the chapters of the japanese shōjo manga series are written by miyuki kobayashi and illustrated by natsumi andō and have been serialized in the monthly manga magazine "nakayoshi" by kodansha from 2004 to 2008. the story is about protagonist najika kazami, an orphan from hokkaidō with a talent for cooking, transfers to seika academy to chase her dream of being a great chef, and to find her "flan prince", a boy that saved her from falling into a river and gave her a cup of flan with a silver spoon with the school's emblem on it. it won the kodansha manga award for children's manga in 2006.