Late Night Restaurant Explained

Alt Name:	Midnight Diner
Genre:	Mystery Slice of life Food
Director:	Hwang In-roe
Starring:	Kim Seung-woo
Country:	South Korea
Language:	Korean
Num Episodes:	20
Executive Producer:	Park Young-soo
Producer:	Kim Dong-rae Jo Jeong-ho Baek Chung-hwa
Runtime:	30 minutes Saturdays at 24:10/24:40 (KST)
Company:	BaramiBunda inc. RaemongRaein Co. Ltd. SBS Contents Hub
Channel:	Seoul Broadcasting System
Related:	Midnight Diner (2009) Midnight Diner (2017)

Late Night Restaurant is a 2015 South Korean drama series based on the manga Shinya Shokudō.^[1] It aired two back-to-back episodes on SBS on Saturdays at 24:10 and 24:40 from July 4 to September 5, 2015.^[2]

Plot

A restaurant opens at midnight until seven in the morning. Its mysterious owner and chef, simply called the 'Master', has no fixed items on his menu, but will take orders from any customer and cook up whatever they ask for. As the Master cooks, his customers tell him their life stories.

Cast

• Kim Seung-woo as Master

Regular customers

• Choi Jae-sung as Ryu
• Nam Tae-hyun as Min-woo
• Jung Han-hun as Mr. Kim
• Joo Won-sung as "Quack"
• Park Joon-myun as Yoo-mi, "Fat woman"^[3]
• Ban Min-jung as "Banquet noodles" (Noodle Sisters)
• Jang Hee-jung as "Mixed noodles" (Noodle Sisters)
• Son Hwa-ryung as "Radish noodles" (Noodle Sisters)
• Kang Seo-yeon as Cherry
• Son Sang-kyung as "Big guy"

Guest appearances

• Shim Hye-jin as Eun-soo (ep 2)
• Kang Doo as Jae-hee (ep 3)
• Ji Jin-hee as Young-shik (ep 4-5)
• Dokgo Young-jae as Gentleman Noh
• Oh Ji-ho as Sung-kyun (ep 7)
• Nam Ji-hyun as Hye-ri (ep 7)
• Lee Young-ha as Musician Noh
• Lee Young-beom as Food critic
• Jo Dong-hyuk as Yong-ryong
• Kang Ye-sol as Mi-young
• Han Bo-bae as Ji-hee
• Jo Jae-yoon as Kwang Jo (ep 11)
• Seo Woo as Doctor Hyo Jin (ep 12)
• Jeon So-min as Cha Hye Jin (ep 13)
• Kim Jung-tae as Director Song (ep 14)
• Lee Si-eon as Tae-soo (ep 16)
• Nam Gyu-ri as Mi Kyung (ep 16)
• Kim Roi-ha as Chul-min (ep 18)

Episodes

All episodes are named after a certain form of food, most of them of Korean origin.

1. Seasoned Seaweed and Rice Cakes
2. Buckwheat Pancake
3. Mixed, Radish and Banquet Noodles
4. Short-Necked Clam Soup (Part 1)
5. Hamburg Steak (Part 2)
6. Steamed Spareribs and Kimchi
7. Ginseng Chicken Soup
8. Butter Rice
9. Grilled Short Rib Patties
10. Barley-Dried Corvina
11. Marinated Chicken Fried Rice
12. Chinese Plums
13. Canned Whelk
14. Candied Sweet Potato and Spicy Rice Cakes
15. Potato Ongshim Seaweed Soup
16. Oyster Sauce Mayo Ramen
17. Tortilla Half-moon Pizza
18. Grilled Flatfish
19. Stone Pot Jangjorim Bibimbap
20. A Fall Gizzard Shad Party

External links

• Late Night Restaurant official SBS website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Midnight Diner serves up thorny social issues. The Korea Times. 4 August 2015. 5 July 2015.
2. Web site: Kim Seung-woo's Midnight Diner opens for business. Dramabeans. 4 August 2015. 29 June 2015.
3. She played a central role in episode 6, being desperate to lose weight.