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Around the time that people hurry home after the day ends...

my day begins.

This is all that's on the menu.

Other than that, customers order whatever they want

and I make it for them as long as it's possible.

[Late Night Restaurant]

The restaurant is open from midnight to seven o'clock in the morning.

You may ask, are there people who come to this old, worn-out place?

Well, there are quite a lot.

[Episode 15: Potato Ongshim Seaweed Soup]

I'm hungry. Oh, I'm hungry.

I'm so hungry that I think I'm going to die.

I would like spicy and sour buckwheat noodles

and rice topped with egg and pollack roe...

I also want to eat tuna rolls, and I'm also craving carbonara.

The curry seems tasty too.

Why am I constantly so hungry?

The name of this young lady, who's a travel guide, is Ji Young.

She's been known as the greatest person at our restaurant lately

because she sucks in everything like a black hole since her stomach's big.

Eat the dishes one by one, slowly, one after the other

instead of ordering three or four dishes all at once.

You have to eat several dishes together for it to taste good.

Just like a buffet.

This girl is such a fraud.

Master, you remember when she first came here, right?

Then again, she was completely different when she first came here.

[The Love of May: Parents' Day or Teachers' Day Carnations]

How hot is the upcoming summer going to be

if the weather's like this when it's only May?

It's too hot.

Do you serve seaweed soup...

with potato ongshim in it?

Potato ongshim, you say...

There are sometimes people who ask for it as a special dish.

But it was the first time in quite a while that someone did.

The potato starch makes the flavor of the soup richer.

But, there aren't many people who know that.

Here is the potato ongshim seaweed soup that you ordered.

I'm sorry.

What the...

Two days after that...

Excuse me.

Would it be possible for you to make me potato ongshim seaweed soup?

Is today a special occasion? Why didn't you close the restaurant?

I went to the public bathhouse, and...

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

So, I thought you were anorexic.

But, how can you eat so well like this?

Aside from the fact that you eat well, you know all sorts of strange things.

I found out that potato ongshim can be put into seaweed soup

for the first time because of you.

Look at this. What is this rice topped with egg and pollack roe?

This is topped with thin fried egg slices and the peel of salted pollack roe.

This tastes really good because there's oyster sauce in it.

This is definitely something that you cooked at home.

Hey, is your mother Dae Jang Geum, by any chance?

No.

My meals at home were hospital food.

What? You're a hospital owner's daughter?

How can you come to that conclusion so quickly?

Well, you said that your meals at home were hospital food.

My mom worked in a hospital kitchen.

She always brought home the leftover rice and side dishes from there.

I guess hospital food is really good

seeing as you grew up as the type who doesn't get fat even if you eat like this.

No. I hated that food so much.

The rice that my mom brought home always smelled like the hospital.

The pungent and spine-chilling smell

that makes you nervous for no reason and makes you feel unpleasant.

I think I know what that is.

When you go to the hospital, that smell hits you first.

- Yeah, that... - It's a little bit scary.

Yeah, that's right. It's a scary smell.

Did you know that every house smells different?

They all smell different.

The smell of the food that is cooked in the house

permeates all of the furniture and wallpaper.

So our house always smelled like the hospital.

I hated that so much.

So I didn't even bring friends over to my house.

But my mom packed it as my lunch too.

Still, you were being too much. That's such a waste of good food.

You'll be punished if you throw away food.

I know.

But still, I didn't like it because I worried that my friends would find out.

Yeah.

It's possible to do that during puberty, when you're the most sensitive.

So you're eating all these tasty foods because of the sorrow

of not being able to eat back then.

But, how come you don't gain weight, when you eat more than me?

What exactly is the reason?

Don't say things like, 'I was born with it' or whatever

because I just hate those kinds of people.

I gain weight when I eat too.

It's just that...

I'm in a certain situation right now.

So, what's your secret?

Pregnancy.

Then again, you do lose weight when you get morning sickness...

What? Pregnancy?

You're pregnant?

Who's pregnant?

Well, I mean, congrats.

It's something to congratulate, right?

Yes.

What does the child's father do?

He's a senior whom I worked with when I was a travel guide in Thailand.

I said that we should get married and live together in Korea or Thailand.

But when I told him that I was pregnant

he took his passport and fled to another country the next day.

