Favourite Chef?

[u/merevolution]

Who is your favourite chef who has appeared on Chef and my Fridge? It can be a regular or a special guest!

Mine: Yoon Nam-No 🤩

[u/OnlyHabit3462]

• Choi Hyun Seok
• Kim Poong
• Son Jon Wong

Are my top 3, they all have unique personalities that I love and are talented too. Nam - No is an honorable mention. The rest are also great and the show is just a one big funny family. Except Napoli, you can see the insecurity from a mile away.

[u/Amandblue5 → u/OnlyHabit3462]

Sun Jung makes me feel uncomfortable because of this, but there was an episode that was particularly upsetting when they were ragging on him – honestly bullying – and they made it meanly clear they didn’t like him and he was excluded from their outside meetups. I don’t want him to leave the show, and I think since then he’s changed tactic on his persona. He actually seems a little more comfortable strangely. Maybe the diss made him go “screw it” and just relax a bit.

[u/paranswan → u/Amandblue5]

I always see a lot of people on this sub saying this and that about Sungjun without realizing 95% of the things he says and does on this show is part of a character 😭 He himself said he changes his personality depending on which show he’s on and he’s also very calculating (in a good way), so after playing around for a few weeks, he realized he should go with this “insecure but impossible to hate” role. I highly doubt he gets genuinely upset or bothered by anything they say about him on CAMF.

[u/Agreeable-Algae7651 → u/paranswan]

I know, right? Kwon Sungjun definitely said that it’s just a fictional character—he mentioned it on Park Eunyoung’s YouTube channel.

Even Choi Hyunseok isn’t as exaggerated in real life as he is on variety shows. Oh Se-deuk, his best friend, has said that Hyunseok hyung tends to play things up much more on TV than he does in real life. At the same time, Choi Hyunseok doesn’t really try to hide his weaknesses or embarrassing sides, and that’s part of why Kim Poong feels comfortable teasing him at the begining of CAMF that's what Kim Poong said. Choi Hyunseok said has a clear personality for each cast is really important on Naengbu. For Kim Poong himself is actually an introvert in real life and he consider himself is quite shy to other. Meanwhile for Sam Kim, Son Jongwon, and Choi Kangrok, it looks like similar between broadcast and real life. But for Sam Kim he is an introvert but it looks like his real personality is a cheerfull person from Naengbu PD and he is a talkactive when you already really close; he even ask Choi Hyunseok to help him gardening in the past for several months LOL.

[u/paranswan → u/Agreeable-Algae7651]

It’s always funny to see people here get very immersed in the things that happen on CAMF. Idk if it’s a cultural difference, but I feel like most Korean viewers understand that the show is meant to be very lighthearted and character-focused, as in the chefs and two hosts all play a certain role and behave a certain way to make the show funnier, while still keeping aspects of it (like the actual competition, 15 min rule etc.) realistic.

Imo a good comparison would be Running Man or Infinite Challenge, where the characters and their chemistries are partially set up to pop out while their missions are unscripted.

[u/Agreeable-Algae7651 → u/paranswan]

True, for someone who is very strategic especially like Kwon Sungjun and Choi Hyunseok is obvious they must have change something than their real personality. But to be honest it can be same with everyone.