The Rippling Blossom

After the death of the Hong Kong dining mogul YU FAI-WONG, his first wife LANG YUNG-YUNG takes over the whole Tai Wong Restaurant Group. Only a sushi restaurant “Yuet Long Sa” named after his second wife KONG YING-YUET is left behind to YUET and the two sons YU CHI-HIU and YU CHI-YING. HIU is a remarkable Japanese cuisine chef and he takes charge of the restaurant. YING’s mother is the third wife of WONG who died long time ago and YUET treats YING as her own son. On the memorial day of WONG, YUET and her sons meet YUNG and her private nurse CHOI SZ-LONG in front of WONG’s grave. They start arguing with each other naturally. YUNG is jealous that WONG treated them well and she swears that she will take revenge by eliminating “Yuet Long Sa”. HIU accepts YUNG’s challenge and whoever wins the challenge will have the restaurant……

YUNG loses the contest even if she is using fresh fish while HIU is using a frozen fish. YUNG leaves angrily but she doesn’t stop suppressing the business of Yuet Long Sa. While trying to protect HIU from YUNG’s attack, LUNG’s MP3 player is broken and YUNG scolds her angrily. LUNG feels very stressful at work but she tries not to reveal it to her mother HONG SAU-HING. Her only wish is to support her younger brother CHOI SZ-LONG in continuing his studies. HIU tries to fight against YUNG with the help of food critic TONG O. He asks YING to go to Hokkaido and invites CHING to be a fish buyer for them. YING accidentally throws away the doll of CHING’s missing daughter to the sea and CHING is enraged. HIU sends LUNG a new MP3 player. LUNG reveals YUNG’s plan to HIU and this helps HIU’s restaurant to escape from a crisis. While searching for the doll, YING accidentally finds KEUNG dining with her parents……

CHING, YING and KEUNG go to the fish market together. They accidentally discover the doll inside a fish’s body. CHING tries to test YING’s skills by asking him to prepare high-class sushi with second-class fishes. KEUNG plays trick by buying high-class sushi and CHING discovers it. YING goes to look for KEUNG at the hotel. He finds that KEUNG’s parents are leaving and they ask him to reveal the truth to KEUNG. KEUNG realizes everything on her birthday and she is heart-broken. YING consoles her by accompanying her all the way and KEUNG is deeply touched. In order to help YING, KEUNG apologizes to CHING sincerely and CHING finally agrees to be the buyer for them. YUNG scolds LUNG for helping HIU and LUNG feels upset. HIU comes to console LUNG and LUNG feels warm. HIU accidentally discovers that WONG had killed LUNG’s father in a car accident long time ago. HIU used to give money to HING for keeping the secret……

HIU decides to stop seeing LUNG. He stops picking up phone calls from her and he throws away the movie ticket she gave him. YING picks up the movie ticket and he meets LUNG at the cinema. He discovers that LUNG is the one he loved long time ago. HIU refuses to continue dating with LUNG. LUNG leaves and she meets YING in the park. YING cheers her up and HIU witnesses it. CHING’s fishes arrive and this helps to solve the restaurant’s crisis. YUNG brings a celebrity to dine at Yuet Long Sa and the celebrity pretends to be suffering from food poisoning afterwards. This creates a heavy blow to the restaurant’s business. In order to promote the restaurant, YING starts distributing leaflets on the street and he meets KEUNG again. HIU enrolls for a sushi contest organized by the TV station. He practices all the time and hurts his finger accidentally……

With the help of LUNG, HIU discloses to everybody that YUNG is framing their restaurant by asking the celebrity to tell lies. He also reveals to everybody that he is the illegitimate son of WONG and he declares challenge to YUNG. YUET and YING are surrounded by the media all the time and they find it stressful. YUNG lies to LUNG that HIU is the driver who killed her father and he wants her to help fighting against HIU. LUNG gives HIU a chance to reveal the truth but HIU doesn’t speak a word. LUNG eventually decides to support YUNG in fighting against HIU. KEUNG has nowhere to go and she stays in YING’s home temporarily. KEUNG behaves like a princess and everybody finds her funny. YUNG hires HIU’s master LAU CHING-SHAU, the “King of Knives”, to compete with HIU for they used to have conflicts in the past. LUNG meets HIU on the street again and she tries to follow HIU but HIU doesn’t pay attention to her at all……

KEUNG is penniless and she has to walk all the way home. YING is worried for KEUNG is not back at night and he goes out to look for her. KEUNG gives HIU a precious knife that she has been keeping for a long time. HIU develops a new way to cut the squid with the new knife. HIU meets up with LUNG and YING witnesses it accidentally. YING is devastated and KEUNG consoles him. YUNG wants LUNG to ruin the relationship between HIU and YING but LUNG doesn’t want to harm YING. In order to prevent HIU from winning the contest, LUNG lies to YUET that YUNG will ask somebody to cut HIU’s right hand if he wins. LUNG meets YUNG’s son YU CHI-PO who just returns from abroad. YUNG and the other wives used to fight a lot in the past and PO suffered from serious fever because of them when he was just a child.

HIU loses the contest because of his family members’ interruptions. After the contest, LUNG reveals to HIU that she is actually taking a revenge on him. HIU is enraged and he tries to air his anger over the others. He fights with YING and scolds KEUNG harshly. KEUNG leaves the house angrily but she eventually manages to find the way home with YING’s Commoner’s Manual. YUNG takes over Yuet Long Sa. YUET tries not to fight with YUNG but YUNG still slaps YUET on her face. TONG OH suggests HIU to join the Yee Sushi contest in Japan so as to obtain the franchise and start anew. YING tries to support HIU by becoming his assistant and he prepares sushi rice with KEUNG. After looking at some old photos, KEUNG discovers that a woman called CHIYOKO is related to her real mother and she decides to find her origin by joining the Hokkaido trip. CHIYOKO is a good friend of CHING’s runaway wife but she loses her memory after a serious injury.

LUNG tries to look for HIU in Japan for she has promised YUNG to destroy their plan in exchange for money to cure her mother’s serious liver cirrhosis. CHING is upset for he fails to find his wife. He scolds HIU and the others unreasonably. HIU cannot bear the humiliation and he leaves the house. HIU pays no attention to LUNG. YUNG tries to put a lot of pressure on LUNG. On the contest day, HIU performs satisfactorily but the judge asks him to join a playoff because he is getting the same mark with another contestant. KEUNG chases after the lighting bugs in the countryside for she wants to make a wish. She accidentally finds her mother’s grave. CHING follows the lighting bugs and discovers his wife’s grave as well. He also discovers that KEUNG has been there. HIU and YING finally win the playoff and they become the finalists. HIU reunites with LUNG and he apologizes to LUNG for her father’s death……