Oh my.

Seriously, he's an extremely bad person.

That's the problem with men.

Do you want me to send out a few guys I know and catch that jerk?

So what are you going to do now?

What do you mean, what am I going to do?

I should increase the declining birth rate of Korea.

Hey, is this the time to be making jokes right now?

Look. I'm saying this out of concern.

How old did you say you are?

- I am... - She's 24.

You're the same age as my daughter.

I'm saying this because you're like my daughter...

but, at that age...

even if you have a child after getting married, it's tough.

If you live like that without getting married

then you won't have your own life from now on.

Of course, a life is precious

and thinking of taking responsibility is admirable and good.

But living as a single mother in our country

is the exact same thing as walking on a thorny path

while carrying the child.

Both the person walking

and the child being carried on the person's back

will be covered in wounds after they pass through.

Let's go.

Quickly.

Hey, Cherry.

It's because I sympathize with it so much.

I grew up without a father too.

I see.

He died before I was born.

So it was probably a difficult decision that my mom made.

But, I wasn't happy either.

Does your mom know too?

My mom...

probably thinks that I'm staying in Thailand.

I went to Thailand after fighting with her and leaving the house.

It's been a few years since I saw her.

You have a lot going on in your life too.

Do you want to have a drink?

She's pregnant.

That's right. It's because it's a habit of mine.

Master, please give me liquor and something boiled.

I hardly ever see my mom either.

There are three people whom I formally call 'Dad.'

There are a countless number of people whom I call 'Mister.'

To be honest, I'm not from Gyeongsangdo either.

What? Really?

No wonder. Your dialect was strange.

It's because as I followed my mom and moved from place to place

all of the dialects got messed up and jumbled together.

But as I went around

I found that the Daegu dialect was the cutest and nicest for women to use.

So I practiced it a lot.

Where is your mother right now?

Who knows?

I'm sure she's living well alongside a new man.

Then, if they break up, she calls me sobbing again.

They say that a daughter will have a fate that's similar to her mother's.

so I criticized my mom a lot in the past.

But now, I just think that was one of her many skills.

If you add a little bit of cooking wine when you cook

you can get rid of the any weird or fishy smell from the ingredients

and enhance the taste.

How nice would it be if there was a cooking wine like that for our lives?

Here.

But, why do you live like that with your mother?

It's warm and tasty. Try this.

I'm telling you to eat up.

It smells.

Would you have given Dad a meal like this if he were still alive?

Of course.

If I had made a meal like this sooner...

your dad wouldn't have passed away like that.

He was someone who didn't have a healthy liver.

But I didn't make him good food because I didn't know a thing.

If you take after your dad, you don't have a healthy liver either.

So don't say useless things and just eat this diligently.

This has all of the five nutrients.

They're healthy foods that are seasoned perfectly so that they're good for you.

How many times do I have to tell you that I don't like it?

It's my birthday tomorrow, so cook for me at home, Mom.

I made all of this.

I don't mean a meal like this.

I want to eat potato ongshim seaweed soup.

You made that for me often before you worked at the hospital.

That was when I wasn't busy.

Making potato ongshim seaweed soup is a lot of work.

I don't have time to make that in the morning.

I already told the nutritionist secretly

to put seaweed soup on the menu since it's your birthday.

Am I a beggar?

If you were going to pick up and eat this kind of food

why did you give birth to me?

This girl...

Yeah, I'm deeply regretting it too.

I didn't even give birth to a virtuous girl.

Yet, I only lived for her...

Apparently, someone else's daughter...

prepared and served a meal to her mom on her own birthday

saying that her mom went through a lot of trouble giving birth to her.

You don't even move a single finger.

Jeez.

Why are you acting so mighty when you didn't do anything at birth?

I never told you to give birth to me.

I didn't want to be born into a household like this either.

Yeah.

In the future, give birth to a daughter who's just like you too.

Don't worry.

I'm not going become a mom who's like you either.

My child will be born into a good household and enjoy everything.

[Happy birthday, my daughter. Study hard.]

Yeah, all parents feel the same way.

I know.

But it would have been better if she hadn't cooked it for me.

Why?

Hello.

- Ji Young, you're here. - Yes.

It seems that the daughter was troubled about what her mother said too.

