24-Year-Old Beginner Chef Surprised by Edward Lee | Blind Cooking Show | Shhh, Secret's Out EP.1 | ENHYPEN JAY

What happened

ENHYPEN's Jay hosts the first episode of a new in-house cooking show in which he must prepare a dish by listening only to a hidden chef's spoken instructions, without seeing who it is. The guest chef turns out to be celebrity chef Edward Lee, cooking in English.

Why Koreans care

The show's title, 쉿, 비밀의 솊 (ssh, bimil-ui syeop, "shh, the secret chef"), deliberately misspells 셰프 (syepeu, "chef") as 솊 (syeop, playful misspelling of chef) — a playful, invented spelling that signals this is a light variety segment rather than a formal cooking competition. In the episode itself, Jay recognizes the guest's voice before being told who it is because, as he says in the captions, Edward Lee is "famous for having cooked at the White House," which is why he says he grew knowing the chef from a young age.

In the Korean comments

Several commenters refer to Jay not by his stage name but by what appears to be his Korean name, 박종성 (Park Jong-seong) — one top comment reads, in translation, "I was already dying laughing from the moment he cracked the egg into the pot... but I love Jongseong." This affectionate use of his birth name, rather than "Jay," runs through multiple comments. Other commenters latch onto a specific editing joke: after Jay misunderstands an instruction and cracks whole eggs into a pot of water instead of poaching them properly, one comment says, "I think I'm going to collapse from laughing at the 계란탕 (gyeran-tang, egg soup)," referencing how the episode itself jokingly labels the mistake as an "incident."

What the words mean

계란탕 사태 (gyeran-tang saetae, mock-serious mishap) literally translates as "the egg soup incident." It is not describing an actual dish called egg soup — it is Jay's own mock-serious name for his mistake of cracking whole eggs into a pot of water when he misheard the chef's English instructions. Giving a small blunder an exaggerated, disaster-sounding label like this is a common comic device in Korean variety editing, and it's used here affectionately, not literally.