Marriage Cuisine


Marriage Cuisine is a Chinese, Korean, and Hong Kong TV drama that premiered in 2014. It is the first Chinese TV series to co-work with South Korean television. With a high budget of 150 000 000 US$, Marriage Cuisine became the number one TV series of 2014, and broke the Chinese viewer status with 200 000 000 viewers in the mainland in only one week.

Plot

Archen and Yangshu are married with one daughter named Taoze. They have been married for 12 years but recently, Yangshu has become too busy with his work as a chemistry professor and has volunteered in a project about a skin cancer cure. However, his work keeps him away from his daughter who needs him in school but since he does not show up, Taoze falls behind in school and has to return home. Archen gets frustrated with Yangshu and makes the decision to divorce him. One year after the divorce, Yangshu becomes famous for his project and Archen starts to have second thoughts as to whether the divorce was a good thing or not. But she finds out that a new woman named Go Go has entered Yangshu's life. Archen decides to forget Yangshu and find a new date. What she doesn't know is that Yangshu secretly wants Archen and his daughter back in his life.

Leading characters

The composed music and the song "Qing Ai De" were performed and written by the famous singer Fan Fan. The song hit the music box office in both China and Hong Kong.
The song "Love Will Keep Us Alive" by The Eagles was used in the dinner scene with Archen and Aiming.
The song "Opa Gangnam Star by Psy" is played when Miss Ma and Taoze are dancing together, and several Frank Sinatra songs are played in almost every restaurant scene.

Books

The plot of the TV series is based on two manga books, A Crazy Housewife and A Good Husband.

Colors

The color blue is used a lot in the background, and some clothes and furniture and some material are a crystal clear blue color. The blue color reflects peace and a clear sky, and everybody has a clean aura except Archen, who never wears or has anything of the color blue on her.