Hong Kong Stories

The Taste of Youth (44x7)

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Shing is a Meizhou Hakka. Whenever he returns to his ancestral home, his third uncle, a culinary master, would cook an array of Hakka dishes for him, with stir-fried intestines being the most memorable among them. Now working as a chef, Shing is returning to Meizhou for the Lunar New Year in the hope of learning how to make this delicacy. Nonetheless, things don’t always work out according to plan, and the recapturing of the flavours of the past proves to be a challenge. Shing loved returning to his ancestral home when he was young as he enjoyed the liveliness it exuded and the freedom it offered. However, his enthusiasm for going back has waned with age and the various changes in his life. Shing’s mother, on the other hand, rarely returned to her hometown in the past as she had to take care of her family and also put food on the table. Consequently, her son is more familiar with the people and affairs of her hometown than her. However, a series of mishaps which befell her relatives in recent years has led her to go back frequently. Mother and son embark on the same homecoming journey with different moods.