Jeon Hyun-moo “Learning while getting scolded by Shin Dong-yup… I was really crazy” (Jeon Hyun-moo Plan 2)
Episode 24 of the full-scale street food documentary ‘Jun Hyun Moo’s Plan 2’ (jointly produced by MBN and Channel S), which will air on the afternoon of the 4th, will reveal the scene where Jeon Hyun Moo, Kwak Tube (Kwak Jun Bin) and ‘foodie friend’ Kim Jong Min go on a second food trip in the small Japanese city of Tokushima.
Previously, the three met with Ray, a Japanese member of Ive, and ‘all-killed’ the Tokushima specialty ‘Chinese Soba’, the okonomiyaki restaurant ‘highly recommended’ by Ray‘s friend, and the ‘Awagyu’ restaurant he discovered in downtown Tokushima. On this day as well, Jeon Hyun-moo, Kwak Tube, and Kim Jong-min go out to find the best local food in a small town that feels like a ‘Japanese drama’. Jeon Hyun-moo declares, “Udon for our first meal today!” and searches for a restaurant that specializes in udon, a staple Japanese dish. Right after arriving at the restaurant, Jeon Hyun-moo says to Kim Jong-min, “You order. I need to show off my ‘sexy brains to my bride-to-be~” and hands him a menu that is 100% written in Japanese. Kim Jong-min, who is ‘Japanese blind’, orders with just one word, sending the set into a rage of laughter.
Amidst growing curiosity about how Kim Jong-min’s impromptu Japanese skills will be, the two order three kinds of udon to suit their individual tastes. At this time, Kwak Tube said, “When I come to a Japanese udon restaurant, I only eat bukkake (cold) udon,” revealing his ‘eating philosophy, and when Kim Jong Min exclaimed, “You‘re more of a foodie than I thought,” he said, “It’s been a year since I did the ‘Jun Hyun Moo Plan’. I got scolded (by Jun Hyun Moo) every day and ended up like this.” Hearing this, Jun Hyun Moo recalls his past, saying, “I also learned (about the world of food) while getting scolded by senior Shin Dong Yup. I was really crazy,” and the three of them eat up udon made only with salted seaweed preserved in the traditional Japanese way for the first time in their lives, saying, “It‘s really charming,” and “The noodles are fun,” showing off their eating frenzy. In relation to this, the owner of the udon restaurant is expected to invite many Korean business owners to the ‘front row of their living rooms’ by generously revealing the secrets of the udon broth and noodles that have been passed down for 4 generations, a ‘90-year tradition’.
Amidst interest in what the secrets of the best udon restaurants in mainland Japan are, the second part of Jeon Hyun-moo, Kwak Tube, and Kim Jong-min’s Tokushima food trip, where they have visited everything from udon to an omakase sushi restaurant known only to locals and even Japanese late-night snacks, can be seen on the 24th episode of ‘Jeon Hyun-moo Plan’, which airs on MBN and Channel S at 9:10 PM on the 4th (Friday).
Reporter Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com yyynnn@donga.com
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