Be Home for Dinner

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…

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 bir…

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 Go…

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 agre…

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 argumen…

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 ac…

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 an…

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 …

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 o…

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 …

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 le…

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 lat…

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 art…

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 y…

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 K…

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 f…

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 p…

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 …

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…

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 su…

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 belie…

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…

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 girlfrie…

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 C…

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 …

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 whe…

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 therefor…

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 w…

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 unpalata…

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 LI…

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 shell…

The hot pot restaurant of MR. KO, owner of the news agency, opens today. CHU sits poker-faced all the way and leaves midway. Everybody finds this unusual. The second generation of Man Mo Restaurant, a prestigious restaurant in town, has fa…

CHU goes to Man Mo Restaurant for one of its signature dishes, i.e. “chicken stuffed with shark fin in double-boiled soup”. When he gets home, he asks TUNG to print out the article he wrote on UNCLE LEUNG. CHU goes to Man Po Restaurant aga…

CHU enjoys the meal very much. He is surprised he is not allergic to the dishes. HON tells him what he has done in arranging the meal. NGA cannot be home for Mother’s Day because she needs to prepare for her examination. She, however, has …

CHU and the others take the mango tree to Aunt To’s Farm. When they finally arrive at the restaurant, SUM has already left. CHING’s mother has mailed her a video clip. It reminds her of the warm and happy memory of them eating marinated eg…

WAI is looking forward to his Korean trip. He could not be more disappointed when KWAN, who is not happy with the story he wrote, disapproves of his leave application. MR. KO has bought a Yellow Emperor Stone from feng shui master TSAT-HOP…

SUSAN sees JIMMY, who is a fund manager, peeping into ABBY’s skirt. She goes up to expose him but WING stops her. The new girlfriend of SUSAN’s boyfriend calls her. CHING goes shopping with her so as to cheer her up. SUSAN sees the handbag…

RAYMOND tries his best to please SUSAN, including invites her to go to sea. On the other hand, he tells WING to buy an apartment. WING visits a show office with RAYMOND. He did not know until then that the apartment is a present for GIGI, …

KWAI and YEE are surrounded by reporters at a restaurant. While YEE finds it annoying, KWAI enjoys being in the limelight immensely. Producer TSUI asked YEE last week what she would like to cook at her last episode. She was giving it a tho…

YEE runs into TUNG as she is buying underwear. TUNG accompanies LIN to return a mattress. TUNG has gone to pick up his car. An old woman gives LIN a rabbit when she is waiting for TUNG. TUNG delivers to the Joyful Kitchen the next day. LIN…

NGA goes home for holiday. SUM waits for her at a bus stop. NGA shouts out loudly when the traffic lights turn green and scares other pedestrians. Unwilling to take HON’s bedroom, NGA stays at LEI’s. LEI has bought HON a cell phone. NGA li…

LEI sees NGA going into a vice establishment. NGA confesses she is tutoring for the son of a sex worker when SUM and CHU ask her what is going on. CHU calls for a family meeting, during which everybody shows NGA their support. SUM and CHU …

HON calls and tells HOI to meet up at the restaurant they used to go with CHING in their school days. HOI texts HO at a meeting. CHING tells him off in front of other colleagues. CHING visits SUM for information of a charitable event. She …

MEI-CHING is reading an article about 3S women, i.e. women who are single, born in the seventies, and stuck. YEE pays no attention to the article. Instead, she is more interested in the circus that is playing in town. ROGER buys two ticket…

A reporter had a traffic accident. He blames the news car for being too old. KWAN suggests buying a new one but MR. KO turns down his request. But when CHU puts forward the same proposal, MR. KO changes his mind. People in the company find…

HOI and CHING go to a community center for an interview. CHEUNG YAU-TAK, a mentally challenged member of the center, is being complained by parents of other members for having head lice. TAK is a world record keeper for marathon for the di…

