OPEN
1.
Tiger Attacks Bakery
2.
All-night meeting at Jukjip
3.
A walk on a winter night
4.
new friends
5.
Roll Roll Cake Fairy
6.
Cat Roll Party
7.
Worst Christmas Eve
8.
The Secret of the Lonely Tiger
CLOSED

Author's Note

◆ Are you making a cat roll this time?
A special roll cake recipe to defeat the lonely tiger

It's been four months since someone with the ID 'Lonely Tiger' left malicious comments on the Dajeong Bakery account.
Malicious comments have a strange power, and like sharp thorns sprouting out, customers' complaints about Dajeong Bakery begin to pour in.
Why does the 'lonely tiger', who has never even seen the face, hate Da-jeong and the bakery so much?

What we need to do now is to gather our minds and try together.
I can't just let go and let Da-jeong go like this.
-In the text

Da-jeong, who had been stubbornly holding on to her promise to make bread with an honest heart, eventually goes to the grandmother at the bamboo shop and declares that she will quit the shop and leave the neighborhood.
Gamasot and his kitchen friends, who understand better than anyone the frustration of not being able to do what they love and having to keep a shop empty of customers, worry about what they can do during the remaining time until December 31st, when Dajeong decides to close the shop.

“Roll cakes are shared on special days like birthdays and sad days like visiting a sick person.
“It’s similar to the red bean porridge we eat on the winter solstice or when we’re sick.” - From the text

At that moment, Gamasot overhears a conversation between the owner of a fruit shop and an old woman who happened to be visiting the porridge shop, and a brilliant idea comes to mind.
That's right, making a roll cake with red bean paste from Jukjip.
Although it may not be as fancy as a cake, a roll cake with the meaning of congratulations and comfort could be a new menu item suitable for a sweet home.
But cake? They've made cat bread, but can the kitchen tools of Jukjip make a Western dessert that requires an oven and mixer? Before you know it, the kitchen tools, having learned Korean under Indu's guidance, are in full swing.


◆ “Okay, let’s go.
“Let’s take care of each other so we don’t get lost.”
Clutching their fear and courage, the cauldron and kitchen friends venture out of the loving porridge house.

On a snowy midwinter night, Patnyangi, who had been missing for a long time, returns to find his kitchen friends.
Patnyangi, who has been 'tail-wounding' the cauldron, spatula, bowl, red bean paste, and soldering iron one by one, leads his friends to the Dajeong Bakery.
The bamboo hut workers, who had never been outside in their many years of working there, are afraid, but they open the door and go out for their first nighttime walk.


The moment we left the porridge house, the cold, sweet night air surrounded us.
(...) I was scared, but each other's warmth gave me courage.
-In the text

We live individually and together, connected to others by invisible strings, influencing each other.
The reason why the scene showing kitchen tools leaving the store to return the favor they received from Da-jeong is so touching is probably because it clearly shows the invisible strings that connect us to others.


The bamboo grocer's tools bravely set out into the dark and strode into the Dajeong Bakery they had only heard about.
And there, I met new friends and made a roll cake for the first time in my life.
Will people really like the red bean roll cake? Can it deliver a surprising flavor that will defeat the lonely tiger? The adventure to save the sweet bakery has just begun.


◆ Volume 1: "Always Affectionate Jukjip"

This is 'Dajeong Jukjip', where old and outdated kitchen friends come to life.
When you're sick, when you're tired, when you're sad, when you're lonely.
My grandmother has been stubbornly and diligently making red bean porridge for her guests all her life.
But… I have to close the store in two weeks.
Can we, insignificant people like us, protect Grandma and this place? Discover the amazing power of affection.

Included in 4th grade elementary school Korean language textbook
Winner of the 30th Golden Toad Award
2025 Gyeongnam Book
2025 Daegu, Yangju, Wanju, and Geumsan Book of the Year
Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Children's Library Recommended Books
2025 Yes24 Good Children's Book Award