Be Home for Dinner

Be Home for Dinner (Traditional Chinese: (誰家灶頭無煙火) is an TVB modern sitcom series.

Be Home for Dinner
Official poster
誰家灶頭無煙火
Genre	Modern Sitcom
Starring	Elliot Ngok Jason Chan Kristal Tin Stephen Au Yvonne Lam Helen Ma Queenie Chu Océane Zhu Becky Lee Matt Yeung Dickson Lee Katy Kung
Original language	Cantonese
No. of episodes	158
Production
Production location	Hong Kong
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes (approx.)
Production company	TVB
Original release
Network	TVB Jade
Release	21 March (2011-03-21) – 30 October 2011 (2011-10-30)
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Synopsis

Chung Kwok-Chu (Elliot Ngok) is a renowned food critic and an assistant editor-in-chief of a newspaper, Ko Jim Daily. When his son, Si-Hon (Jason Chan) returns from Canada, Chu is disappointed to find that Si Hon intends to become a chef rather than taking up a professional career. His attempts to guide his son away are thwarted when Shum Bui-yee (Kristal Tin), a well-known and respected chef, reluctantly accepts Si-Hon as her assistant.

At the Chung household, Chu has to face his bickering younger brother Kwok-Tung (Stephen Au) and Si-Hon's aunt, Suen Ma-lei (Yvonne Lam), his second wife Dau Kwai Sum (Helen Ma) who worries that she is not doing enough as a stepmother, and how children, half-siblings Si-Hon and Si-Nga (Katy Kung) do not understand fine foods as he does. As members of his family manage to find a way to get along, Chu and his family find that friends and co-workers changing their family dynamic again.

Cast

• Elliot Ngok as Chung Kwok-chu, Sam's father, a magazine editor-in-chief
• Jason Chan as Si Hon "Sam" Chung, an aspiring pastry chef
• Kristal Tin as Carmen Sum (Sum Bui-yee), Sam's master
• Stephen Au as Chung Kwok-tung, Kwok-chu's younger brother
• Seth Leslie as Joe Smith, Sam's best friend from Canada
• Yvonne Lam as Mari Suen, Kwok-chu's sister-in-law from his first marriage, Sam's maternal aunt
• Helen Ma as Dau Kwai-Sum, Chu's second wife and Si-Na's mother, Sam's stepmother
• Katy Kung as Si Nga "Julia" Chung, Sam's younger half-sister
• Queenie Chu as Jackie Yeung
• Océane Zhu as Susan Nin
• Becky Lee as Tong Jing-jing (Sum Hoi-yee), a freelance writer, revealed to be Carmen's estranged younger sister
• Dickson Lee as Chin Dai-kwan
• Mat Yeung as Tin Hoi
• Lily Ho as Tseun Ding-kei, a dedicated writer

Awards and nominations

45th TVB Anniversary Awards 2011

• Nominated: Best Drama
• Nominated: Best Actor (Stephen Au)
• Nominated: Best Actress (Kristal Tin)
• Nominated: Best Supporting Actor (Matt Yeung)
• Nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Yvonne Lam)
• Nominated: My Favourite Male Character (Stephen Au)
• Nominated: My Favourite Male Character (Jason Chan)
• Nominated: My Favourite Female Character (Kristal Tin)
• Nominated: Most Improved Male Artiste (Jason Chan)
• Nominated: Most Improved Male Artiste (Matt Yeung)
• Nominated: Most Improved Female Artiste (Katy Kung)

Viewership ratings

	Week	Episodes	Average Points	Peaking Points	References
1	March 21–25, 2011	1 — 5	25	—	[1]
2	March 28–31, 2011	6 — 9	21	—	[2]
3	April 4–8, 2011	10 — 14	24	—	[3]
4	April 11–15, 2011	15 — 19	23	—	[4]
5	April 18–22, 2011	20 — 24	23	—	[5]
6	April 25–28, 2011	25 — 28	23	—	[6]
7	May 2–6, 2011	29 — 33	24	—	[7]
8	May 9–13, 2011	34 — 38	24	—	[8]
9	May 16–20, 2011	39 — 43	24	—	[9]
10	May 23–27, 2011	44 — 48	24	—	[10]
11	May 30 - June 3, 2011	49 — 53	24	—	[11]
12	June 6–10, 2011	54 — 58	25	—	[12]
13	June 13–17, 2011	59 — 63	24	—	[13]
14	June 20–24, 2011	64 — 68	24	—	[14]
15	June 27 - July 1, 2011	69 — 73	24	—	[15]
16	July 4–8, 2011	74 — 78	25	—	[16]
17	July 11–15, 2011	79 — 83	25	—	[17]
18	July 18–22, 2011	84 — 88	24	—	[18]
19	July 25–29, 2011	89 — 93	23	—	[19]
20	August 1–5, 2011	94 — 98	23	—	[20]
21	August 8–12, 2011	99 — 103	23	—	[21]
22	August 15–19, 2011	104 — 108	24	—	[22]
23	August 22–26, 2011	109 — 113	25	—	[23]
24	August 29 - September 2, 2011	114 — 118	25	—	[24]
25	September 5–9, 2011	119 — 123	26	—	[25]
26	September 12–16, 2011	124 — 128	24	—	[26]
27	September 19–23, 2011	129 — 133	25	—	[27]
28	September 26–30, 2011	134 — 138	27	—	[28]
29	October 4–7, 2011	139 — 142	25	—	[29]
30	October 10–14, 2011	143 — 147	25	—	[30]
31	October 17–21, 2011	148 — 152	25	—	[31]
32	October 24–28, 2011	153 — 158	27	—	[32]
	October 30, 2011	159 — 160	27	29	[33]