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Core Family Members
[edit]Lee Family
[edit]Bing's, Han’s, and Choi Yiu’s parents
[edit]| Father Lee 李父 | |||||||||||||
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| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||
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unamed Lee or Father Lee 李父 (played by ?) The father of both Lee Biu Bing and Lee Biu Han. His name is not known. A rich mainland man who had an affair with another woman (Bing’s mother) even though he was already married to another woman (Han’s mother). He died of in the mainland and most of his family’s money were spent on medical treatment which failed.
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| Portrayed by | 胡芳齡 | ||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||
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Bing's mother 炳母 (Played by 胡芳齡) Char Siu Bing's and Choy Yui's mother. She was the mistress of Bing's father who legal wife was still alive when he and she had Char Siu Bing and Choi Yui. She died of liver cancer or some other kind of ailment. During her illness Char Siu Bing went and begged his father and step-mother for money to help her. Her step mother wouldn't allow it and she added rather mean to Char Siu Bing and his sister Choi Yiu. Before death, she had Char Siu Bing and Leung Yun Shin married as a method to keep her alive Chong Hei.
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| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||
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Han's mother 漢母 (Played by ?) Biu Lang Han's mother. She was the wife of Bing and Han's father. Her husband had another woman outside of the family and with her she had Char Siu Bing and Choy Yui. From Char Siu Bing point of view, she was a wicked woman and once when he came to ask his father and her for money to save his mother life. She wouldn't allow it and when Choy Yiu tried to eat a bowl of rice from the kitchen table, she screamed at her. Char Siu Bing left and that when Han and Bing's hatred for each other began. The real reason why she didn't allowed her husband to lend the money herself was because they were in debt themself, having to pay for her husband's illness. She died in poverty or in jail and Han ended up in jail. Her ashes were later brought Hong Kong to be buried next to her rival and her husband.
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| Portrayed by | Lau Dan (劉 丹) | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | May 15, 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | November 13, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Lee Biu Bing
[edit]Bing 炳 (Full name Lee Biu Bing 李標炳, often called Char Siu Bing 叉燒炳 by his family members. Played by Lau Dan)- The head of the family who operates the restaurant and makes Chinese BBQ food for a living. Bing's parents died at a young age and he had to take care of his sister Choi Yui by working as an apprentice Chinese BBQ shop butcher.
Lee Tiem Fuk
[edit]| Lee Tiem Fuk 李添福 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Chang Chi Kwong (蔣志光) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | May 15, 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | November 13, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ah Fuk 阿 福 (Full name Lee Tiem Fuk 李添福. Nicknamed Si Nai Fuk 師奶福 or House Wife Fuk because of his nosiness like a housewife. Played by Chang Chi Kwong)- Eldest son of Bing and Auntie Shin. He is the only uneducated son in the family due to a lack of financial resources, and this has made Auntie Shin and Bing feel guilty from time to time. He chose to help out his parents in their restaurant and allow his other sibling to attend school. His wife Wing Kum is highly protective of him and their son, Lok Lok. His gullibility has led him into troubles in the series from time to time, including getting married to his second wife (A scheming woman from the mainland) after Wing Kum died. Their relationship soon turn into true love for each other and he gave her $ 90,000 Hong Kong Dollar and 10,000 American Dollar to escape to Taiwan.
Lee Zhi Lok
[edit]| Lee Zhi Lok 李子樂 | |||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Luis Oh (伍啟銓) | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||
| Last appearance | November 13, 1999 | ||||||||||||
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Lok Lok 樂樂 (Full name Lee Zhi Lok 李子樂. Played by Luis Oh) - Talented son of Fuk and Wing Kum. Grandson of Bing and Auntie Shin. He is very enthusiastic towards his education. He knows that his parents work really hard and try to support him in the education field, and hope he gets into a high well known famous school. In the later on episodes, he was discovered of having liver problems. He was saved thanks to his mother. His father married again to Si Kum, who at first pretended to like him in order to get in on the Lee's money. He was kidnapped once by the his step-mother's brother and mother.
Lee Daw Foon
[edit]| Lee Daw Foon 李多歡 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Kenix Kwok (郭可盈) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Dai Ma 大孖 (Joyce) (literally the elder twin, full name Lee Daw Foon 李多歡. Played by Kenix Kwok) - The other twin daughter of Bing and Shin who Sei Ma is intensely jealous of. Her fiercely independent nature led her to leave the family years ago to pursue her own overseas studies. Upon returning to HK, she worked in a fashion company with her brother. She left early in the series, after getting married to an ex-policeman Bong and migrating to the UK. She is remembered for her stubbornness (some would call it determination).
