Post by TheBo on Oct 22, 2010 11:40:52 GMT -5
Ep 21 shown 10/21/10
Overview with everything included, not necessarily in the order it happened. If you have any specific questions, ask me.
Not a good son. Okay, I can’t remember from the last episode if they show some of the conversation at the beginning of this episode, when Bong-ju says “it’s just the jang” (the soy sauces, I think) and shocks his father. Then, when Sung-chan bursts in and tells them last year’s harvest of beans are the problem, B-J puffs up and says, “I see what happens when I’m gone.” The implication being, S-C is welcomed back and takes over everything. Joo-hee tries to talk B-J down, but he demands she call a meeting of the executive board immediately.
Not a good brother. Meantime, Chef Oh seems doubtful about it just being the beans from last year. And so they then discover that every single sauce on their pantry platform has spoiled, even the ones from past years. Chef Oh takes this as an evil portent, but Sung-chan declares he’ll figure it out. He tries to enlist Bong-ju, who just tells him to eff-off.
Changing horses. Bong-ju’s executive meeting is so he can shoulder responsibility for the problems at U-A-J, but also to announce that he’s replacing all jang sauces with those of a large company that has used traditional methods for 40 years to produce jang that satisfies the taste of everyone in the world. Good idea, lowest-common-denominator man. He also takes this opportunity to publicly dump Joo-hee’s dad’s pottery for the overseas restaurants. He seems to want to cut staff, too. Dad is against, kitchen staff are alarmed, but B-J bullies his agenda through, appealing to the greed of the board members.
Salty problems. Sung-chan tries to get Jin-su to forgive him by apologizing handsomely. While at her office, he learns from Mr. Han that U-A-J are replacing the sauces with commercial varieties. He wants to confront Bong-ju, but J-S convinces him he needs to investigate further first. He decides to look at the salt, and J-S goes with him. They play around in the salt fields and U-A-J’s warehouse. S-C finally learns that the salt, although from the same supplier, is not aged for them there as it used to be, but sent to U-A-J immediately upon harvesting. When salt is aired, it loses moisture and becomes sweeter, brighter and more crystallized, and does not cling to itself or the hand. Also, S-C learns salt is used in building 12-layer pantry platforms and must be aged 5 years to use it. He grabs some salt and they return to town. He drops J-S off at her apartment and tells her he’ll return that night for a party to celebrate her becoming a reporter.
Bong-ju - even jerkier. In the meantime, Joo-hee’s father finds out about the broken engagement in a most upsetting and demeaning way. When J-H asks Bong-ju about his intentions, he says yeah it’s over, he regrets wasting so much time when she wasn’t worth it. She tells him (a) he has to stop hurting other people just because he’s mad at her, and (b) she won’t let him destroy U-A-J because it’s everything to her.
Salt fallout. Sung-chan heads to U-A-J, where Chef Oh has just discovered that the salts used in their preserved goods have not been properly aged for some time, and storage and the kitchen were not in sync on this. (They thought they were receiving 3-year-old salt and aged it 2 more years to get 5-year-old salt, but really it was fresh salt, so they were using 2-year-old salt, when they wanted 3-year for the kimchee and 5-year for the jang.) It seems Min-woo was responsible for this, too. S-C tells them about the platform salt, and it turns out they did re-do the pantry platform a year before. They’ll rebuild. Bong-ju has an argument with S-C (not thanking him for his help).
Who’s my love. S-C goes to his truck to leave and sees Joo-hee collapsing in the parking lot. He takes her to the hospital. She’s dehydrated and starving herself. [And carrying the most ridiculous, increasingly enormous purses—that’s gotta be a burden on a skinny gal like that.] We see scenes of her being helped at the clinic intercut with scenes of poor little Jin-su preparing for her party. But S-C never comes; he’s making soup for J-H at the hospital. (He found out about the broken engagement and wants to comfort her.) Eventually S-C shows up, and J-S forgives him.
Bad three. Min-woo and Joo-hee’s dad meet with Mr. Yoon (sore tooth judge), who is mad at Bong-ju too and proposes a new deal. M-W, the spy, gets papers from B-J’s office and sends his minion mysteriously into the night. WAYDAMINNIT. If Mr. Yoon was on the board of U-A-J, how’d he get to be a judge in the beef contest? Isn’t that a clear conflict?
Disrespect. Chef Oh finds out that Bong-ju is still going to use outside sauces, even though they discovered the problem. They argue in the yard in front of the staff, and B-J blames everything on how Chef has behaved. Chef says B-J is disowning U-A-J and his (Chef’s) father, and B-J says he’s fine with that. Chef hits him and stumbles away. Everyone is stunned.
