Korean government holds a nationwide kimchi contest to reaffirm its position as the originator of kimchi in Asia. Jang Eun (Kim Jeong Eun) , who is a famed chef in Japan , comes back to Korea to participate in the contest. She also wants to close down the once best Korean traditional restaurant that her mother has been running for years. She never understood her mother for cherishing the restaurant more than herself and her own daughter. Seong Chan (Jin Goo) became separated from his deaf-and-mute mother and spent his childhood together with Jang Eun. He wants to keep the restaurant and proposes competing in the kimchi contest and Jang Eun agrees that the winner will have the rights to the restaurant. Throughout the fierce competition they both go into the finals , where they have to find the traditional taste of kimchi. On the day of the final round , however , the juries and audience are very much surprised to see the process of cooking by the two natural-born cooks…