Fung Chun Bong
[edit]| Fung Chun Bong 馮振邦 | |||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Sunny Chan (陳錦鴻) | ||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||
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Bong (Full name Fung Chun Bong. Played by Sunny Chan)- Dai Ma's husband, whom is an ex-policeman. While a policeman, he was shot in the chest and while recovering he met Dai Ma. Dai Ma and Bong immigrated to England and they have a daughter.
Lee Daw Yun
[edit]| Lee Daw Yun 李多欣 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Florence Kwok (郭少芸) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sei Ma 細孖 (literally the little twin, full name Lee Daw Yun 李多欣. Played by Florence Kwok) - One of the two twin daughters of Bing and Shin. She did not do very well in school, but she holds a high position at a bank, and is married to a wealthy businessman who went broke in the middle of the series. She is also a mother of a young daughter, Puet Puet. She is sometimes a bit demanding, although she is well-liked by all the members of the family. (As contrasted with her twin sister, whom Bing dislikes.) She had problems with her "Upper-class Mother-in-law" and sister-in-law at the beginning of the series, especially when she was on the verge of having a divorce with Ching Hwa.
Lee Tiem On
[edit]| Lee Tiem On 李添安 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Hawick Lau (劉愷威) | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||||
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On Jai 安仔 (Andy) (Full name Lee Tiem On 李添安. Played by Hawick Lau)- The youngest son of Bing and Shin, he is a college graduate who works in the same company as his sister Dai Ma. He is quite cheerful and treats others well. His good looks often gets him into a lot of love entanglements. His love affair with Joan, the sister of his boss stretches through the entire series. During the middle of the series when Joan left, he still manage to find other girlfriends. When Keng and Ah Loi were separated for a while, there were a slight hint of a relation sparking, But Ah Loi came back in time and even if On Jai would have made a move, Keng would have said no. He gets involved in a love triangle with Joan and a spiteful girl Joon Joon at the end of the series, before finally marrying Joan in the finale. (His dad on the show is actually his real dad)
Lee Choi Yiu
[edit]| Lee Choi Yiu 李彩瑤 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Angie Cheung (張慧儀) | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||
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Choi Yiu 彩瑤 (Full name Lee Choi Yiu 李彩瑤. Played by Angie Cheung with no beauty mark on her upper lip) - First wife of Hoi; Bing's younger sister. She has a close and affectionate bond to her niece Dai Ma, who is of a very similar temperament. Initially a wild and irresponsible unmarried mother, she left HK in the early part of the series to seek help in curing her Stomach Cancer. Upon returning, Hoi was in a relationship with Auntie Ho's daughter Seung-Seung. She married Hoi eventually, and changed into a loving and caring wife and mother. Both she and Seung Seung, at the same time, were pregnant with Hoi’s baby. Choi Yiu lost her child due to her cancerous condition which she had tried to hide from Hoi because she didn’t want to lose the child. Unknown to her until months prior to her death, her child had died while both she and Seung Seung were in labor. Seung Seung had felt sorry for her and exchanged the dead child with hers. She had him named Ho Ying, and the only other person who knew about this exchange was Auntie Shin. Most unfortunately she died during a bandit attack in Mainland China after she had lost a lucky charm that Auntie Ho had given her. While in the Mainland, during a bus ride home to Hong Kong, they were robbed by armed thiefs. Everything they had was stolen from them and before leaving the thiefs shot Choi Yiu in the stomach. Nobody noticed until the blood started staining her clothes. The family tried rushing her to a hospital in Guangzhou, but they were penniless at the time. Choi Yiu died before the blood could be given to her after Auntie Ho sell Choi Yiu’s pearl necklace that Hoi had given her. Hoi takes care of Choi Yiu's young daughter after Choi Yiu's death.