A customer is dissatisfied with a lamp bought from TUNG and requests for a refund. MING’s girlfriend demands for a break-up because of his love letters. The former girlfriend of YEE’s father, ANN, shows up suddenly. YEE buys her a cup of K…

HON has left his menu at home. He calls and asks SUM to take it to Joyful Kitchen after telling YEE about this. YEE volunteers to go to HON’s house to take it. YEE teaches SUM to cook fried poached egg. When SUM is busy at the kitchen, YEE…

More than one client would like to place an ad in the paper, one of them is CHU’s cousin. CHU tells WING to stick to their normal practice. NGA has applied to be a summer intern. WING decides to employ her. His colleague suggests informing…

The missing of the copper cow statue turns out to be a marketing tactic of the “King of Stock”. KWAN commends NGA in front of other colleagues. SUM has a tumor. Her doctor suggests having it removed as soon as possible. Unwilling to worry …

TUNG invites HON to call on his band on Tuesday. LEI asks HON to attend a charity ball with her on Wednesday. SUM’s charity party clashes with the ball however. Producer TSUI invites YEE to participate in a cooking competition. She is not …

HOI has got the recipe for Kwan Li Kee’s casserole rice. HON follows the recipe. Both HOI and ROGER find his rice delicious. HON has no confidence in his rice though, as YEE insists that casserole rice must be cooked using an open grill. Y…

HON suggests using cheese rather than fermented bean curd to bake vegetables. YEE does not find this a good idea though. HON wants to leave, but YEE needs him to prepare for the pork for tomorrow’s class. TING would like to employ HON to w…

WAI needs to go to dragon boat practice in the afternoon. He demands colleagues at the local news section to let him use the head table at lunch hour. He also applies for reimbursement for his lunch expenses. KWAN reprimands him. An indepe…

LEI has left a message in her digital recorder that she is not coming back. She also complains that nobody in the family ever cares about her. LEI tells MING, who works as a part-time insurance agent, that NGA has once upset CHUNG. In orde…

WEI has conducted an interview with MR. KO, the new golf champion. MR. KO mentioned in the interview that massage therapist KUNG PAN has healed his waist problem. CHING suggests interviewing PAN as well. SUSAN volunteers to go to the TV st…

LEI and SUM’s respective NGOs are organizing a charity ball together. The NGO that SUM represents would like her to take care of the check presentation session of the ball, but LEI fears she will make a fool of herself in front of her idol…

CHU snapped TUNG on the face years ago. TUNG had a retinal detachment because of this, and his dream of becoming a police officer broke. When CHU wakes up, he realizes he may have talked nonsense when he was drunk. TUNG tells HON to Ho Che…

MING has been taken in and lost some goods. KWAI scolds him so loudly that TUNG can hear them at the doorstep. Having failed to pay his rental on time, MING has been kicked out by his landlord. He spends the night at the company, but a sec…

There has been a lot of positive feedback on SUSAN’s feature article on organ donation. KWAN tells her at the team meeting to write a follow-up story. KWAN has a word with WING alone after the meeting. HING has recently applied for two rei…

Father’s Day is coming. NGA would like to take part in a mixed triathlon with HON, believing a golden medal will make a wonderful Father’s Day present. As HON’s class clashes with the triathlon, HOI will take his place. HON is visiting his…

SUSAN is interviewing a feng shui master. She plans to take the opportunity to ask for a few charms for other girls. KWAI claims she was born in the Year of the Rooster. SUSAN finds a photograph of KWAI and TUNG. KWAI says it has been comp…

People in the office have found an x-rated movie VCD. Everybody believes it belongs to WAI, who is responsible for the adult pages, but they are wrong. CHING shows her team photos of the “freeze-frame girl”. She tries but fails to contact …

HON asks WAI where he got SUET’s photos, which obviously are not downloaded from the Internet. So WAI tells him. SUET agrees to give an interview, but it has to be conducted by WAI. HOI is angry that WAI did not pass him all the material a…

