This film tells the story of a widowed, semi-retired Chinese master chef at the Taipei Grand Hotel. Chef Chu and his family are living in modern-day Taipei, Taiwan. At the start of the film, he lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. The oldest child, Jia Jen, is a school teacher nursing a broken heart; the middle child, Jia Chien, is a successful career woman, and the youngest
