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tvN 'Street Restaurant Fighter' Round 3 on August 9... Cracks Emerge Within Alliance Teams Over Four Semifinal Spots

The survival program 'Street Restaurant Fighter,' featuring top chefs from South Korea's restaurant industry competing in front of real customers, is currently airing to an enthusiastic response. In this program, chefs step in as participants rather than judges, leaving the set to take on the challe

Jonghoon Jeong
Staff Reporter
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tvN 'Street Restaurant Fighter' Round 3 on August 9... Cracks Emerge Within Alliance Teams Over Four Semifinal Spots
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The survival program 'Street Restaurant Fighter,' featuring top chefs from South Korea's restaurant industry competing in front of real customers, is currently airing to an enthusiastic response. In this program, chefs step in as participants rather than judges, leaving the set to take on the challenge of running a business on-site. The series consists of 12 episodes and airs every Sunday at 7:35 PM on tvN.

The eighth episode, scheduled to air on August 9, will feature Round 3, where four tickets to the semifinals are at stake. In this mission, the starting team and the follow-up team must cooperate organically, but each alliance team encounters difficult obstacles from the very beginning. Unexpected cracks appear within teams that seemed solid: Kim Min-sung of the Lee Yeon-bok and Kim Min-sung team expressed difficulties with teamwork, and Edward Kwon also revealed his sense that things were going wrong from the early stages of the mission.

Even in the Kim Ho-yoon and Kim Kwan-hoon team, which advanced through the revival round in first place, communication issues during the cooking process surfaced. When Kim Ho-yoon asked his partner, 'Can't you fry alongside me?', Shin Jong-hoon, Kim Kwan-hoon's partner, reacted by saying they were out of sync. In this way, small mistakes that occur during prep and cooking workflows affect the entire team, leading to unpredictable battles under the pressure of having to sell 100 bowls as quickly as possible.

Participants feel significant pressure from the cold evaluations and penalties imposed by the amusement park visitors. While one participant showed confidence, saying, 'We're going to win this,' customers deliver blunt assessments such as 'It doesn't taste good' and 'It's nothing special,' and when a '2-star rating' comes out, a penalty is given that adds to the number of bowls that must be sold. Amid such circumstances that elicit sighs like 'This round won't be easy either,' attention is focused on which four teams will advance to the semifinals.

Jonghoon Jeong
Staff Reporter

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