Askin Tarifi turns a grudge into a love story, following a chef who sets out to prove a point and ends up falling for the very person he meant to outsmart.
What is Askin Tarifi about?
Fırat is a chef who takes pride in staying out of other people's business, until a self-styled relationship coach crosses a line he can't ignore. Determined to teach the coach a lesson, Fırat storms off in anger and lands, almost by accident, in a French restaurant kitchen. It turns out to be familiar ground — he has cooked in a French kitchen before — and he throws himself into the job, blending Western technique with Eastern flavors in a way that quickly wins him a reputation. What he doesn't expect is to fall for Naz, the restaurant's owner. For a chef who thought he had a recipe for everything, love turns out to be the one dish his notebook never covered.
About the cast
Kadir Doğulu and Serra Arıtürk carry the central romance, with Cem Davran, Alper Saldıran, Yasemin Baştan, Ümmü Putgül, İdil Sivritepe and Atakan Yılmaz rounding out the restaurant and the wider circle around Fırat and Naz.
Context & significance
Directed by Deniz Koloş, Askin Tarifi belongs to a familiar and reliably popular strand of Turkish television: the workplace romantic comedy, where a shared kitchen, office or studio forces two mismatched people together long enough for feelings to develop. The restaurant setting gives the show room to lean into food as its own kind of language, using Fırat's cooking as a running metaphor for a relationship neither he nor Naz planned on.
Watching Askin Tarifi on Ktime
Askin Tarifi is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow Fırat and Naz's story in Farsi or in the original Turkish. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to start watching; the show's page can be browsed without logging in, and the whole experience is built with a Farsi-speaking, diaspora audience in mind.