Sunwoo Yongyeo's recent cooking challenge, tvN STORY 'Yongyeo's one meal', released a Highlight video that condenses the fun of the full episode.
tvN STORY 'Yongyeo's one meal' is a generation-reversal cooking variety show in which actor and 'hot YouTuber' Sunwoo Yongyeo challenges modern cooking with chefs. In the released video, Sunwoo Yongyeo's first attempt at modern cooking and the 'Ilta' modern chef squad gathered to teach an 81-year-old student finally unveil their identities. With the cheerful teacher-student chemistry that crosses generations and experiences fully captured and heightening anticipation for the full episode, we picked out three key viewing points of 'Yongyeo's one meal' as shown in the Highlight video.
▲ Yongyeo's dance-inducing 'Ilta' modern chef lineup
For 81-year-old student Yongyeo, renowned chefs such as Choi Hyun-seok, Fabri, Lim Tae-hoon, Jung Ji-seon, and Jang Ho-joon step forward as 'Ilta' chefs to teach modern cooking. And from Italian·fusion·home-style·fine dining, chefs with different styles and sensibilities open up a new world of flavors for student Yongyeo. As Sunwoo Yongyeo, now in student mode learning modern cooking, takes a bite and exclaims "DILLI!" while even doing a little shoulder dance, it conveys the excitement of seemingly having regained an appetite and a pure curiosity to learn anything. Viewers' curiosity is further stimulated about what dishes each chef will present and how those recipes will be completed by the student's hands. The modern cooking recipes that make viewers reach for a notepad to try them themselves are also the program's 'must-tip' points.
▲ "First is health, second is health" chefs break a sweat adjusting Yongyeo-style recipe skills
But student Yongyeo has an important cooking philosophy: first is health, second is health. In the video, faced with a teacher's recipe calling for four spoonfuls of onion, Yongyeo tosses in the whole onion saying, "The more onion, the better," and when told to add two spoonfuls of doenjang, responds with one spoonful saying, "If it's too salty, it's bad for your health." He even flatly refuses the important ingredient that determines Western flavors, butter, saying, "I really don't want to add a lot." Fabri turns away dejectedly, saying, "It hurts to watch," and Choi Hyun-seok urgently pleads, "Student Yongyeo, one more spoon." Their reversed teacher-student chemistry is a compelling viewing point. Because health comes before taste in their firm obstinacy rather than precise recipes, it becomes intriguing how 'modern cooking methods' will be adapted into 'Yongyeo style.'
▲ Incurably curious student Yongyeo and class-commanding chemistry with Captain Yoo
Student Yongyeo's curiosity has no end. How to make incisions, when to remove the skin, how much salt to sprinkle — the next question comes before the chef's answer finishes, activating a 'no-break question mark killer' mode. The chefs' increasingly soul-drained, stunned faces provoke laughter. The relief pitcher that appears at this moment is 'Captain Yoo,' Yoo Se-yoon. "Noona is the student, and the people here are the teachers," he says, restoring balance to the class, and at times he restrains student Yongyeo with a nonstop barrage of nagging. Even amid cheerful laughter, Captain Yoo's presence, which never loses focus, is an indispensable point. Yoo Se-yoon's witty 'taming the tomboy' between student Yongyeo and the chef teachers is expected to amplify the program's entertainment.
'Yongyeo's one meal' will premiere at 8 p.m. on the 27th on tvN STORY.
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