A Recipe For The Heart

PF: the serie was only good for eight episodes while there were food contests after that it concentrated too much on the (stupid) relationships of the main characters.
I don't recommend it. You can better spend you money on another serie, like Untraceable Evidence or even "Triumph Over Evil". Or maybe you can rent the first two tapes and I'll tell you how it ends ^_^
Fei Fei sure is annoying in this serie, I don't like her voice at all. It sounded like she's yelling all the time and she's got an air of "I'm Faye Tse so all every move and sound I make is perfect acting".

On the other hand Bobie Au Yeung Chan Wa, Louis Koo Tin Lok and Maggie Cheung Hor Yee did a very good job. Each of them showed their very best acting talent. Although it looked like that Maggie and Bobie didn't even had to their best to do it. They were so natural, as if playing their parts was as simple as breathing. And Louis Koo, too be honest I didn't liked Louis Koo very much, but this serie changed my opinion. He sure CAN act! (or at least had learnt it). His character really is memorable! A talented and handsome (at least the girls are saying that, I'm not attracted to him^_^)cheff with a inferiority complex due to a talking disorder. He is "Chi Lai Kan" (can't pronounce the "s" and stuff like that) so he uses "Sam Sing" (sound of the heart) to communicate with people.

But their great work couldn't prevent this serie from be disgrace to all the actors who played a (cameo-)part in it.
The thing that made this serie failed is the fact that TVB concentrated too much on the relationship between the actors and left the cooking-contests alone. It's obviously that "A Recipe For The Heart" was rip-off of one popular Anime-serie about a young talented chef. But TVB didn't understood that it's the cooking contests in that Anime-serie made the serie so popular. Another thing is that TVB tried to copy "Old Time Buddy" "Lan Hing Lan Tai"'s success by letting the actors sing. It could HAVE been a success, but they overdid it.

Another pain is the ending. It seemed that TVB wanted to do everything, just to let the serie have a happy ending. No bad guys, no one sad. Eveyone can tell that they just changed the script to achieve this goal, wich maked the serie completely unrealistic (not that it was before...)

There were a few real funny moments in it though. Like when three punks "Fay Jai" went into the restaurant to order something, but almost had a fight with the waiter. Later it's told that this three punks are actually the three heros from the Young & dangerous serie, Chan Ho Man, San Kai (Chicken) and Tai Tin Yee. Of course in the serie they aren't as handsome as the movie (their plain ugly). I couldn't stop laughing when they told their said their name while the theme of Young & Dangerous was playing in the background! I think one sentence I've heard before can summarize this serie "a superbly skillfull execution with such an amateurish ending..."

Au Yeung Chan Wa	Kwan Wing Ho
Sam Tin Ha	Cheung Ho Yee
Ku Tin Lok	Seun Heun