Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
A talented young street-food cook pushes herself to the limit after accepting an invitation to train under an infamous and ruthless chef.
This Thai Netflix drama about culinary ambition and class tension follows a fairly familiar template — the driven outsider entering a cutthroat elite world — seen in films like Whiplash and The Menu. The food photography is competent but unremarkable, and the performances are solid without being exceptional. The ending feels abrupt and somewhat unsatisfying, failing to fully resolve the thematic tensions the film sets up around exploitation and ambition. Novelty suffers because the premise and execution feel derivative of better-known entries in the 'brutal mentor' genre.