Guan Guan
[edit]| Guan Guan 君君 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | (陳青文) | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||||||
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Guan Guan 彩瑤 (Full name Lee Choi Yiu 李彩瑤. Played by 陳青文) – Daughter of Choi Yiu with her first husband. She feels unwanted because her biological father had left her and her mother died leaving her with Hoi. When Gwai, her mom’s look alike, came along, she did all tricks to try to get her attention. Once when she hurt herself, Hoi begged Gwai to act as Choi Yiu to make her feel better. Guan Guan proved to be smarter than they think and told her that she knew she wasn’t her mother. Gwai became her step-mother. After her step-grandmother, Auntie Mei, came, Guan Guan started misbehaving and stop listening to Gwai. After Gwai was pregnant, Mei’s attention shifting toward Gwai because of the possibilities of having a biological grandson. When the her uncle (Hoi’s brother) went broke, and Mei went blind and became a hateful old lady, Guan Guan took her brother Ho Ying and went back to Gwai.
Biu Lang Han (Nickname. Real name Lee Biu Han. Played by Kenneth Tsang)- Step-brother of Bing and Choi Yiu. He came to Hong Kong from the Mainland in the middle of the show, and brought along three grown-up children. He had a major misunderstanding with Bing and Choi Yiu years ago when Bing and Choi Yiu's father left them and their mother for Biu Han's mother, but the issue was eventually resolved. Biu Han had a short romance with Auntie Ho, but left HK after he realised that Auntie Ho's true love was not him, but Melvin.
- Siu Mui (Full name Lee Siu Mui. Played by Lam Yi Kei)- The sister of Ji Ho. Siu Mui is somewhat the personification of Mainlander Chinese stereotypes in Hong Kong at the time: old-fashioned, poor fashion tastes, speaks Cantonese with an accent, and lives with a housewife mentality. Aunt Ho helps Siu Mui speak better Cantonese after several other people make fun of Siu Mui's accent. Siu Mui was eventually attached to a chauvinistic Martial Arts mentor Mok. (Jing's elder brother; Dai Sing and Wing Kum's childhood neighbour.)
- Ji Lik (Full name Lee Ji Lik. Nickname Dai Lik ("Strong") Played by Wei Ga Hung)- The little brother of Ji Ho. He is a rather nerdy character, and had a minor role in the show, besides having a brief ambiguous relationship with Keng while Keng's true love Loi was away. After Ji Ho's death, Ji Lik went to Shanghai to start a business and transformed into a successful and confident businessman. Also getting a girlfriend along the way.
Liang Family
[edit]Leung Yao
[edit]| Leung Yao 梁友 | |||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Kwan Hoi Shan 關海山 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | 1999 | ||||||||||
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Leung Yao 梁友 (Played by the late Kwan Hoi Shan 關海山)- Long lost husband of Grandma Ga, who ran away to Vietnam long ago, after his business failed. He was eventually reunited with his wife in the middle of the show. He had an affair with a Vietnamese woman during the time he was away from his father. He secretly has a son.
Nguyen Men Guen
[edit]Grandma Ga or Ah Ga 阿家 (Full name Nguyen Men Guen 阮文娟. Played by Lai Je)- Auntie Shin's mother, known for her feistiness and hard-to-get-along characteristics. She was born in a wealthy family and the only evidence of that former wealth is her attitude and her servant, Auntie Yung. She had mistreated Yung before but she remained silent. Ga came through and Yung became her best friend who she tried to treat as an equal. When Yung became rich, Ga did not throw a fit and started acting liked Yung servant in some sorts, but constantly asked “I thought I was the mistress”. She and Leung Yao shares separate beds probably because of their age.
Leung Yun Shin
[edit]- Auntie Shin 善姨 (Full name Leung Yun Shin 梁潤善. Played by Louise Li)- Wife of Bing. A typical housemaker who took care of her children carefully and fed them for many years. Auntie Shin is often the voice of reason and is the confidant of several characters in the series.
Leung Yun Choi
[edit]- Yun Choi 潤才 or Ah Choi 阿 才 (Full name Leung Yun Choi 梁潤才. Played by Lao Nam Kwong- Leung Yao and Grandma Ga's son, Auntie Shin and Auntie Ho's brother, who has a shop selling watches and clocks in Canada. He has a wife who is half-Caucasian, and a rebellious teenage daughter. He went back to Canada with his family after Dai Ma and her husband left the show.
Leung Ga Ming
[edit]- Vietnamese 越南 (Full name Leung Ga Ming 梁家明. Played by Wong Tak Bun) - Leung Yao's long-lost illegitimate son from Vietnam. Sensible and hardworking, he resembles Auntie Shin in character more than his half brother Yuen Choi and half sister Auntie Ho. He appears at the end of the series to acknowledge Leung Yao as his father, and has a turbulent relationship with an intelligent and pretty doctor, Chiu, who is the elder sister of Joon Joon.
