Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant Lee Yeon-bok and the Bokvengers take on cooking 460 servings.
The Dec. 26 broadcast of KBS 2TV Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant (hereinafter "Fun-Staurant"/directed by Yoon Byung-il) summons strong supporters as national chef Lee Yeon-bok, who represents Fun-Staurant, joins a project to revive regional ingredients in Korea. The assembled Bokvengers have a combined experience of 150 years. The nation's leading Chinese cuisine masters' spectacular dishes made with regional specialties are expected to whet viewers' appetites on Friday evening.
In the VCR released that day, chef Lee Yeon-bok appeared in a mysterious kitchen saying, "If you call me, I'll go anywhere." The Fun-Staurant's on-call chef Lee Yeon-bok was dispatched to the site of the "Korea era of localities expo" held recently in Ulsan Metropolitan City. At this year's "Korea era of localities expo," a gourmet event was held that specially used representative ingredients from various regions of Korea.
Beside chef Lee Yeon-bok, who led the kitchen that day, were chefs with extraordinary presence, sparking curiosity: owner-chef Koo Kwang-shin of an 800-pyeong super-large Chinese restaurant, executive Chinese chef Wang Eop-ryuk of J Hotel, and owner-chef Wang Byung-ho of Blue Ribbon Chinese restaurant. They were truly the "Bokvengers," heroes of Korean Chinese cuisine. Combined, the Bokvengers have 150 years of experience, and the youngest chef has 30 years of experience.
That day the four Bokvengers chefs produced legendary scenes as masters showed off their skills, such as simultaneously performing a "group no-look cut"—slicing onions with Chinese cleavers without looking.
The dishes the Bokvengers led by Captain Lee Yeon-bok prepared were Tongyeong oyster jjambbong and Jeju black pork dongpayuk rice bowl. With incredible skill, the Bokvengers whipped up 460 servings of exquisite dishes, astonishing everyone. The completed Bokvengers dishes received explosive love at the gourmet event. Tasting guests exclaimed, "A heavenly taste!" In addition, Prime Minister Kim Min-seok and Kim Kyeong-soo, chairperson of the Presidential Committee for Decentralization and Balanced Development, who visited the gourmet event, met chef Lee Yeon-bok and tasted Tongyeong oyster jjambbong and Jeju black pork dongpayuk rice bowl, leaving special impressions that add to the curiosity.
You can see the meaningful gourmet event where the Bokvengers joined the project to revive regional ingredients in Korea and the visually and emotionally stirring 460 servings of exquisite Bokvengers dishes on the Dec. 26 Friday broadcast at 8:30 p.m. on KBS 2TV Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant.<
[Photo] KBS 2TV Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant
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