Renowned food critic CHUNG KWOK-CHU is invited by a new restaurant to give comments on their food. AU KO-WING and TIN HOI find the service and the food quality of the restaurant unacceptable. In fact, WING and HOI are CHU’s colleagues. CHU, who is also an assistant editor-in-chief of a paper, gives negative comments on the restaurant in his paper. Editor-in-chief CHIN TAI-KWAN tells CHU the restaurant, whose owner is a celebrity, is complaining them. CHU settles the matter tactfully. SUEN MA-LEI and HOI join CHU and his wife, TAU KWAI-SUM, for dinner. HOI tells them, CHUNG SZ-HON, CHU and SUM’s son, is returning to Hong Kong soon. HON has returned from overseas and is staying at LEI’s for the time being. He is preparing a surprise birthday party for CHU. CHU meets with the boss of a fast-food chain to look for a job for HON. KWAN and TAI SZE-HING see them. LEI finds a half naked male westerner in her place. Air Date : 21st-Mar-2011  Read More

HON and JOE are making cakes in the kitchen. LEI is shocked to hear that they have already registered in Canada. For fear that CHU cannot take the news, SUM and LEI try their best to prevent CHU from meeting HON. HON announces at CHU’s birthday party that he is going to stay in Hong Kong and that he wants to be a cake chef. CHU smashes the cake in anger. Although HON does very well in his job interview, he does not get the job because of CHU’s intervention. HON is returning to Canada. LEI offers to finance his cake shop with a view to making him stay. HON has a talk with CHU, who agrees not to interfere with HON’s career choice if he can cook a Chinese banquet that CHU finds satisfactory. HON takes up the challenge. Air Date : 22nd-Mar-2011  Read More

CHU has lost his fountain pen. Then he sees a woman picking up a fountain pen. He requests her to give it back to him but they end up in a quarrel. KWAN tells CHU Joyful Kitchen has hired SHUM PUI-YEE, who is better known as the Kitchen Goddess, recently. As YEE is very close to celebrity UNCLE KAU, KWAN believes she is worth an interview. He prods CHU into taking up the task of interviewing her. CHU does not know until he arrives at Joyful Kitchen that YEE is the woman who picked his pen. Accusing him of badmouthing her, she refuses to give an interview. HON asks HOI to recommend a cooking school to him. HOI advises him to learn from a prestigious chef. YEE agrees to give CHU an interview for the sake of UNCLE KAU, though she calls him a cultural scoundrel in the interview. On the other hand, HON decides to become YEE’s student. Air Date : 23rd-Mar-2011  Read More

HON discovers that YEE earns the same reputation as her fellow colleague ROGER, a western chef. He goes to Joyful Kitchen to look for YEE again ROGER challenges him to a cooking test. ROGER wants HON to be his assistant. HON will only agree on the condition that he can learn cooking from YEE. YEE has no choice but take HON as her student as requested by ROGER. YEE needs HON to shop for cooking ingredient. He cannot find the Chinese marinade she wants. CHU tells him to go to an outlying island, but HON discovers on the Internet that the address CHU has told him is now a bar. He did not know until then that his father has been making things difficult for him. KWOK-TUNG, CHU’s younger brother, mediates between the father and son but CHU blames him instead. HON is drunk. CHU covers him up with a blanket. HON pours his heart out. Air Date : 24th-Mar-2011  Read More

Entertainment news assignment editor HING has taken photo of LAU CHUNG, their supplement writer, going out with a woman. KWAN would like to publish the photo, but CHU thinks the photo is not telling the truth. The two have a fierce argument. The Turkish Culture and Tourist Office would like to place an advertorial. CHUNG and other writers refuse to do it. KWAN orders that CHU resolve the matter. HOI tells CHU a travel blog titled “The World on a Shoestring” attracts a daily hit of over ten thousand. CHU thinks very highly of the blog owner’s articles. He tells HON to write an email invitation to the blog owner. His reply does not come until the last minute. The sound of TUNG using the computer has awakened CHU. He complains to TUNG. TUNG is so furious that he hits hardly at his computer, which breaks down as a result. HON learns by chance that TUNG is the blog owner. Air Date : 25th-Mar-2011  Read More