Mysterious interlude. Jin-su has been assigned the task of interviewing a Japanese businessman who has made an international empire of restaurants that sell Korean food with Japanese-mispronounced names (like “bibimba”), making people think those dishes are Japanese. He is visiting Korea and nobody knows why. She spies on him at his hotel, and he shows up with the Japanese chef that was visiting U-A-J! (Of course, she knows him not, but we do!) Right after that, she sees Joo-hee’s father and Min-woo with Mr. Yoon at the same hotel, and wonders what the heck they are doing there “in this time of crisis.” [It seems both toothman and J-H’s father are named Yoon, but I’m not sure. I believe I’ve seen toothman referred to as “Yoong” but can’t confirm.] Jin-su does not realize the Japanese guys and U-A-J traitors are all meeting together. Japanese guys want to take over U-A-J and make it “international” the same way they did with Japanese cuisine. (Nobody at their meeting mentions that he serves Korean food in his restaurants masquerading as Japanese dishes, and honestly, I doubt one restaurateur is responsible for the popularity of sushi.) Min-woo and Joo-hee’s dad agree to do this after some hesitation, and they know they have the support of two other major stockholders. Yah, everyone is po’d at Bong-ju.
Treasure sought and lost. The Treasury Department swarms U-A-J, taking everything and causing terrible upset. In the midst, Bong-ju learns he’s being denied business permits for his overseas branches and disappears from the offices. Chef Oh collapses after stumbling into the Treasury dustup of U-A-J’s offices. Sung-chan, oblivious, is out selling and talking with Jin-su, who thinks what Matsumoto does to Korean food is terrible. S-C says he doesn’t care about anything except what’s happening at U-A-J (they still don’t know about the takeover). S-C gets a call about his father from Joo-hee and they both rush over there. Meanwhile, a doctor examines Chef Oh, looking very serious, which obviously terrifies J-H. Chef asks J-H not to tell his boys. He refuses to go to the hospital; he blames himself for the problems at U-A-J and wants to stay there for the time he has left in life, or he won’t be able to face his predecessor chefs. S-C rushes in, but Chef downplays the situation despite a tearful J-H. S-C learns from her about all the troubles at U-A-J.
Overview with everything included, not necessarily in the order it happened. If you have any specific questions, ask me.
Not a good son. Okay, I can’t remember from the last episode if they show some of the conversation at the beginning of this episode, when Bong-ju says “it’s just the jang” (the soy sauces, I think) and shocks his father. Then, when Sung-chan bursts in and tells them last year’s harvest of beans are the problem, B-J puffs up and says, “I see what happens when I’m gone.” The implication being, S-C is welcomed back and takes over everything. Joo-hee tries to talk B-J down, but he demands she call a meeting of the executive board immediately.
Not a good brother. Meantime, Chef Oh seems doubtful about it just being the beans from last year. And so they then discover that every single sauce on their pantry platform has spoiled, even the ones from past years. Chef Oh takes this as an evil portent, but Sung-chan declares he’ll figure it out. He tries to enlist Bong-ju, who just tells him to eff-off.
Changing horses. Bong-ju’s executive meeting is so he can shoulder responsibility for the problems at U-A-J, but also to announce that he’s replacing all jang sauces with those of a large company that has used traditional methods for 40 years to produce jang that satisfies the taste of everyone in the world. Good idea, lowest-common-denominator man. He also takes this opportunity to publicly dump Joo-hee’s dad’s pottery for the overseas restaurants. He seems to want to cut staff, too. Dad is against, kitchen staff are alarmed, but B-J bullies his agenda through, appealing to the greed of the board members.
Salty problems. Sung-chan tries to get Jin-su to forgive him by apologizing handsomely. While at her office, he learns from Mr. Han that U-A-J are replacing the sauces with commercial varieties. He wants to confront Bong-ju, but J-S convinces him he needs to investigate further first. He decides to look at the salt, and J-S goes with him. They play around in the salt fields and U-A-J’s warehouse. S-C finally learns that the salt, although from the same supplier, is not aged for them there as it used to be, but sent to U-A-J immediately upon harvesting. When salt is aired, it loses moisture and becomes sweeter, brighter and more crystallized, and does not cling to itself or the hand. Also, S-C learns salt is used in building 12-layer pantry platforms and must be aged 5 years to use it. He grabs some salt and they return to town. He drops J-S off at her apartment and tells her he’ll return that night for a party to celebrate her becoming a reporter.
