Eat Drink Man Woman is a Taiwanese drama directed by Ang Lee in 1994. The narrative begins with Uncle Chu, a chef in a fancy restaurant that loses his sense of taste. He has three daughters and he cooks elaborate meals for them every night. The oldest daughter is a school teacher, the middle daughter works for a corporation and travels often, and the youngest is still in school and works at a Wendy’s. Jia-Ning, the youngest daughter, sees her friend playing hard to get with a boy, treating him like he’s worthless. Every day, the boy waits outside and Jia-Ning becomes friendly with him. Over the course of the movie, they go out to eat together and discuss their philosophies of love. They fall in love, and Jia-Ning’s friend wonders why he isn’t waiting around for her anymore. Jia-Ning reveals that she has been romantically involved with him. He lives alone because his family is overseas and the boy impregnates Jia-Ning. She moves out of the house leaving Uncle Chu by the end of the movie. Jia-Chien, the corporate woman, is having casual sex with an old boyfriend and he leaves her for a woman he wants to marry. Disheartened, Jia-Chien meets a young man at her place of work and slowly falls in love with him. She spends her money on an apartment in a building under construction, but by the end of the movie it is revealed that the building is on contaminated land. Jia-Chien loses her deposit and moves back in with Chu.

Meanwhile, Chu is putting hard hours at his place of work and his best friend has a heart attack. Chu makes his appearances less frequent at the restaurant. He begins cooking lunch for his love interest’s daughter. An elderly woman is courting Chu and in the final moments of the movie, he reveals that the young woman with the daughter and he will be married.

Jia-jen had her heart broken in college and swears off men. A new volleyball coach is hired at the highschool she works at, and he takes a liking to her. At this time, the highschool boys are writing her love letters as a joke because she’s so high strung. Jia-jen thinks that it is the volleyball coach, and while he does like her, she breaks into tears when she figures out he’s not writing the letters. The volleyball coach makes her break out of her shell and she takes another chance at love.

I really didn't like this film at all.  It seemed to drag on and was too ridiculous and boring for me.  The only entertaining scene from the film for me was when the uncle died in the restaurant's kitchen.  That part was hilarious.