Chef Edward Lee explores the world of gastronomy with Chef Jisun Jeong.

On the JTBC show ‘Tokpawon 25 Hours’ that airs on the 9th, Dim Sum Queen Chef Jisun Jeong will appear, and Chef Edward Lee, who is active in Washington D.C., will visit a new restaurant and reveal the secret recipe for Chef Jisun Jeong‘s Mala Cream Dim Sum.

According to the production team, before going on the virtual trip, Chef Jisun Jeong will reveal her special friendship with MCs Jeon Hyun-moo and Kim Sook and reveal which one of them made her decide to appear on the show. Chef Jeong Ji-seon surprised everyone by revealing his opponent, saying, “I don’t worry about it,” and then added, “After I became popular, they suddenly treated me well,” turning the scene upside down.

In the corner ‘Exploring Koreans in the World’, American Tokpawon visits the new restaurant of Chef Edward Lee, who was recently loved for his unique cuisine that fuses Korean and Western food cultures on ‘Black and White Chef: Culinary Class Wars’.


This restaurant pursues sustainability and practices zero plastic not only in the kitchen‘s cooking utensils but also in its tableware. He will also present a creative Korean course meal reinterpreted from his perspective. In particular, Tokpawon makes the cast envious by tasting new dishes including tuna bibimbap, which became a hot topic as his life dish on ‘Black and White Chef: Culinary Class Wars’. Indeed, curiosity is piqued as to what special dish the Tokpawon tasted.

Meanwhile, in the studio, Chef Jung Ji-sun cooks and tastes the gorgeously visual Mala Cream Dim Sum that became a hot topic on ‘Black and White Chef: Culinary Class Wars’. After tasting it, Lee Chan-won exclaims, “This is the best dim sum I’ve ever had in my life”, and Yang Se-chan adds to the excitement by repeatedly giving genuine reactions, saying, “I‘m speechless”.

Meanwhile, the Taiwanese Tokpawon visits a restaurant that is the setting of the popular Taiwanese youth film ‘The Girl We Loved Back Then’. When the identity of the restaurant is revealed, Lee Chan-won can’t hide his excitement, saying, “What do you know!” Here, Tokpawon stimulates the salivary glands by tasting the meatball rouwen and saying that it tastes similar to Korean galbijjim.

‘Tokpawon 25 Hours’ will air at 8:50 PM on the 9th.

Hong Se-young, Donga.com Reporter projecthong@donga.com