Series :The Rippling Blossom 2009

The Rippling Blossom (TVB 2011) , filming 2009

The Rippling Blossom – <魚躍在花見>




Cast

Julian Cheung as Yue Chi Ying

Michael Tse as Yue Chi Hiu

Myolie Wu as Keung Keung

Tavia Yeung as Choi Sze Lung

Damian Lau as Mo Yung Ching

Pierre Ngo as Yue Chi Bo



Summary (May contain spoilers. Read at your own risk!!)

Yue Chi Hiu’s father owned a sushi restaurant and he has always been very good at making sushi. However, his father’s first wife disliked both Hui and his brother Ying. Thus the two brothers often face many different obstacles. The first wife decides to set a challenge for Hiu and in order to obtain the best ingredients for the competition, Ying had to go to Japan. During his trip, he came across Keung Keung (Myolie Wu) and a man called Mo Yung Ching who is an expert on fish. However, Hiu lost the competition because Sze Lung (Tavia Yeung) who was the first wife’s nurse, was sent to distract Michael and cause trouble. As a result, they lost the restaurant.


In order to obtain their restaurant back, Hiu must enter another competition. However, during an accident, he broke his arm and was therefore not able to compete. His brother Ying competed on his behalf with the help of Mo Yung Ching and Keung Keung. Ying won the competition which made Hui envy him and begin to seek revenge against his brother.


Keung Keung was actually Mo Yung Ching’s long lost daughter. When Keung Keung eventually found out, she could not accept the truth and refused to call him “dad.” Keung and Ying begin to develop feelings for each other. They start dating.


On the other hand, Sze Lung felt guilty for betraying Hiu and they start falling for each other again.

Hui tried to prove that he was better than his brother and wanted to compete against him. He started a competition against Ying. Ying lost the competition and became totally deflated. With the help and encouragement of Keung Keung, he was able to gain his confidence back and worked towards making good sushi. However, Hui spread a rumor that Ying was using fish that could make people ill. This had ruined Ying’s reputation and affected his confidence again. Hui discovered that Sze Long was the most important thing to him and he did not want to lose her. He decided that everything he did was pointless. The two brothers reconciled once again but Hui wanted to have one last competition with Ying. Ying accepted the challenge and in the end Ying won the competition. However, during the competition, Keung Keung was in a car accident and lost her memory. She forgot who Ying was until the very end, her memories returned when she ate a sushi

Comments:

Overall I thought that this series was a bit like those holiday programmes with a storyline line. The series was set in Hong Kong and Japan. Not only did it provide a lot of information on Sushi and fish, it also provided a lot of information on the different kinds of fish and how to make good sushi. Basically, watching this programme made my mouth water constantly and I envied the cast for getting to film this series and eating so much stuff!!! I have noticed that many of the actors and actresses in this series have gained some weight. I do not blame them since the food does look very good. However, I did not think this series was amazingly great and did not watch every single episode. There were certain funny parts and I think that Julian did a brilliant job in this series. His chemistry with Myolie was brilliant. I also enjoyed watching Michael Tse play a villain sort of role. However, I still think that there is an element of “Laughing” in his roles again. I am not sure if this is a typical Michael Tse style of acting that has always been around, but I seem to notice it more now.

The setting of this series was very beautiful. I think they have captured the best part of Japan. The scenes from Japan are great and the snow made it a much more romantic film to watch.

Overall:

This series was not that great but I would definitely give it a go if you like Julian Cheung since he is the highlight of the series and does not film many TVB series. The storylines were very lame and would just make you hungry!! It is like a travel programme or documentary on sushi and sashimi. If you are interest

Source: ent.tom.com

Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net/forums/

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Chilam Cheung personally killed tuna fish for new series


Chilam Cheung, Michael Tse and Myolie Wu attended TVB's new series blessing ceremony a few days ago. The series sponsor is a sushi company who invited a sushi chef to the event allowing the cast and crew to enjoy sushi. Chilam was seen unwell after watching the sushi chef cut the fish, but in contrast, Myolie was eating one after another. Chilam and Michael then made sushi with tuna fish live on the spot, it was seen that they were pretty good at it. Michael expressed that he met up with Chilam beforehand to learn how to make sushi from the chef. They even made it for their family to try, they praised that it tasted good. He also said that besides having fish killing scenes in the series, there are also many sushi making scenes that they personally did.

Chilam reveals that while he was in Japan, he personally killed a tuna fish for the series, but with the help of a few fishermen. For some people who oppose to killing the blue fin tuna fish, although Chilam is very concerned about the environment, but there are many Japanese restaurants opening everywhere, he believes that reality is hard to change