1. 九江十二坊/ River of Wine
Episodes: 25
Genre: Costume Drama
Casts: Bowie Lam, Sunny Chan, Linda Chung, Nancy Sit, Elena Kong, Pierre Ngo, Sire Ma, Cilla Kung
Synopsis: The story takes place in the Qing Dynasty, revolving around the Sung and Leung family. Madam Leung (Nancy Sit) is the owner of a small business with eldest son Leung Ching-yiu (Bowie Lam), second son Leung Ching-hong (Sunny Chan), third daughter Leung Sau-man (Casper Chan) and youngest daughter Leung Sau-yin (Cilla Lok). Yiu originally was a worker at the Jiujiang brewery but due to a natural disaster, rewrote the lives of the Leung and Sung family.
Sung family’s daughter, Sung Chi-ching (Linda Chung), the third mistress Ting Kar-pik (Elena Kong) and eldest son Sung Chi-tsun (Pierre Ngo) were separated. The Sung family decided to adopt Yiu as their son and looked after the business. Hong thought Yiu became the Sung family's son for the sake of wealth.
Just when business for the Jiujiang wine brewery were going well, Sung family's long lost son returns and wants to claim back ownership of the business. This results in a major feud between the Leung and the Sungs.
Finally, when Yiu tied the marriage between Ching and Hong, he was ready to return ownership back to the Sungs. Sadly, his best friend Tsang Yuk-fong (Sire Ma)'s father Magistrate Tsang (Lau Kong) causes downfall to the family. The Sung family business is stolen, luckily Hong helps the family rebuild their business. The Sung and Leungs calm their feud.
Review: After watching korean dramas for a while, it's always good to watch a HK drama. Each episode is shorter and faster-moving! Nice story with good ending although I find that romance and rivalry took up a huge part of the show. It would be more interesting if they have placed more focus on the winery process!
2. 魚躍在花見/ The Rippling Blossom
Episodes: 20
Genre: Modern Drama
Casts: Julian Cheung, Michael Tse, Myolie Wu, Tavia Yeung, Damien Lau
Synopsis:A Hong Kong dining mogul leaves behind a sushi restaurant to his second wife, KONG YING-YUET (Lisa Lui), their son, YUE CHI-HIU (Michael Tse) and the son from his third wife, YUE CHI-YING (Julian Cheung).
HIU and YING are remarkable Japanese cuisine chefs whose main aim in life is to pursue excellence in chefhood. Although HIU and YING have different mothers, they get along very well.
When their father's first wife, LANG YUNG-YUNG (Angelina Lo) creates trouble for the restaurant, HIU declares to challenge her, claiming whoever wins will have the restaurant.
YUNG sends her personal nurse, CHOI SZE-LUNG (Tavia Yeung) to get close to HIU. He is completely smitten by love for her but soon becomes unhappy with their lukewarm relationship.
On the other hand, their supply for fresh food has been shut out. YING has to make a trip to Hokkaido, Japan to buy fish. He meets KEUNG KEUNG (Myolie Wu), a willful girl from a wealthy family on the plane. They also meet MOYUNG CHING (Damian Lau) who is known as "The God of Fish" by chance in the fish market.
As the relationship between YING and KEUNG KEUNG grows, KEUNG KEUNG finds out that MOYUNG CHING is her long lost father. MOYUNG CHING becomes YING's mentor and helps him through the competition to win the first overseas Japanese restaurant franchise in Hong Kong. As YING's career grows, HIU becomes more jealous of his brother and starts to scheme with CHOI SZE-LUNG to get his father's fortunes.
As HIU and YING meet with setbacks in their career, family and their loved ones after their attempt to save the restaurant, the two brothers decide to have a competition.
Review: Now watching. The food looks yummy! Makes me feel like going Japan again!
3. 水浒传/ All Man Are Brothers
Episodes: 86
Genre: Historical
Casts: Zhang Han Yu as Song Jiang
Ray Lui as Chao Gai
Wang Jian Xin as Lu Jun Yi
Li Zong Han as Wu Yong
Jing Gang Shan as Gongsun Sheng
Bao Li Gao (宝力高) as Guan Sheng
Hu Dong as Lin Chong
Zhao Qiu Sheng (赵秋生) as Qin Ming
Yan Hong Zhi (严洪智) as Hu Yan Zhuo
Zhang Di (张迪) as Hua Rong
Synopsis: Toward the end of Northern Song Dynasty, the government was deeply corrupted, and the oppressed citizens finally rebelled. A hundred and eight men and women fought against the government and took their last stand in a place called Liangshan.
Review: DC is watching this long drama now. He seems to like it quite a lot to the extend that he mimics the characters in the drama and talks in "ancient language". Some of his expressions are really making me laugh out loud! :D
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