She bought a bouquet of flowers and visited her mom out of gratitude.

But, there she...

Thank you so much for everything, ma'am.

I haven't done anything.

This is what you were busy doing?

Ji Young.

Wait a minute.

Don't say things like you lived only for me

or that you gave birth to a virtuous girl, when you did something like this

because it's despicable.

It's not like that. Let's talk.

Fool.

You acted like you were so smart.

But it's a sick person again?

After that, whenever we fought

I told her to go to that man and be good to him.

I also told her to go and fix her life now.

I said a lot of harsh things like that to her.

Then, as soon as I graduated high school

I left for Thailand, saying that I would be a travel guide.

I understand how you feel.

I understand how my mom felt too now.

I told her that I wouldn't live like her.

It's just that I can't go back in this state.

Still, shouldn't your mom be by your side when you give birth?

How are you going to do the postnatal care and everything by yourself?

More importantly, are you really going to give birth to the child?

This isn't a problem that you should think hastily about.

You know better than anyone else.

To be honest, I came that day...

considering it to be the last time.

She said that was her very own farewell ceremony.

Do you serve seaweed soup...

with potato ongshim in it?

She said she wanted to feed potato ongshim seaweed soup

to the who was still in her womb, for the first and last time.

She said she had morning sickness for the first time right then.

I'm sorry.

She said it was then that she felt the baby's existence at last.

Excuse me.

Would it be possible for you to make me potato ongshim seaweed soup?

But, she just didn't have the confidence to manage, so she came again.

She said that rather than getting morning sickness

her stomach, which had been queasy right up until then, actually got better.

She even said that it tasted good too.

I'm sorry.

I suddenly thought of my mom then.

I thought that my mom must've been scared

and had a tough time just like me.

Also, just like me

this kid doesn't know how its mom feels.

That's why I thought that we're quite similar to each other.

That's why she nicknamed her fetus, 'Ong Shim.'

- That's... - It's so pretty.

It's so pretty.

I present to you potato ongshim made for our Ong Shim.

- It's full of ongshim. - There's a lot.

She said that it's a child who was saved by ongshim.

Here.

Also, these are baby shoes.

- Those small shoes are so pretty, right? - Yes, they are so pretty.

Thank you, Yoo Mi.

Hey, but isn't it a little harsh to ask a person who isn't even married yet

to come to a baby shower?

To be honest, I haven't even done something like this for my wife.

Would you have done anything for your wife?

My gift is this.

Why the raw egg?

They say it symbolizes a safe delivery because of its slipperiness.

I should be sure to eat this.

Thank you.

Then, I should eat this too.

Who knows? Maybe mine will come out quickly too.

I'm so embarrassed.

Just don't eat the shell.

Please.

Why don't you have the ongshim...

What's wrong with her?

Are you having contractions?

- Contractions! - Really?

What do we do? Don't we have to go to the hospital?

Slowly and carefully.

Good, good. Hold onto her.

Take long breaths. That's right.

You're doing well.

That's right, slowly. One, two. One, two.

- That's right. - Wait a minute.

- Wait a minute. - Where's the taxi?

- The taxi's outside of the alley. - Okay, over there.

It's over there, right?

The taxi's over there.

- It's that one, right? - Yeah.

- Okay, slowly. It's okay. - Get the door.

You can do well.

Get in first. Get her in the car. Slowly and carefully.

- It's usually like that. - Don't worry now.

That's right.

Mister, she's a mother.

- Please go to the nearest hospital... - No, no.

- No, not the nearest hospital... - Yes.

- You're okay, right? - Yes.

You did well.

The baby was so pretty.

Your meal is here.

The mother and daughter met again like that...

In front of the hospital food...

and seaweed soup that she hated so much.

I'm sorry.

Don't cry.

If a mother who gave birth cries, her eyes will worsen.

Quickly, eat.

Quickly.

You see, for potato ongshim...

no matter how much you ball up ground potato with all your might

it will never stick together.

After you wring out the water completely once...

you have to mix it together with the starch that settled to the bottom

to be able to pack the balls tightly.

Sometimes, might human relationships need a starch powder like this too?

No.

Perhaps family members...

are beings who have something like that melted in their blood already.

Let's go in.

Do you serve seaweed soup?

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