SUM and her friend see a flowerpot falling from a building. Just when it is about to land an old woman, who is pushing a pram, TUNG goes up to their rescue. He knocks over a passer-by called MABLE in the process. MABLE adores his heroic act. SUM wants to line up MABEL and TUNG. TUNG tells HON to deliver to MABEL’s for him. SUM blames herself for minding TUNG’s business. TUNG is looking for a dress. HON believes it is for his new girlfriend. He tells SUM not to worry too much about TUNG. TUNG wants to make a bohemian dress. He asks SUM to recommend a tailor. He shows her a photo. She cannot believe it that the woman in the photo is their neighbor MRS. KUNG. CHU looks for TUNG at a restaurant and accuses him of going out with somebody else’s wife. Air Date : 28th-Mar-2011  Read More

BIU, supplement editor, is immersing himself in horse racing broadcast when CHING puts a proof at his desk for endorsement. He tells her to redo the layout afterwards but she insists she has done nothing wrong. CHU walks out of his room and tells her to do as requested. A Macau hotel has placed an advertisement as well as an advertorial for its Portuguese restaurant. CHU assigns the writing of the article to BIU. BIU and HOI have returned from Macau. HOI has bought a Portuguese baked duck rice for CHING. She can tell Mediterranean Rosemary has been added to the dish. BIU has mistaken a chicken bouillon powder recipe for the hotel’s recipe. CHING cannot reach BIU. And so she suggests replacing the recipe to CHU, claiming she will be responsible for the consequence. Air Date : 29th-Mar-2011  Read More

CHING corrects the recipe after she has clarified with the hotel. On the other hand, CHU puts the printing on hold when the new layout is being done. HON takes a cake his father’s office. He lets it slip that BIU is going to another paper while he is chatting with HOI and CHING. CHU overhears their conversation. WING, CHING, KWAN and HING are all of the view that BROTHER TSUI of Ching News will be BIU’s successor. CHU hopes CHING can take up BIU’s editor role, but she prefers the status quo. CHING has a shooting appointment with best actress MAGGIE. HING interviews her for the entertainment page before CHING has a chance to. CHU reasons with KWAN, the editor-in-chief, but to no avail. MR. KO, their boss, calls and commends on CHING’s feature article. CHU tells him right away he intends to promote her. KWAN, however, recommends HING to MR. KO instead. Air Date : 30th-Mar-2011  Read More

SZ-NGA moves back home, as she cannot get along with her roommate. HON has to sleep in the sitting room as a result. YEE shoots for a TV cookery program. HON works as her assistant. He thinks YEE should tell the audience the exact amount of condiment needed. Provoked, she challenges him to a competition to see whose orange pork chop is more delicious. After a whole day of experiment, HON has finally come up with the best orange pork chop recipe. TUNG records the ingredients and condiment he has used in his computer. Unfortunately, NGA breaks his computer. HON finds it difficult to get along with his family and would like to move out. TUNG supports him. TUNG is fishing for the name card of an estate agent. MUI-KWAI wrongly thinks that he is moving out and so offers to let a room to him. TUNG, HON, HOI and CHING visit KWAI’s place. HON finds her fully fitted and beautifully equipped kitchen very impressive. Air Date : 31st-Mar-2011  Read More

The competition between YEE and HON begins. The judge, in this case CHU, finds YEE’s pork chops more delicious. HON cannot be more convinced when YEE reveals her secret. TUNG learns by accident that CHU does not want TUNG to move out. HON and TUNG have dinner together. TUNG tells HON why he lives with TUNG all these years. CHU opens TUNG’s letter by mistake. TUNG makes a fuss over this and demands HON to move out with him. HON turns him down. He stomps out of the house in a fury. TUNG is dinning on his own when CHU appears. On the other hand, NGA announces that she is moving back to the dormitory because her roommate has moved out. Air Date : 1st-Apr-2011  Read More

