Synopsis
“Pasta” covers the dreams and success of a young woman who aspires to become an elite chef at La Sfera restaurant.[2]
Seo Yoo Kyung started her career as a kitchen assistant at La Sfera restaurant for 3 years. Her dream is to become an Italian cuisine chef. She eventually works her way up to become a chef.
One day, the La Sfera restaurant newly hires Choi Hyun-wook, a chef who went to culinary school in Italy. Upon his arrival, the female chefs are fired one by one and Yoo-Kyung finds herself to be the last woman standing. She's fired several times but comes up with ways to be rehired by Choi Hyun-wook. Eventually she's rehired permanently when she wins a blind taste contest. The newly hired president, Kim San hires his friend and celebrity chef Sae-young as a co-head chef to work with Hyun-wook. It turns out that Sae-young and Hyun-wook used to date each other when they were both studying at the Italian culinary school. But they broke up after Sae-young sabotaged his wine by boiling it to win a cooking contest. They turn into rivals and try to outdo each other in making the finest Italian cuisine. Working alongside two celebrity chefs, Yoo-kyung feels small and insignificant. She gradually develops feelings for the charismatic Hyun-wook. However, restaurant owner Kim San begins to become attracted to the spunky Yoo-Kyung and the relationships between them become fraught with complexities.[3]
Starring
- Seo Yoo-Kyung, played by Kong Hyo-jin
- The daughter of a Chinese restaurant owner whose mother died of cancer, she dreams of becoming a celebrity chef. Having graduated from a lowly culinary school, she starts the series as a kitchen assistant for 3 years at La Sfera. She has a spunky attitude and she finally gets promoted to chef in the first episode, but after a new head chef, Hyun-wook, is hired, she is on the verge of losing her job. She barely hangs onto her job, thanks to the restaurant manager who intervened on her behalf. But Yoo-Kyung has a long way to go until she will earn any respect from chef Hyun-wook for her cooking skills. She makes an effort to learn as much as she can from Hyun-wook and he, in turn, starts to grow fond of her. However, when Kim San, the restaurant owner of La Sfera, returns, her relationship between Hyun-wook and Kim San change abruptly.
- Choi Hyun-wook, played by Lee Sun Gyun
- A chef who rose to the top of his profession after starting at the bottom in an Italian restaurant in Sicily. Offered a hefty salary and housing from the La Sfera restaurant, he decides to become the head chef of the establishment. He detests female chefs after having a bad experience in the past and proclaims, "There will be no women in my kitchen". When his ex-girlfriend Sae-young joins him at the restaurant as co-head chef, he frequently quarrels with her and then makes up as they create wonderful cuisine for patrons.
- Oh Sae-young, played by Lee Ha-nui
- She's Yoo-gyeong's role model as well as her roommate. Sae-young has her own cooking show and is the most celebrated female chef in Korea. During her years in Italy where she went to culinary school, she dated Hyun-wook and ruined his recipe to win a grand prix cooking contest. After returning to Korea, she instantly became a celebrity chef but when she's reunited with Hyun-wook, she has conflicted feelings towards him.
- Kim San, played by Alex
- He's the actual owner of the La Sfera restaurant, but he hides this fact and poses as a regular restaurant patron for 3 years. One day, he takes a peek at Yoo-Kyung's notes and develops an interest in her. Nobody pays much attention to Yoo-Kyung, who is a kitchen assistant, but Kim San watches her closely. He helps Yoo-Kyung from behind the scenes unbeknown to Yoo-Kyung.
Date | Episode | Nationwide | Seoul |
2010-01-04 | 1 | 12.2 (13th) | 13.4 (9th) |
2010-01-05 | 2 | 11.9 (12th) | 12.9 (10th) |
2010-01-11 | 3 | 11.9 (14th) | 13.2 (9th) |
2010-01-12 | 4 | 12.7 (11th) | 14.5 (9th) |
2010-01-18 | 5 | 10.9 (16th) | 12.2 (12th) |
2010-01-19 | 6 | 13.5 (10th) | 15.4 (8th) |
2010-01-25 | 7 | 13.0 (11th) | 15.0 (8th) |
2010-01-26 | 8 | 14.9 (9th) | 17.0 (7th) |
2010-02-01 | 9 | 14.3 (11th) | 16.4 (11th) |
2010-02-02 | 10 | 15.7 (7th) | 18.2 (5th) |
2010-02-08 | 11 | 15.3 (6th) | 17.3 (5th) |
2010-02-09 | 12 | 16.2 (7th) | 17.9 (5th) |
2010-02-15 | 13 | 14.7 (6th) | 15.8 (5th) |
2010-02-16 | 14 | 16.3 (5th) | 18.3 (5th) |
2010-02-22 | 15 | 14.7 (7th) | 16.0 (6th) |
2010-02-23 | 16 | 16.3 (6th) | 18.3 (3rd) |
2010-03-01 | 17 | 19.7 (3rd) | 21.6 (2nd) |
2010-03-02 | 18 | 19.0 (3rd) | 20.5 (2nd) |
2010-03-08 | 19 | 19.9 (1st) | 22.3 (1st) |
2010-03-09 | 20 | 21.5 (1st) | 24.2 (1st) |
Average | 15.2% | 17.0% | |
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