I adore the series, the constant through line of being a good person to others leads to peoples lives getting better, and that good cooking can heal people is one of my favourite ideals in fiction.
While I would have prefered they kept him as the more grizzled look he had at the very start, instead of the semi standard manwha protag they went with, I get it had to do with marketability.
I do hope there is a second series, as there's still some plotlines left incomplete, but it still stands on it's own.