YEE and KWAI fight over a clock at a shop. Neither of them is willing to give up. It turns out YEE has ordered a porcelain pot online from KWAI earlier. YEE told LIN to pick up the pot for her. LIN did not check up on the pot before she left. KWAI is renting out a room on the Internet. YEE demands a refund but KWAI accuses her of cheating instead. LIN turns to HON for help. HON tells TUNG how the pot was broken. A couple is interested in renting KWAI’s flat. YEE checks up the flat with them. The couple intends to knock down the kitchen. YEE stops them, praising the landlord’s taste in design. Air Date : 4th-Apr-2011  Read More

SUM asks CHU to take a watch for repair. CHU tells HON to do it but HON asks TUNG instead. SUM and her friends do volunteer work at an old people’s house. They see a man taking away an old lady’s wheelchair. SUM runs into the man again later. She decides to get the wheelchair back for the old woman, only to be accused of stealing. Her “stealing” has hit the headlines of a paper. Everybody in CHU’s office talks about this. HOI clarifies for SUM. SUM’s watch is still at home. CHU takes it to the service center but he drops it on the floor without himself realizing it. HON steps on it accidentally. CHU cannot find the watch everywhere when he arrives at the service center. He buys SUM a new one as compensation, not knowing TUNG and HON will do exactly the same. Air Date : 5th-Apr-2011  Read More

CHING thinks KA-KEUNG is too addicted to computer games. She frowns when she hears his romances in the past. The colleague responsible for the fashion section has had a traffic accident. HOI and SUSAN recommend KEUNG to write a feature article for the fashion section. CHING is not happy with KEUNG’s “The Greatest Ten Computer Games Ever” and tells him to produce another piece. KEUNG thinks she is biased. The two argue with each other. CHING tells WING to prepare a letter of dismissal for KEUNG, the reason for his dismissal being “failing to follow the instruction of his supervisor”. HOI hopes CHU can do something for KEUNG. CHU tells him to pass a “magic stick” to CHING. CHING requests KEUNG to rewrite the article at another angel or simply choose another theme. He refuses. CHING decides to write it herself. HOI believes this is KEUNG’s ultimatum. Air Date : 6th-Apr-2011  Read More

HOI passes CHU CHING’s interview article on well-known shoemaker SIU KWOK-WAH. He believes she will replace KEUNG’s story with this, but CHU thinks otherwise. HON and CHU have breakfast together. CHU tells him how he told CHING off three years ago for giving out only second-hand information in her article on WAH. Touched by her sincerity, WAH agreed to give CHING an interview, and she managed to fight for a full page for her story. As she sees the “magic heel”, which is in fact the broken heel of her shoes, she realizes she should look at things at a different angle. Air Date : 7th-Apr-2011  Read More

YEE has moved into KWAI’s flat. KWAI likes her body lotion, so she puts it in the bathroom so that KWAI can also use it. TUNG goes to KWAI’s flat to take a camera. He has flu and the medicine makes him feel very drowsy. He takes a nap in KWAI’s bedroom. YEE cannot find the lotion anywhere. She calls KWAI, who tells her it is in her room. Covered only by a towel, she screams out loud when she sees TUNG in KWAI’s bed. KWAI has bought YEE a small gift as a token of apology, but she does not correct her when she mistakes TUNG for her boyfriend. YEE cannot put up with KWAI’s untidiness anymore. She decides to move out. KWAI has bought a dishwasher. She and YEE apologize to each other. She tells YEE not to move out when she hears her talking to an estate agent. Air Date : 8th-Apr-2011  Read More

