Kung Food

"Kung Food" is an upcoming episode of the first season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. Its air date is unknown.

Synopsis
When Chloé sabotages a famous chef's dish, he gets akumatized into Kung Food and those who taste his dishes are his under his control.

Plot
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The episode starts with Marinette at her home, waiting for her mother's uncle, Wang Cheng, to arrive. Wang is Chinese, so Marinette uses an app on her phone which helps her with the pronunciation. She also prepared a bouquet of flowers for him, and she's worried that it might not be good enough; his uncle is a cook with a worldwide fame, he came to Paris for a competition called The World's Greatest Chef and everything must be perfect.

When Wang arrives, Marinette rushes to the door and tries to greet him in Chinese, but fails. Therefore she gives her uncle the bouquet (from which he starts to pluck out the petals) while she uses the phone to translate the greeting for her. The phone does that, but also translates (and repeats) the "Ahh... That's so embarrassing!" that Marinette had said immediately after. Then, after Marinette manages to stop the phone from repeating the sentence and invites her uncle inside, she phones Alya for help; her friend reassures her and tells her that she has an idea, and then she hung up. Minutes later Adrien shows up at the door. Marinette, after freaking out for a few seconds, asks him what he's doing there. Adrien thus explains that he's been called by Alya who asked him to help her since he knows Mandarin. Then, while Marinette's wondering where's Alya, the latter texts her saying that she owes her 20 thousands croissants.

Wang, Marinette and Adrien then use the latter's limousine to go to Le Grand Paris, where the competition will take place. While Adrien and Cheng Shifu are conversing in Chinese, Wang reveals that he knows a little bit of English, but he's a very bad speaker. Once they arrive, the Mayor warmly greets Cheng Shifu. And when the TV host, Alec, asks him which dish he will prepare, the chef answers, "Celestial Soup". After the interview, Wang goes cooking, leaving Adrien alone. Marinette uses the opportunity to apologize to him, because she called him without knowing that her uncle knew how to speak English. Adrien accepts the apologies, and even thanks her for giving him the opportunity to train with his Chinese with a "shifu", which means "master".

Afterwards, Chloé shows up and starts criticizing Cheng Shifu's choice to make a soup instead of sushi like everyone else. Adrien replies that Cheng Shifu is Chinese and that sushi is a Japanese dish, but she answers that she doesn't care and that. Because she's a member of the jury, he will never get a high vote from her. So Marinette steps up, tells her she has no taste at all and that Cheng Shifu doesn't need her vote because all the other judges will love his dish. Angered, Chloé storms off. After that Adrien compliments to Marinette for defending her uncle, and says that he would have been proud if he had been there. However, Marinette answers that she's not so sure: she fears that her uncle might not like her, since he even ruined the bouquet she prepared for him. Thus, the boy reassures her saying that Cheng Shifu told him that he would use the flowers for the soup, and that he even showed her his respect in his own way.

After getting annoyed, Chloé storms to the kitchen where Wang is making his meal for the tasters, Chloé tells him that Marinette wanted to talk to him about something. With Wang out of the kitchen, Chloé mixes up a bad mix in the soup so that could give the judges bad views. The members of the jury are Mr. Bourgeois, Chloé herself, Jagged Stone, Mrs. Césaire, and Alec. When Wang presents his dish to the judges during the live broadcast, they all give him low scores for the taste. Marinette apologized to her great-uncle for provoking Chloé that causes this whole mess and humilated him on TV. But Cheng Shifu left to the kitchen, feeling ashamed for never be the world's greatest chef.

Hawk Moth had senses Cheng Shifu's frustration, so he sends an akuma after him. After realizing that his great-niece is right about Chloé, the akuma had possess Cheng Shifu's chef hat. Cheng Shifu sees his chance to be the world's greatest chef and seek revenge on Chloé, so he's akumatized into Kung Food. The judges who tasted his dish earlier suddenly turns into Kung Food's servant and they captured Chloé. They then poured caramel outside of the building, trapping Adrien and Marinette inside.

Marinette had realized that Kung Food is actually his great-uncle being akumatized. On top of the roof, the brainwashed judges are making soup in the pool with the now-tied-up Chloé hanging above it. So both she and Adrien transformed into their respective superhero forms so they could defeat him. Once they encounter each other in the lobby, Ladybug and Cat Noir ran to where the elevator is so they could go up to the roof. But a flying onion-shaped security camera had monitored them for Kung Food at the roof. After asking Hawk Moth who're the two superheroes, Kung Food had decided to also cook both Ladybug and Cat Noir up for his soup. He sends Jagged Stone to go capture the two superheroes. Kung Food also revealed to Chloé that she is going to become soup once it heats up.