MR. KO, who is hot on bowling, has recently bought a bowling center. He invites his staff and their family to play at the center but everybody leaves early with an excuse. MR. KO is unhappy about this. In TUNG’s opinion, he should try to r…

CHING, KWAI, SUSAN and LIN gather at the swimming pool where YEE is giving them training. YEE tells them to swim back and forth for 20 times, followed by a workout at the gym. SUSAN and CHING hope HOI can persuade YEE into giving up the in…

KWAI waits YEE at Joyful Kitchen. YEE has received piles of letters from her supporters. The letter sent from Buenos Aires catches her attention. MAK LOK-KEI, a business friend of TUNG’s, tells TUNG to pass a pair of wedding bangles to YEE…

CHING is singing at her good friend EVA’s wedding. She invites HOI to play a piano accompaniment for her. She is also looking for souvenirs for the guests at the wedding. MING offers to help her, telling her he can play the piano too. EVA …

The bank has sent CHING a letter. HOI deduces from this that she will not come back again. MING is sad to see her go too. YEE goes into a deep trance after hearing the others talk about CHING and her mother. YEE has bought KWAI an expensiv…

KWAI is totally astonished to learn that YEE and CHING are sisters. TUNG reminds her not to hurt her feelings. HOI and MING have set up a tent in the sitting room so that CHING’s mother can use their room. The idea of moving out occurs to …

YEE waits TUNG at the bowling center but he is very late. In fact, TUNG is going up to mainland China for business with MING. TUNG and YEE chat and drink at a pier the whole evening. YEE remembers how her mother looks at last, and how she …

YEE does not see her mother when she gets to the hospital. She breaks down, believing her mother has already passed away. Then a nurse tells her CHOI-HA, her mother, has moved to another room. TUNG advises her to patch up with her mother b…

YEE and ROGER have a meeting. HA keeps calling her for some trivial matters. What is more, she shows up uninvited at the studio, disturbing YEE’s recording. TUGN gives YEE a pair of bowling gloves when he is delivering to Joyful Kitchen, m…

SUM has forgotten about her appointment with LEI and their friends. As a result, she is being made a fool of and gets telling off. LEI defends for her, and ends up falling out with them as well. This, in fact, is the last thing their famil…

LEI stomps into the conference room, accusing KWAN of forbidding his staff to dinner. KWAN does not get mad though. LEI and the CHUNG family go to dim sum. KWAN shows up suddenly to invite LEI to go to Macau. To everyone’s surprise, she ag…

KWAN is thinking letting HING work as supplement editor concurrently. Unwilling to see KWAN take the opportunity to advance in his career, CHU decides to take up the post himself. HING has drawn up a budget for the supplement assignment fo…

KEUNG is learning Judo. He applies Judo throws at HOI accidentally, almost twists his arms. He invites his colleagues to learn the sport with him. KWAN comments that HOI does not have much fight but CHU is confident that the young man will…

Shortly after CHU has warned JIMMY not to lay a finger on NGA a person from JIMMY’s calls and informs her that somebody else will give her an interview. CHU orders flowers for NGA at a flower shop. KEUNG is also at the shop, doing exactly …

KWAI visits YEE. YEE tells her HA is much better now and can go to the wet market and cook a meal on her own. CHU asks HOI-YEE if she can work part-time for the supplement assignment. She turns him down gently, as she needs to look after h…

HING intends to find out who is the owner of the car from its license plate. Then he discovers that the photos of the car are stored in HOI’s memory stick, which HOI has just taken away. KWAI hurries to the newspaper office to beg HING not…

HOI broke his notebook carelessly while conducting an interview. He requests HING to apply for a new one for him but HING turns him down resolutely. As if this is not enough, he demands HOI to compensate to the company. KWAN wants CHU to c…

HON is jealous to see CHU and HOI get along very well. HING learns that Ko Tsim Daily has been given the opportunity to cover the retrospective of the late singer-song-writer LAU SZE-SZE’s work exclusively prior to its opening. CHU decides…