Yung Mu
[edit]- Auntie Yung 容姨 (Full name Yung Mu 容 妹. Played by Tam Sin Hung)- Has served the family, in particular Grandma Ga, for decades in silence. The Lee family treats her as if she is a part of the family.
Leung Yun Ho
[edit]- Auntie Ho 好姨 (Full name Leung Yun Ho 梁潤好. Played by Nancy Sit)- Leung Yao and Grandma Ga's youngest daughter and sister of Auntie Shin and Yuen Choi. She was sold by her parents to an old Mainland Chinese while they were in financial trouble a long time ago. At a young age she would always answered Ok (Ho 好) to every thing hence her name. On the day Grandma Ga and Leung Yao were planning to sell her they try giving her everything she wanted, asking her if she wanted to go out and eat, buy new clothes, and etc. Auntie Ho, therefore, bears a significant grudge against her parents and resent them for neglecting her when she was younger in favour of Shin and Choi (this eventually subsided though). She is like a mirror image of Grandma Ga. Working in many different occupations, she is quite feisty and prone to shopping and spending her boyfriend’s cash. Her love interests include Melvin, aka "mao see" (literally cat poop) (Upper Class in law's younger brother), Biu-Lang-Hon (Bing's elder brother), and a doctor, Shan Ching, whose characteristics is not very different from Seymour Skinner on US Cartoon Series The Simpsons.
Tong Family
[edit]Tong Ren Ning
[edit]Ren Ning 永年 (Full name Tong Ren Ning 唐永年) Played by ? – Auntie Ho’s first husband and second love. He was thirty years older than Auntie Ho when she had been forced to marry him at the age of sixteen, making him 46 years old. She had been pregnant with Lap Sang prior to this marriage, and she lied that Lap Sang was his. He worked as a traditional Chinese doctor in the Mainland and because of this Lap Sang followed him in becoming a doctor. He and Auntie Ho’s only biological child was a daughter named Tong Lai Seung. Auntie Ho reveals to Biu Lang Han her affection for Ren Ning was only fatherly. While living, Ren Ning had not allowed Auntie Ho to ever eat herself full because he believed that a man shouldn’t give a full meal to his wife before she reaches 50. It was reveal in a flashback that one night when Auntie Ho, probably in her 20s or 30s when Seung Seung was still young, was given a full meal to eat by Ren Ning. Auntie Ho thinking this would be the perfect time to reveal Lap Sang’s true paternity, casually did so. Ren Ning was so shocked that he died from a ruptured blood vessel.
- Lap Sang (Full name Tong Lap Sang. Played by Marco Lo)- The most educated person in the family and is the son of Auntie Ho and her long-lost lover (who is a scammer). This biological father of his tried to expose his true identity as a son born out of wedlock but failed. When Lap Sang returns from medical school in the UK, he is romantically linked to Rebecca (often called "Banana" by Auntie Ho). Eventually, Lap Sang marries Melvin's daughter, Sharon, after Sharon gets pregnant. Rebecca is twisted and jealous and sets up to ruin Lap Sang and Suet. He is a doctor who eventually was convicted of manslaughter and served time in prison. Since that time, he went through a transformation and rehabilitated his reputation. He is remembered for his romance with a social worker, whose trials and tribulations was portrayed right up to the end of the series. This social worker, Jing, became his second wife.
- Seung Seung (Full name Tong Lai Seung. Played by Law Lum)- Half-sister of Lap Sung. She is the daughter of Auntie Ho and her husband, a rich doctor. Once sold into an arranged marriage by Auntie Ho, Seung Seung's first love was Hoi, even though Hoi had already been courting Choi Yiu for many years while they were growing up in the Lee family. Hoi, however, never took a chance with her, and Seung Seung eventually married Kwok Qiu, an elderly doctor, and left for the US. Seung Seung and Hoi had a baby, whom she cannot bring herself to acknowledge. Hoi and Choi Yiu, and later Gwai after Choi Yiu's death, would take care of this child, treating him like their own.
Yung Family
[edit]Hoi 海 or Ah Hoi 阿海 (Full name Yung Heung Hoi 容向海. Played by Ben Wong)- Adopted son of Auntie Yung. His biological mother, from whom he was separated from during a big fire in the city slum, is the wife of a wealthy Malaysian Chinese tycoon. Hoi eventually is a part owner in a construction material company.
