Be Home for Dinner

Be Home for Dinner (Traditional Chinese: (誰家灶頭無煙火) is an TVB modern sitcom series. Synopsis Chung Kwok-Chu (Elliot Ngok) is a renowned food critic and an assistant editor-in-chief of a newspaper, Ko Jim Daily. When his son, Si-Hon (Jason Chan) returns from Canada, Chu is disappointed to find that Si Hon intends to become a chef rather than taking up a professional career. His attempts to guide his son away are thwarted when Shum Bui-yee (Kristal Tin), a well-known and respected chef, reluctantly accepts Si-Hon as her assistant. At the Chung household, Chu has to face his bickering younger brother Kwok-Tung (Stephen Au) and Si-Hon's aunt, Suen Ma-lei (Yvonne Lam), his second wife Dau Kwai Sum (Helen Ma) who worries that she is not doing enough as a stepmother, and how children, half-siblings Si-Hon and Si-Nga (Katy Kung) do not understand fine foods as he does. As members of his family manage to find a way to get along, Chu and his family find that friends and co-workers changing their family dynamic again. Cast Elliot Ngok as Chung Kwok-chu, Sam's father, a magazine editor-in-chief Jason Chan as Si Hon "Sam" Chung, an aspiring pastry chef Kristal Tin as Carmen Sum (Sum Bui-yee), Sam's master Stephen Au as Chung Kwok-tung, Kwok-chu's younger brother Seth Leslie as Joe Smith, Sam's best friend from Canada Yvonne Lam as Mari Suen, Kwok-chu's sister-in-law from his first marriage, Sam's maternal aunt Helen Ma as Dau Kwai-Sum, Chu's second wife and Si-Na's mother, Sam's stepmother Katy Kung as Si Nga "Julia" Chung, Sam's younger half-sister Queenie Chu as Jackie Yeung Océane Zhu as Susan Nin Becky Lee as Tong Jing-jing (Sum Hoi-yee), a freelance writer, revealed to be Carmen's estranged younger sister Dickson Lee as Chin Dai-kwan Mat Yeung as Tin Hoi Lily Ho as Tseun Ding-kei, a dedicated writer