Her mom stole the dowry. He sells noodles. Singapore's messiest meet-cute.
Set in the late 30s and early 40s, this telemovie sees Xiang Gu as a sweet Cantonese lass left in the lurch when her matchmaker mom absconds with the tontine funds. Hokkien mee seller Ah Ba comes to her rescue and the rest is a refreshing romantic comedy.
Acting
Fann Wong's breakthrough sweetness before she became regional royalty.
Production
Painstaking 1930s Singapore street recreation on telemovie budget.
Writing
Code-switching dialogue that trusts audiences to keep up.
Director
Daisy Chan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tontines (hui) were illegal rotating credit associations vital to pre-banking Chinese communities; depicting one collapsing was quietly radical for 1997 Singapore television.
Fann Wong and Jason Oh reportedly ad-libbed most of their Hokkien-Cantonese banter after the director encouraged dialect authenticity over script fidelity.
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