[Culture Inside] Chef Choi Hyunsuk is a scene stealer for "Black and White Cook" in his second heyday.

ⓒYTN

Chef Choi Hyun-suk appeared on the YTN cultural program "Culture Inside" to reveal his cooking philosophy and the back story of his appearance on "Black and White Chef."

Chef Choi Hyun-suk once again made a big splash through "Black and White Chef," who initially refused to appear. His appearance is said to have helped bring the public to the front of the TV and catch the attention of the program in the beginning.

It was natural to follow the hotel chef's father, the Korean chef's mother, and the Western chef's brother to walk the path of a chef, but making familiar food as an "office worker" in the form of a chef was a daily routine. After that, the customer's words, "It's really delicious, but it's so similar to the food at the restaurant run by the teacher," mark a turning point in his cooking life. After that, he devotes himself to creative cooking.

Choi Hyun-suk, who was developing a crazy new recipe to make a dish that didn't exist in the world, was also nicknamed "Crazy Chef." Choi Hyun-seok said, "There needs to be a variety of dishes to develop this board, and my role is the cogwheel embedded in it. I have to continue to cook my own food and play my role today because all the cogs stop when they fall out," he said.

But he also looked at him with a wry look. While he was stacking tens of thousands of his own recipes, there was also an evaluation with colored glasses that "molecular cooking is loud." There was also a confusion of identity between Choi Hyun-seok and Chef Choi Hyun-seok in the broadcast. It was a fan's words that helped Choi Hyun-suk recover his health to come and eat the dishes he showed on the show. Choi Hyun-suk says he wants to let people who are happy after watching the show know that cooking is fun.

Judge Ahn Sung-jae, who is a junior chef but achieved the feat of being the first Michelin star in Korea, has created several famous scenes that are still popular. Viewers who watched the episode between the two watched it interestingly, calling it a "hate relationship" (hate relationship), even though they said they were close to each other privately. In particular, chef Ahn Sung-jae, who made an indescribable review during the elimination mission screening, and chef Choi Hyun-seok, who continues to eat his tofu dishes in a panic, have circulated the Internet world with various memes.

Chef Choi Hyun-suk, who has already been cooking for 30 years. What blueprint does he have now when he once said his goal is to set up restaurants in gourmet cities around the world? Choi Hyun-seok expressed his hope that customers visiting his restaurant would enjoy it as comfortably as if they were watching a moving comedy movie, not a spectacular masterpiece. Contrary to the prejudice that it must be a difficult place for some reason, people who visit there said, "Why is fine dining so fun? I want you to feel comfortable, right?

More detailed interviews of chef Choi Hyun-suk, who has his own firm culinary philosophy and wit, can be found on YTN's Culture Inside Culture Interview.

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team