- Shan 新 阿新 (Full name Yung Heung Shan 容向新. Played by Ben Wong)-He was the look alike brother of Hoi. He is a wealthy Malaysian and helped out Hoi in some tight money situation once. There mother, Mei, like him better but she feel she owes Hoi. He has four wives the maximum number under the law of Malaysia. His four wives are all from wealthy Malaysian families. He lives with his wives and mother and they would constantly argue. After Mei went blind, he pushed the responsibility of taking care her to his brother. Beside the blindness, another reason was that the family had went broke after the Malaysian government started prohibiting the cutting of lumber. Hoi had not believed Ya Nam when he try telling him beforehand and Hoi was the main reason of the family bankruptcy. Shan was able to restart his business with the money from his In-laws.
- Gwai 貴 Ah Gwai 阿貴 (Full name Ng Fong Gwai 吳芳貴. Played by Angie Cheung)- Second wife of Hoi, who looks very similar to Choi Yiu (in fact, the two characters were played by the same actress, who needed a break from the show during its production). She became Bing's god-sister, before marrying Hoi. Her questionable (some say downright lacking) ethics have brought her into various disputes throughout the series.
- Keng (Full name Yu Keng 余瓊 and birth name 容小玲 often called 玲玲 by Auntie Yong prior to their reunion. Played by Yuen King Dan)- Auntie Yong's long-lost daughter, who eventually married the eldest son of Datuk Gui. Her mental capacity was impaired after a serious illness in her youth, leading her to be called "Idiot Keng 低B瓊" as a running gag although she prove to be as capable as anyone else in family. Keng and Gwai were brought up by the same foster mother.
- Ji Ho (Full name Lee Ji Ho. Played by Chang Tse Sheng)- The most memorable villain of the story. He came to Hong Kong along with Biu Lang Han, but he is the biological son of Auntie Yung. Greed drove him to commit unthinkable deeds including kidnapping and murder, even the destruction of his own family. Ji Ho's death at the hands of the police was one of the most celebrated events in the show's long history, and was well remembered by many people. This character is so successful that the actor who played this character has never played a protagonist in any movies or drama shows ever since Ji Ho's much celebrated death.
Relatives and Other Members
[edit]Lau Family (Upper Class In-Laws)
[edit]- Ching Hwa (Played by Law Siu Kwan)- The husband of Sei Ma. He is a philandering wealthy businessman who was victimized by a business partner jealous of his marriage to Sei Ma. He went broke as a result, but managed to salvage his broken marriage with Sei Ma. He set up a business with Hoi after his bankruptcy, and returned to wealth.
- The Upper Class In-Law (Played by Gung Yu)- Ching Hwa's mother. Although her real name is not well known, she is widely remembered in the series as the upper-class person because of her initial discriminatory view towards less wealthy persons, in addition to commoner cultures and customs that she considered as "undesirable" for her and her aristocratic cabals. The attitudes, however, somewhat subsided after the family went broke and it came back in small waves soon afterwards. She had a love for bird nest soup which her niece May May find cheap.
- Ching Wun- Rich, initially snobbish, and highly educated, Ching Wun's love for Dai Sing was strong enough for her to decide to leave her upper-class life behind to marry Dai Sing, who couldn't provide much for her and their two children. She had to work in Sei Ma's bank as a teller eventually to support her own family, after having spent her whole life living off her rich Upper-Class Mother and brother Ching Hwa. Dai Sing and her would provide lots of comic relief sporadically throughout the series.
- Melvin - The Upper Class In-Law's younger brother would return from Canada a few years after his wife, Vicky, runs away with all his money. Melvin is a photographer and later gets a job as a fashion photographer at Helen's clothing company and works with On Jai. At first Melvin and Auntie Ho do not get along, but the two later have a brief romance. Auntie Ho calls Melvin "mao see".
- Sharon - Sharon, who is Melvin's daughter, was blinded during childhood and is able to regain her sight after Auntie Ho's son, Lap Sang, performs eye surgery on Sharon. She therefore falls in love with Lap Sung and marries her, but unfortunately the marriage was extremely ill-fated and ended up with the death of Rebecca, Sharon's miscarriage and loss of memory, and Lap Sung becoming a cripple. She gets her happy ending eventually though, after regaining her memories, and ends up with a promising young student back in New York (US) named Samson, who ironically is a medical student.
