Shokugeki-no SOMA



Shokugeki-no Soma (食戟のソーマ, Shokugeki-no Soma) is a Japanese manga about cooking and culinary skills serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump ! from November 2012, written by Tsukuda Yuto and illustrated by Shun Saeki/TOSH in collaboration with famous chef Morisaki Yuki.

Plot
Shokugeki no Soma tells the story of a boy named Yukihira Soma, whose dream is to become a full time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skills. But just as Soma graduates from middle school, his father, Yukihira Jouichiro, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Soma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichiro which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Soma survive?

Trivia

 * This manga is mostly likely inspired from the legendary Hong Kong actor/director Stephen Chow's movie, The God of Cookery and the same culinary manga entitled Chuka Ichiban in the 90s before the rise of anime in the 2000s.