Bong-ju - even jerkier. In the meantime, Joo-hee’s father finds out about the broken engagement in a most upsetting and demeaning way. When J-H asks Bong-ju about his intentions, he says yeah it’s over, he regrets wasting so much time when she wasn’t worth it. She tells him (a) he has to stop hurting other people just because he’s mad at her, and (b) she won’t let him destroy U-A-J because it’s everything to her.
Salt fallout. Sung-chan heads to U-A-J, where Chef Oh has just discovered that the salts used in their preserved goods have not been properly aged for some time, and storage and the kitchen were not in sync on this. (They thought they were receiving 3-year-old salt and aged it 2 more years to get 5-year-old salt, but really it was fresh salt, so they were using 2-year-old salt, when they wanted 3-year for the kimchee and 5-year for the jang.) It seems Min-woo was responsible for this, too. S-C tells them about the platform salt, and it turns out they did re-do the pantry platform a year before. They’ll rebuild. Bong-ju has an argument with S-C (not thanking him for his help).
Who’s my love. S-C goes to his truck to leave and sees Joo-hee collapsing in the parking lot. He takes her to the hospital. She’s dehydrated and starving herself. [And carrying the most ridiculous, increasingly enormous purses—that’s gotta be a burden on a skinny gal like that.] We see scenes of her being helped at the clinic intercut with scenes of poor little Jin-su preparing for her party. But S-C never comes; he’s making soup for J-H at the hospital. (He found out about the broken engagement and wants to comfort her.) Eventually S-C shows up, and J-S forgives him.
Bad three. Min-woo and Joo-hee’s dad meet with Mr. Yoon (sore tooth judge), who is mad at Bong-ju too and proposes a new deal. M-W, the spy, gets papers from B-J’s office and sends his minion mysteriously into the night. WAYDAMINNIT. If Mr. Yoon was on the board of U-A-J, how’d he get to be a judge in the beef contest? Isn’t that a clear conflict?
Disrespect. Chef Oh finds out that Bong-ju is still going to use outside sauces, even though they discovered the problem. They argue in the yard in front of the staff, and B-J blames everything on how Chef has behaved. Chef says B-J is disowning U-A-J and his (Chef’s) father, and B-J says he’s fine with that. Chef hits him and stumbles away. Everyone is stunned.
Mysterious interlude. Jin-su has been assigned the task of interviewing a Japanese businessman who has made an international empire of restaurants that sell Korean food with Japanese-mispronounced names (like “bibimba”), making people think those dishes are Japanese. He is visiting Korea and nobody knows why. She spies on him at his hotel, and he shows up with the Japanese chef that was visiting U-A-J! (Of course, she knows him not, but we do!) Right after that, she sees Joo-hee’s father and Min-woo with Mr. Yoon at the same hotel, and wonders what the heck they are doing there “in this time of crisis.” [It seems both toothman and J-H’s father are named Yoon, but I’m not sure. I believe I’ve seen toothman referred to as “Yoong” but can’t confirm.] Jin-su does not realize the Japanese guys and U-A-J traitors are all meeting together. Japanese guys want to take over U-A-J and make it “international” the same way they did with Japanese cuisine. (Nobody at their meeting mentions that he serves Korean food in his restaurants masquerading as Japanese dishes, and honestly, I doubt one restaurateur is responsible for the popularity of sushi.) Min-woo and Joo-hee’s dad agree to do this after some hesitation, and they know they have the support of two other major stockholders. Yah, everyone is po’d at Bong-ju.
Treasure sought and lost. The Treasury Department swarms U-A-J, taking everything and causing terrible upset. In the midst, Bong-ju learns he’s being denied business permits for his overseas branches and disappears from the offices. Chef Oh collapses after stumbling into the Treasury dustup of U-A-J’s offices. Sung-chan, oblivious, is out selling and talking with Jin-su, who thinks what Matsumoto does to Korean food is terrible. S-C says he doesn’t care about anything except what’s happening at U-A-J (they still don’t know about the takeover). S-C gets a call about his father from Joo-hee and they both rush over there. Meanwhile, a doctor examines Chef Oh, looking very serious, which obviously terrifies J-H. Chef asks J-H not to tell his boys. He refuses to go to the hospital; he blames himself for the problems at U-A-J and wants to stay there for the time he has left in life, or he won’t be able to face his predecessor chefs. S-C rushes in, but Chef downplays the situation despite a tearful J-H. S-C learns from her about all the troubles at U-A-J.