‘Prodigy Chef’ - MA YUI learns that his boss, a Chinese restaurant owner CHUI will come for dinner, so he prepares some of the restaurant specialties for him. CHUI appreciates his cooking and feels sad about his son SHEUNG YAU. Two years later, after CHUI’s funeral, the present chef for the restaurant goes on strike. SHEUNG YAU kicks him out and says that he can handle the restaurant. This comforts his mother KUK. CHUI’s illegitimate daughter GEE) inherited half of the restaurant. She is wondering whether she should give up teaching to run the restaurant. SHEUNG YAU is not interested in running the restaurant. His uncle JOE suggests he should sell it and tells him that someone is prepared to buy it for $2 million. The potential buyer is CHUI’s long-term enemy KUNG, the owner of another competing restaurant. When SHEUNG YAU finds out that GEE holds half of the restaurant shares, he tries to persuade her to sell it.… ...

YAU scares off customers, hoping to make GEE give up the restaurant. PUNG suggests hiring YUI to be the chef. GEE finds out that YUI is selling fish soup in a street store. When she invites him to work in her restaurant, he will only consider it if she knows how to make a tasty fish soup. GEE’s friend, YEE suggests her to ask a famous chef SUN. SUN invites his boss, YUEN and two other critics to try his new recipes. They love the dishes and say that no one can beat him in cooking, but this reminds him of his colleague YUI. SUN loves MAY, but she is being difficult. GEE finds out the recipe for fish soup, but YUI still turns her down and annoys her. PUNG tells her that he will be convinced if she mentions CHUI, so she talks to him again but he still turns down her offer even though he is shocked to learn that CHUI is dead.

GEE announces she will give all staff a 30 % pay rise if the restaurant makes a profit. Everyone is excited and works hard. When YAU sees them serving customers well, he feels betrayed and only finds out that they are just acting later. GEE meets YUI during a student home visit. He is reminded of CHUI’s help when he sees her cooking for her student. He agrees to work for her on condition that he is in charge of everything. YUI kicks YAU out of the kitchen when he is not co-operative. YUEN’s daughter, PO is back from Swissland. YUEN asks her to work for him, but she feels awkard as she studied music instead of business which YUEN expected of her. SUN advises her to tell YUEN the truth. YUI moves to Lamma. He is upset when he looks at the wedding ring, which reminds him so much of MAY.

YUI decides to attract more customers with the restaurant’s specials. GEE has also set some rules for the employees. JOE secretly destroys some promotion boards. GEE knows that KUK hates men who have a mistress, so she dares not to tell her her real identity to preserve CHUI’s image. Everyone is late to work on the first day. GEE is forced to deduct their salary. There are not enough crabs in stock. GEE has to rush to Aberdeen to buy some. Finally, the daily income rises. Everyone but YUI is excited. Some customers complain that the dishes PUNG cooked are too small. YUI forces GEE to punish him. She feels awkard and eventually PUNG leaves. YAU challenges YUI’s cooking in order to keep PUNG. However, YUI wins. GEE asks everyone to admit their wrongdoings if they want to keep PUNG. Meanwhile, KUK arrives and criticises her for firing PUNG.

PUNG tells KUK and GEE that he has wanted to retire for a long time and relieves them. PO gets on to YAU’s boat to take some photographs. He thinks that she is a thief and she accidentally pushes him off the boat. YAU threatens to leave the restaurant if PUNG leaves. YUI scolds him for wasting his cooking talent. Everyone sents PUNG off, but YAU is scared of saying goodbye to him. SUN tells MAY that he likes her a lot, but he reminds her of YUI. She turns him down with excuse. On DONALD’s wedding anniversary party, PO sings a song for him and causes some gossip which annoys YUEN. YAU starts to worry when he does not hear from PUNG after he left. Later he finds out that PUNG did not go back to his home village and starts looking for him. All the employees decide to leave when they see YUI not caring about PUNG.