在上一次“大領淑手”接班人選拔比賽中獲勝的盛燦如願以償地得到了大師的烹飪刀具（待令熟手之刀）後，本可以活躍在聚光燈下的他，卻逐漸退到閃光燈背後，開著他的破車奔波於全國，到各地流浪。在探訪離別已久，將自己如親生兒子一樣看待的前輩秀香大媽時，盛燦得知她所經營多年一直以來對他來說意義深遠的老店春陽閣將要關閉的消息。原因是身在國外多年，享有“國際級主廚”名號的頂級廚師章恩（秀香大媽的親女兒）即將回韓國，她極力主張替母親關掉陳年老店。為了守住這個時代最後的“媽媽親手烹製出的美味”—堅守美食傳統的春陽閣，盛燦決定迎接新的挑戰：朝鮮的泡菜戰爭—參加泡菜大會，就是為了說服章恩打消關閉春陽閣的念頭。在泡菜大會上相遇的這兩位天才食客，圍繞著春陽閣開始展開宿命般的正面對決。

Korean government holds a nationwide ‘Kimchi Contest’ to reaffirm its position as the originator of Kimchi in Asia .

Jang-eun, who is a famed chef in Japan, comes back to Korea to participate in the contest. She also wants to close down the once best Korean traditional restaurant that her mother has been running for years. She’s never understood her mother for cherishing the restaurant more than herself and her own daughter.

Sung-chan became separated from his deaf-and-mute mother and spent his childhood together with Jang-eun. He wants to keep the restaurant and proposes competing in the Kimchi Contest and Jang-eun agrees that the winner will have the rights to the restaurant.

Throughout the fierce competition they both go into the finals, where they have to find the traditional taste of Kimchi. On the day of the final round, however, the juries and audience are very much surprised to see the process of cooking by the two natural-born cooks…