1. "Street Food Fighter"
Baek Zhongyuan joins hands with tvN to launch a new food variety show "Street Food Fighter". This time he also served as tvN's "Home-cooked Teacher Bai" Director Park Hee-yeon PD once again joins forces with Baek Jong-won, and the show will document Baek Jong-won's search for Chinese food across China.
2. "Bai Zongyuan's Three Heavenly Kings"
"Bai Zongyuan's Three Heavenly Kings" is a food showdown show from various places. Baek Jong-won serves as the commentator, Lee Hwi-jae serves as the guest, and Kim Jun-hyun serves as the player, mainly responsible for eating. The production team stipulates a cheap and delicious dish for each episode, and invites chefs from three well-known restaurants across the country in each dish field to come out as the "three kings" to compete in a cooking showdown. The program will also introduce each chef. Chefs’ secrets and their respective growth stories.
3. "New Journey to the West"
"New Journey to the West" is a Korean variety show broadcast in 2015. Produced by PD Na Young-seok; starring Kang Ho-dong, Lee Soo-geun, Eun Ji-won, and Lee Seung-gi. It is a variety show that is only broadcast online, creating a new model of Korean variety shows. The program started recording from Xi'an, China on August 6, 2015, and talked about the food from various parts of China.
Extended information:
"New Journey to the West" program format——
1. Program origin
"New Journey to the West" program The team members are all from the first season of "Two Days, One Night". The first season of "Two Days and One Night" is a legendary program in the history of Korean variety shows, with a peak ratings of 49.3, the highest rating ever for a variety show. The show continued to air for five years, and the show members had a deep relationship with each other.
In 2015, many years after the show ended, during a private dinner with PD Na Young-seok, Lee Seung-gi proposed that the colleagues of "Two Days and One Night" get together again and go on a trip. Because the members are very familiar with each other and are very interesting people, a lot of interesting things will definitely happen during the trip. PD Na Young-seok therefore thought that he could film the travel process and make it into a program.
2. Meaning of the name
The members of the first season of "Two Days and One Night" Jiang Hodong and Lee Soo Geun are currently facing great pressure from public opinion due to their respective mistakes, and need opportunities to show new Appearances make the audience re-accept them. In the Chinese classic "Journey to the West", Monk Sha and Zhu Bajie also made mistakes in heaven and were demoted to earth. They were redeemed by protecting Monk Tang from studying in the West. PD Na Young-seok therefore thought that he could use the meaning of "cultivation" from "Journey to the West" to create a program.
"New Journey to the West" has another meaning, representing traveling to the west. Since the starting point for learning the scriptures in "Journey to the West" is in Xi'an, China, the program chose to record the program in Xi'an in the spirit of respecting the original work.