Bloating. Bloating.

White smoke continued to rise over the large pot.

The fire was so strong that even though it was still the season when I went outside, I was sweating all over.

I was suffocated as if I was in a sauna, but I couldn't take a step back one day.

Rather, he tightened his eyes and stared at the boiling pot.

You have to focus. Remove impurities as soon as they come to mind. You have to touch the baby with a delicate touch, just like you put him to sleep.

"Yes, Chef!"

A pot full of white soup.

Haru and Choi Han-seok were boiling beef bone soup in a late-morning oral fairy tale where everyone else left work.

It's been about two hours, right? Let's get ready to pick up the intestines. Long-boiling is enough with a beef bone. Wash all the intestines in cold water and garnish them. Season with salt at the back.….

Choi Han-seok's expression looked more serious than ever after Haru met him.

While reciting recipes as if he had a recipe book in front of him, he hesitated looking at the day.

No, take your time. I'll let you know in more detail again.

"Thank you!"

One day, I was writing down recipes and tips from Choi Han-seok in my notebook during my cooking break.

It was natural in a way because Choi Han-seok, who had the nickname "God of Korean Cooking," but every word he uttered was more precious to Haru than gold.

Trim ingredients, control heat, and cook food.

Whatever it was, Choi Han-seok's skills in all aspects of cooking were at their peak.

The meat prepared by Choi Han-seok was pretty in shape and had a better meat quality, and even when Choi Han-seok stood in front of the fire, the degree of cooking of the ingredients and the overall quality of the dish differed as much as the sky and the ground.

The same goes for beef bone soup.

Simply adding ingredients and boiling them hard does not mean that it is over.

The part where a lot of blood oozes out of beef was carefully removed, and the fine bones from impurities were removed and carefully cared for by going back and forth between low and high heat.

So that the beef bone melts and all the flavor inside can be exuded.

The soup quickly turned white even though it did not remove much impurities. It was pureer than any broth a day had ever seen.

Every day, I was cooking with Choi Han-seok at dawn and my cooking skills were going up so fast, and Choi Han-seok was also looking at the day with pride.

But the atmosphere was a little different today.

It's before the storm.

The eyes of Choi Han-seok boiling Haru and Gomtang were so cool.

"By the way, Chef. I have a question.”

Yeah, it's Haru. What's up?

"How exactly is Chef Park Joo-hyuk's recipe and Chef Choi Han-seok's beef bone soup recipe different?”

-Hmmm. -Yeah. Haru, maybe you don't know. Tsk, Juhyeok. I told him that chefs shouldn't be a bad cook in my life.

Choi Han-seok sighed quietly, recalling Park Joo-hyuk, and soon shook his head.

Park Joo-hyuk was quite reluctant to show himself cooking.

I didn't know if the reason was simply his pride in cooking.

It was almost impossible to find out the recipe for oral fairy tales without watching Park Joo-hyuk cook for the day, which was only a simple assistant a few weeks ago.

-In short, it's like this. Joohyuk has no depth in his beef bone soup. And it's too bland."What do you mean there's no depth?”

- It costs nearly three times as much to make Joohyuk's beef bone soup as my recipe. They only use good quality Korean beef brisket, situations, and crucible.

Although it is said that sunny spot or situation is cheaper than sirloin-like parts, Korean beef is Korean beef anyway.

The best cow, the best part. And pine mushrooms that are more expensive than gold.

Park Joo-hyuk's beef bone soup is made luxurious.

However, Choi Han-seok's beef bone soup was very different.

- I don't do that. The basic is cow bones. Put it anywhere and boil it until the cartilage melts away to make the soup. You can put the head meat and intestines in there. Of course, there is also sunny spot, but just enough to garnish the soup.

If Park Joo-hyuk's beef bone soup was luxurious and luxurious, Choi Han-seok's beef bone soup was similar to that sold in the market.

I put in the intestines, starting with the cow's bones.

That way, of course, the soup can become relatively murky and smell like cattle.

However, Choi rather aimed for that part.

"If you can get rid of the cow's bad smell, it's rather a luxurious meat scent...….”

Exactly! You can't just use quality meat to create depth. But actually, that alone is not enough. It's already really good beef bone soup, but Michelin stars aren't that easy.

"How could you...…. Are you saying there's some kind of secret ingredient?”

Of course! There's something amazing. It's almost like a cheat key. I didn't think of anything, but there's something that goes really well with beef bone soup.

Choi Han-seok with a meaningful smile.

When Haru asked carefully, he shouted proudly.

-White truffle! There's nothing like this in beef bone soup.

"In the beef-bone soup... Truffle?!"

I couldn't imagine it at all.

Beef bone soup is a Korean food, and truffle is a food ingredient that everyone knows.

Along with caviar and foie gras, it also has three major Western delicacies.

Of course, I understand theoretically.

Many fancy restaurants put mushrooms in soup dishes similar to gomtang or gomtang.

Not only does it control the greasy taste of the meat, but it also adds depth to the subtle scent.

The same was true of oral fairy tales.

There are pine mushrooms in the beef bone soup now. Isn't it?

"That's right. Chef Park Joo-hyuk's recipe for beef bone soup is being served."

Joohyuk likes traditional Korean food. I can't see any exotic ingredients in it. That's why I use pine mushrooms.

Of course, pine mushrooms are also an incredibly luxurious ingredient.

It is as expensive as wild ginseng because it should only be collected from nature.

It was called a truffle in Korea.

By the way, I think truffle is better than pine mushrooms. White truffle is the name of it too. I don't like black truffles because of the color.

"Then, the old oral children's soup."

