Chapter One - Big Trouble in Little Diner

It was a day like any other in Stars Hollow, but for Mrs Kim it was going to be a day like no other.

It had started a few days ago, in her antiques shop, the perfectly-named Kim's Antiques. when one of her customers had recommended to her the kimchi they were serving at Luke's. Racist. Besides, it could never compare to her homemade version, made with a recipe handed down through the centuries.

However, yesterday evening, everything had changed. Her well-raised daughter Lane, who'd been blessed by the vegan goodness of Mrs Kim's cooking, had praised the kimchi at Luke's. Betrayal. Lane even dared to say it compared to her mother's just before Mrs Kim stormed out, with thoughts of daughter disowning on her mind.

Now, she'd almost calmed down, and her curiosity had driven her to the door of Luke's, a place she rarely frequented due to the food, the company, the decor and the coffee. But mostly the heathens of this land.

Mrs Kim sat down at a table the maximum distance from everyone, and looked at Luke's laminated menu. There it was, highlighted as a new dish, kimchi. It even explained, for the uneducated, that it was chili pickled cabbage. And so she waited to be waited on, and then waited to be served, as her curiosity grew inside her, but Mrs Kim was nothing if not patient, and curious.

Finally the dish arrived, on the kind of old bland crockery she would almost be ashamed to sell at her shop, and she leaned over and smelled it. It smelled good. She tasted it. It was good, very good, almost enough to make her smile, yet something was familiar about it. Maybe too familiar? She realised it was her family's secret recipe, as she spat the soup out in surprise. It was like time had stopped and slow motion had set in.

Someone had stolen her recipe, there had to be retribution, there had to be vengeance.

Someone must pay.