A Hint of You (Chinese: 美味的想念; pinyin: Měi Wèi De Xiǎng Niàn) is a 2013 Taiwanese romantic television series with a food theme produced by Sanlih E-Television, starring Michael Zhang, Nana Lee, Danson Tang, Demi Yin [zh], Jay Shih, Cindy Song [zh] and Hans Zhang as the main cast.[citation needed] The Chinese title literally translates to "Taste of Missing You". Filming began on February 14, 2013 and completed on June 25, 2013, the drama was filmed as it aired. First original broadcast began on March 6, 2013 on SETTV, airing on weekdays from 9:00-10:00 pm, with the last of the 68 episodes aired on June 28, 2013.[citation needed] This is SETTV's last drama to air during its weekday 9:00-10:00 pm timeslot before it was obsoleted to air variety programs instead.[1]
Synopsis
Xia Qing You works as a cook at her small family owned seafood restaurant that was started by her late father. She is unaware that the dishes she creates are subpar, until Fu Zai Yu dines at her restaurant one evening and harshly criticizes her cooking. Not taking his comments well, she, her family and regular patrons at the restaurant out number Zai Yu in his argument. One day a VIP customer who was a regular patron of her father reserves the entire restaurant and pays top dollars to taste a lobster dish he had eaten when her dad was running the restaurant. After tasting Qing You's dishes he is not happy and starts comparing her father's cooking to hers, he also tells her that her level of cooking will eventually put the restaurant out of business. After finding out that her father was once a chef at the high end Hana Japanese Restaurant, she decides to dine there to have a taste of their food. At Hana she runs into Zai Yu, who is the head chef at the restaurant. He cooks her his signature egg friend rice dish to show her how good food should taste like. Upon her first bite it brings her back to the taste of her father's fried rice dish. After many failed attempts at duplicating the taste of Zai Yu's dish, she begs and stalks Zai Yu to accept her as his student in order to learn how to make his fried rice dish.[2][3]
A Hint of You Original TV Soundtrack (OST) (美味的想念 電視原聲帶) was released on June 21, 2013 by various artists under Avex Taiwan Inc. record label. It contains 14 tracks total, in which 6 tracks are instrumental versions of the original songs. The opening theme is track 2 "A Hint of You 美味的想念 " by Danson Tang, while the closing theme is track 1 "Shouldn't Be Brave 不應該勇敢" by Soo Wincci.
The 2013 Sanlih Drama Awards Ceremony were held on December 28, 2013 at Sanlih's headquarters and broadcasting studios at No. 159, Section 1, Jiuzong Rd, Neihu District Taipei City, Taiwan.[citation needed]
^"吳宗憲,張勛傑 - 綜藝大熱門_Yes圖庫". Archived from the original on 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2015-04-17. 「美味的想念」交接「綜藝大熱門」開拓「華人娛樂」市場 吳宗憲、張勛傑龍蝦交接 收視「活跳跳」！(in Chinese). Retrieved April 17, 2015
^[1] A Hint of You af page. Retrieved April 17, 2015
^[2] A Hint of You viki page. Retrieved April 17, 2015
