Cupid’s Kitchen

Lin Ke-Song (played by Song Zu-Er), a girl with the gift of taste, has a secret crush on her classmate Song Yi-Ran (played by Liu Dong-Qin). While working at a hotel in Hangzhou, she accidentally meets Jiang Qian-Fan (played by Ruan Jing-Tian), a famous Michelin-starred chef who has lost his sense of taste. Song Yi-Ran invites Lin Ke-Song to dinner. She is mistaken as a participant in a taste-testing group in a private room at a restaurant where Jiang Qian-Fan cooks a dish for the group to provide feedback on. Lin Ke-Song realizes she is at the wrong place, sneaks out of the room & joins Song Yi-Ran at the right table where he receives a call from his current girlfriend.

Jiang Qian-Fan reviews all of the feedbacks from the taste-test, but rejects all 14 of them. He finds out there was 15 feedbacks, but one was thrown out, because it said there was a double grassy taste & there was no name. He, urgently, urges his staff to find the girl with the rare gift of taste. He has a chance meeting with her at a restaurant where she is crying, eating & upset because she was fired from her hotel job. He hires her for 3 days to take him to all the best places to eat in Hangzhou. Along the way, he tests her ability of taste & realizes her gift of taste is genuine.

Lin Ke-Song finds out at a party Song Yi-Ran is leaving for Shanghai to live with his new girlfriend & his older brother can provide a position for him there. She decides to follow him there, staying at her uncle’s place. Her cousin, Lin Xiao-Yu (played by Liu Ling-Er), enters a culinary contest, Future Culinary Star, & takes Lin Ke-Song with her as company, but is not allowed in unless she is a registered contestant. During the preliminary competition, Lin Ke-Song makes the worst dish & is dubbed “Evil Dragon Princess” by the film crew covering the competition.

Jiang Qian-Fan finds out his former girlfriend, Elise Quentin (played by Xu Xia-Wen), kept information about the competition which he is invited to be a mentor to one of the contestants from him because of his condition. He decides to join the competition & searches for a disciple.

Jiang Qian-Fan decides to take on Lin Ke-Song as his new apprentice, teaches her cooking skills, & prepare to participate in the main cooking competition for the Future Culinary Star in three months time. Although, Lin Ke-Song has a genuine sense of taste, she knows nothing about cooking. After Jiang Qian-Fan’s strict training and rigorous techniques, Lin Ke-Song actually develops her own set of special cooking skills, and she gradually finds confidence in her culinary skills and becomes a better version of herself.

In the culinary competition, Jiang Qian-Fan goes up against Boris, his nemesis who studied under the same culinary teacher, Mr. Montgomery. Boris hates Jiang Qian-Fan & vows to destroy him, because their teacher didn’t chose him for a major culinary competition. Boris decides to mentor Lin Ke-Song’s cousin, Lin Xiao-Yu, a chef in her own right, who hates Lin Ke-Song, because Jiang Qian-Fan (her idol) didn’t choose her. During the competition, Lin Xiao-Yu & Victor Quinton (Elise’s younger brother & culinary genius) plays dirty tricks on Lin Ke-Song. Lin Ke-Song against all odds makes it into the semi-finals & then the finals. In the semi-finals, Lin Ke-Song goes up against Lin Xiao-Yu which ends badly, because in the final minutes, Lin Xiao-Yu gets badly burned while trying to use a blow torch to finish her dish. In the finals, the mentors cook with their disciples. Jiang Qian-Fan loses his sight due to overdosing of a medication taken to counteract a slow acting poison his former girlfriend, Elise, gave to him in an effort to make him rely on her & become a couple again. He decides to continue on in the finals with Lin Ke-Song. She wins 2nd place in the finals against Victor & his mother, the Queen of Desserts. Afterwards, Jiang Qian-Fan & Lin Ke-Song realize they are in love & complement each other.

Song Yi-Ran gradually falls in love with Lin Ke-Song even though he is in love with Chu Ting. He eventually realizes he has nothing to show for himself in his life & is inspired by Lin Ke-Song to be a better version of himself.

Jiang Qian-Fan recovers his sense of taste & sight by taking an illegal experimental drug Elise purchased which can reactivate the nerves which have atrophied or died. The drug causes intense pain & could potentially damages internal organs. Jiang Qian-Fan who had gone into a forest to take the drug, would have died if Lin Ke-Song hadn’t found him in time & got him to a hospital.

Last Updated: November 25, 2025 at 11:28