chore. I know I should have known this as there are so many television programs, like Gordon Ramsey’s Hell Kitchen, now that shows the goings-on but I am afraid I am still probably one of the few that do not watch such tv. LOL.

Pasta is about an Italian Restaurant in South Korea called La Sfera, where Yoo-Kyung had been employed as an assistant to chefs for 3 years. One day, after going to market for restaurant provision, where she was given a couple of goldfish as a freebie, she bumped literally bumped into someone which made her drop her bag of goldfish. A tall, handsome stranger helped her save the poor fish.

After some sweet flirtings, the next time they saw one another was in the restaurant. The stranger was the new head chef, Hyun Wook, who brought in 3 other Italy trained sous chefs with him.

Hyun Wook and Yoo Kyung quickly fell for one another but it was not a smooth run as initially, the chef made it a rule of a No Kitchen romance, which he used to sack all of the female chefs except for Yoo-Kyung. He doesn’t like female chefs in his kitchen.  When it came out that he was dating Yoo-Kyung,  there was a rebellion that forced him to hand in  his notice instantly.  Of course this created more problems as his posse of Italy-trained chefs walked out as well.

He had to return, but he became rather stricter with Yoo-Kyung.  Poor girl she was a nervous wreck! 🙁

But in between all the dramas, their chemistry is just too gooey sweet that you’ll be left in a pool of caramel delight on the floor or sofa (wherever you are watching it really).  It is darn cute!

There are so many tips of food preparations and the pasta were all so delectable I had to have some, thus the pasta recipes below or before this blog. LOL

Highly recommended for a weekend viewing curled up in the sofa with the mobile phone on the ready to order Italian food. 🙂