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soup even though he warned his chefs that the client's young daughter had a shellfish allergy. Paul deduces Dang sabotaged the soup due to his jealousy over Hunger's younger chefs surpassing him. Dang stabs Paul with a knife and storms out. Aoy visits the hospitalized Paul, who opens up about the reason he became a chef. His mother was a maid for an extravagantly rich family, and she was forced to make restitution when he broke a jar of caviar. The incident made Paul realize that the rich view food as a status symbol, and he resolved to become a chef of such renown that rich people would debase themselves to have him cook for them. Aoy is distraught by her father suffering a health crisis, as well as learning that Hunger's previous client was a construction executive heavily in debt who killed his wife, daughter, and himself after they ate their meal.
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poached from a national park. Aoy is hired as the head chef at Tos's new restaurant Flame and grows famous, while Tone's restaurant struggles. A celebrity hires both Aoy and Paul to cook for her birthday party, which turns into an impromptu competition as the two chefs vie for the guests' adulation.
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