- Sophie Upper Class In-law and Melvin's younger cousin. The mother of the obnoxious May May, and the second wife of the rich and nasty Datuk Gui. May May and her were chased out of Datuk Gui's family when Datuk Gui found out that May May wasn't his own biological daughter. Years later, just when Datuk Gui was finally going to forgive her, she gets involved in a horrible car accident that killed her right before she could reunite with Datuk Gui.
Chan Family
[edit]Wing Kum 詠琴 or Ah Kum 阿 琴 (Full name Chan Wing Kum 陳詠琴. Played by Louisa So)- The daughter-in-law of the Lee family. Wing works at a spa and is sometimes giving facials. She died after her liver got infected after donating half her liver to her son Lok Lok. Her death was an extremely tragic arc in the show, even more so than Choi Yiu's death. She died singing to a favourite children song of Lok Lok's which she was hearing while no one else could. She had plan a great future for herself, Lok Lok and Fuk in England with Dai Ma. But this plan never came into being with her death. Later it was planned by Si Kum and Fuk but it also never occurred.
- Dai Sing (Full name Chan Dai Sing. Played by Ngan Kwok Leung) - Elder brother of Kum, who did some time in prison for a crime that he wasn't guilty of before he appears on the show. He has since operated a tea stand in the restaurant. He is best remembered for his marriage (And turbulent married life) to Upper-class In-law's highly educated and feisty daughter, Ching Wun. Dai Sing and Ching Wun have a son and a daughter.
- Ah Nan 阿 蘭 (Played by Cheng Siu Ping 鄭少萍) – Mother of Dai Sing and Kum. She opens a shop that she Shrimp Sauce in Changzhou which explain her nickname Shrimp Sauce In-Law 蝦醬親家. She taught Dai Sing and Kum, from very small age, to be pickpockets. She would do anything to help her family
Lim Family
[edit]- Mok Chun 木川- (Full name Lim Mok Chun 林木川. Played by 楊英偉.) A stunt double who was Jing’s older brother. He was a gambler and later gave it up after Jing’s coma. He fell in love with Siu Mui but never took the care to show it except for sometimes. He had a daughter with his first wife Fanny.
- Fanny- (Played by 劉玉翠.) First wife of Mok Chun, married him when she was sixteen year old after Mok Chun got her pregnant. Due to her age she had to have her parents permission to be married. She was as ill responsible as Mok Chun and took no time to care for their daughter. She left Mok Chun and her daughter but she still remained his legal wife. She came back in the middle of the show to join the family, and she was still as ill responsible. After she saw that Siu Mui had taken her place in the heart of her daughter and husband, she divorced Mok Chun and left.
- Jing 靜- (Full name Lim Jing Chun 林靜川. Nicknamed Lim Mui Mui 林妹妹. Played by 彭子晴.) A pretty social worker who has a slightly turbulent courtship with Lap Sung. She eventually becomes pregnant with his baby. During her pregnancy, she is beaten into a coma by the lover of Fuk's scheming second wife, who married Fuk only because she was after the family's money. Jing eventually woke up from her coma and became Lap Sung's second wife. (His first wife was Upper-class In-law's niece, Sharon)
- Kang Bo (Uncle Kang) 康伯 (Full name Kang _____ (康展維). Played by the late 鮑 方.) Doctor and God-Father of Jing. Formerly ran a clinic in his van. His son had died because of the pressure he had given him. His son’s only friend was Jing and she had reveal to him his son’s pressure and feelings. After his son’s death, he had quitted his job as a professional doctor and adopted Jing as his goddaughter. He is great friends with Lee Biu Bing, Leung Yao, and Gui Datuk. His memories started getting out of hands prior to Jing’s coma, and he can’t tell who is who is, except for Jing and Lap Sang. He reveal in a journal that his wish was to always remember them because they were his only family left. His mismatching of persons’ name was a running gag after that and he would constantly forget that Jing was in a coma.
Gao Family
[edit]- Principal In-law 高校長 (Full name Yep Jin Jin 葉貞貞.) The hard-to-get-along, highly principled without being nasty or unreasonable retired principal who eventually became Auntie Ho's mother-in-law. Grandma hates her because of how she refused to allow Auntie Shin to date Principal Gao's son Shan Ching many years ago while they were neighbours.
