Saturday, April 02, 2005

I collected this japanese drama.I found that there are a lot of life meanings.
I watched 8 out of 10 episodes so far.

This lady,Kamosawa Seri goes on her advantage to city(Tokyo) to use her cooking skills for french foods to make people leave the french resturant with smile.
Sound interesting and intriguing huh?haha,I will tell you summary details of every episodes.I wanna share these ideal things from what i learnt by watching this.

Episode 1
As Seri arrived Tokyo to find Tachibana brothers' famed french resturant sold due to elder Tachibana,Kenzo's debt.
Younger brother,Shinichi lost his ambition until Seri appeared in his life.
Seri and her younger sister had to stay his home because Kenzo sent her to be chef for that resturant.
Unfortunately,it was sold.
Seri cooked a french food that contain the memories of his grandmother who cooked for him when he was weak child then.
With much wonderful taste,he had a new ambition again by opening a small new french resturant with Seri as a main Chef.
Sparking eyes with burning ambition to sweep all french resturants in Japan.

Episode 2
Shinichi has many years working experience as manager.
Somehow,he still did not know her style of cooking.
He pressured her to cook fixed standard of cooking menus and invited 10 top food critics to taste her food.It was disappointing result as she didn't know how they look like and what their preferences were.
A American-Japanese guy came to the resturant because he liked Seri's father(dead)'s food.He gave it a try since Seri was Kamosawa's daughter despite of horrible thumb-down review of her food on internet.
She had met him before in afternoon somewhere outside and had a nice conversation talk with him.
And now at the resturant,she met him again and she knew what he looked like and his preference was like.
She whipped a food like .
He said that he was awoken up by eating her father's similar french food like this when he was bankrupt.
She made another food that revive his memories of his family and him in his own hardship life.

Episodes 3
Shinichi knew her modus operandi of cooking food.
He introduced special 'order made' menu and made a small rounded window on the wall of kitchen so that she could see the customers' expression.
Neat plan!
A ex-couple(broke-up long time ago) arrived this returant as this man want to treat her(she was going to marry with another man) as a wedding present.*keep your eyes closer on this content*
Seri asked them their likes&dislikes of food.
The first dish she cooked is this.
He commented how good this meal was.It brought good memories to her when she liked watching him expressing his feelings how good the food were.
*oo,i didn't know that girls would be listening us if we express something and now i know what girls would like to listen from us**wink*
Second dish was odd looking meal
Surprisingly,one of the ingredients in the food is his dislike food,LIVER!
He was angry but he wonder this food she ate whether it was good.*peng*
With replacement dish(this time no liver),he found it delicious.
A short conversation between them got her encouraging him to eat the liver.*haha*
The third and last dish was strange-looking dish but it was quite popular choice among french food
However most of ingredients contain the food he didn't like!
In the result,he and she quarrelled each other on why they broke up.
She told him that she couldn't eat the foods he disliked because she didn't want to see his moody face.
Her parting shot at him was 'her going-to-be husband enjoyed watching her eating the food he disliked'
After that,her heart was at ease and she was READY to marry beacuse at first she wasn't.

Episode 4
Seri met an female stranger who barged into the resturant.
They talked each other and Seri found that she wanted to marry her boyfriend.
The problem was her boyfriend one year older than her father(her only family member).
And so Seri invited her so that she can ask her father for blessing in front of her father and her boyfriend in the resturant.
However there was a mishap as she was late due to traffic jam.
The plan didn't go smoothly as her father and her boyfriend met each other.
The first dish was this
After eating,her father asked him how old he was.
He honestly told him his age and the year of birth.
He was so shocked and told him not to marry his daughter.
The second dish was this one that retrive her father of his past looking after her.
Finally,she arrived.
She begged her father to give her his blessing.
Third and last dish was
this one for her father and this one for her
It proved to be decisive D-day as her father remembered that her mother told him to be her side no matter the whole world go against her.
Finally,he gave his blessing to her
*YEAH!FINALLY!I really hope for this.I don't care how the fucking the age gap was*