TUNG delivers something to Joyful Kitchen to YEE. She tells him to take a box of soy sauce chicken to KWAI, his girlfriend. TUNG demands KWAI clarify their relationship to YEE but she refuses to do so with a make-up excuse. YEE has won a free fondue dinner for two persons. She invites KWAI to go with her, but she would like to go with her lover instead. So YEE gives her the coupons. HON has bid a fondue dinner at $900 on the Internet. YUNG will go with him. HON cannot make it in the end, as YEE needs him to work extra hours. TUNG is wondering if he could have a portion of the dinner only, then he sees YEE. The photo of TUNG and YEE dining together is published in the paper. KWAI demands TUNG to clarify his relationship with YEE. He replies in the same way she replied him the other day. Air Date : 11th-Apr-2011  Read More

HON needs to buy some cooking utensils. He borrows CHU’s new car. Somebody has parked in HING’s car park. He delivers a hard kick to that person’s car so as to vent his anger. CHU tells HON off when he finds out HON is the person who has parked in HING’s car park. CHU and TUNG quarrel over an incident in the past. HON goes to Pak Lai with HOI to gather material for a story. They did not know until they get there that the pavilion they are looking for is in fact in Nam Sang Wai. HON runs into CHU in Nam Sang Wai. CHU mentions how HON broke his tooth here as a child. HON climbs up the pavilion to look for his tooth. They are surprised to find that the note of apology TUNG wrote on the stone can still be seen clearly. They take a photo of the note. Air Date : 12th-Apr-2011  Read More

SUM has been running around in the kitchen. MABEL’s boyfriend dumped her because she is a terrible cook. SUM tells her she is no different. HOI has taken information for a cooking class for SUM. She meets him at a restaurant. She has left her food at the restaurant. She sees YEE when she returns to get her food. She grasps the opportunity to ask her the secret of cooking tenderloin. SUM’s cooking has improved a great deal but CHU still finds it unacceptable. YEE finds SUM’s cooking notes at the restaurant. She is reading them when SUM returns. YEE tells her to feel free to call her if she has any question on cooking. CHU commends on SUM’s food for the first time ever. SUM calls on YEE after the staff of Joyful Kitchen have all gone. YEE wonders… Air Date : 13th-Apr-2011  Read More

There is an ant’s nest at home and so the CHUNG’s decide to have a thorough cleanup. NGA has found a family photo in a box. LEI is upset that she was not invited to take the photo. HON breaks honey-colored stone, which is a family treasure. LEI treats the whole family to dim sum to apologize on behalf of HON. LEI suggests going to Zhuhai for the weekend. Everybody in the family will join but for different reasons they will go separately. LEI waits for them at the pier but nobody shows up. In fact, CHU, SUM and NGA are dining at a restaurant. They did not remember their date with LEI until the manager of the restaurant picks up the flyer LEI left the other day. CHU, SUM and NGA hurry to the pier. HON will meet them in Zhuhai as he is working. LEI leaves in anger, accusing them of treating her as an outsider. Air Date : 14th-Apr-2011  Read More

TUNG has returned from Zhuhai. He complains that everybody has forgotten about their trip. HON has made a dessert for LEI in order to apologize to her. TUNG suggests compensating her instead. LEI hits CHU’s waist when the elevator stops suddenly. CHU needs a surgery, but it clashes with the cutting of the family honey-colored stone. He places the surgery appointment letter on the coffee table, believing his family members will see it. Nobody but LEI notices the letter. As a result, only LEI shows up on the day of his surgery. As if this was not enough, the others text to say tell him they cannot come. SUM and the others hurry to the hospital as soon as they have got LEI’s call. LEI realizes then that her family do care about her. She still, however, finds it a pity that she was absent when they took a family photo. Air Date : 15th-Apr-2011  Read More

