Kung Food

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

Synopsis
Coming soon!

Plot
Click here to see spoilers for an unaired episode plot.

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, in fact, is a cook with a worldwide fame, he came to Paris for a competition called "The World's Best Chef" and everything must be perfect.

When Wang arrives, Marinette rushes to the door and tries to greet him in Mandarin, but fails. Therefore she gives her uncle the bouquet (from which he starts to pick 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 embarassing!" Marinette 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.

So Wang, Marinette and Adrien then use the latter's limousine to go to the Hôtel Plaza Athénée, where the competition will take place, and while Adrien and Cheng shifu are conversing in Chinese, Wang reveals that he knows a little bit of bit French, 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 with his "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 French. 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 master Cheng's choice to make a soup instead of sushi like everyone else. Adrien replies that Wang 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 an 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 complimets 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, Chloe 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 that could surely give the judges bad views.

When Wang presents his dish to the tasters, they all give him bad views. Hawk Moth takes advantage of this and sends an akuma to infect his chef hat, turnining him into Kung Food. Then he takes control of everybody who tasted his tasted his dish and traps everyone in the building with caramel. With Adrien and Marinette not knowing about each other, each make up an excuse to leave, then go and transform.

They have to go through fighting with each one of the judges.

When they finally get to the top they come just in time as Chole is being dropped into Kung Food's "Bad Girl" soup.

They stop him and re-do the challenge and he wins.

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

Trivia

 * The title is a pun of the word "kung fu."
 * 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.

Errors

 * 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.