Yeah, the recipe was completely different. How to use meat, what mushrooms are the highlight of the taste. As you know, this beef bone soup was the one that Joohyuk and I fought the most. He's never seen truffles in beef bone soup, a Korean food.

There was bitterness in Choi Han-seok's voice saying so.

Choi Han-seok, who prefers fusion Korean food by saying, "There is nothing set in Korean food!" and Park Joo-hyuk, who insists on authentic Korean food only, saying that it is not Korean food.

The conflict between the two so far has been bigger than the day imagined.

Nevertheless, Choi cared for Park Chu-hyuk terribly.

Even after he died. He did not blame Park Joo-hyuk too much.But that heart was broken today.

Has the anger of being betrayed in front of one's disciple still not been resolved yet?

Choi Han-seok walked around the kitchen and giggled.

Just like him, the pot was bubbling up.

He said he'd come tomorrow, right?

"Yes. Manager Kim Ho-sung rushed over and said, Our restaurant is a regular and very big-handed VVIP."

Wang Cheng. One day was the first name I've heard.

However, when I heard that he was coming to the restaurant, it was obvious that he was an important person considering Park Joo-hyuk's facial expression and manager's reaction.

He said he'd empty one of the biggest rooms in the restaurant for him and then make a Chinese dessert for him.

There's no end to talking about a lot of course. To me, and to Joohyuk, you can probably think of him as a much closer guest to VVIP than the Michelin judge.

"When I heard from you guys earlier, they said it was no joke. You're Korean-Chinese and you're running a trillions business.….”

- He's a great businessman. Well, he's just like a neighborhood brother to me. Wangcheng is a long-time visitor to our oral fairy tale. I opened a restaurant and so far, I've been flying from China to Korea to find my restaurant.

"Well... I guess you really liked your food."

It's not just that I liked you. Haru, it seems to me that this is only an opportunity from heaven. Do you know what Wang Cheng's favorite food is? There's only one reason he comes to our restaurant.

"Is it because of the soup?”

Of course! Starting with my holy fire, Michelin Three Star. The future of oral fairy tales depends on the gomtang you are making. Haru, you know what I mean?

"Yes..."

Choi Han-seok's words that put a lot of pressure on him.

But at the same time, seeing his heart beat with unexpected expectations, I wondered if Haru was an inevitable cook.

Whew... It's getting close. Let's wrap this up.

"Yes!"

After getting all the beef bone, intestines, and meat, the oil was filtered once.

After putting the soup in a puttukbaegi, season it with salt and pepper, and cut the green onions into small pieces.

If it stays like this, it's just plain delicious beef bone soup.

But if you add some special ingredients for Choi Hanseok.

Sneak, sneak.

He slightly ground up the white truffle with a dedicated plane.

Just a little. About 5g.

Adjusting the amount was really important because too much of the broth covered the scent of the broth itself.

When the white truffle entered the white gomguk, it was almost invisible to the eyes.

But the scent was definitely different.

As if one more axis was added to the coordinates.

A deeper scent came up.

A bowl of Choi Han Seok's beef bone soup that was completed in an instant.

"This smells like…….”

A figure walked in through the door that was closed at a good timing.

A high school girl ghost who is a regular at the early morning restaurant and almost the only guest, Hana.

She kept sniffing with her hands on her cheeks and made eye contact with Haru.

"Isn't it cold outside?"

-Yes... a little.

"Today, I cooked beef bone soup. Eat hot and go."

Beef bone soup made by Korea's top chef for regular customers who do trillions of global businesses.

Although the grand words were attached, it was just a warm soup for the tired soul now."Thank you for the food. Thank you, brother. Mister."

After bowing down to Haru and Choi Han-seok, one scooped a spoonful of soup.

The steam blew it out, cooled it down, and swallowed it.

-Wow... -Wow...….

The taste of the soup is heavy.

The meat scent and the strong aftertaste of crucible.

And in the middle of it, truffle was placed upright.

What's this? It smells really interesting. But it's really good! How does the soup taste like this?

Isn't it amazing? It's beef bone soup but I've never tasted it before.

One nods passionately.

It was a bowl that could not be tasted anywhere except here.

Munch munch! Slurp!

There was no need for a big reaction.

Like a dog who starved for a few days, one ate rice as if he was about to put his nose in a rice soup bowl.

Choi Han-seok, who was looking at one with a happy look in the world, looked at the day.

Yeah, well, that'll be enough. Wangcheong-do will be enough to satisfy you if it's Gomguk. Thank you, Haru. Thank you for following me well.

"What? I just...…I just did what the chef told me to do."

No, you can be proud of this. Your cooking was perfect today. Really.

"Hehe, thank you. By the way, Chef. I've been curious about this for a while ago.”

What is it?

"The chef and I made beef-bone soup. How do I give this to the customers?"

You might wonder, "What is it?" But if you think about it a little bit, it was a natural question.

Haru is the youngest chef who has not yet had a say even though he has escaped from the office, and this is a dish made during non-business hours without receiving anyone's order.

In short, it's not the dish of a restaurant oral fairy tale.

Common sense is that there is no reason for this soup to go out to customers.

So the crucial question asked.

However, Choi Han-seok just said as if nothing happened.

Don't worry, it'll work out somehow.

"Yes……? No, what do you mean somehow? Even though we've worked so hard to cook, if we can't serve our customers, it's all in one piece by piece."

-No, it's a day. Don't worry about it. Do you think I'm some kind of an edict in this restaurant? If you think about Wang Cheng and Joo Hyuk's personality, you'll definitely have to use it. Trust me.

Choi Han-seok asserts that it is possible unconditionally.

One day I couldn't understand what he said easily.