

I am looking for an anime that I had watched fairly around a week ago on a
school computer. Here's the details I remember.

It started off with an opening song. There was a little girl who had wanted to
be a cook for the king. Her mother used to always love it when people enjoyed
her food. Sadly, she passed away and the girl was left alone, I believe. She
had this very fat relative or cousin too. He was very enthusiastic and looked
after her? (Not really sure). I only got to watch two episodes of this series
and I don't think it was the average 20-23 minutes but perhaps maybe 15?

The first episode I remember is that this girl who wants to become the king's
cook accidentally let a puppy loose into the palace, which wrecked the noodles
for the royal dinner. There was this other girl, who sounded spoilt rotten and
was very unpleasant. I believe at some point she tried to get this girl into
trouble. The next thing I remember is that the little girl said she could
provide some noodles for wrecking the noodles in the first place since she
grew some type of noodles. It could have been tadpole noodles? (I'm not quite
sure on this either).

In the second episode there was the king. He was riding on horseback with a
whole lot of troops and looked like he was dressed in traditional looking
armour like a samurai. I believe they were looking to hunt down a giant boar.
Next thing I remember is that there are these people dressed like ninjas who
try to kill the king. Suddenly there is this big fight in a forest on
horseback and some other elements such as the king chasing after the assassins
after they fail killing him.

The final detail I remember is that girl that wants to be the king's cook and
who ruined the noodles finds one soldier on the ground with her fat cousin and
dog. Suddenly three assassins walk up to her and tell her to move out of the
way. They were intent on killing the soldier. She refused and one of the
assassins who was a girl was told by one of the assassin leaders to "take care
of her". She closes her eyes as she is grabbed but then her cousin says
something like "leave her alone" and throws a barrel of wine? which the boar
that the king was hunting/looking for in the forest smells and quickly charges
to where the smell was coming from and I think the girl, cousin, and puppy run
away with the soldier.

There was also some sort of cooking competition on where you cook something
really nice so you can become the king's cook. She ended up cooking rice since
that was the only ingredient left when she finally came. She was late because
she had to save that soldier so her cousin went and told her to get in the
back of this pulley and pulled her all the way to the palace, and she almost
got refused entry for being late.

I also remember a scene where that spoilt girl steals some other girl's
frog/pet and pretends that the girl stole her ingredient for frog soup to try
and eliminate her from being the thief.

Just on a side note: I think the girl who wants to be the king's cook is Ming
or Mei? The graphics and art style weren't too dodgy but it did look a little
old, although I wouldn't know the exact year it was released.

**Update:** The girl is not tsundere. It is more like an historic anime and
there is nothing magical or otherworldly in it. It has a kind of ninja theme
to it. The people in the anime do not typically look like the usual anime
characters with unusual height or eyes or crazy styled hair and look pretty
normal or well anime normal anyways. It looks like it was set in a Japanese
(possibly ancient) setting similar to the medieval era. There was a castle but
it didn't have a moat. The girl has black hair and everyone wears pretty
Japanese looking clothing such as possibly in that of the feudal time period.
Woman in the palace wore what looked like gowns and had their hairs in a bun.

While I am it, I just remembered that the female assassin/ninja had some type
of symbol on her arm. I think her sleeves got ripped by the boar? and then she
quickly covers it up. Also the girl who wants to be the kings cook and saves
that soldier had two rings that she got from her mother. One was green and the
other was some colour I forgot (maybe red). I have no idea but she ends up
dropping it.

Does anyone know what anime this is?


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Girl who wants to be the king's cook?


It might be [Chuuka
Ichiban!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABka_Ichiban!).
[[MAL](http://myanimelist.net/anime/110/Chuuka_Ichiban!)]

> **After the death of Mao's mother, Pai, who was called the 'Fairy of
> Cuisine', Mao becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef
> of his mother's restaurant.** However, before he takes his mother's place as
> Master Chef, he continues to travel China in order to learn more of the many
> ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef, just like his
> mother. During his journey, he meets great friends and fierce rivals who
> wish to challenge him in the field of cooking.

One of the main characters is named **Mei Li** :

> The 16-year-old daughter of Chouyu. Originally, she was a helper at the Yang
> Spring Restaurant. She fell in love with Mao after seeing how much he loves
> cooking and how he also cares about others. She only knows a little about
> the cooking field, but she's useful when it comes to little facts and often
> tries to help Mao with various other things.


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I know the anime your talking about, I enjoyed watching it too. It's a korean
anime called Dae Jang Geum: Jang Geum Dream.

First of all, I read the description posted, and it's an exact match for the
anime Dae Jang Geum. The girl wants to learn to cook, and ends up be one of
the cooking maids for the emperor. However, she unexpectedly rescued the
emporer, not knowing it was him and the bad guys start causing trouble for
her. She's clueless about the bad guys until the end of the anime.


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