Episode 5
This time,Seri's mother send a man called Ito who dislike Kensaku to Japan to manage Kensaku's old resturant.
She also asked Ito to check Seri's cooking skills.
He arrived there and Kensaku who also dislike him too had shown his professional service skill bringing him to the table.
Upon questioning hin,Seri found that Kensaku and Ito used to be partners opening a resturant in France.
The first dish was this meal to get him to recall the past when they worked in resturant
They exchanged their opinions on how to manage the resturant.
The second dish was this meal consisting of 3 persons(ito,kensaku,Kenzo)
Ito was so sarcastic that he told the waiteress(Seri's sister) that he was supposed to enjoy the food rather than reminise the past.
The third and last dish was this meal to find out the misunderstanding
It proved to be useful that Seri got Kensaku and Ito to eat both and found the misunderstanding thing.They became friends again.
*that is what i want to see*

Episode 6
This one was about a lady who wanted to study how to make dessert in France but her mother insisted that she should live contented and quiet life.
Due to her frustration,she ran home and was looking for a job as pastry chief.
She went to the resturant where Seri worked because she had to pay back to Seri who saved her by footing 1/3 bill(she was short of).
Her mother called every resturant in Tokyo to find where she was.
Kensaku received her call and he decide to invite her with Seri's approval.
The first dish was the thing that brought her memories of past
Her daughter who didn't know her past found out and she realised that she was mistaken about her.
The second and last dish(desert) was the dessert of her daughter made for her
Finally,both of them reconciled and her mother let her to study in France.
*it is good to be with your parents*

Episode 7
Kensaku decided to give 3 days summer break to cooking team.
The cooking team went to Seri's mother home(her mother help old people in old folks home).
Kensaku called her home and Seri's sister picked up the phone.
Kensaku left the message to her that Seri had to come to her real mother's hotel.
But Seri's sister didn't tell her.
She was so selfish that she wanted Seri to stay with her family and she was afraid that she might lose her.
*i won't choose this selfish path.i would definately let my wife what she really wanted to do*

Episode 8
This one is the most significant of all the 8 episodes.
Seri decide to apologise her sister so as to ease the tension away.
In fact her sister should be the one apologising.
A boy who went to Kensaku's old resturant but the resturant rejected his request to reserve a table for his parents because his parents always went there every year for anniversay except the year before.
He went to look another french resturant and the old lady who was looking after her shop thought that he was lost.She took to police station.
Seri was in police station asking the policeman to guide her to thr resturant because she went out alone(she had poor sense of direction).
The boy took her to the resturant.
He told his problem to her and she decided to invite him to the resturant.
He gave his piggg bank and went home to get his parents to go there at night.
Kensaku counted the money the boy saved.He remarked that it was quite a lot of money due to his age.
The parents decide to attend despite of having hostile against each other.
Upon his parents arrived in the resturant,Kensaku recognised them as they used to be his patrons in his old resturant.
Kensaku even remember the year of their courtship,marriage and the food they ate.
He told them to Seri.
The first dish was a meal giving them to recall the day they court each other
Even though,they talked about it for a while and then the boy's father asked her who will take the boy custody.
The second dish was meal that brought to her the memories of the boy's father who cook rice gruel for her
They began to talk the past and then argue over their bad habits.
The boy went to resturant to bring his mother's brooch which was her frist present from his father.But it was broken as he dropped it on the way.
The third and the last dish was the meal that look like her brooch
Finally,they made up and decided not to divorce.
And then,Seri's sister finally apologise her.

Ep8 had hugh bearing importance on me and your life.
Like Kensaku,i always remember my friends' personalities and i tailored my handling and chat based on their personalities so as we would have smiles or somthing pleasant for each other.Being considerate and concerned,i hope i can make my wife happy as me.

When the times we live together with wife,we will get to see our wifes' wierd/bad habits at home.We would like and enjoy them in future even though we are not used to it at first.I believe it also applied the same for ladies.

Seri always think of ways to create something that can save the situation.
With my brain,i always wanted to solve my loved one's problem and situation because i felt i am capable of doing that.*grin*

And now you know that anyone enjoy your discussion as long as we have interest in each other.Gabriel always worry about this problem.

I will write Saturday and Sunday event of me later.

Tony Del Piero wrote and posted at at 11:49 pm