Translation resultFor the first time on KBS 2TV’s Shinsangchulsi Pyeonstaurant, T-ara’s Hyomin is serving a full Japanese-course tasting menu.
On the April 3 broadcast (today) of KBS 2TV’s Shinsangchulsi Pyeonstaurant (hereafter “Pyeonstaurant”), a new resident chef appears with skills that even leave Chef Lee Yeon-bok stunned. The chef in question is Hyomin — the K-pop star behind countless mega-hits with girl group T-ara — who has recently reinvented herself as an entrepreneur. Hyomin made headlines when she married a finance professional ten years her senior in April 2025.
In the pre-recorded segment airing that day, Hyomin explains she’s been bustling to prepare an intimate anniversary party for her husband. Before cooking, she pulls out three thick notebooks and, with a serious face, flips through them. What’s inside is surprising: handwritten recipes, diagrams of tool placement for each workstation, visual and plating sketches for every dish, and even a detailed table-setting plan. Seeing Hyomin’s meticulous notes, Chef Lee Yeon-bok laughed in disbelief: “This is stuff fine-dining chefs do…”
“It took me a week just to plan,” Hyomin tells producers. The result is a first for Pyeonstaurant — a seven-course Japanese full-course meal. It turns out she holds a certification in Japanese cuisine. She slices daikon paper-thin and flawlessly performs the advanced three-piece filleting technique. She also prepares an array of sushi, soba, tempura, and desserts herself, surprising everyone on set.
Impressed by her cooking, menu structure, and plating, Chef Lee Yeon-bok says, “At this level, you should be on ‘Black & White Chef.’” The arrival of this formidable new resident chef — Hyomin, a certified Japanese-cuisine cook — and her full-course offering, billed as “Hyomin Dining,” will be revealed on KBS 2TV’s Shinsangchulsi Pyeonstaurant on Friday, April 3 at 9:40 PM, immediately following the Friday Night Baseball broadcast.
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