Inside, Cat Noir had trouble trying to get the elevator doors to open. Then Kung Food appeared in the monitor to explain to him and Ladybug that they'll be in his soup once they get caught. Next the elevator doors open, revealing Jagged Stone, holding a sword out of seafoods. Once they defeated Jagged Stone by locking him in a closet, Ladybug and Cat Noir quickly went to the elevators and they went up.

When Kung Food realized that they escaped, he sends Mr. Bourgeois after them. By the time the elevator stops at a floor level, the Mayor appears in front of Ladybug and Cat Noir, holding a string of sausages and potatoes. But before Ladybug and/or Cat Noir attack him, Mr. Bourgeois uses the string and send them into a suite. Using the string, he managed to caught Cat Noir. But before the Mayor grabs Cat Noir's Miraculous, Ladybug tricks him into copying her yo-yo moves with his string and sends a chandelier to drop on top of him. Thus also create a crack for Cat Noir to use his staff to carry himself and Ladybug up to the top floor.

Kung Food then ordered both Alec and Mrs. Cesaire to get Ladybug and Cat Noir. The two brainwashed judges used the service elevator go down to where the two superheroes are. After Ladybug and Cat Noir defeated them, they used the elevator to go up to the roof and saved Chloé from being boiled alive.

Angry that his soup is ruined, Kung Food started a fight between him and Ladybug and Cat Noir. Ladybug thought the akuma must be in Kung Food's chef hat. So she uses Lucky Charm, and a credit card machine appeared. After mocking her for trying to defeat him with a piece of paper, Kung Food took out a pizza sword and resumed a fight with Cat Noir again. Using her lucky vision, Ladybug soaks up the paper of this machine on Kung Food's soup and then traps him by wrapping it around him. After Cat Noir used his Cataclysm on Kung Food's bag, Ladybug grabs the chef hat and tear it apart, revealing the akuma. Ladybug catches the akuma and purifies it. She then tosses the check machine and cleanses the city, returning everything, including the judges and Cheng Shifu, back to normal.

Later in the kitchen, Marinette asked her great-uncle if he could teach her how to make Celestial Soup. Chloé then appears in the doorway and insult Cheng Shifu for making soup again. Irritated, Adrien had asked her if Mr. Bourgeois kicked her out of the jury for what she done to the soup earlier.

During another broadcast of The World's Greatest Chef for Cheng Shifu's second chance for the Celestial Soup, he now got positive votes from the judges. Cheng Shifu told the judges that he no longer calls it "Celestial Soup", he now calls it "Marinette Soup" after his great-niece.

Major characters

 * Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
 * Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
 * Hawk Moth
 * Plagg
 * Tikki
 * Akuma
 * Wang Cheng (shifu)/Kung Food
 * Chloé Bourgeois

Minor characters

 * Alya Césaire
 * Alec
 * André Bourgeois
 * Jagged Stone
 * Marlena Césaire
 * Fang
 * Theo (cameo)
 * Civilians

Trivia

 * The title is a pun of the word "kung fu."
 * This episode was the 14th to air in France and the 19th on TéléQuébec.
 * Adrien's ability to speak Chinese, which is first mentioned in "The Bubbler", is seen in this episode.
 * Both Ladybug's and Cat Noir's transformation sequences are sped up and slightly cut.
 * Kung Food's facial markings are a reference to the Monkey King.
 * His design also has similarities to Goku, with his hair akin to a Super Saiyan, from Dragon Ball Z.
 * The pizza sword is a reference to Final Fantasy VII ' s Buster Sword.
 * Jagged Stone, while under Kung Food's control, and Ladybug each run with their arms behind their backs for a moment, which is the way that ninjas run.
 * Bruce Lee was considered a reference for the moves Ladybug and Cat Noir use when they are fighting others to get to Kung Food.

Errors

 * When Ladybug and Cat Noir throw Jagged Stone into the closet, the door handle is backwards.
 * As Ladybug and Cat Noir hold on to Cat Noir's staff to get into the room above them, Ladybug's right leg phases through the pole twice.

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