Taste of Life

For other uses, see Taste of Life (disambiguation).

Taste of Life (Chinese: 甘味人生; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kambi jinseng; literally "Sweet Taste of Life") is a Taiwanese Hokkien television drama that began airing on SET Taiwan in Taiwan on 28 July 2015, from Mondays to Fridays.^[1]

Taste of Life
Chinese	甘味人生
Hokkien POJ	Kam-bī Jîn-seng
Genre	Taiwanese drama
Written by	Chu Guo Chen Hao Huang Yuqin Xiang Qi
Screenplay by	Chen Hui Zhen , Lai Wan Rong
Directed by	Lui Jian-Li Chen Jun-Ren Liao Feihong Zhang Yiteng
Starring	Wang Shih-hsien Athena Lee Yen Eric Huang Angel Han Vicky Tseng Carolyn Chen
Country of origin	Taiwan
Original language	Taiwanese Hokkien
No. of episodes	491 (original run) 1100 (overseas version)
Production
Executive producers	Kuo Chien-Hung Yu Weizhong
Running time	150 minutes on Monday-Thursday, 135 minutes on Friday (with commercial breaks)
Production companies	Shenghua Entertainment Communication Co. Ltd. TransWorld Production Co.
Original release
Network	SET Taiwan
Release	July 28, 2015 (2015-07-28) – June 14, 2017 (2017-06-14)

Synopsis

Chu-Tsai, Chao and his wife have five children. Devoted all his life into developing soy sauce products, Chu-Tsai very much hopes that one of his kids can follow his footsteps and take over his business, but he also respects their own passions and aspirations. Because of their father's invention dream, the Chao brother's lives are about to change...

Cast

• Wang Shih-hsien as Zhao Xinda
• Athena Lee Yen as Chen Yixuan and Jiang Jiang hao
• Eric Huang as Zhao Yingkai
• Angel Han as Yang Zixin
• Vicky Tseng as Zhou Xiaojing
• Franco Chiang as Jiang Da Tong
• Carolyn Chen as Jiang Qian Qian
• Lung Shao-hua as King
• Miao Ke-li as Kayla (cameo)
• Frankie Huang as Hsien Ge (cameo)
• Grace Lin as Yan Qiao Ling
• Angus Hiseh as Gao Ke Wei
• Cocco Wu as An Chen Xi and Chen Yi Mei
• Norman Chen as Li Jia Liang and Zhuge Yu
• Chunya Chao as Luo Shou Zhen
• James Chen as Li Jia Ming
• Margaret Wang as Wang Le Le
• Ruby Lin as Gao Yuan Yuan
• Nic Chang as Shi Da Lin
• Elissa Liao as Lai Tian Jie
• Joyce Yu as Weng Mei Ji and Lin Qiu Ping
• Serene Wang as Liu Ya Lin
• Leo Ting as Huang Wen Chang

Broadcast

Network	Country	Airing Date	Timeslot
SET Taiwan	Taiwan	July 28, 2015	Monday to Thursday 8:00-10:30 pm Friday 8:00-10:15 pm
Drama SET		August 4, 2015	Monday to Thursday 8:00-10:30 pm Friday 8:00-10:15 pm
Jia Le Channel	Singapore	April 14, 2016	Monday to Friday 7:00-9:15 pm
Mediacorp Channel 8		November 7, 2018	Monday to Friday 4.30-5.30 pm Tuesday to Saturday 4.00-5.00 am
Astro Hua Hee Dai	Malaysia	July 24, 2016	Sunday 4:30-6:30 pm
Echannel VTVCab 5	Vietnam	September 1, 2016	Everyday 6:00-8:00 pm

International broadcast

Singapore broadcast

The series was broadcast on weekdays from 4.30pm to 5.30 pm due to local broadcast laws prohibiting radio or television broadcasts in Chinese dialects, the show was dubbed into Mandarin when it aired on Singapore's MediaCorp Channel 8, thus making it the first channel to broadcast the show in Mandarin.

Repeat Telecast (2019)

It repeated its run from Tuesday - Saturday from 4.00am to 6.00am, succeeding Mom's House. From 12 Jun 2020, it air from 4.00am to 5.00am, airing the previous weekday episode.

Repeat Telecast (2023)

It repeated its run from 14 September 2023 at 11.30am , succeeding Spring Flower which ended the same day. From 18 September 2023, it air from 10.30am to 12.30pm, airing 2 episodes.