- Shan Ching Auntie Ho's husband. Old and unmarried; very afraid and controlled by his own mother Principal Gao, he eventually falls in love with Auntie Ho after a long period of time where they would tease and squabble with each other. It took a long time for Principal Gao to finally allow him to marry Auntie Ho, and it is ironic because of what happened in the past with Auntie Shin and Grandma.
- ah Mun Shan Tseng's step-sister. A very capable businesswoman with business dealings with Hoi and Ching Hwa. She got into a breakdown after finding out that her boyfriend was gay, and that her real mother wasn't Principal Gao, but someone else who died many years ago. She finds solace with Hoi, who was having serious problems with his marriage to Gwai at that time. In the grand tradition of the show, she leaves HK for a better life, thus making an exit from the messy love triangle and the show.
Wang Family
[edit]Wang Si Kum
[edit]| Wang Si Kum 王思琴 | |||||||||||||
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| A Kindred Spirit character | |||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Fiona Yuen 袁彩雲 | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||
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Si Kum (Full name Wang Si Kum 王思琴) Played by Fiona Yuen 袁彩雲 - The second wife of Fuk. She is the fake sister of Wang Ren Fat and she is an evil woman who only likes Fuk because of his money. She and Fat had a baby. She lied to Fuk saying that the baby was his. That was impossible because Fuk had did surgery to make him no longer able to father a child. Later she blamed it on a thief who raped her. This thief had tried to rob Si Kum and Wun on a ride back home after they been drinking with a manager of a facial product. The child was miscarried after the family found out about what she had been up to all along. She acts innocent in most of the scenes until later on when Auntie Shin finds out she has something to do with the hostage of Lok Lok and also the beat down of Ah Jing. In the course of her days living with the Lee Family, like a virus, she got infected by the true love and care within their family. Near the end some may feel sorry for her. She flees away from the crime after Fuk gave her $ 90,000 Hong Kong Dollar and 10,000 American Dollar to escape to Taiwan. On the boat trip to Taiwan she reveal to someone that she no longer wanted to take shortcuts in live. And she did not plan to marry a rich Taiwanese for money, like what she did with Fuk. She reappears near the finale where she's successfully become a mature woman and is also pregnant.
Wang Ren Fat
[edit]| Wang Ren Fat 王永發 | |||||||||||||
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| A Kindred Spirit character | |||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | 梁建平 | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||||
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Fat 發 (Full name Wang Ren Fat 王永發) Played by 梁建平. The fake brother of Si Kum and her lover during the early part of her marriage to Fuk. He was the childhood friend of Jing, Da Lik, and Mok Chun, and he went to the same Martial Art School as Da Lik and Mok Chun. His first appearance in the middle of the serie was in Shanghai, where he was selling tofu and was working along with Da Lik at his restraunt. He seem pretty innocent a the beginning, just a gambler. He, later, became no just a gambler, but a drug addict/dealer, and murderer. He worked at Sam Da for a time. He beated Jing over the head with a brick, in a dark alley, after a chase. Jing had found the secret about Si Kum and she later went into a coma. Si Kum cry at him to stop and it was from that point on Si Kum saw his truth face. He and Si Kum had a baby who died of a miscarriage. The actor really played the part of a murderer very well, and Fat would be ranked among the high evil villains in the series, after Ji Ho.
Fat’s mother
[edit]| Fat’s mother 發媽 | |||||||||||
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| A Kindred Spirit character | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | 李麗麗 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||||||
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Fat's mother 發媽 Played by 李麗麗. The fake mother of Si Kum. She had two children a son, name Fat, and a daughter name Si Kum. The real Si Kum died as a child and Fat begged her to give her real daughter's I.D. to a girl that he had met in the street resembling his dead sister. She is greedy and two-faced like the entire Wang family and work as a dishwasher at Bing's restraunt for a while. She became drug addict like her son after she took some that Fat had left behind. She and her son live at Fuk's old house, first with Siu Mui, Mok Chun, and Jing and later by themself. She became share-holder of a bar that sells drug and alchohol, along with her son, plus a few other accomplice in Lok Lok's kidnapping. She was not present at Jing's brutal beating, but she was responsible for the death of the girlfriend of one of their accomplice who was the leader of the group. She strangled his girlfriend while she was listening to music in her car while Fat stabbed his boyfriend, few feet away. On the roof of the attempted murder of Fuk and Si Kum, they fought over a bag of drug and scattered it in a fight. Fat picks her mother up and try to throw her down the building. She pull him down along with her and they died from the fall.
