The Recipe 2010 The Recipe centers on a TV producer searching for the recipe for an enchanting spicy bean curd stew and its elusive creator Producerpresenter Choi Yu jin smells a scoop when he learns that the last request of mass murderer and famed fugitive Kim Jong gu before he was executed in February 2009 was for a bowl of dwinjang jjigae beancurd soup stew Choi then discovers Kim was arrested at the tiny Sanjang Restaurant, in a mountain pine forest outside Seoul, while eating a bowl of dwinjang jjigae so delicious it reduced him to a state of pure bliss Choi discovers that the soup was made not by the restaurants owner but by a mysterious young woman, Jang Hye jin, who turned up one day with a suitcase and was taken in by the owner Choi becomes obsessed with finding Jang, whos since disappeared, and tracing her precise ingredients and preparation method