MEI-CHING has left her wallet in the office. HING pays for her lunch, taking the opportunity to invite her to the movie. Joyful Kitchen is not open yet and so HON cannot get in. He calls CHING, but she is ill. HON hears her weep. HOI believes something must have happened after the movie. Ten years ago, CHING’s boyfriend LAU LAP-CHUN stood her up at their wedding. TUNG tells her he was a good friend of CHUN’s. It turns out HING could not make it to the movie. He sent his sister to inform CHING. This reminded her of what happened on her wedding day when CHUN sent his sister to inform her he was not coming. Memory of the day made her collapse. YEE sees TUNG and CHING together and she is crying. YEE tells SUM what she has seen. CHUN has returned to Hong Kong. TUNG encourages CHING to see him. Air Date : 18th-Apr-2011  Read More

TUNG sits in his car, his eye fixed on a distant restaurant. What he does not know is, his family is watching him in a distance. In the meanwhile, CHING walks inside the restaurant. TUNG’s family members conclude that he likes CHING. CHING slaps CHUN on the face after he has told her why he ran away. CHU and the others ask TUNG about his relationship with CHING. He stresses they are nothing more than friends. CHING clarifies her relationship with TUNG to YEE, who says what she should clarify is what happened to HING and her. The next day, CHING brings a basket of fruit to apologize to HING. TUNG gives HON a shrimp sauce coupon. He leaves it on the table, and a waiter gives it to CHING. The next day, she takes a bottle of shrimp sauce to TUNG’s company. Air Date : 19th-Apr-2011  Read More

HOI overhears in a motorcar showroom that TUNG has ordered a limited edition sports car. None of TUNG’s family believes what he says. TUNG tells MING to take photographs of their newly ordered bracelets. As MING is celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday after work, he declines him. TUNG insists he works overtime though. MING leaves in anger. KWAI tells TUNG MING has already broken up with 11 girlfriends because of him. TUNG and his friends run into KAM TAI-YAT, their school friend. They embarrass him purposely, as he owed every one of them money. TUNG is so kind that he goes up to his help. HOI is writing a feature article on cars. HON goes to a showroom with him. They see TUNG returning his sports car. Unable to repay TUNG, YAT gives him his late father’s saxophone. Air Date : 20th-Apr-2011  Read More

MING has been absent for a few days. Not until TUNG asks about him then KWAI tells him MING had resigned via email. MING shows up suddenly, before TING is about to hire a replacement. TUNG has been behaving rather oddly recently. SUM and CHU are worried about him. KWAI and HON fear that he is being possessed. KWAI look for TUNG with the family at a cemetery, bringing along with her objects she believes can drive out evil spirits. Understanding that he does not have a flair for saxophone, TUNG tells HON to give his saxophone to someone else. TUNG is walking in the street when he hears a mellow sound of saxophone. He walks up to the musician to ask him how to play the instrument well. It turns out that the man, MARTIN, is the owner of his favorite sidewalk food stall. Sharing with him his experience, MARTIN encourages TUNG to practice more. What is more, he invites TUNG to join his band. Air Date : 21st-Apr-2011  Read More

KWAI is tidying up the storeroom when a burglar breaks into the room. She resists and ends up all bruises and raggle-taggle. As she refuses to call the police, TUNG suspects something bad has happened to her. He asks YEE to check out what has actually happened. KWAI requests TUNG to cut her pork chop and feed her, as her hand has been injured. She also tells him to go to the movie with her, saying she feels insecure after her injury. KWAI refuses to attend a lineup at the police station. YEE sincerely believes her appearance is not so bad that she scared the burglar away. So she asks YUNG about the truth. He promises on condition she goes to the cinema with him. Air Date : 22nd-Apr-2011  Read More

HOI is writing a feature article on wedding. He and CHING pretend to be lovers and gather material at a wedding company. Looking at the wedding photos, HOI imagines that CHING and him are the bride and groom. CHING says she is flexible when the staff asks her how she would like her wedding. HOI leaves as he hears this. HOI tells CHING to move out as soon as she is home. Totally bewildered, she asks HON to check out why HOI is mad at her. It turns out that HOI is fond of her. HOI asks SUSAN to do her a favor by putting up a show in front of CHING to let her know they are not lovers. SUSAN gives CHING two movie tickets. CHING dresses up and goes with HOI. They go to a new sushi restaurant after the movie, but there is already a long queue. Air Date : 25th-Apr-2011  Read More

