
Wasabi Mon Amour
- 2008
- Ended
- Drama · Comedy
- ~45m / ep
- 1 season
Wasabi Mon Amour is a TVB modern drama series broadcast in January 2008. Japanese cuisine chef Chung Lai-Wo (Michael Tao) has long been in love with his childhood friend Ko Yau-Mei (Louisa So), who is always interested in pursuing a career in showbiz. To realize her dream, Wo lies to the press and refers to Mei as "a most talented chef of the time". With Wo's help, Mei has finally landed a job as the host of a food program. As Mei is completely clueless about cooking, Wo decides to do her a favor by offering to be her assistant, which irritates his mentor Ko Shau (Paul Chun), also father of Mei, beyond measure. Although the food program turns out to be very popular, Mei often gets picked on by her half sister Ko Yim-Lai (Bernice Liu) while at work. Lai is angry with Shau for being bad to her mother and she means to make things difficult for Mei as revenge.
Latest: Season 1 · 2008
View all seasonsE1. Episode 1
Jan 28, 2008 · 45m
Staffs of the Japanese restaurant “Ichigo Ichie” are busily preparing food for dinner. Chef CHUNG YAU WO prepares Japanese sushi set for his boss KO SHAU’s daughter KO YAU MEI. SHAU’s younger sister KO KWAI insists that she will not take MEI’s order and WO voluntarily pays the bill for MEI. MEI is having a film shooting session for a TV commercial and she fights for the costume with the model SUKI. WO visits her with freshly made sushi and sashimi. MEI distributes the sushi to all the filming staffs and she gives the sashimi to the director to please him. MEI finally earns the chance to be the heroine of the TV commercial. During the film shooting, MEI nearly drowns herself and WO jumps into the swimming pool to save her. MA TSOI YAT, the boss of a big restaurant group, invites SHAU to be their spokesperson but SHAU refuses to take the offer. MEI becomes very popular after acting in the TV commercial and SHAU is upset.… ...
E2. Episode 2
Jan 29, 2008 · 45m
MEI gives up having the breast implant surgery and she runs away from the clinic. MEI loses her wallet and she calls SHAU for help. SHAU tells WO about it and WO rushes to Japan to save MEI. WO finds that MEI has rescued an old man KO YEA from committing suicide. YEA misses his deceased wife very much so he has stopped eating. KEA’s wife used to prepare Unagi rice bowl to him all the time. KO tries to prepare Unagi rice bowl to KEA and KEA regains his desire to live. YEA is a famous food critic in Japan and he misconceives that MEI is the one who prepared the Unagi rice bowl for him. The Japanese reporters come to interview MEI and they name her as “ The Beauteous Chef”. MEI’s interview segment has reached Hong Kong audience as well… Encouraged by YEA, WO decides to propose marriage to MEI and MEI agrees. MEI comes back to Hong Kong and announces her marriage plan to everybody. SHAU is happy about it.… ...
E3. Episode 3
Jan 30, 2008 · 45m
SHAU discovers that MEI treats WO as a tool for developing her career. He scolds her and hurts his hand accidentally. MEI asks WO to go to Japan with her but WO wants to stay with the injured SHAU. MEI goes to Japan for filming alone. The executive producer YIM LAI challenges MEI all the time but MEI manages to escape by playing tricks. LAI tries to arrange a contest between MEI and the King of Lamen. MEI needs to make dumpling in front of everybody and she is worried. WO suddenly arrives and teaches her how to make dumpling… MEI and the others go to the Lamen shop to prepare for the contest. AH KONG, a trainee from Hong Kong, suddenly comes to complain that the shop owner is not teaching him how to make dumplings. MEI tells WO about this and WO suggests her to invite KONG’s mother to the contest. In this way, KONG will be encouraged to stay in Japan and MEI will not need to demonstrate her poor cooking skills in front of the public.
E4. Episode 4
Jan 31, 2008 · 45m
YAT appreciates MEI’s performance in the dumpling contest very much and he invites her to be the presenter in an upcoming food programme. MEI’s ex-headmaster asks her to design a healthy lunchbox for the school since many of the students are picky eaters. MEI accepts the invitation but she passes the task to WO. LAI asks another presenter to take MEI’s role while YAT is on vacation. MEI is depressed and she drinks heavily at Ichigo Ichie restaurant. SHAU is heart-broken for her… MEI continues to work hard on designing the healthy lunchbox for students. WO meets a boy KA LOK who just lost his father and he suddenly gets inspiration from him. He suggests that they should encourage the students to design their own healthy lunchbox. MEI forces the TV producer to take video for them without informing LAI. During the video shooting, LAI suddenly arrives to stop them. While fighting with MEI, LAI reveals her past to everybody…
E5. Episode 5
Feb 1, 2008 · 45m
LAI says that she is actually the half blood sister of MEI and MEI calls home to question KWAI. KWAI reveals that MEI was very naughty in the past and LAI was once bitten by a dog because of MEI. LAI’s mother left MEI’s father partly because of this. SHAU visits LAI. LAI brings him to her mother’s grave but she declares that she will not forgive him. MEI learns that the video footage has been passed to LAI. She asks LAI to return the video footage to her but LAI replies that she has thrown it away. YAT returns to Hong Kong and learns that SUM is injured. SUM is actually the younger brother of YAT and he recommends MEI to YAT. MEI gets the presenter job again. WO meets LOK’s mother BOBO and he teaches her how to make Tempura. WO’s elder brother CHUNG CHING returns to Hong Kong. He persuades WO to find a new job but WO rejects the idea.… ...
E6. Episode 6
Feb 4, 2008 · 45m
WO misses MEI’s film shooting schedule because of CHING and MEI pushes WO to the sea angrily. WO is infected by the bacteria from the seawater and he is sent to the hospital. SUM hurts his hand when filming and he goes to the hospital with MEI. SUM assures MEI that he will join the film shooting on the next day. MEI therefore approaches WO again and claims that she has forgiven him. She asks WO to teach him some other cooking techniques for her next day’s performance. MEI wants to give everybody a treat by buying sushi and SHAU voluntarily prepares the food for her. SHAU wants LAI to try the food he prepared but LAI rejects the food. WO persuades LAI to reconcile with SHAU but the other colleagues misconceive that WO is chasing LAI. WO helps SHAU to deliver a diamond ring to LAI and this diamond actually belongs to LAI’s deceased mother. MEI misconceives that WO is really pursuing LAI…
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