Wang Si Kum (real)
[edit]| Wang Si Kum 王思琴 | |||||||
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| A Kindred Spirit character | |||||||
| Portrayed by | ? | ||||||
| First appearance | 199? | ||||||
| Last appearance | 199? | ||||||
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Wang Si Kum 王思琴 Played by ?. The real Si Kum was the younger sister of Fat. She only appeared in pictures. She was childhood friend of Da Lik, Mok Chun and Jing. One noticeable trait of hers was that she had a gigantic mole that covered half her forearm. Later when Jing asked the later Si Kum if she ever removed a mole, she answered no much to her mistake. She became ill at a very young age. Her mother and try to carry her to a doctor. The doctor was the father of a friend of Fat, but he took a look at her. He said that fate was to let her die. (He later was the doctor that refused to help Jing). She died afterwards. The fake Si Kum took her name and identification. She was buried in the backyard of their house. Later Auntie founded out of Si Kum’s death and began to suspect the fake Si Kum.
Datuk Gui Family
[edit]- Datuk Gui (Played by Chor Yuan) An elderly authoritarian and nasty figure from a rich Malaysian family, he ends up being very acquainted with the Lee family whom he used to consider low class when his children get romantically involved with the people from the Lee family. He has two wives, one the understanding, elegant and compassionate mother of Ya Num [Officially his second wife, because his first wife died), the other, the much younger (sometimes referred to as his mistress), initially wild and flamboyant mother of May May, Sophie.
- Ya Loi (Played by David Lui) The eldest son of Datuk Gui. Romantic and irreverent, with a flair for music, he has an extremely turbulent relationship with Keng when he first meets her after running away to HK to avoid getting married to someone his father arranged for. After nearly getting killed by Keng's evil brother Ji Ho, he leaves HK and Malaysia to Vienna where he spent years recovering from his emotional wounds with Keng until the end of the series, where he eventually returns and gets married to Keng.
- Ya Num The second son of Datuk Gui. Stepbrother of Ya Loi. Handsome, smart, capable, he is the perfect man for many. He gets into a love triangle with Hoi and Gwai while working in HK, but Gwai dumped him on the day of their wedding and chose to marry Hoi instead. Ya Num gets his happy ending with the sweet and lovely Ah Muen, who happens to be Ji Ho's ex-girlfriend.
- May May- Spoilt rich daughter of another Malaysian Chinese Tycoon, Datuk Gui, May May turned out to be the illegitimate daughter of Datuk Gui's second wife and another businessman. Best known for her marriage to the main villain of the story, Ji Ho. She became Auntie Yung's unreasonably demanding daughter-in-law. Her feistiness is paralleled only by that of Grandma Ga. Ji Ho later gets a mistress and dumps May May just before Datuk Gui learns that May May is not his daughter. May May tries unsuccessfully to commit suicide (foiled by a pile of garbage bags) during a month birthday of her son, Dan Dan. She meets her match eventually with Chiu and Joon Joon's brother, the eccentric (and equally feisty) Law Sun Moon.
Other characters
[edit]- Helen- Director of a clothing company that Dai Ma and her little brother works in. Her sister, Joan, is entangled in a love affair with Dai Ma's little brother, On Jai. Helen works very hard to build her business and raise Joan. Helen and Keng work together to get money back from a con artist.
- Joan- Girlfriend of On Jai. Their on again, off again relationship is very rocky, and Joan did date a wealthy Thai Chinese businessman during the series as they got into frequent contacts due to his business dealings with Helen in Thailand. The businessman eventually fell in love with her elder sister, Helen. That created another set of comical problems towards the end of the series
- Guy Kwan- Owner of the poultry store that supplies the restaurant with chickens. Guy Kwan is a friend of Fuk and Dai Sing and has a crush on Keng. He also has a gambling addiction and often gets in trouble with loan sharks.
- Ha Foo Cho, Leung Cha Paw- She is known as the lady that sells chinese tea. Her store is right across from the roast pork restaurant. She is old and quiet. Sometimes she drops by the roast pork restaurant and buys roast pork.
- Ah Muen- Shes JI HO's ex girlfriend but eventually married AH LAM. When JI HO kidnaps her, Ah Muen gives birth to a baby boy.
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