HOI talks about the story of a liver donor at a meeting. HOI-YEE, who is family of a chronic patient, shares her thought. HA looks at YEE’s school reports. She is surprised YEE had been given a demerit once. YEE tells her it was a misunder…

Rumors have it that UNCLE KAU is leaving Hong Kong soon. As all know, YEE and UNCLE KAU are very close. KWAN offers to pay HOI-YEE $50,000 if she can interview him before he goes. UNCLE KAU is throwing a birthday party for his younger sist…

The feature on the retrospective on LAU SZE-SZE’s work ranks the most popular story in terms of Internet hit count. As a reward, HING gives them two tickets to a Macau show, as well as free transportation and accommodation. HOI tells NGA t…

MR. KO invites CHU to try out the food in KIU FUNG’s hotpot restaurant. He also asks CHU to return LEI’s notebook to her. In fact, she left the notebook deliberately but to her disappointment MR. KO failed to grasp the opportunity to date …

KWAN announces at a meeting that he is nominating three pieces of articles for the “Worldwide Chinese Newspapers Award for Outstanding Reporter”. He has chosen an article from HO-PING and KEI so far. He encourages other staff members to wo…

HING has replaced HOI’s article with somebody else’s. HOI reasons with him. HING retorts that, if published, HOI’s article will get Ko Tsum Daily into a lawsuit. HOI writes and signs on a written promise that he will take full responsibili…

HA can go home soon. A friend of UNCLE KEI has an accident. He therefore tells HOI-YEE to pick up TONG FOOK, who is her stepfather. HOI-YEE calls a taxi to the airport. YEE admits she will never like FOOK. Both YEE and KWAI are there when …

HOI and MING eat snacks and microwave rice for dinner. KWAI misses the good old days when YEE lived with her. YEE would like to borrow KWAI’s kitchen. She confesses having no communication with HOI-YEE ever since HA has moved to live with …

Ko Tsim Daily has secured a big advertising deal with a cosmetic company. The client requests that the paper conduct an interview with their CEO, CHIN TUNG. CHU thinks the interview should go to the entertainment assignment. HING agrees, b…

Susan teaches the other girls make-up skills at the cafeteria. The boys in the office tease them for having outer beauty but no inner beauty. SUSAN stays in the office most of the time. The boys therefore suggest HING assign her the job of…

UNCLE KAU has a meeting with ROGER at Joyful Kitchen. YEE only buys kitchen appliances from TUNG recently. ROGER therefore suggests to UNCLE KAU that purchasing orders be endorsed by both YEE and him in future. TUNG needs to return some su…

HON buys fresh eggs for YEE at a rural village. KEI are being kicked away by some villagers. HON goes up to her help. HON blames her colleagues for giving her such a tough job, but HOI tells him it was KEI who had requested to do it. HING,…

The Inland Revenue Department requests to look at Pakbaodot’s ledgers. TUNG tells KWAI to get the job done as soon as possible. KWAI looks for YEE at Joyful Kitchen. She asks MEI-CHING to help her fix Pakbaodot’s ledgers when she knows tha…

MEI-CHING returns the ledgers to Pakbaodot, where she overhears TUNG and SCOTT’s talk about CHUN’s difficulties. YEE shows up from nowhere and announces loudly that she is going bowling. Once again, TUNG does not pay any attention to her. …

SCOTT tells TUNG CHUN refuses to give up his business dream, and that he has borrowed a large amount of money from a girlfriend. YEE sees TUNG and MEI-CHING at a cafe when she is on her way to Joyful Kitchen. Cannot hold her curiosity anym…

YAN gives LEI a lift home. She turns down his suggestion to go up to her place for a cup of coffee. YAN sits in at the editorial meeting. NGA is interviewing the tycoons in town. YAN volunteers to give her a name list. None of the tycoons …