CHING needs to tell YEE the content of a student notice. She is completely stumped when she faces YEE. HON asks her what she is most confident about. She replies it is playing Lolita, a role she played once in secondary school. He therefore tells her to pretend to be Lolita. As expected by HON, she completes her mission smoothly in her second trial. LEI is looking at a website that promotes food tasting blind date. Claiming it was time for HON to find a girlfriend, she volunteers to go with him. He reads her mind though, and so tells her to go alone first to find out more about it. Unexpectedly, KWAI has come on YEE’s request, and CHING has participated with the encouragement of HOI. YEE tells LEI BEN, owner of the restaurant, is a nice guy. LEI hurries to the washroom to redo her makeup. But when she sees BEN, she gets panicky. Air Date : 26th-Apr-2011  Read More

LIN asks TUNG to search for a battery for an old model cell phone. The shop he recommends is surrounded by motels and sauna parlors and so she dares not go. KWAI has found MING’s wallet. She does not return to him right away, or else she will miss the opportunity to go on a business trip with TUNG. TUNG delivers to the news agency. He drops in at LIN’s desk to give her the battery. LIN has a backbone ache. In addition to recommending an acupuncturist to her, TUNG also gives her some coupons. She shares a breakfast with him as a token of thanks. YEE and the others are certain they have a crush on each other. TUNG goes to the acupuncture center with LIN but he leaves first. She is persuaded into buying a mattress that she does not need after buying a package. LIN cries at work. YEE and CHING jump to the conclusion that she has been upset by men. Air Date : 27th-Apr-2011  Read More

HON would like CHU to comment on his dishes without prejudice. So he asks LEI to claim she prepares them. CHU is too tired to eat anything when he is home. LEI takes the food home. She runs into TUNG at the door. He finds the food unpalatable. YEE learns from TUNG why HON learns cooking from her. YEE is very strict with HON. He has to work overtime very often. TUNG apologizes to YEE and pleads her to let HON leave on time. CHING also finds YEE too demanding. YEE has cooked some deep-fried taro balls. KWAI takes some to TUN. He likes them very much. And when he finds out about the names of her dishes, he realizes what YEE has done for HON. Air Date : 28th-Apr-2011  Read More

HON has cooked something for TUNG. He rushes back to the Joyful Kitchen after taking them to him. LIN calls TUNG to see whether he would be so kind to return the mattress for her. CHING overhears their conversation but she mistakes that LIN is having TUNG’s baby. She tells YEE about this without delay. TUNG tells KWAI to return to the company in the evening. She turns him down. YEE has bought KWAI a dress. She is so happy that she changes her mind. Seeing how obsessive KWAI is about TUNG, YEE tells her he is actually not as good as she thinks. KWAI does not agree with her though. CHU has been selected as one of the best ten writers in town. His colleagues celebrate at his place. HON has prepared three dishes for his father, namely deep-fried taro balls, stir-fried crabs with ginger and scallion, and stuffed hairy gourd with dried scallop. To his great disappointment, CHU only tries the hairy gourd. Air Date : 29th-Apr-2011  Read More

CHU sits on SUM’s glasses and breaks them. He tells her to buy a new pair. She hesitates, as this means spending money. It is hard to run into the glasses hawker too. CHING tells HOI CHU is allergic to taro and that he choked on crab shells once. HON does not feel well. He tells CHING to prepare the cooking ingredients for KWAI’s TV show. CHU thinks it is irresponsible of him to bring troubles to his colleagues. HON agrees with what his father says. LEI tells HON CHU has a girlfriend called TE. As her computer has broken down, CHING returns to the office to work. She is surprised to find CHU there. HON follows CHU. CHU goes to the glasses hawker to buy SUM a pair of glasses. But when TE calls, he leaves in a hurry. Air Date : 2nd-May-2011  Read More