Hainan Kopi Tales
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Hainan Kopi Tales 琼园咖啡香 is a Singaporean
Chinese
drama serial which aired in year 2000. The show starred Chew Chor Meng
, Cynthia Koh
, Florence Tan, Lin Meijiao, Chen Huihui, Li Wenhai and other Mediacorp
artistes.
Chew Chor Meng won the Best Actor award, Lin Meijiao was nominated Best Actress and the show was nominated Best Drama Serial in the Star Awards 2000 ceremony.
coffeeshop as a backdrop, this nostalgic drama explores the Hainanese way of life from the 60s to the 80s.
Long Fu Yuan (Li Wenhai), a Hainanese coffeeshop owner, has two sons (Ah Sing and Ah Zhuo) with his second wife in Indonesia
. Long's first wife constantly makes life difficult for his second wife and her sons when they move to Singapore.
Ah Sing (Chew Chor Meng) decides to be sailor in order to avoid her. Not long after Long returns to Hainan Island to retire and Ah Sing is asked to manage the coffeeshop when Long's first wife cannot save the ailing business.
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
drama serial which aired in year 2000. The show starred Chew Chor Meng
Chew Chor Meng
Chew Chor Meng is a Singaporean television actor.-Career:Chew started his career in MediaCorp Studios after winning Star Search in 1990, a bi-annual nationwide talent search. Since then, he has never failed to make it to the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes in Star Awards, an award ceremony for...
, Cynthia Koh
Cynthia Koh
Cynthia Koh is a Singaporean Chinese actress, appearing in MediaCorp drama serials.-Early life and education:Born in 1974, Koh has one younger sister. Her father works in the Singapore Civil Defence Force while her mother is a housewife...
, Florence Tan, Lin Meijiao, Chen Huihui, Li Wenhai and other Mediacorp
MediaCorp
Media Corporation of Singapore, better known as MediaCorp, is a group of commercial media companies in Singapore, with business interests in television and radio broadcasting, interactive media, and, to a lesser extent, print publishing and film-making....
artistes.
Chew Chor Meng won the Best Actor award, Lin Meijiao was nominated Best Actress and the show was nominated Best Drama Serial in the Star Awards 2000 ceremony.
Story
Using the famous HainanHainan
Hainan is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China . Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, of its land mass is Hainan Island , from which the province takes its name...
coffeeshop as a backdrop, this nostalgic drama explores the Hainanese way of life from the 60s to the 80s.
Long Fu Yuan (Li Wenhai), a Hainanese coffeeshop owner, has two sons (Ah Sing and Ah Zhuo) with his second wife in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
. Long's first wife constantly makes life difficult for his second wife and her sons when they move to Singapore.
Ah Sing (Chew Chor Meng) decides to be sailor in order to avoid her. Not long after Long returns to Hainan Island to retire and Ah Sing is asked to manage the coffeeshop when Long's first wife cannot save the ailing business.