siu-min is a "beer girl", who wants to find a (sober) man and settle down. michael (daniel wu) is a well travelled chef, who cannot handle his booze and has a restaurant where no one eats. siu-min takes pity on him and, seeing the chance to hook up with a handsome chap and get her hands on a business, siu-min offers to bale him out of trouble, providing that she can run his restaurant as as cafe during the day. so, a deal is struck, but will they fall in love and will michael get itchy feet and want to set off on more travels etc etc etc...
what we have here is an uninspiring romantic comedy. the narrative is a bit of a mess, forcing its way from one tired cliche to another, creating a relationship which appears neither genuine or natural. there's little, to no, chemistry between wu and yeung and, to be honest, you just don't care about the characters or, even, really like them. surely a cardinal sin in the world of rom-comodia?
a bit of a let down...
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