A Hint of You

A Hint of You is a 2013 Taiwanese romantic television series with a food theme produced by Sanlih E-Television, starring, Nana Lee, Danson Tang, , Jay Shih,  and Hans Zhang as the main cast. The Chinese title literally translates to "Taste of Missing You". Filming began on February 14, 2013 and completed on June 25, 2013, the drama was filmed as it aired. First original broadcast began on March 6, 2013 on SETTV, airing on weekdays from 9:00-10:00 pm, with the last of the 68 episodes aired on June 28, 2013. This is SETTV's last drama to air during its weekday 9:00-10:00 pm timeslot before it was obsoleted to air variety programs instead.

Synopsis
Xia Qing You works as a cook at her small family owned seafood restaurant that was started by her late father. She is unaware that the dishes she creates are subpar, until Fu Zai Yu dines at her restaurant one evening and harshly criticizes her cooking. Not taking his comments well, she, her family and regular patrons at the restaurant out number Zai Yu in his argument. One day a VIP customer who was a regular patron of her father reserves the entire restaurant and pays top dollars to taste a lobster dish he had eaten when her dad was running the restaurant. After tasting Qing You's dishes he is not happy and starts comparing her father's cooking to hers, he also tells her that her level of cooking will eventually put the restaurant out of business. After finding out that her father was once a chef at the high end Hana Japanese Restaurant, she decides to dine there to have a taste of their food. At Hana she runs into Zai Yu, who is the head chef at the restaurant. He cooks her his signature egg friend rice dish to show her how good food should taste like. Upon her first bite it brings her back to the taste of her father's fried rice dish. After many failed attempts at duplicating the taste of Zai Yu's dish, she begs and stalks Zai Yu to accept her as his student in order to learn how to make his fried rice dish.

Main

 * 張勛傑 as Fu Zai Yu 傅在宇 - Male age 30
 * Nana Lee 李千娜 as Xia Qing You 夏青柚 - Female age 27
 * Danson Tang 唐禹哲 as Du Huai An 杜懷安 - Male age 26
 * 茵芙 as Xia Yi Huan 夏以歡 - Female age 25
 * Jay Shih as Sun Tian Hao 孫天皓 - Male age 27
 * 宋紀妍 as Song Yu Xin 宋玉欣 - Female age 26
 * Hans Zhang 張翰 as Lu Zhen Ya 陸振雅 - Male age 38

Lung 100 restaurant/Xia family

 * Akio Chen 陳慕義 as Xia De 夏德 - Male age 55
 * 柯淑勤 as Xia Lin Zhao Di 夏林招弟 - Female age 50
 * as You Zhen Zhen 游真真 - Female age 22

Fu family

 * Fu Lei 傅雷 as Fu Chang Nian 傅長年 - Male age 53
 * 黃采儀 as Zhou Jia Mei 周家梅 - Female age 51

Song family

 * 王道 as Song Si Qi 宋斯祺 - Male age 54
 * 方文琳 as Zhang Wan Wan 張婉婉 / Ke Meng Rong 柯孟容 - Female age 49
 * 黃柏鈞 as Song Yu Zong 宋玉宗 - Male age 22

Hana Japanese restaurant staff

 * 黃薇渟 as Wang Mei Xiang 王美香 - Female age 22
 * Kevin Zhou 周凱文 as Lian Wen Xiang 連文翔 - Male age 27
 * Vincent Qiu 邱俊儒 as Jin Zhong Gang 金仲剛 - Male age 30
 * Chen Jia Hao 陳嘉豪 as Guo Wei Cheng 郭偉成 - Male age 32
 * Josh Lu 陸侲曦 as Chen Kai Xi 陳凱曦 - Male age 20

Extended

 * Tsai Ming-hsiu as Driver 司機
 * 駱炫銘) as Dong Dong 東東
 * 地球 as Wang Zai 旺仔
 * Dou Fei 杜霏 as Boss Tsai 蔡老師
 * 趙舜 as Mr. Tu 涂先生
 * 沈昶宏 as young Zai Yu 小在宇
 * Vent Teng 鄧志鴻 as Guo Seng 高桑
 * Liu Er-chin as General Manager 總經理
 * 林采欣 as Rebecca
 * 陳隨意 as Ah Siu Se 阿水師

Guest star

 * Chris Wang 宥勝 as Zai Yu's friend
 * Summer Meng 孟耿如 as Zai Yu's friend
 * Alan Kuo 柯有倫 as Alan Zai Yu's friend
 * Jolie Cheng 程潔莉 as Zai Yu's friend
 * Ting Chiang 丁強 as Boss Lin 林老闆
 * 張兆志 as Host 主持人
 * 夏如芝 as Marko
 * Joelle Lu 陸明君 as Wang Fang Rui 王芳蕊
 * Gino 宇騰 as Mr. Michellin 米奇林先生
 * 田家達 as Fang Rui's ex-husband 芳蕊前夫

Soundtrack
A Hint of You Original TV Soundtrack (OST) (美味的想念 電視原聲帶) was released on June 21, 2013 by various artists under Avex Taiwan Inc. record label. It contains 14 tracks total, in which 6 tracks are instrumental versions of the original songs. The opening theme is track 2 "A Hint of You 美味的想念 " by Danson Tang, while the closing theme is track 1 "Shouldn't Be Brave 不應該勇敢" by Soo Wincci.

Episode ratings
Competing dramas on rival channels airing at the same time slot were:
 * TTV – Beauties of The Emperor,,, The Return of the Condor Heroes
 * SET -
 * FTV – Feng Shui Family
 * CTS – Xuan-Yuan Sword: Scar of Sky, Heroes in Sui and Tang Dynasties,, ,
 * CTV -, , , Three Kingdoms

Awards and nominations
The 2013 Sanlih Drama Awards Ceremony were held on December 28, 2013 at Sanlih's headquarters and broadcasting studios at No. 159, Section 1, Jiuzong Rd, Neihu District Taipei City, Taiwan.