Sweetly moving, like a peaceful babbling brook

While this drama may not be to everyone's taste, due to the pacing, I found it charming and peaceful, like a pleasantly babbling brook that you just want to take a while to sit by and enjoy.

Granted, there is a plot, involving an ex-gangster and his mysterious past, and there is also a romance (could it be a K-drama without one?!), but most of the story takes place at a traditional Korean restaurant which is nestled up against the mountains, seemingly out in the middle of nowhere. It is at this place where we see the lives of the family and staff play out, and where even the lives of their customers are touched and changed for the better. Be prepared to watch the making of kimchi - lots and lots of kimchi! (It is, I think, part of the charm of this show. I loved seeing the "kimchi family" come together to make all the different types of fermented dishes, with all the ingredients that keep mysteriously arriving on their doorstep.)

In three adjectives or less: heartwarming, sweet, and yes, a bit of tear-jerker.

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