A scene from "Street Restaurant Fighter" / Captured from Diggle Classic YouTube channel
Korea has long had a large culinary reality show scene, beginning with “MasterChef Korea,” followed by the “Korean Food War” series, before reaching a new peak with “Culinary Class Wars,” which drew attention from overseas.
But once the wrap party ended, producers were left with a question: What now?
They soon found an answer, and it was not to send chefs back into the kitchen to battle one another all over again. Instead, a new crop of culinary variety shows began using cooking in formats rarely seen before.
Now, chefs are thrown into survival tournaments that test whether they can turn their food into a viable business, or sent back to the lowest rung of the kitchen hierarchy to relive the early days of their careers.
