[*StarDust*]

【团圆饭】Reunion Dinner

In a light-hearted manner, Reunion Dinner reflects on the plight of families in the midst of inflation as costs soar and wallets shrink. The reunion dinner on Lunar New Year’s eve holds exceptional importance to the Chinese as it signifies the bond of the family. Amidst mounting tension, marriage woes and family problems, the heartlanders in the drama exhaust their means to ensure that their families are reunited to share that very significant and heart-warming meal together.

A-Chang (Chen Hanwei) is a plumber who’s also a compulsive gambler. His wife Fangfang (Patricia Mok) walks out on him in a fit of anger, having had enough of his gambling ways. He has forgotten to go to the supermarket to hoard rice because of gambling and as the Lunar New Year approaches, there’s still no sign of his wife. Anxious, he puts up missing-person notices with the help of their three children. An accident puts his wife in a coma and A-Chang is detained by the police for his perceived role in it.

Overnight, the three kids Si Si (Xiao Zhi Ying), Qiang Qiang (Chen Jie Le) and Ya Ya (Lin Yong Yi) lose both father and mother. Not only do they need to fend for themselves, their resourcefulness is put to test as well as they now have to earn enough money for the reunion dinner. On Lunar New Year’s eve, the little ones use their hard-earned cash to buy the ingredients for dinner, their innocent minds hoping for their parents’ return so that the family can gather for a cosy dinner.

A-Ping (Chen Liping) is married to a wimpy husband Tianhua (Wang Yuqing) who draws a measly salary and doesn’t dare ask his boss for an increment although his pay has been stagnant for years. To supplement the family’s income, A-Ping sells her home-made confections. Though she’s always kept on her feet baking, looking after her dementia-stricken father-in-law Zhigao (Zhu Houren) and caring for the family, A-Ping is never one to wallow in her plight. She takes everything in her stride and performs her duties to the best of her abilities, which earns her the nickname Iron Lady.

But the Iron Lady is not infallible. Faced with escalating costs, shrinking dollars, an impending Lunar New Year, the lack of money for red packets and her husband’s unemployment, A-Ping finally breaks down. To make matters worse, her brothers-in-law refuse to share their father’s medical expenses and intend to leech on A-Ping’s family on New Year’s eve. Outraged, A-Ping finally declares that there would not be any reunion this year.

Banana (Kym Ng) works as a supermarket promoter by day and a beer promoter in a coffee shop by night. Her husband Daxiong (Alan Tern) has been jobless for years and has reluctantly taken over his father Uncle Laksa’s (Liang Tian) food stall. Lazy by nature, Daxiong chooses to cut corners and not adhere to his father’s recipe. This results in poor business, a point of contention between the couple. Whenever cornered, Daxiong would use Banana’s inability to conceive children to turn the tables on her. She finally gets a check-up one day, proving that she is not barren. The arrow then points to a possible problem with Daxiong, effectively curbing his chauvinism.

Faced with intense competition from younger beer promoters from China, Banana is pressurised into enlisting her tenant Wang Hao (Hu Wensui) to teach her to swim in a bid to keep her physique in the best possible condition. This however incurs her husband’s jealousy, who suspects that his wife and the Chinese ‘study papa’ are up to hanky-panky behind his back. A blissful reunion dinner might not be easy this year.

http://reuniondinner.mediacorptv.sg/index.htm

[skyangel]

wah Patricia Mok very naggy in this show

[TakeshiXkun]

Originally Posted by skyangel

wah Patricia Mok very naggy in this show

lol ya she just now nag and shouted so much.

[myc]

the chen han wei smallest daughter is so cute!

[Nyoro~n]

haha yesh she is very lovely! in bangkok she visit much too!

[*StarDust*]

Originally Posted by skyangel

wah Patricia Mok very naggy in this show

She wants to be the next Ah Jie (Big Sister), like Zoe Tay or Fann Wong.

[enirtep]

lol this show feels a bit like the shuigang show

[rabbit]

Watched e 1st episode last tue...quite oki..

Chen hanwei v hao du lo and patricia Mok is v nagging..haha....

But their small daughter v cute..but dun like her always saying..."i have use a new word...yes!!"

Some parts are funny...

[pika69]

local movie are all craps

[InFi-]

Patricia Mok v noisy in shows nowadays, making me hate her LOL. Esp in Love Blossom 2 =.=

[*StarDust*]

Originally Posted by pika69

local movie are all craps

Kindly explain why instead of labelling as crap.

[svpam_ms]

Please be tactful with the use of language.

[limtata]

i thin pat mok has the potential to actually potray the role well, that's the reason why she is chosen among so many artist in the mediacorp.

that's her forte, i suppose..

[Emolisher]

Recently alot of her show dun you all realise zzz..

[qwevfr]

the first few episode i think it was okae except todae ....suddenly a lot of china accent in it....( i dun like it)....

[limtata]

Originally Posted by Emolisher

Recently alot of her show dun you all realise zzz..

no offence ah..

she's far much cheaper to employ to play the role, as in price lah!!

comparing with the 7princesses,

with age, she lost
with looks, she lost
with hotness, she lost
with popularity, she lost ( 7 vs 1 ma )
with knowledge, definitely no stronger than them

but, she has her forte too,

with cheap labour, she can actually potray what role she is supposed to play.
with avg popularity, she still have rooms to push it alil higher.
she's good, just that she's lack in physical appearance.

[heymoolah]

love this drama! chen han wei really did a great job on this especially last night's episode when he was writing the 'looking for wife' post! laughed until i rolled on the floor.

[*StarDust*]

Me too.

[xxbluexx]

Not sure if u all notice, this show like to emphasise on jumping off the storey? Since the 1st ep till now...

[OrangeGina891]

i like yaya. she is so clever. Me too, laugh at the scene when chen han wei daughter writes the letter. I think this show is quite realistic.