A pastry chef’s desserts stir cravings far beyond sugar and cream.

Minseok is a hard-working marketing assistant at LS Cinema who knows how to navigate office life – except when it comes to his gorgeous boss, Jeong Suhee. She constantly gives him a hard time, but Minseok can’t help falling for her hidden warmth and stunning looks. Little does he know, Suhee secretly has a soft spot for her handsome, charming subordinate. When a business trip sends them away together, the professional boundaries dissolve, and a risky, forbidden office romance begins.

One review from the legendary Pi Doyeong can make or break a career. For Soyeong, it did both. After saving her failing restaurant with a rave review, Doyeong’s strange behavior—visiting daily but refusing to eat—starts to ruin Verde’s credibility all over again. When Soyeong corners him to settle the score, she finds a man driven mad by a thirst no wine can quench. Doyeong is a vampire losing control, and he’s just placed a very specific order. To save her life’s work, she enters a risky contract with the supernatural, but in this kitchen, the chef might just end up as the main course.

When he lost his ability to taste and smell, Yi Rim’s life as a chef ended. Just as he’s sinking deeper and deeper into depression, Rim discovers Real, an incredibly immersive VR game that simulates all five senses. There, he’s able to regain his senses of taste and smell. Not only that, but he can cook, too! Although he does need to hunt his own monster ingredients down… Now, Rim is here to cook up delicious food, hunt some dangerous monsters, and maybe even build a whole new legacy along the way. Welcome to Yi Rim’s new life as “Rice”, the gourmet gamer!

Includes the following chapters:

1. Kaerenai Futari
2. Family Restaurant no Juunin
3. Seifuku no Shita ni Aru Mahou
4. Taberu-bu
5. Miyata Shoten ni Youkoso!
6. Denki-gai no Honya-san: Mikan BOOKS no Baai

Killer Tomato and Overripe Banana share their unique views on politics, lazy stock clerks, unattended children, rude customers and being eaten as they go from store to refrigerator.

30-year-old Jo Minjoon has always wanted to become a chef. He started his culinary career late in life, however, and is currently chopping onions at a restaurant. Regretting his life choices, he wishes he could go back to change it all and falls asleep. Meanwhile, someone out there is willing to give him another chance and send him back in time. How will he use the new powers he obtained from this mysterious being?

The main character is stricken by a rare condition that affects only two people in the entire world, bulimic deficiency. He organizes his daily meals to survive, but his hope of survival grows dimmer as the days go by. He consults a doctor, who suggests playing the Alternate Reality Game ‘Athens’, where he can eat as much as he wants without gaining any weight. He plays the game to save his life and become stronger by doing nothing but eating!

Duchess Chloé Battenberg is a spineless softy at the mercy of society snobs, disparaging servants, and a cold husband. When an office worker (and recovering pushover) awakens as Chloé, she can’t believe it. But she’s DONE with this pity party, so let’s make it a tea party! Each cup is perfectly brewed to defeat prejudices and coffee-predilections—and served with a side of business savvy—but is it enough to stir her husband and bring Chloé the respect she deserves? Come spill the tea with Chloé!

Bake youkai, fry youkai, boil youkai, saute youkai. And eat them… The beginning of the youkai gastronomy story.