Bon Appétit, Your Majesty episode 7 review — Course N°7 Dongnae Pajeon on a Rainy Day — Pressure cooker and pressure cooking

Bon Appétit, Your Majesty reaches its seventh course with the freshness the series desperately needed. “Course N°7 Dongnae Pajeon on a Rainy Day” stands out as the most flavorful chapter so far, not only because of the food but because it dares to break away from the suffocating palace routine.

By stepping outside the court’s walls, the drama breathes, and with it, so do we.

Bon Appétit, Your Majesty outside the palace

Part of the charm of this episode of Bon Appétit, Your Majesty lies in leaving the palace behind. The court has become predictable, crowded with endless betrayals and nobles scheming against their own nation as if politics were a game.

This repetition was wearing thin, and the story gains power by sending Ji-young and the King beyond the walls, into new settings and encounters that refresh the narrative.

Conspiracies from within

Even outside, the shadow of the palace looms large, though. Prince Jesan conspires to assassinate the royal cook while she’s away, eager to sabotage Joseon from the inside.

It’s a scene that sparks pure frustration, watching members of the elite willingly destroy their own country for ambition. The danger feels sharper than ever, and for the first time the possibility that Ji-young might not return alive hangs heavy.

A rival’s honor

In this hostile environment, the most striking twist in the seventh episode of Bon Appétit, Your Majesty comes from one of the Ming envoys, who chooses to warn of the ambush, not out of kindness, but out of honor.

For him, victory would only matter if earned fairly, and killing a rival would tarnish that principle. In a series where corruption often seems the default, this unexpected dignity shines all the brighter.

A storm, a pancake, a memory

But it’s the dish in the title that gives the episode its soul. Dongnae pajeon is more than a scallion pancake. In Busan, it’s a rainy-day ritual, born when farmers couldn’t work the fields and families cooked with whatever they had at home.

Koreans say the crackling sound of batter frying in oil echoes the rhythm of rain, making pajeon a dish tied to weather, memory, and comfort.

Ji-young prepares it under real rainfall, and the eccentric craftsman Jang Chun-seng is drawn in by the smell and the nostalgia it stirs. In that instant, food and emotion fuse, creating a connection that reshapes the story.

The eccentric craftsman

Chun-seng, a descendant of inventors disgraced by past mistakes, lives in isolation, half-forgotten. He seems closed off from the world until the taste of pajeon pulls him back.

Through food, he accepts the impossible task: forging a pressure cooker in Joseon. The moment blends humor, tenderness, and ingenuity, opening the door for a new stage in the competition.

Blood, steel, and betrayal

The seventh episode of the drama doesn’t shy away from danger, though. The assassins strike at the very site where Chun-seng works, turning the workshop into a battlefield. Ji-young is wounded, the pressure cooker loses its lid, and survival suddenly overshadows the contest.

The clash between the warmth of cooking and the brutality of violence lays bare just how perilous her path has become.

Even injured, Ji-young refuses to give up. Her hand trembles, but her will doesn’t. She insists on moving forward, proving that cooking isn’t just craft for her: it’s conviction, purpose, and defiance in the face of death.

A dish that carries rain and history

In the end, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty reaffirms what it does best: weaving food into storytelling. Dongnae pajeon isn’t just pretty plating for the camera.

It’s a vessel of rain-soaked memory, of families gathering indoors, of comfort born from hardship. It bridges Ji-young and Chun-seng, honor and betrayal, past and present.

And in that balance, the drama serves its most intense, complete course yet.

Rating with a touch of flair: 5 out of 5 rain-soaked pancakes sizzling like thunder.